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DUNE Trailer: David Lynch’s Frank Herbert Classic Teases A Sweeping Epic Reboot
David Lynch may have his own thoughts about the finalized version of his own original 1984 adaptation of the titular Frank Herbert novel, Dune. That hasn’t really hindered it from etching a place among the fandom in sci-fi history as one of the most celebrated movies to date, and as such, fans now get to see if the newest revisal from director Denis Villeneuve will stand the test of time from Warner Bros. Pictures.
STAR WARS IX Cast Hugs It Out As Filming Wraps
It’s been real, guys.
TRIPLE FRONTIER: No Turning Back For Affleck & Co. In The Official Trailer
Helping to fill-up the ‘Men On A Mission’ genre of thrillers is J.C. Chandor whose follow-up to A Most Violent Year now has an ensemble cast setting the stakes in Triple Frontier. Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Oscar Isaac, Garett Hedlund and Pedro Pascal lead the charge with a theatrical open on March 6 to be proceeded by a Netflix rollout on March 13.
TRIPLE FRONTIER Trailer: This Is No Military Operation…
A harrowing mission awaits five men looking for a grand steal in the official trailer now online for director J.C. Chandor’s new crime thriller, Triple Frontier. For this, you could even say the road to the film’s completion was equally enduring at best – once housed at Paramount back in 2010 and serving as the starting point for a marathon development period that lasted eight years.
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Keeps The Fandom Stirring With A Final International Trailer
New trailers and such, the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi remains impending with a December 15 date and the campaign is going hard and heavy for the fandom with as much trailer and TV spottage as it can consume. For me, I’ll just leave it off here unless noted, and with what’s been cited as the final international trailer now online for Rian Johnson’s offering as the eighth canon entry into the longstanding space saga with talking and bleeping droids, creatures, galactic deep space dog fights and epic existential battles on opposite sides of the Force and what have you.
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Reaches Darker Twists And Existental Upheaval In The Final Trailer
Monday Night Football wasn’t my go-to for screening the final epic trailer for Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi. That said, the new footage can now be seen online hailing the continuing epic saga with Daisy Ridley as the latest, albeit conflicted addition to a revamped war against a militaristic space empire as the pendulum swings between underlying symbiotic forces wielded by the Sith and the Jedi.
OPERATION FINALE: Isaac, Raz, Kingsley To Lead WWII Nazi Capture Tale
At a time no less opportune for a film project to bring the evils of Nazism to light, actors Oscar Isaac and Lior Raz are set to lead upcoming drama, Operation Finale. The news comes just shy of two years since MGM opted for UK screenwriter Matthew Orton’s script with the goal of fast tracking its development, now targeting locations in Argentina for the start of production this Fall.
Twilight Saga: New Moon helmer Chris Weitz is set to direct the film, aiming to echo tones similar to that of Ben Affleck’s Argo and Steven Spielberg’s 2005 thriller, Munich with its premise encircling the story of the team that captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann. Raz and Isaac will star in the respective roles of Mossad director Isser Harel who allows Peter Malkin to lead the Argentina mission to capture Eichmann, the latter to be performed by actor Ben Kingsley.
via THR:
Eichmann was considered one of the architects of the Holocaust and oversaw the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews. After World War II, he fled to Argentina, where he lived in hiding. Israel’s spy agency Mossad eventually discovered his whereabouts, and in a tense operation captured him and smuggled him out of the country.
Raz, also the star and co-creator of hit Netflix series, Fauda, has a number TV and film projects coming down the pipeline, including two reported several weeks ago which you can read about here. Isaac is set to appear in George Clooney’s latest dark crime comedy, Suburbicon on October 27 prior to returning as Poe Dameron in Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi on December 15.
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI: Luke Teases The End Of An Era In The First Official Teaser!
Leaving all sorts of questions in its wake on top of its huge box office success, the events seen in J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens now get their hotly anticipated continuation in the upcoming eighth canon installation, Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The official trailer and poster premiered during Star Wars Celebration with director Rian Johnson, cast members in attendance.
Next to the new additions of Benicio del Toro, Laura Dern, and actress Kelly Marie Tran who also joined in on the events on Friday, of course there’s question about who will return and who likely won’t. And for that matter, it’s a film that is sure to pay plenty of homage to the icons of its franchise, both living and departed. Check out the teaser trailer now ahead of the film’s December 15 release!
Sierra/Affinity Picks Up Terry George’s THE PROMISE With Releases Slated From Open Road And eOne
Feel free to browse online for various online forums and opinions following last year’s premiere of award-winning director Terry George’s latest, The Promise. Otherwise, Open Road is stamping an April release in the U.S. with Canada and select territories in Europe courtesy of eOne, and with none other than Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac and Charlotte Le Bon.
Sierra/Affinity will be handling international sales for the film as included in the following announcement released ahead of festival events in Berlin. Read on:
SIERRA/AFFINITY TO HANDLE INTERNATIONAL SALES FOR TERRY GEORGE’S THE PROMISE
STARRING OSCAR ISAAC, CHARLOTTE LE BON AND CHRISTIAN BALE
Film Will Be Released Wide in the US by Open Road on April 21, 2017
Entertainment One will Theatrically Distribute the Film in Canada, the UK, Australia/New Zealand, Benelux and Spain
LOS ANGELES January 17, 2017 – Sierra/Affinity will launch international sales for THE PROMISE starring Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ex-Machina, Drive), Charlotte Le Bon (The Hundred Foot Journey, The Walk) and Academy Award® winner Christian Bale (The Big Short, American Hustle, The Fighter, The Dark Knight Trilogy). The film, which premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, is written by Academy Award nominee Robin Swicord (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Memoirs of a Geisha, Little Women) and Academy Award winner Terry George (Hotel Rwanda, The Boxer, In the Name of the Father), who also directed this epic tale. Open Road will release the film wide in the US on April 21, 2017 on over 2,000 screens, with Sierra/Affinity launching international sales of the film immediately.
Entertainment One (eOne) will distribute the film in Canada, the UK, Australia/New Zealand, Benelux and Spain as part of its partnership with Sierra/Affinity which commenced early last year.
“Robin and Terry’s story, so well told through the solid performances of Oscar, Christian and Charlotte, conveys a larger social message that will have a lasting impact of those who see it,” said Nick Meyer, CEO of Sierra/Affinity. “We are proud to be bringing this film to audiences around the world and I am particularly pleased to be re-teaming with Terry George after a great experience working together on Hotel Rawanda.”
Along with Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale, THE PROMISE also stars Shohreh Aghdashloo (Rosewater, Septembers Of Shiraz, X-Men, House of Sand and Fog), Angela Sarafyan (Westworld, The Immigrant, Paranoia), Jean Reno (Hotel Rwanda, The Professional), James Cromwell (The Green Mile, The Queen), Daniel Giminez Cacho (Y Tu Mamá También, Bad Education) and Marwan Kenzari (Autobahn, Ben-Hur).
It is 1914. As the Great War looms, the vast Ottoman Empire is crumbling. Constantinople, the once vibrant, multicultural capital on the shores of the Bosphorus, is about to be consumed by chaos.
Michael Boghosian (Oscar Isaac), arrives in the cosmopolitan hub as a medical student determined to bring modern medicine back to Siroun, his ancestral village in Southern Turkey where Turkish Muslims and Armenian Christians have lived side by side for centuries.
Photo-journalist Chris Myers (Christian Bale), has come here only partly to cover geo-politics. He is mesmerized by his love for Ana (Charlotte le Bon), an Armenian artist he has accompanied from Paris after the sudden death of her father. When Michael meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between the two men. As the Turks form an alliance with Germany and the Empire turns violently against its own ethnic minorities, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they join forces to survive even as events threaten to overwhelm them.
Academy Award nominee Mike Medavoy (Black Swan, Shutter Island, Zodiac), William Horberg (Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Sliding Doors, Searching for Bobby Fischer) and Eric Esrailian produced the film. The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
ABOUT SIERRA/AFFINITY LLC
Sierra/Affinity is a leading independent film finance, production and foreign sales company, consistently delivering high-quality, commercially viable feature films for a global audience. Sierra/Affinity capitalizes on the ever-evolving global film marketplace, representing sales of third-party films as well as its own productions designed to appeal to both the North American and global marketplaces. In addition to representing sales of third party films, the company acts as the exclusive sales agent for films developed and produced by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, OddLot Entertainment, Bold Films and Sierra Pictures. Following Entertainment One’s (eOne) strategic equity investment in Sierra Pictures in January 2016, the international sales and distribution of films produced and acquired by eOne Features, as well as eOne-distributed films from The Mark Gordon Company, will be handled by Sierra/Affinity outside of Canada, the UK, Australia/New Zealand, Benelux and Spain, where eOne directly distributes films. The company is also compiling a slate of wide-release, director-driven commercial films with domestic and global appeal that will complement the slates built by its partners.
ABOUT SURVIVAL PICTURES
Survival Pictures was established in 2012 by the late legendary businessman and humanitarian Kirk Kerkorian – who appointed his mentees Esrailian and Anthony Mandekic as co-managers. With a mission of creating unique and specific content with social impact, Esrailian and his team at Survival Pictures developed and produced The Promise.
TO THE HASHI!: Monahan’s MOJAVE Brings Intriguing Dichotomy Tossed In Conversational Film Salad
It can be argued that Jack and Tom are these contrary expressions of rage interpreted. Jack’s anger, as he gets to know Tom, becomes a rage justified by the umbrage of watching a privileged man take for granted what he has. Tom’s rage, that his attempt to gain perspective on life (or decide, on his own, to end it –perhaps by a form of seppuku) would be interrupted by a stranger seeking to take advantage of his ennui, to, worse, rob him of his choice in regard to life itself. Both Tom and Jake, the campfire blazing between them, speak in grandiose language. Much like Ahab – who as Jake references at one point – does when addressing his crew in the book Moby Dick, to inspire and uplift them. These two characters are flipsides of the same damaged psyche, engaged in a private war to see whose ideology is most true to life.
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