Kantemir Balagov Set to Helm The Last of Us Series Pilot
Though initially setting Johan Renck to helm the pilot, marking a reunion between the
Chernobyl director and creator Craig Mazin, HBO has tapped Kantemir Balagov (
Beanpole) to helm the first episode of
The Last of Us series adaptation as Renck has exited due to a scheduling conflict, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Last of Usis an action-adventure survival horror video game that is played from a third-person perspective. It was developed by the Santa Monica-based video game developer Naughty Dog, who is also best known for creating the
PSIFF cancellation causes financial burden to local businesses
Around this time of year organizers would be gearing up for one of the Coachella Valley s most anticipated events, The Palm Springs International Film Festival. The event is known to attract some of Hollywood s most prominent A-listers. To name a few, Jennifer Lopez, Adam Driver and Antonio Banderas were among those to attend the festival in 2020.
In November organizers announced its cancellation for 2021, adding to the long list of shuttered events in the Coachella Valley from the coronavirus pandemic. But it s not just the events themselves that are losing out. Cancellations are trickling down to other industries that usually bank on this time of year.
Lee a Bafta outstanding British film nominee with his low-budget debut feature
God’s Own Country steps up to bigger scale and cast names with this 1840s-set drama about real-life English fossil hunter Mary Anning. Oscar and triple Bafta winner Kate Winslet stars opposite multiple Oscar and Bafta nominee Saoirse Ronan in a fictionalised romantic drama that was selected for Cannes, Telluride and Toronto, and released by Neon in the US. Producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman of See Saw Films won the best picture Oscar for
The King’s Speech.
Another Round Awarded the Cannes 2020 official selection label before its Toronto world premiere,
Scott Marshall Smith
Scott Marshall Smith, who wrote the screenplays for the Robert De Niro-starring features
Men of Honor and
Smith co-wrote
When the Game Stands Tall (2014), a movie about the De La Salle High School football team in Concord, California, that won a record 151 straight games from 1992-2004. The film starred Jim Caviezel and was directed by Thomas Carter.
He also wrote, directed and produced
Camera Store (2017), which featured John Larroquette and John Rhys-Davies and premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Smith spent more than two decades trying to get the film made.
Smith worked on more than 40 screenplays, for just about every major studio, during his career.
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Vikas Khanna
Mumbai– Filmmaker-chef Vikas Khanna says he made a promise to actress Neena Gupta to get her picture on the billboards of New York, and is glad he kept it.
Khanna’s debut feature film as director, “The Last Color”, has released, and the billboards are up in New York.
“I had promised Neena ji that when ‘The Last Color’ comes out, her picture in the beautiful pink colour will be on New York Times Square billboards,” Vikas said.
“As we release the film for everyone to witness this story of hope and promise, I, too, am going back to fulfil my promises and share with everyone this story with the ever-talented Neena ji,” he added.