Tag: Utopia
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Travis Scott Reveals Surprise Film Made with Noé, Refn, and Korine in Theaters This Week — Watch the Trailer
Update: A24 representatives have confirmed to IndieWire that the studio is not involved with the film even though the poster touts “Circus Maximus” as “produced by A24.” IndieWire has reached out to Scott’s representatives for comment.Earlier: Surprise album drops are all the rage in the music industry, but Travis Scott is going further with a…
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Trailer Watch: Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus, Co-Directed With Harmony Korine, Gaspar Noé, Nicolas Winding Refn and More
While rapper Travis Scott stars in Harmony Korine‘s latest film Aggro Dr1ft (announced today as part of the Venice 2023 lineup), today Scott announces another collaboration with Korine (and a handful of other filmmakers): Circus Maximus, the 75-minute visual accompaniment to his forthcoming album Utopia. Scott and Korine direct alongside Gaspar Noé, Nicolas Winding Refn,…
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Loc Agency, Brand and Talent Management Service for Films, Personalities and More, Launches (Exclusive)
Loc Agency, a brand and talent management service founded by Jessica Hoy and Teddy Duvall, has launched to offer strategic advisory and creative services for films, personalities and more.Loc Agency works with a range of feature films, brands and high-profile talent to deliver brand management, public relations, special events and sponsorship sales and brand activation…
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Utopia Buys Psychedelic Musical Comedy ‘Give Me Pity!’ Out of Fantasia (Exclusive)
Utopia has acquired the North American rights to Amanda Kramer’s “Give Me Pity!” ahead of the musical comedy’s North American premiere at Fantasia Film Festival.“Give Me Pity!” follows a Saturday Night variety show host who slowly unravels on screen in what Kramer has called “an untamed and intimate portrayal of diva culture, female vanity, created…
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Amazon Cancels ‘Utopia’ Remake After One Season
Many people will tell you that making a TV show about a pandemic while in the middle of a pandemic is a bad or even dumb idea, and those people would be right. Turns out, even Amazon Prime has realized this, as they just canceled the remake of “Utopia” after just one season.Read More: ‘Utopia’:…
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TV Bits: ‘Good Omens’, ‘Oklahoma!’, ‘Deadwood’, ‘Brave New World’, ‘Utopia’
In this edition of TV Bits: Check out a new behind-the-scenes look at Good Omens. Broadway musical Oklahoma! is being turned into a TV series. Timothy Olyphant talks about his hesitation to return to Deadwood. Alden Ehrenreich will star in Brave New World series. John Cusack joins Gillian Flynn’s Utopia. In the words of @NeilHimself,…
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‘World War Z’ Producers Say Sequel Shoots Next Summer; David Fincher Still Apparently Attached To Direct
The ongoing game to get a “World War Z” sequel up and running continues. This week, “Beautiful Boy” producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner provided an update. They say the film is in the works, David Fincher is still attached to direct, Brad Pitt attached to star and Brad Kelly, who worked with Fincher previously…
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Colin Firth, Julie Walters to star in ‘The Secret Garden’ for Studiocanal, Heyday
Marc Munden directs from a script by Jack Thorne.Colin Firth and Julie Walters are set to star in a new version of The Secret Garden from Heyday Films and Studiocanal, who previously collaborated on Paddington.The script from Jack Thorne is based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 classic novel, but moves the story from the Edwardian…
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HBO Passed on a ‘Shadow Country’ Adaptation from Scott Cooper, Jeff Bridges, and David Milch
For as many great shows as HBO has given us, there’s also a litany of extremely promising developed projects that never saw that light of day. The Sopranos is possibly the greatest TV show of all time, but HBO also developed and passed on a David Fincher-directed thriller series called Utopia, and a Steve McQueen-directed…
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Amazon takes Iain M Banks novel rights
Dennis Kelly to write Consider Phlebas adaptation with Plan B producing.Amazon Studios has acquired global TV rights to Iain M Banks’ Consider Phlebas and set British writer Dennis Kelly to do a series adaptation of the sci-fi novel.Kelly, an International Emmy winner for 2013 UK sci-fi series Utopia, will write the planned series for production…