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Spotlight on a 2021 Oscar nominee

The SPYFLIX Spotlight Series has begun! This week’s release is the 2021 Oscar-nominated short, The Letter Room, directed by Elvira Lind and starring her Star Wars actor hubby, Oscar Isaac (more on him later). The film is about a corrections officer who finds escape in the deeply personal letters written to an inmate on death row. 

 

MEET ELVIRA LIND

 

VFX secrets revealed

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Inception didn’t just bend the minds of movie goers, it left an entire industry in awe of its groundbreaking blend of VFX, in-camera footage and massive mirrors. The guys from British VFX house DNEG, the team Nolan entrusted with his extraordinary vision, recently sat down with Ralph Jones at Inverse to reveal Inception’s secrets. 

 

INSIDE VISUAL AWESOMENESS 

 

Secrets are the new black

Paramount+ has Kiefer Sutherland and Netflix has Noah Centineo slated to lead spy shows. McG’s directing a TV reboot of James Cameron’s blockbuster True Lies. Harrison Ford will lead the spy flick Official Secrets. Spielberg bought film rights for best-seller The Thursday Murder Club. Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol is Peacock-bound. Amazon might buy James Bond’s studio MGM for $9B. Clearly, secrets are where it’s at. 

 

MORE SECRETS BUZZ

 

Counter intelligence revealed

Paul Schrader’s crime drama The Card Counter will hit theaters this fall. Finally. The COVID 19-delayed film stars Oscar Isaac (husband of The Letter Room director Elvira Lind), as well as Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe. The revenge thriller is executive produced by Martin Scorsese, with whom Schrader also collaborated on Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and other films. 

 

SCHRADER AND ISAAC ON THE CARD COUNTER

 

SPYFLIX Judge’s Corner: David Rosen

SPYFLIX Guest Judge David Rosen has a dual role on Amazon Prime Video’s hit series Hunters, as Co-Executive Producer and Writer. Production begins next week on season 2, in which we now know Oscar-nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh will star. Miraculously, David squeezed us in for a quick chat about his perspective on social media and some of his writing influences. 

 

MEET DAVID

SPYFLIX is the new film and TV festival focused on secrets. The Spotlight Series is now underway. Visit weekly to stream works selected by the talent behind hits such as Hunters, The Americans and Homeland.

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