Rachel McHale, Minor Childers, Michael Milillo serve as producers.
Jason Morning’s Toronto-based Double Dutch International (Ddi) has acquired worldwide sales rights to redemption drama Walkaway Joe starring David Strathairn and Jeffrey Dean Morgan and will launch sales at next week’s Afm.
Tom Wright directs from a screenplay by Michael Milillo (Churchill). Julie Ann Emery and Julian Feder also star in the redemption story of a teenage boy and a drifter, set against the backdrop of New Orleans pool halls and rural Louisiana.
Rachel McHale (I Hate Kids), Minor Childers (Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events) and Milillo serve as producers.
Jason Morning’s Toronto-based Double Dutch International (Ddi) has acquired worldwide sales rights to redemption drama Walkaway Joe starring David Strathairn and Jeffrey Dean Morgan and will launch sales at next week’s Afm.
Tom Wright directs from a screenplay by Michael Milillo (Churchill). Julie Ann Emery and Julian Feder also star in the redemption story of a teenage boy and a drifter, set against the backdrop of New Orleans pool halls and rural Louisiana.
Rachel McHale (I Hate Kids), Minor Childers (Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events) and Milillo serve as producers.
- 11/2/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) and David Strathairn (The Bourne Ultimatum) are set as leads in SwingLake Entertainment’s Walkaway Joe, which is being helmed by first-time feature director Tom Wright. Julian Feder and Julie Ann Emery also star in the pic that began production last month in St. John the Baptist Parish, La.
Written by Michael Milillo, the story follows Dallas who takes to his bicycle to find his pool-hustling father who abandoned his family. Enter Joe Haley, a drifter wrestling with a past he’d rather forget. Feeling responsible for the boy’s safety, Joe reluctantly takes him in.
Producers are Rachel McHale, Minor Childers, and Milillo.
Strathairn is repped by ICM and Madeline Ryan; Morgan by UTA and attorney Stuart Rosenthal; Feder by Open Entertainment, Inc. and The Savage Agency; Emery by Innovative Artists and Rohner Walerstein.
Wright, as an actor, has appeared in such films as Barbershop,...
Written by Michael Milillo, the story follows Dallas who takes to his bicycle to find his pool-hustling father who abandoned his family. Enter Joe Haley, a drifter wrestling with a past he’d rather forget. Feeling responsible for the boy’s safety, Joe reluctantly takes him in.
Producers are Rachel McHale, Minor Childers, and Milillo.
Strathairn is repped by ICM and Madeline Ryan; Morgan by UTA and attorney Stuart Rosenthal; Feder by Open Entertainment, Inc. and The Savage Agency; Emery by Innovative Artists and Rohner Walerstein.
Wright, as an actor, has appeared in such films as Barbershop,...
- 10/12/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, David Strathairn, Julian Feder and Julie Ann Emery are starring in the family drama “Walkaway Joe,” which has begun shooting in St. John’s Parish, La.
Tom Wright is helming in his directorial debut from a script by Michael Milillo. “Walkaway Joe” is the story of an unlikely friendship between a teenage boy searching for his father, who has abandoned his family. The boy takes to his bicycle to find his father and a wandering loner hiding from his past reluctantly takes in the boy.
Producers are Rachel McHale, Minor Childers and Michael Milillo. SwingLake Entertainment is the production company.
Morgan has starred as Negan in “The Walking Dead” since the finale of the sixth season. Strathairn received a best actor Academy Award nomination for Edward R. Murrow biopic “Good Night, and Good Luck” and has starred recently in the series “McMafia,” “The Expanse” and “Billions.” Feder...
Tom Wright is helming in his directorial debut from a script by Michael Milillo. “Walkaway Joe” is the story of an unlikely friendship between a teenage boy searching for his father, who has abandoned his family. The boy takes to his bicycle to find his father and a wandering loner hiding from his past reluctantly takes in the boy.
Producers are Rachel McHale, Minor Childers and Michael Milillo. SwingLake Entertainment is the production company.
Morgan has starred as Negan in “The Walking Dead” since the finale of the sixth season. Strathairn received a best actor Academy Award nomination for Edward R. Murrow biopic “Good Night, and Good Luck” and has starred recently in the series “McMafia,” “The Expanse” and “Billions.” Feder...
- 10/12/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Jeanne Tripplehorn will star in the indie feature "Morning," which will mark the directorial debut of her husband, Leland Orser, who wrote the original screenplay.
Laura Linney also is joining the cast, which includes Elliott Gould, Kyle Chandler, Julie White, Jason Ritter, Charlie McDermott and Orser.
In the film, Tripplehorn will play a mother mourning the loss of her child, while Linney will appear as a grief counselor.
Todd Traina and Minor Childers are producing through their Red Rover Films with Fries Film Group, whose principals, Jon Fries and Charles Fries, will serve as exec producers.
The feature was developed from a short Orser wrote and directed.
Principal photography will begin this month in Los Angeles.
Linney is repped by Icm and Brillstein Entertainment. Tripplehorn is repped by Gersh and Brillstein. Orser is repped by Gersh and the Burnstein Co.
Laura Linney also is joining the cast, which includes Elliott Gould, Kyle Chandler, Julie White, Jason Ritter, Charlie McDermott and Orser.
In the film, Tripplehorn will play a mother mourning the loss of her child, while Linney will appear as a grief counselor.
Todd Traina and Minor Childers are producing through their Red Rover Films with Fries Film Group, whose principals, Jon Fries and Charles Fries, will serve as exec producers.
The feature was developed from a short Orser wrote and directed.
Principal photography will begin this month in Los Angeles.
Linney is repped by Icm and Brillstein Entertainment. Tripplehorn is repped by Gersh and Brillstein. Orser is repped by Gersh and the Burnstein Co.
- 4/1/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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