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Beijing-based Rediance also co-financing Miguel Gomes’ Savagery.

Beijing-based Rediance, which launched a film financing arm at Cannes last year, has boarded Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria and Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’ Savagery as co-financier.

Memoria stars Tilda Swinton and Jeanne Balibar and is scheduled to start shooting in Colombia in August. The producers on the film include Kick the Machine, Burning Blue and Keith Griffiths and Simon Field’s Illuminations Films. Chinese producer Maxx Tsai is also backing the film.

Gomes’ Savagery is based on Euclides da Cunha’s Backlands, The Canudos Campaign, a non-fiction account of the war...

Beijing-based Rediance also co-financing Miguel Gomes’ Savagery.

Beijing-based Rediance, which launched a film financing arm at Cannes last year, has boarded Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria and Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’ Savagery as co-financier.

Memoria stars Tilda Swinton and Jeanne Balibar and is scheduled to start shooting in Colombia in August. The producers on the film include Kick the Machine, Burning Blue and Keith Griffiths and Simon Field’s Illuminations Films. Chinese producer Maxx Tsai is also backing the film.

Gomes’ Savagery is based on Euclides da Cunha’s Backlands, The Canudos Campaign, a non-fiction account of the war...

Kamila Andini’s “Memoria” is a short movie of 2016 that precedes “The Seen and The Unseen”. Intense and moving, “Memoria” is based on a true story, but Andini makes her protagonist Maria a spokeswoman for a nation and its abused women.

“Memoria” received an award for outstanding achievement at the 21st Busan International Film Festival (Biff) in Busan, South Korea, and was nominated for best short film in the Indonesian Film Festival (Ffi) in 2016.

“Memoria” is screening at Berlin Film Festival

Set in present time East Timor, the film, as its title suggests, is a necessary reminder of the abominable and often unspoken violence and hardship endured by the women during the conflict the plagued the Timor Leste, started with their independence from Portugal in 1975 and during the dark years of the Indonesian occupation, concluded in 1999.

Moreover, the two decades of gender-based violence against women and children, rapes and routine...

The wait for his Tilda Swinton collaboration, Memoria, is long — three years since Cemetery of Splendour, seven months since its reveal, at the very least a few months before it rolls cameras, and premiering who knows when — but Apichatpong Weerasethakul is more of an active artist than a filmmaker per se, speaking for the extent of his endeavors. (Case in point: what movie released this year are you more actively interested in than this?) Instrumental to his oeuvre are short-form works that vacilate between installation and narrative, which is perhaps a way of saying they often occupy a space in-between.

So’s the case with Blue, which recently screened at Tiff and has been put online by the Opéra national de Paris. For its neat (in both senses) overlaying of effects onto in-camera material, careful shifting of perspectives, complex sound design alternately tactile and foreign, and downright apocalyptic vision, Apichatpong...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Connor Jessup)

As part of the Meet the Filmmakers series, A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is now screening on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck. Directed by Connor Jessup, who will be most familiar to viewers as a cast member on Falling Skies and American Crime as well as his breakthrough lead performance in Stephen Dunn’s Closet Monster, he is...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWe are ecstatic about the news of our favorite Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul's new project Memoria entering production. The latest: Tilda Swinton is aboard. The Film Stage has the report.Is the wait for Orson Welles' posthumously completed feature The Other Side of the Wind nearly over? It would seem so. Variety reports that composer Michel Legrand has joined the project to provide the score. Orson Welles for 2018 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or!Recommended VIEWINGYou're likely aware that American cinema's most controversial stylist has a new film arriving in cinemas this week. But have you seen this completely lovely set of interviews with the films cast (and titular dogs)?William Friedkin, the iconoclastic director of The Exorcist, has a most exciting new (exorcist themed) film: the documentary The Devil & Father Amorth.In a completely different register,...

As part of the Meet the Filmmakers series, A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is now screening on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck. Directed by Connor Jessup, who will be most familiar to viewers as a cast member on Falling Skies and American Crime as well as his breakthrough lead performance in Stephen Dunn’s Closet Monster, he is also a filmmaker in his own right with two short films under his belt, Boy and Lira’s Forest. Jessup is influenced by the work of Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, for whom his admiration runs very deep. A mid-length documentary that leans neither towards behind-the-scenes nor bio formats, A.W. is a leisurely and meditative piece that matches the filmmaker’s easygoing personality and patient rhythm. Made well ahead of the production of his next feature, Memoria, which will be set in Colombia and star longtime friend Tilda Swinton, Jessup...

With all due respect to whoever lands the leading role in the next Marvel movie, we now have the most exciting casting news of the year: Tilda Swinton is set to star in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria,” the Thai filmmaker’s first outing since “Cemetery of Splendour.” Affectionately known as “Joe,” Weerasethakul won the Palme d’Or in 2010 for his dreamlike “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.”

The film will be shot in Colombia. “During the 70s and 80s, it was very violent (in Colombia), much more than now,” Weerasethakul recently told Screen Daily. “When you were driving, there could be a bomb and sometimes the traffic stops and you don’t know (why). People imagine things and have a fear. The movie is about this, waiting for something you don’t know.” According to the Independent, “Memoria” will delve into “colonial history and how collective memory can lead to fear.

It’s no secret James Franco is one of the most hate-him-or-love-him actors working in Hollywood. But even those who consider themselves fans don’t always show up to the countless indies he makes in any given year, from “Memoria” to “The Adderall Diaries,” “King Cobra” and directorial efforts “In Dubious Battle” and “The Sound and the Fury.” At this point there’s no denying Franco has talent, but he takes on so many middling projects and appears in what seems like everything to the point that it can be hard to remember why you loved him in the first place.

Fortunately, Franco looks like he’s ready to remind us why he belongs in the business. It’s happened before — his Oscar-nomianted lead performance in “127 Hours,” his go-for-broke turn in “Spring Breakers” and...

Writer-director Vladimir de Fontenay was inspired to make his Directors’ Fortnight selection Mobile Homes, a dark drama about rootlessness and dislocation, by a sight that took him by surprise: a massive mobile home towed by a truck on an upstate New York highway.

“I was dizzy and tired and all I could see was a floating house, and it was so weird and incredible at the same time,” says the French filmmaker, who made his feature debut with 2015’s Memoria, starring James Franco.

The ungrounded home led de Fontenay to first write and direct a 2013 short film, also named Mobile...

“If your life flashed before your eyes, would you like what you see?” That’s the question that the new film “A Beautiful Now” asks its audience as it takes them on an all-night vigil for the life of one woman teetering on the edge. The film follow Romy (Abigail Spencer), a depressed dancer who has locked herself in her bathroom with a bottle of champagne and a loaded gun. When her friend David (Cheyenne Jackson) lets Romy’s former friends know that she’s threatening suicide, they all converge outside her bathroom and try to talk her down. In the process, they rehash old arguments, bring up their differences, and reveal previously hidden emotions, all while flashbacks detail how Romy got to this place. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.

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The film is the feature-length debut by Daniela Amavia,...

Back in April, Netflix picked up the rights to Death Note, after they expired while the project was at Warner Bros. This adaptation of the popular Japanese manga series is now moving forward, with Nat Wolff joining the cast in April. Now we have word of another casting addition, Keith Stanfield (Straight Outta Compton). No details were given for his character.

Almost exactly six years after Warner Bros. first acquired the rights to the http://movieweb.com/x-men-apocalypse-kodi-smit-mcphee-nightcrawler-photo/Japanese manga comic Death Note, Warner Bros. hired director Adam Wingard (The Guest) to take the helm last April. We reported last year that director Gus Van Sant was attached to the project, which previously had Shane Black set to direct back in 2011. Jeremy Slater (The Lazarus Effect) wrote the most recent draft of the screenplay.

The plot, based on the original manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, follows a student who discovers a strange notebook, which allows him to kill anyone whose name he writes in it. The student decides to rid the world of all men and women he deems to be evil, while a police officer starts tracking him down, as the bodies keep piling up. The script had been previously worked on by Charley Parlapanides and Vlas Parlapanides (Immortals) and the writing team of Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry, before Jeremy Slater came on board.

Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Jason Hoffs and Masi Oka are producing, with Doug Davison and Brian Witten serving as executive producers. Adam Wingard's other directorial credits include A Horrible Way to Die, You're Next and segments of horror anthology films such as V/H/S, V/H/S/2 and The ABCs of Death. Netflix hasn't issued a release date at this time, so stay tuned.

Keith Stanfield made his feature acting debut in 2013's Short Term 12, and went on to star in The Purge: Anarchy, Selma, Dope and the blockbuster biopic Straight Outta Compton. He most recently starred in another biopic, Miles Ahead, and he will next be seen in Snowden and Memoria. We'll be sure to keep you posted with more on Death Note as we get closer to production starting this summer.

Exclusive: Founder and CEO Matt McCombs and his sales team at Spotlight Pictures head into Cannes with a roster led by Aaron Eckhart starrer Courage.

The film gets its market premiere screening today [May 11] and is based on Jim Dent’s novel Courage Beyond The Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story.

Angelo Pizzo, a sports specialist whose screenwriting credits include Hoosiers and Rudy, directed from his adapted screenplay.

Eckhart stars as the coach of the University Of Texas American Football team whose star player is diagnosed with bone cancer.

The film opened in the Us last November through Clarius Entertainment under the title My All American and Universal handles ancillary rights.

Spotlight is also talking up Bitter Harvest, an epic romance set against the backdrop of the Holodomor – Stalin’s persecution of Ukrainians during the 1930s – that stars Max Irons and Samantha Barks.

The film screens today [May 11] and on Tuesday [16] in Cannes and the producers are in talks for a Us...

Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods The 5th Wave (Ya sci-fi/thriller; Chloe Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson; rated PG-13) Joy (actor-y biopic; Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper; rated PG-13) The Choice (romance; Benjamin Walker, Teresa Palmer; rated PG-13) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (sci-fi/adventure; Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac; rated PG-13) Memoria (drama; James Franco, Sam...

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Read More: Watch: James Franco Seduces Emma Roberts in Stylish 'Palo Alto' Trailer James Franco's childhood contuse to be a bountiful source of inspiration for him as a writer, director and actor. He first recounted various anecdotes from his youth in the short story collection "Palo Alto Stories," which was later turned into a feature film by Gia Coppola. His subsequent memoir, "A California Childhood," was the starting off point for this year's "Yosemite," also starring Franco, and now the upcoming "Memoria," directed by Nina Ljeti and Vladimir de Fontenay, is the latest movie to be born out of his roots. Indiewire has an exclusive poster for the coming-of-age drama, which you can check out below. Based on both "Palo Alto" and "A California Childhood," "Memoria" follows the day-to-day struggles of teenager Ivan Cohen (played by Sam Dillon of "Boyhood"). The viewer follows...

Read More: James Franco's Movie Column: Guy Maddin's 'The Forbidden Room' is Crazy With Purpose Monterey Media has acquired distribution rights for indie drama "Memoria," based on a short story by James Franco. The film, which had its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival, stars Sam Dillon, Thomas Mann and Franco and is directed by Nina Ljeti and Vladimir de Fontenay. Franco is also serves as co-producer on the film. The official synopsis for the film reads, "'Memoria' tells the story of Ivan Cohen, an anti-social, self-conscious boy living in the suburbs of Palo Alto, CA. Unable to get along with his dysfunctional mother and stepfather, he retreats to a world of military combat in the confines of his bedroom, struggling to find his place in the world and dreaming of his father who left before he was born." "Memoria" will be released...

Monterey Media has acquired North American distribution rights to indie drama Memoria starring Sam Dillon, Thomas Mann, and James Franco. The film, written and directed by Nina Ljeti and Vladimir de Fontenay and based on a short story by Franco, had its world premiere today at the Austin Film Festival, with Franco in attendance. Monterey will release the film, produced by Rabbit Bandini Productions and Burn Later Productions with The Art of Elysium, next year in theaters…...

Exclusive: The Kings Of Summer actor Moises Arias has joined the cast of Ben-Hur, the historical epic Timur Bekmambetov is directing for MGM and Paramount Pictures. Arias will play Gestas, a teenage Jewish zealot whose family has been murdered by the Romans, who is desperate to fight for his people’s freedom. Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, and Toby Kebbell star in the production which will lens in Europe ahead of a February 26, 2016 release. Arias is an alumnus of Hannah Montana and The Wizards of Waverly Place who starred in Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated The Kings Of Summer. He also lent his voice recently to Despicable Me 2 and appeared in Summit’s sci-fier Ender’s Game. Next up is a role in the Sundance 2015 drama Stanford Prison Experiment opposite Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, and Billy Crudup, in which Arias plays one of several university students tapped for the...

The Caribbean based indie tale, "Happy People" has found its cast and begun production in the Bimini islands, The Bahamas. The film marks the directorial debut of AFI alum Logan Sandler. The film, which started production in Bimini on Monday, September 15, 2014, will star Dree Hemingway (Starlet, the Cosmopolitans, While We Were Young), Keith Stanfield (Short Term 12, Selma, Straight Outta Compton), Robert Wisdom (The Wire, Dark Night Rises, Nashville, Chicago Pd), Leonard Earl Howze (Antwone Fisher, Barbershop, Masters of Sex) and Sam Dillon (Boyhood, Scenes from the Suburbs, Memoria). “It is incredibly exciting to have such an amazing cast working on this project....

• Warner Bros. and Pearl Street Films have set video game writer Will Staples (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3) to pen the script for an Africa-set geopolitical thriller for Oscar-winner Ben Affleck to star in and direct. The story is about a group of mercenaries hired to kill a warlord. Affleck is currently shooting the big screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl where he plays lead Nick Dunne. After that he’ll direct and star in Live By Night and then tackle his role as Batman in the Man of Steel follow-up. [Deadline]

• Rachel McAdams (The Notebook) is in talks...

Up-and-coming actor Sam Dillon has been cast alongside James Franco and Thomas Mann in the indie drama “Memoria,” TheWrap has learned. Vladimir de Fontenay and Nina Ljeti are writing and directing the movie, which Franco is executive producing under his RabbitBandini Productions banner. Franco met the filmmakers while enrolled at New York University. Dillon and Franco recently worked together on Gia Coppola’s “Palo Alto,” which was based on Franco’s book of short stories. “Memoria” is one of three feature films being adapted from Franco’s short stories, along with “Killing Animals” and “Yosemite.” It is specifically based on the short stories “Memoria,...