Tag: Final Cut
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Magnolia Pictures’ Genre Label Magnet Releasing Buys U.S. Rights to Thomas Cailley’s Cannes Movie ‘The Animal Kingdom’ (Exclusive)
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has bought U.S. rights to “The Animal Kingdom,” Thomas Cailley’s creature-filled dystopian thriller which world premiered as the opening night selection of Cannes Un Certain Regard.Produced by Pierre Guyard at Nord-Ouest Films, “The Animal Kingdom” was financed and co-produced by Studiocanal, which handles French distribution and international…
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‘Final Cut’ Trailer: Michel Hazanavicius’ Remake Of ‘One Cut Of The Dead’ Arrives In July
“One Cut of the Dead” is one of the most inventive and fun horror films to arrive in the past decade. So, you know what has to happen when a horror film earns acclaim and widespread notoriety, especially when it is of Asian origin? That’s right, we get a remake! However, with a filmmaker like…
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‘Final Cut (Coupez!)’ Review: Cannes Opens With an Annoying Zombie Comedy Misfire
The last time the Cannes Film Festival dropped a zombie comedy into its coveted opening-night slot, it was 2019, and the movie — Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die” — was no big whoop, but it served its purpose. It got this most highfalutin’ of festivals rolling on an agreeable note of macabre cheekiness. Since…
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Francis Ford Coppola on How ‘Apocalypse Now’ Was Deemed a Failure — and Nearly Inventing Smartphones
Francis Ford Coppola recently worked cinephiles into a frenzy by saying that, after an eight-year absence from filmmaking, he’d finally begun work on long-planned passion project “Megalopolis,” a film that’s always been dogged by funding issues. That followed his unspooling of “Apocalypse Now: Final Cut” at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, which cut certain…