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Exclusive: Cineverse has acquired North American rights to French Belgian body horror Else and set a July 8 streaming launch via its Fandor streaming service and all digital platforms.

The deal was negotiated by Cineverse Executive Director, Acquisitions Brandon Hill with Gregory Chambet of WTFilms, out of the Berlinale’s European Film Market.

The mesmerising body horror and debut film of French director Thibault Emin revolves around the blossoming romance between an introvert man and a confident woman, which is threatened when a strange epidemic causes the infected to merge with their surroundings.

Trapping in a shapeshifting nightmare, the couple face choices around whether they will merge for love.

Else joins a growing Fandor catalog which also features the breakout picture Hundreds of Beaver about a drunken applejack salesman who morphs into North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

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I'm of two minds about "Welcome to Marwen." Robert Zemeckis' 2018 live-action/motion-capture creation is everything that Jeff Malmberg's 2010 documentary "Marwencol," the film that inspired it, isn't. Yet, as "shockingly bad" as "Welcome to Marwen" is, to quote Chris Evangelista's review for /Film, its failure seemed to turn Zemeckis away from taking big swings. Instead, he subsequently retreated into boring familiarity with his live-action remakes of "The Witches" and "Pinocchio," both of which earned lackluster reviews and vanished into the direct-to-streaming void, never to be spoken of again. I've since found myself wishing he would take on something challenging and experimental once more.

Well, in classic cautionary tale fashion, it appears my wish has led to a finger curling on the monkey's paw. Zemeckis is coming back this year with "Here," a film based on Richard McGuire's graphic novel about the events that take place in the same...

Stars: Michael Fassbender, Kaimana, Rachel House, Oscar Kightley, David Fane, Beulah Koale, Will Arnett, Elisabeth Moss, Uli Latukefu, Chris Alosio, Lehi Makisi Falepapalangi, Rhys Darby | Written by Taika Waititi, Iain Morris | Directed by Taika Waititi

Released in 2014, Next Goal Wins was a phenomenal documentary from directors Mike Brett and Steve Jamison which followed the American Samoa football team as they attempted to persevere following a historic 31-0 loss to Australia. Much in the vein of Grey Gardens, Man On Wire, and Marwencol, the acclaimed documentary has been dramatised into a feature film, this time by Taika Waititi and The Inbetweeners co-creator Iain Morris.

Next Goal Wins focuses on Dutch American coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender), whose only option to evade being fired is to coach the American Samoa team. As he arrives with a bad attitude and a drinking problem, it soon dawns on Thomas that he may be able...

Stars: Michael Fassbender, Kaimana, Rachel House, Oscar Kightley, David Fane, Beulah Koale, Will Arnett, Elisabeth Moss, Uli Latukefu, Chris Alosio, Lehi Makisi Falepapalangi, Rhys Darby | Written by Taika Waititi, Iain Morris | Directed by Taika Waititi

Released in 2014, Next Goal Wins was a phenomenal documentary from directors Mike Brett and Steve Jamison which followed the American Samoa football team as they attempted to persevere following a historic 31-0 loss to Australia. Much in the vein of Grey Gardens, Man On Wire, and Marwencol, the acclaimed documentary has been dramatised into a feature film, this time by Taika Waititi and The Inbetweeners co-creator Iain Morris.

Next Goal Wins focuses on Dutch American coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender), whose only option to evade being fired is to coach the American Samoa team. As he arrives with a bad attitude and a drinking problem, it soon dawns on Thomas that he may be able...

Fall is officially upon us, and Netflix knows the best way to chill is to fire up a new movie. The streamer has officially announced its full fall film slate, with highly anticipated features such as Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro,” Todd Haynes’ latest drama May December”, and David Fincher’s adaptation of “The Killer.”

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What Movies Are Coming to Netflix in Fall 2023? “Scouts Honor: the Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America” | Sept. 6

Directed by Brian Knappenberger, the new investigative documentary looks at the institutional cover-up of sexual abuse with the Boy Scouts of America and follow the whistleblowers fighting to bring justice against what was once one of America’s most beloved and trusted institutions.

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Platform acquires worldwide rights to Little Shop Of Horrors lyricist Howard Ashman.

Morgan Neville will produce and Jeff Malmberg will direct Untitled Mickey Mouse Documentary for Disney+ as the streaming platform offered a peek at its non-fiction line-up on Friday (19) in a presentation with International Documentary Association.

Neville won the Oscar in 2014 for 20 Feet From Stardom and also directed Fred Rogers film Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Malmberg’s credits include Marwencol and Shangri-la.

The film will attempt to understand the deeper significance of arguably the most recognizable cartoon character in history, and explore his cultural impact. From Tremolo Productions...

Robert Zemeckis is in early talks to direct Disney’s live-action remake of their animated classic “Pinocchio,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

“Paddington” director Paul King was originally circling the project but left earlier this year. Chris Weitz wrote the most recent draft of the script, and he’s also producing with Andrew Miano. The film’s original producer, David Heyman, is also no longer involved.

In November 2018, Tom Hanks was in early talks to star but ultimately passed to star as Geppetto, the puppet maker and Pinocchio’s father, but Zemeckis will lead his own search for a cast.

Also Read: Octavia Spencer in Talks to Join Robert Zemeckis' 'The Witches' Remake With Anne Hathaway

The “Back to the Future” and “Forrest Gump” director is currently at work on another remake, “The Witches” for Warner Bros. The film stars Anne Hathaway and is...

The SXSW Film Festival has announced the winners of the its Narrative and Documentary Competitions. The winners were unveiled during a ceremony at Austin’s Paramount Theater on Tuesday, alongside several other prizes for features and shorts from across the the SXSW lineup.

Among this year’s big Narrative Feature entries is Grand Jury winner “Alice,” Josephine Mackerras’ story of a woman’s choice to become a sex worker to support her husband and child. “For Sama,” this year’s Documentary Feature winner, follows a Syrian filmmaker as she starts a family amidst the backdrop of the country’s ongoing political turmoil.

Previous SXSW winners include Lena Dunham’s “Tiny Furniture” and “Marwencol.” Last year, the top prizes went to “Thunder Road” and “People’s Republic of Desire.”

Audience awards will be announced closer to the conclusion of the festival. The full list of Tuesday evening’s winners can be...

Don't you agree that there is something squalid in defending the likes of Robert Zemeckis? You know the guy won the Best Director Oscar, right? Indeed, one need only glance at virtually any woke online discussion of Back to the Future (1985) or Forrest Gump (1994) to see the reflexive disgust of a whole subset of aging cinephiles—from which I do not exempt myself—in action. Sift through his filmography. On one side, there’s the string of good-natured childhood touchstones that bring with them the baggage of a geeky cinephilic adolescence. On the other, the desert in which one painful commercial failure after another lie like bones in the blistering sun. These days, each new Zemeckis release is greeted with an embarrassed, if qualified shrug of the shoulders.Isn’t it banal, too, to have to admit that you find all the good movies of the year, well, listless, without merit?...

by Abe Fried-Tanzer

It’s not uncommon for documentaries and narrative features about the same subject to be released around the same time. In some cases, the impetus for a narrative film comes from the success of a documentary, as with recent Robert Zemeckis' movies the The Walk and Welcome to Marwen, which told the same stories as the hit docs Man on Wire and Marwencol, respectively. 2010 saw concurrent releases of documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money and the feature Casino Jack.

This season's double feature is undeniably inspired by the need to champion strong women in the face of divisive times. Who better than civil rights icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female justice appointed to the Supreme Court, to serve as the figurehead for two very different movies in 2018?...

For the third time since his 2012 Oscar-nominated film Flight, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis tanked at the box office last weekend, with Universal/DreamWorks’ Welcome to Marwen bottoming out with $2.3M at 1,911 theaters.

This feature adaptation of the 2010 documentary Marwencol was an attempt by the director to deliver a similar type of heart-string-pulling drama that moviegovers have come to expect from the Oscar-winning Zemeckis, who often infuses his work with VFX, specifically motion-capture. Audiences didn’t buy the pitch dispensing God-awful exit scores of two stars, 57% positive and a 37% definite recommend on PostTrak with a B- on CinemaScore.

Marwen, based on a true story, stars Steve Carell as Mark Hogancamp, who after being brutally attacked, heals his Ptsd through art therapy constructing miniature WWII scenes of mostly female dolls. Ahead of Marwen‘s release, social media monitor RelishMix noticed a mixed reaction online among moviegoers with...

Robert Zemeckis' latest movie is officially one of the biggest bombs of 2019. Welcome to Marwen, the ambitious real-life story that stars Steve Carell arrived in theaters with a thud over the weekend, debuting to just $2.4 million. Considering the movie's $39 million production budget, which doesn't account for marketing or distribution costs, it's going to cost Universal Pictures a big chunk of change.

According to a new report, several insiders at rival studios expect that Welcome to Marwen will lose around $50 million. The movie, which is based on the documentary Marwencol and centers on Mark Hogancamp, a man faced a brutal assault and aided his own recovery by creating a miniature WWII-era village filled with action figures, opened on nearly 2,000 screens. The $2.4 million opening ties it for the worst opening for a wide-release in 2018, alongside Johnny Knoxville's Action Point. However, that movie only had a $19 million budget and a smaller marketing push.

It’s shaping up to be a pretty bleak holiday season for Steve Carell and Robert Zemeckis after “Welcome to Marwen” flopped last weekend in spectacular fashion. The $40 million drama about a man’s attempts to overcome his Ptsd is one of the biggest bombs of the year, debuting to a disastrous $2.4 million from 1,191 theaters. It stands to lose between $45 million to $50 million when marketing and distribution costs are taken into account, according to rival studio executives, an embarrassing result for both Carell and Zemeckis.

“Welcome to Marwen” is also the worst wide-release major studio debut of 2018 — tying with Johnny Knoxville’s dud “Action Point” for that ignominious distinction — and a career-worst wide-release start for the A-list actor and the director. Compounding the pervasive air of disaster, “Welcome to Marwen” is the second big turkey for Universal Studios in as many weeks. The studio also stands to lose $125 million-plus on “Mortal Engines,...

Welcome To Marwen makes disastrous start for Universal-DreamWorks.

December 26 Update: DC Entertainment’s international smash Aquaman roared to the top of the North American charts on a confirmed $72.7m, as box office for the year-to-date overtook the previous mark of $11.383bn set in 2016.

Meanwhile Disney executives announced the studio hit an industry record $3.0015bn, surpassing its own previous best of $3.0009bn set in 2016. In less triumphant news, Universal-DreamWorks’ Steve Carell vehicle Welcome To Marwen directed by Robert Zemeckis flopped in ninth place and tied with Paramount’s Action Point for the lowest debut of any major Hollywood release in 2018.

Aquaman starring Jason Momoa,...

Welcome To Marwen makes disastrous start for Universal-DreamWorks.

DC Entertainment’s international smash Aquaman roared to the top of the North American charts on an estimated $72.1m, as box office for the year-to-date overtook the previous mark of $11.383bn set in 2016.

Meanwhile Disney executives announced the studio hit an industry record $3.0015bn, surpassing its own previous best of $3.0009bn set in 2016. In less triumphant news, Universal-DreamWorks’ Steve Carell vehicle Welcome To Marwen directed by Robert Zemeckis flopped in ninth place and tied with Paramount’s Action Point for the lowest debut of any major Hollywood release in 2018.

Aquaman starring Jason Momoa,...

In Welcome to Marwen, director Robert Zemeckis uses the real-life story of artist and photographer Mark Hogancamp as a fantastical canvas to interrogate his own career. Reckoning with one’s legacy is a move typical of an auteur operating in their “late period,” but Zemeckis doesn’t take a direct route to the self-critique. Instead, he papers it over a feature-length dramatic portrait of a subject who, like in his film The Walk, was previously the focus of an acclaimed documentary. Stilted and occasionally mawkish, Welcome to Marwen will likely be considered a failure by critics and audiences alike, which is a shame because, while certainly not a success, it represents a fascinating reflection on the double-edged value of escapism.

Hogancamp’s story, first explored in Jeff Malmberg’s 2010 documentary Marwencol, in brief: After being beaten within an inch of his life by five men outside of a bar for...

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Welcome to Marwen star Steve Carell on working with Robert Zemeckis, plus Vice, The Office and more.

Not only is Steve Carell genuinely nice, thoughtful and soft-spoken in real life, but he possesses a vast amount of acting talent that has been on full display in his recent work. Known for his comedic stints on The Daily Show, films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Anchorman and, of course, the now legendary series The Office, Carell’s body of work over the last few years has included a range of complex and fascinating roles, mostly as figures from real life: his Golden Globe-winning portrayal of John du Pont in Foxcatcher (2014), investment banker Steve Eisman/Mark Baum in The Big Short (2015), tennis star Bobby Riggs in Battle of the Sexes (2017) and, earlier this fall, journalist David Sheff in Beautiful Boy.

He’s now appearing in two films opening within...

Join our newsletter to get more stories like this Robert Zemeckis’s live action Toy Story effect is sound. However, in Welcome to Marwen it raises disturbing questions when Steve Carell plays with them. Mark Hogancamp (Carell) takes pictures of action figures acting out World War II fantasies. This is true. The real Hogancamp’s art that helped him cope with a traumatic head injury was documented in the film Marwencol. What’s made up in the Hollywood version are the specific stories he tells about Cap’n Hogie and the women warriors of Marwen. Hollywood’s Mark Hogancamp sure imagines his fantasy women getting […]

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It’s not hard to see why Robert Zemeckis, a director who has often been drawn to finding the “human” side of technological flimflam, would want to turn the eccentric and touching 2010 documentary “Marwencol” into a dramatic feature. Like the documentary, Zemeckis’ “Welcome to Marwen” tells the story of Mark Hogancamp, a resident of Kingston, New York, who in 2000, outside a bar, was beaten by five louts to within an inch of his life. After spending nine days in a coma, he woke up, but his body was broken and he’d lost nearly all his memory. His friends, his failed marriage, his vast collection of ladies’ high-heeled shoes: He had no recall of any of it.

He took refuge from the trauma by designing and building a miniature World War II village, which he populated with uniformed dolls, many based on the people around him. The Belgian village of Marwencol,...

In the rare event when a major Hollywood studio advertises one of its films as “the most original movie of the year” — as Universal has done in the trailer for “Welcome to Marwen” — it tends to be code for: “We spent a ton of money on something that we have absolutely no idea how to sell.” And while that was certainly the case here, it’s hard not to sympathize with the poor souls in the marketing department, who were tasked with promoting a story that director Robert Zemeckis had no idea how to tell. In hindsight, it seems they did the best they could. As disconcerting as it was when the previews for “Welcome to Marwen” reduced the complicated and ineffably human saga of Mark Hogancamp into a glossy inspirational fable about the power of friendship, it’s even more disconcerting to find that the film itself does much the same thing.

“Welcome to Marwen” is, in a word, indescribable. But not in a good way.

Robert Zemeckis, who directed “Forrest Gump,” one of the most iconic underdog movies of all time, returns with another male protagonist with a remarkable story. But this time the filmmaker doesn’t quite seem to connect with his subject, which makes for an even greater disconnect with the audience.

Gaining empathy for a protagonist such as the one in “Marwen” shouldn’t really be an issue, though. This is, after all, the real-life story of Mark Hogancamp (played by Steve Carell), who was beaten so terribly by five men outside a bar in 2000 that it left him without most of his memory of the event and everything before then — horrific details that were previously revisited in the acclaimed 2010 documentary, “Marwencol.”

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They attacked him...

Robert Zemeckis tries too hard to sentimentalise Mark Hogancamp’s story, meaning what might have been a complicated drama plays like a dud Forrest Gump

The remarkable career of artist and photographer Mark Hogancamp has been turned into an elaborate and misjudged movie of baffling pass-agg ickiness and pointlessness. It sentimentalises a story already told in Jeff Malmberg’s award-winning 2010 documentary Marwencol – and it plays to Steve Carell’s terrible weakness as an actor. He can play great comedy or irony, as in Anchorman, and he can be brilliant in a really dark role, as in Foxcatcher. But he’s awful when he has to be sweetly life-affirming and adorable.

In 2000, Hogancamp was savagely beaten and left for dead by homophobic bigots outside a bar, after he told them he liked cross-dressing. He miraculously recovered from his coma, though with his memory mostly shot, and then with heroic creativity worked...

Fans of Jeff Malmberg's documentary Marwencol (2010) might understandably approach the Hollywoodization of its true-life tale, Robert Zemeckis' Welcome to Marwen, with trepidation. The background: In April 2000, upstate New York resident Mark Hogancamp was beaten to within an inch of his life after he drunkenly told some bar patrons he enjoyed wearing women's shoes. He spent nine days in a coma and over a month in a hospital recovering. The attack effectively erased all memory of his past and eradicated his addiction to alcohol.

Hogancamp had always enjoyed drawing, but since the encounter left him with ...

Fans of Jeff Malmberg's documentary Marwencol (2010) might understandably approach the Hollywoodization of its true-life tale, Robert Zemeckis' Welcome to Marwen, with trepidation. The background: In April 2000, upstate New York resident Mark Hogancamp was beaten to within an inch of his life after he drunkenly told some bar patrons he enjoyed wearing women's shoes. He spent nine days in a coma and over a month in a hospital recovering. The attack effectively erased all memory of his past and eradicated his addiction to alcohol.

Hogancamp had always enjoyed drawing, but since the encounter left him with ...

Steve Carell’s latest film, Welcome to Marwen, tells the true story of Mark Hogencamp, who, after being brutally attacked and losing all memory of his adult life, created an elaborate WWII village called Marwen and developed an imaginary world around the dolls populating it.

Carell explained to The Hollywood Reporter In Studio that he got involved in the unique project after seeing the Jeff Malmberg documentary Marwencol, based on Hogancamp’s world and the photographs he takes of his figures.

“I loved it, and it got inside my head. I couldn’t stop thinking about it and I wondered ...

Steve Carell’s latest film, Welcome to Marwen, tells the true story of Mark Hogencamp, who, after being brutally attacked and losing all memory of his adult life, created an elaborate WWII village called Marwen and developed an imaginary world around the dolls populating it.

Carell explained to The Hollywood Reporter In Studio that he got involved in the unique project after seeing the Jeff Malmberg documentary Marwencol, based on Hogancamp’s world and the photographs he takes of his figures.

“I loved it, and it got inside my head. I couldn’t stop thinking about it and I wondered ...

In 2000, Mark Hogancamp was nearly beaten to death by five men outside of a bar. Left with brain damage and little money to afford therapy, Hogancamp began creating miniature doll versions of himself, his friends, and his attackers as a way to cope. This true story inspired the 2010 documentary “Marwencol” and the upcoming film “Welcome to Marwen,” directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Steve Carell.

Carell told Variety at the film’s Monday premiere in Hollywood that he was inspired by the documentary, but he wasn’t sure it needed to be turned into a scripted feature film. It wasn’t until he met with Zemeckis and learned about the director’s idea involving animation and motion capture that he realized there could be something there.

“We got together and he explained what his vision was, which was essentially to take this world that Mark had created, this miniature world,...

Welcome to Marwen Trailer 3 Universal Pictures has released the third movie trailer for Welcome to Marwen (2018). The first movie trailer for Welcome to Marwen can be found here. Welcome to Marwen‘s plots synopsis: based on the “Marwencol” documentary by Jeff Malmberg, “This holiday season, Academy Award winner [...]

Continue reading: Welcome To Marwen (2018) Movie Trailer 3: Steve Carell Discovers the Power to Heal Himself Through Art...

Jon Stewart is returning to directing.

The former host of “The Daily Show” will direct the feature film “Irresistible,” a political satire, individuals with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. Steve Carell is also in early talks to star, an individual with knowledge of the project said.

The film is based on Stewart’s original idea, and it is his first since his directorial debut, 2014’s “Rosewater,” and his first since leaving “The Daily Show” in 2015. Plot details are still under wraps.

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Stewart will also produce the film with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. The project is in the beginning stages of development, and it’s unclear when production will begin.

“Rosewater,” a drama, was the story of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, who was detained and tortured by Iranian forces for several months under suspicion that he was a spy.

One of the few directors who is able to still wrangle a decent-sized budget for Hollywood studio fare that doesn’t involve capes or anything of the ilk, Robert Zemeckis’ formally inventive films are still ones to marvel at. Following his return to live-action with the trio of Flight, The Walk, and Allied, his next project looks is a mix of that realm and a healthy dose of motion capture.

Welcome to Marwen, another remake of a documentary from the director, is based on the 2010 film Marwencol, and after a wild first trailer, a second one has now arrived that shifts tones to an entirely inspirational one, perhaps fitting for its new December holiday release date. The story follows Steve Carell’s character in the true story of a man who was beaten into a coma, leaving memory loss, he then constructs a fantastical World War II-era world of dolls that fight the Nazis,...

Universal Pictures has dropped a new trailer for Welcome to Marwen celebrating the women who help get Mark back on track after his horrific attack.

Based on a true story (captured in the fascinating documentary Marwencol), Welcome to Marwen tells the miraculous true story of one broken man’s fight as he discovers how artistic imagination can restore the human spirit.

Academy Award® winner Robert Zemeckis takes the helm on the film which stars Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Janelle Monae and Diane Kruger.

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The film hits UK cinemas January 19th

Welcome to the Marwen Official Synopsis

When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp (Carell) and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town where he can heal and be heroic.

Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol is one of the most beloved documentaries of all time. The 2010 feature may not have received an Oscar nomination or a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes or a significant box office gross, but the nonfiction film community went crazy for it, and pretty much anyone else who saw the doc since has been amazed by its unique human interest story.  Now Marwencol has been remade as a dramatic narrative picture by Robert Zemeckis, and it looks to warm even more hearts and inspire more moviegoers with its adapted tale of a man coping with a personal trauma by creating a fictional World War II-set town in his backyard with dolls. Welcome to Marwen is the name of the upcoming movie, and it's got a new trailer. This one...

Director Robert Zemeckis has been working on an adaptation of the 2010 documentary Marwencol since 2013, and his fictionalized version of the true story, entitled Welcome to Marwen, is finally coming to the big screen this December with Steve Carell in the lead role. The first trailer came out almost a month ago and didn’t […]

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Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol is one of the most beloved documentaries of all time. The 2010 feature may not have received an Oscar nomination or a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes or a significant box office gross, but the nonfiction film community went crazy for it, and pretty much anyone else who saw the doc since has been amazed by its unique human interest story.  Now Marwencol has been remade as a dramatic narrative picture by Robert Zemeckis, and it looks to...

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Director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future) and actor Steve Carrell have set out to make an incredibly unique film called Welcome to Marwen and we have another incredible new trailer for you to watch today along with a collection of fun character posters. The film tells the moving and inspiring true story of a man named Mark Hogancamp.

Hogancamp was attacked by a group of Nazis, leaving him with severe memory loss and some serious post-traumatic stress. As a way to cope with his fears and pain, he builds a model town called Marwen that he fills with custom-made G.I. Joe action figures. He lives out a fantasy life with these figures that come to life in his imagination and they help him face and deal with the struggles that he's going through. I love the visual style of this whole thing.

The first trailer for “Welcome to Marwen” is…interesting. If you knew nothing about the true story the film is based on, you might assume ‘Marwen’ is a fairly light-hearted romp. But for those of us familiar with the documentary “Marwencol”, the trailer treated the tragic, but uplifting, story of artist Mark Hogancamp almost with a bit of disrespect.

Continue reading After Bad Buzz, New ‘Welcome To Marwen’ Trailer Course Corrects With A Brand-New Tone Just A Month Later at The Playlist.

Universal has given road-trip drama “Green Book,” starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, an awards-season release of Nov. 21.

Production companies are Participant Media and DreamWorks Pictures. Peter Farrelly directs the movie, based on a true friendship that transcended race, class and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line.

Mortensen portrays an Italian-American bouncer with a seventh-grade education who is hired to drive a world-class pianist, played by Ali, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South. They must rely on the “Negro Motorist Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for blacks. Confronted with racism, danger — as well as unexpected humanity and humor — they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive.

Producers are Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler and Farrelly along with Farrelly’s fellow writers, Nick Vallelonga and Brian Currie. The drama is executive produced by Participant’s Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King,...

Universal has set a November 21 release date for Green Book, the Participant/DreamWorks road trip movie starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali and directed by Peter Farrelly. The studio’s Steve Carell-starrer Welcome to Marwen, which had been on that date, now moves to December 21, the Friday before Christmas.

In the true story Green Book, Mortensen plays Tony Lip, an Italian-American bouncer with a seventh-grade education who is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South in 1962. They must rely on the “Negro Motorist Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African Americans on the Mason-Dixon line. Linda Cardellini co-stars.

The studio dropped the trailer for the Robert Zemeckis-directed Welcome to Marwen last week. Based on the 2010 documentary Marwencol, it centers on Mark Hogancamp (Carell), who survives a vicious...

The first trailer for Steve Carell's upcoming film Welcome to Marwen is here, and full disclosure: it's going to make you get a little teary-eyed. The film is directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on Jeff Malmberg's award-winning 2010 documentary Marwencol, and sees Carell playing the real-life Mark Hogancamp, who was beaten into a coma by five men and spent 40 days in the hospital.

After the attack left him with brain damage and Ptsd, Hogancamp immersed himself in an intricate world of World War II-era miniatures as a form of art therapy. In the trailer, Zemeckis mashes both worlds together - Hogancamp's fictional, tiny town of Marwen and his actual reality - to wondrously trippy effect. Welcome to Marwen also stars Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Merritt Wever, Janelle Monáe, Eiza González, and Gwendolyn Christie, and hits theaters on Oct. 12.

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What's good? The trailer for Robert Zemeckis' new film Welcome to Marwencol just dropped and it's quite the interesting mix of live-action and animated. It loosely follows the true story of Kingston artist Mark Hogencamp's terrifying attack by neo-Nazis and his attempts to rebuild his life in the aftermath. Turning to his creativity he built a 1/6-scale model town based on WWII Belgium and filled it with his friends and assailants. Zemeckis' film not only dramatizes the real-life tale of Hogencamp trying to pull himself back together but overlaps it with animating the dolls with his usual inclination towards effects-work. It's also the second time Hogencamp's story was commit to film after the 2010 documentary Marwencol.

Let's break down the Yes No Maybe So after the jump...

Universal Pictures have released the first look at Steve Carell in the trailer for Welcome to Marwen from Robert Zemeckis.

Based on a true story (captured in the fascinating documentary Marwencol), Welcome to Marwen tells the miraculous true story of one broken man’s fight as he discovers how artistic imagination can restore the human spirit.

Academy Award® winner Robert Zemeckis takes the helm on the film which stars Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Janelle Monae and Diane Kruger.

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Welcome to the Marwen Official Synopsis

When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp (Carell) and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation—a testament to the most...

Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol is one of the most beloved documentaries of all time. The 2010 feature may not have received an Oscar nomination or a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes or a significant box office gross, but the nonfiction film community went crazy for it, and pretty much anyone else who saw the doc since has been amazed by its unique human interest story.  Now Marwencol has been remade as a dramatic narrative picture by Robert Zemeckis, and it looks to warm even more hearts and inspire more moviegoers with its adapted tale of a man coping with a personal trauma by creating a fictional World War II-set town in his backyard with dolls. Welcome to Marwen is the name of the upcoming movie, and it's got a magical new trailer. Watch...

Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol is one of the most beloved documentaries of all time. The 2010 feature may not have received an Oscar nomination or a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes or a significant box office gross, but the nonfiction film community went crazy for it, and pretty much anyone else who saw the doc since has been amazed by its unique human interest story.  Now Marwencol has been remade as a dramatic narrative picture by Robert Zemeckis, and it looks to...

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Academy Award winner Robert Zemeckis directs Steve Carell in what is being hailed as one of the most original movies of the year. Welcome to Marwen tells the incredible true story of one broken man's fight as he discovers how artistic imagination can restore the human spirit. The first trailer is powerful and has the hallmarks of some of Zemeckis' best work, including Forrest Gump and Cast Away, telling a heartbreaking story punctuated by heartwarming and humorous scenes. Welcome to Marwen will more than likely get brought up quite a bit during awards season.

When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell) and wipes away nearly all of his memories, no one expected him to make a full recovery. Hogancamp begins putting together pieces from his old and new life, and meticulously creates a fantasy town where he can heal as well as be heroic at the same time.

Robert Zemeckis has been fueling our imaginations and moving our hearts for years with movies like Back To The Future and Forrest Gump, and his new movie Welcome To Marwen is all about the power of our own imaginations. Based on the documentary Marwencol, the movie is about a man named Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell) who was savagely beaten by thugs and lost most of his memory. As a form of therapy, he begins making a small WWII-era town and using dolls as representations of his friends and... Read More...

Steve Carell plays a traumatized photographer in the new movie Welcome to Marwen, the true story of artist Mark Hogancamp's battle with Ptsd by creating miniature World War II town.

Director Robert Zemeckis puts a cinematic spin on the story, which was depicted in the 2010 documentary Marwencol. The tech-savvy filmmaker combines flesh-and-blood footage with motion capture action to capture Hogancamp's fictitious town, which he populated with characters resembling himself, his loved ones and, as Nazis, the men who attacked him and left him brain damaged.

The film's synopsis states,...

“I have my art, and I have my friends. I’ll be Ok.” So says Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell), who survives a vicious assault by a group of “Nazi thugs” that wipes away all of his memories and leaves him physically shattered. Instead of giving up, he gets even in a most unusual manner.

Welcome to the first trailer for Welcome to Marwen, which is billed as “the miraculous true story of one broken man’s fight as he discovers how artistic imagination can restore the human spirit,” Written and directed by Robert Zemeckis from a story he wrote with Caroline Thompson, it follows Hogancamp as he put together pieces from his old and new life and meticulously creates a wondrous town where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he...

Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for their upcoming film Welcome To Marwen, which comes from director Robert Zemeckis. The film stars Steve Carrell and it looks like an absolutely wonderful and inspiring movie. I loved this first trailer and this is certainly going to be a unique and surreal film that is told in a very fun way.

Steve Carell plays Mark Hogancamp, a man who is attacked by a group of Nazis, leaving him with severe memory loss and some serious post-traumatic stress. As a way to cope with what he is going through, he builds a model town called Marwen that is filled with custom-made G.I. Joe like action figures. He lives out a fantasy life with these figures that come to life in his imagination and they help him face and deal with the struggles that he's going through. I love the visual style of this whole thing.

He may not be embraced as he once was, but Robert Zemeckis continues to make some of the most formally interesting work on a large Hollywood scale. Following his return to live-action with the trio of Flight, The Walk, and Allied, his next project looks to be a mix of that realm and healthy dose of motion capture. Welcome to Marwen, another remake of a documentary from the director, is based of the 2010 film Marwencol, and the first trailer has now arrived.

Following Steve Carell’s character in the true story of a man who was beaten into a coma, leaving memory loss, he then constructs a fantastical World War II-era world of dolls that fight the Nazis, sharing parallel to his real world. The way Zemeckis brings this to life… well, must be seen to be believed, and you can do so now in the trailer below.

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Robert Zemeckis hasn’t had much success in awards season with his last two efforts, “Allied” and “The Walk,” but Universal Pictures is betting on the beloved filmmaker this November with the release of “Welcome to Marwen.” The movie is based on Jeff Malmberg’s award-winning 2010 documentary “Marwencol” and stars Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, and Janelle Monáe.

“Welcome to Marwen” stars Carell as the real-life Mark Hogancamp, who spent nine days in a coma and 40 days in the hospital after being nearly beaten to death by five men. Hogancamp suffered brain damage from the attack and turned to building a massive World War II-era town made of miniatures for therapy. The town was populated with doll versions of himself, his friends, his love interests, and even his attackers. Zemeckis’ film takes place in the real world and inside Hogancamp’s miniature village.

“Marwen” is Carell’s second high profile fall release following “Beautiful Boy,...