Tag: Fantasia
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‘Hellbender’s’ Adams Family Next, ‘Where the Devil Roams,’ Swooped on by Fox’s Tubi (Exclusive)
Fox Corp.’s Tubi, its free, ad-supported streaming TV service, has pounced on two high-profile Fantasia titles, led by “Where the Devil Roams,” the Adams family’s follow-up to “Hellbender,” Rotten Tomatoes No. 1 movie on its Top 10 of best-rated horror films of 2022, just besting Eskil Vogt’s “The Innocents.”Estimating that it reaches 64 million monthly…
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UTA Boards David Gordon Green Exec Produced ‘Hippo’ by Mark H. Rapaport (Exclusive)
UTA has boarded world sales on Mark H. Rapaport’s Fantasia premiere “Hippo.”“We are very excited for this one,” said UTA’s Billy Offer, admitting a number of distributors have already expressed interest.“It’s so oddly relatable and so singular in its approach, and vision, that I really wanted to help make sure it got the right platform…
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‘Bambi’: Everything We Know About the Live-Action Remake
Get those tissues ready because The Walt Disney Company is aiming to make audiences everywhere cry their eyes out with an all-new modern reimagining of 1942’s Bambi. Even those who haven’t seen the iconic film are all familiar with the titular naive deer who grows up in a world that is both beautiful and harsh.…
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The Daily Stream: Fantasia Is Pure Music And Pure Cinema
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: “Fantasia”Where You Can Stream It: Disney+The pitch: “What you’re going to see are the designs and pictures and stories that music inspired in the minds…
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Park Circus Renews Licensing Deal for Vast Disney, Fox Library (Exclusive)
All-rights sales agency and distribution company Park Circus has renewed a licensing deal for thousands of titles from Disney and Fox.The new distribution services agreement with The Walt Disney Company Limited allows Park Circus to grant exhibition licenses for screening of Disney’s repertory and library catalogue and other selected feature film releases in cinemas internationally.…
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XYZ Films Takes North American Rights to Travis Taute’s Fantasia Premiere ‘Indemnity’ (Exclusive)
XYZ Films has acquired North American rights to “Indemnity,” an action thriller from South African director Travis Taute that’s set to world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival.Written and directed by Taute, “Indemnity” tells the story of an ex-firefighter in Cape Town who’s forced to fight for his life after being accused of murdering his…
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Seth Rogen and Ted Cruz Clash on Twitter Over Paris Climate Agreement and Disney’s ‘Fantasia’
Seth Rogen and Sen. Ted Cruz have been engaged in a heated Twitter exchange for a few days now, sparring over everything from the Paris Climate Agreement to the Disney film “Fantasia.”It all started on Inauguration Day, when Cruz criticized President Joe Biden for reentering the Paris Climate Agreement, to which Rogen responded: “Fuck off…
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Raven Banner picks up genre trio ‘Z’, ‘Sea Fever’, ‘Dead Dicks’ for Canada (exclusive)
Deals announced in run-up to Cannes virtual market.Raven Banner has swooped on Canadian distribution rights to horror Z, contagion thriller Sea Fever starring Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen and Dougray Scott, and supernatural thriller and Fantasia audience award winner Dead Dicks.Z (pictured) explores what happens when a young mother begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary…
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Film Review: ‘The Father’s Shadow’
Brazilian “The Father’s Shadow” is one of those occasional arthouse quasi-horror films, like “The Spirit of the Beehive” or Aussie “Celia,” in which the supernatural elements seem a poetical extension of a child protagonist’s distress at the inexplicable realities of the adult world. Recipient of a special jury prize (as well as an acting nod…
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‘Rocketman’ Fact-Check: What It Gets Right and Wrong About Rehab, Disco and Levitation
Now that moviegoers are finally getting to see “Rocketman,” casual Elton John fans may wonder which key moments are fiction. That’s not easy in a film staged more as a movie musical than traditional biopic. Is the “Tiny Dancer” singer’s story riddled with tiny fibs, or should we be surprised by what it gets right?…