“Avatar: The Way of Water” Original Score Released, With Music By Simon Franglen

Posted on December 21, 2022 by admin

Hollywood Records has announced the release of Avatar: The Way of Water (Original Score) on all streaming platforms (listen here.) Featuring music by GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Simon Franglen, the 32-track album includes 11 additional score cues from the film not available on the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

Franglen, who worked with composer James Horner on the original “Avatar” film, picked up where Horner left off following his tragic death in 2015, spending a large portion of the last three years composing the three-hour score to “Avatar: The Way of Water,” traveling to New Zealand to collaborate with James Cameron. Franglen was also responsible for the production and further composition of the music throughout “Pandora–The World of Avatar,” which opened at Walt Disney World in Florida in May 2017 and is working on the next “Avatar” sequel to be released in 2024.

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, “Avatar: The Way of Water” begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive and the tragedies they endure. Directed by James Cameron, “Avatar: The Way of Water” stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, Giovanni Rabisi and Kate Winslet. The screenplay is from James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver.

“Avatar: The Way of Water” is currently playing in theaters.

Trailer For “Book Club: The Next Chapter” Released

Posted on December 20, 2022 by admin

“Book Club: The Next Chapter” reunites Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen. The film is a sequel to 2018 film “Book Club”.

The original centered on four older women who have all attended a weekly book club together for 40 years.

The highly anticipated sequel follows the four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.

“The book says that we can’t reject our destiny,” Steenburgen’s character tells her friends while holding The Alchemist book in the trailer. “And I think we should all go to Italy.”

Written and directed by Bill Holderman, “Book Club: The Next Chapter” is set for release on May 12, 2023.

“Price We Pay” Trailer Released

Posted on December 17, 2022 by admin

The upcoming action thriller is directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, who previously directed the 2008 horror film The Midnight Meat Train.

Lionsgate has released an intense new red band trailer for the film which gives us a look at the film. The film is set for release on VOD on January 10 and select theaters on January 13.

“Price We Pay” stars Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) and Stephen Dorff (Blade).

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

After an intense holdup at a pawnshop, Grace is taken hostage by the thieves. Forced to take refuge at a remote farmhouse late at night, they discover a secret dungeon with evidence of sadistic violence—and when “Grandfather” comes home, all hell breaks loose there. Can Grace muster the courage to escape the gut-wrenching fates that befall her criminal companions?”

First Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” Released

Posted on December 16, 2022 by admin

Robert Oppenheimer played by Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’ (Universal Pictures)

The very first Footage Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer movie was shown exclusively in theaters prior to IMAX screenings of the new Avatar.

Just like the director’s previous film, Tenet, the trailer for “Oppenheimer” was shown exclusively in theaters in front of a major film release, in this case, in front of Avatar: The Way of Water’s IMAX screenings. So it is entirely possible as well that the footage will most likely not be released online or elsewhere.

“Oppenheimer” is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. The upcoming biographical film is written and directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who is credited often as the “father of the atomic bomb” for his role in the Manhattan Project, the research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

During a recent interview with Total Film magazine, the director mentioned that they had recreated the Trinity test, which is the first successful detonation of a nuclear weapon, without the use of CGI.

The film includes a star-studded cast which includes, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Jack Quaid and Matthew Modine among many others.

Oppenheimer is set for release on July 21, 2023, by Universal Pictures.

Sundance to honor Luca Guadagnino with International Icon Award

Posted on December 15, 2022 by admin

Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced that Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino will receive the International Icon Award at Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance presented by IMDbPro on January 19 in Park City. Guadagnino will join previously announced honorees of the evening, Ryan Coogler, W. Kamau Bell, and Nikyatu Jusu. The 2023 Sundance Film Festival will take place January 19–29, 2023, in person in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, along with a selection of films available online across the country January 24–29, 2023.

The Award recognizes an international auteur who creates distinctive cinematic universes and has made a lasting impact on filmmaking, most notably through a commitment to storytelling and an unwavering creative vision. Guadagnino is the writer, director, and producer of several celebrated films who most recently directed Bones and All. He has strong roots in the Sundance community going back over a decade.

He made his Sundance debut at the 2010 Festival with his film I Am Love, which he wrote, directed, and produced. In 2017, Guadagnino made his return to the Festival with the premiere of his Academy Award-winning film, Call Me By Your Name, starring Timothée Chalamet. Guadagnino also produced the documentary The Truffle Hunters, which played at the Festival in 2020. He has won and been nominated for several awards, including Venice Film Festival, Golden Lion BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and Nastro d’Argento for Best Director.
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Dark Sky’s Sci-Fi Thriller “Landlocked” Sets Release

Posted on December 14, 2022 by admin

Directed by Paul Owens, “Landlocked” is set for release in select theaters, VOD and digital platforms on January 6, 2023.

The sci-fi thriller is the directorial debut of Owens, who also served as writer and producer.

The film incorporates actual found footage in the form of childhood home movies, and features a cast of real life family members playing fictionalized versions of themselves.

Here is the film’s official synopsis:

Summoned to his soon-to-be demolished childhood home, Mason discovers an old VHS camera that can see into the past, driving him to record as many memories as possible before the doomed house is destroyed. Utilizing the director’s own home movies, filming in the actual locations where he spent his youth and casting real-life family members to play fictionalized versions of themselves, LandLocked combines narrative and documentary with horror and sci-fi to create a movie unlike any other…

Taking ten years to complete, LANDLOCKED is the feature directorial debut of Paul Owens. Owens creatively incorporates actual footage in the form of childhood home movies and delivered a unique film that has been adored adored by critics on the festival circuit. Hailed as, “…one of the most intriguing films to come out of Nightstream 2021” by the Daily Dead and a “remarkable lo-fi creeper…” by Fangoria, LANDLOCKED is among the many highly anticipated genre releases of 2023.

Golden Globes 2023 nominations: “Banshees of Inisherin” Leads Golden Globes 2023 Nominations

Posted on December 12, 2022 by admin

Searchlight Pictures/20th Century Studios

Dark comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” leads the list of nominations for Golden Globes 2023, announceed on Monday.

“Banshees” received 8 nods, including Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy and Best Director. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, as lifelong buddies whose friendship turned sour, also received acting nominations.

The Golden Globes also recognize achievements in television, where the sitcom “Abbott Elementary” led the list of nominations with five nods, including best comedy series.

The 80th Golden Globe Awards is set to air live on Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. Comedian Jerrod Carmichael is set to host. This will NBC’s first live telecast of the awards show since 2021.

See the list of 2023 Golden Globes nominees below:

MOVIES

Best Picture (Drama)

Avatar: The Way of Water
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Tar
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Triangle of Sadness
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Trailer For “The Pale Blue Eye” Thriller Starring Christian Bale Released

Posted on December 10, 2022 by admin

Christian Bale is reuniting with Scott Cooper for the upcoming thriller “The Pale Blue Eye”. The film is adapted from the 2003 novel by Louis Bayard of the same name.

Bale aand Cooper previously worked together in the 2013 crime drama “Out of the Furnace”, as well as 2017’s classic western “Hostiles”.

Written, directed, and produced by Scott Cooper, the film also stars Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Timothy Spall, and Robert Duvall.

The Pale Blue Eye is set to be released in select theaters on December 23, 2022, followed by relaase on Netflix on January 6, 2023.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:
West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.

Sundance Film Festival 2023 Lineup to Showcase 99 Feature Films

Posted on December 7, 2022 by admin

In-Person Ticket Packages Now On Sale; Online Ticket Package Sales Begin December 13

The Sundance Film Festival has announced its 2023 features program. This also includes the titles that is set to compete in the narrative and documentary categories.

The 2023 Festival will take place January 19–29, 2023, in person in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, along with a selection of films available online across the country January 24–29, 2023. Festivalgoers will once again return to theaters to discover this upcoming year’s most impactful independent stories. In-Person Ticket Packages are currently on sale through December 16, Online Ticket Packages go on sale December 13 at 10 a.m. MT, and single film tickets go on sale January 12 at 10 a.m. MT.

Setting the scene, Day One Features will open the Festival in Park City: 11 features, plus a Shorts program, will illustrate the scope of Festival work across genre and form. Day One Features are birth/rebirth, L’Immensità, It’s Only Life After All, Kim’s Video, Little Richard: I Am Everything, The Longest Goodbye, The Pod Generation, Radical, Shayda, Sometimes I Think About Dying, and Run Rabbit Run. In addition, on January 19, the Institute will host the inaugural Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance presented by IMDbPro.

The celebration will kick off the Festival welcoming everyone back together again while raising funds for the Institute’s critical year-round artist support. The evening will honor Ryan Coogler, Nikyatu Jusu, W. Kamau Bell, and more whose journeys have been connected to Sundance throughout the years. In addition, in-person attendees will get to experience a robust offering of talks and events during the Festival, with more details to be announced.

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Festival Hit “Night Of The Bastard” Release Date And Trailer Released

Posted on December 6, 2022 by admin

Dark Sky is set to release the festival fan favorite “Night of the Bastard” on January 13th, 2023.

The savage cultist siege film is directed by Erik Boccio (Funny or Die’s Weirdfellas, Brutal Realty, Inc. Blood Bath) and starring London May (The Dark Knight Rises, Verotika).

Also in the horror thriller are Mya Hudson (A Wall Away, upcoming F*ck, Kill Mary), Hannah Pierce (Flock of Dudes, The Hunted), Henry Mortensen (Crimson Tide)

“Night of the Bastard” is set for releasee to select theaters, digital & VOD on January 13, 2023.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

Disgruntled hermit Reed lives a solitary life in the desert. After chasing away a group of youths trying to party near his home, Reed’s peaceful life is violently upheaved when a goup of savage cultists lay siege to his house.

Forced to partner up with one of the party-goers, Reed and his newfound colleague must defend themselves into the night, all while long-buried and disturbing secrets are revealed to him as part of the cult’s evil plan.