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The director of films including Doom and Romeo Must Die, Andrzej Bartkowiak will next be directing a supernatural horror movie titled The Dire Wolf, Deadline reports today.

Steelyard Pictures is the company behind The Dire Wolf, releasing sometime next year.

Deadline details, “The film tells the story of Hank Whitmore, a sharp and stubborn New Mexican sheriff who aligns with the Navajo Nation when a series of supernatural events threatens his family, his town, and his way of life.”

Ry Cook wrote the screenplay for The Dire Wolf.

Leone Marucci will produce. Marucci tells Deadline, “American cinema has long wrestled with our native culture’s spiritual connection to the natural world. The extinct Dire Wolf was [once] indigenous to North America. Today the wolf spirit symbolizes trust of intuition, guardianship, and the courage to walk one’s own path.

“We’re thrilled to enlist such a renowned filmmaker to bring The Dire Wolf to the screen.

Exclusive: Steelyard Pictures, the production company behind 2022 horror thriller The Inhabitant, has attached Andrzej Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die) to direct The Dire Wolf, a supernatural thriller to shoot in New Mexico, for release next year.

No word yet on the casting front. But the film tells the story of Hank Whitmore, a sharp and stubborn New Mexican sheriff who aligns with the Navajo Nation when a series of supernatural events threatens his family, his town, and his way of life.

Ry Cook penned the script and Leone Marucci will produce alongside Tetrad Studios’ Roy Scott Macfarland, Legacy Media Ventures’ Jeffrey Katz (Buffaloed), and Randy Mendelsohn. Matthew Coates and Kenneth Heilfron will serve as EPs.

“American cinema has long wrestled with our native culture’s spiritual connection to the natural world,” observed Marucci, explaining that “the extinct Dire Wolf was [once] indigenous to North America.

The Cannes Film Festival generates more attention and excitement than any other film festival in the world, but each year is an unpredictable journey. The Official Selection, alongside the sidebars of Directors Fortnight and Critics Week, offer up a tightly-curated into a range of international cinema from both familiar sources and surprising newcomers. This year’s edition is a reliable combination of top-tier directors whose work will be shown at Cannes until the end of time, notable filmmakers who usually deliver something worthwhile, and unproven quantities with a lot of potential.

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In order to work through all of these different possibilities, we’ve broken down our list of anticipated Cannes titles into three categories: A-list auteurs, Discoveries and Safe Bets. Every day of Cannes will bring new updates on the latest films, some of...

Next month, Netflix has a wide variety of films — modern to classic, animated to horror, Oscar winners to new indies — and we’ve picked seven that you should watch once they’re made available on the streaming service, either for the first time or as part of a nostalgic binge. Enjoy.

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1. “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (available February 1)

The 1993 stop-motion classic directed by Henry Slick and produced by Tim Burton tells the story of Jack Skellington, a resident from Halloween Town who stumbles through a portal to Christmas Town and decides to celebrate the holiday.

2. “The Blair Witch Project” (available February 1)

Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, the 1999 found footage horror film became one of the most successful indie films of all time when it was released. The movie follows three film students...

In indie filmmaker Bradley King’s Santa Monica, Calif. office, Legos cover the desks, and multi-colored index cards line the walls. They’re both tools for King and his writing partner, Bp Cooper, to map out their screenplays. The indie filmmaking duo has a new sci-fi movie in theaters this Friday called “Time Lapse.” The index cards – complete with yarn connecting each plot point – is a familiar writing tool, and King and Cooper are using it now for two in-the-works scripts. One wall of their office is also devoted to breaking down the plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” for inspiration. The Legos – and their boxes with labels like “minifigs,” “lights” and “vehicles” – are less commonly seen in writers’ offices, so let King explain: “When you’re playing with toys or dolls you don’t have to be like, ‘What’s this character’s motivation?’ You just immediately are like,...

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has released a lineup, along with new photos and dates, of their upcoming movies for 2015.

From dinosaurs to fairy tales, super heroes to galaxies far, far away, one of the most anticipated films next year is from director Steven Spielberg.

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Tom Hanks (left) stars in Spielberg’s (right) Untitled Cold War spy thriller, which is the true story of James Donovan, an attorney who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible mission to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.

“This is one of the more astonishing stories about the Cold War I’d ever heard. James Donovan is a hero to me and Tom made him so completely accessible. I’ve always wanted to make a spy...

Welcome back everyone for the final day of Daily Dead’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide! Because it’s been an exceptional year for genre fans, we’re focusing today on recapping more books and films that would make for great gifts this holiday season and are perfect for all fans. We’ve also got another great find from over on Etsy and we’re celebrating a new subscription service from the fine folks over at Waxworks Records.

And be sure to check out today’s final Holiday Horrors trivia question below for your shot at winning some awesome merchandise from our fine sponsors at HorrorDecor.net, Scream Factory and Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Thanks so much for following along with our 2014 Holiday Gift Guide and I hope you guys had as much fun reading the series as I had putting it together!

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Lincoln Center Theater will soon present Rodgers amp Hammerstein's The King and I, which will feature a cast led by Kelli O'Hara as Anna Leonowens and Ken Watanabe as the King of Siam. Directed by Bartlett Sher, it will begin previews Thursday, March 12 and open on Thursday, April 16 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 65 Street.Click Here to go behind the scenes of O'Hara and Watanbe's photo shoot for the Broadway-Bound musical...

Dark Souls II's first Dlc is due today, and a new patch has addressed a huge list of issues...

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The first Dlc for Dark Souls II, Crown of the Sunken King, has probably landed by the time you read this, and accompanying it is a huge update that fixes and tweaks a massive range of features.

You can see the full list below (and it's some list), but highlights include a limit to the amount of souls a player can earn whilst fighting invaders, and the removal of healing abilities during any form of PvP, a common annoyance for those who follow Dark Souls' community created honour system of no healing during a fight.

A good portion of the update deals with balancing, making changes to weapons damage, armour effectiveness, and spells. Some items have been changed too, such as the very handy Gower's Ring of Protection, which has been weakened,...

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I know what will cheer you up today! A little video supercut that has nothing except Christopher Walken dancing. I didn't realize just how much he's danced over the course of his career. The guy has sure got some crazy moves! Below the video you'll find the full list of movies that are featured in the video which comes to us from The Huffington Post.

“Roseland” (1977)

“The Deer Hunter” (1978)

“Brainstorm” (1983)

“Pennies from Heaven” (1981)

“The Dead Zone” (1983)

“A View To A Kill” (1985)

“At Close Range” (1986)

“Puss in Boots” (1988)

“Homeboy” (1988)

“Communion” (1989)

“King of New York” (1990)

“The Comfort of Strangers” (1990)

“Sarah, Plain and Tall” (1991)

“All-American Murder” (1991)

“Batman Returns” (1992)

“Skylark” (1993)

“True Romance” (1993)

“Wayne’s World 2″ (1993)

“A Business Affair” (1994)

“Pulp Fiction” (1994)

“The Prophecy” (1995)

“Search and Destroy” (1995)

“Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead” (1995)

“The Funeral” (1996)

“Suicide Kings” (1997)

“Mousehunt” (1997)

“New Rose Hotel” (1998)

“Blast from the Past” (1999)

“Sleepy Hollow” (1999)

“The Opportunists” (2000)

“Scotland,...

I didn’t know Christopher Walken had danced in so many movies but it’s a good thing he has otherwise we wouldn’t have this great supercut to show you. He had the moves in Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice video [watch it here] but put them all together with his movies and it’s something special.

Fyi: Walken initially trained as a musical theater dancer at the Washington Dance Studio.

Below is the video and the complete list of the films used:

Here’s a full list of the films featured in the video, via HuffPo:

“Roseland” (1977)

“The Deer Hunter” (1978)

“Brainstorm” (1983)

“Pennies from Heaven” (1981)

“The Dead Zone” (1983)

“A View To A Kill” (1985)

“At Close Range” (1986)

“Puss in Boots” (1988)

“Homeboy” (1988)

“Communion” (1989)

“King of New York” (1990)

“The Comfort of Strangers” (1990)

“Sarah, Plain and Tall” (1991)

“All-American Murder” (1991)

“Batman Returns” (1992)

“Skylark” (1993)

“True Romance” (1993)

“Wayne’s World 2″ (1993)

“A Business Affair” (1994)

“Pulp Fiction” (1994)

“The Prophecy” (1995)

“Search and Destroy...

Sure, Christopher Walken is one of his generation's most versatile thespians, with a distinctive speaking voice that could make a wolverine purr. But, as any true Walken disciple knows, the man's greatest strength is his smooth-as-silk dancing.

Whether he's gracefully frolicking around in a music video (the Spike Jonze-directed clip for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice") or randomly hamming it up on the big screen (as he did in classics like Pulp Fiction, The Deer Hunter and the undisputed comedy masterpiece Wayne's World 2), Walken's got serious skills.

Seth Rogen isn’t all stoner comedies and “Bound 2″ parodies. The self-described “man-child” put on a suit and tie yesterday to speak in front of the Senate about promoting Alzheimer’s education.

This wasn’t the first time Rogen has spoken out about Alzheimer’s. In 2011, he and his wife Lauren Miller sat down with Larry King to discuss the disease. Miller’s mom was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in her mid-fifties and, now in her sixties, is unable to perform most basic functions. Seeing the effects of Alzheimer’s on his mother-in-law has made Rogen an outspoken supporter of research,...

If you had hoped that independent film had moved on from being a shallow, naked reheating of the early work of Quentin Tarantino, The Power Of Few will be a rude awakening. Loud, abrasive, and almost willfully lacking in substance, Few is a throwback to an era of cinema best forgotten, when a film’s audacity was measured by its willingness to jam weird characters and plot points together in the guise of “kaleidoscopic cinema”. It isn’t just a bad movie; it most likely wouldn’t have hit even in the days when this sort of thing was popular.

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ABC's Influence drama pilot has cast Christian Slater who joins Steve Zahn in the Kyle Killen-created project from 20th Century Fox TV, reports Deadline. Apparently, the show is set in the workplace and follows the complicated relationship between brothers Clark (played by Zahn), human psychology genius with bipolar, and Slater's ex-con Ross, a schemer who's served a two year prison sentence for fraud. Together, they run an agency aiming to solve their clients' problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation. Ross developed the business model and believes that it came make millions. Breaking In's Slater was last seen in Bullet to the Head, alongside Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang and Jason Momoa. He followed that with the indie The Power of Few, alongside Christopher Walken, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Moon Bloodgood and Anthony Anderson. He's up next in Robert Crombie's Assassins Run, with Sofya Skya, Cole Hauser and Angus Macfadyen,...

ABC's Influence drama pilot has cast Christian Slater who joins Steve Zahn in the Kyle Killen-created project from 20th Century Fox TV, reports Deadline. Apparently, the show is set in the workplace and follows the complicated relationship between brothers Clark (played by Zahn), human psychology genius with bipolar, and Slater's ex-con Ross, a schemer who's served a two year prison sentence for fraud. Together, they run an agency aiming to solve their clients' problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation. Ross developed the business model and believes that it came make millions. Breaking In's Slater was last seen in Bullet to the Head, alongside Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang and Jason Momoa. He followed that with the indie The Power of Few, alongside Christopher Walken, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Moon Bloodgood and Anthony Anderson. He's up next in Robert Crombie's Assassins Run, with Sofya Skya, Cole Hauser and Angus Macfadyen,...

There's a lot going on in The Power of Few, the directorial debut from Leone Marucci. The movie features five different storylines which intersect, literally, at one New Orleans crossing, which is doused in violence and bloodshed. At the same time, the movie suggests that our fates aren't necessarily set, and that every person's actions have a ripple effect that can be felt across the world. Oh, also, there's the theft of an incalculably valuable religious icon, and a lot of big-name actors who show up in what is, essentially, a very small movie. Christopher Walken is a homeless man with a secret. Christian Slater is a secret agent trying to track a stolen package. Jessie Bradford is on the run from gangsters Juvenile and Anthony Anderson. Q'orianka Kilcher is the messenger who runs smack into all of it. Moon Bloodgood is a pregnant shopkeeper whose store ends up held...

There's a lot going on in The Power of Few, the directorial debut from Leone Marucci. The movie features five different storylines which intersect, literally, at one New Orleans crossing, which is doused in violence and bloodshed. At the same time, the movie suggests that our fates aren't necessarily set, and that every person's actions have a ripple effect that can be felt across the world. Oh, also, there's the theft of an incalculably valuable religious icon, and a lot of big-name actors who show up in what is, essentially, a very small movie. Christopher Walken is a homeless man with a secret. Christian Slater is a secret agent trying to track a stolen package. Jessie Bradford is on the run from gangsters Juvenile and Anthony Anderson. Q'orianka Kilcher is the messenger who runs smack into all of it. Moon Bloodgood is a pregnant shopkeeper whose store ends up held...

Title: The Power of Few Director: Leone Marucci Starring: Jesse Bradford, Christopher Walken, Q’orianka Kilcher, Christian Slater, Nicky Whelan, Moon Bloodgood, Anthony Anderson, Juvenile, Devin Gearhart, Tione Johnson When Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” hit big in 1994, like an open-handed smack to the face of the film industry proper, its stylized noir plotting, fizzy mixture of violence and pop cultural dissection, and in particular its partite storytelling structure spawned a tsunami of imitators. Almost two decades later, that influence can still be felt, most recently in the form of writer-director Leone Marucci’s caffeinated, terminally bizarre “The Power of Few.” A New Orleans-set tapestral affair whose disparate storylines nominally coalesce over the course of one afternoon, this jumbled [ Read More ]

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There is one catastrophic ending, but from multiple perspectives.

“The Power of Few” is told from different viewpoints leading up to a catastrophic in New Orleans. Several off-beat characters are either witnesses or victims to the ultimate demise of a drive-by shooting, a car crash and a convenience store robbery in that order.

The first viewpoint is about Cory (Devon Gearhart) who must go down to the convenience store to acquire medicine, but lacked the money to pay the pregnant proprietor Mala (Moon Bloodgood) and her aspiring actor/husband Shane (Derek Richardson).

Then the film shoots off to two government agents Clyde and Marti (Christian Slater and Nicky Whelan) in a taxi cab seeking out a possible terrorist and bomb in New Orleans.

Another perspective is from a motorcycle deliverywoman Alexa (Q’orianka Kilcher) hired to deliver a package, but saves Dom (Jesse Bradford) from assassination by local thugs Junkshow...

Written and directed by Leone Marucci, this picture follows six different points of view unfolding on one sunny New Orleans afternoon, spanning twenty minutes of time, where each segment eventually intersects in one climactic moment where criminals and a high profile religious based heist collide.

Living in squalor with his hopped up mom (Louise Linton, Lions For Lambs) and baby brother, Cory (Devon Gearhart, Funny Games) decides that he must acquire medicine for his ailing brother, and thus takes off on a mission to rob The Space Bar, an internet café/grocery store run by the pregnant Mala (Moon Bloodgood, Terminator Salvation). Mala has been arguing with husband Shane (Derek Richardson, Hostel) about his aspiring acting career. Meanwhile, undercover agents Clyde (Christian Slater, True Romance) and Marti (Nicky Whelan, Halloween II) are on the hunt for a suspect that may have recently stolen the Shroud of Turin from the Vatican,...

Meaningless Affect: Marucci’s Interactive Film Project a Dreadful Observation of Social Awareness

Moments into Leone Marucci’s incomprehensibly obnoxious new film, The Power of Few should have one pondering not only how some of the notable cast members signed onto the film but how this received funding in the first place. Assaulting the senses like a New Orleans set Crash (2005) meeting indefinably interconnected drek of something like Answers to Nothing (2011), this amateur circus of poorly conceived nonsense may have been borne out of good intentions, but only serves to reinforce the notion of what path they pave. Developed by writer/director Marucci and producer/star Q’orianka Kilcher as an interactive project meant to involve a global audience, where online voters were able to determine casting, costumes, location, editing, and story development, results in what feels like the product of Communism on filmmaking. “God save us from the innocent and the good,...

Q'orianka Kilcher made her mark at the tender age of 14 years old, when she was cast as Pocahontas in Terrence Malik's 2005 The New World. The daughter of a Quechua-Huachipaeri Peruvian has lent her celebrity to human rights and environmental causes through her own 'on-q Initiative/Action Hero Network' organization – you can count the time she chained herself to the gates of the White House covered in a mysterious liquid, causing a major security breach which then prompted hazmat crews to lock down the premises, forcing Peruvian president Alan Garcia to enter through a side service entrance during his visit, as one of her dopest moments. In 2006 she teamed up with writer/director Leone Marucci and produced The Power of Few under her newly formed iQ Films production company. The film, described as an “interactive” film, not only held worldwide online auditions for a role in the film (the role was filled by a non-professional actress from Malta), they posted all the raw footage from a particular scene in the film and invited filmmakers and fans to craft their own version of the scene and the winning edit is actually used in the film. Shooting the film in New Orleans also gave Kilcher and Marucci the idea to present opportunities to the homeless, underprivileged youth, senior citizens and aspiring artists, to fill paid positions and participate in the making of Power Of Few. And all this before she turns 23 years old.

LatinoBuzz: At what moment did you decide that acting was what you wanted to do?

Q'orianka: Actually I always wanted to be a singer and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.

LatinoBuzz:You started at an early age in Hollywood, but instead of going the route of many starlets you chose to become politically active - for both environmental and indigenous rights - why did they become so important to you?

Q'orianka: I would like to start with saying that I don’t consider myself “politically active” at all… politics is the last thing which motivates or inspires me. I have always felt that politics (like religion) always divides us, so I always try the best I can to focus on the things which unite us as humanity, like our common need and right for clean water, air and soil - our equally deserved right to respect, freedom and dignity for all. I'm the farthest thing from politically active. The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time as good as I can. But its getting harder and harder to just mind my business because at some point, silence is betrayal and we have to speak up and stand up to power and find the courage to defend justice, compassion and all the values we stand for. I'm really more just a dreamer with simple principles of respect, dignity and love passed down to me from my mom and my mentor. But I think humanity has been sleeping for way too long and it’s a good time for all of us to wake up and remember who we were meant to be.

LatinoBuzz: How did you come upon the script for 'The Power Of Few' and what about it made you want to produce it?

Q'orianka: I just had finished filming 'The New World' and was doing a lot of traveling to promote the film. It was an amazing chapter in my life, and I felt extremely blessed for having been given the opportunity to work with my most beloved director Terrence Malick, producer Sara Green and the amazing Emmanuel Lubezki, all while having experienced being “married” to Christian Bale and “kissed” by Colin Farrell all in one film! I knew I was extremely privileged and lucky for all the opportunities which suddenly had opened up for me, and while I really enjoyed all the jet setting all across the world, receiving awards, meeting new people and doing all sorts of interviews in connection with our film's Oscar campaign, the one thing which in the end really stuck with me most was the incredible power of mentorship that I received along the way. I would never be where I am if it would not be for Terry, Sara, Colin, my family and all the colleagues and friends whose actions and insights have inspired and guided me on my journey as an artist and human being. It was this spirit of mentorship which inspired me to dream big and envision a day when I could use filmmaking as a tool to pay forward the blessings I've had in my life. So when Leon approached me with a script entitled 'The Power Of Few', the title not only grabbed my attention but also inspired me to imagine “What if”? My vision was to create a filmmaking process which would lend itself as some sort of mentoring event to inspire, empower and engage creative young minds to connect, collaborate, create and participate in a truly groundbreaking interactive and inclusive way. I think it is important as artists to always find the courage to challenge the status quo, not only through our art, but through who we are as people. For me 'The Power of Few' was always more than a film; it was an opportunity and chance to break down the barriers of conventional filmmaking while creating a connection between a young, passionate global audience and Hollywood. As a young artist in this time of internet and technology, I feel that we are at an important tipping point where we have the opportunity to step up to the challenges of the future by empowering audiences to be more than just a consumer, inviting them to be collaborators and participate and hold stake in the future of our industry. Having the power to make a difference and change the world through art. This is what originally inspired me to be an actress and artist.

LatinoBuzz: Do you find that actors - especially actors of color - are finding the necessity to produce their own work now? To essentially create a career for themselves?

Q'orianka: Absolutely Yes! Why wait around? First of all, its fun to stay busy and creative and as we all know we don’t always get to to the kind of roles we might dream or feel inspired to play, due to the typical stereotyping of characters which is still noticeably present in this industry, so creating our own project not only empowers us to break that barrier but also hopefully helps us to slowly break down stereotypes. Period! Two, It allows us to show the world that in fact an actress of color can be absolutely believable playing, lets say a “regular girl next door” character because, in contrary to how these sorts of characters are usually portrayed in film, we are in fact that girl next door living in a modern multicultural and multiethnic society. Last but not least, I think it's most important to create our own projects in a means to empower our voices and tell our stories to the world in our own words and with truth. There is an amazing power to film. And as we look into the future we all have a great opportunity and responsibility to be media warriors for positive social change. Through our work and the power of film we can help give a voice to our communities, culture and living traditions and shed light on many of the relevant issues facing the communities and our world.

LatinoBuzz: If you could re-make a film and play the lead – what's the film?

Q'orianka: With so many amazing stories still waiting to be told, I think I would choose to skip the remake. Or maybe I would ask James Cameron to rewind time and cast me to play the role of Neytiri in 'Avatar' because I would have loved to have the powerful platform and public voice this highly successful film would have given me to speak out on behalf of my indigenous brothers and sisters around the world who are all struggling to protect some of the last pristine places on earth.

LatinoBuzz: You've actually played a few historical figures now. Is there a woman from history you admire?

Q'orianka: Wow, there are so many amazing woman in history I admire, so this could take a very long time. So to make it short, I will just highlight one who I had the honor to play: Princess Kai’ulani of Hawaii! Ka’iulani’s courage, compassion, diplomacy, grace and internal strength and dignity make her an amazing young role model, especially for young women. In her short years, Ka’iulani was a principled international diplomat, ahead of her time, who spoke out on behalf of her Peoples and nation. Princess Ka’iulani’s story does not only give us an insight into an important and often forgotten dark chapter of Hawaii’s history, but it also is a story of courage and hope and her life and plea for her people carries a message of absolute contemporary relevance in the context of the issues still faced by many of the 360 million indigenous peoples around the world who are struggling until this day for dignity, self determination and cultural survival. Being a young indigenous woman of descent and having spoken at the Un Declaration of Indigenous Peoples Rights in Washington DC myself at the age of 16, her story is very close to my heart.

LatinoBuzz: There was a lot of discussions on social media regarding 'Argo' and Ben Affleck's decision to cast himself in the lead role of CIA operative Antonio Mendez, which drew the ire of many who felt he has enough opportunities presented to him and he could have cast a Latino. Do you think we have to reach that point where enough is enough of 'white-washing' characters? I just think of what it could mean to a young kid in the Bronx, East La, South Side Chi', to see someone like themselves presented as a hero.

Q'orianka: Well this is an age old story, and a very tiring one which has caused much harm on how we have been portrayed in films over the years. I do think its important for our youth to have their very own role-models they really can relate to and yes, it's always a great day if a lead character, a hero or a significant role which is actually described in a particular ethnicity is actually played by a talented actor who is living proof that actors from this particular ethnicity are truly gifted, talented and superb actors. But I believe that in the name of our 'Art' we can all transform and morph into different characters. It is sad to think that many times it's not so much for the art, but for the money and funding such choices are made. Personally, I welcome the challenge to prove myself as a versatile actress and I welcome the few moments where I might be cast despite my ethnicity to play a character I love. So, it’s a bit of a two sided sword, because if we have ever wish for Hollywood to be “color blind”, our argument can be quickly turned against us the next time we do an excellent job but lose the part to a white girl with blue eyes, just because the writer had described her with such physicalities.

LatinoBuzz: Name four people you want to break bread with?

Q'orianka: Hahaha, break bread? Well I would love to share some of my home baked bread with Tom Hanks and see if he likes it. I would like that! And the other three slices I'd like to share with my dear friends Gina Rodriguez, Jesse Garcia and Anthony Chavez!

LatinoBuzz: When you wake up in the morning what the most important thing on your mind?

Q'orianka: Hahahah! Hmmmm “Oh no! I forgot to move my car for street cleaning!!!” Hahaha! No, no, I like to listen to different interviews on Ted, piece together my day and then dance around my kitchen to 80's music while making breakfast.

LatinoBuzz: What do you hope the youngsters take away from your foundation after putting cameras into their hands?

Q'Orianka: The power to have their voices heard and tell their own stories from their own perspectives.

LatinoBuzz:Five years from now, Q'orianka.....?

Q'orianka: Ah, you see I used to be a planner. I used to have all these plans and think “Ah, I have my whole life figured out”, but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more. I love life's surprises and not knowing where the wind will take me. I would love to continue doing what I love to do, produce more films, create more art, sing more and travel the world. And to help create pilot projects and opportunities for youth in my community and around the world to find meaningful and fulfilling ways to connect, collaborate and create and follow their dreams. And perhaps who knows, maybe one day, if it's written in the stars for me, maybe I start a little family of my own. But who knows?! First, I need to meet that “Mr. Right”!

The Power of Few opens Feb 15th in select cities. For more information, please visit: http://thepoweroffew.com and you can follow Q'orianka on Twitter at @Qorianka

Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights emerging and established Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow@LatinoBuzzon twitter.

It intrigues me that Christopher Walken’s latest film — which just signed for North American release by Steelyard Pictures — is titled The Power Of Few. I’ve never heard of this distributor, and maybe the film is a cinematic treat, but I’m reasonably certain this movie will come and go with little fanfare. The title is memorable because it summarizes perfectly how I wish iconic actors like Walken would run their careers. I was thinking about this over the weekend, when I again watched Django Unchained and observed how the whole movie changed from the moment that Samuel L. Jackson first came into view as the awful plantation slave patriarch Stephen. I find it one of the most memorable performances I’ve seen in the last five years, a villain to rival any Spaghetti Western antagonist ever, and am amazed how Jackson disappeared into a fully fleshed character as...

I’d never heard of that movie before, either, but The Power of Few has my full attention. The trailer has been going around the net these past few days featuring Hollywood’s favorite grandpa Christopher Walken, Christian Slater, Anthony Anderson, Moon Bloodgood, Q’orianka Kilcher, and Jesse Bradford.

An interconnected crime story comes from the first time writer/director Leone Marucci. The some sort of multi-perspective crime caper doesn’t seem to have a release date in the Us at this point.

The film was reportedly shot in New Orleans, where an outreach strategy created opportunities for young locals, homeless people and senior citizens to join the cast and the crew. The producers of The Power of Few collaborated with associations like Volunteers of America and The Covenant House of New Orleans to hire local veterans and homeless people, young and old, to be part of their cast and crew.

I'm not sure what in the hell is going on in this trailer for The Power of Few, but one thing I do know is that Christopher Walken wants to clone Jesus. This is such a crazy weird trailer, and I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a drama or a comedy, or what, but it's some kind of crime thriller.

Synopsis:

Spies, cops, holy fools and well-armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. "The Power of Few" unfolds through the lives of five unusual characters who unknowingly are connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation on a day when religious conspiracy and urban crime collide.

This doesn't even seem like a movie! But, it is, and it was directed by Leone Marucci. It also has an impressive cast of actors that includes Christian Slater, Anthony Anderson, Jesse Bradford, Q'orianka Kilcher, Moon Bloodgood, Nicky Whelan,...

I don't know about you, but I love movies that are weird and unpredictable. You never get a good idea of what it's exactly supposed to be. It zags when you expect it to zig. And that seems to be the case for the new indie featuire called The Power of Few, written and directed by Leone Marucci, who only has a small list of credits, including two previous shorts, to his name. The interesting thing about the film, which stars an eclectic group of names (Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken, Jesse Bradford, Q'orianka Kitcher - who some of you might remember as Pocahantas in Terrance Malick's The New World, who also produced Power of Few)  Christian...

It's only 11 days into 2013, and we already have a candidate for one of the most bizarre movie-related things you'll see all year. JoBlo (via Slashfilm) has uncovered an absolutely batsh*t trailer for a crowdsourced movie called The Power of Few, an interconnected crime story starring a scraggly-haired Christopher Walken, Christian Slater, Moon Bloodgood, and Anthony Anderson. It comes from first time writer/director Leone Marucci, but online voters apparently chose important things like costumes and character decisions, and the result is jaw-droppingly bad. Prepare to be dazed and confused. Watch below! Here's the first trailer for Leone Marucci's The Power of Few, in high def from Apple: Spies, cops, holy fools and well-armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. The Power of Few unfolds over twenty minutes on one New Orleans afternoon, experienced through the lives of five unusual characters who unknowingly...

The Power of Few:  See it now at Efm, Berlin:  February 9 @ 4:40 Pm and February 11 (@ 5:45 Pm at CinemaxX 11 located in Potsdamer Platz. This time-bending thriller encourages audiences to look at things from different perspectives, to see how the choices of a single individual can affect the outcome in a world where everything is interconnected. To underline the theme of inter-connectedness, during pre-production of The Power of Few, first-time director, Leone Marucci, who also wrote and produced the film, and producer  Q'orianka Kilcher   designed and implemented a cutting edge interactive campaign, inviting the global audience to help create...

Guns .N Roses & Sixx: A.M. Guitarist DJ Ashba Debuts Original Music Tracks For Christopher Walken Indie The Power Of Few.S Fan Editing Contest

Fans to Have Exclusive Access to Ashba Tracks on Film.s Website for Digital Editing of .Scene 64.

Multi-platinum recording artist Dj Ashba, guitarist for Guns N. Roses and top Billboard-selling hard rock band Sixx: A.M., debuted original tracks today on the website of upcoming indie The Power Of Few, a crime mystery starring Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can, Wedding Crashers), Christian Slater (True Romance, Very Bad Things), Q.orianka Kilcher (Terrence Malick’s The New World) and Anthony Anderson (Transformers, The Departed). The tracks are available at the film.s website,www.thepoweroffew.com, as a part of .Scene 64,. the digital editing contest created by the film.s writer/director Leone Marucci and Kilcher in their efforts to involve fans in a...

Here’s a rather interesting take on audience participation in film-making…. The filmmakers in charge of new movie, Power of Few starring Christopher Walken, Christian Slater, Q’orianka Kilcher and Jesse Bradford have decided that they want members of the public to edit a scene, in this case scene 64 and use the best edit as part of the movie. I’ve got an official press release below which explains in further detail but in a nutshell, you cut together a scene with pre-short footage, add music from the selection provided and the edit judged to be the best by director, Leone Marucci will end up in the final cut of the film. I’ve also placed a video below which explains in further detail the premise of the project which sounds great to get involved in.

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Director/writer Leone Marucci and star Q.orianka Kilcher (Terrence Malick’s The New World) are inviting online audiences to determine the final cut of their new film, The Power Of Few, with a ground-breaking digital editing contest, .Scene 64.. Using raw film footage and editing tools on the film.s official website www.thepoweroffew.com, participants will have the opportunity to cut a scene from the film. One of the favorites, as voted by fans, will be used in the finished film and the winner will receive a screen credit.

.Scene 64. features Kilcher and co-star Jesse Bradford (Bring It On, Flags of Our Fathers), in an action sequence shot on location in New Orleans. The pair co-star with an ensemble cast including Christopher Walken (Hairspray, Wedding Crashers) and Christian Slater (True Romance, Very Bad Things) in the crime mystery. The Power Of Few revolves around an enigmatic smuggling ring.s...

That's right, the True Romance stars have reunited for a new indie thriller with an apocalyptic twist and we've tracked down the first poster and stills from the film.

International terrorism collides with urban crime in this story told from multiple perspectives. Writen and directed by Leone Marucci (who, by the way, was a production assistant on the Six String Samurai), The Power of Few sounds like a strange one worth checking out.

Synopsis:

Alexa (Q'orianka Kilcher) is a courier who dreams of escaping her run down town and heading West to start a new life. Those plans will take a dramatic turn when she agrees to transport a package that has the attention of powerful competing forces.

Alexa's fate will be forever altered as she is catapulted into the midst of a globe spanning plot that has the power to change everything. Her life, the lives of all who...

Exclusive Oscar winner Christopher Walken will reunite with his "True Romance" co-star Christian Slater in Arclight Films' thriller "The Power of Few," TheWrap has learned. Q'orianka Kilcher ("The New World") stars as a young woman who agrees to transport a special package and is catapulted into a global plot that could threaten the entire world. Franka Potente ("The Bourne Identity") and Anthony Anderson ("The Departed") co-star. Leone Marucci will direct "The Power of Few" from his own screenplay, as well as produce through his company Steelyard Pictures. Kilcher is also producing through her iQ Films,...