January 31, 2019 3:16AM PT The fading Nineties rave scene provides a luminous backdrop to Brian Welsh’s bittersweet, black-and-white coming-of-age tale. A snappy, scrappy, straining-at-the-leash coming-of-ager from bleakest Scotland, Brian Welsh’s “Beats” takes place in 1994 — two years before the release of “Trainspotting,” though 23 years on, it feels like something of an heir
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When Bavaria Fiction executive producer Moritz Polter looks out at the company’s backlot from his office window, he can see the original sets built for “Das Boot,” the classic 1981 movie set in the belly of a German U-boat that’s been recently rebooted with stellar results. The Oscar-nominated anti-war pic, directed by Wolfgang Petersen and
Bavaria Film’s powerhouse TV division boasts some of Germany’s hottest shows, and it is achieving worldwide success as it increases its focus on international co-productions. Launched in 2007, Bavaria Fiction produces a wide range of scripted formats, from daily and weekly series to TV movies and lavish event productions, including Germany’s favorite cop show. The
Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, Bavaria Film continues to move forward as a modern film and television group while looking back on a legacy that has shaped Germany’s cinematic landscape. Established in 1919 as Münchener Lichtspielkunst near Munich, Bavaria’s history spans silent film and talking pictures, the onset of television and the modern digital
Director Peter Hutchings’ “Then Came You” isn’t a movie for cynics. It’s for romantics — or at least teen sleepover parties. Though it has many of the qualities that made teen terminal-illness weepies “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Me, Earl and the Dying Girl” work, Hutchings’ dramedy eschews much of those films’ sincerity and
GOTEBORG, Sweden — Christoffer Boe and a stellar Danish cast are on board Miso Film’s series “Face to Face,” produced for the NENT Group. The show, currently in production, will be sold worldwide by Fremantle. This is Boe’s second TV series produced by Miso Film’s Peter Bose and Jonas Allen after “Warrior,” and his first
Miles Davis is the one jazz figure of the postwar era who had, and still has, the larger-than-life quality of a pop star. Other jazz artists, of course, became legends (Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, etc.), but Miles, like Picasso or Dylan, had a mystique rooted not just in his genius but in his cult of
For all its inclusion of raunchy dialogue, seriocomic carnality, and oral sex (implied to be happening beneath a strategically placed bedsheet), there is something oddly quaint about “The Unicorn,” director Robert Schwartzman’s lightly amusing trifle about two long-engaged millennials who contemplate a walk on the wild side — specifically, a threesome with another man or
Ultraviolet, a cloud movie locker once hailed as Hollywood’s best bet to get consumers hooked on digital movies, is shuttering. The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), the industry consortium that has been tasked with running Ultraviolet, will shut down the service on July 31. DECE will start to inform its users of the wind-down this
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Ragnarok,” the fifth season finale of “Vikings.” The era of “Vikings” may be coming to an end on History after its upcoming sixth season, but the international co-production still has a ways to go before it goes dark for good. The show’s penultimate run wrapped
Canadian rap ambassador Drake, who has worked with dozens of homegrown artists on his albums and regularly touts his native Toronto — and Canada overall — in his music and onstage banter, appears to be shunning the country’s biggest awards show, the Junos. For the second year in a row, the rapper’s record label and
January 30, 2019 5:26PM PT Netflix is in final negotiations to win rights to “Knock Down the House,” an acclaimed documentary about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive candidates that debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Rumor has it that the sale could be for as much as $6 million, a huge sum of money
Here are the top trailers for movies coming out in February 2019! What will you go see? Watch All the Best New Trailers from January 2019: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLScC8g4bqD44Gd0io55vBL39LAsbic4bk?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc 0:00 Miss Bala: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqqqhFeST5oy7448QzGWSPhd 2:26 Arctic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqpeTj2ipI6XQC2RrzSaVzUm 4:44 Cold Pursuit: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqouyZtgxMP_CfUpNDxDqT2g 7:03 The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqphor_DCHePKIFOt9CcHC27 9:28 The Prodigy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqrE7hY6uHUhtsP1n3r706U6 10:57 What Men Want:
CBS and CBS All Access took their turns at the winter Television Critics Assn. press tour on Wednesday (with a bonus appearance from PopTV’s upcoming publicist drama, “Flack,” starring Anna Paquin). Only two panels were devoted to new upcoming shows — including Super Bowl leadout competition show “World’s Best” and limited series “The Red Line”
January 30, 2019 5:10PM PT WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division will hold a two-day workshop to look at how online advertising affects the competitive landscape for local TV stations. That is potentially significant for broadcasters, who argue that the competition from tech giants should be weighed as regulators and government attorneys assess
January 30, 2019 4:42PM PT Warner Bros. has officially dated Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” for June 25, 2021. The studio has also dated a rebooted “The Suicide Squad” for Aug. 6, 2021, Robert Zemeckis’ “The Witches” for Oct. 16, 2020, and Stephen King’s “Doctor Sleep” for Nov. 8, 2019. Ben Affleck will not be returning
Dick Miller, a prolific screen actor best known for his role as Murray Futterman in the 1984 classic horror film “Gremlins,” has died. He was 90. With a career spanning more than 60 years, Miller has made hundreds of on screen appearances, beginning in the 1950s with legendary director and producer Roger Corman. It was
In today’s TV news roundup, the “Twilight Zone” reboot gets a premiere date and Hasty Pudding Theatricals announced “This is Us” star Milo Ventimiglia as its 2019 man of the year. DATES AMC is set to simulcast the second season of “Killing Eve” on April 7 at 8 p.m. “When we launched ‘Killing Eve’ on BBC
UPDATED: The Chicago Police Department has released two images from surveillance video of “potential persons of interest” in the alleged attack of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett. “Photos of people of interest who were in area of the alleged assault & battery of Empire cast member,” the Chicago PD’s chief communications officer tweeted alongside the photos. “While video
One of the biggest discoveries out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival is Gurinder Chadha’s “Blinded by the Light.” The coming-of-age tale set in 1987 England not only received one of the most enthusiastic standing ovations in Park City, but it also landed one of the biggest deals, selling for $15 million to New Line
Celebrated Colombian television scribe Fernando Gaitan, whose original telenovela “Yo Soy Betty, La Fea” (“Ugly Betty”), a global franchise hit, changed general perceptions about Colombian TV, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 58. Considered by the Guinness World Records as the most successful telenovela in history, “Ugly Betty” aired in some 180 countries, was dubbed
CBS All Access has seen double-digit growth during the past year, momentum that got a big boost earlier this month from the combination of the second season premiere of “Star Trek: Discovery” and the NFL’s AFC conference championship. Marc DeBevoise, president and chief operating officer of CBS Interactive, said Wednesday during the Television Critics Assn.
The third season of CBS All Access drama “The Good Fight” is set to premiere in March, on the backdrop of a still-fraught and potentially changing political landscape. The show changed course from its original intention after Donald Trump won the election and its lead character Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) was not able to work
January 30, 2019 2:39PM PT Universal’s Jeff Shell will host a fundraiser for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign Saturday, in what is expected to draw heavily on entertainment industry supporters. Sources said that Harris will appear at the event after one earlier in the day hosted by David Cooley, the CEO and founder of the Abbey,
Callie Khouri shifted the attention off herself Tuesday night and on to the assault and hospitalization of “Empire” star Jussie Smollett in Chicago earlier that day. Khouri, the Oscar-winning writer of “Thelma & Louise” and the creator of the series “Nashville,” made her remarks at the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood during her induction into the
Michelle Williams stopped by the Variety Studio at Sundance presented by AT&T to discuss her upcoming film “After the Wedding” with co-star Julianne Moore, and she touched on how her years of working in the industry has changed the way she views her job. “I think, more now, I think about about my experience of
“Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” actor Zac Efron sat down at the Variety Studio at Sundance presented by AT&T to talk about embodying one of the U.S.’ worst serial killers, Ted Bundy. He explained that when he came to the production, he knew a little about Bundy, but what he found the most interesting
Julius Onah’s stirring family drama “Luce” has sold to Neon and Topic Studios out of the Sundance Film Festival. Starring Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Tim Roth, the deal was struck for U.S. distribution rights for an undisclosed amount. “It’s been a real thrill premiering ‘Luce’ at Sundance. After hearing Neon’s passion
CBS All Access has ordered 10 episodes of limited series “The Stand,” based on Stephen King’s eponymous novel, to be produced by CBS Television Studios. The apocalyptic series takes place in a world mostly wiped out by the plague and “embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil,” according to CBS. “The fate of
January 30, 2019 2:08PM PT Priyanka Chopra is developing a feature film based on “Wild Wild Country,” the hit Netflix docu-series following the Rajneesh cult. Chopra will star as the Indian religious guru Bhagwan Rajneesh’s (also known as Osho) highly influential (and polarizing) assistant Ma Anand Sheela. The “Quantico” actress announced the plans during her appearance on