Screen Gems is producing Gareth Evans» intense action - thriller just won
the Midnight Madness audience award at the Toronto Film Festival.
It's just the kind of super campy fun the TIFF
Midnight Madness audience will love.
Not exact matches
The
audience received
Midnight Madness favorite son Eli Roth like a king, and after some winning showmanship he gave them their money's worth with his first film in six years (what kept him?).
Cast: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits Program:
Midnight Madness Headline: A night at the meta Noel's Take: It's awfully easy for a self - aware, super-violent black comedy to curdle, using its winking at the
audience as a lazy justification for clichés and titillation.
«Hardcore» won the
audience award in the
Midnight Madness section, while «Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom» won the documentary award.
For
audiences who saw Free Fire at the Toronto International Film Festival
Midnight Madness, it was the first time they saw Brie Larson in action.
Midnight Madness has established a lot of new filmmakers to
audiences over the years.
A couple of its more peripheral niche sections —
Midnight Madness (genre movies from horror to martial arts, presented with plenty of showmanship) and Wavelengths (experimental film, meticulously presented with care and respect)-- have carved out strong identities and
audience followings for themselves.
After a rousing screening in the
Midnight Madness program at TIFF, Big Game is starting to roll out to commercial
audiences.