Watch the trailer, see the second poster and check out photos from Breaking the Girls starring Agnes Bruckner, Madeline Zima, Shawn Ashmore, John Stockwell, Kate Levering and Shanna Collins. Mark Distefano, Guinevere Turner wrote the screenplay for the film which opens in theaters on July 26th, 2013 via IFC Films. In a thriller reminiscent of the best of Alfred Hitchcock, Madeline Zima and Agnes Bruckner star as best friends who share everything until one of them reveals a twisted sense of loyalty. Sara is an ambitious, beautiful twenty-something working her way through law school. Her hard work and stellar academic record has paid off with a coveted scholarship.
- 7/11/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
IFC Films have unveiled a new sexy poster for the Jamie Babbit helmed horror thriller 'Breaking the Girls'. It features the bikini clad duo of Madeline Zima ('Heroes') and Agnes Bruckner ('Blood and Chocoloate') taking a dip and getting up close and personal together. The film revolves around the two main leads who become lesbian lovers with more morbid benefits. These benefits being a pact to kill each others enemies. This theme seems to be swarming the genre at the moment, is it feminism gone too far? Shawn Ashmore ('Mother's Day'), John Stockwell, Shanna Collins, Steve Crest, Tiya Sircar and Kate Levering all co-star in the feature co-penned by Guinevere Turner ('BloodRayne') and Mark Distefano. Check out the new image below....
- 2/14/2013
- Horror Asylum
Exclusive: Participant Media has acquired Currency, a script by Mark Distefano (Modern Sherlock Holmes) that has Ric Roman Waugh attached to direct. Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Alix Madigan will produce. The drama focuses on two Secret Service agents in pursuit of a private mercenary’s powerful and sophisticated counterfeiting operation. Waugh directed the Stephen Dorff/Val Kilmer-starrer Felon, and he just wrapped Snitch with Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pepper and Susan Sarandon. Distefano is repped by Apa and Anonymous Content; Waugh by Wme and Management 360.
- 10/5/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
IFC Films has acquired from Myriad Pictures the U.S. distribution rights to director Jamie Babbit’s thriller Breaking the Girl, starring Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner, and Shawn Ashmore. Read on for details.
Jamie Babbit directs from a script by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner (American Psycho).
Synopsis:
Sara (Bruckner; pictured above) is an ambitious, beautiful twenty-year-old working her way through her sophomore year at Browning College. Alex (Zima), her gorgeous and privileged classmate, takes Sara under her wing. As the two girls become closer, they become friends with benefits. Alex and Sara commiserate over their respective enemies, and Alex half-jokingly suggests that they should kill off each other's nemeses. Sara shrugs off the suggestion as a morbid joke...until someone turns up dead.
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Jamie Babbit directs from a script by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner (American Psycho).
Synopsis:
Sara (Bruckner; pictured above) is an ambitious, beautiful twenty-year-old working her way through her sophomore year at Browning College. Alex (Zima), her gorgeous and privileged classmate, takes Sara under her wing. As the two girls become closer, they become friends with benefits. Alex and Sara commiserate over their respective enemies, and Alex half-jokingly suggests that they should kill off each other's nemeses. Sara shrugs off the suggestion as a morbid joke...until someone turns up dead.
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- 9/11/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
IFC Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the thriller “Breaking the Girls” from Myriad Pictures at the Toronto International Film Festival market. The film will receive a limited theatrical release. Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner and Shawn Ashmore star in the story of a college student and her manipulative new friend, who make a pact to murder each other’s enemies to disastrous results. “But I’m a Cheerleader” filmmaker Jamie Babbit directed from a screenplay by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner. Read More: IFC Films President Jonathan Sehring Wants You to Know a Few Things Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico produced along with Andrea Sperling (“Like Crazy”). Peter Abrams and Robert Levy of Tapestry Films are executive producers. Sundance Selects/IFC Films exec Arianna Bocco negotiated the deal with D’Amico. IFC Films has recently released “Sleepwalk With Me,” “About...
- 9/11/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Jamie Babbit's thriller Breaking the Girl written by Mark Distefano as well as Guinevere Turner of American Psycho, has been acquired for U.S. distribution by IFC Films. According to Variety, IFC Films is sending out the film to limited theaters in the U.S. Breaking the Girl also stars Shawn Ashmore, John Stockwell, Kate Levering and Shanna Collins. The story follows Bruckner as a college student who, after being slandered by a hostile classmate, becomes pals with a Zima's manipulative character. A perfect plan is proposed to murder each other's archenemies and when Zima does her part, Bruckner's character finds herself being framed for murder.
- 9/11/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jamie Babbit's thriller Breaking the Girl written by Mark Distefano as well as Guinevere Turner of American Psycho, has been acquired for U.S. distribution by IFC Films. According to Variety, IFC Films is sending out the film to limited theaters in the U.S. Breaking the Girl also stars Shawn Ashmore, John Stockwell, Kate Levering and Shanna Collins. The story follows Bruckner as a college student who, after being slandered by a hostile classmate, becomes pals with a Zima's manipulative character. A perfect plan is proposed to murder each other's archenemies and when Zima does her part, Bruckner's character finds herself being framed for murder.
- 9/11/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
IFC Films has acquired from Myriad Pictures the U.S. distribution rights to director Jamie Babbit's thriller, "Breaking The Girls," starring Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner, and Shawn Ashmore, Myriad announced in a statement on Monday in Toronto. Written by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner, the film was produced by Myriad's Kirk D'Amico and Andrea Sperling. Peter Abrams and Robert Levy of Tapestry Films serve as executive producers. The film will have a limited theatrical in the U.S. The film tells the story of a university student framed for murder after she teams up...
- 9/11/2012
- by Liza Foreman
- The Wrap
We haven't reported on Breaking the Girl for a while now, but the film is finished and the troubled waters are now calm. In terms of casting the flick has been a bit of a revolving door. Read on to play catch-up with us!
First Brit Marling dropped out of the project, and according to Myriad Pictures Agnes Bruckner (pictured right; Blood and Chocolate, "24", The Woods, Vacancy 2) was brought in to co-star alongside Madeline Zima ("Californication"). Zima signed to the project because its initial leads, Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki, bowed out. Thankfully the door is closed, and the flick is in the can.
Jamie Babbit directs from a script by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner (American Psycho).
Synopsis:
Sara is an ambitious, beautiful twenty-year-old working her way through her sophomore year at Browning College. Alex, her gorgeous and privileged classmate, takes Sara under her wing. As the two girls become closer,...
First Brit Marling dropped out of the project, and according to Myriad Pictures Agnes Bruckner (pictured right; Blood and Chocolate, "24", The Woods, Vacancy 2) was brought in to co-star alongside Madeline Zima ("Californication"). Zima signed to the project because its initial leads, Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki, bowed out. Thankfully the door is closed, and the flick is in the can.
Jamie Babbit directs from a script by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner (American Psycho).
Synopsis:
Sara is an ambitious, beautiful twenty-year-old working her way through her sophomore year at Browning College. Alex, her gorgeous and privileged classmate, takes Sara under her wing. As the two girls become closer,...
- 11/29/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Myriad Pictures had a difficult time locking down its leads for Breaking the Girl . Brit Marling dropped out of the project and Agnes Bruckner was brought in to co-star alongside Madeline Zima. The latter only signed to the project because its initial leads Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki bowed out. Jamie Babbit directed the film (which is in the can) from a script by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner ( American Psycho ). Bruckner has starred in Blood and Chocolate , 24 , The Woods and Vacancy 2 . Synopsis: Alex and Sara commiserate over their enemies, and Alex suggests that they should kill off each other's nemeses. Sara shrugs it off as a morbid joke until someone turns up dead.
- 11/29/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Some early details are filtering out from Myriad Pictures' Breaking the Girl. This is a horror feature with a love story at its center. Sara (Agnes Bruckner) and Alex (Madeline Zima) become lovers and in their intimacy they reveal their greatest enemies. Things take a turn for the strange when this "morbid joke" (Myriad) becomes all too real and the enemies begin to disappear. The bodies pile up.
Breaking the Girl recently completed production in October of this year and expect this film to deliver more details in 2012, when the film is likely to be released. For now, have an early look at the casting details which includes John Stockwell (Turistas) and Shawn Ashmore (Frozen) .
Release Date: 2012.
Director: Jamie Babbit.
Writers: Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner.
Cast: Madeline Zima, Shawn Ashmore, Tiya Sircar, Agnes Bruckner, John Stockwell, Kate Levering, Melanie Mayron, Manish Dayal, Shanna Collins, and Sam Anderson.
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Breaking the Girl recently completed production in October of this year and expect this film to deliver more details in 2012, when the film is likely to be released. For now, have an early look at the casting details which includes John Stockwell (Turistas) and Shawn Ashmore (Frozen) .
Release Date: 2012.
Director: Jamie Babbit.
Writers: Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner.
Cast: Madeline Zima, Shawn Ashmore, Tiya Sircar, Agnes Bruckner, John Stockwell, Kate Levering, Melanie Mayron, Manish Dayal, Shanna Collins, and Sam Anderson.
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- 11/22/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
#11. Breaking the Girl - Jamie Babbit Described by Jamie Babbit as a "genre-trashy fun; gratuitous girl-on-girl make-out scenes and three-inch heels", Breaking the Girl which is based on a screenplay by Mark Distefano and American Psycho's Guinevere Turner stars indie actors Madeline Zima, Shawn Ashmore and Agnes Bruckner. Having presented a pair of short films almost a decade back (her 2002 short “Stuck,” was a winner of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival's Special Mention Jury Prize), Babbit's (middle person in random set pic above) latest would be a good fit for a Park City at Midnight showing. Gist: When university student Sara (Bruckner) is slandered by a hostile classmate, she is befriended by the manipulative Alex (Zima) who proposes the perfect, untraceable crime - to kill each other's arch enemies. When Alex actually goes through with it, Sara finds herself being framed for murder. Producers: Unknown(Ioncinema.com Preview Page // IMDb...
- 11/8/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Principal photography has been completed on Jamie Babbit's new horror-thriller 'Breaking the Girl'. The production from Myriad Pictures and Future Films was penned by Guinevere Turner ('BloodRayne') and Mark Distefano and is being described essentially as a modern-day 'Strangers on a Train' type movie whereby the two leads plan to kill each other's enemies. The sexy duo Madeline Zima ('Heroes') and Agnes Bruckner -below ('Vacancy 2: The First Cut') play the two female leads Alex and Sara respectively. They're joined by the likes of Shawn Ashmore ('Mother's Day'), Kate Levering, Melanie Mayron and John Stockwell. Actress Brit Marling ('Arbitrage') was previously attached to the project to play the role of Sara. Director Babbit previously described the project as 'genre-trashy fun; gratuitous girl-on-girl make-out scenes and three-inch heels'. So everyone's a winner here....
- 10/18/2011
- Horror Asylum
Oh geez, it's just so fucking embarassing. Babbit's new thriller is Breaking the Girl, and it doesn't deserve to be written about this way.
Breaking the Girl, which we wrote about in Oct 2009, because we care, is a story about two lesbian characters who end up involved in murder. Guinevere Turner wrote the script, (depending on who you ask).
First of all, Jamie Babbit is a woman. A female director. Mediocre sites like Horror Asylum, which basically copy and paste low-budget press releases or steal news from larger entertainment sites, write about female genre directors so infrequently that when they Do, they get it wrong and call her a Him. Clearly they are not familiar with Jamie Babbit, her previous films like But I'm a Cheerleader, and they couldn't be bothered to even look her up on IMDb.
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TV director Jamie Babbit, who has worked on a heap of shows including 'Nip/Tuck',...
Breaking the Girl, which we wrote about in Oct 2009, because we care, is a story about two lesbian characters who end up involved in murder. Guinevere Turner wrote the script, (depending on who you ask).
First of all, Jamie Babbit is a woman. A female director. Mediocre sites like Horror Asylum, which basically copy and paste low-budget press releases or steal news from larger entertainment sites, write about female genre directors so infrequently that when they Do, they get it wrong and call her a Him. Clearly they are not familiar with Jamie Babbit, her previous films like But I'm a Cheerleader, and they couldn't be bothered to even look her up on IMDb.
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TV director Jamie Babbit, who has worked on a heap of shows including 'Nip/Tuck',...
- 3/25/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
TV director Jamie Babbit, who has worked on a heap of shows including 'Nip/Tuck', 'Dirty Sexy Money' and '90210', turns to his new feature flick 'Breaking the Girl'. Babbit will be helming the lesbian thriller from a script penned by writer and actress Guinevere Turner ('BloodRayne') and Mark Distefano. And now it's announced that both sexy 'Heroes' star Madeline Zima and the equally hot Brit Marling are to play the pair of lesbian lovers whom turn to murderous ways. Babbit describes the project as 'like Wild Things if it were set in college'. He continues 'It's genre-trashy fun; gratuitous girl-on-girl make-out scenes and three-inch heels'. Now that's something you just can't argue with! Check out the hottie twosome below....
- 3/24/2011
- Horror Asylum
It looks like Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki are out of Breaking the Girl and Brit Marling and Madline Zima are in. Yes, some casting changes have been made since we last reported on this thriller in 2009 , but Myriad Pictures is keen to making the film happen. The actress reshuffling should have been expected since Palicki has been cast as Wonder Woman in the new upcoming TV series. Marling is a writer, actress and producer. Zima (pictured), meanwhile, is best known for her turn in Californication . Jamie Babbit will direct from a script by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner ( American Psycho ). Synopsis: Alex and Sara commiserate over their enemies, and Alex suggests that they should kill off each other's nemeses. Sara shrugs it off as a morbid joke until...
- 3/23/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Update: Cory Monteith of Glee has also joined the cast. Jamie Babbit is slipping behind the camera for the teen thriller Breaking the Girl . She'll do so for Myriad Pictures ( Jeepers Creepers II ) and a 2011 release is being eyed. Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner ( American Psycho ) penned the screenplay about a naive college student who falls in with a manipulative classmate who implicates her in a murder. Amanda Crew ( The Haunting in Connecticut ) and Adrianne Palicki ( Legion ) are set to star. "Amanda and Adrianne are perfectly cast as the two students who become almost more than friends before the truth about Alex is revealed, says Myriad's Kirk D'Amico said. "It's sexy and scary and we expect it to fall into the same genre category as films like...
- 11/4/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Myriad Pictures has announced that Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki (pictured) are set to co-star in Jamie Babbit’s upcoming thriller Breaking The Girl. Production is scheduled to start in Canada in 2010.
Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner wrote the screenplay about a naive college student who falls in with a manipulative classmate who implicates her in a murder. Myriad Pictures president and CEO Kirk D’Amico said, "Amanda and Adrianne are perfectly cast as the two students who become almost more than friends before the truth about Alex is revealed. It’s sexy and scary, and we expect it to fall into the same genre category as films like Prom Night and Wild Things."
Crew most recently appeared in A Haunting in Connecticut and Final Destination 3 while Palicki has been a recurring player in The CW's "Supernatural" and will next be seen opposite Paul Bettany in Legion. Babbit's past...
Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner wrote the screenplay about a naive college student who falls in with a manipulative classmate who implicates her in a murder. Myriad Pictures president and CEO Kirk D’Amico said, "Amanda and Adrianne are perfectly cast as the two students who become almost more than friends before the truth about Alex is revealed. It’s sexy and scary, and we expect it to fall into the same genre category as films like Prom Night and Wild Things."
Crew most recently appeared in A Haunting in Connecticut and Final Destination 3 while Palicki has been a recurring player in The CW's "Supernatural" and will next be seen opposite Paul Bettany in Legion. Babbit's past...
- 10/31/2009
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki are set to star in "Breaking the Girl," a thriller which starts production in Canada next spring. Jamie Babbit ("The Quiet," "But I'm a Cheerleader" and TV's "The Gilmore Girls") is helming from the screenplay by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner. Story tells of a naive college student who loses her scholarship at the hands of a classmate. She makes a deal with a mysterious friend which involves offing each other's enemies. Crew was last seen in "A Haunting in Connecticut" and the roadtrip Summit Entertainment comedy "Sex Drive" alongside Josh Zuckerman and Clark Duke...
- 9/14/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Darren Lynn Bousman will take the helm of "Akula," a heist thriller financed by Constantine with Paul W.S. Anderson producing alongside Jeremy Bolt. Mark Distefano ("Friends and Enemies") wrote the screenplay which takes place on a submarine. Bousman said “the tone is dark, but very different from the films I’ve directed recently." Bousman last directed "Repo! The Genetic Opera" with Alexa Vega, Paris Hilton and Bill Moseley. Prior to that he had a big run with three "Saw" films in a row before David Hackl helmed the last effort. The Kansas born director and writer made his feature-length directorial debut on "Identity Lost" back in 2001 which he also wrote.
- 2/12/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Darren Bousman, the talented director behind Saw II, III, and IV as well as the cult classic Repo! The Genetic Opera, has decided to leave the horror genre behind for his next project. Over the last year, Bousman has mention in interviews that his next movie would be in the action genre and definitely not horror, but he's never revealed what it would be. Just as Bousman finishes the last leg of his Repo! road tour, details have finally been revealed regarding the project, titled Akula, and only described as a heist film set on a submarine. "The tone is dark, but very different from the films I've directed recently." The script for Akula was originally written by Mark Distefano, of only Friends and Enemies previously; Alex Litvak is currently working on a rewrite. Jeremy Bolt and Paul W.S. Anderson are producing for Constantin Film. The project was originally known...
- 2/12/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Darren Lynn Bousman will take the helm of "Akula," a heist thriller financed by Constantine with Paul W.S. Anderson producing alongside Jeremy Bolt. Mark Distefano ("Friends and Enemies") wrote the screenplay which takes place on a submarine. Bousman said “the tone is dark, but very different from the films I’ve directed recently." Bousman last directed "Repo! The Genetic Opera" with Alexa Vega, Paris Hilton and Bill Moseley. Prior to that he had a big run with three "Saw" films in a row before David Hackl helmed...
- 2/12/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Darren Lynn Bousman will take the helm of "Akula," a heist thriller financed by Constantine with Paul W.S. Anderson producing alongside Jeremy Bolt. Mark Distefano ("Friends and Enemies") wrote the screenplay which takes place on a submarine. Bousman said “the tone is dark, but very different from the films I’ve directed recently." Bousman last directed "Repo! The Genetic Opera" with Alexa Vega, Paris Hilton and Bill Moseley. Prior to that he had a big run with three "Saw" films in a row before David Hackl helmed...
- 2/12/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Darren Lynn Bousman, who has made a living over the last few years directing three installments in the popular Saw franchise, has signed on to Akula, a heist thriller scripted by Mark Distefano (Friends and Enemies). There are no plot details available, expect to say it’s a heist flick that takes place on a Submarine. Bousman also revealed that the tone is dark, but very different from his previous films. Constantin Film Produktion, the company behind Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race and Resident Evil trilogy is financing the project. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt (Doa: Dead or Alive) are on board as producers. The script is currently going through a rewrite by Alex Litvak. Bousman’s last film was the horror-musical Repo! The Genetic Opera. The flick opened in limited release last November and starred Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head, Sarah Brightman, Bill Moseley and Paris Hilton. No...
- 2/12/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
New Line Cinema has picked up Mark Distefano's untitled modern Sherlock Holmes spec in a mid-six-figure deal with Benderspink attached to produce. Described as a thriller with a historical hook, the script centers on a rookie New York cop who discovers he is the descendant of the legendary sleuth. While Holmes' great-great-grandson does not share his last name, he does share his unique ability and quickly rises up the ranks to detective. But when his true heritage becomes tabloid fodder, a copycat criminal emerges and re-enacts many of the crimes Holmes once solved, putting the descendant to the test.
- 5/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New Line Cinema has picked up Mark Distefano's untitled modern Sherlock Holmes spec in a mid-six-figure deal with Benderspink attached to produce. Described as a thriller with a historical hook, the script centers on a rookie New York cop who discovers he is the descendant of the legendary sleuth. While Holmes' great-great-grandson does not share his last name, he does share his unique ability and quickly rises up the ranks to detective. But when his true heritage becomes tabloid fodder, a copycat criminal emerges and re-enacts many of the crimes Holmes once solved, putting the descendant to the test.
- 5/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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