Tag: Thirteen
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Blue Finch Films Boards Global Sales on Sitges, Beyond Horror Title ‘Last Straw’ (Exclusive)
Blue Finch Films has boarded worldwide sales on horror-thriller, “Last Straw,” set to have its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival before making its way to Beyond Fest next month.Written by Taylor Sardoni, “Last Straw” pays homage to the pressure cooker genre films of the past and aims to present a raw and unrelenting…
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Catherine Hardwicke Was Paid Just $3 For Directing Thirteen, But It Was Worth It
The life of a movie director isn’t all glamour and red carpets. Getting movies made, particularly personal stories or passion projects, can be exceedingly difficult. Then if the movie fails to turn a profit, the director will be left more precarious and with fewer doors open than before. Oftentimes, directors will make compromises to get…
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Prisoner’s Daughter review – Brian Cox and Kate Beckinsale can’t save hammy ex-con drama
Catherine Hardwicke directs the Succession star and Beckinsale in a family drama that’s falls flat on its faceHere’s a terrible TV-movie-style piece of work with some awful acting and a deeply questionable, crass finale; it’s all the more wince-inducing given the lineup of alpha talent behind it. Catherine Hardwicke is the director of the powerful…
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‘Prisoner’s Daughter’: Catherine Hardwicke’s Latest Gets Out of Jail and Into Melodrama
Her career hobbled by uninspired material since the commercial bonanza of “Twilight’s” first screen installment 15 years ago, Catherine Hardwicke at first appears to be back on firmer terra with “Prisoner’s Daughter.” Its mix of adult dysfunction and coming-of-age pains against a downscale milieu (here working-class Las Vegas) recalls the director’s strong initial features, “Thirteen”…
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The Backstory Of Each Ghost From Thirteen Ghosts
Let’s get one thing out in the open — “Thirteen Ghosts” (or “THIR13EN Ghosts” if you’re cool) rules. The 2001 remake of William Castle’s classic 1960 film of the same name is dripping with Y2K era horror goodness, a wild rogues’ gallery of terrifying ghost designs, and a supporting role from horror good luck charm…
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Evan Rachel Wood Names Marilyn Manson as Her Alleged Abuser: ‘I Am Done Living in Fear’
Evan Rachel Wood has come forward on Instagram and in a statement to Vanity Fair to name Marilyn Manson as her alleged abuser. The “Westworld” and “Thirteen” actress has often spoken about being a victim of domestic abuse, but she has never named her alleged abuser until now. Wood and Manson dated in the late…
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Catherine Hardwicke On Working With Quibi And Coming-Of-Age Stories [Interview]
As the director behind films such as “Twilight,” “Lords of Dogtown” and “Thirteen,” director Catherine Hardwicke has a strong eye for poignant and differing ways in telling the coming of age story. Her latest venture finds her in the home of Quibi, the very niche streaming service that has seen big talent but little critical…
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‘Westworld’: How Evan Rachel Wood Took Dolores From Prairie Girl to Cyborg Sarah Connor
Following her breakthrough role in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen” (2003), Evan Rachel Wood became Hollywood’s go-to actress for a certain kind of irresistible archetype: The wise-beyond-her-years teenager with heaps of attitude masking a deep well of vulnerability. Now, nearly two decades later and comfortably mid-career (she started so young), Wood has weathered the transition from promising…