Following last year’s acclaimed Arrival, director Denis Villeneuve is sticking with the sci-fi genre for his next offering, stepping into Ridley Scott’s shoes to helm the highly-anticipated sequel Blade Runner 2049. Villeneuve has been chatting to Variety about the film, and in particular, his emphasis on using practical effects over CGI.“I’m very old school,” said […]
Denis Villeneuve officially signs on for the Dune reboot
Denis Villeneuve has really hit the sci-fi genre recently with his highly-acclaimed film Arrival and the much anticipated Blade Runner 2049. Now, the director has officially signed on to bring the long discussed Dune reboot to life for Legendary Pictures.The news came from Brian Hebert, son of series creator Frank Herbert, over Twitter. Brian has followed in his father’s footsteps and […]
52nd Chicago International Film Festival Review – Arrival (2016)
Arrival, 2016.Directed by Denis Villeneuve Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien and Tzi MaSYNOPSIS:A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications.Director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Prisoners) continues his hot-streak of English language speaking films (and his hot-streak of film-making in general) with Arrival, possibly one of […]
Movie Review – Arrival (2016)
Arrival, 2016. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien and Tzi Ma. SYNOPSIS: Dr. Louise Banks, a celebrated linguist reeling from personal tragedy, is called in by the military to decode the language of an alien civilisation when a strange spacecraft lands in Montana… There’s a human […]
Movie Review – Arrival (2016)
Arrival, 2016.Directed by Denis Villeneuve Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien and Tzi Ma.SYNOPSIS:When mysterious flying spacecrafts touch down around the globe, a team of experts are briefed with the task of cracking the code of exactly why they are here…With Arrival, Dennis Villeneuve has managed to pull off that […]
Blade Runner sequel officially titled Blade Runner 2049
One year from today the highly anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner will come out in theaters and now we have an official title: Blade Runner 2049.Very little is known about the long-gestating film, but director Denis Villeneuve revealed to Entertainment Weekly that the film will take place decades after the original and will again be set […]
Movie Review – Arrival (2016)
Arrival, 2016. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien and Tzi Ma. SYNOPSIS: A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications If aliens landed on earth, how would we react and how would we try to communicate with them? This is […]
Exclusive Video Interviews: Denis Villeneuve and Josh Brolin on Sicario
To coincide with the upcoming release of Sicario on DVD and Blu-ray on February 1st, we’ve got a couple of exclusive video interviews with director Denis Villeneuve and star Josh Brolin; check them out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db68sMPozrk https://youtu.be/13N_Gkp3rvU In Mexico, SICARIO means hitman. In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic […]
Denis Villeneuve on the pressure of directing the Blade Runner sequel
Appearing at the Venice Film Festival where his latest film Arrival premiered in competition, Canadian director Denis Villeneuve has been speaking about his next sci-fi project, the as-yet-untitled sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, and the pressure he feels as he attempts to follow one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time. “First of all, […]
Jake Gyllenhaal and Denis Villeneuve reuniting for Jo Nesbo’s The Son
Having collaborated on both Prisoners and Enemy, director Denis Villeneueve and star Jake Gyllenhaal are set to reunite for an adaptation of Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo’s The Son.Variety reports that the project follows “a once-gifted 15-year-old and promising wrestler, whose life spirals out of control when his cop father commits suicide. He winds up […]
