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George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is the fourth installment in the post-apocalyptic action movie franchise Mad Max. Australian filmmaker George Miller and Australian producer Byron Kennedy initiated the Mad Max Franchise in 1979. Made on a budget of $350,000, the first Mad Max movie collected over $100 million globally, making it one of the most profitable films ever made. Fury Road was first conceived as an idea in 1987, after the release of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).

But it was stuck in the development hell for decades, and the production, after many hiccups, eventually started in 2012 with Miller recasting Mel Gibson’s titular role – Max Rockatansky – with Tom Hardy. Fury Road was a box-office success and got nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning six, including Best Editing. Editor Margaret Sixel had to go over 470 hours of footage to create the 120-minute running time of Fury Road.

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Are you a Netflix subscriber with an appreciation for the post-apocalyptic antics of the Mad Max franchise? If so, I’ve got an important and very timely update for you. A celebrated Mad Max film is gearing up to leave the Netflix platform very soon!

The feature in question is the fourth franchise installment, Mad Max: Fury Road. Helmed by visionary director George Miller, the film leaves the platform on March 30, 2025. So, now is a good time to squeeze in one last viewing, should you have the urge.

The setup for this post-apocalyptic thriller on Netflix is this:

Years after the collapse of civilization, the tyrannical Immortan Joe enslaves apocalypse survivors inside the desert fortress, the Citadel. When the warrior Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) leads the despot’s five wives in a daring escape, she forges an alliance with Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), a loner and former captive. Fortified in the massive,...

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Netflix is one of the best places to find the best movies and TV shows you can watch on any streaming service. Every month, it adds hundreds of new titles to its content library, but some titles have to go. So, today, we are here to tell you about the best films and TV shows you should watch before they leave Netflix in March 2025.

Due Date (March 1) Credit – Warner Bros.

Due Date is a dark comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, and Adam Sztykiel. The 2010 film follows Peter Highman, who must get to Los Angeles before the birth of his child, but when he gets put on the no-fly list because of an eccentric man named Ethan Tremblay. To get to Los Angeles in time, Peter is...

Specializing in European co-productions, Vienna-based boutique shingle Pont Pictures is spearheading an innovative initiative to boost international collaborations by leveraging Austrian film funding incentives.

Pont Pictures head Philipp Mair Vargas has unveiled a model that utilizes the 60% co-production incentive offered by the Austrian Film Institute’s ÖFI Plus subsidy program to help filmmakers overcome what he describes as one of the most significant challenges in independent filmmaking: closing their financing gap.

By strategically allocating and relocating production costs to Austria, Mair Vargas promises that 60% of the Austrian spend can be covered by the national incentive program even without actual shooting days in the country. Instead, filmmakers can qualify by outsourcing post-production to Austria or hiring Austrian crew members who work on location elsewhere, Mair Vargas points out.

“For example, if a project is short €250,000, we allocate an overall Austrian spend of €416,000. With 60% of these costs covered by our co-production incentive,...

Mad Max: Fury Road's action was viscerally gritty, thanks to George Romero's obsession with stuntwork and practical effects. Actor Nicholas Hoult said he saw this first-hand behind the scenes.

Nicholas Hoult said Mad Max: Fury Road went above and beyond to sell its death-defying action scenes. Speaking at a Megacon Orlando Q&a, he revealed the outdoor sets had insane ramps built for stunt practice. That's expected in a film heavily reliant on real vehicle chases, but it must have been awesome to see the stunt crew polishing their tricks. "We would turn up in the morning in the desert and they built these motorcycle ramps for stunt doubles to practice doing jumps 30-40ft in the air," he said. "I was like 'This is a weird place.'"

Q: “In Mad Max you had a high energy role, what was the wildest moment on set?â...

The fourth Mad Max movie, Fury Road, took three decades to make, but the story of the belated sequel’s delayed production is a messy, complex one. The 2024 release of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga marked the arrival of the first Mad Max movie since 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road. However, this expensive, long-awaited prequel was nowhere near as delayed as its immediate predecessor. It took director George Miller nine years to make Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, but it took a staggering three decades to get Mad Max: Fury Road on cinema screens in 2015.

Related When & Why Furiosa Turned Against Immortan Joe In The Mad Max Franchise (Before Fury Road)

While Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga never explains when Furiosa turned on Immortan Joe, close inspection explains this Mad Max franchise twist's timing.

This sort of lengthy gap between sequels isn’t entirely unheard of thanks to rare outliers...

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This December, Netflix is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated second season of Squid Game to a thrilling action thriller film titled The Carry-On. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Netflix this month and have an 89% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the five best films that are coming to Netflix in December 2024 with an 89% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Zero Dark Thirty (December 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91% Credit – Sony Pictures

Zero Dark Thirty is a political action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow from a screenplay by Mark Boal. The 2012 film follows a CIA analyst and her team as they try to track down an infamous terrorist leader responsible for a grave terror attack on the United States. Zero Dark Thirty stars Jessica Chastain,...

Movie lovers and thrill seekers alike are likely well aware of the major upcoming changes coming to some of the most prominent theme parks in the United States. Both Disney World and Disneyland, and Universal Studios have recently unveiled massive new additions coming soon to their ever-expanding parks, promising to offer a vast assortment of new attractions based on everything from classic monster movies to modern family favorites.

With these exciting new changes on the horizon, many movie lovers have begun thinking about what other films (and not just ones by Disney or Universal) they would like to see new attractions based on. While not every great movie lends itself to a theme park ride, many popular films feature various scenes which fans would love to experience in a new, fully immersive way. Thanks to their stunning scenery and thrilling adventures, these popular films have the potential to inspire amazing theme park attractions.

While some movie characters fulfill the narrative role of the protagonist, another character steals the show with charisma and theatrics, making them the true stars. Movies where supporting characters are better than the heroes have been just as successful as those that let the central character shine, with a different balance in character focus only making it better. Sometimes, the villain is doubtlessly the true star, driving the entire story when the protagonists are living standard lives.

This is often the case with some of the best animated Disney villains, whose classic villainy still makes them fan-favorite characters. However, this trend is not limited to classic action movies where villains steal the show; sometimes, a supporting character is simply more interesting, written to be the thing that sets the story in motion in the protagonist's mundane life. How two such characters share the screen and interact with each other is an interesting topic,...

Warning: Major spoilers for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga below!

Charlize Theron makes a surprise cameo at the end of Furiosa using a deleted scene from Mad Max: Fury Road. Director George Miller opted against CGI de-aging for Theron in the prequel due to tech limitations. Anya Taylor-Joy impressively embodies the Furiosa character in the 2024 prequel.

Charlize Theron has a surprise cameo of sorts in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and it's not from the Fury Road montage that closes the film. Mad Max: Fury Road spent over a decade in development hell, and the movie's shoot was legendarily tough. Not only did it result in the best Mad Max movie, but this 2015 sequel was one of the best action movies of the decade, period. While developing Fury Road, Miller developed two prequel stories alongside it. One followed Max and is dubbed The Wasteland, while Furiosa detailed the origin of Charlize Theron's Imperator.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Story Receives A Standing Ovation At Cannes 2024. ( Photo Credit – IMDb )

The buzz for Anya Taylor Joy and Chris Hemsworth’s post-apocalyptic prequel has made it the star of Cannes 2024. The George Miller directorial is achieving accolades and rave reviews in the French Riviera. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga received a roaring seven-minute standing ovation at the film’s world premiere.

George Miller’s highly acclaimed action franchise had its global premiere on Wednesday night at the Cannes Film Festival with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Miller and his cast, which included Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, were in attendance, and the film was met with a standing ovation that lasted seven minutes in the Grand Lumiere Theatre.

Warner Bros. will release Furiosa, a movie worth $168 million, in the United States on May 24. This is nine years and one month after the most recent Mad Max: Fury Road movie,...

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the fifth installment in George Miller’s celebrated action franchise, had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night and was greeted with a seven-minute standing ovation in the Grand Lumiere Theatre as Miller and members of his cast, including stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, looked on.

Furiosa, a $168 million film that Warner Bros. will release in the U.S. on May 24, comes nine years to the month after the most recent prior installment of the franchise, Mad Max: Fury Road, which starred Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy, and 45 years after Miller’s original Mad Max film became the most profitable film of all time to that point (grossing $100 million on a $350,000 budget).

Anticipation for Furiosa, a prequel set more than a decade before Fury Road, has been through the roof given that Fury Road received rave reviews (it has a...

Director George Miller attributes Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy's feud during the production of Mad Max: Fury Road to "they were just two very different performers." Miller reveals that, like their characters in the film, Hardy and Theron's professional relationship seemed to improve as the production rolled on. Theron also had to overcome the obstacle of having to work with all the dust that came along with shooting Fury Road in the desert.

Despite all the sunshine blazing brightly in the torrid desert, Mad Max: Fury Road stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron's on-set feud seemed to dump buckets of rain on the production. George Miller had the opportunity to not only work closely with the Oscar-winning Theron and the Academy Award-nominated Hardy on Fury Road an apropos title considering the actors' trouble adjusting to one another's approach to their work but the director also witnessed their quarreling firsthand.

George Miller confirmes major cameo in upcoming Furiosa prequel. Miller reveals pre-Mad Max: Fury Road story already written with hopes to bring it to the big screen. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is scheduled to be released in theaters on May 24, 2024.

Mad Max director George Miller has confirmed that Max Rockatansky himself will feature in a "blink-and-youll-miss-it cameo" in the upcoming prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. And, if that were not already exciting enough, Miller has also now revealed that he has a story in mind for a prequel that will detail what Max was up to prior to the events of the 2015 Academy Award-winning outing Mad Max: Fury Road.

Speaking with EW, Miller offered some details of the brief cameo that will occur in this months Furiosa, as well as revealing that the idea for a further Mad Max movie came about during preparation for Fury Road.

The all-star talent behind Essentials is already shaking up the comic book world with brain-twisting storytelling and stunning art. Co-writers Luke Arnold and Chris "Doc" Wyatt are teaming up with seven accomplished artists to explore fractured realities in a graphic novel. The ambitious sci-fi project from The Lab Press has received overwhelming support on Kickstarter, promising exceptional storytelling and artistry.

The Essentials are coming, and the comic book world is already preparing to have its collective mind blown by the all-star talent assembled. The new graphic novel from The Lab Press has already shattered its goal on Kickstarter, and the first look inside the mind-bending tale promise an adventure that must be seen by many, many more.

The brainchild of co-writers Luke Arnold (Black Sails) and Chris "Doc" Wyatt (Rocket and Groot), the crowdfunded project will be calling on not one, not two, but seven accomplished artists together to depict a reality fractured beyond recognition.

"In Essentials, mathematician Harris Pax predicted the end of the world, but failed to prevent it. Now he’s living alone in a bunker and his niece’s favorite toys are starting to talk to him. The good news? He’s not the world’s sole survivor. The bad news? The other survivors are trapped in alternate realities — trapped in imagined worlds full of zombies, pterodactyls, and chaos. And now Harris Pax and an unlikely ally must travel the country on a quest to restore reality, save humanity, and defeat his new interdimensional nemesis: Snuggles."

Essentials is the graphic novel debut of Luke Arnold and the first-ever release from The Lab Press. Having just launched its Kickstarter campaign, it's an incredibly ambitious project featuring "a stunning array of all-star comic artists," including: DaNi (Sandman The Dreaming), Glenn Fabry (Preacher), Jason Howard (Transformers), Vince Locke (A History of Violence), Brendan McCarthy...

Furiosa fired up CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

Warner Bros. Pictures unveiled a sneak peek at five minutes of footage of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga inside Caesars Palace during its studio presentation with the help of director George Miller and his stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth to help pump the upcoming release for theater owners.

Warner Bros. will release Furiosa on May 24, following the film’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Starring Taylor-Joy and Hemsworth, Furiosa finds Miller returning to the dystopian world he created more than 30 years ago with Mad Max. It follows a young Furiosa (Taylor-Joy) after she’s snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of the great Biker Horde led by the Warlord of Dementus (Hemsworth). Furiosa must withstand many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

The high-octane footage...

Get a peek at variant covers for Essentials, a new sci-fi graphic novel with a top-notch creative team. Seven different artists will illustrate different realities in Essentials, offering a unique storytelling experience. Essentials explores a world of fabricated realities where humanity is at stake, promising a mind-bending journey.

Screen Rant is excited to exclusively share variant covers for The Lab Press' debut graphic novel, Essentials. These covers come from artists who have done stunning work on other comic series. From Transformers to Preacher, these creative team additions are bringing their best to this new comic endeavor.

Essentials has the creative team of Luke Arnold, Chris "Doc" Wyatt, DaNi, Glenn Fabry, Jason Howard, Vince Locke, Brendan McCarthy, Andrew Mutti, M.K. Perker, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jordie Bellaire, Brad Simpson, Wesley Wong, and DC Hopkins.

The design and logo for the book were created by Emma Price, who worked on Barnstormers. Luke Arnold is...

The episode of Best Horror Movie You Never Saw covering 2001 Maniacs was Written by Cody Hamman, Narrated by Kier Gomes, Edited by Juan Jimenez, Produced by John Fallon and Tyler Nichols, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Robert Englund doing a demented Colonel Sanders impression. Lin Shaye putting on a deadly song and dance routine. Enough politically incorrect elements to offend pretty much everybody. Buckets of gore. Gratuitous nudity. And a cameo appearance by Eli Roth, playing his Cabin Fever character. Put all of this together and you get 2001 Maniacs (watch it Here). The director calls it a “splatstick” movie. Splatter combined with slapstick comedy. We call it The Best Horror Movie You Never Saw.

Herschell Gordon Lewis was a classy guy, but he specialized in making movies that were not classy. His aim was to give the grindhouse and drive-in crowds the things Hollywood wasn’t giving them. Noting...

We can all agree that George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" is a visual spectacle of the highest order. So much stuff is going on in every frame of that movie that you'd think the creative approach was to cram as much detail as they could into every corner of this universe, but according to Miller, that wasn't the case. Well, to be fair, it kinda started that way. But as the prep process went on, he discovered that sometimes it was better to strip away some of the detail and keep things simple.

Case in point: the look of the War Boys. In the movie, they are Immortan Joe's minions, an army of quasi-mutated and very thirsty people who are doomed to a short life and thus are looking to go out in a blaze of glory believing they will reach Valhalla shiny and chrome. Concept artist Brendan McCarthy...

George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" is a beast of a film. A lot of time and relentless effort went into the creation of this bonkers action spectacle, where Miller worked closely with comic-book artist Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris (who appeared in Miller's 1979 original) to bring his vision to life. "Fury Road" presents a story of epic proportions — we are introduced smack dab in the middle of a dystopia, where cult-run city-states are surrounded by barren wastelands and survival is the name of the game. Once Max (Tom Hardy) arrives on the scene, he is quickly intercepted by a group of War Boys, who scream and lug him around to The Citadel with the intention of using his blood for medicinal purposes.

One of the most thrilling aspects of "Fury Road" is that it does not waste any time to set things up, or linger around for audiences...

The Mad Max movie franchise, first created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy in 1979 with the initial movie of the same name, became a media sensation. The film series is set in post-apocalyptic Australia and follows the titular character Max Rockatansky (portrayed by Mel Gibson in 3 films) into action-packed adventures.

Later on, Tom Hardy took over as Max for 2015’s fourth installment – “Mad Max: Fury Road.”

The series chronicles the thrilling escapades of Rockatansky, a police officer in a dystopian Australia facing social disintegration due to war and depleting resources. Grief-stricken and enraged by the biker gang’s murder of his wife and child, Max embarks on a quest for vengeance.

As Australia rapidly plunges into barbarity with each passing day, he finds himself assisting small pockets of civilization – initially driven by self-interest but eventually out of compassion. Alone in the Wasteland, Max is determined to make that responsible pay for their heinous deed.

Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American rights to “You Are Not My Mother” following its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The movie, an Irish folk horror-thriller, screened in the festival’s Midnight Madness section.

It’s the feature debut of Irish filmmaker Kate Dolan. The film centers on a teenage girl named Char (Hazel Doupe) whose mother, Angela (Carolyn Bracken) goes missing only to return with an increasingly frightening change in personality. She might look and sound the same, but Angela’s behavior has taken a dark turn, as if she has been replaced by a malevolent force. When Halloween arrives, Char realizes that she is the only one who can save her mother, even if it means potentially losing her forever.

Magnet is planning to release the film next year.

“’You Are Not My Mother’ is a fantastically...

Burbank, CA, September 28, 2021 – Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced today that The Mad Max Anthology, featuring 1979’s acclaimed post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max, 1981’s Mad Max The Road Warrior, 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and 2015’s Mad Max Fury Road will be released together on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital HD on November 2. Created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy, Miller directed or co-directed all four films. Mel Gibson starred as Max Rockatansky in the first three films and Tom Hardy took over the lead role in the fourth film. Additionally Mad Max The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome will also be available individually in 4K, joining Mad Max and Mad Max Fury Road which are already available in 4K.

The Mad Max Anthology 4K Uhd release, along with the 4K Uhd releases of Mad Max The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, are from...

Greetings from The Humungus! The Lord Humungus! The Warrior of the Wasteland! The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!”

arner Bros. Home Entertainment announced today that The Mad Max Anthology, featuring 1979’s acclaimed post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max, 1981’s Mad Max The Road Warrior, 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and 2015’s Mad Max Fury Road will be released together on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital HD on November 2. Created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy, Miller directed or co-directed all four films. Mel Gibson starred as Max Rockatansky in the first three films and Tom Hardy took over the lead role in the fourth film. Additionally Mad Max The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome will also be available individually in 4K, joining Mad Max and Mad Max Fury Road which are already available in 4K.

The Mad Max Anthology 4K Uhd release, along with the 4K...

Kate Dolan’s directorial debut is set around Halloween.

UK-based sales agency Bankside Films has boarded worldwide rights on horror You Are Not My Mother, the feature debut of writer-director Kate Dolan.

Currently in post-production, the film was funded through Screen Ireland’s Pov scheme, a production funding initiative for female filmmakers that looks to foster distinct Irish female voices.

You Are Not My Mother is produced by Deidre Levins and executive produced by Brendan McCarthy and John McDonnell of Ireland’s Fantastic Films, as well as Screen Ireland’s Celine Haddad.

The film is inspired by the ancient mythology of the changeling,...

Playwright Katori Hall has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her comedy “The Hot Wing King.” The organization behind journalism’s most prestigious honor also bestowed a special citation on Darnella Frazier, the teenager who videotaped George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020.

Hall is also a showrunner and executive producer of the Starz drama “P-Valley.” “Hot Wing King” opened Feb. 11, 2020, at New York’s Signature Theater but was forced to close only weeks later by the pandemic. The Pulitzer board cited Hall’s work for its “funny, deeply felt consideration of Black masculinity and how it is perceived, filtered through the experiences of a loving gay couple and their extended family as they prepare for a culinary competition.”

Frazier’s special citation commended her “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality around the world,...

This one is long overdue as I bring my Creator in Focus segment back to the pages of eBuying Comics – last seen in Week 38 where I looked at the key issues of Todd McFarlane’s career. I have decided to make a tweak to the segment, previously I looked at current values of those key issues. Where as now the main focus will be on finding good bargains on eBay for the key issues of your favourite creators. Also I think it would be fun and more beneficial to talk about the collected versions available of creators works, which makes it easier for readers to seek out. Especially with the early career stuff. Its useful to know what volumes certain issues are in, whether its paperback or hardback is good knowledge to share with the comics community, new or old readers alike.

Grant Morrison is a writer who has a...

The Irish Film and Television Academy has selected Tom Sullivan’s Irish-language feature “Arracht” as Ireland’s entry for the 2021 Oscars’ best international feature film category.

The film is set in 1845 on the eve of the Irish famine. Fisherman Colmán Sharkey takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier in the Napoleonic wars, arrives just ahead of “the blight” that eventually wipes out the country’s potato crop, leading to the death and displacement of millions. Patsy’s subsequent actions set Colmán on a path that will take him to the edge of survival, and sanity, until he encounters an abandoned young girl who gives him a reason to live. But Colmán cannot escape the darkness of his past.

The film stars Dónall Ó Héalai, alongside Dara Devaney, Michael McElhatton, and newcomer Saise Ní Chúinn.

The film world premiered at the 2019 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival,...

Written and directed by Tom Sullivan, the film is set on the eve of the Irish potato famine.

Irish-language feature Arracht has been selected by the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) as Ireland’s entry for the best international feature film category at the Academy Awards.

Told almost entirely in the Irish language, Arracht debuted to strong reviews at the Tallinn Black Nights film festival in 2019. The film is set in 1845 on the eve of the Irish potato famine (known as The Great Hunger), when a fisherman takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. The stranger,...

Held online due to Covid-19, the Trieste meeting with science-fiction and horror ends with the announcement of the winners, coming from Russia, Canada, Austria and Germany. The 20th edition of the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, held for the first time online, ends with the announcement of the winners. The Asteroid prize, which recognises the best science-fiction, horror or fantasy film and is limited to the first, second or third features of emerging directors which are brought together in the Neon section of the festival, went to Sputnik by Egor Abramenko (Russia). The prize was awarded by an international jury that included cartoonist and writer Bepi Vigna, screenwriter and writer Javier S. Donate and producer and screenwriter Brendan McCarthy. Special Mention of the Asteroid Prize Ts+FF2020 went to the Canadian film Come True by Anthony Scott Burns. The winner of the Silver Méliès prize, which is reserved for feature-length films in the.

Sci-fi thriller marks feature directorial debut of Ireland’s Alan Friel.

Bankside Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to Irish filmmaker Alan Friel’s sci-fi thriller Woken, set to star Maxine Peake and Naomi Ackie.

The London-based sales agent will introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market (AFM) next week. It is aiming to shoot in Ireland next year.

Ackie will play a young woman who wakes up on a remote island without any memory and is forced to re-learn everything about herself, including her husband and the baby she is carrying. When two disfigured men arrive on the island,...

A popular theory among the much-heated lore of 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” is that director George Miller, along with co-writers Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris, first approached the movie without a script. In a series of recent tweets over the past week, McCarthy shut down the rumor by calling it “made-up bollocks,” and now director Miller has separately confirmed to IndieWire that there was most certainly a script.

“I’m not sure how the notion that Fury Road had no script came about. I suppose it’s because of the room lined with storyboards,” Miller said via email, referring to an image of 3,500 storyboards lining the walls of “the ‘Mad Max’ room” that’s been circulated online. “Of course there was a script! How else could we have presented the project to a studio, cast and crew to elicit their interest?”

Yet McCarthy, in his tweets, seemed to attribute the rumor to Miler.

Deals announced in run-up to Cannes virtual market.

Raven Banner has swooped on Canadian distribution rights to horror Z, contagion thriller Sea Fever starring Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen and Dougray Scott, and supernatural thriller and Fantasia audience award winner Dead Dicks.

Z (pictured) explores what happens when a young mother begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend may be terrifyingly real.

Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool) star. Brandon Christensen directed Z, and wrote the screenplay with Colin Minihan. Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder,...

European Film Promotion, an agency that promotes European filmmaking worldwide, has launched its flagship program, Producers on the Move, as a virtual series of events, replacing the physical events that usually take place at the canceled Cannes Film Festival.

The 20 up-and-coming producers from 20 European countries selected by Efp for the 21st edition of the program met digitally for the first time on Monday, where they were greeted by Efp president Markéta Santrochová.

Santrochová said that although the program had shifted to a virtual version, the essentials remained: “Connecting talented producers from across Europe, facilitating exchange and cooperation, and strengthening their industry networks.”

She added: “This has been Efp’s goal ever since the program was created in 2000, and it has become even more crucial now that the film landscape has changed, and co-operation, support and a sense of solidarity among film professionals are more important than ever before.”

On Tuesday,...

Exclusive: A group of genre professionals will come together this week on Friday (May 8) to discuss the future of their industry in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

Featuring notable names including Xyz exec Todd Brown and Vivarium screenwriter and producer Brendan McCarthy, the virtual panel is being organized by the Haapsalu Horror & Fantasy Film Festival, the genre event run by Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival that was forced to move online this year due to the virus lockdown.

The panel, run as part of the European Genre Forum which is co-run by Tallinn with Amsterdam Imagine Film Festival and Fantastic Zagreb Film Festival, will take place at 8Am Pst / 5Pm Eastern European time. It will also feature Annick Mahnert, the newly installed head of Frontieres, Re-Animator producer Brian Yuzna, Arri Media’s Deputy Head of Sales & Acquisitions Moritz Hemminger, and Jongsuk Thomas Nam, the director of BiFan...

The star and the writer/director of Sea Fever talk about a diverse array of influential films in a double episode.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Sea Fever (2020)

Soldier (1998)

Unforgiven (1992)

Blade Runner (1982)

Gladiator (2000)

The Ice Harvest (2005)

Wonder Woman (2017)

Ordet (1955)

Ditte, Child of Man (1946)

Frances (1982)

The Accused (1988)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

My American Uncle (1980)

8 ½ (1963)

Ikiru (1952)

Heaven’s Gate (1980)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

Europa (1991)

Diva (1981)

The Sacrifice (1986)

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

The Party (1968)

Westworld (1973)

The Searchers (1956)

Alien (1979)

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

Contagion (2011)

Idiocracy (2006)

The Company of Wolves (1984)

Mona Lisa (1986)

King Kong (1933)

Arrival (2016)

In The Cut (2003)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

Mandy (2018)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Dune (1984)

Dune (2020… maybe)

Bright Star (2009)

Basic Instinct (1992)

Innerspace (1987)

American Gigolo (1980)

Thelma and Louise (1991)

Wild Things (1998)

Ginger Snaps (2000)

Life of Pi (2012)

Hulk (2003)

Die Hard (1988)

The Hurt Locker (2009)

Psycho (1960)

1917 (2019)

Shane (1953)

Other Notable Items

Brendan McCarthy

David Peoples

Kurt Russell

Lars Von Trier

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Bjarne Henning-Jensen...

Fantastic Films’ credits include Cannes titles Last Days On Mars and Vivarium.

Ireland’s Fantastic Films, whose credits include Cannes titles Last Days On Mars and Vivarium, is planning its first foray into TV with zombie apocalypse story Zom-b by Irish author Darren Shan.

Fantastic is developing the series with London-based Electric Shadow Company, with development support from Screen Ireland.

The Zom-b series of 12 books is told in the first person by a teenage girl who discovers the sinister truth behind the outbreak.

The move into episodic work was revealed at a Glasgow Film Festival industry talk this week by...

Exclusive: Sony Classics is finalizing a U.S. pre-buy of period drama Farnsworth House, which is to star Ralph Fiennes and Elizabeth Debicki.

Debicki, who is soon to be seen starring in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, is in final negotiations to join in the co-lead role which was previously going to be Maggie Gyllenhaal but the latter is newly taken up with directorial debut The Lost Daughter.

Set in late 1940s Chicago, Debicki will play Dr. Edith Farnsworth, whose ambitious project with the revolutionary Bauhaus architect Mies Van Der Rohe, played by Fiennes, to build the first glass house led them into a passionate but tempestuous love affair. Pic is due to shoot this spring or summer.

Richard Press, known for feature documentary Bill Cunningham New York, wrote the screenplay and will direct. Pic is a Canada-Ireland co-production from Serendipity Point Films producers Robert Lantos and...

Tiff selection lands at Signature in UK, Icon in Australia/New Zealand, Gussi in Mexico, Colombia, Central America

Epic Pictures Group has closed key territories on deals on the sci-fi thriller Sea Fever that premiered in Toronto and stars Hermione Corfield, Connie Nielsen, and Dougray Scott.

Director of international sales Kalani Dreimanis has licensed rights on Neasa Hardiman’s debut feature debut to the UK (Signature), Australia and New Zealand (Icon), Cis (Kinologistika), Mexico, Colombia and Central America (Gussi), South Korea (Challan), Japan (Inter Film), Middle East (Eagle), and Philippines (Pioneer).

Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi label Dust previously acquired Us rights.

The 5th annual Ax Wound Film Festival wants to keep the frights coming now that, sadly, Halloween is over. Continue reading for more details before the festival kicks off on Friday, November 15th. Also: Sea Fever acquisition news, This is Our Home release details, and info on the new comic series The Traveller .

Ax Wound Film Festival 2019 Announced: "Need a cure for your post-spooky-season blues? The Ax Wound Film Festival (Awff)— now in its fifth year—is ushering in more scares deep into the Fall 2019 season. Spend Friday evening, November 15th and all-day Saturday, November 16th at the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery (https:// www.hookerdunham.org) in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont with some of the most riveting and intense shorts directed by women.

“Many films are darkly funny and more likely to utilize experimental storytelling over the traditional narratives,” says festival director Hannah “Neurotica” Forman. Neurotica’s vision each year is focused...

Exclusive: Gunpowder & Sky has acquired U.S. rights to the Irish sci-fi thriller Sea Fever, the Neasa Hardiman-directed pic that had its world premiere this fall at the Toronto Film Festival. It will now get a U.S. release in early 2020 via G&s’ multiplatform sci-fi label Dust.

Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) stars as Siobhan, a young marine biology student who boards a trawler run by a couple. When the ship hits an unseen object, a mysterious bioluminescent force infiltrates the vessel, and the crew begins a fight for survival while marooned at sea.

Hardiman calls her debut feature film “a dreamlike and devastating parable, where a neurodivergent heroine struggles with individual responsibility and threat in our increasingly fragile world.”

Fantastic Films’ Brendan McCarthy and John McDonnell produced in a co-production with Borje Hansson of Bright Pictures (Sweden), Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts...

A few years back Mad Max and The Road Warrior director George Miller unleashed the fourth entry in the Max Rockatansky saga with Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tom Hardy as Max and Charlize Theron as the mighty Imperator Furiosa. And today we have word from Miller himself that two Mad Max sequels are still in development, including a film centering on Charlize Theron's Furiosa.

Specifically, George Miller says about his planned Mad Max sequels that have been tentatively titled Wasteland and Furiosa.

"There are two stories, both involving Mad Max, and also a Furiosa story. It seems to be pretty clear that it's going to happen."

Nice! Now I don't know about you, but I firmly belong in the camp that screams Mad Max: Fury Road is one of the most excellent motion pictures to hit the big screen in decades. In fact, along with Joel and Ethan Coen...

Saban Films has acquired all domestic rights to Vivarium, the science-fiction thriller directed by Without Name‘s Lorcan Finnegan that debuted in Cannes’ Critics’ Week this past May. Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg star in the story of a young couple in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, they become trapped in a maze of identical houses and are forced to raise an otherworldly child.

During Cannes, Finnegan told Deadline, “It’s a dark, twisted, surreal story about the kind of life many are tricked into living and trapped within.”

Says Saban President Bill Bromiley, “We are very impressed with Lorcan’s elevated genre piece, heightened with the strong-caliber performances of Imogen and Jesse.” The deal was brokered by Saban’s Ness Saban, along with CAA Media Finance and Xyz Films on behalf of the filmmakers.

Xyz, which is exec producing,...

Saban Films has acquired U.S. rights to Lorcan Finnegan’s Cannes Critics’ Week feature “Vivarium,” starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots. Xyz Films is handling sales and has also closed deals in a raft of international territories, including the U.K. and France.

The U.S. deal was brokered by Saban Films’ Ness Saban, along with CAA Media Finance and Xyz Films on behalf of the filmmakers.

The movie follows a young couple, played by Poots and Eisenberg, in search of a starter home. They follow a mysterious estate agent and get trapped in a strange housing development.

“We are very impressed with Lorcan’s elevated genre piece, heightened with the strong-caliber performances of Imogen and Jesse,” said Bill Bromiley, president of Saban Films. “We are looking forward to our audiences seeing this original, smart and offbeat film.”

Fantastic Films’ Brendan McCarthy and John McDonnell produced “Vivarium” in association with Lovely Productions.

Vertigo Releasing acquires UK rights, The Jokers to distribute in France.

Saban Films has acquired all Us rights to Cannes Critics’ Week sci-fi thriller Vivarium starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg, as Xyz Films announced a raft of international sales.

Irish director Lorcan Finnegan’s second film (Without Name) centres on a young parents searching for a first home who get trapped in a mysterious housing development.

Xyz Films served as executive producer and launched global sales on the Croisette. Among the international deals announced so far are: the UK and Ireland (Vertigo Releasing), Australia and New Zealand (Umbrella), Latin...

Vertigo Releasing acquires UK rights, The Jokers to distribute in France.

Saban Films has acquired all Us rights to Cannes Critics’ Week sci-fi thriller Vivarium starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg, as Xyz Films announced a raft of international sales.

Irish director Lorcan Finnegan’s second film (Without Name) centres on a young parents searching for a first home who get trapped in a mysterious housing development.

Xyz Films served as executive producer and launched global sales on the Croisette. Among the international deals announced so far are: the UK and Ireland (Vertigo Releasing), Australia and New Zealand (Umbrella), Latin...

Saban Films has nabbed the U.S. rights to Vivarium, the Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots-starring sci-fi suspense thriller that bowed in Cannes.

The film, helmed by Irish director Lorcan Finnegan, portrays a young couple (Poots and Eisenberg) looking to buy a dream starter home, only to be trapped by a mysterious real estate agent in a nightmarish housing development.

"We are very impressed with Lorcan’s elevated genre piece, heightened with the strong-caliber performances of Imogen and Jesse,” said Saban Films president Bill Bromiley in a statement.

Fantastic Films’ Brendan McCarthy and John McDonnell produced Vivarium, in association with ...

Saban Films has nabbed the U.S. rights to Vivarium, the Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots-starring sci-fi suspense thriller that bowed in Cannes.

The film, helmed by Irish director Lorcan Finnegan, portrays a young couple (Poots and Eisenberg) looking to buy a dream starter home, only to be trapped by a mysterious real estate agent in a nightmarish housing development.

"We are very impressed with Lorcan’s elevated genre piece, heightened with the strong-caliber performances of Imogen and Jesse,” said Saban Films president Bill Bromiley in a statement.

Fantastic Films’ Brendan McCarthy and John McDonnell produced Vivarium, in association with ...

Project headed for an August shoot.

Charles Dance has joined the cast of sci-fi A Patriot alongside Eva Green and Helen Hunt, with the project now heading for an August shoot.

Dan Pringle is attached to direct from an original screenplay he wrote. Adam J. Merrifield is producing through White Lantern Film, which he runs with Pringle.

John McDonnell and Brendan Mccarthy of Fantastic Films have joined the film as co-producers; their feature Vivarium premiered in Cannes Critics Week yesterday (May 18).

Executive producers are Damian Jones and John Giwa-Amu. The project is now in prep and is due to shoot...