With the Oscars and the Golden Globes overlooking female directors this year, it was the Independent Spirit Awards who outdid them by handing its Best Feature award to Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, Best First Feature to Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart and Best Documentary to Julia Reichert’s American Factory.
“We’re so much…
Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe had never worked together before they found themselves in a remote part of Nova Scotia being battered by wind, rain and sea on the shoot for Robert Eggers' Lovecraftian horror The Lighthouse. They came from different worlds to create the movie's only two characters; Pattinson, a…
For sound designer Damian Volpe, The Lighthouse was impossible to resist. Centered on two 19th century lighthouse keepers driven to madness, while stranded on a remote Atlantic isle, the latest from Volpe’s frequent collaborator Robert Eggers was simply rife with sonic opportunity.
Working with a limited set of…
UPDATED with actuals and adjustments. All was fairly quiet on the specialty box office front the weekend before Thanksgiving. Todd Haynes’ legal thriller Dark Watershas played well with critics as it sits at a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, and it has the potential to reach the masses. This weekend, the awards season…
A24’s Adam Sandler thriller Uncut Gemsand Robert Eggers’ spooky black-and-white movie The Lighthouseled the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations Thursday morning with five noms apiece, followed by Amazon’s Honey Boyscripted by Shia LeBeouf and based on his rocky childhood.
For a fourth straight year, A24 lead…
Robert Eggers made a black & white movie — literally. Meaning, we’re not talking digital. He shot in 35MM Double-X black and white, a negative that hasn’t changed since the 1950s for his two-hander New England ghost story starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe.
In the color era, no matter what the year, it’s…
Robert Pattinson found incredible fame in the Twilight movies, and he is about to jump into another iconic franchise as he takes on the title role in The Batman. But as he explains in this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, it still is challenging independent cinema that seems to draw his…
UPDATED with additional and adjusted grosses. All was fairly quiet on the specialty box office front for the first weekend of November when it came to new releases. That gave the opportunity for Neon’s critically-acclaimed Parasiteto flourish even more, and the Fox Searchlight’s World War II satire Jojo Rabbit to…
When Robert Eggers approached cinematographer Jarin Blaschke with The Lighthouse, he had a quite specific vision for how this riotous psychological thriller would look and feel. "It is briny. It feels old and crusty. The term he used was, 'It's black and white, with a cherry on top,'" the DP explains. "All I could…
There will be few more original and zany movies on the awards circuit this year than Robert Eggers' gothic horror The Lighthouse, the hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star in the monochrome Cannes…
UPDATED with adjusted and final grosses. In a busy weekend at the box office — specialty and otherwise — Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit moved ahead of the class. Opening in New York and Los Angeles in a total of five theaters, the World War II satire earned an estimated $350,000 for the weekend, with a per-screen average…
With just two feature films to his credit as a director, Robert Eggers proves himself to be a master of mood, atmosphere and psychological horror. First came 2015’s acclaimed 17th century-set gothic tale The Witch, and now get ready for The Lighthouse, yet another brooding period thriller unlike anything anyone else…
