Genre writer Mark Wheaton (Friday the 13th remake, The Messengers) is about to see one of his best stories, Sunday Billy Sunday, adapted into a feature film, and we have the who, what, where, when, and how for ya! We're good like that!
From the Press Release:
Music video director Morna Ciraki will make her feature directing debut with the horror film Sunday Billy Sunday, having optioned the self-published indie bestseller from screenwriter Mark Wheaton, who has penned the adaptation. The film is intended for a 2012 festival release.
A novel of religious hysteria, Sunday Billy Sunday tells the story of a Dallas-area priest, Father Billy Acosta, who believes he’s been shown a miracle by God. Instead of being uplifted, ensuing weeks of doubt make him demand to see a second one. Driven crazy by what he feels is God's silence, he heads to his church's East Texas summer camp...
From the Press Release:
Music video director Morna Ciraki will make her feature directing debut with the horror film Sunday Billy Sunday, having optioned the self-published indie bestseller from screenwriter Mark Wheaton, who has penned the adaptation. The film is intended for a 2012 festival release.
A novel of religious hysteria, Sunday Billy Sunday tells the story of a Dallas-area priest, Father Billy Acosta, who believes he’s been shown a miracle by God. Instead of being uplifted, ensuing weeks of doubt make him demand to see a second one. Driven crazy by what he feels is God's silence, he heads to his church's East Texas summer camp...
- 6/2/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Heather Graham and Dylan McDermott have joined the cast of Brad Isaacs' 1960s period drama A West Texas Children's Story.
The indie film, from Thom Mount's Whitsett Hill Entertainment, revolves around two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to improve their lives after living with abusive parents. AnnaSophia Robb (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Cayden Boyd (X-Men: The Last Stand) play the children.
Graham and McDermott play the girl's beatnik aunt and uncle who teach the children about their alternative lifestyle. Lara Flynn Boyle and Matthew Modine play the boy's parents. Val Kilmer also is in the film, which marks a directorial debut for Isaacs.
Based on an original screenplay by Isaacs (writer on Roseanne, Newhart and The Larry Sanders Show), Texas is filming in Albuquerque, N.M.
Boulevard Pictures, the film arm of Whitsett Hill Entertainment, and Miami-based Wolfgang Cinema are financing the film. Peace Arch Films is handling foreign distribution.
The indie film, from Thom Mount's Whitsett Hill Entertainment, revolves around two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to improve their lives after living with abusive parents. AnnaSophia Robb (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Cayden Boyd (X-Men: The Last Stand) play the children.
Graham and McDermott play the girl's beatnik aunt and uncle who teach the children about their alternative lifestyle. Lara Flynn Boyle and Matthew Modine play the boy's parents. Val Kilmer also is in the film, which marks a directorial debut for Isaacs.
Based on an original screenplay by Isaacs (writer on Roseanne, Newhart and The Larry Sanders Show), Texas is filming in Albuquerque, N.M.
Boulevard Pictures, the film arm of Whitsett Hill Entertainment, and Miami-based Wolfgang Cinema are financing the film. Peace Arch Films is handling foreign distribution.
- 10/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Burnt Orange Prods., the Austin, Texas-based production company, will begin production in June of the film A West Texas Children's Story. Brad Isaacs has written the screenplay and will direct for producers Polly Platt and Carolyn Pfeiffer and executive producers Tom Schatz, Morna Ciraki and Thom Mount. Burnt Orange, a public/private joint venture of the University of Texas at Austin, will produce the film with the Mount Film Co. The film chronicles the journey of two runaway 12-year-olds.
- 2/14/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The WB Network has officially picked up Spelling Television's drama Summerland for midseason. The project starring Lori Loughlin has received a 12-episode order, which will bring the total number of episodes produced to 13, including the pilot. The deal on Summerland came after almost two months of negotiations between the WB and the Paramount-based Spelling. Those negotiations started after the network and Warner Bros. Television decided to shelve its planned Gilmore Girls spinoff in June because of high production costs (HR 7/7). Based on an idea by Loughlin, Summerland centers on a single career woman and her friends who become a surrogate family to her sister's three kids after the sister and her husband are killed. The series is executive produced by Stephen Tolkin, Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent and Brad Isaacs. Loughlin serves as a producer.
- 8/17/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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