News

Diane Kruger is set to receive the Golden Eye Award at this year’s Zurich Film Festival. Famed for working with directors including Quentin Tarantino, Wolfgang Peterson and Robert Zemeckis, the 47-year-old is renowned as one of Hollywood’s finest character actresses and is probably best known for her roles as Helen of Sparta in 2004’s ‘Troy’, Bridget von Hammersmark in Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ and Anna in 2009’s ‘Mr. Nobody’. She said: “Thank you Zurich Film Festival for this wonderful recognition. I’m honoured and proud to be part of the impressive list of past honourees. “I look forward to return to Zurich and celebrate with all of you in October!” Diane will receive the Golden Eye Award on 2 October, with the Zurich Film Festival taking place from 28 September to 8 October. Christian Jungen, Zurich Film Festival’s artistic director, said in a statement: “Diane Kruger is one of cinema’s most versatile character actresses.

Los Angeles, August 3 (Ians) Actress Diane Kruger, known for ‘Troy’, ‘Inglorious Basterds’, ‘National Treasure’ among many more, is set to receive the Golden Eye Award at the 2023 edition of Zurich Film Festival.

Her role in Fatih Akin’s ‘In the Fade’, as a victim of neo-Nazi violence seeking bloody revenge, won her the best actress prize in Cannes in 2017. More recently, she starred in Neil Jordan’s 1930s-set crime thriller ‘Marlowe’ alongside Liam Neeson. The film screened in Zurich in 2022.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, announcing the honour, Zurich Film Festival artistic director Christian Jungen said: “Diane Kruger is one of cinema’s most versatile character actresses. She not only becomes wholly absorbed in each and every role she takes on, but also imparts her characters with great depth.”

“In addition to her powerful charisma, she possesses the rare ability to captivate audiences with her irresistible, somewhat enigmatic aura…For these reasons,...

German actress Diane Kruger will be honored with the Golden Eye award, a lifetime achievement prize, at this year’s Zurich Film Festival, the festival announced Thursday.

Kruger has had a diverse career, balancing roles in global blockbusters — she is arguably best-known for her turn in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and for her performances alongside Nicolas Cage in the National Treasure films — with work in more international and art house movies. Her starring role in Fatih Akin’s In the Fade, as a victim of neo-Nazi violence who seeks bloody revenge, won her the best actress prize in Cannes in 2017. More recently, she starred in Neil Jordan’s 1930s-set crime thriller Marlowe alongside Liam Neeson. Marlowe screened in Zurich last year.

“Diane Kruger is one of cinema’s most versatile character actresses. She not only becomes wholly absorbed in each and every role she takes on, but also imparts her characters with great depth,...

It has been two weeks since the passing of Cormac McCarthy, the taciturn Southern gentleman widely regarded as one of the great American novelists of the last hundred years, if not all of American history. His prose poetry, as deliberate and lacerating in its construction as the lethal instruments often featured therein, evokes the country as an earthy garden of sin where men gamble their fates and faith before a pitiless, Old Testament God.

Where many great writers of McCarthy’s generation carved ever-deeper niches into the peculiar artifices of language and the 20th century’s assault of information, his lucid, imagistic narratives and spectacles of violent incident have often suggested the cinematic. His engagement with genre––Western, horror, neo-noir––interrogated American myths, peeling back their skin and tissue to reveal the stark existential queries beneath. McCarthy was fascinated by cinema from early in his career––he wrote several screenplays dating back to the 1970s,...

Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who endured decades of obscurity and poverty before film versions of “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country for Old Men” and “The Road” brought him a wide readership and financial security, died Tuesday in Santa Fe, N.M. His publisher, Penguin Random House, said his son John McCarthy announced his death from natural causes. He was 89.

Extremely reclusive, McCarthy shunned publicity so effectively that one critic observed, “He wasn’t even famous for it.” But Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2008 adaptation of 2005 novel “No Country for Old Men” put him momentarily in the limelight; the crime thriller, which starred Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, won Oscars for best picture, director, adapted screenplay and supporting actor.

While McCarthy’s first novel, “The Orchard Keeper,” was published in 1965, commercial success eluded him until his 1992 National Book Award-winning “All the Pretty Horses” and the...

There are few fictional worlds as expansive and popular as that of Middle-Earth from The Lord of the Rings. The stories of J.R.R. Tolkien changed the landscape of modern fiction in the 20th century, and they continue to be some of the most beloved of all time. There have been numerous adaptations of the author’s works over the years, ranging from the Hobbit animated TV special to Peter Jackson’s live-action Lord of the Rings trilogy from the early 2000s and, most recently, Amazon Prime Video’s The Rings of Power series. The desire for new Lord of the Rings materials has been consistent over the years, and fans are likely going to get a lot of it in the coming years.

Earlier this year, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO announced Wbd’s intentions to evolve The Lord of the Rings into a cornerstone franchise, similar to what Disney has done with Star Wars.

In case you missed it during your annual "Star Wars Day" machete viewing order party, season 2 of "Star Wars: Visions" was officially released on Disney+, and is back with an even more ambitious catalog of animated shorts from various studios. While the first season was best known for sticking to a theme of Japanese anime influences and pushing the boundaries of "Star Wars" aesthetics, the second season of "Visions" somehow takes things even further. Pulling from studios all around the world, including the famous British animation studio Aardman, Irish studio Cartoon Saloon, and French studio La Cachette, this season has an interesting focus on diverse and distinct cultural flairs and influences.

Despite how different the shorts that make up "Visions" are — they're completely self-contained and unique in tone and style — they all share the same "Star Wars" spirit, bringing us insight into the larger galaxy that exists outside of the Skywalker bubble.

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: Visions Season 2.The Star Wars franchise takes place in a vast galaxy, and, despite the ample stories already told in the universe, the franchise has still only scratched the surface. As new projects venture into remote corners of the world and different points in time, the world is ever-growing, so there is no end to Star Wars. Star Wars: Visions is a manifestation of that. Taking place anywhere from unexplored history to the distant future, Visions features a little bit of everything while establishing lore and telling fascinating stories. The anthology series includes a variety of characters, planets, and time periods.

The following contains spoilers from Star Wars: Visions Season 2, Episode 5, "Journey to the Dark Head," streaming now on Disney+.

Star Wars: Visions Season 2 pays homage to quite a bit of Star Wars lore, from the High Republic era to the modern periods. As a series, the animation anthology does its own thing in terms of visuals and narrative. However, the deep cuts and comparisons that nod to the source material fans are familiar with resonate deeply.

In Episode 5, "Journey to the Dark Head," Visions ends up remixing the story of Anakin Skywalker. It leans hard into trauma, riffing on the heartbreaking descent to darkness the young Jedi undertook. But in this case, there's a more nuanced, happy ending that fans wish Anakin got before he became Darth Vader.

Related: Every Easter Egg in Star Wars: Visions 'I Am Your Mother'

Star Wars: Visions Almost Corrupts Its New Anakin

"Journey...

The following contains spoilers from Star Wars: Visions Season 2, Episode 6, "The Spy Dancer," streaming now on Disney+.

As expected, Star Wars: Visions Season 2 is outstanding. There are nine episodes from nine different animation studios, and each one of them brings its animation style to bear. Amidst all of those styles, there is plenty of color and plenty of storytelling potential. In fact, every one of the episodes could spawn a spinoff series of its own.

While Visions isn't considered canon by Disney, all the episodes are quintessentially Star Wars. There are Stormtroopers, lightsabers, Sith and all the other cool things that have made Star Wars into the global phenomenon that it is. However, Visions also puts the bad things on display with the good things. "The Spy Dancer" is a family-centric tragedy that puts the Empire's worst flaw on display, and it is appalling for more than one reason. Here's...

The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: Visions, Season 2, Episode 1, "Sith" now streaming on Disney+.

The entry by El Guiri Studios for Star Wars: Visions Season 2 is a wonderful short story about a Sith Lord chasing down an apprentice trying to find her own destiny. Since most of the Visions entries fit into a known time period in Star Wars, when does "Sith" take place? Every entry in Season 2 is a visually distinct masterpiece, and "Sith" is no different. Like the forthcoming Across the Spider-Verse movie, "Sith" blends two- and three-dimensional animation together.

The story centers on a former Sith apprentice trying to use art as therapy to heal herself in the Force. Her Master arrives, and she is forced to both face her own darkness and him, only killing the latter. It's worth remembering that none of these shorts are considered canon in Star Wars. Lucasfilm likely wants...

Close your eyes and meditate on the Force for a moment. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about "Star Wars"? For me, it's the opening shot of "A New Hope" when the Tantive IV is being stalked by Darth Vader's Star Destroyer, the Devastator. The next image is, without a doubt, Ben Solo igniting Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber to give to Luke in his hut on Tatooine. By leaps and bounds, the lightsaber has become the most recognizable piece of "Star Wars" lore.

Used sparingly throughout the original trilogy, the Jedi's weapon was only unsheathed in a handful of key moments, allowing for maximum impact when Luke, Obi-Wan or Vader ignited their blade. As the Skywalker saga continued into the prequels, the lightsaber was used one too many times and the magic of seeing it on screen was severely diminished. By choosing to not...

This post contains spoilers for "Star Wars: Visions" season 2.

The highlight of "Star Wars: Visions" season 2 was, for me, episode 5: "Journey to the Dark Head." Animated by South Korea's Studio Mir (which was responsible for the majority of episodes in "The Legend of Korra"), the short is set during a period of open war between the Jedi and the Sith. "Journey to the Dark Head" has the classical anime style that made "The Village Bride" (courtesy of Kinema Citrus) and "The Ninth Jedi" (the work of Production I.G.) such standouts of "Visions" season 1.

There are three main characters. One is Ara (Jang Ye Na/Ashley Park), a young girl born on the Outer Rim planet Dolgarak. On Ara's home is two large parallel statues, representing the light and dark side of the Force. Children are taught to read prophetic images left on the stones below these statues by rain.

This article contains spoilers for the first episode of "Star Wars: Visions" season 2.

For those who regard "Star Wars: Visions" as one of the most exciting additions to the entire franchise, it's no surprise that the very first installment of season 2 feels unique and distinct right from the first minute. Rather than starting with an opening crawl or a slow pan across stars, as the main saga movies do, we open on an almost impressionistic landscape completely devoid of color and form. Produced by Spanish animation studio El Guiri and directed by Rodrigo Blaas, the episode (which is plainly yet evocatively titled "Sith") proves to be a fascinating choice to kick off this next batch of shorts -- not only for its aesthetic risks, as impressive as they are, but for boldly and unapologetically evolving some of the most core tenets of the "Star Wars" universe, too.

As we soon learn,...

Star Wars: Visions is a collection of animated short films from different studios that offer a unique new perspective on Star Wars. The first volume focused on Japanese studios, with each episode featuring a different anime style. Volume 2 expands to include studios from around the world, including Ireland, Chile, South Korea, and South Africa.

Star Wars Visions has to balance the freedom for each studio to tell original creative stories while staying true to the heart of Star Wars. Each Star Wars: Visions episode explores new characters' stories, including the Sith, the Jedi, and characters that aren't connected to Force users. The Star Wars Visions episodes are also influenced by the culture of each country, with the French episode tapping into the idea of spy dancers while the Irish episode brings the Irish ghost story style into Star Wars.

Related: Upcoming Star Wars Shows In 2023: Story, Casts & Everything We...

XYZ Films have launched a new label for low-budget international genre films, called New Visions.

The company will launch its first New Visions slate at the Cannes Film Market next month with In Flames, the feature debut of Pakistani-Canadian director Zarrar Kahn. The Urdu-language horror movie, which was just picked for the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight lineup, follows a young woman who is tormented by vivid hallucinations after the death of her boyfriend. Other titles in the New Visions slate include the Czech science fiction title Restore Point from director Robert Hloz, and Irish folk horror All You Need Is Death from Very Extremely Dangerous helmer Paul Duane.

XYZ Films has hired Manon Barat, formerly a sales and marketing executive with Barcelona-based Film Factory Entertainment, as a dedicated sales executive overseeing the new slate, working alongside XYZ head of international acquisitions Todd Brown.

Brown framed the new label as a return to the roots for XYZ,...

Max and Iggor Cavalera, who cofounded the Brazilian metal crew Sepultura but have since left the band, have re-recorded Sepultura’s death-metal–influenced first releases, Bestial Devastation and Morbid Visions. The brothers, who have previously recorded as Cavalera Conspiracy, are dubbing their new project simply “Cavalera” and have stylized their name to look like Sepultura’s mid-Eighties logo.

They haven’t yet announced release dates for the records, which feature two previously unreleased songs written around the time of the original releases, but they’re embarking on a tour they...

Lucasfilm has debuted two trailers for the upcoming ‘Star Wars’ animations, ‘Young Jedi Adventures and ‘Visions.’

Young Jedi Adventures

Set 200 years before “The Phantom Menace,” during the High Republic era, the animated series follows Jedi younglings as they study the ways of the Force, explore the galaxy, help citizens and creatures in need and learn valuable skills needed to become Jedi along the way. Produced by Lucasfilm in collaboration with Wild Canary for Disney+ and Disney Junior, “Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures” is executive produced by Lucasfilm’s James Waugh, Jacqui Lopez and Josh Rimes. Michael Olson (“Puppy Dog Pals”) is showrunner and executive producer.

The cast includes Jamaal Avery, Jr. as Kai Brightstar, Juliet Donenfeld as Lys Solay, Dee Bradley Baker as Nubs, Emma Berman as Nash Durango, Jonathan Lipow as Rj-83, Piotr Michael as Master Yoda, Trey Murphy as Taborr Val Dorn and Nasim Pedrad as Master Zia.

The animated anthology series "Star Wars: Visions," which debuted in 2021, may be the best way to explore the franchise's vast and complicated mythology, better even than legacy shows like "The Book of Boba Fett" and "Obi-Wan Kenobi." Every one of the "Star Wars" movies has featured a lot of background detail, often depicting space aliens of all walks of life casually going about their business, oblivious to the adventures that our heroes may be going through at any given moment. In presenting out-of-timeline animated shorts, "Visions" has the leeway to look into the cracks and explore what life is like in the "Star Wars" universe outside the tiresome saga of the Skywalkers. It has only been through expanded universe fiction, and shows like "Visions," that Starwoids have been able to see what non-soldiers are doing in wartime. 

The first seasons of "Visions" featured shorts exclusively from Japanese animation studios, including...

Part of the joy of Star Wars: Visions is, you never know quite what you’re going to get when you load up an episode. Lucasfilm’s anthology series lets animation houses present their own unique spin on the galaxy far, far away – taking any characters, any settings, any imagery from George Lucas’ sprawling space opera and doing whatever feels right or interesting with them, canon be damned. Think of it like a remix compilation, with wildly creative spins on familiar material from fascinatingly varied voices. Where Volume 1 of Visions was comprised solely of Japanese anime studios, Volume 2 is going worldwide – including a contribution from British stop-motion legends Aardman.

While there’s no Wallace and Gromit or Feathers McGraw here, Aardman’s short ‘I Am Your Mother’ (see what they did there?) is set in the aftermath of the original trilogy, and tells the story of wannabe-pilot Twi’lek tween...

Out of all the studios announced to be working on Volume 2 of the animated anthology series, "Star Wars: Visions," it's Aardman Animation's involvement that's got me the most intrigued. The "Wallace & Gromit," "Shaun the Sheep," and "Chicken Run" stop-motion powerhouse's various idiosyncratic settings and toothy-mouthed characters aren't as far removed from the galaxy far, far away as you might imagine, either.

Speaking during the "Visions" panels at "Star Wars" Celebration 2023 in London, England (where members of the /Film crew are currently on the ground), the team behind Aardman's "Visions" short, title "I Am Your Mother," noted that stop-motion has a long history in "Star Wars." Indeed, the Industrial Light & Magic visual effects legend Phil Tippett famously used never-before-seen VFX to make the stop-motion tauntauns and At-ATs more convincing for the Hoth sequences in "The Empire Strikes Back." Magdalena Osinska, the director of "I Am Your Mother," referred to Aardman...

The past, present and future of Star Wars was on ample display on Friday at the Star Wars Celebration fan convention, as Lucasfilm unveiled the most robust look yet at the company’s plans for the hallowed franchise. As studio chief Kathleen Kennedy revealed three new feature films and first looks at four upcoming TV series, Lucasfilm made clear it aims to test just how far it can stretch the Star Wars galaxy: creatively, logistically and even historically.

Starting with “The Phantom Menace” and concluding with “The Rise of Skywalker,” the previous nine “Star Wars” movies have all taken place within a roughly 70-year timeline, straddling the climactic Battle of Yavin in “A New Hope” that has served as the official fulcrum point for the franchise for six decades. Every live-action and animated spinoff TV series has unfolded within that timeframe, including the shows launched on Disney+: “The Mandalorian,...

After season 1 proved to be a hit, LucasFilm have provided a release date and story information surrounding Star Wars: Visions season 2. The animated anthology’s renewal seems obvious given the multiple directions it took in terms of both the narrative and visual style. Featuring nine animated shorts by leading Japanese anime studios like Studio Trigger (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners) and Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell), Visions experimented with multiple color schemes and also featured a star-studded ensemble with voice talents of Neil Patrick Harris, Lucy Liu, George Takei, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

The debut season proved how the Star Wars lore and a format like Japanese anime can go hand in hand. This only seems poetic given how George Lucas’ A New Hope has many parallels with Akira Kurosawa’s Hidden Fortress. Now, with a more culturally diverse sophomore season, Visions is set to further strengthen its global reach. And with positive...

Oscar-nominated and double Palme d’Or winning film company Plattform Production has premiered its latest film, “A Tiger in Paradise,” by director and editor Mikel Cee Karlsson, as part of a live event that received a standing ovation at Cph:dox, one of Europe’s leading documentary film festivals.

Set in the picturesque Swedish countryside, the doc takes viewers on a surreal journey into the inner world of Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter José González.

Peppered with songs from his latest album “Local Valley,” introspective musings, self-deprecation and playful special effects involving moving portraits, looping techniques and Conway’s famous Game of Life computation model, the film opens with a disarmingly candid disclosure by González about his past mental health issues.

Karlsson tells Variety: “We used José’s mental illness as a jumping off point, in a way, to discuss themes that both of us think are really interesting. We read a lot of the same books.

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 1.After a long wait filled with intense speculation, commentary, and rumors, the third season of The Mandalorian has aired its first episode. The series unquestionably saved the franchise in the wake of the disastrous critical backlash to The Rise of Skywalker, and its success has led to the development of a diverse ecosystem of Star Wars shows on Disney+, including Andor, The Book of Boba Fett, The Bad Batch, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tales of the Jedi, and Visions. While the first episode of The Mandalorian Season 3 confirms that many things have stayed the same, there are some notable differences from the past, including a brand new intro and logo that hints at a new direction for the series.

Almost a year after we last saw him, America’s sweetheart is returning to TV. Season 3 of “The Mandalorian” is premiering soon, bringing with it the latest adventures of the beloved Baby Yoda.

“The Mandalorian” Season 3, like all past seasons of the show, will stream exclusively on Disney+. That said, unlike the first two seasons, which debuted new episodes each Friday, the third outing of Din and Grogu will premiere new episodes every Wednesday. The season premiere will debut on Disney+ on March 1, at 3:00 am Et (or 12:00 am Pt). Like the first two seasons, Season 3 will run for eight episodes, concluding on April 19.

Created by Jon Favreau, “The Mandalorian” premiered in 2019, coinciding with the launch of the Disney+ streaming service. The first live-action “Star Wars” television series, the show is set in between the events of the original trilogy and the 2015 sequel films, and stars “The Last of Us...

When “Star Wars: Visions” debuted back in 2021, it was just what the doctor ordered. A collection of gorgeously animated shorts by some of Japan’s leading animation studios, the shorts offered up new sensibilities and visual styles that existed outside the comparatively stodgy realms of the live-action “Star Wars” franchise.

Fortunately, “Star Wars: Visions” is coming back on May 4 with a second volume of all-new studios from around the world.

Instead of exclusively Japanese studios, the second volume of “Visions” canvasses our world, with shorts from El Guiri (Spain), Cartoon Saloon (Ireland), Punkrobot (Chile), Aardman (the United Kingdom), Studio Mir (South Korea), Studio La Cachette (France), 88 Pictures (India), D’art Shtajio (Japan) and Triggerfish (South Africa). This is truly an international affair!

Also Read:

‘Devotion’ Filmmaker J.D. Dillard No Longer Developing ‘Star Wars’ Movie for Lucasfilm (Exclusive)

“The reaction to the first volume of ‘Star Wars: Visions’ blew us away.

Haven't yet had your fill of "Star Wars" on the small screen? Well, you're in luck. Today brings some very good news about one of the best-ever additions to the popular space-faring franchise.

"Star Wars: Visions," the anime anthology series that filled in the gaps between the movies and shows with some of the most refreshingly original and exciting stories the property has ever seen, is coming back just in time for the geekiest "Star Wars"-themed holiday of them all. Oh, and the new season is bringing along some incredibly intriguing talent that should please just about any fan of animation out there, too. If "Star Wars" fatigue is a real thing, well, luckily nobody ever informed the sprawling creative team behind "Visions" about it.

Disney+ and Lucasfilm announced that season 2 of "Star Wars: Visions" will premiere on Disney+ streaming on "Star Wars Day" -- May 4, 2023. But wait, there's more!

The Berlin Film Festival has revealed its juries, and the addition of Liu Jian’s animated feature “Art College 1994” to its competition lineup, which now has 19 films and is complete.

In addition to the already announced actor Kristen Stewart as president, the International Jury members will be actor Golshifteh Farahani (Iran/France), director and writer Valeska Grisebach (Germany), director and screenwriter Radu Jude (Romania), casting director and producer Francine Maisler (U.S.), director and screenwriter Carla Simón (Spain), and director and producer Johnnie To.

“Art College 1994” is set in China in the 1990s. It follows a group of young people who “prepare to face a world caught between tradition and modernity,” according to the festival. The film, represented for world sales by Memento Intl., was originally destined for Cannes, but Liu and the film were reported to have faced bureaucratic obstacles, which put the kibosh on those plans. The director...

Bhutanese filmmaker Dechen Roder’s new film, “I, The Song,” which is selected at the Venice Production Bridge’s gap financing market, will commence principal photography in December.

Roder’s debut feature “Honeygiver Among the Dogs” premiered at Busan in 2016, and went on to have a successful festival run including at Berlin, Locarno, Hong Kong, Taipei and Fribourg, where it won three major awards.

“I, The Song” was born when two friends of Roder experienced the horror of being in non-consensual pornographic videos and photos in Bhutan, where in both cases it was recorded and shared without their knowledge or consent.

Roder also wanted to make a film to explore the story where a remote community in Bhutan claimed that the capital city Thimphu had stolen a sacred song of theirs, performing it on TV, over the radio, on stage, and for entertainment. The community felt that this song was sung out of context,...

Snd has picked up the international distribution rights to “Visions,” Yann Gozlan’s (“Black Box”) psychological thriller starring Diane Kruger (“Inglorious Basterds”) and Mathieu Kassovitz (“The Bureau”).

The French Riviera-set movie, produced by Eagles Team Entertainment, 24 25 Films and Snd, just finished shooting in the South of France and Japan. Snd handles French distribution and worldwide sales rights. The theatrical release is planned for 2023.

Kruger stars as Estelle, a brilliant airline captain who leads a seemingly perfect life with her husband Guillaume, a renowned doctor. When she accidentally bumps into Ana, a former flame, Estelle falls in love all over again. As their affair gets more intense, Estelle has recurring visions, nightmares and hallucinations, and when Ana disappears mysteriously, she starts losing grip on reality.

“Visions” marks Gozlan’s follow up to “Black Box” which was a major hit in France where it sold over 1.2 million admissions and traveled to 45 countries.

Connoisseurs of the horror franchise ‘Saw’ now have a reason to rejoice. A new ‘Saw’ movie has been set to arrive in theatres next year.

The 10th film in the franchise has set its release date on October 27, 2023, reports ‘Variety’. It will be jointly produced by Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures.

According to ‘Variety’, the film will be directed by Kevin Greutert, who helmed ‘Saw VI’ and ‘Saw: The Final Chapter’ while serving as the editor for the first five instalments and ‘Jigsaw’.

Greutert is a fan favourite of the franchise, with many championing his chops on his two entries. In addition to the ‘Saw’ films, he’s also helmed the features ‘Jessabelle’ with Sarah Snook and ‘Visions’ with Isla Fisher.

‘Variety’ further states that the plot of the new film is currently under wraps, but the studio promises the film will capture fans’ “hearts, and other body parts, with all-new twisted,...

Fans of the “Saw” franchise have reason to celebrate.

On Monday Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures announced that the 10th “Saw” movie will be released on October 27, 2023, with the director of “Saw VI”, Kevin Greutert, returning to helm the project, according to Variety.

Greutert earned high praise from “Saw” fans for his work on the seventh instalment of the long-running series of horror movies. Greutert also directed 2010’s “Saw: The Final Chapter” and edited the first five “Saw” movies and 2017’s “Jigsaw”.

Read More: Chris Rock Is On The Hunt For A Killer In The Terrifying New Trailer For ‘Spiral: From The Book Of Saw’

Outside of “Saw,” Greutert has also directed the 2014 film “Jessabelle” with Sara Snook and “Visions” with Isla Fisher in 2015.

Predictably, the plot of “Saw 10” is being kept under wraps. However, the studio says the latest entry in the franchise will capture fans’ “hearts — and other body parts — with all-new twisted,...

There’s more “Saw” to cut through in 2023, as Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures have just announced the next installment of the billion-dollar franchise will arrive with a new movie slated for Oct. 27, 2023. This will be the tenth movie in the highly successful franchise.

The film will be directed by Kevin Greutert, who helmed “Saw VI” (2009) and “Saw: The Final Chapter” (2010) while serving as the editor for the first five installments and “Jigsaw” (2017). Greutert is a fan favorite of the franchise, with many championing his chops on his two entries. In addition to the “Saw” films, he’s also helmed the features “Jessabelle” (2014) with Sarah Snook and “Visions” (2015) with Isla Fisher.

The plot of the new entry is being kept under wraps, but the studio promises the film will capture fans’ “hearts — and other body parts — with all-new twisted, ingenious traps and a new mystery to solve.”

“We have been listening...

Pairing‌‌‌ ‌‌‌wine‌‌‌ ‌‌‌with‌‌‌ ‌‌‌movies!‌‌‌ ‌‌‌See‌‌‌ ‌‌‌the‌‌‌ ‌‌‌trailers‌‌‌ ‌‌‌and‌‌‌ ‌‌‌hear‌‌‌ ‌‌‌the‌‌‌ ‌‌‌fascinating‌‌‌ ‌‌‌commentary‌‌‌ ‌‌‌for‌‌‌ ‌‌‌these‌‌‌ ‌‌‌‌‌movies‌,‌‌ ‌‌‌and‌‌‌ ‌‌‌many‌‌‌ ‌‌‌more‌,‌‌ ‌‌‌at‌‌‌ ‌‌‌Trailers‌‌‌ ‌‌‌From‌‌‌ ‌‌‌Hell.‌‌‌ This week we pair wines with a look – and listen – to three Martin Scorsese films about music.

Who uses music to better effect in movies than Martin Scorsese? Put your hands down – that was a rhetorical question. Scorsese, however, has not only used music in his films, he has examined it – thoroughly.

No Direction Home is the 2005 documentary on Bob Dylan as he appeared in the early to mid 1960s. Dylan’s manager got the ball rolling by conducting scores of interviews with people who knew The Enigmatic One back in the day. When it came time to put all that video, plus the hundreds of hours of footage culled from historical sources together, Scorsese’s name came up.

The film debuted on PBS as a mixture of...

In this edition of Star Wars Bits:

"Andor" Trailer "The Bad Batch" Season 2 Trailer "Tales of the Jedi" News "Star Wars: Visions" Volume 2 "Obi-Wan Kenobi" Recap And More!

Whew, I'm back from Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022 and there's so much to cover. Let's start with this highlight video of the Lucasfilm Studio Showcase:

During Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm showcased "Obi-Wan Kenobi," as well as several surprises, including exciting first looks at new Disney+ series "Andor" and "Willow," an unexpected sneak peek at the third season of "The Mandalorian," the announcement of "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew," a new series exclusively for Disney+,...

The post Star Wars Bits: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, The Bad Batch, Tales of the Jedi, Visions, The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and More! appeared first on /Film.

The anime anthology "Star Wars: Visions" was a breath of fresh air for the "Star Wars" franchise, tapping into its Japanese cinematic roots and influences by recruiting a number of Japanese animation studios to bring the galaxy to life. In a time of fandom obsessed with canon alignment, "Visions" emboldened artistic and philosophical conversations with the franchise, the Force, and the Jedi -- more so than most other onscreen "Star Wars" media -- by letting creatives steer the wheel and reconfigure the kyber crystal and the Force in their own image. The result was nine non-canon shorts, featuring a myriad...

The post Star Wars: Visions Season 2 Will Expand to Showcase Animation From All Over the World appeared first on /Film.

Tizian Büchi ’s Like An Island won the 22,000 grand jury prize.

Tizian Büchi ’s Like An Island won the 22,000 grand jury prize of the international competition at Switzerland’s documentary film festival Visions du Réel on April 17. It is the first time a Swiss director has won the prize since 2013.

Chinese filmmaker Wenqian Zhang’s debut feature Long Journey Home was awarded the jury prize of the Burning Lights competition, winning a cash prize 11,000.

Additionally, Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Julie Sando secured a double win with the Zonta Prize for a film by a female filmmaker and the jury prize in the...

Fanny Herrero, “Call My Agent!” creator and showrunner, will be president of the jury at television series festival Canneseries, which runs April 1-6.

The French screenwriter’s other credits include “Les Bleus,” “Odysseus,” “Fais pas ci faire pas ça,” “A French Village” and “Kaboul Kitchen.” Her latest series, “Standing Up” has just been launched on Netflix, and opened Series Mania.

Also on the jury will be French actors Anne Marivin and Sami Outalbali (“Sex Education”), American actor Denis O’Hare, Icelandic actor-producer Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (“The Minister”), and British composer Daniel Pemberton (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”).

The Official Selection features 10 series in competition. These are Belgian crime drama “1985,” Norwegian relationship drama “Afterglow,” Canadian comedy-drama “Audrey’s Back,” Italian crime comedy-drama “Bang Bang Baby,” Spanish crime drama “El Inmortal,” French political thriller “The Inside Game, Seeds of Wrath,” German anthology series “Punishment,” German mystery drama “Souls,” Danish biographical drama “The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen,...

Pretty Problems, Bad Axe, Atlanta among other winners announced on Wednesday.

James Morosini’s I Love My Dad starring the writer-director alongside Patton Oswalt has won its second major prize at the in-person SXSW 2022, earning the Narrative Feature Competition audience award.

The film won the Narrative Feature Competition jury prize last week and tells of a man who catfishes his son in an effort to reconnect.

‘I Love My Dad’: SXSW Review

David Siev’s Bad Axe took the Documentary Feature Competition prize for its account of an Asian-American family fighting to survive in Trump’s America, while Kestrin Pantera...

Hey everyone! We have one last batch of horror and sci-fi home media releases headed our way before the end of the month, and this week’s offerings are massive, with well over 20 titles coming out on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD this Tuesday alone.

One of my favorite creature features ever is getting some love in HD finally, with Scream Factory’s 4K release of Lewis Teague’s Alligator (and its sequel is headed to Blu-ray this week as well), and the horror comedy Dead Heat is also getting a 4K upgrade. For all you giallo fans out there, Forgotten Gialli: Volume 3 is being released tomorrow and features three more Italian classics genre fans are going to want to own, and Severin Films is keeping busy with a ton of titles this week too: Bloody Pit of Horror, Black Candles, Night of the Demon, and The Halfway House.

Other titles...

Presenting the artistic visions of over 170 users from the Pixiv community, “Visions 2021” is a celebration of the popular art platform, while simultaneously being a showcase for the inventive, new wave of Japanese illustrators. As such, the themes and aesthetic within the book vary drastically, with the quality of submissions being the binding factor that makes the collection shine.

On Amazon

For those unfamiliar, Pixiv is an online community created in 2007 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The site has amassed over 50 Million users, 100 million submissions and receives around 3.7 billion page hits a month. The focus of the community is a platform for art from around the world, though it is largely Japanese-centric in both userbase and aesthetic. The site is free, but premium allows for refined search tools to navigate the massive collection, such as ability to search by popularity. In addition, Pixiv offers both marketplace and “fanbox...

Robert Englund’s career could have gone in a completely different way. After all, he did try out for the role of Han Solo in Star Wars. But if that had happened, he wouldn’t have become one of the most iconic Hollywood horror figures of all time. As it turns out, he played the frightening Freddy […]

The post Bringing ‘Nightmares’ To TV Was One Of Robert Englund’s Dream Gigs appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.

People like Ralph Bakshi and Frank Franzetta left a very specific visual imprint in the realm of fantasy art and storytelling, and now a new project has come along which takes the baton from those veterans and carries it a few steps further in the race. I'm not confident that rotoscoped projects have a vibrant future ahead of them (they are extremely work-intensive), but the style isn't fully dead yet, and "The Spine of Night" is going to make damn sure everyone knows it by leaning hard into hyper-violence and psychedelic imagery. Check out the full red-band trailer for the movie below.

Man,...

The post The Spine of Night Trailer: An Animated Movie That Looks Like Your Greatest '80s Nightmares appeared first on /Film.

When Masi Oka was first approached to provide a voice for “Star Wars: Visions” — Lucasfilm’s sensational new anthology series for Disney Plus that presents nine “Star Wars” shorts by seven Japanese anime studios — it did not take much to convince the actor to say yes. “Star Wars: A New Hope” was the first movie Oka ever saw in theaters. It was the first VHS tape he ever purchased. His first job out of college was at Industrial Light and Magic, and some of his earliest credits are as a visual effects artist on George Lucas’s “Star Wars” prequels.

“My whole career was shaped by ‘Star Wars,'” Oka says. As an actor, he’d held out hope that he might land a role in Disney’s live-action “Star Wars” sequels, or on the Disney Plus series “The Mandalorian.” So by the time he heard about “Visions,” he was primed.

Star Wars: Visions star Jordan Fisher wears many hats already, but he can now add Jedi Padawan to his growing list of roles and accomplishments. From Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway to Dancing with the Stars and To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, chances are you’ve seen the talented multihyphenate at one point or another, but he can currently be heard (and seen) as Dan on Visions, which fuses Star Wars and anime. Once he got the role, Fisher was pleased to see that his Padawan character resembled him, which is a rare occurrence for voice actors. He was also ...

Star Wars: Visions star Jordan Fisher wears many hats already, but he can now add Jedi Padawan to his growing list of roles and accomplishments. From Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway to Dancing with the Stars and To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, chances are you’ve seen the talented multihyphenate at one point or another, but he can currently be heard (and seen) as Dan on Visions, which fuses Star Wars and anime. Once he got the role, Fisher was pleased to see that his Padawan character resembled him, which is a rare occurrence for voice actors. He was also ...

[Editor’s Note: The following review is based on all nine episodes of “Star Wars: Visions” and contains spoilers for Episode 1.]

“Star Wars: Visions” is one of, if not the best, titles — television, film, or otherwise — to come out of the sci-fi franchise’s era under Disney ownership. It’s a beautifully animated and smartly written homage to everything that fans love about “Star Wars,” as well as the rare kind of installment in a multi-billion dollar IP that doesn’t feel like it was created by committee or focus-tested until all the artistry has been stripped away. If you’re a “Star Wars” fan who has become apathetic toward lightsabers and the Force in recent years, “Visions” could remind you about what made you love the franchise in the first place.

That’s a lot of extremely high praise, but “Visions” earns it over the course of its nine brief episodes. The animated anthology series’ episodes hail from seven Japanese anime studios...

The "Star Wars: Visions" anthology is a much-hyped Disney+ release for animation fans who are hungry to experience Star Wars in a different way. George Lucas' galaxy far, far has always paid homage to Japanese cinema, particularly the films of Akira Kurosawa films. Now, under Lucasfilm's guidance, "Visions" opens the door to artists who specialize in Japanese animation, allowing them to tell new stories in the Star Wars universe unbounded by restrictive canon, re-mythologizing the Force and its wielders in the process.

"Star Wars: Visions" consists of nine short films produced by seven Japanese animation studios, all of which have superb reputations. However, if you're not familiar with anime,...

The post 15 Anime to Watch Before Watching Star Wars: Visions appeared first on /Film.

The Film TV, the Paris-based outfit headed by well-established producers Michael Gentile and Lauraine Heftler, has gained a substantial track record in three years.

The banner is presenting its first two shows at Series Mania Festival, Julie Delpy’s TV debut “On The Verge” which is backed by Canal Plus and Netflix; and “Jeune et Golri,” a series set against the backdrop of the stand-up comedy world.

Commissioned by French pay TV service Ocs, “Jeune et Golri” is a half-hour contemporary romantic comedy series based on an original idea by Agnès Hurstel, an actor and screenwriter, who created the show with Victor Saint-Macary (“Le Brio”) and Léa Domenach.

Hurstel stars in the show as Prune, a 25 year-old stand-up comedian who falls in love with a middle-aged man, Francis, not knowing he has a six-year-old girl. While Prune herself still feels like a teenager, she becomes an unlikely step mom to this little girl.