Exclusive: Josh Swindell, a former pro skater who is set to be the central subject of a forthcoming skating biopic from MindRiot Entertainment, has signed with The Bks Agency in London.
The agency will handle Swindell’s literary representation and they are currently out to publishers with Swindell’s memoir, which is the basis of MindRiot’s biopic.
Swindell was one of the most celebrated pro skaters of his generation and had been regarded as the future of the sport by grandees such as Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, and Steve Caballero. He also crossed over into motocross and is still sponsored by Vans. In October 1995, however, Swindell was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of Keith Ogden, whom he beat to death outside a bar in Azusa, California. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison and was released in 2012 after spending almost 20 years behind bars. The case...
The agency will handle Swindell’s literary representation and they are currently out to publishers with Swindell’s memoir, which is the basis of MindRiot’s biopic.
Swindell was one of the most celebrated pro skaters of his generation and had been regarded as the future of the sport by grandees such as Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, and Steve Caballero. He also crossed over into motocross and is still sponsored by Vans. In October 1995, however, Swindell was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of Keith Ogden, whom he beat to death outside a bar in Azusa, California. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison and was released in 2012 after spending almost 20 years behind bars. The case...
- 5/2/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: MindRiot Entertainment, the transatlantic indie behind Danielle Deadwyler’s Parallel, and the upcoming OceanGate pic Salvaged is moving into production on Trash Talk, a docuseries about NBA Hall-Of-Famer Gary Payton.
Filmmaker Scott Waugh will direct the series. Cameras are set to officially begin rolling Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee, where Payton will make an appearance at the Ama Supercross Championship.
Specific details on the series and its focus are currently under wraps, but MindRiot COO Randa Minkarah told Deadline that audiences “will get to see Payton aka “The Glove” — whose legendary athletic grit and tongue was showcased on Netflix’s The Last Dance – talk trash while on horseback with rodeo cowboys, fly fishing with producer John Dietsch (A River Runs Through It), and maybe even go head to head selling cookies with a bad-ass troupe of kids.”
MindRiot founder Jonathan Keasey and the company’s Head of Sports Content,...
Filmmaker Scott Waugh will direct the series. Cameras are set to officially begin rolling Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee, where Payton will make an appearance at the Ama Supercross Championship.
Specific details on the series and its focus are currently under wraps, but MindRiot COO Randa Minkarah told Deadline that audiences “will get to see Payton aka “The Glove” — whose legendary athletic grit and tongue was showcased on Netflix’s The Last Dance – talk trash while on horseback with rodeo cowboys, fly fishing with producer John Dietsch (A River Runs Through It), and maybe even go head to head selling cookies with a bad-ass troupe of kids.”
MindRiot founder Jonathan Keasey and the company’s Head of Sports Content,...
- 4/15/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Simon Rex (Red Rocket) is joining Rose Byrne, Octavia Spencer, Ariana DeBose, Dominic Sessa and Demi Lovato in Stephanie Laing’s Tow, which is currently in production.
Tow will tell the true story of Amanda Ogle, an unhoused Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held it all together after receiving a tow bill for $21,634. Ogle also serves as an executive producer.
The original screenplay is written by Jonathan Keasey, Brant Boivin, and Annie Weisman. The Exchange acquired international sales rights and CAA Media Finance will rep domestic.
Producers are Byrne, Laing, via her newly launched Cake or Death Pictures, Brent Stiefel and Justin Lothrop of Votiv Films and Brian O’Shea and Danyelle Foord of The Exchange. Executive producers include DeBose, Jonathan Keasey, Jonathan Tropper, Ogle, Josh Ricks, and Danny Gusman, Nat McCormick and Giovanna Trischitta of The Exchange,...
Tow will tell the true story of Amanda Ogle, an unhoused Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held it all together after receiving a tow bill for $21,634. Ogle also serves as an executive producer.
The original screenplay is written by Jonathan Keasey, Brant Boivin, and Annie Weisman. The Exchange acquired international sales rights and CAA Media Finance will rep domestic.
Producers are Byrne, Laing, via her newly launched Cake or Death Pictures, Brent Stiefel and Justin Lothrop of Votiv Films and Brian O’Shea and Danyelle Foord of The Exchange. Executive producers include DeBose, Jonathan Keasey, Jonathan Tropper, Ogle, Josh Ricks, and Danny Gusman, Nat McCormick and Giovanna Trischitta of The Exchange,...
- 4/9/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (The Help) is joining Rose Byrne, Ariana DeBose, Dominic Sessa and Demi Lovato in Stephanie Laing’s feature Tow, which is now in production.
As we first revealed, Tow charts the true story of Amanda Ogle, a homeless Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held it all together after receiving a tow bill for $21,634. Ogle also serves as an executive producer on the film.
The original screenplay is written by Jonathan Keasey, Brant Boivin, and Annie Weisman. The Exchange is handling international sales and CAA Media Finance is repping domestic.
Producers are Byrne, Laing, via her newly launched Cake or Death Pictures, Brent Stiefel and Justin Lothrop of Votiv Films and Brian O’Shea and Danyelle Foord of The Exchange. Executive producers include DeBose, Jonathan Keasey, Jonathan Tropper, Ogle, Josh Ricks, and Danny Gusman,...
As we first revealed, Tow charts the true story of Amanda Ogle, a homeless Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held it all together after receiving a tow bill for $21,634. Ogle also serves as an executive producer on the film.
The original screenplay is written by Jonathan Keasey, Brant Boivin, and Annie Weisman. The Exchange is handling international sales and CAA Media Finance is repping domestic.
Producers are Byrne, Laing, via her newly launched Cake or Death Pictures, Brent Stiefel and Justin Lothrop of Votiv Films and Brian O’Shea and Danyelle Foord of The Exchange. Executive producers include DeBose, Jonathan Keasey, Jonathan Tropper, Ogle, Josh Ricks, and Danny Gusman,...
- 4/4/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Ariana DeBose has joined Rose Byrne, Dominic Sessa and Demi Lovato in Stephanie Laing’s Tow, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama will center on a real-life unhoused woman, Amanda Ogle (Byrne), who fought her way out of tow-company hell in Seattle through the courts to reclaim her old car and life after receiving a tow bill for $21,634. Ogle also serves as an executive producer on the film, which has The Exchange handling international sales and CAA Media Finance representing the U.S. rights.
The Tow screenplay is written by Jonathan Keasey, Brant Boivin and Annie Weisman. The project marks a reunion for Byrne, Weisman and Laing, who worked together on Apple TV’s Physical.
DeBose’s feature film slate for 2024 includes Kraven the Hunter and Blumhouse’s House of Spoils. She won an Oscar for West Side Story, received a Tony nomination for her role in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,...
The drama will center on a real-life unhoused woman, Amanda Ogle (Byrne), who fought her way out of tow-company hell in Seattle through the courts to reclaim her old car and life after receiving a tow bill for $21,634. Ogle also serves as an executive producer on the film, which has The Exchange handling international sales and CAA Media Finance representing the U.S. rights.
The Tow screenplay is written by Jonathan Keasey, Brant Boivin and Annie Weisman. The project marks a reunion for Byrne, Weisman and Laing, who worked together on Apple TV’s Physical.
DeBose’s feature film slate for 2024 includes Kraven the Hunter and Blumhouse’s House of Spoils. She won an Oscar for West Side Story, received a Tony nomination for her role in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,...
- 4/3/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Jonathan Keasey, the scribe behind Danielle Deadwyler’s Parallel and Demi Lovato’s Tow, has signed on to adapt The Barracks Thief, a novella from award-winning author Tobias Wolff.
Keasey joins playwright Tyler Rivenbark on the project. The pair will collaborate on the screenplay based on Wolff’s novella.
Wolff, an Emeritus professor at Stanford, is best known as a memoirist. Most notably, his 1989 book This Boy’s Life: A Memoir was adapted for the screen by Michael Caton-Jones, with Leonardo DiCaprio starring as the teenage Wolff in his breakout big-screen performance and Robert De Niro as his abusive step-father Dwight.
The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery,...
Keasey joins playwright Tyler Rivenbark on the project. The pair will collaborate on the screenplay based on Wolff’s novella.
Wolff, an Emeritus professor at Stanford, is best known as a memoirist. Most notably, his 1989 book This Boy’s Life: A Memoir was adapted for the screen by Michael Caton-Jones, with Leonardo DiCaprio starring as the teenage Wolff in his breakout big-screen performance and Robert De Niro as his abusive step-father Dwight.
The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery,...
- 3/19/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Few things are more aggravating than when you find yourself in need of a tow truck. Regardless of how excellent the towing agent is, there’s always a hassle waiting around the corner to cost you money, time, and sanity. Pop star and screen actor Demi Lovato is about to learn the brutal ways of the road by joining the cast of Tow, a new drama from director Stephanie Laing.
Tow is Demi Lovato’s first dramatic role in a feature film. Rose Byrne and The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa join Lovato for the project, which is based on a true story. Tow stars Byrne as Amanda Ogle, “an unhoused Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held it all together after receiving a tow bill for $21,634.” (via Deadline)
Stephanie Laing is thrilled to tell Olge’s story. Speaking...
Tow is Demi Lovato’s first dramatic role in a feature film. Rose Byrne and The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa join Lovato for the project, which is based on a true story. Tow stars Byrne as Amanda Ogle, “an unhoused Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held it all together after receiving a tow bill for $21,634.” (via Deadline)
Stephanie Laing is thrilled to tell Olge’s story. Speaking...
- 3/8/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Pop and screen star Demi Lovato is joining Rose Byrne and The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa in Stephanie Laing’s feature Tow.
The project will see Grammy nominee Lovato take on her first dramatic role in a feature and marks BAFTA-nominee Sessa’s next project — my colleague Baz had the initial scoop on that casting last month — after his acclaimed screen debut in five-time Oscar nominee The Holdovers.
As we revealed ahead of the European Film Market, Tow will see Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Byrne portray the true story of Amanda Ogle, an unhoused Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held it all together after receiving a tow bill for $21,634. Ogle also serves as an executive producer on the film.
Laing previously described Ogle as “a true champion” and her story as one of “tenacity and...
The project will see Grammy nominee Lovato take on her first dramatic role in a feature and marks BAFTA-nominee Sessa’s next project — my colleague Baz had the initial scoop on that casting last month — after his acclaimed screen debut in five-time Oscar nominee The Holdovers.
As we revealed ahead of the European Film Market, Tow will see Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Byrne portray the true story of Amanda Ogle, an unhoused Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held it all together after receiving a tow bill for $21,634. Ogle also serves as an executive producer on the film.
Laing previously described Ogle as “a true champion” and her story as one of “tenacity and...
- 3/8/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dominic Sessa, the 21-year-old rising star, didn’t win a Supporting Actor BAFTA Award Sunday night — that went to Oppenheimer’s Robert Downey Jr. — but he did pick up his first post-The Holdovers role that will see him starring with Rose Byrne in director Stephanie Laing’s drama Tow.
This news was confirmed by several sources over the BAFTA Awards weekend where your intrepid columnist attended more soirées than is healthy. The trick though is to go teetotal and guzzle down fruit juice: cranberry with a tear-drop of orange juice is the mocktail du jour!
My Deadline colleague, international editor Andreas Wiseman, revealed last week that Byrne is expected to star in the true-story Tow.
Bryne will portray Amanda Ogle, a homeless woman who slept in her 1991 Toyota Camry, who entered into a 369-day legal battle against a towing company that had impounded her car after it had been stolen.
This news was confirmed by several sources over the BAFTA Awards weekend where your intrepid columnist attended more soirées than is healthy. The trick though is to go teetotal and guzzle down fruit juice: cranberry with a tear-drop of orange juice is the mocktail du jour!
My Deadline colleague, international editor Andreas Wiseman, revealed last week that Byrne is expected to star in the true-story Tow.
Bryne will portray Amanda Ogle, a homeless woman who slept in her 1991 Toyota Camry, who entered into a 369-day legal battle against a towing company that had impounded her car after it had been stolen.
- 2/19/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
The multiverse isn’t a new concept—it’s been explored quite a bit across film and TV—but for FBI: Most Wanted star Edwin Hodge, whose Parallel hits theaters on February 23 and becomes available on-demand on February 27, he was more interested in exploring the characters. This sci-fi thriller is the first produced under Edwin and his brother and fellow actor Aldis Hodge‘s Hodge Brothers Productions. Edwin and Aldis not only star in and produced the movie, but they also wrote the script along with Jonathan Keasey. Parallel, based on the 2019 Chinese film Parallel Forest by Lei Zheng, follows Vanessa (Danielle Deadwyler), who takes refuge at her family’s lake house to grieve after suffering the loss of her child. Accompanied by her husband, Alex (Aldis Hodge), and his brother, Martel (Edwin Hodge), Vanessa attempts to regain her sense of normalcy after the tragedy. But soon after their arrival,...
- 2/18/2024
- TV Insider
Exclusive: Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Rose Byrne (Damages) is set to star in true-story Tow, which The Exchange and CAA Media Finance are launching ahead of this week’s EFM.
Tow will chart the true story of Amanda Ogle, a homeless Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held it all together after receiving a tow bill for $21,634. Ogle also serves as an executive producer on the film.
Stephanie Laing will direct. The Exchange, which reps international, will also serve as producers. CAA Media Finance will rep domestic.
The original screenplay is written by Jonathan Keasey, Brant Boivin, and Annie Weisman. The project marks a reunion for Byrne, Weisman and Laing, who recently worked together on Apple TV’s Physical.
Producers are Byrne, Laing, via her newly launched Cake or Death Pictures, Brent Stiefel and Justin Lothrop of...
Tow will chart the true story of Amanda Ogle, a homeless Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and the car that held it all together after receiving a tow bill for $21,634. Ogle also serves as an executive producer on the film.
Stephanie Laing will direct. The Exchange, which reps international, will also serve as producers. CAA Media Finance will rep domestic.
The original screenplay is written by Jonathan Keasey, Brant Boivin, and Annie Weisman. The project marks a reunion for Byrne, Weisman and Laing, who recently worked together on Apple TV’s Physical.
Producers are Byrne, Laing, via her newly launched Cake or Death Pictures, Brent Stiefel and Justin Lothrop of...
- 2/13/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: MindRiot Entertainment, the transatlantic indie behind Danielle Deadwyler’s Parallel, and the upcoming OceanGate pic Salvaged, is heading to the 2024 Summer Olympics with their next feature, Four The Yard.
As we reported last month, Four The Yard is a feature based on the memoir of former pro skater Josh Swindell. At the Olympic games, the MindRiot team, including Justin MacGregor, Head of European Content, and company founder Jonathan Keasey, will capture footage of competing street skaters for the pic. One Paris-bound skater signed up for the shoot is Canadian Olympic skater and X-Games gold medalist Ryan DeCenzo. DeCenzo has also signed on to be a consultant on the feature.
Keasey is currently adapting Swindell’s memoir, which has yet to be published. The former pro skater had previously been widely regarded as the future of the sport by grandees such as Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, and Steve Caballero. He...
As we reported last month, Four The Yard is a feature based on the memoir of former pro skater Josh Swindell. At the Olympic games, the MindRiot team, including Justin MacGregor, Head of European Content, and company founder Jonathan Keasey, will capture footage of competing street skaters for the pic. One Paris-bound skater signed up for the shoot is Canadian Olympic skater and X-Games gold medalist Ryan DeCenzo. DeCenzo has also signed on to be a consultant on the feature.
Keasey is currently adapting Swindell’s memoir, which has yet to be published. The former pro skater had previously been widely regarded as the future of the sport by grandees such as Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, and Steve Caballero. He...
- 2/6/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: MindRiot Entertainment, the transatlantic indie behind Danielle Deadwyler’s Parallel and the upcoming OceanGate pic Salvaged has locked the rights to adapt former pro skater Josh Swindell’s memoir into a feature film.
The memoir, which features a forward by Jay Mohr, has yet to be published. MindRiot’s Jonathan Keasey, who has been tapped to write the screenplay, described the book as “gut-wrenching.”
Swindell was one of the most celebrated pro skaters of his generation and had been regarded as the future of the sport by grandees such as Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, and Steve Caballero. He also crossed over into motocross and is still sponsored by Vans. In October 1995, however, Swindell was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of Keith Ogden, whom he beat to death outside a bar in Azusa, California. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison and was released in 2012 after spending almost 20 years behind bars.
The memoir, which features a forward by Jay Mohr, has yet to be published. MindRiot’s Jonathan Keasey, who has been tapped to write the screenplay, described the book as “gut-wrenching.”
Swindell was one of the most celebrated pro skaters of his generation and had been regarded as the future of the sport by grandees such as Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, and Steve Caballero. He also crossed over into motocross and is still sponsored by Vans. In October 1995, however, Swindell was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of Keith Ogden, whom he beat to death outside a bar in Azusa, California. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison and was released in 2012 after spending almost 20 years behind bars.
- 1/8/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Transatlantic production outfit MindRiot Entertainment has teamed with Trinity College, Dublin, to host a conference on the future of cinema and artificial intelligence led by veteran Microsoft exec Jonathan Foster.
The session, The Future of Film: Cinematic Arts in the Age of AI, will take place at Trinity College, Dublin, on November 10 and will be moderated by Justin MacGregor, Head of Film Studies at Trinity College and Head of European Content at MindRiot.
Other panelists set for the symposium include Emmy-nominated Black-Ish producer E. Brian Dobbin and Irish Times film critic and writer Tara Brady alongside academics, including Nicky Ali Jackson, Executive Director of Purdue’s Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance, where MindRiot founder Jonathan Keasey was recently appointed as an ambassador.
Headliner Foster is best known in the industry as a longtime advocate for “ethical artificial intelligence.” During his time at Microsoft, Foster was the lead on the creation of Cortana,...
The session, The Future of Film: Cinematic Arts in the Age of AI, will take place at Trinity College, Dublin, on November 10 and will be moderated by Justin MacGregor, Head of Film Studies at Trinity College and Head of European Content at MindRiot.
Other panelists set for the symposium include Emmy-nominated Black-Ish producer E. Brian Dobbin and Irish Times film critic and writer Tara Brady alongside academics, including Nicky Ali Jackson, Executive Director of Purdue’s Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance, where MindRiot founder Jonathan Keasey was recently appointed as an ambassador.
Headliner Foster is best known in the industry as a longtime advocate for “ethical artificial intelligence.” During his time at Microsoft, Foster was the lead on the creation of Cortana,...
- 10/23/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline reports that MindRiot Entertainment is developing a movie based on the OceanGate Titan submersible tragedy, which caught the attention of the world in June 2023.
The OceanGate Titan submersible lost contact with its mothership nearly two hours into its deep-sea dive near the wreckage of the Titanic. A massive search took place in an attempt to locate the submersible and rescue the occupants before their air ran out, but four days later, debris was discovered that led investigators to believe the vehicle had imploded, claiming the lives of all five onboard: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British businessman Hamish Harding, former French Navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman.
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Mindriot’s Justin MacGregor and Jonathan Keasey will co-write the OceanGate movie, which will cover the periods before, during, and after the tragedy. “The...
The OceanGate Titan submersible lost contact with its mothership nearly two hours into its deep-sea dive near the wreckage of the Titanic. A massive search took place in an attempt to locate the submersible and rescue the occupants before their air ran out, but four days later, debris was discovered that led investigators to believe the vehicle had imploded, claiming the lives of all five onboard: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British businessman Hamish Harding, former French Navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman.
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Mindriot’s Justin MacGregor and Jonathan Keasey will co-write the OceanGate movie, which will cover the periods before, during, and after the tragedy. “The...
- 9/29/2023
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
An OceanGate tragedy movie is already in the works.
According to Deadline, Blackening producer E. Brian Dobbins and MindRiot Entertainment are behind the project, which is in the planning stages just months after the submersible tragedy occurred.
Keep reading to find out more…
The movie will be titled Salvaged, and will focus on the events before, during, and after the five-day tragedy, which made headlines over one week in mid-June.
The OceanGate Titan submersible went missing on June 18, and it set off a huge search for the vessel, which was occupied by five people – Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood, Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and CEO of the company, Stockton Rush.
Remains of the wreckage were found near the Titanic just days later, which the vessel was going to view at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Here’s all that occurred during the tragedy.
“The Titan Tragedy is yet another example of a misinformed and quick-to-pounce system,...
According to Deadline, Blackening producer E. Brian Dobbins and MindRiot Entertainment are behind the project, which is in the planning stages just months after the submersible tragedy occurred.
Keep reading to find out more…
The movie will be titled Salvaged, and will focus on the events before, during, and after the five-day tragedy, which made headlines over one week in mid-June.
The OceanGate Titan submersible went missing on June 18, and it set off a huge search for the vessel, which was occupied by five people – Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood, Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and CEO of the company, Stockton Rush.
Remains of the wreckage were found near the Titanic just days later, which the vessel was going to view at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Here’s all that occurred during the tragedy.
“The Titan Tragedy is yet another example of a misinformed and quick-to-pounce system,...
- 9/29/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
The missing OceanGate Titan submersible tragedy from earlier this year is being made into a movie.
MindRiot Entertainment and producer E. Brian Dobbins are making a movie about the OceanGate incident. Dobbins will co-produce and MindRiot’s Justin MacGregor and Jonathan Keasey will write the film.
The Titan submersible caught the world’s attention in June 2023 after it went missing during a deep sea underwater excursion near the wreckage of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean. The submersible lost contact with its mother ship 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive, and the five-man crew was feared dead as the oxygen supply was dwindling in the high-pressure conditions. Four days after the sub went missing, a remotely operated underwater vehicle discovered debris near the Titanic wreck, and the Titan submersible was believed to have imploded.
All five of the crew members aboard the Titan died; they were British businessman Hamish Harding...
MindRiot Entertainment and producer E. Brian Dobbins are making a movie about the OceanGate incident. Dobbins will co-produce and MindRiot’s Justin MacGregor and Jonathan Keasey will write the film.
The Titan submersible caught the world’s attention in June 2023 after it went missing during a deep sea underwater excursion near the wreckage of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean. The submersible lost contact with its mother ship 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive, and the five-man crew was feared dead as the oxygen supply was dwindling in the high-pressure conditions. Four days after the sub went missing, a remotely operated underwater vehicle discovered debris near the Titanic wreck, and the Titan submersible was believed to have imploded.
All five of the crew members aboard the Titan died; they were British businessman Hamish Harding...
- 9/29/2023
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: After locking a docuseries based on Oceangate and the submersible tragedy, MindRiot Entertainment has now set a fiction project, also based on the tragedy, with E. Brian Dobbins signed on to co-produce.
The fiction project currently shares the title Salvaged with MindRiot’s docuseries.
MindRiot’s Justin MacGregor and Jonathan Keasey will co-write the pic. We understand the feature’s scope will cover periods before, during, and after the five-day tragedy, which claimed five lives. Oceangate’s Titan submersible vanished on June 18, setting off a massive search led by the U.S. and Canada. The passengers included OceanGate CEO, Stockton Rush. Wreckage from the Titan was found on June 22 near the Titanic.
“The Titan Tragedy is yet another example of a misinformed and quick-to-pounce system, in this case, our nonstop, 24-7 media cycle that convicts and ruins the lives of so many people without any due process,...
The fiction project currently shares the title Salvaged with MindRiot’s docuseries.
MindRiot’s Justin MacGregor and Jonathan Keasey will co-write the pic. We understand the feature’s scope will cover periods before, during, and after the five-day tragedy, which claimed five lives. Oceangate’s Titan submersible vanished on June 18, setting off a massive search led by the U.S. and Canada. The passengers included OceanGate CEO, Stockton Rush. Wreckage from the Titan was found on June 22 near the Titanic.
“The Titan Tragedy is yet another example of a misinformed and quick-to-pounce system, in this case, our nonstop, 24-7 media cycle that convicts and ruins the lives of so many people without any due process,...
- 9/29/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: MindRiot Entertainment (Gamergate) has set a new docu-series titled Salvaged, based on the life of former Oceangate mission director Kyle Bingham.
Bingham served as OceanGate’s mission director from 2018 to 2023. During that time, he directed two successful expeditions to the Titanic. The first dive was in 2021, followed by a second in 2022. The docuseries will chronicle Bingham’s submersible dives around the globe from the depths of North America’s Puget Sound and the Hudson Canyon to the Bahama’s Abaco Coast.
“Our series is about a hero and a vision for exploration that is beyond courageous,” said MindRiot founder Jonathan Keasey.
We understand that the multi-episode docuseries will also touch on the Oceangate Titan tragedy, which claimed five lives. The company’s Titan submersible vanished on June 18, setting off a massive search led by the US and Canada. The passengers included OceanGate CEO, Stockton Rush. Wreckage from the Titan...
Bingham served as OceanGate’s mission director from 2018 to 2023. During that time, he directed two successful expeditions to the Titanic. The first dive was in 2021, followed by a second in 2022. The docuseries will chronicle Bingham’s submersible dives around the globe from the depths of North America’s Puget Sound and the Hudson Canyon to the Bahama’s Abaco Coast.
“Our series is about a hero and a vision for exploration that is beyond courageous,” said MindRiot founder Jonathan Keasey.
We understand that the multi-episode docuseries will also touch on the Oceangate Titan tragedy, which claimed five lives. The company’s Titan submersible vanished on June 18, setting off a massive search led by the US and Canada. The passengers included OceanGate CEO, Stockton Rush. Wreckage from the Titan...
- 9/15/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: US-based MindRiot Entertainment, co-producer of the forthcoming Parallel starring Danielle Deadwyler (Till), Aldis Hodge (Black Adam), and Edwin Hodge (The Tomorrow War), is crossing the pond to open an office branch in Ireland.
The outpost will be headed by screenwriter, director, and playwright Justin MacGregor, who will work alongside company founder Jonathan Keasey. The company already has a series of projects on its slate, including Parallel, penned by Keasey, and the feature film Down Wind, which Keasey is writing with Jayro Bustamente (La Llornoa) attached to direct. MindRiot is also prepping the pic Tow, a film based on the true story of a mother and daughter combatting Seattle’s housing crisis. The pic is financed and packaged, but production is on hold due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Raised in the U.K. and Vancouver, MacGregor is a filmmaker, playwright, and theatre director. His first feature,...
The outpost will be headed by screenwriter, director, and playwright Justin MacGregor, who will work alongside company founder Jonathan Keasey. The company already has a series of projects on its slate, including Parallel, penned by Keasey, and the feature film Down Wind, which Keasey is writing with Jayro Bustamente (La Llornoa) attached to direct. MindRiot is also prepping the pic Tow, a film based on the true story of a mother and daughter combatting Seattle’s housing crisis. The pic is financed and packaged, but production is on hold due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Raised in the U.K. and Vancouver, MacGregor is a filmmaker, playwright, and theatre director. His first feature,...
- 8/7/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Mammoth Pictures has inked a deal out of Cannes with the Bulgarian production company Bazuka to exclusively develop and produce a narrative feature take on the cultural tradition spotlighted in Kukeri, their documentary short produced for The New Yorker which was just unveiled at the beginning of the month. (View it above.)
Set to direct the as-yet-untitled new film, described as a folkloric horror thriller, is Mammoth’s Kourosh Ahari (Parallel).
Helmed by Killian Lassablière, the Bazuka doc spotlights an enigmatic Bulgarian tradition known as “Surva” that has united small villages across the country once a year for centuries — a festival that has residents known as “Kukeri” dress up in otherworldly costumes in the hopes of driving away evil spirits. The animalistic costumes, covering most of the body, are often made from the fur and skins of goats or sheep, and can also include toothed wooden masks — sometimes, peppered with horns,...
Set to direct the as-yet-untitled new film, described as a folkloric horror thriller, is Mammoth’s Kourosh Ahari (Parallel).
Helmed by Killian Lassablière, the Bazuka doc spotlights an enigmatic Bulgarian tradition known as “Surva” that has united small villages across the country once a year for centuries — a festival that has residents known as “Kukeri” dress up in otherworldly costumes in the hopes of driving away evil spirits. The animalistic costumes, covering most of the body, are often made from the fur and skins of goats or sheep, and can also include toothed wooden masks — sometimes, peppered with horns,...
- 5/31/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In an early bid, Vertical has secured worldwide rights to Parallel, a new sci-fi thriller starring Danielle Deadwyler (Till), Aldis Hodge (One Night in Miami…) and Edwin Hodge (The Tomorrow War). The film directed by Kourosh Ahari (The Night), from a screenplay by Jonathan Keasey (Down Wind) and the Hodge brothers, is slated for release in theaters later this year.
Currently in post-production, Parallel is a remake of Lei Zheng’s award-winning Chinese film Parallel Forest that marks the first under the Hodges’ new banner, Hodge Brothers Productions. Pic tells the story of Vanessa (Deadwyler), who takes refuge at her family’s lake house to grieve after suffering the loss of her child. Accompanied by her husband, Alex (Aldis Hodge), and his brother, Martel (Edwin Hodge), Vanessa attempts to regain her sense of normalcy after the tragedy. But soon after their arrival, she experiences an aberration when she is...
Currently in post-production, Parallel is a remake of Lei Zheng’s award-winning Chinese film Parallel Forest that marks the first under the Hodges’ new banner, Hodge Brothers Productions. Pic tells the story of Vanessa (Deadwyler), who takes refuge at her family’s lake house to grieve after suffering the loss of her child. Accompanied by her husband, Alex (Aldis Hodge), and his brother, Martel (Edwin Hodge), Vanessa attempts to regain her sense of normalcy after the tragedy. But soon after their arrival, she experiences an aberration when she is...
- 4/20/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Scott Waugh whose credits include “Act of Valor” and the upcoming “The Expendables 4,” is attached to direct the upcoming documentary “Escape to Atlantis,” based on the findings of Seattle native Dr. Jason Rubin who has used deductive reasoning, the writings of philosopher Plato and cutting-edge satellite sonar imagery to pinpoint the location of the fabled lost island of Atlantis.
Said Waugh: “Every story, whether fact or fable, has a character we believe in and hope they prevail. Wouldn’t it be great to be part of a story where our protagonist wins and redefines the world’s truth?” “If Dr. Rubin has found Atlantis, not only does he continually save lives in the ER room, but he will have risen the dead of those lost in Plato’s fable and will redefine our history. That is a story I want to be a part of,” he added.
The documentary is being produced by Rubin,...
Said Waugh: “Every story, whether fact or fable, has a character we believe in and hope they prevail. Wouldn’t it be great to be part of a story where our protagonist wins and redefines the world’s truth?” “If Dr. Rubin has found Atlantis, not only does he continually save lives in the ER room, but he will have risen the dead of those lost in Plato’s fable and will redefine our history. That is a story I want to be a part of,” he added.
The documentary is being produced by Rubin,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Seattle-based MindRiot Entertainment is teaming up with Panama’s Hypatia Films, an associate producer of Claire Denis’ Cannes Grand Prix winner “Stars at Noon,” on the groundbreaking documentary, “In Search of Atlantis,” based on the findings of Seattle native Dr. Jason Rubin who has used deductive reasoning, the writings of philosopher Plato and the most advanced satellite sonar imagery to pinpoint the location of the fabled lost island of Atlantis.
According to MindRiot co-founder and chief creative officer Jonathan Keasey, Dr. Rubin passed on other Hollywood suitors as he liked MindRiot’s approach to the content and the fact that it had marshalled the support of multiple universities, including deep sea explorer Don Walsh, the honorary president of the Explorers Club, and even European authorities, given the maritime jurisdiction of Rubin’s site in the Atlantic Ocean.
Denis is among the constellation of world talent descending on the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival.
According to MindRiot co-founder and chief creative officer Jonathan Keasey, Dr. Rubin passed on other Hollywood suitors as he liked MindRiot’s approach to the content and the fact that it had marshalled the support of multiple universities, including deep sea explorer Don Walsh, the honorary president of the Explorers Club, and even European authorities, given the maritime jurisdiction of Rubin’s site in the Atlantic Ocean.
Denis is among the constellation of world talent descending on the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival.
- 9/12/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Danielle Deadwyler (Till) has signed on to star alongside Aldis Hodge and his brother Edwin Hodge in the sci-fi thriller Parallel, from director Kourosh Ahari (IFC Films’ The Night), which has entered production in Vancouver.
The film formerly titled Parallel Forest is a remake of Lei Zheng’s award-winning Chinese feature of the same name. It follows the journey of Vanessa (Deadwyler), a grief-stricken woman who mysteriously finds herself navigating between parallel spaces. While on a retreat with her husband and brother-in-law, and after suffering the loss of a child, she is faced with the threat of self destruction in order to regain the life she knew before her loss. These parallel gates may hold the key to releasing her grief or trapping her forever.
Edwin and Aldis Hodge wrote the script for Parallel with Jonathan Keasey (K-Sun) and will produce via their company Hodge Brothers Productions, alongside...
The film formerly titled Parallel Forest is a remake of Lei Zheng’s award-winning Chinese feature of the same name. It follows the journey of Vanessa (Deadwyler), a grief-stricken woman who mysteriously finds herself navigating between parallel spaces. While on a retreat with her husband and brother-in-law, and after suffering the loss of a child, she is faced with the threat of self destruction in order to regain the life she knew before her loss. These parallel gates may hold the key to releasing her grief or trapping her forever.
Edwin and Aldis Hodge wrote the script for Parallel with Jonathan Keasey (K-Sun) and will produce via their company Hodge Brothers Productions, alongside...
- 6/21/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Panama’s award-winning Hypatia Films and Guatemala’s Jayro Bustamante, whose most recent film, “La Llorona,” made the Oscar international film shortlist, is partnering with Jonathan Keasey of Mind Riot Entertainment to make WWII drama “Down Wind.”
The film marks a rare collaboration between two major Central American filmmakers and an American writer-producer. Bustamante will direct based on a screenplay by Keasey, who has also boarded as a producer.
The drama’s lead production company, Hypatia Films, run by Pituka Ortega Heilbron and Marcela Heilbron, is an associate producer on Claire Denis’ Cannes competition contender “The Stars at Noon,” which was filmed in Panama and on which Hypatia provided production services.
Inspired by true events, “Down Wind” (a working title) is sourced from an article concerning incidents that transpired in the U.S. Southwest towards the end of World War II.
While details of the story remain under wraps, Ortega...
The film marks a rare collaboration between two major Central American filmmakers and an American writer-producer. Bustamante will direct based on a screenplay by Keasey, who has also boarded as a producer.
The drama’s lead production company, Hypatia Films, run by Pituka Ortega Heilbron and Marcela Heilbron, is an associate producer on Claire Denis’ Cannes competition contender “The Stars at Noon,” which was filmed in Panama and on which Hypatia provided production services.
Inspired by true events, “Down Wind” (a working title) is sourced from an article concerning incidents that transpired in the U.S. Southwest towards the end of World War II.
While details of the story remain under wraps, Ortega...
- 5/22/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Good Hero, the Paris and New York-based production label launched by Laurent Zeitoun and Gregory Ouanhon in 2020, has unveiled its debut film project following the signing of a strategic partnership with European outfit Mediawan earlier this year.
Wings of Freedom: Operation Rebirth is an animated feature that Zeitoun is co-writing with Nick Luddington, who recently wrote two episodes of the Netflix animated show Arcane. The story was inspired by an idea from Jonathan Keasey.
Operation Rebirth is the first instalment in a planned Wings of Freedom universe, which will also include a graphic novel that is due to be published next year, with the film arriving circa 2025.
The building of worlds is central to the Good Hero process, as the two founders explain below in their first interview since launching the company.
Rather than setting out to develop individual pieces of content, the team focuses on developing entire universes which,...
Wings of Freedom: Operation Rebirth is an animated feature that Zeitoun is co-writing with Nick Luddington, who recently wrote two episodes of the Netflix animated show Arcane. The story was inspired by an idea from Jonathan Keasey.
Operation Rebirth is the first instalment in a planned Wings of Freedom universe, which will also include a graphic novel that is due to be published next year, with the film arriving circa 2025.
The building of worlds is central to the Good Hero process, as the two founders explain below in their first interview since launching the company.
Rather than setting out to develop individual pieces of content, the team focuses on developing entire universes which,...
- 4/27/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Norman Lear & Brent Miller To Executive Produce Mind Riot Entertainment’s Fictional Gamergate Series
Exclusive: Norman Lear and Brent Miller have boarded Mind Riot Entertainment’s Gamergate as executive producers through their Act III Productions banner. The series is about journalist, game developer and computer programmer Brianna Wu’s experience as a critic and target of the notorious 2014 online harassment campaign. Gamergate is co-created and co-written by Wu and J. Brad Wilke.
The 2014 Gamergate online campaign ignited a firestorm for its targeting of women in the gaming industry which laid the foundation for current issues of disinformation and hate. Before QAnon, Covid-19 conspiracists and the January 6th insurrection, there was Gamergate. Wu was among the targeted women, which also included Zoë Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian.
The series will explore the origins of the widespread intimidation campaign from the perspective of multiple, fictional people in the game industry – from executives to journalists and indie developers.
Lear and Miller will executive produce alongside Jonathan Keasey, Jeremy J. Dodd,...
The 2014 Gamergate online campaign ignited a firestorm for its targeting of women in the gaming industry which laid the foundation for current issues of disinformation and hate. Before QAnon, Covid-19 conspiracists and the January 6th insurrection, there was Gamergate. Wu was among the targeted women, which also included Zoë Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian.
The series will explore the origins of the widespread intimidation campaign from the perspective of multiple, fictional people in the game industry – from executives to journalists and indie developers.
Lear and Miller will executive produce alongside Jonathan Keasey, Jeremy J. Dodd,...
- 3/8/2022
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Honorary Academy Award winner Wes Studi and SAG Award, NAACP Image Award and Golden Globe nominee Adam Beach have signed on to star in the thriller American/Indian from writer-director Peter Curtis Pardini.
Set in the wake of the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the film follows twin brothers Slim and Joe Gresham (both played by Studi), products of the Indian Boarding School system, who have taken very different paths in life. Joe is now a popular U.S. Congressman about to step down to lead the transformation of their tribe’s bingo hall into an expansive (and lucrative) casino resort, while Slim works behind the scenes as a brutal enforcer who ensures everything and everyone stays in line for his brother, no matter the cost. What follows is a dark and thrilling tale of wealth, deceit,...
Set in the wake of the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the film follows twin brothers Slim and Joe Gresham (both played by Studi), products of the Indian Boarding School system, who have taken very different paths in life. Joe is now a popular U.S. Congressman about to step down to lead the transformation of their tribe’s bingo hall into an expansive (and lucrative) casino resort, while Slim works behind the scenes as a brutal enforcer who ensures everything and everyone stays in line for his brother, no matter the cost. What follows is a dark and thrilling tale of wealth, deceit,...
- 2/11/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The 10th Panama Int’l Film Festival wrapped Sunday, Dec. 5 with Michel Franco’s Acapulco-set drama “Sundown” closing the event.
Winners of the rough-cut sidebar Primera Mirada were announced at closing night, which took place at festival venue, La Manzana de Santa Ana. Costa Rican entries took home the top prizes this year, indicative of the tiny Central American nation’s outsized filmmaking talent.
The Primera Mirada jury, led by Diana Sánchez, Marcelo Quesada and Paula Gastaud, bestowed the top prize to Costa Rican supernatural drama “Domingo and the Mist” by Ariel Escalante who took home the $10,000 cash prize; Mauricio Morales of El Salvador won the second cash prize of $5,000 for his docu “Milo, Breaking Frontiers.”
“I’m enormously thankful to Iff Panama for having not only supported ‘Domingo and the Mist,’ both in Primera Mirada as well as in the Panama Film Match a year and a half ago,...
Winners of the rough-cut sidebar Primera Mirada were announced at closing night, which took place at festival venue, La Manzana de Santa Ana. Costa Rican entries took home the top prizes this year, indicative of the tiny Central American nation’s outsized filmmaking talent.
The Primera Mirada jury, led by Diana Sánchez, Marcelo Quesada and Paula Gastaud, bestowed the top prize to Costa Rican supernatural drama “Domingo and the Mist” by Ariel Escalante who took home the $10,000 cash prize; Mauricio Morales of El Salvador won the second cash prize of $5,000 for his docu “Milo, Breaking Frontiers.”
“I’m enormously thankful to Iff Panama for having not only supported ‘Domingo and the Mist,’ both in Primera Mirada as well as in the Panama Film Match a year and a half ago,...
- 12/6/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Iff Panama’s co-production forum, the Panama Film Match, launched in 2020 in a virtual format. It’s now holding its first in-person format between Dec. 2-4 as part of the 10th Panama Intl. Film Festival (Iff Panama).
Creating a co-production forum has been a long-standing goal for Iff Panama, the highest-profile film event in Central America. The Pfm is a sister event to Iff Panama’s pix-in-post sidebar, Primera Mirada, which are already showing synergies.
One of the projects that received a special mention in last year’s edition of the Pfm, Ariel Escalante’s Costa Rican supernatural drama “Domingo and the Fog” is returning this year as one of the five films competing in Primera Mirada.
The forum is supported by the Idb Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group.
“Panama Film Match seeks to be a meeting place for artistic, economic and creative cooperation between...
Creating a co-production forum has been a long-standing goal for Iff Panama, the highest-profile film event in Central America. The Pfm is a sister event to Iff Panama’s pix-in-post sidebar, Primera Mirada, which are already showing synergies.
One of the projects that received a special mention in last year’s edition of the Pfm, Ariel Escalante’s Costa Rican supernatural drama “Domingo and the Fog” is returning this year as one of the five films competing in Primera Mirada.
The forum is supported by the Idb Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group.
“Panama Film Match seeks to be a meeting place for artistic, economic and creative cooperation between...
- 12/3/2021
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Mind Riot Entertainment will work with journalist, game developer and computer programmer Brianna Wu for Gamergate, a series about her experience as a critic and target of the notorious 2014 online harassment campaign, for which the studio has optioned life rights.
The 2014 Gamergate online campaign ignited a firestorm for its targeting of women in the gaming industry which laid the foundation for current issues of disinformation and hate. Before QAnon, Covid-19 conspiracists and the January 6th insurrection, there was Gamergate. Wu was among the targeted women, which also included Zoë Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian.
The series will explore the origins of the widespread intimidation campaign from the perspective of multiple, fictional people in the game industry – from executives to journalists and indie developers.
Gamergate is co-created and co-written by Wu and J. Brad Wilke (Camel Spiders), and will be produced by Mind Riot Entertainment’s Jonathan Keasey (Parallel) and Jeremy J. Dodd...
The 2014 Gamergate online campaign ignited a firestorm for its targeting of women in the gaming industry which laid the foundation for current issues of disinformation and hate. Before QAnon, Covid-19 conspiracists and the January 6th insurrection, there was Gamergate. Wu was among the targeted women, which also included Zoë Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian.
The series will explore the origins of the widespread intimidation campaign from the perspective of multiple, fictional people in the game industry – from executives to journalists and indie developers.
Gamergate is co-created and co-written by Wu and J. Brad Wilke (Camel Spiders), and will be produced by Mind Riot Entertainment’s Jonathan Keasey (Parallel) and Jeremy J. Dodd...
- 10/4/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Inside Job and Red Army DoP Svetlana Cvetko is set to direct One Nation Under Earl for Oakhurst Entertainment.
Based on a true story, One Nation Under Earl will detail the rise and fall of Earl David, a young Brooklyn attorney who committed major immigration fraud in the U.S. Using an encyclopedic knowledge of the U.S. immigration system, David amassed a fortune and outsmarted the FBI to give tens of thousands of immigrants a shot at the American Dream. Script was penned by Jeremy J. Dodd and Jonathan Keasey.
The film will also be produced by the Malkus Group. Oakhurst Entertainment’s Jai Khanna and Marina Grasic will finance and executive-produce, with Jonathan Keasey also serving as producer.
Cvetko most recently directed feature Show Me What You Got and was cinematographer for Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job and festival hit Red Army.
An expat of the former Yugoslavia,...
Based on a true story, One Nation Under Earl will detail the rise and fall of Earl David, a young Brooklyn attorney who committed major immigration fraud in the U.S. Using an encyclopedic knowledge of the U.S. immigration system, David amassed a fortune and outsmarted the FBI to give tens of thousands of immigrants a shot at the American Dream. Script was penned by Jeremy J. Dodd and Jonathan Keasey.
The film will also be produced by the Malkus Group. Oakhurst Entertainment’s Jai Khanna and Marina Grasic will finance and executive-produce, with Jonathan Keasey also serving as producer.
Cvetko most recently directed feature Show Me What You Got and was cinematographer for Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job and festival hit Red Army.
An expat of the former Yugoslavia,...
- 8/31/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: One Night In Miami and City On A Hill star Aldis Hodge will star with The Purge and The Tomorrow War‘s Edwin Hodge in a remake of the award winning Lei Zheng-directed Chinese film Parallel Forest. Kourosh Ahari will direct. The siblings will play brothers in the film, and they wrote the script with Jonathan Keasey (K-Sun and My Wife Hates Your Wife). They will also produce under their newly christened Hodge Brothers Productions banner.
Ahari is coming off the debut film The Night, a horror film distributed by IFC and just released on Hulu. it made history as the first U.S.-produced film to open in Iranian theaters in decades.
Parallel Forest is a grounded sci-fi thriller that follows the journey of Vanessa, a grief-stricken woman who mysteriously finds herself navigating between parallel spaces. While on a retreat with her husband and brother-in-law, and after...
Ahari is coming off the debut film The Night, a horror film distributed by IFC and just released on Hulu. it made history as the first U.S.-produced film to open in Iranian theaters in decades.
Parallel Forest is a grounded sci-fi thriller that follows the journey of Vanessa, a grief-stricken woman who mysteriously finds herself navigating between parallel spaces. While on a retreat with her husband and brother-in-law, and after...
- 5/12/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Fundamental Films has purchased an untitled action-comedy pitch from Jonathan Keasey and Brant Boivin that Todd Garner will produce through his Broken Road Productions banner. Plot details are being kept under wraps but the pitch is described as being in the vein of “Rush Hour” and “Beverly Hills Cop.” Also Read: Will Ferrell, Jack Black Attached to Star in New Line’s ‘Tag’ Movie (Exclusive) Gary Glushon, who runs the La office for Shanghai-based Fundamental Films, brought in the pitch and will be overseeing the project, which Sean Robins will oversee on behalf of Broken Road. Keasey and Boivin recently finished writing the Anna.
- 2/18/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Undertakers
Jeffrey Reddick has completed a screenplay for a feature adaptation of Ty Drago’s zombie young adult novel series "Undertakers" for Modernciné Films.
Forced to flee his home and family after the undead emerge, the story follows twelve-year-old Will Ritter who falls in with the Undertakers - a rag-tag army of teenage resistance fighters who’ve banded together. [Source: Deadline]
My Wife Hates Your Wife
Jonathan Keasey and Brant Boivin have come onboard to pen the comedy "My Wife Hates Your Wife" for Sony Pictures and Overbrook Entertainment. Dany Boon is attached to direct, while Will Smith will produce.
The story revolves around two couples who do everything together until the ladies feud. The guys must then find ways to continue their now-illicit friendship. [Source: Variety]
He's F#ckin' Perfect
Universal Pictures is in talks to acquire the Lauryn Kahn comedy script "He’s F#ckin’ Perfect". Jake Szymanski remains attached to direct,...
Jeffrey Reddick has completed a screenplay for a feature adaptation of Ty Drago’s zombie young adult novel series "Undertakers" for Modernciné Films.
Forced to flee his home and family after the undead emerge, the story follows twelve-year-old Will Ritter who falls in with the Undertakers - a rag-tag army of teenage resistance fighters who’ve banded together. [Source: Deadline]
My Wife Hates Your Wife
Jonathan Keasey and Brant Boivin have come onboard to pen the comedy "My Wife Hates Your Wife" for Sony Pictures and Overbrook Entertainment. Dany Boon is attached to direct, while Will Smith will produce.
The story revolves around two couples who do everything together until the ladies feud. The guys must then find ways to continue their now-illicit friendship. [Source: Variety]
He's F#ckin' Perfect
Universal Pictures is in talks to acquire the Lauryn Kahn comedy script "He’s F#ckin’ Perfect". Jake Szymanski remains attached to direct,...
- 6/12/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Interpol movie script by Jonathan Keasey and Brant Boivin, set up at Will Smith's Overbrook Variety reports that the comedy follows a group of desk jockey interpol agents who usually turn over their research to seasoned law enforcement agents, who carry out the arresting of criminals. Roles are set to switch however when a cache of information outs the field officers. Overbrook's Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz produce. Overbrook, which is set up at Sony, also produces science fiction actioner 1000 A.E. which M. Night Shyamalan is helming. Smith stars in the film alongside his son Jaden (The Karate Kid) and that film makes its debut next year on June 7th.
- 2/8/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Interpol movie script by Jonathan Keasey and Brant Boivin, set up at Will Smith's Overbrook Variety reports that the comedy follows a group of desk jockey interpol agents who usually turn over their research to seasoned law enforcement agents, who carry out the arresting of criminals. Roles are set to switch however when a cache of information outs the field officers. Overbrook's Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz produce. Overbrook, which is set up at Sony, also produces science fiction actioner 1000 A.E. which M. Night Shyamalan is helming. Smith stars in the film alongside his son Jaden (The Karate Kid) and that film makes its debut next year on June 7th.
- 2/8/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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