Hoping to emulate the success he had the last time he was given this prestige slot, Damien Chazelle’s First Man has been announced as the opening night film at this years Venice Film Festival. In the past, Chazelle’s own La La Land has joined the likes of Birdman and Gravity, by opening the festival, before going on to […]
Trailer lands for Damien Chazelle’s First Man starring Ryan Gosling
With the poster for First Man entering Earth’s atmosphere yesterday, it was only a matter of time before the trailer for Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling’s La La Land reteam would dock in media players around the world, and now you can watch it in all its glory below. On the heels of their six-time […]
Ryan Gosling is Neil Armstrong in first images from First Man
As we get closer to its release, Universal Pictures has released, via People Magazine, the first batch of images from the upcoming biopic First Man starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstong. Teaming up again with his La La Land director Damien Chazelle, the film will explore Armstrong’s life up to becoming the first man to ever step foot […]
Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong biopic First Man gets an official synopsis
La La Land director Damien Chazelle is set to reunite with leading man Ryan Gosling later this year for First Man, a biopic of Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon. Here’s the official synopsis, courtesy of Universal: On the heels of their six-time Academy Award-winning smash, La La Land, Oscar-winning […]
Damien Chazelle drama gets series order from Apple TV
Following the news that Meryl Streep is heading to the television for season two of Big Little Lies, we get further proof that small screen credibility has never been higher, with Variety‘s scoop that Whiplash and La La Land director Damien Chazelle has just been given a series order from Apple TV. There are no […]
Damien Chazelle teams with Netflix for musical drama series The Eddy
Netflix is teaming with Oscar-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle (La La Land) for a musical drama series entitled The Eddy, which will revolve around the owner and house band of a club in contemporary Paris. The eight episode series has been penned by Jack Thorne (This Is England) and will be executive produced by Chazelle, who […]
Damien Chazelle’s First Man adds Jon Bernthal to its cast
Jon Bernthal can soon add Damien Chazelle’s name to the list of Oscar-winning filmmakers he’s worked with (a list that includes Oliver Stone, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese and Steve McQueen), as the former Walking Dead actor is the latest addition to the cast of the director’s upcoming Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man. The Tracking Board broke […]
Ericson Core to direct Damien Chazelle thriller The Claim
Ericson Core, director of the Point Break remake, has signed on to helm The Claim, a thriller scripted by Oscar winner Damien Chazelle, which is being produced by Scott Clayton of Oceanside Media and Russell Levine of Route One Entertainment. “Ericson has an inimitable level of skill behind the camera as a director and cinematographer. […]
The directors who can take cinema forward over the next decade
Tom Jolliffe on the directors who can take cinema forward over the next decade… There’s a cinematic crossroads on the horizon. As the market gets swallowed up by a core consumer taste leaning toward spandex and radioactive arachnid bites, there’s a need for modern thinking, engaging directors to offer something different. After all, there’s only […]
UPDATE: Kyle Chandler and Corey Stoll join Damien Chazelle’s First Man
Director Damien Chazelle has found another actor for his next film First Man. Per Deadline, Bloodline‘s Kyle Chandler will star as astronaut Deke Slayton, who was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and later became NASA’s Director of Flight Crew Operations. He joins Ryan Gosling, who will be playing the first man to step on the […]