• Sigourney Weaver has signed on for A Monster Calls, the feature adaptation of Patrick Ness’ children’s fantasy novel. Weaver joins Felicity Jones and Liam Neeson. In the Juan Antonio Bayona-directed film, a boy retreats to a fantastical world through a tree monster, attempting to escape from bullies and his mother’s terminal illness. Weaver will play the boy’s grandmother, while Jones will play the mother and Neeson the monster. River Road’s Bill Pohlad and Mitch Horwits, Participant’s Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King, and Lionsgate Motion Picture Group co-chairman Patrick Wachsberger will executive produce the film,...
- 8/19/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Exclusive: Hot off his turn as the bounty hunter Yondu in Marvel’s hit Guardians Of The Galaxy, Michael Rooker is returning to Bolden. After starting production seven years ago and doing reshoots in 2009, the film’s writer, director, and financier Dan Pritzker lost key stars to scheduling including lead Anthony Mackie, who went on to superhero heights in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Now filming is set to start again this fall with Downton Abbey‘s Gary Carr in the title role as New Orleans cornet player Buddy Bolden. Rooker will resume the role of Pat McMurphy, sidekick to Bolden’s nemesis Judge Perry, when production kicks off in North Carolina.
Related: Seven Years Later, Dan Pritzker’s ‘Bolden’ Skeds New Shoot
The third time’s the charm for Pritzker’s passion project about the ragtime musician many consider to be the father of jazz. Rooker had filmed scenes before Bolden reset,...
Related: Seven Years Later, Dan Pritzker’s ‘Bolden’ Skeds New Shoot
The third time’s the charm for Pritzker’s passion project about the ragtime musician many consider to be the father of jazz. Rooker had filmed scenes before Bolden reset,...
- 8/18/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
• Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to play the title role in The Black Phantom, replacing Jamie Foxx, who left the project due to scheduling conflicts. Jackson would join Kevin Hart in Screen Gems’ action comedy, which is being directed by Tim Story. The film follows a hit man (Hart) who strikes an unlikely partnership with the hit man hired to kill him, The Black Phantom. Dave Lease and Megan Hinds wrote the script. Will Packer and Will Gluck will produce. [Deadline]
• Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy) will star in the sci-fi thriller Prisoners of War, replacing Alex Russell (Chronicle...
• Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy) will star in the sci-fi thriller Prisoners of War, replacing Alex Russell (Chronicle...
- 8/7/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
It's been four years since filming ended on Jazz icon Buddy Bolden's biopic Bolden! with Anthony Mackie in the titular role. Yet, we are still waiting to hear any news on its release! We last gave you some updates a year ago, when Cynthia posted this piece with some updates via the film's producer Jon Cornick; he said the film was still in the editing phase, but will hopefully screen at festivals towards the end of 2011. Alas, no screening sightings as of yet. However, I just found this bit of news, in which Bolden's first time director - jazz lover, musician and Hyatt hotel heir Dan Pritzker - told Forbes that he's in no rush; the film account on the...
- 5/17/2012
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
Charlie Chaplin's City Lights and its live score opened Dan Pritzker's eyes to the possibilities of silent movies. But was choosing Louis Armstrong as his subject a step too far?
I was working on a screenplay about Buddy Bolden, "inventor" of jazz, when I went to a screening of the classic Chaplin silent film City Lights. Dimly lit beneath the silver screen was the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing the score live. I'd never seen anything like it. By the time the Little Tramp restored the Blind Girl's sight, I had decided to write another film, a silent one about jazz that would be stylistically like films of the Chaplin era.
Bolden's career ended in 1907, when he was committed to an asylum. The concept of there having been an "inventor" of jazz seemed far fetched. Jazz, I figured, developed incrementally, over time. But what if there really was such a person?...
I was working on a screenplay about Buddy Bolden, "inventor" of jazz, when I went to a screening of the classic Chaplin silent film City Lights. Dimly lit beneath the silver screen was the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing the score live. I'd never seen anything like it. By the time the Little Tramp restored the Blind Girl's sight, I had decided to write another film, a silent one about jazz that would be stylistically like films of the Chaplin era.
Bolden's career ended in 1907, when he was committed to an asylum. The concept of there having been an "inventor" of jazz seemed far fetched. Jazz, I figured, developed incrementally, over time. But what if there really was such a person?...
- 11/11/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
New York -- In another post-Toronto acquisition, Screen Media Films has nabbed U.S. rights to producer/star Alec Baldwin's drama "Lymelife."
Cynthia Nixon, Timothy Hutton, Jill Hennessey, Rory Culkin, Kieran Culkin and Emma Roberts also star in the late-'70s tale of a teen and his family whose Long Island town gets hit hard by Lyme disease.
Derick Martini's film nabbed the International Critics Prize for Discovery after its Toronto world premiere. Martin Scorsese and Leonard Loventhal exec produced the project, which was produced by Jon Cornick, Barbara De Fina, Michele Tayler, Angela Somerville and Baldwin.
Screen Media president Robert Baruc, who recently acquired producer/star Sarah Jessica Parker's drama "Spinning Into Butter," will oversee a platform theatrical rollout in the spring.
William Morris Independent negotiated the deal with Martini's reps, Jonathan Gray and Evan Krauss of Gray Krauss Llp.
Steven Zeitchik and Borys Kit contributed to this report.
Cynthia Nixon, Timothy Hutton, Jill Hennessey, Rory Culkin, Kieran Culkin and Emma Roberts also star in the late-'70s tale of a teen and his family whose Long Island town gets hit hard by Lyme disease.
Derick Martini's film nabbed the International Critics Prize for Discovery after its Toronto world premiere. Martin Scorsese and Leonard Loventhal exec produced the project, which was produced by Jon Cornick, Barbara De Fina, Michele Tayler, Angela Somerville and Baldwin.
Screen Media president Robert Baruc, who recently acquired producer/star Sarah Jessica Parker's drama "Spinning Into Butter," will oversee a platform theatrical rollout in the spring.
William Morris Independent negotiated the deal with Martini's reps, Jonathan Gray and Evan Krauss of Gray Krauss Llp.
Steven Zeitchik and Borys Kit contributed to this report.
- 10/13/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Chances are better than average when you workshop a screenplay at the one of Sundance's yearly director and screen writing labs that eventually things will pan out and your passion project will get made. How's this for perseverance -Variety reports that final casting has been completed for Derick and Steven Martini's Lymelife (a 2001-Sundance lab project that first came to my attention while watching some screener at Sundance that showed the lab process in intimate detail - sorta like the workshopping DVD extra on Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs). The trade announced that the long attached Alec Baldwin is confirmed to star in the dramedy and Emma Roberts (Nancy Drew) is taking on her first role outside the usual studio-made flicks. Others to join or already confirmed a while back are Cynthia Nixon, Rory and Kieran Culkin, Jill Hennessy and Timothy Hutton. Shooting beings next week in Jersey. Set in late '70s Long Island,
- 3/4/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Oscar-nominated actor Jackie Earle Haley continues his comeback, booking a trio of projects in both the comedy and dramatic arenas.
First up is a role in the Will Ferrell basketball comedy Semi-Pro, which Kent Alterman is directing for New Line Cinema. Haley is playing a fan who wins a basketball-throwing contest.
Haley then will segue to the all-star ensemble drama Winged Creatures, being directed by Rowan Woods. Haley will join Kate Beckinsale, Forest Whitaker, Dakota Fanning and Guy Pearce, portraying an abusive husband and angry father.
Lastly, Haley will shoot Bolden! an indie drama directed by Dan Pritzker and produced by Wynton Marsalis, Ed Arrendell, Jon Cornick and Michele Tayler. The period biopic stars Anthony Mackie as Buddy Bolden, the first man of New Orleans jazz. Haley will portray a judge at the center of most of the lucrative but corrupt activities in New Orleans -- notably brothels and Battles Royale, when black men were drugged and forced to fight one another before an all-white male audience.
First up is a role in the Will Ferrell basketball comedy Semi-Pro, which Kent Alterman is directing for New Line Cinema. Haley is playing a fan who wins a basketball-throwing contest.
Haley then will segue to the all-star ensemble drama Winged Creatures, being directed by Rowan Woods. Haley will join Kate Beckinsale, Forest Whitaker, Dakota Fanning and Guy Pearce, portraying an abusive husband and angry father.
Lastly, Haley will shoot Bolden! an indie drama directed by Dan Pritzker and produced by Wynton Marsalis, Ed Arrendell, Jon Cornick and Michele Tayler. The period biopic stars Anthony Mackie as Buddy Bolden, the first man of New Orleans jazz. Haley will portray a judge at the center of most of the lucrative but corrupt activities in New Orleans -- notably brothels and Battles Royale, when black men were drugged and forced to fight one another before an all-white male audience.
- 3/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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