The Hunger Games: Catching Fire actor Bruno Gunn has joined the upcoming film Barely Lethal. The film stars Hailee Steinfeld as a teen assassin who runs away in hopes of living a normal high school life, but adversaries from her old life (including Jessica Alba's character) just won't let her be. Fanboys director Kyle Newman is directing, with a script by John D'Arco. John Cheng and Brett Ratner are producing via their RatPac Entertainment, along with Hopscotch Pictures’ Sukee Chew and Rko Pictures' Ted Hartley and Vanessa Coifman. Photos: The Redemption of Brett Ratner: Photos of the 'Hercules' Helmer
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- 11/14/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Jessica Alba will join Hailee Steinfeld and Samuel L Jackson in Rko Pictures’ action film Barely Lethal. Highland Film Group handles international sales and will continue talks with buyers in Toronto next month.
Production is set to commence on Oct 17 with Kyle Newman directing from a screenplay by John D’Arco.
Brett Ratner and John Cheng are producing for Rat Entertainment alongside Sukee Chew for Hopscotch Pictures, Ted Hartley and Rko’s Vanessa Coifman.
Barely Lethal centres on Megan, a teenage assassin who is hunted by a former associate after she fakes her own death and enrols in a suburban high school.
Alba will play Victoria Knox, the villain of the piece who pursues Megan.
Alba will be seen in the forthcoming features A.C.O.D., Stretch, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For and Dear Eleanor and the IFC mini-series The Spoils Of Babylon.
Production is set to commence on Oct 17 with Kyle Newman directing from a screenplay by John D’Arco.
Brett Ratner and John Cheng are producing for Rat Entertainment alongside Sukee Chew for Hopscotch Pictures, Ted Hartley and Rko’s Vanessa Coifman.
Barely Lethal centres on Megan, a teenage assassin who is hunted by a former associate after she fakes her own death and enrols in a suburban high school.
Alba will play Victoria Knox, the villain of the piece who pursues Megan.
Alba will be seen in the forthcoming features A.C.O.D., Stretch, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For and Dear Eleanor and the IFC mini-series The Spoils Of Babylon.
- 8/27/2013
- ScreenDaily
Academy Award nominated actor Samuel L Jackson (Django Unchained, Pulp Fiction) has joined Rko Pictures’ Barely Lethal, starring Academy Award nominated actress Hailee Steinfeld (Ender’S Game, True Grit). Highland Film Group (Hfg) is handling international sales in Cannes. Kyle Newman (Fanboys) will direct the comedy action script by John D’Arco. Principal photography will begin Fall 2013. Barely Lethal is being produced by Rko Pictures with Hopscotch Pictures and Brett Ratner’s Rat Entertainment.
Barely Lethal is a playful, high-velocity action-comedy in which a 16-year old international assassin (Steinfeld) yearning for “normal” adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls in a suburban high school. When her former-employer (Jackson) comes calling, it becomes more extracurriculars than any teenager can handle.
Rko Pictures will produce, with their President of Production Vanessa Coifman and Ted Hartley producing alongside Brett Ratner and John Cheng for Rat Entertainment and Hopscotch Pictures’ Sukee Chew.
Samuel L. Jackson...
Barely Lethal is a playful, high-velocity action-comedy in which a 16-year old international assassin (Steinfeld) yearning for “normal” adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls in a suburban high school. When her former-employer (Jackson) comes calling, it becomes more extracurriculars than any teenager can handle.
Rko Pictures will produce, with their President of Production Vanessa Coifman and Ted Hartley producing alongside Brett Ratner and John Cheng for Rat Entertainment and Hopscotch Pictures’ Sukee Chew.
Samuel L. Jackson...
- 5/16/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Cinedigm and Voltage Pictures have entered into a three-year, five-picture output deal with the new genre label Rapid Eye Film.
The outfit, founded by filmmaker Marco Weber, will develop, finance and produce the films, and Cinedigm will provide a Us theatrical release and subsequent roll out across on-demand, digital, TV and DVD. Nic Chartier’s Voltage Pictures will handle international sales on all five films.
The first film green lit under the agreement is the sci-fi thriller Unraveling, with casting under way.
Unraveling was written and will be directed by Weber, who is producing alongside his longtime producing partner Vanessa Coifman and producer Miggel Schwickerath. The film will shoot on location in Los Angeles this spring.
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The outfit, founded by filmmaker Marco Weber, will develop, finance and produce the films, and Cinedigm will provide a Us theatrical release and subsequent roll out across on-demand, digital, TV and DVD. Nic Chartier’s Voltage Pictures will handle international sales on all five films.
The first film green lit under the agreement is the sci-fi thriller Unraveling, with casting under way.
Unraveling was written and will be directed by Weber, who is producing alongside his longtime producing partner Vanessa Coifman and producer Miggel Schwickerath. The film will shoot on location in Los Angeles this spring.
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- 2/4/2013
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Rko Pictures is set to revive "The Saint" franchise and have hired Travis Wright ("Eagle Eye") to pen a script which they hope will be the first film in a possible trilogy reports Variety.
Leslie Charteris penned the book series starting in the late 1920's. They followed Simon Templar, a thief who sees himself as a modern day Robin Hood as he steals from only other criminals - corrupt politicians, arms dealers, drug runners, white slavers and so on.
The property has been adapted many times before, most famously as a long-running 60's British TV series with Roger Moore in the title role. Phil Noyce directed a film adaptation in 1997 starring Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue, while Ian Ogilvy and Simon Dutton portrayed the character on the small screen in the 70's and 80's respectively. Even Vincent Price voiced the character for radio serials.
Rko's version however will be based...
Leslie Charteris penned the book series starting in the late 1920's. They followed Simon Templar, a thief who sees himself as a modern day Robin Hood as he steals from only other criminals - corrupt politicians, arms dealers, drug runners, white slavers and so on.
The property has been adapted many times before, most famously as a long-running 60's British TV series with Roger Moore in the title role. Phil Noyce directed a film adaptation in 1997 starring Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue, while Ian Ogilvy and Simon Dutton portrayed the character on the small screen in the 70's and 80's respectively. Even Vincent Price voiced the character for radio serials.
Rko's version however will be based...
- 1/26/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
#83. A Late Quartet Director: Yaron ZilbermanWriter(s): Zilberman and Seth GrossmanProducers: Zilberman, Vanessa Coifman, David Faigenblum, Emanuel Michael, Tamar Sela and Mandy Tagger Distributor: Rko Pictures The Gist: This centers on a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust. Set in iconic New York City, this is the story of four musicians, bound together by their passion for music and long years of working together. But when their patriarch Peter (Walken) is diagnosed with a terminal illness, the repercussions hit the group deeper than they could imagine...(more) Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Imogen Poots, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener List Worthy Reasons...: Zilberman's first narrative feature benefits from a solid quartet of actors, and it could be an engrossing drama if illness and romance are portrayed with the required honesty. Release Date/Status?: A festival premiere is likely,...
- 1/4/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
Director Dennis Lee on set with Julia Roberts.
Ok, so let’s start with your short film, Jesus Henry Christ. Is that where you feel your career started rolling?
I would say so. I went to Columbia University for graduate school in film and you had to make two films at the time, one was your thesis and one was your non thesis film and I made a short called Jesus Henry Christ which was a 12 minute comedy and it was my non thesis film. We shot it, we were one of the first HD shoots — cut it on Final Cut Pro, did everything at home, and after it was done I turned it in as my non-thesis film. Then, Columbia killed the thesis requirement. So my non-thesis film became my thesis film, and it did well. It won a Student Academy Award for narrative and it got me meetings with managers,...
Ok, so let’s start with your short film, Jesus Henry Christ. Is that where you feel your career started rolling?
I would say so. I went to Columbia University for graduate school in film and you had to make two films at the time, one was your thesis and one was your non thesis film and I made a short called Jesus Henry Christ which was a 12 minute comedy and it was my non thesis film. We shot it, we were one of the first HD shoots — cut it on Final Cut Pro, did everything at home, and after it was done I turned it in as my non-thesis film. Then, Columbia killed the thesis requirement. So my non-thesis film became my thesis film, and it did well. It won a Student Academy Award for narrative and it got me meetings with managers,...
- 10/12/2011
- by Film Independent
- Film Independent
The four actors have been set to star in A Late Quartet, an independent film from writer/director Yaron Zilberman. Shooting will start later this month in New York. Hoffman, Keener, Northam and Walken will play members of a world famous string quartet. They struggle to stay together on the eve of their 25th anniversary, with illness, ego and lust among the factors that threaten to tear them apart. Imogen Poots and Liraz Charhi also star. Zilberman directs from a script he wrote with Seth Grossman. Zilberman will produce with partner Tamar Sela through their Opening Night Productions banner. Vanessa Coifman, David Faigenblum, Emanuel Michael and Mandy Tagger are also producing. Concept Entertainment, Spring Pictures and Unison Films are the companies behind the film. Rko Pictures will distribute with its chief, Ted Hartley, among the exec producer roster. Zilberman directed the 2004 documentary Watermarks, about an Austrian female swim team from the 1930s.
- 1/10/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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The 2010 Fangoria Frightfest film entries are moving to DVD this week through Phase 4. This series released in Canada September 21st and the Us release is scheduled for September 28th. Films included: mysterious thriller The Tomb, the suspenseful The Haunting, the goreific Pig Hunt, the dismal Hunger, the disturbing Grimm Love, the original Road Kill, shocker Fragile and this year's winner of the event Dark House. This film festival competition was successful because of fan support and horror enthusiasts can have a look at the DVD special features for each of the titles listed here inside.
Dark House
Director: Darin Scott.
Producer: Mark Sonoda.
Cast: Jeffrey Combs (House on Haunted Hill), Meghan Ory (John Tucker Must Die), and Diane Salinger .
The synopsis for Dark House:
"A group of hot young drama students are recruited to work in a new 'haunted house' attraction by flamboyant, impresario Walston Rey...
The 2010 Fangoria Frightfest film entries are moving to DVD this week through Phase 4. This series released in Canada September 21st and the Us release is scheduled for September 28th. Films included: mysterious thriller The Tomb, the suspenseful The Haunting, the goreific Pig Hunt, the dismal Hunger, the disturbing Grimm Love, the original Road Kill, shocker Fragile and this year's winner of the event Dark House. This film festival competition was successful because of fan support and horror enthusiasts can have a look at the DVD special features for each of the titles listed here inside.
Dark House
Director: Darin Scott.
Producer: Mark Sonoda.
Cast: Jeffrey Combs (House on Haunted Hill), Meghan Ory (John Tucker Must Die), and Diane Salinger .
The synopsis for Dark House:
"A group of hot young drama students are recruited to work in a new 'haunted house' attraction by flamboyant, impresario Walston Rey...
- 9/26/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
BERLIN -- Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment has picked up the rights to the Brad Kessler novel Birds In Fall from Julia Roberts' production shingle Red Om Films.
Dennis Lee, who wrote and directed Roberts-starrer Fireflies in the Garden for Senator -- is on board to direct from his own script.
The book tells of a plane crash near a hotel on an isolated island. The hotel becomes a gathering place for the relatives of the crash victims. An ornithologist, who lost her husband in the crash, travels to the island to try and find closure.
Roberts, together with Red Om production head Philip Rose will produce the film alongside Weber and Senator's Vanessa Coifman.
Dennis Lee, who wrote and directed Roberts-starrer Fireflies in the Garden for Senator -- is on board to direct from his own script.
The book tells of a plane crash near a hotel on an isolated island. The hotel becomes a gathering place for the relatives of the crash victims. An ornithologist, who lost her husband in the crash, travels to the island to try and find closure.
Roberts, together with Red Om production head Philip Rose will produce the film alongside Weber and Senator's Vanessa Coifman.
BERLIN -- Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment has picked up the rights to the Brad Kessler novel "Birds in Fall" and intends to co-produce the film with Julia Roberts' production shingle Red Om Films.
Dennis Lee, who wrote and directed the Roberts starrer "Fireflies in the Garden" for Senator -- is on board to direct from his own script.
The book tells of a plane crash near a hotel on an isolated island. The hotel becomes a gathering place for the relatives of the crash victims. An ornithologist, who lost her husband in the crash, travels to the island to try and find closure.
Roberts, together with Red Om production head Philip Rose, will produce alongside Weber and Senator's Vanessa Coifman.
Dennis Lee, who wrote and directed the Roberts starrer "Fireflies in the Garden" for Senator -- is on board to direct from his own script.
The book tells of a plane crash near a hotel on an isolated island. The hotel becomes a gathering place for the relatives of the crash victims. An ornithologist, who lost her husband in the crash, travels to the island to try and find closure.
Roberts, together with Red Om production head Philip Rose, will produce alongside Weber and Senator's Vanessa Coifman.
Out of competition
BERLIN -- Dysfunctional families in dramatic literature date back to Oedipus Rex, so if you're going to take that route, you'd better have something new to say.
In his film Fireflies in the Garden, Dennis Lee comes up empty. Kids, parents, siblings, an aunt and an estranged wife all bicker and yell, but the noise cancels itself out. The movie is one long argument, tiresome and repetitive, that produces more heat than light. The wonder is that the first-time writer-director rounded up a cast that includes Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss and Julia Roberts.
The script reportedly knocked around Hollywood for a long time before Senator Entertainment decided to finance it since no one saw a market for Lee's story. That's still going to be a problem. Anything starring Roberts stands a chance, but boxoffice in urban adult venues should be modest. The film will probably play better as home entertainment.
A family gathering in a small university town, presumably in the Midwest, takes a tragic turn when a car accident injures family head and professor Charles Taylor (Dafoe) and kills his wife, Lisa (Roberts). Animosity between Charles and his novelist son Michael (Ryan Reynolds), who lives in New York, runs deep so his mother's death only exacerbates their hostility.
Most of the family travails stem from the basic fact that Charles is a self-absorbed, domineering, abusive jerk. Michael has every reason to dislike him. Indeed in his just finished manuscript, he takes his revenge.
His mother's sister Jane (Watson) disapproves of Michael's literary character assassination, but is more absorbed in calming her son, who blames himself for his aunt's death. To add to the non-merriment, Michael's estranged and formerly alcoholic wife, Kelly Moss), shows up for the funeral.
Flashbacks to Michael's childhood (Cayden Boyd touchingly plays him as a boy) fill you in on the abuse he suffered and how no one, not even his mother, could stop Charles from tormenting his son. Lee's story purports to be semi-autobiographical, but these petty family quarrels don't play on the screen. Abuse can be terrible to suffer firsthand, but here it takes on a certain banality. The cause of Charles' fury at the world is never articulated, nor is it clear why his wife tolerates so much cruelty from her husband.
Michael does make a startling discovery in going through his mom's things, which adds a melodramatic note that is never thoroughly convincing. A resolution, or at least a truce, is reached at the end that also lacks conviction. It arrives too easily, and you suspect if Michael didn't live in New York the truce would be a short-lived.
Dafoe never gets a handle on his overbearing character. Similarly, Roberts spends her rather brief screen time trying to pacify other people, her husband, her son and then her sister without ever getting a chance to define who her character is. The movie pretty much wastes Watson, and Moss seems to have dropped in from another movie. Only Reynolds comes off with some dimension and charm as a guy whose affability increases with the distance he puts between himself and his dad.
Filming in and around Austin, Lee makes effective use of his locations and slides between two time periods smoothly. All tech credits are solid.
FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN
Senator Entertainment in association with Kulture Machine
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Dennis Lee
Producers: Marco Weber, Vanessa Coifman, Suke Chew
Executive producers: Jere Hausfater, Milton Liu
Director of photography: Danny Moder
Production designer: Robert Pearson
Costume designer: Kelle Kutsugeras
Editors: Dede Allen, Robert Brakey
Cast: Lisa Taylor: Julia Roberts
Michael Taylor: Ryan Reynolds;
Charles Taylor: Willem Dafoe
Jane Lawrence: Emily Watson
Kelly: Carrie-Anne Moss
Ryne: Shannon Lucio; Addison: Ioan Gruffudd
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
BERLIN -- Dysfunctional families in dramatic literature date back to Oedipus Rex, so if you're going to take that route, you'd better have something new to say.
In his film Fireflies in the Garden, Dennis Lee comes up empty. Kids, parents, siblings, an aunt and an estranged wife all bicker and yell, but the noise cancels itself out. The movie is one long argument, tiresome and repetitive, that produces more heat than light. The wonder is that the first-time writer-director rounded up a cast that includes Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss and Julia Roberts.
The script reportedly knocked around Hollywood for a long time before Senator Entertainment decided to finance it since no one saw a market for Lee's story. That's still going to be a problem. Anything starring Roberts stands a chance, but boxoffice in urban adult venues should be modest. The film will probably play better as home entertainment.
A family gathering in a small university town, presumably in the Midwest, takes a tragic turn when a car accident injures family head and professor Charles Taylor (Dafoe) and kills his wife, Lisa (Roberts). Animosity between Charles and his novelist son Michael (Ryan Reynolds), who lives in New York, runs deep so his mother's death only exacerbates their hostility.
Most of the family travails stem from the basic fact that Charles is a self-absorbed, domineering, abusive jerk. Michael has every reason to dislike him. Indeed in his just finished manuscript, he takes his revenge.
His mother's sister Jane (Watson) disapproves of Michael's literary character assassination, but is more absorbed in calming her son, who blames himself for his aunt's death. To add to the non-merriment, Michael's estranged and formerly alcoholic wife, Kelly Moss), shows up for the funeral.
Flashbacks to Michael's childhood (Cayden Boyd touchingly plays him as a boy) fill you in on the abuse he suffered and how no one, not even his mother, could stop Charles from tormenting his son. Lee's story purports to be semi-autobiographical, but these petty family quarrels don't play on the screen. Abuse can be terrible to suffer firsthand, but here it takes on a certain banality. The cause of Charles' fury at the world is never articulated, nor is it clear why his wife tolerates so much cruelty from her husband.
Michael does make a startling discovery in going through his mom's things, which adds a melodramatic note that is never thoroughly convincing. A resolution, or at least a truce, is reached at the end that also lacks conviction. It arrives too easily, and you suspect if Michael didn't live in New York the truce would be a short-lived.
Dafoe never gets a handle on his overbearing character. Similarly, Roberts spends her rather brief screen time trying to pacify other people, her husband, her son and then her sister without ever getting a chance to define who her character is. The movie pretty much wastes Watson, and Moss seems to have dropped in from another movie. Only Reynolds comes off with some dimension and charm as a guy whose affability increases with the distance he puts between himself and his dad.
Filming in and around Austin, Lee makes effective use of his locations and slides between two time periods smoothly. All tech credits are solid.
FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN
Senator Entertainment in association with Kulture Machine
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Dennis Lee
Producers: Marco Weber, Vanessa Coifman, Suke Chew
Executive producers: Jere Hausfater, Milton Liu
Director of photography: Danny Moder
Production designer: Robert Pearson
Costume designer: Kelle Kutsugeras
Editors: Dede Allen, Robert Brakey
Cast: Lisa Taylor: Julia Roberts
Michael Taylor: Ryan Reynolds;
Charles Taylor: Willem Dafoe
Jane Lawrence: Emily Watson
Kelly: Carrie-Anne Moss
Ryne: Shannon Lucio; Addison: Ioan Gruffudd
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/14/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amber Heard and Chris Isaak have joined the ensemble cast of "The Informers", an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel being directed by Gregor Jordan.
Set in 1980s Los Angeles, the script follows seven stories taking course during a week in the life of movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters.
Heard plays a sexually promiscuous woman caught up in the decadence of 1980s L.A., while Isaak will play a sex- and alcohol-obsessed father who takes his young son to Hawaii.
Heard and Isaak join a cast that includes Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Brandon Routh, Winona Ryder and Mickey Rourke.
Senator Entertainment is financing the drama, with Senator's Marco Weber producing. Senator head of production Vanessa Coifman is executive producing. Ellis and Nick Jarecki co-wrote the script.
Shooting is under way in Los Angeles and then moves to Uruguay and Buenos Aires.
Heard's casting reunites her with Senator, the company that picked up her horror movie "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane" from the Weinstein Co.
Set in 1980s Los Angeles, the script follows seven stories taking course during a week in the life of movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters.
Heard plays a sexually promiscuous woman caught up in the decadence of 1980s L.A., while Isaak will play a sex- and alcohol-obsessed father who takes his young son to Hawaii.
Heard and Isaak join a cast that includes Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Brandon Routh, Winona Ryder and Mickey Rourke.
Senator Entertainment is financing the drama, with Senator's Marco Weber producing. Senator head of production Vanessa Coifman is executive producing. Ellis and Nick Jarecki co-wrote the script.
Shooting is under way in Los Angeles and then moves to Uruguay and Buenos Aires.
Heard's casting reunites her with Senator, the company that picked up her horror movie "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane" from the Weinstein Co.
- 10/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Winona Ryder and Mickey Rourke have joined the ensemble cast of Gregor Jordan's The Informers, an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel.
The two join Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Brandon Routh, Ashley Olsen, Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci and Austin Nichols in the film, financed by Senator Entertainment.
The drama, which tells seven separate stories, follows a week in the lives of a group of morally challenged characters -- a movie executive, his wife, his mistress, a rock star, a vampire and a kidnapper. It is set in 1980s Los Angeles.
Ryder will play a newscaster who has just been dumped after a longtime affair with a married producer William Sloan.
Rourke will play Peter, an amoral former studio security guard who plots to kidnap a small child to sell to the leader of a Los Angeles cult.
Senator's Marco Weber will produce the picture, while Senator head of production Vanessa Coifman will executive produce. Principal photography will begin in October in Los Angeles.
The two join Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Brandon Routh, Ashley Olsen, Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci and Austin Nichols in the film, financed by Senator Entertainment.
The drama, which tells seven separate stories, follows a week in the lives of a group of morally challenged characters -- a movie executive, his wife, his mistress, a rock star, a vampire and a kidnapper. It is set in 1980s Los Angeles.
Ryder will play a newscaster who has just been dumped after a longtime affair with a married producer William Sloan.
Rourke will play Peter, an amoral former studio security guard who plots to kidnap a small child to sell to the leader of a Los Angeles cult.
Senator's Marco Weber will produce the picture, while Senator head of production Vanessa Coifman will executive produce. Principal photography will begin in October in Los Angeles.
- 9/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger and Brandon Routh are in various stages of negotiations to star in the ensemble "The Informers", an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel. Gregor Jordan is directing the drama, which is being financed by Senator International. Senator's Marco Weber is producing.
Also joining the movie are Ashley Olsen, Jon Foster, Austin Nichols and Lou Taylor Pucci.
Set in 1980s Los Angeles, the script follows seven stories taking course during a week in the life of a movie executive, his wife, his mistress, a rock star, a vampire and a kidnapper.
Thornton will play the movie exec, and Basinger will portray his wife. Routh has been cast as the vampire, while Olsen is a sexually promiscuous girl.
Principal photography will commence in October in Los Angeles, Uruguay and Buenos Aires.
Senator's head of production Vanessa Coifman is executive producing. Ellis and Nick Jarecki co-wrote the script.
Thornton next stars in "Mr. Woodcock", which opens Sept. 14, and goes into production on "Tulia" with Halle Berry in the fall.
Also joining the movie are Ashley Olsen, Jon Foster, Austin Nichols and Lou Taylor Pucci.
Set in 1980s Los Angeles, the script follows seven stories taking course during a week in the life of a movie executive, his wife, his mistress, a rock star, a vampire and a kidnapper.
Thornton will play the movie exec, and Basinger will portray his wife. Routh has been cast as the vampire, while Olsen is a sexually promiscuous girl.
Principal photography will commence in October in Los Angeles, Uruguay and Buenos Aires.
Senator's head of production Vanessa Coifman is executive producing. Ellis and Nick Jarecki co-wrote the script.
Thornton next stars in "Mr. Woodcock", which opens Sept. 14, and goes into production on "Tulia" with Halle Berry in the fall.
- 8/30/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Willem Dafoe, Hayden Panettiere, Shannon Lucio, Ioan Gruffudd and George Newbern are joining the ensemble cast of Senator Entertainment's Fireflies in the Garden. They join Carrie Anne Moss, Ryan Reynolds, Julia Roberts and Emily Watson, who already have boarded the project.
Dennis Lee will make his directorial debut from a screenplay he penned. The story is loosely based on Lee's life and explores the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an unexpected tragedy.
Shooting is scheduled to begin Tuesday in Austin.
Senator's Marco Weber and Vanessa Coifman are producing alongside Sukee Chew. The film is the first U.S. production that Senator is financing and producing.
"We are quite fortunate to have secured an ensemble with such talent and global boxoffice track record," Weber said. "Their desire to be involved with this film clearly shows the quality of the script."
The movie is represented by CAA for North American rights, and Jere Hausfeter's Essential Entertainment is handling foreign territories, excluding Germany, where Senator has an established distribution chain.
Dennis Lee will make his directorial debut from a screenplay he penned. The story is loosely based on Lee's life and explores the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an unexpected tragedy.
Shooting is scheduled to begin Tuesday in Austin.
Senator's Marco Weber and Vanessa Coifman are producing alongside Sukee Chew. The film is the first U.S. production that Senator is financing and producing.
"We are quite fortunate to have secured an ensemble with such talent and global boxoffice track record," Weber said. "Their desire to be involved with this film clearly shows the quality of the script."
The movie is represented by CAA for North American rights, and Jere Hausfeter's Essential Entertainment is handling foreign territories, excluding Germany, where Senator has an established distribution chain.
- 3/29/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Julia Roberts and Carrie-Anne Moss have signed on to star in the ensemble drama "Fireflies in the Garden" for Senator Entertainment, marking the German company's first U.S. production. Emily Watson and Ryan Reynolds are in negotiations to join the cast.
Written by Dennis Lee, who will make his directorial debut on the project, the story is loosely based on Lee's life and explores the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an unexpected tragedy.
Shooting is scheduled to begin in March in Austin.
Senator's Marco Weber, Vanessa Coifman and Sukee Chew are producing, while Jere Hausfater and Milton Liu are executive producing.
Weber lauded Lee's screenplay as "a gripping and entertaining story that encompasses the true meaning of family." He added, "This ensemble of actors is a testament to the strength of the material, and we are extremely fortunate to bring all of these people together."
Senator, which produces, finances and distributes film, is in preproduction on "The Informers", based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel.
Written by Dennis Lee, who will make his directorial debut on the project, the story is loosely based on Lee's life and explores the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an unexpected tragedy.
Shooting is scheduled to begin in March in Austin.
Senator's Marco Weber, Vanessa Coifman and Sukee Chew are producing, while Jere Hausfater and Milton Liu are executive producing.
Weber lauded Lee's screenplay as "a gripping and entertaining story that encompasses the true meaning of family." He added, "This ensemble of actors is a testament to the strength of the material, and we are extremely fortunate to bring all of these people together."
Senator, which produces, finances and distributes film, is in preproduction on "The Informers", based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel.
Marco Weber's Atlantic Streamline has acquired the rights to Thomas Thonson's dark comedy Rockwell. The project was brought to the company by Cedering Fox and Patrick Cassavetti, who will produce along with Weber. Streamline executive vp production Vanessa Coifman will executive produce. The story centers on a troubled teen who believes the only cure for his suburban angst is the acquisition of a car. Misunderstood by his dysfunctional parents, he concocts a masterful plan to secure his dream. Chaos ensues as the pieces of his puzzle begin to unravel and his parents become unknowing accomplices in his scheme.
- 3/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Keri Russell is set to star in and German actor Thomas Kretschmann is in negotiations to join Butterfly, a Grimm Love Story, an independent feature based on the Internet cannibal movement, which involves hundreds of Web sites for cannibal fetishists. The feature is being produced by Marco Weber (Igby Goes Down) through his Atlantic Streamline banner. The psychological horror-thriller was written by newcomer TS Faull and will be directed by Martin Weisz, who is best known for directing music videos for Korn and Sean Combs.Weber will produce with Andreas Schmid and Streamline executive vp production Vanessa Coifman.
Top Broadway director Michael Mayer (Thoroughly Modern Millie) is solidifying his big-screen career, signing on to direct the Annette Bening starrer Under My Skin, which is set up at UA. Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen of Jinks/Cohen and Atlantic Streamline topper Marco Weber are producing the film, which falls under Atlantic Streamline's first-look co-financing deal with UA. (The two parties are co-producing the film). Atlantic Streamline's executive vp production Vanessa Coifman is executive producing with UA president Danny Rosett overseeing for the studio.
Atlantic Streamline has optioned the screenplay Union from actor-turned-scribe Chris D'Elia. His father, TV helmer Bill D'Elia, will help develop the script and is attached to direct. In the vein of Diner, Union tells the story of four friends who are destined to stay in a small town forever. They live through a crazy summer that alters their view of the world and forces them to grow up. Streamline's Marco Weber and Vanessa Coifman will produce.
- 11/18/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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