‘Good Joe Bell’ Film Review: Mark Wahlberg Hits the Road to Make You Cry

In a Mexico City recording studio in 1999, the planets aligned. At the center of the jubilant cross-cultural, intergenerational music sessions was Francisco Fellove Valdés, stage name El Gran Fellove, who half a century earlier had combined Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz to create a new style of scat singing.

Machetes, myths and murky storytelling all find their way into Tragic Jungle (Selva Trágica), the lushly made, if highly enigmatic, fifth feature from Mexican writer-director Yulene Olaizola (Fogo), which screened in the main slate of the New York Film Festival after premiering in the Horizons section in Venice.

Netflix had no film titles at the Toronto Film Festival this year but set the tone at the virtual sales market by buying the Zendaya starrer Malcolm & Marie for $30 million, paying $20 million for Halle Berry’s directorial debut, Bruised, and an undisclosed sum for Pieces of a Woman, which stars Shia LaBeouf and The Crown star Vanessa Kirby, after its Venice debut.

The catty screeches of the smashed birthday partying queers in Mart Crowley’s Off-Broadway play “The Boys in the Band” were not merely sliver-sharp gibes and ice pic-like verbal jabs for their own sake. They were, rather, frayed confessions of self-loathing, a velvet rage that had curdled into shouts that were partially enough to mobilize gay and queer men to assert their identities in an unwelcome world.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorTerry Curtin has joined Solstice Studios as EVP of Communications.She replaces Elissa Greer, who has segued to the role of lead communications consultant on the studio’s next release, the Mark Wahlberg drama Good Joe Bell, which Solstice recently snapped up at TIFF for $20M as Deadline first reported.Curtin will report to Vincent Bruzzese, Head of Marketing & Strategy, and will oversee all aspects of film publicity and promotion as well as

Scoob! goes straight to the top of the Official Film Chart on digital downloads only.

Mark Wahlberg is giving back to teachers and students across the United States.

As the news media put it so dismissively in headlines after the Manson Family murders, actress Sharon Tate was murdered along with "four others." Those "others" were in fact Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Steven Parent and Jay Sebring. The latter is the subject of the documentary Jay Sebring….Cutting to the Truth, directed by Anthony DiMaria.

Mark Wahlberg‘s Performance Inspired brand has teamed up with Accelerate‘s active lifestyle marketplace and community LifeToGo to help out students and teachers amid the coronavirus pandemic.The companies announced on Tuesday, September 22, that they have already donated 1.3 million disposable face masks to schools in 13 different states.Wahlberg, 49, recorded a special video message thanking essential workers and teachers.“You guys have kept us healthy, safe and supplied us with all the

Solstice Studios has sealed a deal for worldwide rights to filmmaker Reinaldo Green Marcus' Good Joe Bell, a drama starring Mark Wahlberg and written by the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain duo Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. The pact — valued at $20 million — comes on the heels of the film's Sept.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSolstice Studios has bought the worldwide rights to the drama “Good Joe Bell,” starring Mark Wahlberg, for about $20 million, a source has confirmed to Variety.“Good Joe Bell,” directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, premiered Sept. 13 at the virtual Toronto International Film Festival.

Also Read: Connie Britton Says 'Good Joe Bell' Can Teach 'How to Be Better Allies' (Video)Solstice is a new distribution house that launched this summer on the back of the Russell Crowe thriller “Unhinged,” making a point to be the first movie released in theaters ahead of even films like “Tenet,” “The New Mutants” or “Bill & Ted Face the Music.” “Unhinged” thus far has brought in $26.4 million worldwide after opening domestically on Aug.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Upstart Solstice Studios has won an auction for the Toronto buzz title Good Joe Bell, the Reinaldo Marcus Green-directed drama scripted by the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain team of Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. The film stars Mark Wahlberg as the title character.

Mark Wahlberg is hard at work on his new movie!

Also Read: 'Good Joe Bell' Film Review: Mark Wahlberg Hits the Road to Make You CryMiller, who plays her son in the film, said he could relate to his character Jadin because he too felt like an outsider in his own school growing up.“I grew up in a few small towns that were very sports oriented, I don’t know if you can tell but I am very much not an athlete, and I was always interested in things that didn’t interest them, specifically the arts, filmmaking, and being creative in general wasn’t

Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, one of Venice’s two Career Golden Lion recipients this year alongside Tilda Swinton, brings prewar Hong Kong to exquisite if restrained life in her latest historical drama, Love After Love (Di Yu Lu Xiang).

The sprawling plains of Idaho and Utah, their tufted prairies dappled by cloud-filtered light and edged by craggy mountains, provide a spiritual setting for bruising personal reflection in Good Joe Bell.