EXCLUSIVE: Magic Lantern is billed as a story of love, obsession and cinema and is the first LA-shot movie from influential Iranian filmmaker Amir Naderi. The official Venice Film Festival screening is tomorrow here on the Lido where Naderi won the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award in 2016. It’s running in…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set the Man Booker Prize-winning Aravind Adiga novel The White Tiger as a feature film. The novel is being adapted by Ramin Bahrani, who intends to make it his next directorial outing. Bahrani most recently directed 99 Homes, and he recently wrapped an adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenh…
Director Ramin Bahrani rejected TV critics’ efforts to describe his adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian ’50s novel Fahrenheit 451 as a condemnation of President Donald Trump.
Blame Google, blame Facebook, blame your smartphone – we’re all culpable, he insisted.
“I don’t want to focus so much on him,” Bahrani said…
EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed acclaimed filmmaker Ramin Bahrani. The versatile Bahrani has a string of well-regarded indie credits and has established himself as one of the freshest voices in contemporary American cinema.
Most recently he wrote and directed the critically lauded feature 99 Homes. The film, which starred…
The economic and social ramifications of the Great Recession were very much on display in 99 Homes at our all-day The Contenders awards-season event November 7 at the DGA. Kicking off Broad Green Pictures’ portion of the day, director Ramin Bahrani told the packed house about the extensive research and preparation he…
Writer-director Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes was awarded the Grand Prize today at the Deauville American Film Festival. Starring Michael Shannon, Andrew Garfield and Laura Dern, the movie opens September 25 via Broad Green Pictures.
In the topical thriller, Shannon plays a shrewd and ruthless businessman who makes a…
One of the more talked-about and higher-profile movies that played the 2014 fall festival trifecta of Venice/Telluride/Toronto was director Ramin Bahrani’s intensely riveting 99 Homes. More that one year later, it finally is going to be released into theaters through new distributor Broad Green Pictures, and the…
Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes has made the festival rounds from Venice to Telluride to Toronto en route to Sundance, where it screened January 23.
The director/co-writer talks about reaction to his film at various events and his personal connection to the Park City fest, where he became a mentor at the Sundance Institute…
Prepping his Venice Competition title 99 Homes, helmer Ramin Bahrani says he was made “dizzy by the corruption” in the Florida foreclosure system. The film is set in 2010 Orlando and follows Andrew Garfield as an unemployed construction worker and single father whose family loses its home. Michael Shannon, who was…
