Tag: Hugo
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Asa Butterfield Went Completely Against Type in This Horror Movie
Asa Butterfield has had quite an illustrious career, often playing characters distinguished by their childlike innocence and heroic nature. Even in darker films, such as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Butterfield is almost always the heart of the film. For better or worse, Butterfield did a complete 180 in type with this year’s All…
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How A Series Of Gory B-Horror Films Led To Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
When Martin Scorsese set to work making “Hugo,” a film based on Brian Selznick’s children’s book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” it immediately got tongues wagging. What on Earth was the director behind films like “Taxi Driver,” “Goodfellas,” and “The Departed” doing helming a whimsical kids’ adventure? At the time, his youngest daughter, Francesca (who’s…
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Martin Scorsese’s 10 Best Documentary Movies, Ranked
Martin Scorsese, now in his 80s, is a filmmaker who’s made countless iconic movies over the past 50+ years. While he’s most often celebrated for his influential gangster movies like Goodfellas, Casino, and The Departed, he’s far from someone who only makes movies in that genre. After all, he’s also behind films like After Hours,…
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The Yellow Affair Boards ‘Power of Love’ from ‘Fado’’s Jonas Rothlaender (Exclusive)
Global sales shingle The Yellow Affair has acquired world rights to the modern love story “Power of Love” by German helmer Jonas Rothlaender, whose breakthrough movie “Fado” nabbed a Silver Hugo at Chicago and a German Film Critics’ for best feature debut.Julia M. Müller and Luisa Leopold are producing for Germany’s StickUp Filmproduktion, in co-production…
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‘Emily in Paris,’ ‘The Last Duel’ Among Recent Productions Aided by French Incentives
Playing a foundational role in the history of film and benefitting from enough picturesque locales to launch a thousand postcards, France has long attracted directors and crews from across the globe.Keeping them on site for more than a few days, however, was once a different story altogether.The 2009 passage of the Tax Rebate for Intl.…
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Tom Fleischman, Oscar-Winning Sound Engineer, Resigns From Academy Over Controversial Telecast Overhaul
Tom Fleischman, a frequent collaborator of Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee and a five-time Oscar-nominee for his work as a rerecording mixer, has resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in response to the organization’s plan to reformat and pre-tape eight categories and weave them into live broadcast of the 2022 Academy…
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Asa Butterfield: ‘Sex Education reassures people they’re not weird or alone’
The actor on filming the third series of the hit Netflix comedy, being taught cinema history by Scorsese – and the perils of toilet-training his catAsa Butterfield, 23, was born in London and started his acting career aged seven. He landed the lead roles in Holocaust drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas at 10…
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Cinematographer Greig Fraser to Shoot ‘The Batman’
Oscar-nominated cinematographer Greig Fraser, known for his grounded approach and broad range, has signed on to shoot Matt Reeves’ upcoming Batman installment.“The Batman,” planned for a 2021 release by Warner Bros., will be Fraser’s second Reeves movie, a studio spokeswoman confirmed. He was Dp on the acclaimed 2010 “Let Me In,” a remake of the…
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: Scorsese and DiCaprio’s Movie Goes to Paramount
For most of the 2010s, Paramount has been in the Martin Scorsese business. The studio distributed Scorsese’s films Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Silence before balking at the price tag of The Irishman (Netflix scooped that one up and will release it later this year). But Paramount wants to finish out…
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‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Will Be Shot by Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Robert Richardson
Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated (and already controversial) next film will see him teaming up with collaborators new and old, from Margot Robbie and Burt Reynolds to Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. A source close to production has confirmed to IndieWire that one of his most important behind-the-camera collaborators is returning as well: cinematographer Robert Richardson.Richardson…