Read More: Toronto International Film Festival Announces Documentary Slate; Frederick Wiseman and Amy Berg Features Top List Hollywood has long struggled to launch a definitive biopic dedicated to iconic singer-songwriter Janis Joplin, with various incarnations cycling through a number of statues over the years (at last count, Jean-Marc Vallee's Amy Adams-starring feature had been delayed by a lawsuit leveled by the film's producers against producer-writer Ron Terry, simply another road block on an exceedingly bumpy path to getting this story to the big screen), and Amy Berg's documentary "Janis: Little Girl Blue" seeks to speak to the cinematic value of Joplin's life in a tangible way. Despite Berg's proven ability to dig deeply into intriguing stories -- often aided by enviable access, of which "Janis: Little Girl Blue" has plenty -- her latest doc lacks the piercing insight Berg is typically able to convey in her features, and the result is a mostly.
- 9/18/2015
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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Oh Hai Tommy Wiseau. You’re making something of a comeback, aren’t you? Several months back we reported that you were working on a TV sitcom that you had written, directed, and starred in (naturally) called The Neighbors, but that in the same way that you would start throwing around a football and then completely forget about it a moment later, it seemed like that was just a whim. Sure enough, The Neighbors was picked up on Hulu, and this week you did a Reddit Ama to promote it. Looks like people are finally starting to recognize your genius.
Stepping away from my conversation with Mr. Wiseau for a moment, if you’ve ever actually gotten an opportunity to attend a late night screening...
Oh Hai Tommy Wiseau. You’re making something of a comeback, aren’t you? Several months back we reported that you were working on a TV sitcom that you had written, directed, and starred in (naturally) called The Neighbors, but that in the same way that you would start throwing around a football and then completely forget about it a moment later, it seemed like that was just a whim. Sure enough, The Neighbors was picked up on Hulu, and this week you did a Reddit Ama to promote it. Looks like people are finally starting to recognize your genius.
Stepping away from my conversation with Mr. Wiseau for a moment, if you’ve ever actually gotten an opportunity to attend a late night screening...
- 3/20/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Sometimes it feels like God doesn.t want there to be a Janis Joplin biopic. It.s already been a bumpy ride for Get It While You Can, now set to be directed by Dallas Buyers Club helmer Jean-Marc Villeu and starring Amy Adams, but it just hit another big speedbump as the producers of the picture have actually sued to stop the production. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lkl Productions, along with a Swiss company called Silver Reel, have brought a suit against Ron Terry, who wrote and is producing the picture, and two other companies. The report states that the complaint, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that Terry breached their option agreement for the script, and they.re seeking an injunction to halt production. In August 2014 they say they paid $117,000 for exclusive rights to the script, which Ron Terry wrote with Teresa Kounin-Terry, his wife.
- 3/19/2015
- cinemablend.com
The long-in-the-works Janis Joplin biopic starring Amy Adams, Get It While You Can, has hit yet another developmental snag: The film's producers, Lkl Productions and the Switzerland-based Silver Reel, have sued writer-producer Ron Terry, his affiliated companies and the investment company Chesterton Capital, claiming the latter three have breached the terms of their option agreement, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Lkl and Silver Reel reportedly bought the rights for Get It While You Can for $117,000 in August 2014, but the plaintiffs claim that Terry and Co. have violated the terms of...
Lkl and Silver Reel reportedly bought the rights for Get It While You Can for $117,000 in August 2014, but the plaintiffs claim that Terry and Co. have violated the terms of...
- 3/19/2015
- Rollingstone.com
The Janis Joplin biopic set to star Amy Adams has been in development for years. Now a new lawsuit aims to stop that development, at least temporarily. Lkl Productions and Swiss production company Silver Reel have sued writer-producer Ron Terry, his affiliated companies Morace and Get It While You Can, and a lending firm that invested in the film, claiming they've breached their option agreement for the script about the hard-living rock 'n' roll queen. Read the full complaint. They claim they paid $117,000 for the exclusive rights in August 2014 to the script Get It While You Can, which
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- 3/18/2015
- by Austin Siegemund-Broka
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For a performer whose career was so short-lived, Janis Joplin has been hugely influential and such a largely contentious figure in the world of music. We’ve recently gotten a Jimi Hendrix biopic, along with music stories about everyone from the short lived (Ian Curtis, Jim Morrison, John Lennon) to the long-living legends (Johnny Cash, Ray Charles), so it makes sense that a Joplin biopic is long past due.
Late last week, Deadline was breaking news that Jean-Marc Vallee had signed on to direct Get it While You Can, the working title for a Janis Joplin film with Amy Adams attached to star and sing in the film. This would be Vallee’s fourth film following Dallas Buyers Club, the upcoming Wild, and the just-wrapped Demolition.
Adams is terrific casting, and Vallee is promising, but we’ve been down this road before, and a new director attached is no closer...
Late last week, Deadline was breaking news that Jean-Marc Vallee had signed on to direct Get it While You Can, the working title for a Janis Joplin film with Amy Adams attached to star and sing in the film. This would be Vallee’s fourth film following Dallas Buyers Club, the upcoming Wild, and the just-wrapped Demolition.
Adams is terrific casting, and Vallee is promising, but we’ve been down this road before, and a new director attached is no closer...
- 11/25/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
After helping Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto to Oscar success with Dallas Buyers Club, director Jean-Marc Vallee is back in gong season with this year’s Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon. And he’s already looking ahead to more potential awards bait, entering negotiations to direct the long-developing Janis Joplin biopic with Amy Adams in the lead.Joplin’s storied life and music career has been a fascination for filmmakers for years: at one point there were competing projects warbling their way through development. And in its time, the Joplin biopic has attracted the likes of Lee Daniels, Catherine Hardwicke and Fernando Meirelles, with Renée Zellweger seriously interested in the lead.Adams, of course, has the singing ability and has proven her acting chops, so she seems like a good fit. And this current iteration of the project boasts the potential for a reunion of the Dallas Buyers Club creative team,...
- 11/23/2014
- EmpireOnline
Jean-Marc Vallee ("Dallas Buyers Club," "Wild") is in talks to direct Amy Adams in the long-in-development biopic about musician Janis Joplin.
Joplin began recording songs in 1964 before breaking out three years later as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company. Dying of a drug overdose in 1970 at the age of 27, Joplin remains one of the most iconic American female recording artists of her era.
Adams has been attached to play the late singer for several years, but Vallee is freshly attached and replaces the previously rumored Lee Daniels at the helm.
Vallee is also bringing along his "Dallas Buyers Club" screenwriters Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack to pen a new draft of Ron Terry and Theresa Kounin-Terry's script.
Nathan Ross will produce and filming begins next Summer in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Source: Variety...
Joplin began recording songs in 1964 before breaking out three years later as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company. Dying of a drug overdose in 1970 at the age of 27, Joplin remains one of the most iconic American female recording artists of her era.
Adams has been attached to play the late singer for several years, but Vallee is freshly attached and replaces the previously rumored Lee Daniels at the helm.
Vallee is also bringing along his "Dallas Buyers Club" screenwriters Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack to pen a new draft of Ron Terry and Theresa Kounin-Terry's script.
Nathan Ross will produce and filming begins next Summer in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Source: Variety...
- 11/22/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The creative team behind Dallas Buyers Club is reuniting to tackle the Janis Joplin biopic. Jean-Marc Vallee is in negotiations to direct the decades-in-the-making project while Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack are in negotiations to rewrite. Amy Adams is attached to star as the hard-living queen of rock 'n' roll. Ron Terry is producing with Nathan Ross, Vallee's producing partner. This is the latest development for a biopic that has seen several directors come and go over the years. Lee Daniels boarded the project in 2012; before that, Fernando Meirelles and Catherine Hardwicke were attached as
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- 11/21/2014
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Though it might have seemed like the Amy Adams-starring Janis Joplin biopic, Get It While You Can, was permanently stalled out after years of back and forth, THR now reports that its gotten fresh life thanks to the addition of a new director. The outlet reports that recently-revitalized Precious helmer Lee Daniels is currently in talks to direct the tragic rock n’ roll film, with Adams still set to star in the project (whole years after her first attachment). The script has been penned by producer Ron Terry and his wife Theresa Kounin-Terry. Adams has been attached to star in the film since back in July of 2010, when Fernando Meirelles was set to direct the project. At one point, Catherine Hardwicke was also once rumored for the directing gig. The film will be independently financed, but THR also reports rumors that “there have been preliminary talks with Focus Features about coming on board, though...
- 10/17/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Amy Adams' name has long been attached to a Janis Joplin biopic titled Get It While You Can . Today, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the feature is moving forward and that Lee Daniels ( Precious , The Paperboy ) is in talks to direct. Joplin, an iconic young singer-songwriter of the 1960's, had her life tragically cut short at age 27 due to a heroin overdose. "Get It While You Can" was one of three hit singles the following year, alongside "Cry Baby" and "Me and Bobby McGee." Daniels is currently filming The Butler while Adams can next be seen in On the Road and next summer as Lois Lane in Zack Snyder's Superman reboot Man of Steel . Robert Katz, Andrew Sugerman and Ron Terry will produce Get It While You Can with Jay Tobin...
- 10/17/2012
- Comingsoon.net
It would seem that director Lee Daniels took a liking to biopics while making The Butler this past summer, as he is now close to signing on to another one. The Oscar nominated filmmaker is currently in talks to helm Get It While You Can, the long in development movie about the life and times of music legend Janis Joplin. Even though the movie has never made it to the production stages, the project is legendary for constantly being brought up but never made. It was even the subject of a season-long joke on the NBC series 30 Rock. THR says that Amy Adams, who recently starred in both Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and the baseball drama Trouble With The Curve, is attached to play Joplin in the movie and they will be working from a script written by Ron Terry and Theresa Kounin-Terry. The film is expected to...
- 10/17/2012
- cinemablend.com
Lee Daniels is in talks to direct the independently-financed Janis Joplin biopic "Get It While You Can" which has Amy Adams attached to star says The Hollywood Reporter.
A hard-living singer, Joplin created numerous rock classics like "Piece of My Heart" and became one of the faces of 1960's counterculture. She died of a heroin overdose in 1970.
Robert Katz, Andrew Sugerman and Ron Terry are producing. Terry wrote the screenplay with his wife, Theresa Kounin-Terry, and shooting aims to begin early next year.
Fernando Meirelles and Catherine Hardwicke have previously been attached as directors.
A hard-living singer, Joplin created numerous rock classics like "Piece of My Heart" and became one of the faces of 1960's counterculture. She died of a heroin overdose in 1970.
Robert Katz, Andrew Sugerman and Ron Terry are producing. Terry wrote the screenplay with his wife, Theresa Kounin-Terry, and shooting aims to begin early next year.
Fernando Meirelles and Catherine Hardwicke have previously been attached as directors.
- 10/17/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Lee Daniels is in talks to direct Get It While You Can, a Janis Joplin biopic that has Amy Adams attached to star as the queen of rock 'n' roll. Robert Katz and Andrew Sugerman are producing along with Ron Terry, who wrote the screenplay with his wife, Theresa Kounin-Terry. Jay Tobin is exec producing. Photos: The 27 Club: 6 Artists Who Were Gone Too Soon Joplin was the hard-living singer behind such rock classics as "Piece of My Heart" and "Me and Bobby McGee." She crested on the wave of the 1960s counterculture as one of
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- 10/16/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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