Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews writer/director Matthew Berkowitz about The Madness Inside Me.
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Merrin Dungey in an exclusive clip from 'The Madness Inside Me'
ComingSoon is excited to debut the poster and trailer for Gravitas Ventures’ upcoming film The Madness Inside Me, which showcases some of the thrilling and dark tones the movie aims to explore.
Oscar winner Kim Basinger will serve as executive producer, who Rousselot collaborated with on 2016 action-comedy “The Nice Guys.” Gregory Hoblit and Matthew Berkowitz will co-direct, with documentarian Lynne Littman will moderate all of the film’s interviews. Debrah Farentino, Autumn MacIntosh and Oren Segal are set to produce.
A Violent Man is a throwback to classic film noir, influenced by Hitchcock’s Frenzy and Nicolas Ray’s In A Lonely Place, mixed with the fighting of Bronson, Old Boy and Warrior. I wanted to make a film with style, scope, amazing performances and big, brutal, violent fights, but my big hurdle was that we had less than $300,000 to make the movie.
Tonight’s main event is the culmination of nearly a month of fight preparation for this summer’s indie MMA suspense thriller, Matthew Berkowitz's A Violent Man, and, as any of us would be, Jones is anxious about his latest matchup.
We decided, “The audience cannot be ambivalent about Wild in Blue. Love it or hate it, the audience needs to have an opinion.” The worst thing for a movie is if nobody cares that it exists.
Here’s how we made them care.
I was stuck in New York through the first half of the virus, watching and reading the news everyday, inside the “Epicenter” with a screen in my hands. We were there, feeling the city, listening to the 7pm shout outs, the sirens that blew by every five minutes, and seeing the face covered masks that haunted our city. This was New York. It eventually got so eerie that we needed to leave, now we are in Jersey — less than 50 miles away. 50 miles is not far, Jersey still has the outbreak, it’s number two on the list. But nobody is too far from this virus, we are all within a split second, within our own six feet, it’s like The Invasion of The Body Snatchers all over again. Our neighbors, our friends, and our loved ones can all quickly become our demise. This paranoia only feels new, but this paranoia has been around forever.
There’s not much to do during the outbreak. Every siren was another person being rushed to another COVID unit. The harbor had the military there, police blocked the entrance and the whole city tried to keep six feet at all times. It was futuristic, genre, painful, and cinematic. Cinematic, because it had already existed, existed only on the screen, starring Bruce Willis leading the military and Jeff Goldblum who quickly discovered the anti-virus in time. This had been our reference point, our only understanding of how to deal with something this — NEW. The screenwriters, the producers, the directors, the filmmakers, have laid our pavement to see where and what would happen, it’s humorous that the men who wanted to entertain, have since painted the fears of what we, as a culture, can become.
We are back on "The Castar Couch" with one of Hollywood's most creative and up and coming directors/writers, Matthew Berkowitz! He already has several feature films under his belt including writing and directing MMA suspense thriller "A Violent Man" with his next film "Inside Me" set to be released in 2020.
Here he talks about everything from his creative process when directing a film, where he draws his inspiration from, and what it's like to be a student of the game. 🎬🎥
