Emile Hirsch’s bright red hair and freckles in his new film “Peel” has made him innocent, naive and estranged from his family, but he is still the “most decent person” you’ll meet.
In this charming, emotional and quirky coming of age story, Hirsch plays Peel, a young man who goes on a road trip to reconnect with his long-lost, brown-haired brothers after his mother’s death.
“Everyone would tease me and say my hair was red because my mom had an affair with the pool boy,” Hirsch says in the first trailer for “Peel,” which TheWrap has obtained exclusively. “She told me I sprouted from an orange peel.”
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After being abandoned by his father at a young age and raised in near isolation by a loving yet emotionally unstable and over-protective mother,...
In this charming, emotional and quirky coming of age story, Hirsch plays Peel, a young man who goes on a road trip to reconnect with his long-lost, brown-haired brothers after his mother’s death.
“Everyone would tease me and say my hair was red because my mom had an affair with the pool boy,” Hirsch says in the first trailer for “Peel,” which TheWrap has obtained exclusively. “She told me I sprouted from an orange peel.”
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After being abandoned by his father at a young age and raised in near isolation by a loving yet emotionally unstable and over-protective mother,...
- 4/29/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The dead do not rest in peace in the new supernatural movie Between Worlds. Starring Nicolas Cage and Franka Potente, Between Worlds recently had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest (you can read Heather Wixson's review here), and it will soon be coming to theaters and On Demand in the Us.
Written and directed by Maria Pulera, and produced by Eric Banoun, David Hillary, and Maria Pulera, Between Worlds stars Nicolas Cage, Franka Potente, Penelope Mitchell, Garrett Clayton, Lydia Hearst, Brit Shaw, and Hopper Penn.
Between Worlds will be released in New York City, Los Angeles, and other Us cities on December 21st, following an On Demand release on December 18th. You can watch the official trailer below, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's interview with writer/director Pulera.
"Nicolas Cage stars in this twist-filled supernatural thriller that follows Joe (Cage), a struggling truck driver haunted...
Written and directed by Maria Pulera, and produced by Eric Banoun, David Hillary, and Maria Pulera, Between Worlds stars Nicolas Cage, Franka Potente, Penelope Mitchell, Garrett Clayton, Lydia Hearst, Brit Shaw, and Hopper Penn.
Between Worlds will be released in New York City, Los Angeles, and other Us cities on December 21st, following an On Demand release on December 18th. You can watch the official trailer below, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's interview with writer/director Pulera.
"Nicolas Cage stars in this twist-filled supernatural thriller that follows Joe (Cage), a struggling truck driver haunted...
- 11/15/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
IFC Films has picked up U.S. rights to “Charlie Says,” about three young women who fell under Charles Manson’s spell and carried out a series of brutal murders, including that of Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski’s pregnant wife. The company announced the deal on Monday.
The film, which premiered earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival, was directed by Mary Harron (“American Psycho”) from a script penned by Guinevere Turner (“American Psycho”). The film is based on Ed Sanders’ 1971 bestselling book “The Family.”
Matt Smith stars as the infamous Charles Manson alongside Suki Waterhouse, Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon, Marianne Rendon and Merritt Wever.
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The film follows three young women who were sentenced to death in the Manson murder case. But after the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment.
The film, which premiered earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival, was directed by Mary Harron (“American Psycho”) from a script penned by Guinevere Turner (“American Psycho”). The film is based on Ed Sanders’ 1971 bestselling book “The Family.”
Matt Smith stars as the infamous Charles Manson alongside Suki Waterhouse, Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon, Marianne Rendon and Merritt Wever.
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The film follows three young women who were sentenced to death in the Manson murder case. But after the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment.
- 9/10/2018
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to “Charlie Says,” the Manson Family drama that recently world premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The movie is directed by “American Psycho” helmer Mary Harron and stars Matt Smith as the infamous killer Charles Manson.
In a deal believed to be in the seven figures, IFC beat out bidders such as A24, Momentum and Rlj Entertainment.
Written by Guinevere Turner and based on Ed Sanders’ 1971 bestselling book “The Family,” “Charlie Says” focuses on the three young women who fell under Manson’s spell and carried out a series of savage murders on his orders in 1969, including that of Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski’s pregnant wife. The women were given death sentences, later changed to life in prison. “Charlie Says” depicts their psychological rehabilitation as they faced the reality of their crimes.
The movie is headlined by Smith, Suki Waterhouse, Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon,...
In a deal believed to be in the seven figures, IFC beat out bidders such as A24, Momentum and Rlj Entertainment.
Written by Guinevere Turner and based on Ed Sanders’ 1971 bestselling book “The Family,” “Charlie Says” focuses on the three young women who fell under Manson’s spell and carried out a series of savage murders on his orders in 1969, including that of Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski’s pregnant wife. The women were given death sentences, later changed to life in prison. “Charlie Says” depicts their psychological rehabilitation as they faced the reality of their crimes.
The movie is headlined by Smith, Suki Waterhouse, Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon,...
- 9/10/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
It wasn’t too long ago that news broke out of Sundance that Saban Films had acquired Lizzie, and now the company has obtained the Us distribution rights to a new supernatural thriller starring Nicolas Cage called Between Worlds.
Press Release: Los Angeles – Saban Films, who has been one of the most active U.S. distributors on the Croisette this week, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to writer/director Maria Pulera’s supernatural thriller Between Worlds which stars Nicolas Cage, Penelope Mitchell, Franka Potente, and Hopper Penn. Eric Banoun and David Hillary produced alongside Pulera via their company Rise Up, LLC. Saban Films is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release.
Between Worlds follows Joe (Cage), a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets Julie (Potente) a spiritually gifted woman who enlists Joe in a desperate effort to find the lost soul of her comatose daughter,...
Press Release: Los Angeles – Saban Films, who has been one of the most active U.S. distributors on the Croisette this week, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to writer/director Maria Pulera’s supernatural thriller Between Worlds which stars Nicolas Cage, Penelope Mitchell, Franka Potente, and Hopper Penn. Eric Banoun and David Hillary produced alongside Pulera via their company Rise Up, LLC. Saban Films is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release.
Between Worlds follows Joe (Cage), a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets Julie (Potente) a spiritually gifted woman who enlists Joe in a desperate effort to find the lost soul of her comatose daughter,...
- 5/17/2018
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Saban Films has bought U.S. distribution rights to writer/director Maria Pulera’s supernatural thriller “Between Worlds,” starring Nicolas Cage, Penelope Mitchell, Franka Potente, and Hopper Penn.
Eric Banoun and David Hillary produced alongside Pulera through their company Rise Up LLC. Saban is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release.
Cage portrays a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets a spiritually gifted woman, played by Potente, who enlists him in a desperate effort to find the lost soul of her comatose daughter (Mitchell). But the spirit of his dead wife proves stronger, possessing the young woman’s body.
Saban’s Bill Bromiley said, “Nic’s talent and star power is unparalleled. Having worked with him on a number of films such as ‘The Trust’ and ‘USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage,’ we’re thrilled to be re-teaming with him and bring this to our audiences.
Eric Banoun and David Hillary produced alongside Pulera through their company Rise Up LLC. Saban is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release.
Cage portrays a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets a spiritually gifted woman, played by Potente, who enlists him in a desperate effort to find the lost soul of her comatose daughter (Mitchell). But the spirit of his dead wife proves stronger, possessing the young woman’s body.
Saban’s Bill Bromiley said, “Nic’s talent and star power is unparalleled. Having worked with him on a number of films such as ‘The Trust’ and ‘USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage,’ we’re thrilled to be re-teaming with him and bring this to our audiences.
- 5/15/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Saban Films has picked up the U.S. rights to Nicolas Cage’s supernatural thriller “Between Worlds,” the distributor announced Tuesday.
Writer/director Maria Pulera’s film also stars Penelope Mitchell, Franka Potente and Hopper Penn. Eric Banoun and David Hillary produced alongside Pulera through their company Rise Up, LLC.
Saban Films is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release for “Between Worlds.”
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“Between Worlds” follows Joe (Cage), a truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets spiritually gifted woman Julie (Potente) who tries to find the lost soul of his comatose daughter. But the spirit of Joe’s dead wife is stronger and possessing the young woman’s body.
“Nic’s talent and star-power is unparalleled,” said Saban Films’ Bill Bromiley. “Having worked with him on a number of...
Writer/director Maria Pulera’s film also stars Penelope Mitchell, Franka Potente and Hopper Penn. Eric Banoun and David Hillary produced alongside Pulera through their company Rise Up, LLC.
Saban Films is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release for “Between Worlds.”
Also Read: Helen Mirren's 'Berlin, I Love You' Sells to Saban Films
“Between Worlds” follows Joe (Cage), a truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets spiritually gifted woman Julie (Potente) who tries to find the lost soul of his comatose daughter. But the spirit of Joe’s dead wife is stronger and possessing the young woman’s body.
“Nic’s talent and star-power is unparalleled,” said Saban Films’ Bill Bromiley. “Having worked with him on a number of...
- 5/15/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Nicolas Cage’s supernatural thriller Between Worlds is heading to the U.S. after Saban Films continued its busy weeks in Cannes.
The company has picked up U.S. distribution rights to Maria Pulera’s film, which also stars The Vampire Diaries’ Penelope Mitchell, The Bourne Supremacy’s Franka Potente and War Machine’s Hopper Penn. It is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release.
The film, which is produced by Eric Banoun and David Hillary alongside Pulera via their company Rise Up, follows Joe, played by Cage, a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets Julie, played by Potente, a spiritually gifted woman who enlists Joe in a desperate effort to find the lost soul of her comatose daughter, Billie, played by Mitchell. But the spirit of Joe’s dead wife Mary proves stronger, possessing the young woman’s body and determined...
The company has picked up U.S. distribution rights to Maria Pulera’s film, which also stars The Vampire Diaries’ Penelope Mitchell, The Bourne Supremacy’s Franka Potente and War Machine’s Hopper Penn. It is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release.
The film, which is produced by Eric Banoun and David Hillary alongside Pulera via their company Rise Up, follows Joe, played by Cage, a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets Julie, played by Potente, a spiritually gifted woman who enlists Joe in a desperate effort to find the lost soul of her comatose daughter, Billie, played by Mitchell. But the spirit of Joe’s dead wife Mary proves stronger, possessing the young woman’s body and determined...
- 5/15/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Saban Film has picked up U.S. distribution rights to writer-director Maria Pulera’s supernatural thriller Between Worlds, which stars Nicolas Cage (National Treasure, Ghost Rider), Penelope Mitchell (The Vampire Diaries, Hemlock Grove), Franka Potente (The Conjuring 2, The Bourne Supremacy) and Hopper Penn (War Machine, The Last Face).
Eric Banoun and David Hillary produced alongside Pulera via their company Rise Up. Saban Films is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release.
Between Worlds follows Joe (Cage), a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets Julie (Potente) a spiritually gifted woman who enlists Joe in a...
Eric Banoun and David Hillary produced alongside Pulera via their company Rise Up. Saban Films is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release.
Between Worlds follows Joe (Cage), a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets Julie (Potente) a spiritually gifted woman who enlists Joe in a...
- 5/15/2018
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Saban Film has picked up U.S. distribution rights to writer-director Maria Pulera’s supernatural thriller <em>Between Worlds,</em> which stars Nicolas Cage (<i>National Treasure</i>, <i>Ghost Rider</i>), Penelope Mitchell (<em>The Vampire Diaries</em>, <em>Hemlock Grove</em>), Franka Potente (<em>The Conjuring 2</em>, <em>The Bourne Supremacy</em>) and Hopper Penn (<i>War Machine</i>, <i>The Last Face</i>).
Eric Banoun and David Hillary produced alongside Pulera via their company Rise Up. Saban Films is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release.
<i>Between Worlds</i> follows Joe (Cage), a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets Julie (Potente) a spiritually gifted woman who enlists Joe in a desperate effort to ...
Eric Banoun and David Hillary produced alongside Pulera via their company Rise Up. Saban Films is planning a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release.
<i>Between Worlds</i> follows Joe (Cage), a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child. He meets Julie (Potente) a spiritually gifted woman who enlists Joe in a desperate effort to ...
- 5/15/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Popular and lucrative UK event cinema experience Secret Cinema says its next show will be its biggest yet. The firm’s Romeo + Juliet screening will transform a secret outdoor London location into a “multi-layered world of Verona Beach.” Expect live bands, DJs, choirs and artists and a possible audience of 5,000 during the 11-day run.
Rodrigo Teixeira’s Rt Features and Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions are re-teaming to produce and finance two debut features: Danielle Lessovitz’s NY-set trans love story Port Authority and Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Murina. The duo had A Ciambra in Directors’ Fortnight last year and they launched an emerging talent company together in 2014.
Writer, director, producer Maria Pulera (Falsely Accused) is launching production and distribution company Rise Up with partners Eric Banoun and David Hillary. The company is backed by a Spanish-Israeli finance fund. First out of the gate was thriller Between Worlds, the...
Rodrigo Teixeira’s Rt Features and Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions are re-teaming to produce and finance two debut features: Danielle Lessovitz’s NY-set trans love story Port Authority and Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Murina. The duo had A Ciambra in Directors’ Fortnight last year and they launched an emerging talent company together in 2014.
Writer, director, producer Maria Pulera (Falsely Accused) is launching production and distribution company Rise Up with partners Eric Banoun and David Hillary. The company is backed by a Spanish-Israeli finance fund. First out of the gate was thriller Between Worlds, the...
- 5/10/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Maria Pulera, director of Nicolas Cage-starrer “Between Worlds,” has launched Rise Up, a production-distribution house, partnering with Eric Banoun and David Hillary.
A supernatural thriller, “Between Worlds” makes its market debut at Cannes, sold by Voltage Pictures. Backed by a Spanish-Israeli finance fund, Rise Up has offices in Los Angeles, Marbella and Tel Aviv. Distribution will focus on Europe, Asia and U.S.
Beyond “Between Worlds,” its first production, Rise Up is set to produce Spanish neo-Noir “El Matador,” written by Pulera and scheduled to roll this July in Spain’s Marbella.
Also on Rise Up’s first slate: “Johnny Thunders,” a biopic of the American punk rock hero from Jonas Akerlund (“Lords of Chaos”); and “The Clean Up,” described as a “dark, sexy, funny, violent contemporary noir thriller,” with Alex Turner directing; post WWII-set “No-No Boy”; and “When the Nines Were Sixes,” a coming-of-age tale from Joshua Evans.
A supernatural thriller, “Between Worlds” makes its market debut at Cannes, sold by Voltage Pictures. Backed by a Spanish-Israeli finance fund, Rise Up has offices in Los Angeles, Marbella and Tel Aviv. Distribution will focus on Europe, Asia and U.S.
Beyond “Between Worlds,” its first production, Rise Up is set to produce Spanish neo-Noir “El Matador,” written by Pulera and scheduled to roll this July in Spain’s Marbella.
Also on Rise Up’s first slate: “Johnny Thunders,” a biopic of the American punk rock hero from Jonas Akerlund (“Lords of Chaos”); and “The Clean Up,” described as a “dark, sexy, funny, violent contemporary noir thriller,” with Alex Turner directing; post WWII-set “No-No Boy”; and “When the Nines Were Sixes,” a coming-of-age tale from Joshua Evans.
- 5/9/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Nicolas Cage is heading to the Cannes Film Festival this year, and he’s looking mighty grisly. Cage stars in a mystery titled “Between Worlds,” in which the actor plays a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife. “Between Worlds” is the second feature film from Maria Pulera; the first was a 2016 thriller starring Rosanna Arquette called “Falsely Accused.” In addition to Cage, the rest of the cast includes “Run Lola Run” star Franka Potente, Penelope Mitchell (upcoming “Hellboy”), Hopper Penn (“War Machine”), and Lydia Hearst.
Per the official synopsis: “At a way station on a lonely highway, a man obsessed with the death of his wife and daughter meets Julie (Potente), a spiritually gifted woman who enlists him in a desperate attempt to recover the lost soul of her comatose daughter, Billie (Mitchell). Billie suddenly awakens in Joe’s presence, but she’s not herself — her body...
Per the official synopsis: “At a way station on a lonely highway, a man obsessed with the death of his wife and daughter meets Julie (Potente), a spiritually gifted woman who enlists him in a desperate attempt to recover the lost soul of her comatose daughter, Billie (Mitchell). Billie suddenly awakens in Joe’s presence, but she’s not herself — her body...
- 5/8/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Fortitude International handles non-us sales in Berlin.
Matt Smith, Hannah Murray, Odessa Young and Marianne Rendón have joined the cast of Mary Harron’s Charles Manson drama Charlie Says, which Fortitude International is selling at the Efm in Berlin.
The new additions joined previously announced alongside Merritt Wever, Carla Gugino, Kayli Carter, and Suki Waterhouse, who stars in Sundance hit Assassination Nation.
Harron reunites with her American Psycho writing partner Guinevere Turner on the tale of a graduate student sent to teach three young women involved with Manson who had been sentenced to death.
Turner wrote the screenplay based on source material from Ed Sanders’ 1971 best-selling book The Family, as well as The Long Prison Journey Of Leslie Van Houten, written by Karlene Faith.
Roxwell Films’ Jeremy M. Rosen produces with Kevin Shulman. Dana Guerin, Michael Guerin, David Hillary and Ed Sanders serve as executive producers.
“Guinevere Turner’s script brings a fresh and unique perspective to the infamous...
Matt Smith, Hannah Murray, Odessa Young and Marianne Rendón have joined the cast of Mary Harron’s Charles Manson drama Charlie Says, which Fortitude International is selling at the Efm in Berlin.
The new additions joined previously announced alongside Merritt Wever, Carla Gugino, Kayli Carter, and Suki Waterhouse, who stars in Sundance hit Assassination Nation.
Harron reunites with her American Psycho writing partner Guinevere Turner on the tale of a graduate student sent to teach three young women involved with Manson who had been sentenced to death.
Turner wrote the screenplay based on source material from Ed Sanders’ 1971 best-selling book The Family, as well as The Long Prison Journey Of Leslie Van Houten, written by Karlene Faith.
Roxwell Films’ Jeremy M. Rosen produces with Kevin Shulman. Dana Guerin, Michael Guerin, David Hillary and Ed Sanders serve as executive producers.
“Guinevere Turner’s script brings a fresh and unique perspective to the infamous...
- 2/6/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based sales outfit Versatile acquires sales rights on transgender drama; CAA reps Us.
Paris-based sales agent Versatile has acquired international rights to Tranzloco, the directorial debut of Will De Los Santos (Spun).
Rosie Perez (Five Nights In Maine) is in talks to star alongside Jonny Beauchamp (Penny Dreadful) and Alex Meraz (Suicide Squad) in the story of two brothers from East Los Angeles who, along with their friends, clash with a group of transgender locals.
The ensemble cast also includes Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Mama), Bar Paly (Pain and Gain), Dustin Ybarra (21 and Over), Danny Trejo (Machete), and Crispin Glover (Alice in Wonderland).
Chris Hanley (American Psycho) is producing under his Muse Productions banner with David Hillary (Dog Eat Dog), Wendy Benge (Life After Beth) and Jonathan Fong. Bradford L. Schlei (Swingers) is executive producing.
Hanley said: “We are very excited that Will De Los Santos will join the ranks of Sofia Coppola, Jonas Åkerlund, [link...
Paris-based sales agent Versatile has acquired international rights to Tranzloco, the directorial debut of Will De Los Santos (Spun).
Rosie Perez (Five Nights In Maine) is in talks to star alongside Jonny Beauchamp (Penny Dreadful) and Alex Meraz (Suicide Squad) in the story of two brothers from East Los Angeles who, along with their friends, clash with a group of transgender locals.
The ensemble cast also includes Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Mama), Bar Paly (Pain and Gain), Dustin Ybarra (21 and Over), Danny Trejo (Machete), and Crispin Glover (Alice in Wonderland).
Chris Hanley (American Psycho) is producing under his Muse Productions banner with David Hillary (Dog Eat Dog), Wendy Benge (Life After Beth) and Jonathan Fong. Bradford L. Schlei (Swingers) is executive producing.
Hanley said: “We are very excited that Will De Los Santos will join the ranks of Sofia Coppola, Jonas Åkerlund, [link...
- 11/5/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based sales outfit Versatile acquires sales rights on transgender drama; CAA reps Us.
Paris-based sales agent Versatile has acquired international rights to Tranzloco, the directorial debut of Will De Los Santos (Spun).
Rosie Perez (Five Nights In Maine) is in talks to star alongside Jonny Beauchamp (Penny Dreadful) and Alex Meraz (Suicide Squad) in the story of two brothers from East Los Angeles who, along with their friends, clash with a group of transgender locals.
The ensemble cast also includes Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Mama), Bar Paly (Pain and Gain), Dustin Ybarra (21 and Over), Danny Trejo (Machete), and Crispin Glover (Alice in Wonderland).
Chris Hanley (American Psycho) is producing under his Muse Productions banner with David Hillary (Dog Eat Dog), Wendy Benge (Life After Beth) and Jonathan Fong. Bradford L. Schlei (Swingers) is executive producing.
Hanley said: “We are very excited that Will De Los Santos will join the ranks of Sofia Coppola, Jonas Åkerlund, [link...
Paris-based sales agent Versatile has acquired international rights to Tranzloco, the directorial debut of Will De Los Santos (Spun).
Rosie Perez (Five Nights In Maine) is in talks to star alongside Jonny Beauchamp (Penny Dreadful) and Alex Meraz (Suicide Squad) in the story of two brothers from East Los Angeles who, along with their friends, clash with a group of transgender locals.
The ensemble cast also includes Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Mama), Bar Paly (Pain and Gain), Dustin Ybarra (21 and Over), Danny Trejo (Machete), and Crispin Glover (Alice in Wonderland).
Chris Hanley (American Psycho) is producing under his Muse Productions banner with David Hillary (Dog Eat Dog), Wendy Benge (Life After Beth) and Jonathan Fong. Bradford L. Schlei (Swingers) is executive producing.
Hanley said: “We are very excited that Will De Los Santos will join the ranks of Sofia Coppola, Jonas Åkerlund, [link...
- 11/5/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based sales outfit Versatile acquires sales rights on transgender drama; CAA reps Us.
Paris-based sales agent Versatile has acquired international rights to Tranzloco, the directorial debut of Will De Los Santos (Spun).
Rosie Perez (Five Nights In Maine) is attached to star alongside Jonny Beauchamp (Penny Dreadful) and Alex Meraz (Suicide Squad) in the story of two brothers from East Los Angeles who, along with their friends, clash with a group of transgender locals.
The ensemble cast also includes Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Mama), Bar Paly (Pain and Gain), Dustin Ybarra (21 and Over), Danny Trejo (Machete), and Crispin Glover (Alice in Wonderland).
Chris Hanley (American Psycho) is producing under his Muse Productions banner with David Hillary (Dog Eat Dog), Wendy Benge (Life After Beth) and Jonathan Fong. Bradford L. Schlei (Swingers) is executive producing.
Hanley said: “We are very excited that Will De Los Santos will join the ranks of Sofia Coppola, Jonas Åkerlund, [link...
Paris-based sales agent Versatile has acquired international rights to Tranzloco, the directorial debut of Will De Los Santos (Spun).
Rosie Perez (Five Nights In Maine) is attached to star alongside Jonny Beauchamp (Penny Dreadful) and Alex Meraz (Suicide Squad) in the story of two brothers from East Los Angeles who, along with their friends, clash with a group of transgender locals.
The ensemble cast also includes Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Mama), Bar Paly (Pain and Gain), Dustin Ybarra (21 and Over), Danny Trejo (Machete), and Crispin Glover (Alice in Wonderland).
Chris Hanley (American Psycho) is producing under his Muse Productions banner with David Hillary (Dog Eat Dog), Wendy Benge (Life After Beth) and Jonathan Fong. Bradford L. Schlei (Swingers) is executive producing.
Hanley said: “We are very excited that Will De Los Santos will join the ranks of Sofia Coppola, Jonas Åkerlund, [link...
- 11/5/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based sales outfit Versatile acquires sales on transgender drama.
Paris-based sales agent Versatile has acquired international rights to Tranzloco, the directorial debut of Will De Los Santos (Spun).
Rosie Perez (Five Nights In Maine) is attached to star alongside Jonny Beauchamp (Penny Dreadful) and Alex Meraz (Suicide Squad) in the story of two brothers from East Los Angeles who, along with their friends, clash with a group oftransgender locals.
The ensemble cast also includes Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Mama), Bar Paly (Pain and Gain), Dustin Ybarra (21 and Over), Danny Trejo (Machete), and Crispin Glover (Alice in Wonderland).
Chris Hanley (American Psycho) is producing under his Muse Productions banner with David Hillary (Dog Eat Dog), Wendy Benge (Life After Beth) and Jonathan Fong. Bradford L. Schlei (Swingers) is executive producing.
Hanley said: “We are very excited that Will De Los Santos will join the ranks of Sofia Coppola, Jonas Åkerlund, Vincent Gallo and [link...
Paris-based sales agent Versatile has acquired international rights to Tranzloco, the directorial debut of Will De Los Santos (Spun).
Rosie Perez (Five Nights In Maine) is attached to star alongside Jonny Beauchamp (Penny Dreadful) and Alex Meraz (Suicide Squad) in the story of two brothers from East Los Angeles who, along with their friends, clash with a group oftransgender locals.
The ensemble cast also includes Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Mama), Bar Paly (Pain and Gain), Dustin Ybarra (21 and Over), Danny Trejo (Machete), and Crispin Glover (Alice in Wonderland).
Chris Hanley (American Psycho) is producing under his Muse Productions banner with David Hillary (Dog Eat Dog), Wendy Benge (Life After Beth) and Jonathan Fong. Bradford L. Schlei (Swingers) is executive producing.
Hanley said: “We are very excited that Will De Los Santos will join the ranks of Sofia Coppola, Jonas Åkerlund, Vincent Gallo and [link...
- 11/5/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Paul Schrader’s action thriller has found a home in the run-up to its North American premiere in Toronto next month.
Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook star in Dog Eat Dog, which is based on the novel by Edward Bunker and written by screenwriter Matthew Wilder.
Dog Eat Dog premiered in Cannes and centres on a botched kidnapping in which three ex-cons get on the wrong side of the Mob. The first Toronto screening is September 8.
Rlj entertainment negotiated the deal with Adme and plans a theatrical and VOD release in November.
Mark Earl Burman, Gary Hamilton, Brian Beckmann and David Hillary produced and Jeremy Rosen, Jeff Caperton, Barney Burman, Ray Mansfield, Shaun Redick, Donald Rivers, Michael McClung and Tim Peternel served as executive producers.
Jeanne Fields acted as executor of the Edward Bunker estate.
Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook star in Dog Eat Dog, which is based on the novel by Edward Bunker and written by screenwriter Matthew Wilder.
Dog Eat Dog premiered in Cannes and centres on a botched kidnapping in which three ex-cons get on the wrong side of the Mob. The first Toronto screening is September 8.
Rlj entertainment negotiated the deal with Adme and plans a theatrical and VOD release in November.
Mark Earl Burman, Gary Hamilton, Brian Beckmann and David Hillary produced and Jeremy Rosen, Jeff Caperton, Barney Burman, Ray Mansfield, Shaun Redick, Donald Rivers, Michael McClung and Tim Peternel served as executive producers.
Jeanne Fields acted as executor of the Edward Bunker estate.
- 8/25/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
(Their last collaboration "Dying of the Light" was taken over and edited by the distributor.) Arclight Films and Pure Dopamine made the announcement Saturday at Cannes. "Dog Eat Dog" will start production in L.A. in October. Schrader ("Light Sleeper") and Matt Wilder are adapting the contemporary thriller novel "Dog Eat Dog" by Eddie Bunker, about three ex-cons from the underbelly of L.A. who are hired for a kidnapping. When the abduction is botched they go on the run, vowing to stay out of prison. “Ed Bunker is the crime writer's crime writer. He's in the pantheon and one of the main people who define modern crime writing,” said Schrader. “He lived the life and lived to tell the story. 'Dog Eat Dog' is Bunker at his best.” Producers are Mark Earl Burman and David Hillary of Pure Dopamine. Executive Producers are Gary Hamilton, Don Rivers, Tim Peternel,...
- 5/16/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Nicolas Cage is set to re-team with his "Leaving Las Vegas”" director Mike Figgis on thriller "Exit 147" at Umedia. Shooting begins in January.
Travis Milloy ("Pandorum") penned the script in which Cage will star as a cop with a warped sense of justice. He arrests an abusive partner of a woman and all three become embroiled in a series of sadistic mind games.
Cage has also joined the cast of Paul Schrader's contemporary crime thriller "Dog Eat Dog" at Arclight Films. Schrader and Matt Wilder penned the script while Mark Earl Burman and David Hillary will produce.
An adaptation of Eddie Bunker's award-winning book, the story follows a trio of Los Angeles based ex-cons hired for a kidnapping. When the botched abduction goes awry, the cons find themselves on the run.
Source: Variety...
Travis Milloy ("Pandorum") penned the script in which Cage will star as a cop with a warped sense of justice. He arrests an abusive partner of a woman and all three become embroiled in a series of sadistic mind games.
Cage has also joined the cast of Paul Schrader's contemporary crime thriller "Dog Eat Dog" at Arclight Films. Schrader and Matt Wilder penned the script while Mark Earl Burman and David Hillary will produce.
An adaptation of Eddie Bunker's award-winning book, the story follows a trio of Los Angeles based ex-cons hired for a kidnapping. When the botched abduction goes awry, the cons find themselves on the run.
Source: Variety...
- 5/16/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
To mark the release of Small Apartments on DVD Monday 29th, we’ve got 5 copies to give away where the first person to be drawn from the digital hat will also win an A2 poster.
Franklin Franklin (Lucas) plays the alphorn and dreams of Switzerland. His crazy brother sends him fingernail clippings in the mail. One of his neighbours is a forgetful pot-head, the other a gruff busy-body who doesn’t miss anything. Across the street live a mother and her fifteen-year-old daughter, whom he likes to watch from his window, but none of these are Franklin’s real problem. The real problem is his landlord; lying dead on the kitchen floor. Switzerland seems further and further away.
Small Apartments was written by Chris Millis and based on his novel. It was produced by Ash R. Shah,
Timothy Wayne Peternel, David Hillary and Bonnie Timmermann. Ben Feingold executive produced, along with
John Glynn,...
Franklin Franklin (Lucas) plays the alphorn and dreams of Switzerland. His crazy brother sends him fingernail clippings in the mail. One of his neighbours is a forgetful pot-head, the other a gruff busy-body who doesn’t miss anything. Across the street live a mother and her fifteen-year-old daughter, whom he likes to watch from his window, but none of these are Franklin’s real problem. The real problem is his landlord; lying dead on the kitchen floor. Switzerland seems further and further away.
Small Apartments was written by Chris Millis and based on his novel. It was produced by Ash R. Shah,
Timothy Wayne Peternel, David Hillary and Bonnie Timmermann. Ben Feingold executive produced, along with
John Glynn,...
- 7/26/2013
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Matt Lucas (Alice In Wonderland, Bridesmaids) leads a hilarious allstar cast in the new comedy Small Apartments, available February 19th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Directed by award-winning film and music video director Jonas Åkerlund (Spun, Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi”), the film premiered at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival. Nick Nunziata of Chud.com hailed the film, saying “They don’t make them like this anymore. Actually they’ve never made them like this before.”
Lucas appears in his first leading role as “Franklin Franklin,” a clumsy recluse who embarks on a hapless cover-up after accidentally killing his landlord. Also starring in the film is Billy Crystal (When Harry Met Sally), Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises), James Marsden (X-Men: The Last Stand), Peter Stormare (Fargo), Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction), Dolph Lundgren (The Expendables), Rosie Perez (Pineapple Express), and Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect), with James Caan (The Godfather) and...
Lucas appears in his first leading role as “Franklin Franklin,” a clumsy recluse who embarks on a hapless cover-up after accidentally killing his landlord. Also starring in the film is Billy Crystal (When Harry Met Sally), Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises), James Marsden (X-Men: The Last Stand), Peter Stormare (Fargo), Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction), Dolph Lundgren (The Expendables), Rosie Perez (Pineapple Express), and Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect), with James Caan (The Godfather) and...
- 2/13/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has acquired rights for North America and most international territories to the Jonas Åkerlund-directed “Small Apartments,” which happens to feature an appearance by newly popular funnygirl Rebel Wilson (“Pitch Perfect,” “Bridesmaids”). The crime comedy had its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in March. Read More: Jonas Akerlund Talks His Busy 2011, Making Bizarro New Feature 'Small Apartments' Along with 34 Commercials and 5 Music Videos Matt Lucas, Wilson, James Caan, Billy Crystal, Johnny Knoxville, Dolph Lundgren, James Marsden, Juno Temple and Rosie Perez star in the story of a recluse who accidentally kills his landlord and then has to deal with the eccentrics in his building and law enforcement as he tries to cover it up. Chris Millis wrote the screenplay. Ash R. Shah, Timothy Wayne Peternel, David Hillary and Bonnie Timmermann produced. Ben Feingold, John Glynn, Bridget...
- 10/15/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
#42. Yellow Director: Nick CassavetesWriters: Cassavetes and Heather WahlquistProducers: Jordan Gertner, Chris Hanley, David Hillary, Timothy Wayne PeternelDistributor: Seven Arts Entertainment and Gfm Films LLC The Gist: This is about a young woman whose drug habit isn’t the worst of her problems...(more) Cast: Lucy Punch, Sienna Miller, David Morse, Daveigh Chase, Elizabeth Daily, Melanie Griffith, Gena Rowlands, Max Thieriot, Riley Keough and Wahlquist List Worthy Reasons...: Going on year two, we've been anticipating the project when it was first announced (#61 in 2011) and oddly, somewhere along the way Ben Foster dropped out of this indie addiction drama (perhaps Rampart took its place?) which is a shame because he and Cassavetes worked out so well with his Alpha Dog character. On paper this is up our alley and we think this dark comedy might pan out to be an edgier, more worthwhile career choice for this Cassavetes. Release Date/Status?...
- 1/7/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
#58. Small Apartments - Jonas Akerland Another item that could end up in the Midnight in Park City section is the book to film adaptation of Small Apartments (see movie prop pic above). The 2003 festival edition saw Jonas Åkerlund showcase his first film Spun. The cast for his third picture is a nutty bunch -- it's toplined by Juno Temple and supported by a huge cast of misfit looking actors. Gist: Based on Chris Millis' novel and penned by the author himself, this is about a man surrounded by strange events and odd neighbors. Producers: David Hillary (Yellow), Timothy Wayne Peternel - Producer, Ash R. Shah - Producer, Bonnie Timmermann (Violet & Daisy)(Ioncinema.com Preview Page // IMDb Link) ...
- 11/12/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
#61. Yellow Director: Nick CassavetesWriter(s): Cassavetes and Heather WahlquistProducers: Jordan Gertner, Chris Hanley, David Hillary, Timothy Wayne PeternelDistributor: Rights Available. The Gist: This is about a young woman whose drug habit isn’t the worst of her problems.....(more) Cast: Ben Foster, Lucy Punch, Sienna Miller, Luke Wilson, Hank Azaria, David Morse, Daveigh Chase, Elizabeth Daily, Melanie Griffith, Gena Rowlands, Max Thieriot, Riley Keough, Heather Wahlquist List Worthy Reasons...: An indie addiction drama from the director who gave us My Sister's Keeper, The Notebook and John Q? Yup - the Cassavetes name can now be re-associated with independent film. Alpha Dog (the first time where I really took notice of Ben Foster) was Nick Cassavetes' more significant film of his filmography, and my thinking is with a rather large ensemble pitching in and a reunion with Foster for this to generate plenty of buzz. Release Date/Status?...
- 1/12/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- Bold Films is heading Into Hell. Dominic Morgan and Matthew Harvey have been hired to write the action thriller.
Hell revolves around a group of English soccer hooligans who travel to Istanbul for a match. The gang soon finds themselves in over their heads, however, when they get framed for a political assassination.
Producer Ian Carrington, who is producing with Bold's Miche Litvak and David Lancaster, helped develop the project with longtime friend and action star Jason Statham in mind. Once the script draft is complete, he plans to submit it to Statham, a star player on the United Hollywood soccer team he manages. Statham is in production on Transporter 3.
Carrington brought the project to Bold (Legion) with fellow producers Timothy Peternel and David Hillary of Deviant Films.
Bold's Gary Walters will executive produce the project, which is being overseen by the production/financing company's Jon Oakes.
Morgan and Harvey recently penned The Coral Sea for Working Title and The Twelfth Apostle for A Thousand Words and producer Palmer West.
Hell revolves around a group of English soccer hooligans who travel to Istanbul for a match. The gang soon finds themselves in over their heads, however, when they get framed for a political assassination.
Producer Ian Carrington, who is producing with Bold's Miche Litvak and David Lancaster, helped develop the project with longtime friend and action star Jason Statham in mind. Once the script draft is complete, he plans to submit it to Statham, a star player on the United Hollywood soccer team he manages. Statham is in production on Transporter 3.
Carrington brought the project to Bold (Legion) with fellow producers Timothy Peternel and David Hillary of Deviant Films.
Bold's Gary Walters will executive produce the project, which is being overseen by the production/financing company's Jon Oakes.
Morgan and Harvey recently penned The Coral Sea for Working Title and The Twelfth Apostle for A Thousand Words and producer Palmer West.
- 4/17/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- The reason there are so few successful screwball comedies anymore is that it's nearly impossible to create the right balance of goofiness and reality. Writer-director Geoffrey Haley's The Last Word is no exception.
The story of a sullen writer (Wes Bentley) who composes poetic epitaphs for people planning suicides and his ditzy girlfriend (Winona Ryder), the film pushes the eccentric without creating believable characters. Ryder's surprising flair for comedy and a few laughs along the way could give ThinkFilm some modest boxoffice returns, but Word is more likely to find its place as a cult item on home video.
As creepy movie professions go, Evan Merck's (Bentley) job as a poet for desperate souls looking for an exit poem before they check out is right up there. Evan clearly is a gifted writer but apparently has been bruised by life and prefers dealing with other people's suffering to his own. Other than a childhood in foster homes, Haley offers few details or backstory.
While Evan is paying his respects at the funeral of one of his clients, he meets the departed's sister, Charlotte (Ryder). When she contacts him, it's less complicated for him to say that he knew her brother from college than to try and explain what he really does.
But Charlotte is insistent and starts calling and showing up at his apartment, taking him to dinner and dancing. When Evan tells her he isn't funny, he really isn't kidding. Stiff as a board and pasty-faced, Bentley's Evan is a study in comatose; he's as emotionally dead as some of his clients.
The paring of these two unlikely partners is the kind of match that could only happen in movies. Evan is not vaguely appealing, and what Charlotte sees in him is the film's big mystery. For her part, Charlotte is a handful, but Ryder at least makes her sexy and likable -- in a manic way.
While Evan is spending much of his energy covering his tracks and creating lies so Charlotte doesn't discover how he really knew her brother, he is neglecting his other clients. Ray Romano, in a wry dramatic role, plays Abel, a serious music composer whose career hasn't gone well and has reduced him to recording jingles for phone messages. Abel is almost as morose as Evan, and the two form a kind of bond of futility. It's mildly amusing to see someone as ill-equipped as Abel giving Evan advice about love.
Unfortunately, the pieces don't really add up, and even the surprise ending with Evan enabling Abel's fondest wish isn't particularly satisfying. Haley and his team give the film a professional sheen, but less quirky and more reality would have made for a better picture.
THE LAST WORD
ThinkFilm
ThinkFilm, Deviant Films
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Geoffrey Haley
Producers: Bonnie Timmermann, Alexandra Milchan, David Bergstein, David Hillary, Timothy Wayne Peternel, Jack Utsick
Executive producers: Lawrence Davis, Jeff Rice, Gary Walters, Diego Matamoros
Director of photography: Kees Van Oostrum
Production designer: Erin Smith
Music: John Swihart
Costume designer: Bonnie Stauch
Editor: Fabienne Rawley
Cast:
Evan Merck: Wes Bentley
Charlotte Morris: Winona Ryder
Abel: Ray Romano
Francis: Alan Rich
Hilde Morris: Gina Hecht
Running time -- 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- The reason there are so few successful screwball comedies anymore is that it's nearly impossible to create the right balance of goofiness and reality. Writer-director Geoffrey Haley's The Last Word is no exception.
The story of a sullen writer (Wes Bentley) who composes poetic epitaphs for people planning suicides and his ditzy girlfriend (Winona Ryder), the film pushes the eccentric without creating believable characters. Ryder's surprising flair for comedy and a few laughs along the way could give ThinkFilm some modest boxoffice returns, but Word is more likely to find its place as a cult item on home video.
As creepy movie professions go, Evan Merck's (Bentley) job as a poet for desperate souls looking for an exit poem before they check out is right up there. Evan clearly is a gifted writer but apparently has been bruised by life and prefers dealing with other people's suffering to his own. Other than a childhood in foster homes, Haley offers few details or backstory.
While Evan is paying his respects at the funeral of one of his clients, he meets the departed's sister, Charlotte (Ryder). When she contacts him, it's less complicated for him to say that he knew her brother from college than to try and explain what he really does.
But Charlotte is insistent and starts calling and showing up at his apartment, taking him to dinner and dancing. When Evan tells her he isn't funny, he really isn't kidding. Stiff as a board and pasty-faced, Bentley's Evan is a study in comatose; he's as emotionally dead as some of his clients.
The paring of these two unlikely partners is the kind of match that could only happen in movies. Evan is not vaguely appealing, and what Charlotte sees in him is the film's big mystery. For her part, Charlotte is a handful, but Ryder at least makes her sexy and likable -- in a manic way.
While Evan is spending much of his energy covering his tracks and creating lies so Charlotte doesn't discover how he really knew her brother, he is neglecting his other clients. Ray Romano, in a wry dramatic role, plays Abel, a serious music composer whose career hasn't gone well and has reduced him to recording jingles for phone messages. Abel is almost as morose as Evan, and the two form a kind of bond of futility. It's mildly amusing to see someone as ill-equipped as Abel giving Evan advice about love.
Unfortunately, the pieces don't really add up, and even the surprise ending with Evan enabling Abel's fondest wish isn't particularly satisfying. Haley and his team give the film a professional sheen, but less quirky and more reality would have made for a better picture.
THE LAST WORD
ThinkFilm
ThinkFilm, Deviant Films
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Geoffrey Haley
Producers: Bonnie Timmermann, Alexandra Milchan, David Bergstein, David Hillary, Timothy Wayne Peternel, Jack Utsick
Executive producers: Lawrence Davis, Jeff Rice, Gary Walters, Diego Matamoros
Director of photography: Kees Van Oostrum
Production designer: Erin Smith
Music: John Swihart
Costume designer: Bonnie Stauch
Editor: Fabienne Rawley
Cast:
Evan Merck: Wes Bentley
Charlotte Morris: Winona Ryder
Abel: Ray Romano
Francis: Alan Rich
Hilde Morris: Gina Hecht
Running time -- 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Clifton Collins Jr., Cuba Gooding Jr. and Judy Reyes are getting Dirty for writer-director Chris Fisher. The three actors topline the indie feature, which is being produced by Deviant Film's David Hillary and Tim Peternel and Silver Nitrate's Ash Shah. Tory Kittles (Tigerland), Wyclef Jean and Wood Harris (The Wire) round out the cast. Collins and Gooding play gangbangers who are now dirty LAPD cops trying to cover their tracks in a precinct scandal. Reyes is an Internal Affairs officer. Principal photography began Tuesday. Fisher and Silver Nitrate previously teamed up on last year's The Hillside Strangler and 2002's Nightstalkers. Deviant's credits include Strangler as well as Spun and Dead Birds. Collins recently wrapped production on MGM's Capote, starring opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman, and lent his voice to video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. He is repped by CAA, Fenton Kritzer Entertainment and attorney David Krintzman. Gooding's credits include Radio, As Good as It Gets, and Jerry Maguire. He is repped by UTA and attorneys Jake Bloom and Ralph Brescia. Reyes is one of the stars of NBC's Scrubs. She is repped by Paradigm and Leverage Management.
Screened
Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- "I Love Your Work" is a movie directed and co-written by an actor, Adam Goldberg, that features many of his actor buddies. So what's it all about? It's about how awful it is to be an actor or, worse, a movie star and how an acting career can damage one's fragile psyche. Before you can even accuse the moviemaker and his pals of naval gazing, a "narcissism expert" appears on a TV talk show and turns to the movie's protagonist to lecture him about listening to other people and getting over his egocentricity. Of course, he doesn't listen to her.
However much this movie may speak to the current generation of actors, it has little to say to moviegoers. Goldberg's direction is all flash and no substance, and his story and characters offer little reason for viewers to empathize with such self-pitying characters. Because Goldberg borrows -- or believes he is borrowing -- from the stylistic flourishes of filmmakers ranging from David Lynch and John Cassavetes to Martin Scorsese and the French New Wave, the movie may stimulate cineastes who look for "references" in movies rather than originality. Otherwise, "I Love Your Work" will have little life off the festival circuit.
Giovanni Ribisi plays Gray Evans, a movie star whose life and marriage to fellow movie star Mia (Franka Potente) is falling apart. As Mia accurately points out to Gray: "You hate the business. You hate the rags. And you hate being a celebrity." No one bothers to ask why Gray pursues a career guaranteed to bring him so much grief.
Goldberg and co-writer Adrian Butchart try to establish layers of reality in order to play peekaboo with the narrative structure. So there is a movie being made within the movie. Gray's obsessions and fantasies may or may not be real. And he suffers many mental mix-ups wherein his wife turns into his ex-lover Shana (Christina Ricci) and Shana gets confused with Jane (Marisa Coughlan), the young girlfriend of one of Gray's fans, John (Joshua Jackson). But since no level of reality is given any substance or plausibility, the movie feels void of narrative purpose.
Gray, who exists on a diet of booze and tobacco, apparently goes to a premiere nearly every night. Yet every time a photographer's flash goes off, his face has the startled, horrified look of a deer caught in the headlights of an on-rushing car. Gray sees stalkers everywhere, to the amusement of his security expert (Jared Harris), who pads his bank account nicely by following up on every obsession. And every time Elvis Costello leaves a message on the answering machine for Mia, Gray goes into a jealous rage.
Meanwhile, Gray and Mia live a strange movie-star existence as they inhabit a cool, sterile loft above an aging movie theater. The only real twist to this film comes when the movie star essentially stalks his own fan. Gray's spying on John and Jane allows him to fantasize about what a "normal" life would be like. Yet he gleams no wisdom from his intrusion into their lives. Instead, his continual delusions and flawed memories offer Goldberg the opportunity to wallow in an impressionistic style, courtesy of cinematographer Mark Putnam's crisp, gloomy lighting, designer Erin Smith's antiseptic decors and editors Zack Bell and John Valerio's jumble of images culled from Gray's confused mind.
Goldberg's actors work hard, but the overwrought melodrama betrays their efforts. Ribisi, who has never looked less like a movie star, is too weird and affected from the opening scene to pull you into his character's turmoil and troubles. Potente, who does look like a movie star, comes off with dignity at least as a women struggling to cope with a failing marriage. Jackson, Coughlan and Ricci, all playing quasi-figments of Gray's imagination, can do little more than pose and react.
I LOVE YOUR WORK
Fireworks presents a Muse production in association with Cyan Pictures, Departure Entertainment, Miracle Mile Films, Rice/Walter Prods. in association with In Association With Prods.
Credits:
Director: Adam Goldberg
Screenwriters: Adam Goldberg, Adrian Butchart
Producers: Chris Hanley, David Hillary, Tim Peternel, Joshua Newman, Adam Goldberg
Executive producers: Daniel Diamond, Jay Firestone, Damon Martin, Chad Troutwine, Boro Vukadinovic
Director of photography: Mark Putnam
Production designer: Erin Smith
Music: Adam Goldberg, Stephen Drozd
Costume designer: Dawn Weisberg
Editors: Zack Bell, John Valerio
Cast:
Gray: Giovanni Ribisi
Mia: Franka Potente
Shana: Christina Ricci
John: Joshua Jackson
Jane: Marisa Coughlan
Yehud: Jared Harris
Stalker: Jason Lee
Running time -- 111 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- "I Love Your Work" is a movie directed and co-written by an actor, Adam Goldberg, that features many of his actor buddies. So what's it all about? It's about how awful it is to be an actor or, worse, a movie star and how an acting career can damage one's fragile psyche. Before you can even accuse the moviemaker and his pals of naval gazing, a "narcissism expert" appears on a TV talk show and turns to the movie's protagonist to lecture him about listening to other people and getting over his egocentricity. Of course, he doesn't listen to her.
However much this movie may speak to the current generation of actors, it has little to say to moviegoers. Goldberg's direction is all flash and no substance, and his story and characters offer little reason for viewers to empathize with such self-pitying characters. Because Goldberg borrows -- or believes he is borrowing -- from the stylistic flourishes of filmmakers ranging from David Lynch and John Cassavetes to Martin Scorsese and the French New Wave, the movie may stimulate cineastes who look for "references" in movies rather than originality. Otherwise, "I Love Your Work" will have little life off the festival circuit.
Giovanni Ribisi plays Gray Evans, a movie star whose life and marriage to fellow movie star Mia (Franka Potente) is falling apart. As Mia accurately points out to Gray: "You hate the business. You hate the rags. And you hate being a celebrity." No one bothers to ask why Gray pursues a career guaranteed to bring him so much grief.
Goldberg and co-writer Adrian Butchart try to establish layers of reality in order to play peekaboo with the narrative structure. So there is a movie being made within the movie. Gray's obsessions and fantasies may or may not be real. And he suffers many mental mix-ups wherein his wife turns into his ex-lover Shana (Christina Ricci) and Shana gets confused with Jane (Marisa Coughlan), the young girlfriend of one of Gray's fans, John (Joshua Jackson). But since no level of reality is given any substance or plausibility, the movie feels void of narrative purpose.
Gray, who exists on a diet of booze and tobacco, apparently goes to a premiere nearly every night. Yet every time a photographer's flash goes off, his face has the startled, horrified look of a deer caught in the headlights of an on-rushing car. Gray sees stalkers everywhere, to the amusement of his security expert (Jared Harris), who pads his bank account nicely by following up on every obsession. And every time Elvis Costello leaves a message on the answering machine for Mia, Gray goes into a jealous rage.
Meanwhile, Gray and Mia live a strange movie-star existence as they inhabit a cool, sterile loft above an aging movie theater. The only real twist to this film comes when the movie star essentially stalks his own fan. Gray's spying on John and Jane allows him to fantasize about what a "normal" life would be like. Yet he gleams no wisdom from his intrusion into their lives. Instead, his continual delusions and flawed memories offer Goldberg the opportunity to wallow in an impressionistic style, courtesy of cinematographer Mark Putnam's crisp, gloomy lighting, designer Erin Smith's antiseptic decors and editors Zack Bell and John Valerio's jumble of images culled from Gray's confused mind.
Goldberg's actors work hard, but the overwrought melodrama betrays their efforts. Ribisi, who has never looked less like a movie star, is too weird and affected from the opening scene to pull you into his character's turmoil and troubles. Potente, who does look like a movie star, comes off with dignity at least as a women struggling to cope with a failing marriage. Jackson, Coughlan and Ricci, all playing quasi-figments of Gray's imagination, can do little more than pose and react.
I LOVE YOUR WORK
Fireworks presents a Muse production in association with Cyan Pictures, Departure Entertainment, Miracle Mile Films, Rice/Walter Prods. in association with In Association With Prods.
Credits:
Director: Adam Goldberg
Screenwriters: Adam Goldberg, Adrian Butchart
Producers: Chris Hanley, David Hillary, Tim Peternel, Joshua Newman, Adam Goldberg
Executive producers: Daniel Diamond, Jay Firestone, Damon Martin, Chad Troutwine, Boro Vukadinovic
Director of photography: Mark Putnam
Production designer: Erin Smith
Music: Adam Goldberg, Stephen Drozd
Costume designer: Dawn Weisberg
Editors: Zack Bell, John Valerio
Cast:
Gray: Giovanni Ribisi
Mia: Franka Potente
Shana: Christina Ricci
John: Joshua Jackson
Jane: Marisa Coughlan
Yehud: Jared Harris
Stalker: Jason Lee
Running time -- 111 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Screened
Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- "I Love Your Work" is a movie directed and co-written by an actor, Adam Goldberg, that features many of his actor buddies. So what's it all about? It's about how awful it is to be an actor or, worse, a movie star and how an acting career can damage one's fragile psyche. Before you can even accuse the moviemaker and his pals of naval gazing, a "narcissism expert" appears on a TV talk show and turns to the movie's protagonist to lecture him about listening to other people and getting over his egocentricity. Of course, he doesn't listen to her.
However much this movie may speak to the current generation of actors, it has little to say to moviegoers. Goldberg's direction is all flash and no substance, and his story and characters offer little reason for viewers to empathize with such self-pitying characters. Because Goldberg borrows -- or believes he is borrowing -- from the stylistic flourishes of filmmakers ranging from David Lynch and John Cassavetes to Martin Scorsese and the French New Wave, the movie may stimulate cineastes who look for "references" in movies rather than originality. Otherwise, "I Love Your Work" will have little life off the festival circuit.
Giovanni Ribisi plays Gray Evans, a movie star whose life and marriage to fellow movie star Mia (Franka Potente) is falling apart. As Mia accurately points out to Gray: "You hate the business. You hate the rags. And you hate being a celebrity." No one bothers to ask why Gray pursues a career guaranteed to bring him so much grief.
Goldberg and co-writer Adrian Butchart try to establish layers of reality in order to play peekaboo with the narrative structure. So there is a movie being made within the movie. Gray's obsessions and fantasies may or may not be real. And he suffers many mental mix-ups wherein his wife turns into his ex-lover Shana (Christina Ricci) and Shana gets confused with Jane (Marisa Coughlan), the young girlfriend of one of Gray's fans, John (Joshua Jackson). But since no level of reality is given any substance or plausibility, the movie feels void of narrative purpose.
Gray, who exists on a diet of booze and tobacco, apparently goes to a premiere nearly every night. Yet every time a photographer's flash goes off, his face has the startled, horrified look of a deer caught in the headlights of an on-rushing car. Gray sees stalkers everywhere, to the amusement of his security expert (Jared Harris), who pads his bank account nicely by following up on every obsession. And every time Elvis Costello leaves a message on the answering machine for Mia, Gray goes into a jealous rage.
Meanwhile, Gray and Mia live a strange movie-star existence as they inhabit a cool, sterile loft above an aging movie theater. The only real twist to this film comes when the movie star essentially stalks his own fan. Gray's spying on John and Jane allows him to fantasize about what a "normal" life would be like. Yet he gleams no wisdom from his intrusion into their lives. Instead, his continual delusions and flawed memories offer Goldberg the opportunity to wallow in an impressionistic style, courtesy of cinematographer Mark Putnam's crisp, gloomy lighting, designer Erin Smith's antiseptic decors and editors Zack Bell and John Valerio's jumble of images culled from Gray's confused mind.
Goldberg's actors work hard, but the overwrought melodrama betrays their efforts. Ribisi, who has never looked less like a movie star, is too weird and affected from the opening scene to pull you into his character's turmoil and troubles. Potente, who does look like a movie star, comes off with dignity at least as a women struggling to cope with a failing marriage. Jackson, Coughlan and Ricci, all playing quasi-figments of Gray's imagination, can do little more than pose and react.
I LOVE YOUR WORK
Fireworks presents a Muse production in association with Cyan Pictures, Departure Entertainment, Miracle Mile Films, Rice/Walter Prods. in association with In Association With Prods.
Credits:
Director: Adam Goldberg
Screenwriters: Adam Goldberg, Adrian Butchart
Producers: Chris Hanley, David Hillary, Tim Peternel, Joshua Newman, Adam Goldberg
Executive producers: Daniel Diamond, Jay Firestone, Damon Martin, Chad Troutwine, Boro Vukadinovic
Director of photography: Mark Putnam
Production designer: Erin Smith
Music: Adam Goldberg, Stephen Drozd
Costume designer: Dawn Weisberg
Editors: Zack Bell, John Valerio
Cast:
Gray: Giovanni Ribisi
Mia: Franka Potente
Shana: Christina Ricci
John: Joshua Jackson
Jane: Marisa Coughlan
Yehud: Jared Harris
Stalker: Jason Lee
Running time -- 111 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- "I Love Your Work" is a movie directed and co-written by an actor, Adam Goldberg, that features many of his actor buddies. So what's it all about? It's about how awful it is to be an actor or, worse, a movie star and how an acting career can damage one's fragile psyche. Before you can even accuse the moviemaker and his pals of naval gazing, a "narcissism expert" appears on a TV talk show and turns to the movie's protagonist to lecture him about listening to other people and getting over his egocentricity. Of course, he doesn't listen to her.
However much this movie may speak to the current generation of actors, it has little to say to moviegoers. Goldberg's direction is all flash and no substance, and his story and characters offer little reason for viewers to empathize with such self-pitying characters. Because Goldberg borrows -- or believes he is borrowing -- from the stylistic flourishes of filmmakers ranging from David Lynch and John Cassavetes to Martin Scorsese and the French New Wave, the movie may stimulate cineastes who look for "references" in movies rather than originality. Otherwise, "I Love Your Work" will have little life off the festival circuit.
Giovanni Ribisi plays Gray Evans, a movie star whose life and marriage to fellow movie star Mia (Franka Potente) is falling apart. As Mia accurately points out to Gray: "You hate the business. You hate the rags. And you hate being a celebrity." No one bothers to ask why Gray pursues a career guaranteed to bring him so much grief.
Goldberg and co-writer Adrian Butchart try to establish layers of reality in order to play peekaboo with the narrative structure. So there is a movie being made within the movie. Gray's obsessions and fantasies may or may not be real. And he suffers many mental mix-ups wherein his wife turns into his ex-lover Shana (Christina Ricci) and Shana gets confused with Jane (Marisa Coughlan), the young girlfriend of one of Gray's fans, John (Joshua Jackson). But since no level of reality is given any substance or plausibility, the movie feels void of narrative purpose.
Gray, who exists on a diet of booze and tobacco, apparently goes to a premiere nearly every night. Yet every time a photographer's flash goes off, his face has the startled, horrified look of a deer caught in the headlights of an on-rushing car. Gray sees stalkers everywhere, to the amusement of his security expert (Jared Harris), who pads his bank account nicely by following up on every obsession. And every time Elvis Costello leaves a message on the answering machine for Mia, Gray goes into a jealous rage.
Meanwhile, Gray and Mia live a strange movie-star existence as they inhabit a cool, sterile loft above an aging movie theater. The only real twist to this film comes when the movie star essentially stalks his own fan. Gray's spying on John and Jane allows him to fantasize about what a "normal" life would be like. Yet he gleams no wisdom from his intrusion into their lives. Instead, his continual delusions and flawed memories offer Goldberg the opportunity to wallow in an impressionistic style, courtesy of cinematographer Mark Putnam's crisp, gloomy lighting, designer Erin Smith's antiseptic decors and editors Zack Bell and John Valerio's jumble of images culled from Gray's confused mind.
Goldberg's actors work hard, but the overwrought melodrama betrays their efforts. Ribisi, who has never looked less like a movie star, is too weird and affected from the opening scene to pull you into his character's turmoil and troubles. Potente, who does look like a movie star, comes off with dignity at least as a women struggling to cope with a failing marriage. Jackson, Coughlan and Ricci, all playing quasi-figments of Gray's imagination, can do little more than pose and react.
I LOVE YOUR WORK
Fireworks presents a Muse production in association with Cyan Pictures, Departure Entertainment, Miracle Mile Films, Rice/Walter Prods. in association with In Association With Prods.
Credits:
Director: Adam Goldberg
Screenwriters: Adam Goldberg, Adrian Butchart
Producers: Chris Hanley, David Hillary, Tim Peternel, Joshua Newman, Adam Goldberg
Executive producers: Daniel Diamond, Jay Firestone, Damon Martin, Chad Troutwine, Boro Vukadinovic
Director of photography: Mark Putnam
Production designer: Erin Smith
Music: Adam Goldberg, Stephen Drozd
Costume designer: Dawn Weisberg
Editors: Zack Bell, John Valerio
Cast:
Gray: Giovanni Ribisi
Mia: Franka Potente
Shana: Christina Ricci
John: Joshua Jackson
Jane: Marisa Coughlan
Yehud: Jared Harris
Stalker: Jason Lee
Running time -- 111 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Independent film outfit Departure Entertainment has signed a production deal with producer David Hillary (Spun) with the hope of producing 10-15 films per year. The deal follows on the heels of a partnership on two films: the Ash-directed This Girl's Life starring James Woods, Rosario Dawson and Kip Pardue, and I Love Your Work, co-written and directed by Adam Goldberg. The company plans to announce several projects to fall under the deal with Hillary in the coming weeks.
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