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Chris O'Dowd's MOONE BOY To Be Adapted For U.S. Network Television

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Chris O'Dowd's MOONE BOY To Be Adapted For U.S. Network Television

Chris O'Dowd's MOONE BOY To Be Adapted For U.S. Network Television

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 03:00 AM PDT

U.S. television network ABC will work with Chris O'Dowd to adapt his Irish television show Moone Boy for an American audience, according to The Hollywood Reporter. O'Dowd will not star in the show but will pen the script and serve as executive producer. The network has handed out a put-pilot commitment to O'Dowd. This means that ABC will air the pilot episode or pay monetary penalties to the studios who will produce the pilot: Sony, 3 Arts Entertainment, and original producers Sprout Pictures Limited, Baby Cow Productions and Hot Cod Productions.For those of you keeping score at home, if you are not familiar with Moone Boy, O'Dowd plays Sean, the adult imaginary friend of Marin Moone, a 12-year old boy who lives in Boyle, Ireland. Along...

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The Stack: HALLOWEEN Deluxe Blu-Ray Box, Two From Drafthouse Films, And Synapse's CURTAINS

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:10 PM PDT

Welcome back to The Stack. It's me, Dave Canfield, throwing some Halloween coverage at ya. This year has seen some amazing releases. In addition to what is mentioned in the headline, I recommend the Universal Classic Monsters 30 Film DVD Box Set. For you art-house horror nuts, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive is worth your time and attention. Twilight Time blew me away with their triple threat Blu-ray debuts of The Blob (1988), The Believers, and Audrey Rose. Grindhouse FIlms knocks it out of the park with their stunning Cannibal Holocaust 2 Blu-ray  and soundtrack CD set. Lastly, Aubrey Plaza brings that zombie-like stare in a bit of typecasting to Life After Beth. You can watch the video below!...

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Man, Maiden, Monster. Watch Cameron Macgowan's Ghastly Love Story LIEBE Now

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 03:30 PM PDT

Ah, true love. There's just no telling where it will strike, a fact played to great comedic effect by director Cameron Macgowan in his short film Liebe. After a hugely successful festival run that saw the film screen at dozens of festivals around the globe the complete short is now available online in its entirety and is well worth the 3+ minutes it asks you to invest. Take a look below!...

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Hey, Filmmakers! Montreal's Fantasia Festival Is Accepting Submissions For Their 2015 Festival Now!

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 03:00 PM PDT

You a filmmaker looking for a leg up? Want to get your latest opus in front of an audience? Montreal's mammoth Fantasia Festival is now accepting submissions for their 2015 edition! Get yourself in there and start training your arteries to withstand the onslaught of poutine! Find all the details here!...

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Hypnotic Danish Fantasy DARK SAMURAI To Premiere At Cameraimage, Take A Look At These Gorgeous Images

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:30 PM PDT

It's been a long road for Sidney Lexy Plaut and his debut feature Dark Samurai. A hypnotic, experimental piece of work revolving around the folklore surrounding legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi produced with the help of Valhalla Rising producer Lene Borglum and David Sakurai in the lead role, the picture has been winding its way through post for a little while now but there is good news for those who have been waiting with word that it will soon premiere at the Cameraimage festival in Poland. Worth waiting for? Take a look at the gorgeous imagery in the gallery below and see for yourself.Dark Samurai is inspired by the legend of Miyamoto Musashi, who was one of the most famous Japanese ronin and warrior philosophers. This...

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The DC Cinematic Universe Ramps Up

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:45 AM PDT

Are you ready for a whole lotta DC Comics characters cavorting around on the big screen? Well, regardless if you are, they're coming. In droves. And in pretty fast succession. After years of questioning when and how DC Comics would step up to the cinematic plate and attempt to toss a couple home runs over Marvel's already bright and shiny heads, they're getting their act together. Whether they can attempt to offset their decades-old rival at the multiplex remains to be seen, but now that they've officially announced their movie slate from 2016 to 2020, we can be damn sure they are gonna try. But here's the thing, the way they went about announcing this stuff doesn't inspire much hope.For you see, even though the...

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Hey, NYC! Wanna See JOHN WICK Early And For Free?

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:30 AM PDT

If you're a regular Twitch reader then the answer should be a resounding god damn YES.Now, while I have yet to see this Keanu Reeves starring actioner from stuntmen turned directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski, everyone I spoke with at Fantastic Fest who saw it there was head over heels in love, citing it to be an action film that knew what it was, didn't make any apologies for it, and then did it well... and that something well was a cool, mondo bad-ass action fest. The straight-the-point synopsis aims a such:When Russian mobsters kill his beloved dog, retired hit man John Wick returns to the game he played best - and brings bloody vengeance with him.Twitch has 30 double passes to give away...

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Vancouver 2014 Review: MAN ON HIGH HEELS, Crime Genre As Transgender Study

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Man On High Heels, a Korean gangster-cop flick of another color, navigates gender politics as shakily as its strangely-worded (or translated) title would suggest. Cha Seung-won stars as Ji-wook, the eponymous man: a specimen of ideal masculinity who spends his working hours beating up on mob bosses as a respected and feared cop. In his downtime, however, Ji-wook visits a discreet facility to receive estrogen shots. He has always felt that he was a woman, and has finally decided to quit the force and make this a physical reality for himself. But as in any good crime movie, a life of violence, littered with enemies is not so easily left behind.Prolific filmmaker Jang Jin writes and directs, with a winning blend of sensitivity and humor,...

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Full Trailer For Jean Dujardin Starring Crime Thriller LA FRENCH (THE CONNECTION)

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 10:30 AM PDT

Jean Dujardin anchors the cast of Cedric Jimenez' classy Gallic crime thriller La French. Based on the same true events that provided the basis for The French Connection, the film is known in these parts simply as The Connection and with the French theatrical release drawing near the full trailer has arrived online. No English subtitles, unfortunately, but big bags of cocaine and gunmen on motorcycles are kind of their own language, n'est ce pas?...

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Warsaw 2014 Review: THE COFFIN IN THE MOUNTAIN, An Entertaining And Cleverly Written Black Comedy

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 10:00 AM PDT

To make effective use of multi-perspective narrative is never an easy task, but first-time helmer Xin Yukun has found a perfectly workable way of implementing the risky technique within a story of a peaceful, rural Chinese village forcefully awakened from a much desired lethargy when an unidentifiable corpse suddenly materializes in a neighboring forest.If not for the lackluster and overly soapy first part that exposes some of the most crucial elements of the story and thus makes the picture less of a mind-boggling whodunit it aspires to be, The Coffin in the Mountain would be the most fun I've had with a non-linear piece in a long time.In the opening chapter - aptly named 'Pregnancy' - Zongyao's (Wang Xiaotian) homecoming takes on an unexpectedly violent...

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Camera Japan Review: SHORT PEACE Has Great Shorts But No Peace

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:30 AM PDT

(Otomo Katsuhiro once again searches for beauty in violence and destruction, and this time he has brought some friends...) Seeing anime on a big screen is always a special affair in the Netherlands, and there are only a few festivals able to purchase the more obscure titles. One of them is the Camera Japan festival in Rotterdam, and this year they showed the anthology Short Peace, produced and partly directed by Otomo Katsuhiro, him of Akira fame. First, a confession: this review is, technically speaking, incomplete. I have only seen the movie part of Short Peace, which contains four short films, three of which are set in the past and one in the future. But the whole project actually includes a fifth current-day episode,...

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New York 2014 Review: BIRDMAN, A Visual and Comedic Feast For The Eyes and Mind

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:00 AM PDT

This year's New York Film Festival came to a satisfying conclusion with one of its best selections, Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), the oddly titled (and punctuated) fifth feature by acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Returning in spirit (if not in tone or content) to the brash exuberance of Amores Perros, his 2000 debut feature, Birdman marks a major departure from his previous trio of features - 21 Grams, Babel, and Biutiful - in which Iñárritu wore the mantle of Serious Filmmaker Taking on Important Themes, to increasingly overwrought and self-important results. In his latest outing, Iñárritu successfully throws off his self-suffocating pretensions to deliver a satirical, visually audacious movie, crackling with wicked humor and aesthetic bravado, targeting artistic types and pop...

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Japanese Film Festival In Sydney Announces Suo Masayuki And Kamishiraishi Mone As Special Guests

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:30 AM PDT

Australia's Japanese Film Festival, now in its 18th year, has just announced its special guests for the Sydney leg of the program this year. They are Suo Masayuki, director of such Japanese classics as Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and Shall We Dance? and young actress Kamishiraishi Mone. The two guests will be here for the screening of their new film Lady Maiko on November 16, which will be followed by a Q&A session.  Lady Maiko is a musical comedy set in the world of geishas and is loosely based on Audrey Hepburn's My Fair Lady. Suo selected Kamishiraishi to play the lead role from over 800 applicants. You can visit the Festival's Official Website for more details. ...

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Destroy All Monsters: Box Office Mojo No Go

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Did you know that Box Office Mojo was owned by the IMDB? I didn't; at least, not until this past Saturday. What about the IMDB: did you know they were owned by Amazon? Another one of Saturday's lessons. There was quite a nice small-focus fracas on the weekend as movie geeks (at least, those with a stake in the financial performance of feature films) had a 24-hour freakout about the unexplained disappearance (and equally unexplained reappearance) of boxofficemojo.com. I was about halfway through re-watching Godzilla on Saturday afternoon when I popped open my laptop to compare the film's domestic gross against its worldwide, and found out that Box Office Mojo was gone. Some variation of that afternoon's activity - the handy lookup; the quick contextual...

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Enter To Win This Massive Prize Pack For THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Hoo boy. Have we got a giveaway for you! To celebrate the U.S. release of The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya this Friday, October 17th, we have a giveaway to ends all giveaways. Everything in this package is official Ghibli swag and limited edition. This is a must have for any Ghibli fan. Princess Kaguya pocket watchPrincess Kaguya moleskine notebookPrincess Kaguya "song book"Princess Kaguya alternate posterSets of special Princess Kaguya post cardsSets of special Princess Kaguya cell phone stickersSet of Princess Kaguya plastic bamboo shoots with mini princess insideTo enter simply e-mail me with your answer to this skill testing question below. It is multiple choice so do your homework and you should come up with the right answer. Please put Princess Kaguya in the subject so...

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New York 2014 Review: CITIZENFOUR, The Chilling Story Behind Edward Snowden's Explosive Revelations

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:00 AM PDT

In this year's New York Film Festival there were two gripping thrillers, both receiving their world premieres at the festival, and, intriguingly enough, both featuring moodily effective scores by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. One was David Fincher's novel adaptation Gone Girl and the other was Laura Poitras' documentary CITIZENFOUR; the former fictional, the latter very chillingly real. And although it's likely that CITIZENFOUR ultimately won't reach nearly the amount of viewers that Gone Girl will, it is Poitras' film that is essential viewing for anyone even the least bit concerned about the erosion of civil liberties and individual privacy that has occurred steadily since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. The changes in America post-9/11 have been the overarching subject of Laura Poitras'...

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