The world premiere of Don Cheadle’s directorial debut will close the 53rd New York Film Festival on October 11.
Miles Ahead bookends the festival with Robert Zemeckis’ previously announced opener The Walk.
Daniel Wagner’s BiFrost Pictures financed the project in association with Ingenious and Sobini Films and UTA packaged and represents Us rights to the film, which chronicles the life of the jazz pioneer in the late 1970s in Manhattan as he deals with sycophants, industry executives, career highs and lows and memories of the love of his life, Frances Taylor.
Cheadle stars opposite Emayatzy Corinealdi and Ewan McGregor and also produced with Pamela Hirsch, Lenore Zeman, Daniel Wagner, Robert Barnum, Vince Willburn and Daryl Porter. Im Global handled international sales.
“I admire Don’s film because of all the intelligent decisions he’s made about how to deal with Miles, but I was moved – deeply moved – by Miles Ahead for other reasons,” said [link=nm...
Miles Ahead bookends the festival with Robert Zemeckis’ previously announced opener The Walk.
Daniel Wagner’s BiFrost Pictures financed the project in association with Ingenious and Sobini Films and UTA packaged and represents Us rights to the film, which chronicles the life of the jazz pioneer in the late 1970s in Manhattan as he deals with sycophants, industry executives, career highs and lows and memories of the love of his life, Frances Taylor.
Cheadle stars opposite Emayatzy Corinealdi and Ewan McGregor and also produced with Pamela Hirsch, Lenore Zeman, Daniel Wagner, Robert Barnum, Vince Willburn and Daryl Porter. Im Global handled international sales.
“I admire Don’s film because of all the intelligent decisions he’s made about how to deal with Miles, but I was moved – deeply moved – by Miles Ahead for other reasons,” said [link=nm...
- 7/23/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
While putting my early Oscar predictions together I included Don Cheadle's directorial debut Miles Ahead, in which he not only directs but stars in the life story of Miles Davis, on my Best Actor (Cheadle) and Best Supporting Actress (Emayatzy Corinealdi) charts, but not on the Best Picture charts because the film is still without a domestic distributor and therefore without a release date and I didn't want to get too far ahead of myself. Well, the film is now set to premiere at the 53rd New York Film Festival as the closing night feature, which may be just the thing it needs to get a little buzz going. The announcement also comes with the following information regarding the story the film set out to tell: Miles Davis was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. And how do you make a movie about himc You get...
- 7/22/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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