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Ubisoft has been a major contributor to the gaming industry’s growth after developing countless games in various genres in the past few years. Recently, Massive Entertainment finally released its original and ambitious open-world Star Wars project to appeal to fans of single-player games; however, it had a mixed reception, which encouraged the publisher to reconsider its objectives. On the other hand, the rising popularity of Games as a Service motivated the studio to develop XDefiant after the success of Rainbow Six Siege.

Star Wars Outlaws had the potential to be a great single-player experience. Image Credit: Massive Entertainment

CEO Yves Guillemot sees the bigger picture and thinks of a way to keep up. Guillemot knows nothing will happen if the developers go against the player base and decide it is best to establish a symbiotic relationship.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot Believes the Best Way to Please the Gaming Community...

After the recent gameplay showcase and deep dive of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft has left many fans feeling cautiously optimistic about the game and the series’ future. Although some have voiced concerns surrounding the game’s dialogue and Yasuke’s half of the game, the overall reception towards the showcase has generally been positive.

One of the more prominent points of praise was Ubisoft’s upgrades to Anvil, their in-house engine. The sheer improvements made to the engine have made it clear that Ubisoft still cares about Assassin’s Creed, at the very least, and wants to take the series in new and innovative directions.

For Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft Has Improved Anvil’s Physics Engine After the showcase, many people’s faith in Ubisoft has been reignited once more.

From what players have seen of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, it seems that Ubisoft has made a ton of...

Assassin’s Creed games have always provided a certain degree of freedom to the player when it comes to missions and challenges, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows is no exception. But the player has been limited by the character’s abilities. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate offered some variation in gameplay, where Evie and Jacob Frye had slightly different fighting styles.

Ubisoft appears to have taken a page from this game’s book but gone for even more variation in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The cinematic reveal trailer introduced us to our two main characters, Naoe and Yasuke, along with giving us a glimpse of their capabilities.

Choose Your Playstyle in Assassin’s Creed Shadows What approach will you take in Assassin’s Creed Shadows?

Bringing new characters to the franchise should be more than a simple gender swap option. Players could choose whether to be male or female in Odyssey and Valhalla, but the difference was purely cosmetic.

The Call of Duty community went wild recently after rumors of future Call of Duty installments surfaced on social media. Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of chatter about a potential Call of Duty: Ghosts and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare sequels. However, it has been confirmed that all these rumors are fake.

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Visceral and VondyisPog, two popular CoD data miners, claimed that two CoD projects named “Anvil” and “Devilwood” are in the works. Anvil was supposed to be a Ghosts-themed title from Infinity Ward, and Devilwood was expected to be a Sledgehammer title based on Advanced Warfare. Unfortunately, it has now been confirmed that both of these projects don’t exist.

Call of Duty: Ghosts and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare sequel rumors are fake

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As per Insider Gaming, rumors regarding two CoD projects, “Anvil” and “Devilwood” are fake.

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed is one of the most popular franchises out there and has a massive community. The upcoming installment in the series, Assassin’s Creed Codename Red, will be called Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and more details will be revealed via a proper reveal on May 15.

The game was expected to be released by March 2025, but a few reports have stated that the game is aiming to launch later this year. This has fans thrilled, but the game is reportedly the first current-gen title that many fans will miss out on due to one problem that is out of their control.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Reportedly Won’t Be on Last-Gen Consoles

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is not coming to last-gen consoles.

Assassin’s Creed Red, now Shadows, was announced back in September 2022 during a Ubisoft Forward showcase along with several other Assassin’s Creed titles and takes the franchise to feudal Japan,...

Anvil have announced their 20th studio album, One and Only, arriving June 28th. The cult thrash-metal heroes also shared the video for lead single “Feed Your Fantasy.”

The Canadian band keeps on chugging, quite literally, on the new song. The hard rock stomp and toe-tapping rhythms set up an inspiring anthem that could be about Anvil themselves, a band that never gave up on its heavy metal aspirations: “Make it all come true / Is what you do / Loving it too / Through and through.”

That Steve “Lips” Kudlow and company are surrounded by some of their biggest fans for the live performance music video drives those lyrics home. The positive energy in the clip is palpable.

“We’re more like our old selves than we’ve been in years,” Lips said of the new album, which is meat-and-potatoes old-school Anvil. “We’ve dropped all our more modern aspects, particularly the ’90s version of Anvil.

Assassin’s Creed Red is the next upcoming addition to the timeless franchise, known for its rich historical settings and stealth-action gameplay. The highly anticipated title promises to introduce innovative gameplay mechanics and a fresh narrative, set in a brand-new setting.

Recent leaks and reports have given us glimpses into what players can expect, including the introduction of two protagonists and significant enhancements to the game’s engine and mechanics.

Assassin’s Creed Red Will Whisk Us Away to Feudal Japan Assassin’s Creed Red will introduce a plethora of new stealth mechanics.

Insider Gaming has uncovered exciting details about the development of Assassin’s Creed Red, giving us all a peek into its gameplay mechanics and engine evolution.

According to sources familiar with the project, the game will change things from the very foundation. It’s using an evolved version of the Anvil Pipeline engine. This move helps streamline development across multiple studios,...

Award-winning independent publisher, Z2, is proud to collaborate with legendary rock & roll frontman Bruce Dickinson for an original comic series tied to his upcoming solo album The Mandrake Project, being released by BMG on March 1, 2024. Bruce Dickinson’S The Mandrake Project #1, arrives in comic shops and at Z2comics.com on January 17, 2024! The 12-issue limited series is an epic saga of opposing forces battling to use the powers of science and magic to gain control of immortality. It’s a story developed by Bruce over the last decade, and The Mandrake Project is brought to life through his creative partnership with iconic team of creators – including script by Tony Lee, art by Staz Johnson, lettering by Troy Peteri, coloring by Gabo, covers by multiple Eisner-winner Bill Sienkiewicz. Edited by Eisner and Harvey-winner Rantz A. Hoseley, Bruce Dickinson’s The Mandrake Project 12-issue comic series is a vital component of...

Exclusive: There was a lot of focus on the fact that Jay Leno’s Garage was canceled by CNBC on Thursday, but it turns out the rubber has met the road on the executive front as well.

The cancellation, which also included Money Court, hosted by Kevin O’Leary and Bethenny Frankel, is part of a swath of changes brought in by CNBC President Kc Sullivan.

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The news network is moving out of original, primetime entertainment programming and Deadline understands that the two execs that oversaw it — Denise Contis and Timothy Kuryak – will exit as part of the restructure, along with...

Anvil, the Canadian heavy metal band that released the influential Metal on Metal album of the early ’80s and served as the subject of Anvil! The Story Of Anvil, is touring again as the highly-rated documentary is out for rerelease.

Guitarist Steve “Lips” Kudlow and drummer Robb Reiner recently sat with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss what their life has been like since the documentary was originally released in 2009.

“We’re just carrying on our career quite nicely,” Reiner shared. “The band has become our day job. We love it. All we do is rock when we can.”

The documentary follows the band that had at one time been at the top of their genre but soon fell off the map due to multiple mishaps. Kudlow and Reiner shared some of the instances they think attributed to the downfall of their career.

“Bad managers. S–tty record companies. Being young.

It’s difficult enough to come into your own in your 20s, much less with your country falling apart, your creative life at risk, and your humanity up for debate. But that’s exactly the world in which Shery Bechara and Lilas Mayassi, the heroines of Rita Baghdadi’s documentary “Sirens,” find themselves.

Through breathtaking vérité footage, Baghdadi — who shot, directed and produced — depicts the universal upheaval of youth against a backdrop of unprecedented unrest. As Shery and Lilas navigate their bohemian Beirut lives as members of the all-female metal band Slave to Sirens, the city around them shifts like a sleeping giant.

The result is a documentary so slick it feels more like narrative perfection. Lyrical coming-of-age tales are a dime a dozen at Sundance, where “Sirens” premiered at the beginning of the year, but few such films are as impressive as this one.

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The world re-premiere of the rock documentary “Anvil! The Story of Anvil,” which took place at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on Thursday night, began when the movie started to play with the houselights still on. Then lights went off, except for a huge monitor just off the stage that continued to shine in the face of the audience. Then, after about a minute, the film lurched to a halt when the screen froze completely.

As a way to kick off a celebration of a film about an influential but only marginally successful heavy metal band that in some ways resembles a real-life Spinal Tap, it was perfect.

And “Anvil!” director Sacha Gervasi said as much when he came onstage after the snafu-filled opening. “As usual with Anvil,” he said, “there was a massive f—up!”

Then again, massive f—ups – and more importantly, the perseverance to get through...

Last Thursday, a stone’s throw from the former headquarters of Larry Flynt’s Hustler empire, a trove of thirsty teenage influencers, A-listers such as Dustin Hoffman and rock stars including Muse’s Matt Bellamy were queueing up to walk the red carpet at a movie premiere.

This wasn’t, however, the latest Marvel launch or an Oscar-bait opening. It was the re-release of a 13-year-old music documentary about a previously relatively unknown heavy metal band from Canada.

Anvil!: The Story of Anvil, a tale of hope and heavy metal, has been having quite the encore.

The film, directed by Sacha Gervasi, has been re-released by Utopia for a new generation of kids that seem willing to get in the pit for its heartwarming message: never give up.

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"Who's the guy that's supposed to pay me?" Utopia has revealed the full official trailer for their upcoming re-release of this 2008 rock doc classic - Anvil! The Story of Anvil! This outstanding, amusing music film originally premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival but it took a while for any distributor to buy it and release it - only later in 2009 did it eventually open (we wrote about it!). Now it's opening in theaters again in 2022, with a special event in LA featuring a live performance from Anvil! in September. Since 1978, the Canadian heavy metal band Anvil has be known as one of hard rock's most influential yet commercially unsuccessful acts. Way back in 2006, after a fledging European tour, Anvil sets out to record their thirteenth album and continue to follow their dreams. And filmmaker Sacha Gervasi was there to capture it all. The re-release is timed to the film's 13th...

Exclusive: Anvil! The Story Of Anvil, the heartbreaking and heartwarming story of a veteran heavy metal band, is getting a wide theatrical release with its remaster.

The film, which is one of the rock docs that kicked off the genre’s boom ahead of the likes of Amy and Searching for Sugar Man, will be released in 200 theaters across the U.S., timed to its 13th anniversary.

It’s a rare move for a remastered documentary. The re-release – the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008 – will feature remastered picture and sound, as well as a new exclusive epilogue interview. The re-release comes from Utopia and Abramorama, which released the doc originally, alongside director Sacha Gervasi’s Portobello Electric.

A special one-night engagement in 200 theaters will take place on September 27 with select extended theatrical runs through October at national circuits including AMC and Regal Cinemas. This comes after a...

Exclusive: British-American filmmaker Sacha Gervasi (My Dinner with Hervé) has signed with Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment for management.

Gervasi’s latest film, the semi-autobiographical My Dinner with Hervé, took a look at the life of French actor Hervé Villechaize (Peter Dinklage), who came to fame on Fantasy Island before taking his life in 1993, at the age of 50. Steve Zaillian produced the drama, also starring Jamie Dornan and David Strathairn, for HBO Films. In addition to an Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie, the film was nominated for WGA, PGA, and Critics’ Choice awards.

Gervasi previously directed the 2010 documentary Anvil about the Canadian heavy metal band of the same name, which won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary and the News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming, among other accolades. His first narrative feature was the Oscar-nominated Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson, which told the story of...

The film is the directorial debut of newcomer Colm Bairéad.

Colm Bairéad’s Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) will open the Dublin International Film Festival (Diff) on February 23.

It is making its world premiere in Generation at the Berlinale next month.

Set in 1981 in rural Ireland, The Quiet Girl is a cominig of age story about a young girl who blossoms while in the care of foster parents one summer until she discovers a painful truth.

“An Cailín Ciúin is one of the finest films of recent memory and a dazzling new talent in writer-director Colm Bairead,...

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Endeavor Content will launch global pre-sales during Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on the noir package Sniff to star Morgan Freeman, Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, and Danny DeVito.

Taylor Hackford (Ray) will direct from a screenplay by Tom Grey about a retired detective (Freeman) pulled back for one more case by his former partner played by DeVito, who appears opposite Ben Foster in TIFF world premiere The Survivor, which Endeavor Content is also selling.

Together the pair investigate shady goings-on at a retirement community run by a kingpin (Pacino) and his femme fatale enforcer The Spider,...

British filmmaker Sacha Gervasi knows his hard rock and metal and where to find the drama within those stories, so perhaps, it’s little surprise he’s teaming up with Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson to co-write a screenplay telling the remarkable story of the concert Dickinson played at the height of The Siege of Sarajevo in 1994. Risking their lives, Dickinson and his band Skunkworks—Dickson quit Iron Maiden in 93 for several years to pursue solo projects— were smuggled into the besieged city by the U.N.

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Exclusive: Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is teaming up with filmmaker Sacha Gervasi (Anvil: The Story of Anvil!) to co-write a narrative screenplay about the now-cult rock concert Dickinson played during the height of the Siege of Sarajevo in 1994.

Risking their lives, Dickinson and his band Skunkworks were smuggled into the besieged city by the Un to play a concert for its beleaguered citizens amidst the chaos of war. The journey was captured in a 2016 documentary Scream for Me Sarajevo.

The Siege Of Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history lasting 1,425 days and resulting in more than 11,000 killed, including 1,600 children. The city was decimated, infrastructure destroyed, and there was wide spread damage to many cultural institutions, government buildings, hospitals, and schools.

In 2019, the Sarajevo City Council granted Dickinson the title of “Honorary citizen of Sarajevo,” in remembrance of his visit and the band’s performance at the peak of the Bosnian war.

A Boy George biopic may be in production as soon as this summer. Deadline reports that the project, titled Karma Chameleon, has moved from MGM to Millennium Media and is looking at a summer 2021 shoot in London and Bulgaria.

On Tuesday, Boy George himself released a video stating that a casting call for the film is underway. The singer also said that 1917 and Line of Duty actor Danny Mays has been cast as Boy George’s father, and teased that “there are rumors of Keanu Reeves popping in.” (Representatives for...

Exclusive: The Boy George movie biopic, which is to be called Karma Chameleon, has moved from MGM to Millennium Media and is eyeing a summer 2021 start in London and Bulgaria, we can reveal.

In a new video that we can debut on Deadline, the Culture Club frontman says a casting search is underway for the actor to play him. The singer also teases the casting of 1917 and Line Of Duty actor Danny Mays in the role of his father and claims “there are rumours of Keanu Reeves popping in.” The production declined to confirm either actor’s involvement.

As previously announced, the project is written and will be directed by Hitchcock and Anvil: The Story of Anvil director Sacha Gervasi, and it will be produced by Kevin King Templeton (Creed I & II) and Paul Kemsley. George and Jessica de Rothschild will executive produce. Newly aboard is casting director Kate Ringsell...

About two-thirds into Sky Atlantic’s broadcast of King Rocker, Robert Lloyd – the subject of the film – is talking about how things were going from “bad to worse”. Unfortunately, an ad break comes in fractionally too soon and cuts him off; meaning what he actually says is “from bad to wor …” When the documentary resumes we have moved on, that final sibilant left unsaid. Probably forever. I’ve gone back and forth on this for ages, and I’m still not sure if it was intentional. It’s that sort of film.

This is, ostensibly, a documentary about a musician – Lloyd, the singer with 70s punk band The Prefects, which eventually morphed into cult Birmingham post-punk arty types The Nightingales. It tracks Lloyd’s hodge-podge career as he goes from art-rock frontman to record company boss, to band manager, to music video producer, to sit-com scriptwriter to pop solo artist,...

Exclusive: Searchlight, we hear, has a new psychological thriller they’re putting into development, entitled Keith. The plot, which is being kept under wraps, will star Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage who will also executive produce with Portobello Electric producing.

Portobello Electric is comprised of Sacha Gervasi, Jim Garavente, Jessica de Rothschild and Hassan Taher.

Haley Z. Boston, a staff scribe on Amazon’s Hunters series, is writing Keith based on a treatment by Gervasi.

In the wake of the success of Searchlight’s genre feature Ready or Not last summer ($57.6M WW), the Disney indie label is ramping up such fare with the Scott Cooper directed, Guillermo del Toro produced Antlers set for theatrical release on Feb. 19, 2021. Searchlight SVP of Production Dantram Nguyen and Director of Production Zahra Phillips are overseeing Keith for the studio.

Boston recently sold her original script Kill Fuck Mary to Amazon with John Wells attached to produce.

“My Dinner with Herve” “originated from a real story,” reveals Sacha Gervasi. In the summer of 1993 the young journalist was sent to Los Angeles to write “a whole host of very important celebrity interviews, the least important of which was an interview with a now-faded French actor called Herve Villechaize.” But the inconsequential chat turned into a five-day discourse during which the star poured his heart out, only to die by suicide shortly thereafter. Twenty-five years later Gervasi wrote and directed the Emmy-nominated film starring Peter Dinklage as Villechaize and Jamie Dornan as a character based on Gervasi. Watch our exclusive video interview with the filmmaker above.

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After shooting to fame as the diminutive sidekick on “Fantasy Island,” Villechaize was fired by producer Aaron Spelling over a salary dispute and quickly faded into obscurity.

Now that she’s done with Game of Thrones, Sophie Turner is eager to branch out by playing Boy George.

The 23-year-old actress — who’s currently starring in Dark Phoenix — expressed her delight at being considered for the role of the singer after he raved about her on the Australian radio show Fitzy and Wippa.

“There’s been some really interesting suggestions,” George said of the potential actors that had been brought up to play him via British Vogue. “One of the most interesting suggestions was Sophie Turner.”

He continued, “[People will say] ‘she can’t play you, she’s a woman,’ you know.

With the box office and awards season success of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” music biopics are roaring back. “Rocketman,” based on the life of Elton John, just released this past weekend, and several others are currently in the works, including films about Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

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Monumental Pictures’ Alison Owen and Debra Hayward are producing a film on the life of the late Amy Winehouse. They’ll be working in coordination with Winehouse’s father Mitch, who previously said in a statement that he felt finally the “time was right.” Although no one has been cast yet as the soul singer, Owen tells TheWrap the project is in development and the plan is to shoot next year.

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After Bohemian Rhapsody became such a huge hit for Universal Pictures at the box office, studios have been far more interested in rock star biopics. This past weekend Elton John’s fantastical life story Rocketman debuted in second place at the box office this past weekend. That appears to have made studios even more eager to […]

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Boy George is the latest pop icon to get the feature film treatment!

The ‘80s icon, who rose to prominence as the frontman of the Culture Club, will be the subject of an upcoming movie, which will trace the singer’s path to success, Deadline announced on Wednesday.

The film, which does not currently have a title, or any attached stars, will be written and directed by Sacha Gervasi, whose previous credits include My Dinner with Herve as well as the 2008 rockumentary Anvil: The Story of Anvil.

“There is no filmmaker better suited than Sacha Gervas ito tell George’s...

Boy George is the latest musician getting the movie treatment.

MGM is developing an untitled film based on the life of the Culture Club singer, with Sacha Gervasi attached to write and direct.

Producers are Kevin King Templeton, a producer on MGM’s two “Creed” movies, and Paul Kemsley. George and Jessica de Rothschild will executive produce.

The Boy George film will include his upbringing in an Irish working-class family and his breakout as the androgynous leader of the band Culture Club, which released its debut album “Kissing to Be Clever” in 1982 with the single “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” followed by the hits “Time” and “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya.” He’s sold more than 100 million singles and over 50 million albums as a performer and songwriter, and is the author of two autobiographies.

Gervasi’s credits include “The Terminal,” “Hitchcock,” “November Criminals” and the rock documentary “Anvil: The Story of Anvil,...

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The classic rock biopic craze continues with MGM, which is producing a film based on Culture Club frontman Boy George.

Boy George, one of the most recognizable faces from the 1980s, is the next music icon to get swept up in the film industry’s classic rock biopic wave. Indeed, in the spirit of the Oscars-dominating Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, and the buzz-generating Elton John biopic, Rocketman (which hits theaters this weekend), the ostentatiously gender-bending frontman of Culture Club is getting a big screen portrayal of his own from a major studio.

The Boy George biopic, currently untitled, is in the works at MGM, which will produce the film, reports Deadline. The studio has already found its creative fulcrum in Sacha Gervasi, who will serve as director and writer, joined by producers Kevin King Templeton (Creed) and Paul Kemsley, as well as executive producers George and Jessica de Rothschild.

Culture Club is coming to the big screen, as MGM is set to produce a feature musical biopic about the life of singer-songwriter Boy George, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Sacha Gervasi, the director of “Anvil: The Story of Anvil” and “My Dinner With Herve” will write and direct the film based on George’s life. Kevin King Templeton and Paul Kemsley will produce, and George and Jessica de Rothschild will executive produce.

The untitled film will chart Boy George’s childhood in a working class Irish family through his rise to stardom along with Culture Club in the 1980s.

Hollywood is going all in on music biopics following the massive success of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which won an Oscar for Best Actor for Rami Malek in his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, as well as the...

Exclusive: MGM will produce a feature film based on the life of iconic singer Boy George with Sacha Gervasi, set to write and direct. The biopic will be produced by Kevin King Templeton (Creed I & II) and Paul Kemsley. George and Jessica de Rothschild will executive produce.

George becomes the latest superstar to get screen treatment, this after Freddie Mercury and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody grossed north of $900 million with an Oscar for Rami Malek and a Best Picture nomination. The Dexter Fletcher-directed Elton John biopic Rocketman is coming Friday with Taron Egerton playing the singer.

It’s the second big musical biopic for MGM, which has an Aretha Franklin film where the Queen of Soul herself tapped Jennifer Hudson to star.

The untitled Boy George film will explore his humble beginnings in an Irish a working-class family, through his...

After making a scary splash on the festival circuit, it was recently reported that Demián Rugna's Terrified (aka Aterrados) will be remade as an English-language movie produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Rugna, and now the screenwriter for the film has been revealed.

According to multiple sources, including Deadline, Sacha Gervasi has been set to write the English-language remake of Rugna's Terrified (Rugna also wrote the screenplay of his original movie) for Fox Searchlight, where del Toro has a deal to develop horror, sci-fi, and fantasy films.

An acclaimed filmmaker in his own right, Gervasi directed the award-winning documentary 2008's Anvil: The Story of Anvil, 2012's Hitchcock (which explored the life of Alfred Hitchcock during the making of Psycho), and 2017's November Criminals.

For those unfamiliar with Terrified, here's the synopsis (via Shudder): "On an ordinary suburban street in Buenos Aires, voices are heard from kitchen sinks.

“Game of Thrones” aside, Peter Dinklage is not one for epics — in his last two films, he largely starred opposite only one other person. “Obviously, it depends on who you’re working with,” he said. “But if you’re lucky to work with [Jamie Dornan] or Elle Fanning, it’s a joy. That’s all I want to do for the rest of my career, just two people,” he said.

Thus, he’s prioritizing working with a director like Reed Morano on the post-apocalyptic indie film “I Think We’re Alone Now,” or bringing to life the eccentric and fascinating Hervé Villechaize for passion project “My Dinner With Hervé,” the upcoming HBO original film about the days leading up to the death of the “Fantasy Island” star.

Jamie Dornan co-stars in the role of a fictional London journalist who serves as an analog for director Sacha Gervasi (“Anvil: The Story of Anvil...

HBO has released a new trailer for Peter Dinklage's upcoming film My Dinner with Hervé. Dinklage plays the famous French dwarf actor Herve Villechaize, who is best known for his roles in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and Tattoo from the classic series Fantasy Island.

The film centers around the unlikely friendship that "evolves over one wild night in La between a struggling journalist (Jamie Dornan) and actor Hervé Villechaize (Dinklage), resulting in life-changing consequences for both."

This new trailer offers us a much better look at the story and the movie looks great! Dinklage is going to give an extremely fun performance in this film!

The movie was directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil: The Story of Anvil, Hitchcock, November Criminals) and also stars Andy Garcia, Mireille Enos, Oona Chaplin, Helena Mattsson, and Harriet Walter. 

The movie premieres on HBO on October 20th.

HBO has released the first teaser trailer for a new film called My Dinner with Hervé. The film stars Peter Dinklage in the role of the famous French dwarf actor Herve Villechaize, who many of you will know from the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun or Tattoo from the series Fantasy Island.

The film centers around the unlikely friendship that "evolves over one wild night in La between a struggling journalist (Jamie Dornan) and actor Hervé Villechaize (Dinklage), resulting in life-changing consequences for both."

The first trailer gives a good sense of the tone and vibe of the film, but it doesn't offer much other than set up the crazy story. I'm intrigued though, and it looks like it could be a great movie! There's no doubt that Dinklage is going to be awesome in this role that he plays. 

The movie was directed by Sacha Gervasi...

Now retired as Christian Grey, Jamie Dornan needs something else to do — so why not co-star with Peter Dinklage in “My Dinner With Hervé,” a new biopic set to debut this October on HBO?

In the 30-second teaser trailer below, the premise of HBO’s latest biopic gets laid out pretty cleanly: Danny Tate (Dornan) is a journalist assigned to speak with Villechaize (Dinklage), “the most famous dwarf in the world.” Villechaize promises he has a story to tell about his life as the star of projects including “The Man With the Golden Gun” and “Fantasy Island.”

While Dinklage does not share Villechaize’s French/Filipino heritage, he is a two-time Emmy winner for his work on “Game of Thrones” and seems committed to mastering the accent work involved. Per HBO, the cast also includes:

Mireille Enos as Hervé’s longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self; Harriet Walter as Danny’s newspaper editor,...

A privileged teen ventures onto the wrong side of the tracks, and a would-be murder mystery veers into ever-more-faux dramatic territory in November Criminals, the third film by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil: The Story of Anvil, Hitchcock). The starry chemistry of leads Ansel Elgort and Chloë Grace Moretz injects a modicum of energy into the coming-of-age drama, whose elements of romance, crime and smart-kid angst never coalesce.

Beyond the movie's missing sense of urgency, it strands David Strathairn and especially Catherine Keener on the sidelines of the narrative clutter. The feature was released to digital streaming outlets in advance of a theatrical run that's sure...

"My friend just got killed... You can't expect me just to sit around and not do anything about it!" Sony has debuted the first official trailer for a crime drama titled November Criminals, from the director of Anvil: The Story of Anvil and Hitchcock previously. Adapted from Sam Munson's novel of the same name, the story is about a high schooler who takes on his own investigation of a murder in Washington D.C. The film stars Ansel Elgort and Chloe Grace Moretz, along with Catherine Keener, David Strathairn, Cory Hardrict, Terry Kinney, Danny Flaherty, Victor Williams, and Tessa Albertson. Maybe it is just because I'm seeing Ansel Elgort once again, but this reminds me of so many other films recently, including Paper Towns and Netflix's "13 Reasons Why". Here's to hoping it's good, but I'm not entirely sure just yet. Here's the first official trailer for Sacha Gervasi's November Criminals,...

Sometimes, persistence pays off, and director Sacha Gervasi‘s (“Anvil: The Story Of Anvil,” “Hitchcock“) and star Peter Dinklage never gave up on My Dinner With Hervé.” The project has been in the works for years, but this year saw the stars align and the movie get in front of cameras, with Jamie Dornan joining the cast. And now we have a colorful first look at the movie.

Continue reading First Look: Peter Dinklage & Jamie Dornan In ‘My Dinner With Hervé’ at The Playlist.

Geez, it’s been a good half decade since we heard anything about “My Dinner With Hervé,” director Sacha Gervasi‘s (“Anvil: The Story Of Anvil,” “Hitchcock“) forever developing dream project that has suffered more than a few false starts. But it looks like things are once again rolling.

Deadline reveals that Jamie Dornan has signed up to star opposite the long-attached Peter Dinklage in the picture, which is set up at HBO.

Continue reading Jamie Dornan Latest To Board Long-Developing ‘My Dinner With Hervé’ Starring Peter Dinklage at The Playlist.

We Are X is the best documentary about a band you've probably never heard of but might be your new favourite. Seriously though, Stephen Kijak's documentary falls somewhere between Anvil: The Story of Anvil and This Is Spinal Tap.

Japan in the 1980s was exactly as you image it: buttoned down, proper and soft spoken. And then in 1982 a musical prodigy by the name of Yoshiki along with his best friend Toshi, started a metal band. We're talking big hair, make-up, outfits and speed metal the likes of which Japan had never seen. And they were a sensation.

But the band's masterminds were never satisfied with just one sound and over the years they have experimented leading to even more fandom and critical acclaim but also to trouble from within.

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Michael Gudinski.s Mushroom group is re-activating its theatrical distribution arm, kicking off with the documentaries Unity and Heaven Adores Us.

Writer-director Shaun Monsoon.s Unity explores the themes of love, tragedy and hope as it examines humanity.s impact on the world.

The cast of 100 narrators includes Ellen DeGeneres, Geoffrey Rush, Jennifer Aniston, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Spacey, Helen Mirren, Amanda Seyfried, Rose Byrne, Minnie Driver, Missy Higgins, Moby, Olivia Wilde, Phil Donahue, Portia de Rossi and Susan Sarandon.

Mushroom Distribution has booked 21 cinemas and the limited season begins on August 12 in a simultaneous worldwide release.

The venues include the Jam Factory, Cinema Nova and Rivoli in Melbourne; Event Cinemas George Street, Palace Cinemas Leichardt and the Chauvel in Sydney; Palace Centro in Brisbane; Palace East End in Adelaide; and Cinema Paradiso in Perth. A New Zealand season will follow.

Mushroom.s Kate Gudinski decided to buy the rights for...

By Anjelica Oswald

Managing Editor

After narrowing the Oscar documentary feature shortlist to five at the 87th Academy Award nominations Jan. 15, a number of notable exclusions were featured, particularly Al Hicks‘ Keep on Keepin’ On, which documents the mentorship and friendship of a jazz legend and a blind piano prodigy, and Steve James‘ Life Itself, about the life and career of famed film critic Roger Ebert. (James is no stranger to snubs and the exclusion of his 1994 film Hoop Dreams led to rule reform within the documentary category.) Both films hold 97 percent positive ratings on Rotten Tomatoes.

Some films surprised when they didn’t even land a spot on the shortlist, such as Red Army, which examines the rise and fall of the Soviet Union’s hockey team from the perspective of its coach. That film holds a 100 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

In light of these best documentary feature snubs,...

After making quite an impression on audiences in The Fault in Our Stars, and even Men, Women & Children, along with a key supporting role in The Divergent Series, young star Ansel Elgort is keeping the momentum going with a starring role alongside Chloe Grace Moretz in November Criminals. We first heard about the project in 2013 when Hitchock and Anvil: The Story of Anvil director Sacha Gervasi boarded the project based on Sam Munson's novel of the same name, with Locke and Eastern Promises writer Steven Knight adapting the book for the big screen. So what's the novel about anyway? Details below! Here's the official synopsis of the book: For a high school senior, Addison Schacht has a lot of preoccupations. Like getting into college. Selling drugs to his classmates. His complicated relationship with his best friend (Not his girlfriend) Digger. And he's just added another to the list: the murder of his classmate Kevin Broadus,...

My look at 2014 continues as I review the best documentaries of 2014. Documentaries can serve a multitude of purposes. You will have your change the world docs that pick a certain cause and attempt to spread the word so people will rise up and do something. You have those that are just about a particular story that is just too incredible to believe. You also have those experimental docs that are all about playing with the perimeters with film and experience. My list covers those categories and much more. It shows documentaries can really be used to do just about anything.

10. Kids for Cash Directed By: Robert May

Synopsis: Kids For Cash is a riveting look behind the notorious judicial scandal that rocked the nation. Beyond the millions paid and high stakes corruption, Kids For Cash exposes a shocking American secret. In the wake of the shootings at Columbine, a small...

It is that time again as 2014 is already half over. Wow, time flies when you are watching movies. The year being half over brings my annual, “Top 10 Movies of the Year…So Far” list, and without question this is my strongest list by a long shot. One big reason is the increase of great titles that have been released On Demand. Half of my list in fact is made up of films I saw On Demand. Now I am all for supporting your local Art House Theater as much as possible, but certain films don’t make it outside of La and New York so On Demand is a great tool to experience some great Independent movies. I feel like geek culture is far too obsessed with franchises that stick to the same format over and over again. I enjoy franchise movies as well, as you will see on this list,...

New Release

Finding Vivian Maier

Not Rated, 1 Hr., 23 Mins.

More connect-the-dots detective thriller than traditional doc, John Maloof and Charlie Siskel’s revelatory riddle of a film unmasks a brilliant photographer who hid in plain sight for decades working as an eccentric French nanny. Her name was Vivian Maier, and judging from her haunting, humorous, and long-unseen street portraits, she was like Mary Poppins living a double life as Diane Arbus. (Also available on VOD) A- —Chris Nashawaty

Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil le Clercq

Not Rated, 1 Hr., 31 Mins.

A spooky, heartbreaking documentary about Tanny le Clercq, the solemnly intoxicating...

Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 20 Feb 2014 - 05:40

The unloved films of 2009 provide the focus in our final list of the 2000s' overlooked greats...

The year 2009 will partly be remembered as the year Avatar dominating the box office, with audiences flocking to see James Cameron's leafy pulp epic in shimmering 3D. Making almost $2.8bn worldwide, Avatar was a true behemoth, besting Cameron's own Titanic as the highest-grossing film of all time (not adjusted for inflation) and hastening a rush of 3D films in the years that followed.

Films such as 2012, Sherlock Holmes and boozy comedy The Hangover were also among the top 10, but as always, some of the most memorable and individual films of the year were far from the most financially successful. So to round off our series of underrated flicks of the 2000s, here's our selection of 2009's overlooked films...

25. A Perfect Getaway

A really good,...