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Edgar Wright’s ‘The Sparks Brothers’ Documentary Has Been Acquired by Focus Features
Edgar Wright‘s first documentary has found a home. The filmmaker, whose previous feature directing credits include the Cornetto trilogy, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Baby Driver, debuted his first documentary, The Sparks Brothers, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. And now Focus Features, the indie label which has worked with Wright on multiple projects […]
Continue reading‘The Sparks Brothers’ Clip Gives You a Look at Edgar Wright’s New Music Documentary
Edgar Wright‘s return to narrative features, Last Night in Soho, is set to arrive later this year. But that’s not the only thing the Baby Driver filmmaker has up his sleeve. He also has The Sparks Brothers, a documentary about the pop-rock band Sparks. Wright’s doc has a cavalcade of famous faces turning up to […]
Continue readingEdgar Wright Releases His Top 100 Songs Of 2020 Playlist
Edgar Wright is known for many things, but perhaps his best skill as a filmmaker is being able to put an iconic needle drop at exactly the right moment. Between the “Don’t Stop Me Now” scene in “Shaun of the Dead,” or basically the entire “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” and “Baby Driver,” the filmmaker […]
Continue readingLily James True Crime Drama ‘Peggy Jo’ Scores Multiple Sales — Film News in Brief
Monday, Nov. 23 HanWay Films Closes Sales on ‘Peggy Jo’HanWay Films has closed multiple international sales for Phillip Noyce’s “Peggy Jo,” with Lily James attached to star as Peggy Jo Tallas, who robbed Texas banks in the early 1990s while posing as a man.A deal with Universal Pictures Content Group includes Benelux, German speaking Europe, […]
Continue readingU.K.’s Twickenham Studios Taps Cara Sheppard as Managing Director (Exclusive)
Cara Sheppard is joining the U.K.’s Twickenham Studios (TW1), where she will lead and guide all aspects of production, post-production and emerging technology as managing director.Sheppard joins from post-production facility Warner Bros De Lane Lea, where she was managing director for the last four years. She previously spent some five years with Sky as a […]
Continue readingStream of the Day: As ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Turns 10, the Time Is Ripe to Reconsider Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright’s movies go down easy, but the aftertaste always stings, and it’s often misinterpreted. The British director has made only four features since “Shaun of the Dead” became a sensation in 2004, and each one unfolds with a delirious sense of comic timing, rapid-fire dialogue, and staccato editing that wraps each ludicrous twist in […]
Continue readingEdgar Wright Shares 100 Favorite Comedy Films to Help You Get Through Tough Times
Thank God for Edgar Wright. The “Shaun of the Dead” and “Baby Driver” director has teamed up with Letterboxd to publish a giant list of his 100 favorite comedy films. Wright stresses these 100 films are just a selection of some of the best comedies ever made and not his definitive list of the absolute […]
Continue readingEdgar Wright Explains How to Make the Theatrical Experience Magical Again
Edgar Wright is a champion of the theatrical experience. Aside from wanting audiences to see the movies he directs on the big screen, from Shaun of the Dead to Baby Driver, he’s a cinephile at heart and has always been fond of the magic of the silver screen. Unfortunately, theater chains continue to make a […]
Continue readingEdgar Wright Hails Rian Johnson’s ‘Fiendishly Plotted’ ‘Knives Out’
Read more from Variety’s Directors on Directors, in which filmmakers praise their favorite movies of the year, here.It’s a pleasure to write this particular piece about Rian Johnson as over the last 10 years or so, he’s become one of my best friends in Hollywood; the perfect person to talk to at 8 a.m. over […]
Continue reading‘Ford v Ferrari’ Race Re-Creations Better Than The Real Thing
Over a long career that stretches back 25 years, stuntman and stunt coordinator-turned-second-unit-director and actor Darrin Prescott has choreographed many a spectacular car chase and race in such testosterone-fueled movies as “Drive,” “Deadpool 2,” “Baby Driver” and “The Bourne Ultimatum,” which won him a Screen Actors Guild award as part of the stunt ensemble.But when […]
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