Tag: Suspiria

  • Luca Guadagnino in Talks to Direct ‘Lord of the Flies’ for Warner Bros.

    Luca Guadagnino in Talks to Direct ‘Lord of the Flies’ for Warner Bros.

    Oscar-nominated “Call Me By Your Name” and “Suspiria” director Luca Guadagnino is in negotiations to direct a new adaptation of William Golding’s classic coming-of-age novel for Warner Bros. According to Variety, Warners has been trying to mount the project since reacquiring the rights in 2017.There have previously been talks of a gender-bent production, swapping in…

  • Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross Co-Starring in Comedy ‘Covers’

    Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross Co-Starring in Comedy ‘Covers’

    Dakota Johnson and Tracee Ellis Ross will co-star in “Covers,” a comedy set in the music scene in Hollywood.“Late Night” director Nisha Ganatra is helming from a screenplay by Flora Greeson. Focus Features is partnering with Working Title Films on the movie. Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce with Alexandra Loewy as…

  • The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React to Great and Awful CG Work, Making of ‘Suspiria’ & More

    The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React to Great and Awful CG Work, Making of ‘Suspiria’ & More

    The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, a group of visual effects artists react to…

  • Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’ Inspired a Clothing Line, Which Includes a Tilda Swinton Coat and More

    Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’ Inspired a Clothing Line, Which Includes a Tilda Swinton Coat and More

    Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” did not set the box office on fire or factor into the awards race at the Oscars, and yet it is slowly permeating the wider culture, as evidenced by an amazing new collection of women’s clothing that takes inspiration from film and its characters, played by the likes of Dakota Johnson, Tilda…

  • Mubi hires senior acquisitions manager (exclusive)

    Mubi hires senior acquisitions manager (exclusive)

    Kevin Chan joins from Thunderbird.Streaming service and distributor Mubi has named Kevin Chan as senior acquisitions manager.Chan joins from UK distributor Thunderbird Releasing, where he was acquisitions manager and worked on picking up UK rights to titles including Shoplifters and Burning.At Mubi, his focus will be primarily on picking up titles for UK theatrical distribution.Mubi…

  • ‘Suspiria’ Featurette Examines the Remake’s Gruesome Make-Up Effects

    ‘Suspiria’ Featurette Examines the Remake’s Gruesome Make-Up Effects

    Luca Guadagnino‘s polarizing Suspiria is chock-full of memorable (and often gruesome) make-up effects. Now that the film has been out for a bit, Amazon has released a new Suspiria featurette devoted to exploring the techniques used to create such authentic-looking special effect make-up. You’ve probably seen Suspiria by now if you wanted to, but if…

  • Dakota Johnson Had a ‘Meltdown’ Before Shooting ‘Suspiria’

    Dakota Johnson Had a ‘Meltdown’ Before Shooting ‘Suspiria’

    Despite an entire year of strength and ballet training, Dakota Johnson, during her Variety Actors on Actors conversation with Armie Hammer, describes the crippling self-doubt she faced before the start of filming for “Suspiria.”She says she “had this f—ing meltdown four days before filming and was like, ‘I can’t do this.’”“I was in tears in…

  • Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson on Sex at the Movies

    Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson on Sex at the Movies

    Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson sat down for a chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors. For more, click here.Dakota Johnson has become the muse for Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino. In this year’s remake of the horror thriller “Suspiria,” their second collaboration after “A Bigger Splash,” Johnson plays a dancer who enrolls in a company from…

  • Stop the horror snobbery! I just want my jump scares back

    Stop the horror snobbery! I just want my jump scares back

    From Suspiria to Hereditary, the genre is increasingly ditching its B-movie bag of tricks in order to be taken seriously. But I was far more frightened by ‘duds’ such as Overlord and The Nun than this new monstrous Oscar-baitHorror is having a moment. Films such as Suspiria, Halloween, A Quiet Place and Hereditary are no…

  • ‘Fantastic Beasts’ sequel opens top of UK box office with strong £12.3m weekend

    ‘Fantastic Beasts’ sequel opens top of UK box office with strong £12.3m weekend

    Mubi release Suspiria posts £163,223 opening.Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.29.RankFilm / DistributorThree-day gross (Nov 16-18) Gross Week 1 Fantastic Beasts 2 (Warner Bros) £12.3m £12.3m 1 2 The Grinch (Universal) £3.9m £10m 2 3 Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox) £3m £34.9m 4 4 Widows (20th Century Fox) £880,000 £4.3m 2 5. A Star…