Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American rights to Laurie Collyer’s Sunlight Jr., starring Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts, Norman Reedus, and Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon. Gravitas will partner with Samuel Goldwyn Films for the release. The film will have a pre-theatrical VOD opening and will then be released in theaters November 2013.
Sunlight Jr. recently played to critical acclaim in competition at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.
Sunlight Jr. spotlights hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Naomi Watts) and her disabled boyfriend, Richie (Matt Dillon), who are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty. Their luck may be changing when they learn that Melissa has become pregnant. But as soon as she loses her job and they get evicted from the motel they live in, their joy vanishes. Through this adversity, the couple realizes that they can never lose everything as long as they have each other.
Sunlight Jr. is...
Sunlight Jr. recently played to critical acclaim in competition at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.
Sunlight Jr. spotlights hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Naomi Watts) and her disabled boyfriend, Richie (Matt Dillon), who are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty. Their luck may be changing when they learn that Melissa has become pregnant. But as soon as she loses her job and they get evicted from the motel they live in, their joy vanishes. Through this adversity, the couple realizes that they can never lose everything as long as they have each other.
Sunlight Jr. is...
- 8/29/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Partners with Samuel Goldwyn Films to release the film. Gravitas Ventures has acquired all North American rights to Laurie Collyer’s Sunlight Jr., which stars Naomi Watts, Norman Reedus, and Matt Dillon. Gravitas will partner with Samuel Goldwyn Films for the release which will get a pre-theatrical VOD debut, then hit theaters in November this year. The film is written and directed Laurie Collyer (Sherrybaby), produced by Charlie Corwin, Andrea Roa, and Ariel Elia, and executive produced by William Dietrich, Simon Fawcett, Joshua Skurla, Dan Klabin, and Fisher Stevens. The film stars Naomi Watts, Norman Reedus, and Matt Dillon.
- 8/29/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New York, NY – October 31, 2011 – Principal photography has begun on Sunlight Jr., it was announced today by Original Media’s Charlie Corwin and Freight Yard Films’ Andrea Roa. Filmed on location in southern Florida, the independent film stars Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon. Sunlight Jr. is written and directed by Laurie Collyer (Sherrybaby) and produced by Charlie Corwin (Half Nelson, The Squid And The Whale), Andrea Roa (Booster) and Ariel Elia, who will produce on behalf of Empyrean. Joshua Skurla is on board as an Executive Producer, as are Billy Dietrich and Simon Fawcett, who arranged the financing. The film follows two have-nots who have fallen through the cracks of society. Hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Naomi Watts) and her paraplegic boyfriend, Richie (Matt Dillon), are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty and ignorance. They are genuinely excited when they learn that Melissa is pregnant. But when she loses her...
- 10/31/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Principal photography has begun on Sunlight Jr. , it was announced today by Original Media's Charlie Corwin and Freight Yard Films' Andrea Roa. Filmed on location in southern Florida, the independent film stars Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon. Sunlight Jr. is written and directed by Laurie Collyer ( SherryBaby ) and produced by Charlie Corwin ( Half Nelson , The Squid and the Whale ), Andrea Roa ( Booster ) and Ariel Elia, who will produce on behalf of Empyrean. Joshua Skurla is on board as an Executive Producer, as are Billy Dietrich and Simon Fawcett, who arranged the financing. The film follows two have-nots who have fallen through the cracks of society. Hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Watts) and her paraplegic boyfriend, Richie (Dillon), are trapped in a...
- 10/31/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Almost two decades since they last worked together on King of New York, Abel Ferrara will be re-teaming with Wesley Snipes in Game of Death - which is not a remake of the Bruce Lee film. - Almost two decades since they last worked together on King of New York, Abel Ferrara will be re-teaming with Wesley Snipes in Game of Death - which is not a remake of the Bruce Lee film. The state of Michigan will offer a tax benefit for the action thriller that in a perfect world would put Snipes back on the map. Screen Daily reports that Sony already holds the Us rights to the story of a hospitalised politician’s bodyguard who discovers the truth behind his mission as he tries to stop five of the world’s top assassins from killing his boss. Billy Dietrich (exec producer on Giallo) and Rafael Primorac...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
Wesley Snipes is teaming up with director Abel Ferrara for “Game Of Death,” according to Variety.com. Snipes will star as the bodyguard of a politician who must defend his client when the politician is targeted by five of the most lethal assassins in the world. Zoe Bell and Robert Davi co-star in the project as well. Ferrara and Snipes last last worked together on 1990’s “King of New York.” James Agnew wrote the script for “Game Of Death”, which Billy Dietrich and Rafael Primorac are onboard to produce. Roger Grad, Nicolas Chartier and Nadine de Barros are executive producing. Production on the project starts in [...]...
- 10/11/2009
- by Costa Koutsoutis
- ShockYa
Wesley Snipes and director Abel Ferrara are working together again on the action-thriller "Game of Death."It would be their first project together since Ferrara's 1990 cult gangster film "King of New York," which also starred Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne and David Caruso.Snipes will star as a politician's bodyguard who must fight five of the world's top assassins. Zoe Bell and Robert Davi co-star.The script was written by James Agnew. Billy Dietrich and Rafael Primorac are producing. Voltage Pictures' Nicolas Chartier and Nadine de Barros, and Roger Grad will executive produce. Alastair Burlingham and Steve Robbins of Perpetual Media Capital also executive produce.According to Variety, the film started shooting this week in Detroit.
- 10/8/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Wesley Snipes and director Abel Ferrara are to reunite for the action-thriller "Game of Death," a film that marks their first project since 1990's "King of New York." Snipes stars as a bodyguard to a politician who must now fend off the world's elite assassins. Also cast are Zoe Bell ("Death Proof") and veteran Robert Davi. James Agnew wrote the screenplay. Producing are Billy Dietrich and Rafael Primorac.
- 10/8/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
- Adrien Brody joins his real-life girlfriend (fab looking Elsa Pataky) for a piece of horror-erotica from legendary director Dario Argento. Producers have found extra money for the shoot, meaning that they were able to replace Ray Liotta in the lead role and grab more star power allure with Brody. Based on a screenplay by Jim Agnew and Sean Keller, Giallo sees Emmanuelle Seigner take the role of a flight attendant (once assigned to Dario's daughter Asia) who pairs with the detective (Brody) on a race against time to save her sister, a super model (Elsa Pataky), from a serial killer who has snatched her.THR reports that the picture will be produced by Rafael Primorac and Richard Rionda Del Castro. Production is set to start May 12 in Torino, Italy. Brody is exec producing along with Oscar Generale, Claudio Argento, Luis De Val, David Milner, Billy Dietrich, Patricia Eberle, Donald Barton and John Hicks.
- 4/11/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner and Elsa Pataky have signed on to star in Giallo, the latest thriller from Italian horrormeister Dario Argento.
Giallo revolves around an American flight attendant who teams with an Italian investigator to search for her missing sister who has been abducted by a serial killer known only as Yellow.
The term "giallo" means "yellow" in Italian and also refers to the Italian pulp, horror and erotic genre of film and literature. Argento has built his name with movies that combine horror and eroticism such as 1977's Suspiria and last year's The Mother of Tears.
Giallo might mark the first time an actor of Brody's caliber has starred in an Argento film.
The film, from a screenplay by Jim Agnew and Sean Keller, will be produced by Rafael Primorac and Richard Rionda Del Castro.
Production is set to start May 12 in Torino, Italy, with postproduction work done in Los Angeles.
Brody is exec producing along with Oscar Generale, Claudio Argento, Luis De Val, David Milner, Billy Dietrich, Patricia Eberle, Donald Barton and John Hicks.
Giallo revolves around an American flight attendant who teams with an Italian investigator to search for her missing sister who has been abducted by a serial killer known only as Yellow.
The term "giallo" means "yellow" in Italian and also refers to the Italian pulp, horror and erotic genre of film and literature. Argento has built his name with movies that combine horror and eroticism such as 1977's Suspiria and last year's The Mother of Tears.
Giallo might mark the first time an actor of Brody's caliber has starred in an Argento film.
The film, from a screenplay by Jim Agnew and Sean Keller, will be produced by Rafael Primorac and Richard Rionda Del Castro.
Production is set to start May 12 in Torino, Italy, with postproduction work done in Los Angeles.
Brody is exec producing along with Oscar Generale, Claudio Argento, Luis De Val, David Milner, Billy Dietrich, Patricia Eberle, Donald Barton and John Hicks.
- 4/10/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Australia-headquartered sales and production entity Arclight Films and producers Richard Claus and Billy Dietrich are set to produce The Thief Lord, based on the hit German novel by Cornelia Funke, with Claus also directing, Arclight managing director Gary Hamilton said Sunday at the American Film Market. Claus, who started his career as a director of German-language films and then went into production and distribution, optioned the rights to Funke's The Thief Lord and Dragon Rider in 2002, in association with Warner Bros. Germany. The film features a British cast, with Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Janet McTeer and Jim Carter taking the lead adult roles.
- 2/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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