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Roger Deakins, the Oscar-winning 1917 cinematographer, has been knighted in the Queen’s New Year Honors list as the British monarch celebrated the careers of behind the scenes talent in the film and TV industry.

Deakins was honored for his services to film, marking a glittering career in which he has won two Oscars and five BAFTAs for an illustrious rollcall of credits that includes Blade Runner 2049, True Grit, No Country for Old Men, and James Bond feature Skyfall.

Others honored by Queen Elizabeth II include Bodyguard and Line Of Duty creator Jed Mercurio, who was awarded an OBE for his services to television drama. Mercurio has recently wrapped Season 6 of Line Of Duty for BBC One.

Dan Dark, EVP of worldwide studio operations at Warner Bros., was also handed an OBE for his services to the UK film business. Dark relocated from London to LA earlier this year and...

Though his music can be heard in all corners of the globe, Paul McCartney’s songwriting process is impressively homegrown. When he teamed with Elvis Costello for sessions that would ultimately yield his 1989 album Flowers in the Dirt, the pair met at McCartney’s personal studio: a converted corn mill dubbed Hog Hill Mill, a short drive from his farm in rural southern England. Armed with nothing more high-tech than a pencil, paper and acoustic guitar, two of the world’s most influential composers climbed the steps to a small office tucked above the studio and pulled tunes out of thin air.

SXSW Interview — ‘68 Kill’ Is Not Your Dad’s Trailer Trash Porn“All money’s got blood on it, one way or another.”Poster art by Evan Yarbrough“You shovel shit for a living. I suck dick. I’m tired of it. What do you want out of life?” — Liza in ‘68 Kill’

68 Kill is a straight whiskey flick with a whiskey chaser. Trent Haaga (writer, director) is not playing about when it comes to his characters. They’re wild, authentic, and painfully mean. For all intents, he’s made a female exploitation film but gender-swapped nearly all the characters. It’s a story about two victims of abuse trying to find their way in life. Well, trying to find their way to $68,000 and then, maybe, life. There’s a lot more than surface level violence for fun’s sake going on here. But, from the get-go, you need to understand that you’re in for some grindhouse nastiness...

Amy Schumer is more than smitten with boyfriend Ben Hanisch.

On Saturday, the couple shared adorable photos of each other for their one-year anniversary. Schumer, 35, posted a photo of her furniture designer beau chowing down on a burger with the caption, “A year ago today I met the love of my life. Happy anniversary f—face. #Iwantoseeotherpeople.”

Hanisch shared similar sentiments in a post of his own, writing, “A year ago I met the love of my life. We both weren’t looking for a relationship at the time, but something felt right from the very first night we met.

Oh, Amy Schumer!

It's officially been one year since the 35-year-old comedian met her boyfriend, Ben Hanisch, and in celebration of their special day, she took to Instagram to gush over the Chicago-based furniture designer in the most Amy Schumer-like way.

Watch: Amy Schumer Gushes Over Boyfriend Ben Hanisch, Says She Warned His Mom About the Media Scrutiny

"A year ago today I met the love of my life," she captioned a pic of her beau about to take a bite into a sandwich at a sporting event. "Happy anniversary f*ckface. #Iwantoseeotherpeople."

Hanisch's message, which was accompanied with a beautiful black-and-white snap, was much sweeter.

"A year ago I met the love of my life. We both weren't looking for a relationship at the time, but something felt right from the very first night we met," he shared. "We ended up spending 6 days in a row together. This pic was taken in New Orleans and was...

For our buck, one of the most underrated actresses working today is Aussie Abbie Cornish. While she’s turned in some fabulous performances (“Somersault,” “Bright Star” and the extremely underseen “The Girl”), Cornish hasn’t quite caught on to the next level. But she is joining the already front-loaded cast of filmmaker Amma Asante’s “Where Hands Touch.”

Read More: Interview: ‘Belle’ Director Amma Asante On Her Charged & Groundbreaking Period Drama

Tantrum Films announced today that Cornish, Christopher Eccleston (“28 Days Later,“ ”Thor: The Dark World”) and Tom Sweet (the boy in “The Childhood of a Leader”) have joined the cast of Asante’s latest, alongside the previously announced Amandla Stenberg (“The Hunger Games,” “As You Are”) and George MacKay (“Captain Fantastic,” “Pride”).

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Residents of southern California, get pumped! Insomniac presents its annual Halloween festival and its centerpiece is Escape: Psycho Circus! This two-night event kicks off in San Bernardino on October 28th. Also: American Murder Song's extended tour dates, The ID autograph signing at Dark Delicacies, She Rises and Hidden in the Woods news, and a new trailer for Beyond the Walls.

Two-Night Escape: Psycho Circus Event Details: "Insomniac’s annual Halloween festival in Southern California, Escape: Psycho Circus is an over-the-top two-night nightmarish circus featuring some of the biggest DJs in the world – The Chainsmokers, Benny Benassi, Duke Dumont, Kaskade, Martin Solveig, Tiesto and so many more will join together for two nights of wicked fun at the Nos Events Center in San Bernardino October 28-29 this year.

Last year’s festival drew 90,000 attendees for an unforgettable psycho weekend, taking guests on a haunting musical journey and this year is likely to,...

Details on American Murder Song‘s third Ep, The Reckoning, kicks off today’s Horror Highlights. Also: Jennifer Blanc-Biehn joins the cast of Voyeur and a Daily Dead Q&A with Z Nation composer Jason Gallagher.

American Murder Song’s The Reckoning Details: Press Release: “1816, The Year Without A Summer, was an infamous year. A natural disaster blew its vengeance over the American northeast until every damn thing was froze, and the ground became death. Trapped indoors, Mary Shelly penned her classic novel Frankenstein. Two hundred years later, cult film composers Terrance Zdunich (Repo! The Genetic Opera) and Saar Hendelman (The Devil’S Carnival franchise) are resurrecting that fateful year as the setting for a bitter new batch of murder ballads. Prepare thyself for American Murder Song’s third extended play album, III. The Reckoning.

On American Murder Song’s first Ep, I. Dawn, Terrance and Saar led listeners through...

Blanc-Biehn Productions are going global and they are taking their current and upcoming movies with them. Premieres are set for She Rises, Hidden in the Woods, and many more. Also in today’s Horror Highlights: details, a poster, and a trailer for Tell Me How How I Die, American Murder Song tour dates, and Mezco’s new Resurrection X Living Dead Dolls.

Blanc-Biehn Productions Global Tour Announced Plus Details: Press Release: “(Los Angeles, CA / August 9, 2016) – The film-making couple Michael Biehn and Jennifer Blanc-Biehn are set to launch a promotional tour across the world to promote their current and upcoming movie projects.

The husband & wife film-star team and founders of indie film enterprise Blanc-Biehn Productions (Bbp) have begun a tour of Europe this summer with stops in Dublin, Ireland, Vienna and Oberwaltersdorf, Austria.

They will also appear at three Comic-Con fan expos in Europe: Wrexham, Wales (November 5-6); Manchester, England (December 3-4) and Kielce,...

In a miss it if you don’t read the fine print, First Look Media (company motto is Entertainment with something on its mind) announced a new addition to their company structure and the good news: they are developing a film script from writer/director David Riker (La Ciudad, The Girl with Abbie Cornish) based on an unreported, certainly hot topic politically infused report from Jeremy Scahill.

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It's billed as a sequel to Cloverfield, but is 10 Cloverfield Lane all it seems? We take a look at the subject of unrelated sequels...

In an era where it's just about impossible to make a high-profile movie without at least something leaking onto the web, producer Jj Abrams seems to have pulled off the ultimate coup in recent months: he and his company Bad Robot have secretly created a follow-up, of sorts, to the 2008 hit monster movie, Cloverfield.

On the 15th January, a trailer landed for 10 Cloverfield Lane, a claustrophobic horror thriller that Abrams described in a statement to Collider as a "blood relative" of that earlier film directed by Matt Reeves.

The premise is this: Mary Elizabeth Winstead's character, Michelle, is injured in a car accident and wakes up in a bunker with 40-something survivalist, Howard (John Goodman).

Howard tells Michelle that some kind of...

Back in November, producer/screenwriter Simon Kinberg confirmed that production on 20th Century Fox's X-Men spinoff Gambit will begin sometime this spring, describing the movie as a "sexy heist thriller." Channing Tatum is still set to star as the card-throwing title character, with L&#233a Seydoux portraying the female lead, Belladonna "Bella" Boudreaux. Today we have a new report from Wgno, which reveals that the movie will start production this March in New Orleans.

20th Century Fox previously issued an October 7, 2016 release date for Gambit, putting it up against Warner Bros.' The Accountant, Disney's The Girl on the Train and Lionsgate's Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life. Production was originally set to begin on Gambit last fall, but the production schedule shifted after director Rupert Wyatt (The Gambler) dropped out in September. The production got back on track with Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow), but the studio...

Few years in film history have been as important and ultimately as influential as the year 1999. With some of the greatest features of the last 20 years, ranging from masterpieces by legendary auteurs (Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut) to underrated entries in lengthy filmographies (Scorsese’s Bringing Out The Dead) and even new auteurs announcing themselves (Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich), 1999 is a year truly unlike many others. Michael Mann, Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch, Sofia Coppola and Takashi Miike. David O’ Russell gave us Three Kings and Mike Leigh showed off a different side of himself with Topsy Turvy And yet, this list of great film after great film doesn’t quite scratch the surface of what 1999 had to offer.

Take David Riker’s film La Ciudad for example. Relatively forgotten among the never-ending list of great films debuting in theaters in 1999, this is unlike many of that year’s slate.

With the latest X-Men spin-off, Gambit, eyeing an October shooting date, it’s been all go on the casting front, with a shortlist of actresses, including Lea Seydoux (Spectre), Abby Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road), and Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation), being looked at to play female lead Belladonna Bourdeaux alongside Channing Tatum’s titular smooth talking, playing card throwing mutant thief. That shortlist is now down to one name, with Deadline reporting that Ferguson dropping out of contention to star in thriller The Girl on the Train has seen Fox offer Seydoux the role (fun little detail: Seydoux is also member of the Mission: Impossible family, having played a ruthless assassin in Ghost Protocol) X-Men fans will know what an important role Belladonna plays in Gambit’s backstory, with the pair once married in a ceremony to unite the Assassin’s and Thieves Guilds of New Orleans. Of course,...

Earlier this month, we reported that 20th Century Fox is testing actresses for the female lead in Gambit, with L&#233a Seydoux (Spectre), Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation) and Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) all competing for the coveted role of Belladonna (Bella) Boudreaux in this X-Men spinoff. Today, Deadline reports that the part was offered to L&#233a Seydoux. It was also revealed that Rebecca Ferguson had to drop out of contention after she landed the lead role in The Girl on the Train.

In the original comic books, Belladonna Boudreaux was the daughter of the New Orleans Assassins' Guild leader, who fell in love with Remy LeBeau (Channing Tatum). LeBeau was a member of the Thieves Guild, and was set up with an arranged marriage to Bella to unite both guilds, but Remy was forced to flee to New Orleans. Bella went on to receive her own super powers,...

Last Sunday, after a day at Austin Film Festival packed with a lackluster panel, a surprisingly well-done foreign shorts program, and the screening of a Reese Witherspoon film I've been keen to see for months, I closed the evening with The Sideways Light at the Alamo Drafthouse Village.  The thriller was a chilling cap to the night.

In her large house, sextuagenarian Ruth (Annalee Jefferies, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, The Girl) putters around and talks to herself (or so we and her daughter assume). Worried about her ailing mother, Lily (Lindsay Burdge, A Teacher, Frances Ha) has moved back home for the interim. Daughter Lily uneasily slips into the role of caretaker as her mom becomes more childlike. She takes breaks offered by her brother Sam (Mark Reeb, Eve of Understanding, Sun Don't Shine) to visit and flirt with bar owner Aidan (Matthew Newton, Queen of the Damned, Farscape).

Ruth...

David Riker, who directed independent immigrant drama La Ciudad, helmed a film in 2012 titled The Girl. This seems at first glance a far-too-general name for a movie about immigration, life on the border, motherhood and desperation. Is the "girl" of the title Ashley (Abbie Cornish, Bright Star, Sucker Punch), a young mother struggling to make money so she can get back custody of her son? The viewer wonders as we see her flustered under the keen eye of a social worker, arguing for more shifts at the grocery store, or riding along with her trucker dad (Will Patton, Remember the Titans, TV show Falling Skies) to Mexico.

Ashley becomes convinced that she can be a coyote -- she desperately needs the money this bad idea will bring her. Among the group of people she picks up in a Nuevo Laredo plaza to convey over the border is a young girl,...

Chicago – We’re kicking off a great November of content with another “New to Netflix” feature, in which we help you fill your Netflix queue for the next 30 days. There are some undeniable greats that recently hit the service (like “Say Anything…”) along with some well-known recent hits (like “Olympus Has Fallen”), but we use this feature to track down the films you may miss in the labyrinth of Netflix.

With more and more film and TV lovers using broadband providers more often than video stores, Netflix may be the future of entertainment but it’s still annoying to navigate. Let us guide the way. Complete with links so you can add all ten of these directly to your queue.

A Band Called Death

“A Band Called Death”

Netflix Description: Blending a larger-than-life family story and a rock documentary, this film follows David, Bobby and Dannis Hackney, three teenage brothers...

Written by Brent Fletcher | Directed by Jesse Bochco | Created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen

This week’s episode sees a welcome and significant progression in the season’s main arc, a superpower plot more in keeping with the McU and a couple of decent steps forward in some characters’ development. ‘The Girl in the Flower Dress’ may not have as interesting a story as last week’s ‘Eye-Spy’, but there’s enough juicy teases, new characters and concepts introduced to more than make up for its failings.

Opening in Hong Kong, we meet amateur magician Chan performing street magic to an unimpressed crowd only to break out his true talent: he can produce small bursts of fire from his hands. Seemingly impressed by his display, American Raina (the titular ‘girl’, and an enigmatic, compelling screen presence) gushes over him and they both go back to his place, only...

As is often the way with costume designers, Stephanie Collie is something of an unsung hero. We will not reel off her entire back catalogue, but it does include South Riding (2011, TV), Telstar (2008) Peter’s Friends (1992) and perhaps most exciting of all, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).

Now, anyone old enough to remember when Lock, Stock arrived will remember just what an incredible influence its Mod inspired costumes had on the world of fashion. You could not pick up a men’s magazine of the time without seeing some guy in slim trousers and a jersey polo shirt. Stephanie Collie invented this look, thus providing one of the clearest examples of how costume design can transcend a movie and become something more. We would go so far as to say Stephanie Collie helped define an era.

The young cast of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels wearing the soon...

Last weekend’s celebration of all things cultural in Mexico was a big success (2014 has now been announced) and the film programming presented a number of diverse and interesting offerings from the country.

The following are a handful of the screenings which we were lucky to be invited to.

Opening night film – The Girl

Debuting at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Us filmmaker David Riker’s look at the hazardous world of immigration proved to be a strong choice to open with. In the film, Abbie Cornish (convincingly) plays a white-trash single mother called Ashley. She lives an aimless life close to the Mexican border in San Antonio and is battling to regain custody of her young son after a DUI charge. Discovering her estranged father (Will Patton – grizzled as hell) is using his haulage wagon for other money-making purposes, she foolishly arranges for a group of Mexicans to be smuggled across the border.

It was recently announced Ben Affleck would lead director David Fincher's adaptation of Gone Girl, which put the question as to what was up with his big budget, 3-D take on Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea over at Disney. After all, wasn't the Australian government doing everything they could to lure the production down underc As it turns out, that's exactly what that was, a bit of a fishing expedition as The Playlist reports Fincher has been off the project for months with Gone Girl his only target. The most recent reports on Gone Girl had Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt vying for the title role, but now The Hollywood Reporter says Rosamund Pike (Jack Reacher) is now the frontrunner as production is expected to begin this fall. Update: Variety is reporting Abbie Cornish, Olivia Wilde and Julianne Hough are also in the running for...

Mexican officials are considering further updates to the country’s current film incentives, a panel at London Mexfest reveals.

The ProAV incentive launched six years ago has already seen a number of key changes this year, with smaller-budgeted films now able to access the funding as well as slates or bundles of films able to apply. For the bundles, the lead producers can be different but the same Mexican production company has to be working on all of them.

ProAV offers cash rebate of 7.5% of all expenses in Mexico below the line (international producers can also get their Vat returned, so that savings can be up to 17.5%). Digital work, including animation and VFX, can start with the funding at $700,000 and film productions at about $3m. (More details of the current incentives can be found here and here.)

Jorge Sanchez, director of the Mexican Film Institute (Imcine), said the launch of London Mexfest yesterday: “It’s time to...

London’s MexFest is billed as a showcase to promote the ‘best of contemporary Mexican culture’, and judging by the line-up of films on offer for this short season (11th – 14th July), those interested in the country’s diverse cinematic offerings will be more than adequately catered for.

Debuting at last year’s Tribecca Film Festival, the opening night feature is the Abbie Cornish-headlining, immigrant-crossing drama, The Girl. One of Mexico’s brightest young talents (alongside collaborator and best friend Gael García Bernal) Diego Luna is visiting with his directorial debut Chávez, a biopic about the boxer Julio Cesar Chávez.

As Mexican food continues to grow ever more popular in our capital, documentary Para Abrir Boca: A Gastronomic Tour, which delves into the recipes and ingredients of the country’s traditional cuisine, is a must for all foodies. Another film to look out for is Irish filmmaker and critic...

Here’s some brand new photos featuring Joel Kinnaman on the set of the upcoming remake of “RoboCop” by director José Padilha (Rio, eu te amo, Elite Squad) and starring Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises, Paranoia, Monster Butler, Lawless), Michael Keaton (30 Rock, Toy Story 4), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury, Old Boy, Django Unchained, The Avengers), Joel Kinnaman (Knight of Cups, Easy Money, The Darkest Hour) and Abbie Cornish (An Ordinary Man, Seven Psychopaths, The Girl, W.E.). Film Synopsis: In a crime-ridden city, a fatally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him. The film is scheduled for release in the United [ Read More ]

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Rating: 3.0/5.0

Chicago – Let’s get this out of the way first – Abbie Cornish is simply great in David Riker’s “The Girl,” opening this weekend in Chicago at the AMC River East 21. She’s genuine, believable, and emotional resonant in ways that make this critic truly wish she would get more great roles (go rent “Bright Star” for further proof of her immense talents). Having said that, “The Girl” only barely works. Too much of the dialogue feels forced and the situations purposefully manipulative for it to fall on the right side of the soap opera-drama spectrum. There’s a heartfelt tenderness for this troubled character on Riker & Cornish’s part but it comes at the expense of realism or any serious answers to the questions raised by the film.

Texan Ashley (Abbie Cornish) is going through a serious rough patch in her life. She has lost custody of her...

“The Girl” is one of the most challenging films for Australian actress Abbie Cornish. The actress showed her acting range as a struggling and depressed mother who is trying to win back her son from child protective services. Her life then changes after an encounter with a young girl in Mexico that starts towards her life-changing journey to truly realize what it really means for motherhood.

In a recent phone interview with Latino-Review, Cornish talked about working on the project with director David Riker and acting newcomer Maritza Santiago Hernandez. She even discussed her research on the life and culture of both sides of the borders. She also mentioned the challenges with developing a Texan accent and learning the Spanish language for the movie.

As an added bonus, Cornish eagerly talked about her experiences on the set of the upcoming “RoboCop” film and working with the respected thespian Gary Oldman.

Director David Riker's The Girl played the Tribeca Film Festival last year and is now coming to theaters. In it, Abbie Cornish plays a struggling single mother who stumbles into the practice of smuggling Mexicans across the border into the U.S. She's introduced to this underbelly by her father, a shifty character played by Will Patton, who has played his fair share of shifty characters, though just as often some good, if unassuming, ones. In order to give you a bit of an assist on why Patton's face looks super familiar, here's a quick primer. You've Most Likely Seen Him In ... ... a major studio blockbuster as either the second-in-command to or antagonist of the big star. Most prominently, this has been on display in the 1998 asteroid romance Armageddon, where Patton played Bruce Willis's trusty lieutenant; and as the antagonist football coach to Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans.

Actress Abbie Cornish learned to speak Spanish for her latest movie, The Girl. Living in Mexico for a few months during production, she completely immersed herself in the culture, which completely changed her life and taught her a few cool words along the way.  

CineMovie sat down with the Australian actress in a very casual office setting to talk about her new bilingual role in The Girl. From the Producer of Maria Full of Grace and the Executive Producers of Beasts of the Southern Wild, Abbie Cornish plays Ashley Colton in The Girl, a single mother trying to regain custody of her son. With little chance of making ends meet living in the border town of Laredo, Ashley

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It is one’s tragedy that will lead to another one’s awakening.

The indie film “The Girl” reflects a soul-searching journey of a woman named Ashley (played by Abbie Cornish), who lost her child to child protection services years ago. She places the blame on everyone for the loss of her child—the foster parents, the government, the court and even her work. And most of all, she blames her problem with the lack of money in order to get her child back.

With the lack of money, a dead end job and living in a trailer park, her father Tommy (played by Will Patton) surprises her with a visit and they both travel to Mexico. She soon learns that her father smuggles Mexicans across the border for great sums of cash.

In desperation for money and to win her son back, she takes her own operation to smuggle...

It’s been over 14 years since director David Riker was at the helm for the thought-provoking film “La Ciudad.” Riker returns with another Latino-themed film with “The Girl.”

Here’s the synopsis of the film:

Struggling with the loss of her child to Social Services, a single mother is trapped in the quicksand of her south Texas life, unwilling to accept the consequences of her actions. When her path collides with a young child from Mexico, she begins a journey that will change her life — teaching her that she is the architect of her own fate and learning what it is that truly defines home.

Latino-Review had an exclusive telephone interview with Riker as he promotes his emotional film “The Girl.” We discussed certain topics about immigration, the characters, motherhood and political/social themes from the film. And there were also certain challenges of adapting a script that was in...

With 3 new clips available ahead of its release, buzz is steadily building for "The Girl," the first feature in over a decade from NY based writer-director David Riker. Riker's previous work "The City (La Ciudad)," a quartet of neo-realist vignettes detailing the experiences of Latin American immigrants in New York, evoked a strong critical response and picked up a handful of awards on the indie festival circuit. "The Girl" returns to the subject of immigration and stars Abbie Cornish, who impressed in Jane Campion's sensuous 2009 John Keats biopic “Bright Star” and has since gone on to supporting roles in "Limitless," "Sucker Punch" and "Seven Psychopaths." Cornish plays a troubled single mother living hand-to-mouth in the fraught territory of the Texas-Mexico border. After accepting a job driving illegal immigrants across the border, she finds her fate entangled with that of a young Mexican girl. Riker has said he spent a...

Abbie Cornish stars as a single mom trying to earn money to get her child back in The Girl. The indie film from director David Riker (La Cuidad) opens in New York March 8th and Los Angeles March 15.

Abbie Cornish plays Ashley, a young single mom struggling with the loss of her child to Social Services, unwilling to accept the consequences of her actions and trapped in the quicksand of her south Texas life. Also starring Will Patton, and introducing Maritza Santiago Hernandez as the Mexican girl.

When Ashley's path collides with Rosa (Maritza Santiago Hernandez), a strong-minded girl who has lost her mother while crossing the Rio Grande, she unwittingly begins a journey that will change her life forever.

Starting in a big box store in Texas and ending in

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As immigration reform once again begins a hotly debated topic among the halls of Washington power players, there is perhaps no better time for "The Girl" to be hitting theaters. After premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival last spring, and hitting the Austin Film Festival last year as well, the picture is finally gearing up for audiences everywhere. And we have some exclusive new images and a featurette for the picture that boasts a strong lead turn from Abbie Cornish. The rising actress stars as Ashley, a troubled single mother living on the Texas and Mexico border. Needing the money, she takes a gig driving illegal immigrants over into the United States, but soon finds herself wrapped up in the fate of a little girl, and the ensuing events will change her life forever. The film is the first feature from writer/director David Riker in over a decade, but...

Comicbookmovie.com got their hands on a new photo featuring the Em-208 from the set of the upcoming remake of “RoboCop” by director José Padilha (Rio, eu te amo, Elite Squad) and starring Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises, Paranoia, Monster Butler, Lawless), Michael Keaton (30 Rock, Toy Story 4), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury, Old Boy, Django Unchained, The Avengers), Joel Kinnaman (Knight of Cups, Easy Money, The Darkest Hour) and Abbie Cornish (An Ordinary Man, Seven Psychopaths, The Girl, W.E.). Film Synopsis: In a crime-ridden city, a fatally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him. The film is scheduled for release [ Read More ]

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The Guadalajara International Film Festival (Ficg) is taking part in the year’s first celebration of the seventh art—the Palm Springs International Film Festival—where it is slated to present the Cine Latino Award to the best Iberoamerican film screened at the 24th edition of the California festival, which will run from January 3rd to 14th, 2013.

The award is accompanied by a cash prize of Us$5,000 contributed by the Guadalajara International Film Festival and the University of Guadalajara Foundation/USA located in Los Angeles, California.

The Cine Latino Award highlights the enormous creativity of new talents in the world of Iberoamerican cinema, at the same time underlining the commitment of the Ficg and the University of Guadalajara Foundation/USA to the consolidation of culture and the arts in the region and to the wider interchange of ideas within a global context.

I will have the pleasure of being on the jury along with Juan Carlos Arciniegas (Ccn en Español), a journalist with an established career in the area of motion picture and entertainment criticism and analysis—and Iván Trujillo Bolio, director of the Guadalajara International Film Festival.

Listed below are the 22 films eligible for the award. They include some of the productions from Iberoamerican countries nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Foreign Language Film category of the 85th Academy Awards, to be held on February 24th, 2013.

7 Boxes (Paraguay), (Isa:Shoreline Entertainment)

Director: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori

After Lucia (Mexico), (Isa: Bac Films)

Director: Michel Franco

Beauty (Argentina), (Isa: Campo Cine)

Director: Daniela Seggiaro

Blancanieves (Spain/France) (Dreamcatchers)

Director: Pablo Berger

Checkmate (Dominican Republic)

Director: José María Cabral

Clandestine Childhood (Argentina/Brazil/Spain)

Director: Benjamín Ávil

The Cleaner (Peru) (Isa: Flamingo Films)

Director: Adrian Saba

The Clown (Brazil)

Director: Selton Mellobr

The Dead Man and Being Happy (Spain) (Isa: Udi)

Director: Javier Rebollo

Drought (Mexico) (Isa:imcine)

Director: Everardo González

The Girl (USA/Mexico) (Isa: Goldcrest Fims)

Director: David Riker

Here and There (Spain/USA/Mexico) (Isa: Alpha Violet)

Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza

La Playa D.C. (Colombia/Brazil/France) (Isa: Cineplex)

Director: Juan Andrés Arango García

Multiple Visions (The Crazy Machine) (Mexico/France/Spain)

Director: Emilio Maillé

The Passion of Michelangelo (Chile/France)

Director: Esteban Larraín

Sadourni’s Butterflies (Argentina)

Director: Darío Nardi

The Sleeping Voice (Spain) (Isa: The Match Factory)

Director: Benito Zambrano

The Snitch Cartel (Colombia)

Director: Carlos Moreno

Tabu (Portugal/Brazil/France/Germany)

Director: Miguel Gomes

The End (Spain)

Director: Jorge Torregrossa

Una Noche (Cuba/UK/USA)

Director: Lucy Mulloy

White Elephant (Argentina/Spain/France)

Director: Pablo Trapero

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Title: The Girl Director: David Riker Starring: Abbie Cornish, Will Patton, Maritza Santiago Hernandez A well-meaning but rather inert borderland drama about a single Texas mother who, while in the process of trying to reunite with her son, becomes entangled with a young would-be illegal immigrant, “The Girl” is a decent showcase for the Australian-born Abbie Cornish, which explains its limited, awards-qualifying run in advance of its wider, March 2013 theatrical release. Still, the film is too limited in scope and predictable to transcend its social-issue movie-of-the-week roots as a tear-jerker designed to play on the feelings of particularly maternal independent film fans. Ashley (Cornish) is poor and not particularly [ Read More ]

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The indie drama The Girl features Australian actress Abbie Cornish in a tragic, heartfelt and ultimately hopeful performance as Ashley Colton, a single mother in Texas who is struggling with the loss of her son to Social Services. When her path collides with a young girl from Mexico, she finds herself in the middle of a life-changing journey that forces her to confront and deal with the cycle of her past. During this recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, Abbie Cornish talked about how she came to be a part of this film, how easy she found this character to relate to, learning to speak with a Texas accent and in fluent Spanish (for which she had three months of lessons), how quickly she bonded with the young actress who plays Rosa (Maritza Santiago Hernandez), how intense the entire experience was, and the way she thinks things might have turned out for her character.

Well-told, well-shot and featuring a strong, but restrained and internalized performance from actress Abbie Cornish, director David Riker's "The Girl" is a mannered and in-the-pocket indie drama that might be a total subdued winner if it weren't for its dubious political ideologies, an irony considering the film's DNA is clearly built on humanist tendencies. While the Australian Cornish does have mild issues with sticking the landing on her Texas accent, it's her meatiest role since the deeply underrated "Bright Star" and lesser-seen, but no less valuable indies like "Somersault" and "Candy" (the latter featuring her going toe-to-toe with Heath Ledger and giving as good as she got) and she makes the most of it.  She leads the pic as the emotionally distraught and financially destitute Ashley (played quietly with an internal smoldering), and as the narrative unfolds through the mundane, we learn that her...

"You know the only reason you've got my Georgie and not me is because of money," a Texas woman (Abbie Cornish) slings at her mother early into the trailer for David Riker's "The Girl," and she's right. Issues of money are what set the trailer, and the film, into motion -- but it seems money has no true place on the journey these characters take through the rest of the trailer.   Money is the reason she loses custody of her son; money is what she needs for her forthcoming custody battle; money is why she decides to help smuggle illegal immigrants over the border. But, when a dangerous trek through the Rio Grande with a pack of human cargo leaves her to care for a young, now-motherless Mexican girl, income seems to lose its once-shining value. Can money right what's been wronged? Can money bring the young girl's mother back?...

Today we have the trailer for "The Girl" drama, starring Abbie Cornish (RoboCop, Sucker Punch) and Will Patton. The film appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. Check out the trailer below. Plot: Ashley (Cornish) is an emotionally distraught woman whose child was taken away by Social Services. Being in dire straits financially, she begins to smuggle illegal immigrants across the border from Mexico into Texas. But when a young girl named Rosa comes into her care, everything begins to change for Ashley. The new movie is written and directed by David Riker, and is set to get a limited theatrical release on December 14th. Trailer:...

No, this isn't the HBO film about Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren that goes by the same name. Instead, this film called The Girl, which played at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, features Abbie Cornish in a lead role as a struggling mother, coming to terms with the loss of her child to Social Services. But as with all indie films like this, she comes into contact with someone who will change her life: a little girl from Mexico who obviously has some things to teach her. It looks like a decent performance for Cornish, but I can't help but see this film as too familiar. Of course, that's the case with a lot of films nowadays. Watch! Here's the first official trailer for David Riker's The Girl, originally from Yahoo: Struggling with the loss of her child to Social Services, a single mother (Abbie Cornish) is...

The journey will change her forever. I just saw this completely fresh trailer for the upcoming drama The Girl, and I must say that Abbie Cornish definitely rocks! I mean, ok, we already had a chance to hear that David Riker‘s movie deals with motherhood, immigration and politics, but somewhere in between – I think we’re actually dealing with a quite powerful story of love & commitment. Take a look, and let us know what you think!

As we previously reported, the movie which comes from writer/director David Riker debuted at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, and beside great Abbie Cornish, it also stars Will Patton and young Maritza Santiago Hernandez.

Cornish stars as a single mother named Ashley, described as an emotionally distraught woman coming to grips with her child being taken away by Social Services. She is also in dire straits financially, and soon begins to...

Smuggling Mexican immigrants across the border isn't for everyone -- especially Abbie Cornish in  the Tribeca Film Festival favorite "The Girl."  Playing a Texas mother desperate for cash so she can regain the custody of her son, Cornish's character decides to follow her father (Will Patton) into the illegal business and proves to be particularly bad at it.  After the majority of her human cargo washes away in a strong current while crossing the Rio Grande, the single mom is left with yet another child she can't care for, an eight-year-old orphan...

Here’s a new licensing reel featuring interviews with the cast and crew of the upcoming remake of “RoboCop” by director José Padilha (Rio, eu te amo, Elite Squad) and starring Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises, Paranoia, Monster Butler, Lawless), Michael Keaton (30 Rock, Toy Story 4), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury, Old Boy, Django Unchained, The Avengers), Joel Kinnaman (Knight of Cups, Easy Money, The Darkest Hour) and Abbie Cornish (An Ordinary Man, Seven Psychopaths, The Girl, W.E.). Film Synopsis: In a crime-ridden city, a fatally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him. Follow @Shockya on Twitter for the latest from [ Read More ]

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Abbie Cornish stars in David Riker's drama The Girl which now gets a first poster, and tells of a young Texan mother, after losing her child to foster care, starts smuggling Mexicans across the border. Riker directs and scripts the film which was nominated for Best Narrative Feature at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The cast also includes Will Patton, Giovanna Zacarías, Luci Christian, Austin West and Santiago Maritza. The Girl is produced by Paul S. Mezey.

Abbie Cornish stars in David Riker's drama The Girl which now gets a first poster, and tells of a young Texan mother, after losing her child to foster care, starts smuggling Mexicans across the border. Riker directs and scripts the film which was nominated for Best Narrative Feature at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The cast also includes Will Patton, Giovanna Zacarías, Luci Christian, Austin West and Santiago Maritza. The Girl is produced by Paul S. Mezey.

As readers of The Playlist may have noticed, we think Abbie Cornish is on the cusp of a breakthrough. Arthouse audiences already know she's got the goods, giving strong performances in Cate Shortland's "Somersault" (her breakout turn) and Jane Campion's gorgeous and underrated "Bright Star." Hollywood has certainly paid attention, with the actress scoring supporting parts in a variety of films including "Sucker Punch," "Seven Psychopaths," "Limitless" and next summer's "RoboCop." But for those looking for another leading turn by Cornish, she's got a new movie on the way. Co-starring Will Patton and introducing Maritza Santiago Hernandez, "The Girl" finds Cornish playing Ashley, an emotionally distraught young woman coming to grips with her child being taken away by Social Services, who is also in dire straits financially, and begins to ferry illegal immigrants across the border from Mexico...

Watch RoboCop in action from the latest Toronto set video from the upcoming remake of “RoboCop” by director José Padilha (Rio, eu te amo, Elite Squad) and starring Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises, Paranoia, Monster Butler, Lawless), Michael Keaton (30 Rock, Toy Story 4), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury, Old Boy, Django Unchained, The Avengers), Joel Kinnaman (Knight of Cups, Easy Money, The Darkest Hour) and Abbie Cornish (An Ordinary Man, Seven Psychopaths, The Girl, W.E.). Film Synopsis: In a crime-ridden city, a fatally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him. Follow @Shockya on Twitter for the latest from the “RoboCop” [ Read More ]

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Check out an action-packed behind the scenes video from the set of the upcoming remake of “RoboCop” by director José Padilha (Rio, eu te amo, Elite Squad) and starring Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises, Paranoia, Monster Butler, Lawless), Michael Keaton (30 Rock, Toy Story 4), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury, Old Boy, Django Unchained, The Avengers), Joel Kinnaman (Knight of Cups, Easy Money, The Darkest Hour) and Abbie Cornish (An Ordinary Man, Seven Psychopaths, The Girl, W.E.). Film Synopsis: In a crime-ridden city, a fatally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him. Follow @Shockya on Twitter for the latest from the [ Read More ]

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