Christopher Nolan, Edgar Wright, Steve McQueen & More Warn That UK Cinema Is “On The Edge Of An Abyss”

As you’ve probably heard, English filmmaker Edgar Wright—in the hope of backing the entire film industry and film publications—has curated the new issue of Empire magazine. The idea is celebrating movies in every aspect, theatergoing, etc., and Wright has really been leading the charge over in the U.K.

Edgar Wright‘s upcoming Sparks documentary The Sparks Brothers has been given a first proper look in a new two-minute-long clip.The film, which has just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, takes a look at the 50-year career of the Los Angeles-based group, formed by brothers Ron and Russell Mael.The clip was shared by Wright on his Twitter page, the Hot Fuzz director writing: “I’m so excited for those attending to see my three-years-in-the-making doc on legendary band @sparksofficial.

To call a portrait documentary an “affectionate tribute” to its lesser-known subject, is usually redundant. That’s the whole point of adoring acknowledgment docs of this ilk— “shining a brighter spotlight” on [insert criminally undervalued subject here].

Edgar Wright has spent a lot of his time (and other people's) talking about beloved cult pop duo Sparks. "If you talked to any of my friends they’d say that if I’d got onto Sparks they’d be there for the next hour while I was trying to explain to them how amazing Sparks was," he says.

evolution in talking about Sparks’ early music, we’ll see one or two seconds of a butterfly coming out of a cocoon, and if we’re told that their second album was more experimental than their first, here’s a shot of a car driving off a cliff.The obvious questions aren’t addressed in the slightest.

Jessica Kiang How to introduce an entity as mercurial as Sparks, the band that forms the subject of Edgar Wright’s fantastic, fond, fizzy documentary portrait, to those who don’t know them? With over five decades and 25 albums’ worth of music, sibling frontmen Ron and Russell Mael have been virtually the only constant in a group whose lineup has changed with roughly the frequency of iPhone updates, and whose sound pinballs around the pop-musical map, from glam-rock to prog-rock to electro to

Edgar Wright, the British director behind Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver, is a big fan of Sparks, the enigmatic pop band known for hits such as This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us and When Do I Get To Sing ‘My Way’.

Ever heard of the band Sparks? If you haven’t, you’re not alone. If you have, it’s not unlikely that they’re one of your favorite bands.The pop rock duo formed by brothers Ron and Russell Mael has in their five-decade run gained a cult following of some seriously creative people, from Beck and Weird Al to Mike Myers and Amy Sherman-Palladino.

Baby Driver 2 is now complete.Speaking to Variety ahead of the release of his new documentary, The Sparks Brothers, Wright revealed that the follow up to the 2017 action-comedy was written and complete.Wright said: “It’s written.

Chris Willman Music WriterWhen did I get on board?” filmmaker Edgar Wright asks himself, repeating the question about when, over Sparks’ five-decade career, he first took a liking to the band. “I saw Sparks for the first time on TV when I was 5.

In the early 2000s, every moody teenager prided themself in being able to explain the plot of “Donnie Darko,” Richard Kelly‘s metaphysical film starring Jake Gyllenhaal about a kid who befriends a mysterious figure who tells him he has 28 days to save the world. Now, in a new oral history of the film, Kelly reveals that the notoriously confusing timeline in “Donnie Darko” was made clearer with the help of a certain Christopher Edward Nolan.

Last Night in Soho has been delayed again, now to October, Variety reports.The psychological thriller was originally due for release in September 2020, and was then rescheduled for April 2021.

In the early 2000s, every moody teenager prided themself in being able to explain the plot of “Donnie Darko,” Richard Kelly‘s metaphysical film starring Jake Gyllenhaal about a kid who befriends a mysterious figure who tells him he has 28 days to save the world. Now, in a new oral history of the film, Kelly reveals that the notoriously confusing timeline in “Donnie Darko” was made clearer with the help of a certain Christopher Edward Nolan.

entire slate of 2021 movies simultaneously in cinemas and on HBO Max.Now, in a new article in the Wall Street Journal, a source reportedly “connected to the matter” has claimed Nolan is said to be so disappointed with their “hybrid distribution strategy” that he looks set to bring their 18 years of collaborating together to a close.The Wall Street Journal wrote: “After spending years as a top Warner Bros.

Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly has said he received one key piece of advice from Christopher Nolan ahead of the film’s release that made the time-travel classic easier to follow.Kelly’s 2001 film reached its 20th anniversary this week (January 19), and to celebrate the landmark Kelly took part in a new oral history of the film.In the piece published on The Ringer, Kelly said that it was Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas’ idea to include the parenthetical title cards below the date every time

Chris Willman Music WriterA conversation between the rock group Sparks and the filmmaker who has made a movie about them, Edgar Wright, is be one of the standout draws of this year’s Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe, which, along with the host festival itself, has moved off Park City’s Main Street and online for 2021.Wright’s documentary “The Sparks Brothers,” about the five-decade musical career of Ron and Russell Mael, is one of the more eagerly anticipated titles of this year’s Sundance Film

Angelique Jackson Universal Pictures and Focus Features have juggled a couple key releases on their 2021-2022 schedule.Just a month ahead of its planned Feb.

Maybe we should call Sony‘s “Morbius” a trailblazer. Look, it’s pretty common knowledge/conventional wisdom that theaters aren’t going to be clear of the COVID-19 pandemic til at least July.

When the news was released that WarnerMedia decided to shift the entire 2021 Warner Bros. film slate to a day-and-date deal with HBO Max and theaters, the reaction from filmmakers came quickly.

Tenet in Mumbai, a city that left a huge impression on him.He told India’s IANS news agency that he plans to film more in the country and work with actors there. “I really had a tremendous experience,” he said of shooting Tenet in Mumbai.