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Kirsten Howard Oct 26, 2017

Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is heading for its home release in December. Here are all the details you need...

Here at Den Of Geek, second only to the pleasure of getting to see a great film on the big screen is the pleasure of owning a copy of a great film at home so that we can watch it again and again.

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Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, we hope you agree, is the kind of great film you'd want to get your hands on.

We've good news for you, if so: a date has been set for the home release. Here in the UK, we'll be able to purchase it on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on the 18th of December, one day ahead of the Us.

The discs are absolutely loaded with behind the scenes featurettes,...

With Halloween only two weeks away now, that means we have another killer batch of home entertainment releases arriving this Tuesday, primed to get everyone in the mood for the macabre. Cult film lovers should get those wallets ready, as Kino Lorber is keeping busy with The Terror Within II, Revenge of the Dead, and a 4K special edition of RawHead Rex, too.

For those who still venture out into the real world to make their media purchases, Target has the exclusive on season one of Stranger Things that comes in nifty retro packaging, and Criterion has put together a stellar Blu for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

Other notable releases for October 17th include American Gods: Season One, Wes Craven’s Summer of Fear, Red Christmas, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Honor Farm, and Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection.

American Gods: Season One (Lionsgate, Blu-ray & DVD)

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Back in the day, scary movies made frightened viewers cover their eyes. Today, younger audiences know better: They cover their ears.

Try it yourself: Find a trailer for a recent horror movie on YouTube, then watch it both with and without sound. Likely what you’ll find is as the trailer mounts toward a fright, so does the soundtrack until the scare, when it becomes a speaker-rattling blast of noise. Muffle the sound, and you’ve got a series of visuals that don’t say ‘boo!’ until the final moment.

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However, this isn’t the sole domain of trailer editors. It’s also become a staple of modern horror movies, including the hit adaptation of Stephen King’s “It.”

“It” features a terrifying character/supernatural force, disgusting hard-to-look-at-gore, spooky atmospherics that...

BFI, in partnership with British Council, has released India on Film: 1899-1947, Treasures from the BFI National Archive, an unparalleled collection of extremely rare films of India, (250 Newly digitised Films), which have survived from the earliest days of cinema. This visual record of early twentieth century offers a unique factual account giving new audiences an eye opening insight into the people, places, traditions and most famous landmarks of India.

India on Film: 1899-1947 consolidates the BFI’s commitment to preserving and sharing world film heritage, by making these significant collections accessible for audiences globally. Newly digitised specifically as part of UK/India 2017, a year-long celebration of the long-standing relationship between India and the UK, can be seen both on the BFI Player (for UK viewers) and the BFI YouTube Channel, enabling audiences in India and internationally, an opportunity to access and engage with the online collection online.

Highlights includes the...

Upcoming films by Babak Jalali, Kaouther Ben Hania and Bassem among the 34 projects due to attend this year.Scroll down for full list of projects

Argentine film-maker Lucrecia Martel and veteran producer Paulo Branco have been confirmed as the final two ‘masters’ at the Doha Film Institute’s talent development event Qumra.

They will join previously announced mentor-speakers Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, French auteur Bruno Dumont and creative documentarian Rithy Panh at the third edition of the bespoke event, running March 3 to 8, 2017.

Colourful Portuguese producer Paulo Branco – who is based between Paris and Lisbon – has more than 300 producing credits to his name, amassed over four decades, working with the likes of David Cronenberg, Wim Wenders, Chantal Akerman, Alain Tanner, Werner Schroeter, Olivier Assayas, and Cédric Kahn.

His Paris-based sales and production company Alfama Films is at the Efm this year with Robert Schwentke’s long-awaited Second World War adventure title The Captain.

“Paulo Branco is one...

How could England have won the war without him? Horatio Smith sneaks about in Nazi Germany, liberating concentration camp inmates right under the noses of the Gestapo. Leslie Howard directed and stars in this wartime escapist spy thriller, as a witty professor too passive to be suspected as the mystery spy.

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1941 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 121 min. / Street Date November 15, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98

Starring Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Allan Jeayes, Peter Gawthorne, Hugh McDermott, David Tomlinson, Raymond Huntley, Sebastian Cabot, Irene Handl, Ronald Howard, Michael Rennie.

Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum

Camera Operators Guy Green, Jack Hildyard

Film Editor Douglas Myers

Original Music John Greenwood

Written by Anatole de Grunwald, Roland Pertwee, A.G. Macdonell, Wolfgang Wilhelm based on a character by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Produced by Leslie Howard, Harold Huth

Directed by Leslie Howard

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

I like movies...

Watching Season 7 of The Good Wife is a little like keeping track of a tennis match — back, forth, back, forth, back, forth — except there are 17 players in the mix, the ball is on fire and the chair umpire is firing a rifle toward a random spot on the court every 30 seconds.

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For argument’s sake, you could say Alicia is Serena Williams and Eli is Roger Federer — they’re sometimes down, though never, ever out — but there’s no guarantee some upstart won’t come along and bump out one or both...

The festival’s 25th edition will feature a contribution from Ai Weiwei and competition titles including Whiplash, Nightcrawler and Foxcatcher.

The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 5-16) is to present its Achievement Award to Us actress Uma Thurman.

The Kill Bill star will will visit Stockholm to receive the prestigious Bronze Horse and meet the audience during an exclusive “Face2Face”.

Thurman will also take part in the inauguration ceremony, which will include the unveiling of an ice sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

Weiwei was a Stockholm jury member last year but since he wasn’t allowed to leave China, he sent an empty chair named ”The Chair for Non-attendance” as symbol of his absence.

He is still not allowed to leave China so will send a design that will be portrayed in the form of a large ice sculpture symbolising this years’ Spotlight theme - Hope.

Brazil

The festival will focus this year on Brazil...

Following previous announcements of their film lineup, the Fantasia International Film Festival has released their full lineup of movies to be shown at the 18th Annual festival, starting July 17.

New additions to the lineup include 2014 Cannes Selection When Animals Dream, directed by Jonas Alexander Amby and the return of Fantasia’s showcase of animated films, Axis.

Tickets for the festival go on sale starting July 16, and the festival runs through August 5.

View the whole press release of additional announcements below:

Fantasia Celebrates Its 18th Birthday

With Over 160 Feature Films Montreal, Thursday July 10, 2014 – 2014 is the year that Fantasia turns 18. We can’t believe it either. Fantasia’s 18th birthday means over 160 features and something in the neighborhood of 300 shorts, many being shown for the first time on this continent, a good number screening here for the first time anywhere in the world.In addition to being stacked with a multitude of breathtaking debut filmmaker discoveries,...

The top award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival has gone to Winter Sleep, an epic-length family drama directed by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

A jury including Gael Garcia Bernal, Sofia Coppola, Willem Dafoe, and Nicolas Winding Refn selected the winners from the 18 films in competition. Prizes were handed out during Saturday night’s closing ceremony.

Ceylan dedicated the award to “the young people in Turkey and those who lost their lives in the last year,” referring to a coal mine accident that killed 301 workers.

Italian director Alice Rohrwacher took home the runner-up Grand Prix prize for the coming of age story The Wonders.

The Palme d’Or of the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival went to Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic and yet personally intimate story of a wealty self-absorbed Anatolian hotelier and landowner and his uneasy relationships with those around him. Ceylan’s first Palme d’Or, he has received the Grand Prix twice already. Once for 2002′s Distant and again for 2011′s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. He also won for best director in 2008 for Three Monkeys.

Winter Sleep is the second film by a Turkish director to win the Palme, after Yilmaz Guney and Serif Goren’s The Way in1982. When Ceylan received the award, he noted that 2014 was the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. This is a great surprise for me, Ceylan said, I want to dedicate the prize to all the young people of Turkey, including those who lost their lives over the past year.

Winter Sleep is being sold internationally by Memento who will also release it in France. Ama acquired Greek rights before Cannes.

The Grand Prix was awarded to Alice Rohrwacher’s semi-autobiographical drama The Wonders ( Le meraviglie), one of the true wild-card selections in the Competition. Rohrwacher’s only other film was Corpo Celeste. Isa: The Match Factory and distributed in its home country, Italy, by Bim.

Best Director Award went to Bennett Miller (Moneyball, Capote) for Foxcatcher, about the complex relationship of Olympic wrestlers Mark and Davd Schultz and the Pennsylvania millionaire John du Pont. It is being sold internationally by Kimberly Fox’s new production and sales company Panorama who had pre-sold rights before Cannes for U.S. to Sony Pictures Classics, Canada to Métropole Films Distribution and Mongrel Media Inc., France to Mars Films, Germany to Koch Media Gmbh, Japan to Longride Inc., Switzerland to Ascot Elite Entertainment Group, Taiwan to Long Shong International, U.K. to Entertainment One UK.

The Actress Prize went to Julianne Moore for her role in David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars , a Hollywood saga where in order to succeed you must be incestuous or schizophrenic. Written by Bruce Wagner it is being sold internationally by Entertainment One, it had pre-sold before Cannes to Benelux to Cdc United Network and Cineart , Colombia to Babilla Cine, France to Canal + and Le Pacte, Germany to Mfa Film Distribution and Rtc Media, Greece to Hollywood Entertainment S.A., Italy to Adler Entertainment Srl, So. Korea to Doki Entertainment, Mexico to Cine Video Y Tv, Norway to Star Media Entertainment, Romania to Independenta Film, Switzerland to Pathe Films Ag, Turkey to Calinos Films, Ukraine to Top Film Distribution (Ukraine), U.K. to Entertainment One Films International.

The Actor Award went to Timothy Spall for his role as the renowned British artist J.M.W. Turner whose use of light and color made him a pioneering and controversial figures of his day. Mr. Turner was directed by seven-time Academy Award® nominated and multiple BAFTA winning writer/director Mike Leigh (Another Year, Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies). The legendary British actor Timothy Spall (Harry Potter, Secrets & Lies) also includes frequent Leigh collaborators, including Academy Award® nominated cinematographer Dick Pope (Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies, The Illusionist) and Academy Award®-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran (Another Year, Anna Karenina, Atonement). Leigh works in close collaboration with his actors, using his unique methods of improvisation to bring Turner and his 19th century world to life. Mike Leigh said: Turner as a character is compelling. I want to explore the man, his working life, his relationships and how he lived. But what fascinates me most is the drama that lies in the tension between this driven eccentric and the epic, timeless world he evoked in his masterpieces.

I’ve spent a lot of time being a bridesmaid. This is the first time I’ve ever been a bride, so I’m quite pleased about that, Spall said in a long, moving acceptance speech. This is as much an accolade for Mr. Leigh as it is for me. Spall recalled that when Leigh’s Secrets & Lies, in which he also starred, won the Palme d’Or, he was undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia. I thank God that I’m still here and alive.

The film was already pre-sold before Cannes by Isa Pyramide to U.S. to Sony Pictures Classics, Canada to Mongrel Media Inc., France to Canal + and Diaphana Distribution, Germany to Prokino Filmverleih Gmbh, Switzerland to Pathe Films Ag.

The Jury Prize went to two films from the Competition’s youngest and oldest directors: Xavier Dolan’s Mommy and Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language. Dolan thanked the Jury President Jane Campion and cited her Palme d’Or-winning The Piano as one of the first and most influential films he watched as a teenager. Godard did not attend the festival. Mommy is being sold internationally by both Seville and Entertainment One and was pre-sold before Cannes to Benelux to ABC - Cinemien, France to Diaphana Distribution, Japan toDongyu Club and Pictures Dept. Co. Ltd.

Camera d'Or went to Party Girl, Un Certain Regard Opening Night Film, the debut feature of three directors including two women, Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis. It had won the ensemble acting prize the night before at the Certain Regard Awards ceremony. It is being sold internationally by Pyramide. The Caméra d'Or ( Golden Camera ) is the award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight or International Critics' Week). The prize was created in 1978 by Gilles Jacob and is awarded by an independent jury which this year was headed by Nicole Garcia.

Screenplay Award went to Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin, Leviathan which was highly praised. Its Isa Pyramide presold the film to Australia to Palace Films, Benelux to Lumière, Brazil to Imovision, Greece to Seven Films, Spain to Golem Distribución, Taiwan toPomi International, U.K. to Artificial Eye,Curzon Cinemas and Curzon Film World

Other prizes:

Short Films Palme d’Or: Leidi (Simon Mesa Soto), a U.K. – Colombia coproduction.

Short Films Special Mention: Aissa (Clement Trehin-Lalanne) from France

Ecumenical Jury Prize: Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania-France) being sold internationally by Le Pacte who is also distributing it in France with TV5Monde.

Un Certain Regard Prizes

Un Certain Regard Prize: White God (Kornel Mundruczo, Hungary-Germany-Sweden). Isa: The Match Factory

Jury prize: Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund, Sweden-France-Denmark-Norway) Isa: The Coproduction Office, sold to Benelux to Lumiere and to Norway’s Arthaus.

Special Prize: The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, France-Italy). Isa: Le Pacte who is distributing it in France and has licensed it to

Italy to Officine Ubu and to Romania to Independenta Film.

Ensemble: Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis, France) Isa: Pyramide

Actor: David Gulpilil, Charlie’s Country (Rolf de Heer, Australia)

Directors’ Fortnight Prizes

Art Cinema Award: Les Combattants (Thomas Cailley, France) Isa: Bac Films presold to Haut et Court for France.

Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Les Combattants

Europa Cinemas Label: Les Combattants

Critics’ Week Prizes

Grand Prize: The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine) Isa: AlphaViolet (also French distributor)

Visionary Prize: The Tribe

Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Hope (Boris Lojkine, France) Isa: Pyramide. France TV5Monde.

Fipresci Prizes

Competition: Winter Sleep

Un Certain Regard: Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, Denmark-u.S.-Argentina)

Directors’ Fortnight: Les Combattants...

The 67th Cannes film festival ends with the ceremony to announces which of the 18 films in competition has won this year's Palme d'Or from Jane Campion's jury

News: Winter Sleep wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival

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And that's it from the Cannes prize-giving ceremony for this year. You can read Catherine Shoard's news story about Nuri Bilge Ceylan's win here and we'll have a reaction blog from Peter Bradshaw soon. He's a Ceylan fan, so he's no doubt staring quietly out the window at a gently rolling hillside in tribute.

Thanks for reading. We're off to cry, find and thank Jane Campion and think back on our years in "this crazy business" Au revoir!

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Giant cheer as the Turkish director's name is called. Some said his new film, another meditative drama set in the Anatolian countryside, stretched the audience's patience too thin to win.

Cannes — Sometimes, the pre-festival buzz has it right. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 196-minute conversational epic "Winter Sleep" entered the 2014 Cannes Film Festival as the sight-unseen frontrunner for the Palme d'Or, thanks to its heftiness of form and the Turkish auteur's perceived overdue status — any director with two Grand Prix wins and a Best Director prize behind him is bound to win the Palme at some point. The wave of strong critical reactions to "Winter Sleep," after it screened in the festival's opened days, suggested that this could be the year — though the late-breaking chatter about Andrei Zvyagintsev's muscular satirical tragedy "Leviathan" in the last two days had many Cannes attendees (this one included) thinking the Russian film could pull it off. It wasn't to be: Jane Campion's jury went with Ceylan for the top prize, rewarding Zvyagintsev's film — newly picked up by Sony Pictures Classics — with the comparatively minor Best Screenplay award instead.

Among the 18 feature films competing for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Jean-Luc Godard is presenting his 19th film at the Cannes Film Festival, Adieu au Langage (Goodbye to Language).

Adieu au Langage (Goodbye to Language): Godard’s first film to compete at Cannes was Cleo de 5 a 7, which premiered at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. Since then, 18 of his films have been screened at the festival, though not all in competition. Goodbye to Language is Godard’s first film in competition in over 10 years.

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Captive (The Captive): Atom Egoyan directs this Canadian thriller starring Ryan Reynolds, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos and Scott Speedman. This will be Egoyan’s fifth film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival; the writer/director won the Grand Jury Prize for The Sweet Hereafter in 1997.

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Actor Leslie Carlson has died, aged 81.

The character actor was best known for playing the villain Barry Convex in David Cronenberg's 1983 horror Videodrome.

He passed away from cancer at his Toronto home on May 3.

He had roles in three other Cronenberg movies: The Dead Zone, The Fly and Camera.

He also played the enthusiastic tree seller in A Christmas Story, and had roles in Black Christmas and Deranged.

On TV, he guest starred on a variety of shows including The X-Files, Highlander, MacGyver and 21 Jump Street.

Leslie Carlson, a character actor best known for his role as the sinister Barry Convex in the classic sci-fi film “Videodrome,” is dead. He died of cancer at his home in Toronto at the age of 81 on May 3. In addition to his role as a creepy corporate bad guy in 1983's “Videodrome,” for which he was nominated for a Genie Award for supporting actor, Carlson appeared in three other movies directed by David Cronenberg: 1983's “The Dead Zone,” 1986's “The Fly” and the short film “Camera” in 2000. Also see: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 (Photos) Among his most high-profile films roles.

Actor Leslie “Les” M. Carlson, who starred in four David Cronenberg films including Videodrome during his 38-year career in film, television, and the stage, died May 3 after a battle with cancer at his Toronto home, under hospice care. He was 81. South Dakota-born Carlson began his screen career in the 1970s, with turns in films including 1974′s Deranged and the sorority slasher classic Black Christmas. Cronenberg cast him as Spectacular Optical Corporation head Barry Convex in 1983 sci-fi horror Videodrome, for which Carlson earned a Genie Award nomination. He’d go on to act in three more Cronenberg films: The Dead Zone, The Fly, and 2000′s Toronto Film Festival short Camera. Carlson’s credits also include films High-Ballin’, A Christmas Story, Rolling Vengeance, and K2, as well as TV appearances on 21 Jump Street, The X-Files, Highlander, Babar and the Adventures of Badou, Rookie Blue, and a recurring run on Disney’s Road To Avonlea.

No fancy cars, but here’s a great pic of some of the cast and crew on the set of Transformers 4. The picture is hi-res and gets better and better the more you zoom in so be sure and click to enlarge. Here’s the caption that was attached to the pic.

Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-Camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri.

Transformers 4 starring Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Jack Reynor, Han Geng, Li Bingbing and Kelsey Grammer is slated to hit theaters June 27, 2014.

Of the many, many blockbusters due to hit screens next summer, Transformers 4 is, without a doubt, one of the biggest.

Having got the green light from Paramount to helm this year’s hit, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay has in turn returned to the helm for the fourth instalment in the franchise, and he’s assembled a stellar new cast to do it with.

Mark Wahlberg is reuniting with his Pain & Gain helmer for the upcoming Transformers 4, and Bay took to his site last week to share the first official photo from the set, sharing a glimpse at Wahlberg alongside co-star Jack Reynor and a handful of the crew, including Bay himself.

Little is known about the plot, but it is known that the sequel will take place four years on from the events of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and that it will be the launching point for a new trilogy.

What… no photo bombing by Optimus Prime?

Michael Bay.com has released this “Just Another Day On The Set Of Transformers 4″ photo from Paramount Pictures Transformers 4. Featured in the photo are the film’s stars Jack Reynor and Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-Camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri.

Shooting (and explosions) of the film have begun.

Be on the the lookout for the first teaser coming soon. In the meantime, check out the new array of cars Here.

Transformers 4 stars Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, Han Geng, Nicola Peltz, Li Bingbing and Sophia Myles are shooting now in multiple locations in the U.S. and China.

The film re-unites the filmmaking team from the hit franchise, including producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura,...

If Pacific Rim didn’t feature enough giant robot action to fill the hole in your heart left by the absence of a Michael Bay special-effects extravaganza this summer, you’ll be gratified to know that the next entry in Bay’s massively successful Transformers franchise is on the way.

Now, we have the first official picture from Transformers 4, which will attempt to reboot the franchise by focusing around a new group of human characters. Replacing Shia Labeouf this time around is Mark Wahlberg, who will portray Flynn Vincent, a single father and inventor caught up in all kinds of robot carnage when he makes a startling discovery.

Check out the first photo below:

The caption for the picture, from MichaelBay.com, reads:

Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-camera...

Big news for longtime Transformers fans. A report has surfaced revealing that scenes involving the Dinobots are shooting today at McCormick Park in Chicago, which will mark their first appearance on the big screen in this franchise. This lines up with a report from May that revealed the Dinobots will be a part of this particular story. Though, neither Paramount nor Michael Bay have confirmed this to be true.

If that news isn't enough to get you excited about this sequel, as production continues in Chicago on Transformers 4, director Michael Bay took time out of his busy schedule to post a photo featuring himself alongside stars Mark Wahlberg, Jack Reynor and several other crew members. Take a look at the photo, along with Michael Bay's caption from his official website.

"Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey "Walrus" Howard; 1st Assistant B-...

Heroes. What are action movies about if not heroes? These men and women stand tall, fighting the good fight, taking on all comers, doing the right thing no matter what it may cost them. Okay, so that's something of a traditional notion of things and one which the movie industry has moved away from. Or not. Submitted for your approval today is a new picture from the set of "Transformers 4." Seen here in the image, and looking very heroic, are from left to right: Jack Reynor, Mark Wahlberg, 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard, 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis (with back to camera), B-Camera Operator...

"Just Another Day On The Set Of Transformers 4" reads the headline on MichaelBay.com that accompanies this new "Transformers" set photo. No word if Bay's Superman pose is a reference to "Man of Steel" or just part of that "just another day" mentality.

From the site: "Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey 'Walrus' Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri."

"Transformers 4" is set for release in June of 2014.

Michael Bay has delivered the first official image from Transformers 4 (via Michael Bay.com). And from the Irish point of view its rather special because it features the first image of Jack Reynor (next to Mark Wahlberg). Not much is known of the plot besides this bit on IMDb A mechanic and his daughter make a discovery that brings down Autobots and Decepticons - and a paranoid government official - on them. It is known that Reynor plays a character called Shane, and Wahlberg plays Cade. I’d hazard a guess they’re related in some one! Other than that, thats it, the image is below and click it for a super hi-res version. Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri.

A new picture from the set of “Transformers 4″ has been released by Paramount and Michael Bay, and while not a lot is shown except for a mysterious obelisk with strange markings on it and Bay with some of the cast and crew, there’s not much in the way of spoilers. The picture, as I said, features Bay with his stars, Mark Wahlberg and Jack Reynor. Also featured are some of the guys behind the camera that are making the film happen–2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-Camera Operator Lukasz Bielan and Director of Photography Amir Mokri. The big question is [ Read More ]

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Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri. Titled “Just Another Day On the Set of Transformers 4″, take a gander at an official image from, well, the set of Michael Bay’s “Transformers 4″ that the Bayster recently released via his official site. I assume that’s co-stars Jack Reynor and Mark Wahlberg in “costume”, though they look like stylish bros just being bros. Bay, on the other hand, looks exactly like how you’d think Bay normally looks in real life — like he’s ready to blow something up. Set a few years after “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”, the untitled “Transformers 4″ will star Wahlberg as a mechanic who, along with his daughter (“The Last Airbender’s...

While plenty of unofficial photos from the Detroit set of Michael Bay’s sequel Transformers 4 have already made their way online, the filmmaker has now revealed the first official still from the film—aside from those numerous car images, of course. In the image, we see stars Mark Wahlberg and Jack Reynor getting ready to film a scene atop some Transformer-looking technology, while Bay triumphantly watches over. Little is known about the plot of the film, but with an entirely new cast it’s clear that Bay is moving away from the story of the first three films. Hit the jump to check out the image. The film also stars Nicola Peltz, T.J. Miller, Shophia Myles, Li Bingbing, and Kelsey Grammer. Transformers 4 opens on June 27, 2014. Via Michael Bay’s official website. Click to enlarge. Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus...

From left to right we have Jack Reynor, Mark Wahlberg, 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard, 1st Assistant A-Camera John Kairis with back to camera, B-camera Operator Lukasz Bielan, Director Michael Bay, and Director of Photography Amir Mokri...plus pyramid shaped metal robot thing. In addition, Coming Soon.net have received word that a scene set to shoot at McCormick Square in Chicago later today will indeed feature the Dinobots, who were rumored to be making an appearance in this movie a while back. Obviously the Dinobots themselves won't be present on set so it might be a while before we know this for sure, but we'll update if and when there are any further developments. Transformers 4 hits theaters June 27, 2014. Follow @RorMachine !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.

Check out this new photo from the set of Paramount's fourth Transformers film. Pictured left to right: Jack Reynor; Mark Wahlberg; 2nd Assistant B-Camera Casey “Walrus” Howard; 1st Assistant B-Camera John Kairis with back to camera; B-Camera Operator Lukasz Bielan; Director Michael Bay; and Director of Photography Amir Mokri. Also in the cast are Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Li Bingbing, Sophia Myles, Titus Welliver and Kelsey Grammer, among many others.

Tribeca’s 12th annual festival, running from April 17-28, recently announced that their festival awards, including the top juried world competitions going to The Rocket, The Kill Team, Whitewash and Oxyana. See below for the official press release.

2013 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Awards

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The Rocket, The Kill Team, Whitewash And Oxyana

Win Top Awards In Juried World Competitions

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Sandy Storylines Wins First-ever Bombay Sapphire Award For Transmedia

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Festival Awards $155,000 In Cash Prizes

[April 25, 2013 – New York, NY] – The 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its competition categories tonight at a ceremony hosted at the Conrad New York in New York City. The Festival runs through April 28, 2013.

The world competition winners for narrative and documentary films were chosen from 12 narrative and 12 documentary features from 14 countries. Best New Director prizes were awarded to a first-time director for both narrative and documentary films,...

Screen Australia says it has not mismanaged its finances by spending its annual production funding in just six months - a state of affairs which it says reflects the strength of the local film industry.

The government screen agency revealed in mid-December 2012 that it had spent its entire annual $42 million drama production allocation due to the unprecedented number of quality feature film and television projects seeking support. The shock announcement was reminiscent of the agency's abrupt decision to cut its investment cap in 2009 while several films were mid-financed. That decision.threw several major Australian productions into dissaray including The Tree and the biggest box office hit of.2010, Tomorrow When the War Began (Omnilab Media had to increase its investment at the last minute to ensure production).

Overspending on such a scale has never occurred before, even going back to the era of Screen Australia.s predecessor funding arm, the Film Finance Corporation.

From Palme d’Or winner “Amour” to the latest offerings from some of the biggest names of world cinema such as Alain Resnais, Abbas Kiarostami, Bernando Bertoluci, Manoel de Oliveira , Brillante Mendoza, Ken Loach, Jacques Audiard, 14th Mumbai Film Festival has a lot to offer to the filmbuffs.

The festival offers an exciting lineup of more than two hundred films, spread over about a dozen screen and seven days! To help our readers decide we’ve picked up the most talked about films from festival circuit.

14th Mff runs from October 18th-25th, 2012 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa), and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.

To get delegate pass for the festival, you can register here:

1) Beast of the Southern Wild

Dir.: Benh Zeitlin (USA/ 2012 /Col./ 92’)

Section: International Competition for...

The Criterion Collection is full of great movies, all carefully tabulated and accounted for with spine numbers and easily made accessible through various search means on their website. But besides the 600+ titles (out of print and not) included in The Collection, the extensive variety of special features attended in Criterion discs occasionally incorporate other feature-length and short films not officially enumerated as part of the collection itself. However, several of these films, while “hidden” in special features sections and second discs and placed subserviently to the ostensibly more “significant” featured title, are absolute gems arguably worthy of their own releases. Of course, short films are by no means uncommon in Criterion discs. You can see David Cronenberg’s contemplative short piece Camera (2000) in the annals of Videodrome, or the original short-form Bottle Rocket in Criterion’s release of Wes Anderson’s first feature. But Criterion (a company that has sometimes released short films on their own) also...

The July 19th start of Montreal's 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival is drawing closer (it runs through August 7th), and the powers-that-be have announced the second wave of films along with a few selections from the new Axis section of the event.

Fantasia Announces The Satoshi Kon Award For Achievement In Animation + A New Section Dedicated To International Animation Cinema + Second Wave Title Announcements

The art of animation in its many forms and disciplines has always had a strong place at Fantasia. This year, the festival has decided to give the form its own permanent section: Axis. From social realism to mind-bending fantasy, all styles and sensibilities will be showcased, now on a greater scale than ever. Further, the festival is proud to be rechristening its animation jury prize as The Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation, named after the dear, departed visionary whose feature debut, Perfect Blue,...

By Seth Metoyer, MoreHorror.com

An upcoming horror film called Kill Me Again has recently kicked off pre-production. The film will star actress and producer April Washko and will be directed by Steven Rodriguez.

Check out the larger version of the teaser poster as well as a special memorial day greeting from the film-makers below the official press kit details.

From The Press Kit:

Unlike other horror movies, "Kill Me Again" provides its audience with a dramatically intelligent, and emotionally charged storyline, set within the hugely popular zombie genre.

Fans of AMC’s Emmy award winning “The Walking Dead” will without a doubt consider "Kill Me Again" a welcome addition to the zombie genre family.

George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" was only the beginning. "Kill Me Again" promises to continue onward, thus keeping the zombie legacy alive, as it were.

So, we ask…“When the time comes…...

Before director David Cronenberg's new movie about a young, rich financier, Cosmopolis, was unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival, its star, Robert Pattinson, did a little revelation of his own - though, apparently, not as much as his director had requested. In an interview for Metro France that quickly got picked up around the festival, the Twilight star, 26, was quoted as saying, "Five minutes before we filmed, David told me, 'I want to see the bottom of your balls on the top of the frame.' At the moment, I reminded myself that I would do anything for him.

While starrier films like Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," Jacques Audiard's "Rust And Bone," David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis," Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly" and John Hillcoat's "Lawless" got the most attention when the Cannes Film Festival unveiled their lineup this week -- and not without good reason -- more discerning cinephiles also found reason to celebrate as well. "Post Tenebras Lux," the long-awaited new film from Mexican director Carlos Reygadas, was confirmed to be playing In Competition.

The director has been a favorite of the festival for some time, picking up the Golden Camera award for his debut film "Japan" and winning the Jury Prize for what is arguably his most acclaimed effort to date, 2007's "Silent Light." Now IonCinema has dug up a batch of images for "Post Tenebras Lux" and if nothing else, this is going to be one of the most visually alluring films on the Croisette.

With the release of the Nintendo 3Ds title Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir, Shock will be rolling out a series of retrospectives that look at tales of terror that tie together technology and horror. Games, cameras, phones, computers, televisions...you name it. This week, we turn to a David Cronenberg classic.

As you sit at your desktop or laptop or stare into your brand new smart phone that has a ridiculous orgy of different apps for all sorts of, let's face it, mostly completely unnecessary things, you more than likely already know before even beginning this retrospective that David Cronenberg's 1983 cyberpunk masterpiece is just as relevant today as it ever was – perhaps more so. Been on Facebook lately? Composed a tweet today? Conversed via a Skype call? Of course you have and more than likely this is a daily ritual for most of you. Some of us seem...

Every decade or so, one or two film makers become a major force in cinema comedies. The 1980′s saw the influence of Zaz (Aka Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker) starting with Airplane! and Ruthless People . For the last ten years or so Judd Apatow (40-year Old Virgin) and Todd Phillips (Old School) have ruled the comedy roost. In between there’s the Farrelly brothers (Peter and Bobby), former sitcom writers who invaded the multiplexes with the big box office laugh fests Dumb And Dumber and There’S Something About Mary (which opened the gates for the return of the R-rated movie comedy). When interviewed during their salad days, the guys related their affection for a decades old comedy team and vowed to bring them back to the big screen (they even appeared on a tribute NBC-tv special hosted by their Kingpin star Woody Harrelson). After some recent under...

A red letter day. There's a new Senses of Cinema out and it opens with the first part of Daniel Fairfax's interview with Jean-Louis Comolli, who edited Cahiers du cinéma from 1965 to 1973. Senses editor Rolando Caputo: "At the time, Cahiers was undergoing its so-called 'Marxist-Leninist' phase, with a heavy overlay of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory." And Slavoj Žižek would have been in his late teens, early 20s. At any rate: "Put simply, at stake was the demystification of the 'cinematic apparatus' to demonstrate how ideology was both embedded within the technology of cinema and an effect of its representational modes."

Fairfax: "Having steadily made films over the last 40 years — including the magisterial series on the French electoral machine, Marseille contre Marseille (1996) — Comolli has also pursued a prolonged theoretical pre-occupation with the cinema, which, in various ways, is profoundly defined by his earlier participation in Cahiers. Refreshingly, he has never sought to repudiate his radical past,...

In what's shaping up to be the showdown of the awards season, Michel Hazanavicius' "The Artist" and Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" continue to duke it out at various critics awards. This time, the Phoenix Critics Awards blessed both films with multiple nods -- "The Artist" received 11 while "Hugo" got 10.

Here's the complete list of winners of the Phoenix Film Critics Awards (Check out other award-giving bodies in our Awards Season coverage right here):

Top 10 Films of 2011

.The Artist.

.The Descendants.

.Drive.

.The Help.

.Hugo.

.Midnight in Paris.

.Moneyball.

.My Week With Marilyn.

.Super 8"

.The Tree of Life.

Best Director

Woody Allen, .Midnight in Paris.

Michael Hazanavicius, .The Artist.

Alexander Payne, .The Descendants.

Martin Scorsese, .Hugo.

Tate Taylor, .The Help.

Best Actor

George Clooney, .The Descendants.

Jean Dujardin, .The Artist

Michael Fassbender, .Shame.

Gary Oldman, .Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Brad Pitt, .Moneyball.

Best Actress

Glenn Close, .Albert Nobbs.

Viola Davis,...

Jonathan Hastings: "Metropolis or Moonfleet?" Guy Maddin: "Hate to say it, but Moonraker." Happening once more tonight at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York: "A unique live cinematic and musical event, Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Reframed pairs acclaimed filmmaker Guy Maddin's classic first feature film with a live performance — directed by Maddin himself — of a new score created by composer Matthew Patton, a superstar group of Icelandic musicians, acclaimed Seattle-based musical collective Aono Jikken Ensemble, and live electronics engineer Paul Corley."

Los Angeles. Jen Yamato, taking notes for Movieline: "Part of the wave of initiatives in Elvis Mitchell's rebooted Film Independent at Lacma programming is a series of live script reads directed by Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno), who kicked things off last month with a star-studded rendition of The Breakfast Club. [Thursday] night's second script read of the 1960 multiple Oscar-winner The Apartment,...

The Carrosse d’or or the Golden Coach Prize for the year 2011 will be given to Iranian director Jafar Panahi who is currently under arrest.

Carrosse d’or is a tribute by Directors’ Fortnight to a director for his/her innovative qualities, courage and independent-mindedness of his or her work.

Panahi won the Camera d’Or award at the Cannes film festival in 1995 for his debut feature The White Balloon. He was jailed for six years and banned from directing films for 20 years after his films were regarded to be critical of the current regime In Iran on December 20, 2010.

Festival de Cannes will keep a seat empty in the middle of the orchestra at the Croisette theatre, the venue for the festival’s Directors’ Fortnight. Berlin International Film festival too kept a chair empty at this year’s Jury in protest of his confinement, early 2011.

A bronze statuette inspired by...

Iranian director imprisoned for six years for criticising the country's ruling regime awarded prize for courage

The jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi is to win the Carrosse d'Or at this year's Cannes film festival.

Panahi, who won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1995 for The White Balloon, was convicted of making propaganda against the ruling regime in Iran last December. He was jailed for six years and banned from directing films for 20 years.

A prominent supporter of the protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election in 2009, Panahi was arrested for joining in mourning for demonstrators killed in July that year. He was subsequently released but barred from leaving Iran. In February 2010 he was arrested along with his family and colleagues and taken to Tehran's Evin prison. He was released on bail three months later after starting a hunger strike, but was later convicted of the propaganda offence.

In her best...

Why Watch? Because David Cronenberg is a master who understood that the camera symbolized death. This short film starts with a very funny shot (just as the kids bring home the old camera they find), and it continues to explore itself until reaching a haunting conclusion. I could talk about it more, but it’s Cronenberg, so it speaks for itself. What Will It Cost? Just 6 minutes of your time. Does it get better any better than that? Check out Camera for yourself: Camera (2000) Written and Directed By: David Cronenberg Starring: Leslie Carlson, Marc Donato, Harrison Kane, and Kyle Kassardjian Trust us. You have time for more short films.

I sent an e-mail the other day that was one of the hardest things I've ever had to write. It was to Jim Palmer and Maura Clare at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder. I told them I wouldn't be coming back this spring. I sent it, and stared into space, and was flooded with sadness.

I don't intend to write here about the Conference, which has allowed me to live more than nine months of my life in Boulder, one week at a time. I wrote about Cwa in a 2009 blog entry titled the Leisure of the Theory Class. I need not tell you again about Howard Higman or Daddy Bruce Jr.

You will have to take my word that the week at the University of Colorado every spring was a lodestone of my life. A week of talking, listening and learning. It was at Boulder in 1975 that...

The Flick:

David Cronenberg is a filmmaker with a very visceral vision. His films test our senses and they remind us of how fragile our minds and bodies can be. Videodrome is his testament to his understanding of the human condition, and a love letter to generations of cineasts that refuse to settle for a quick fix.

In Videodrome, Max (James Woods) is the owner of a small, Toronto based cable network that is searching for new content that pushes the limits of what is acceptable on television. In his search for said content Max stumbles across Videodrome, an encrypted video feet of a show with no plot that focuses on sexual deviance and murder. At once Max is both repulsed and excited by what he sees, and sets out to find the creators of the show so that he can run it on his network.

Along the way Max...

Well, folks, 2010 is officially in the can, and unlike 2009 horror movie fans took it in the can a lot less this year. Sure the last twelve months had its fair share of lows, but it also brought us a couple of new classics. As always we covered every single one of them mostly in great detail for you.

Now, with a fresh movie-watching start before us, we're taking our usual yearly look back at the good, the bad, the Wtf, and everything in between.

Don't just read along, though ... give us your lists in the comments section below. We wanna hear from you regarding what we nailed and what we dropped the ball on, so let the games begin!

Dig on our Best of and Worst of lists for 2010 by following the links below!

[The Buz]

[Thom Carnell]

[The Foywonder]

[Heather Wixson]

[Gareth Jones]

[MattFini]

[Nomad]

[The Woman in Black]

[Uncle Creepy]

[Andrew Kasch]

The Buz's Picks

As per usual I failed this year as a horror fan and a movie fan in general.

DVD Playhouse December 2010

By

Allen Gardner

America Lost And Found: The Bbs Story (Criterion) Perhaps the best DVD box set released this year, this ultimate cinefile stocking stuffer offered up by Criterion, the Rolls-Royce of home video labels, features seven seminal works from the late ‘60s-early ‘70s that were brought to life by cutting edge producers Bert Schneider, Steve Blauner and director/producer Bob Rafelson, the principals of Bbs Productions. In chronological order: Head (1968) star the Monkees, the manufactured (by Rafelson, et al), American answer to the Beatles who, like it or not, did make an impact on popular culture, particularly in this utterly surreal piece of cinematic anarchy (co-written by Jack Nicholson, who has a cameo), which was largely dismissed upon its initial release, but is now regarded as a counterculture classic. Easy Rider (1969) is arguably regarded as the seminal ‘60s picture, about two hippie drug dealers (director Dennis Hopper...