If you are a first-time filmmaker keen to have a long career in the motion picture industry, write a part for Harvey Keitel and get it to him Asap.
Over his magnificent 55-year career, Keitel has been a good luck charm for some of the greatest directors in the industry. His auspicious streak kicked off with his very first leading role in Martin Scorsese's very first feature film, "Who's That Knocking at My Door." Scorsese's done fairly well for himself. So had Ridley Scott, who began his big-screen career by directing Keitel in 1977's "The Duelists." A year later, Keitel hooked up with "Taxi Driver" screenwriter Paul Schrader for "Blue Collar." This was evidently a nightmare production for the overwhelmed Schrader, but the raves, many of which singled out Keitel's performance, earned the scribe a reputation as an actor's director. Also in 1978, Keitel dazzled as a prodigious pianist...
Over his magnificent 55-year career, Keitel has been a good luck charm for some of the greatest directors in the industry. His auspicious streak kicked off with his very first leading role in Martin Scorsese's very first feature film, "Who's That Knocking at My Door." Scorsese's done fairly well for himself. So had Ridley Scott, who began his big-screen career by directing Keitel in 1977's "The Duelists." A year later, Keitel hooked up with "Taxi Driver" screenwriter Paul Schrader for "Blue Collar." This was evidently a nightmare production for the overwhelmed Schrader, but the raves, many of which singled out Keitel's performance, earned the scribe a reputation as an actor's director. Also in 1978, Keitel dazzled as a prodigious pianist...
- 9/9/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Oscar winner Natalie Portman is set to star and executive produce HBO Films’ The Days of Abandonment, based on Elena Ferrante’s best-selling novel. The film, which is currently in pre-production, hails from writer-director Maggie Betts (Novitiate), Portman and her MountainA Films, Maven Screen Media, Len Amato’s Crash & Salvage and Fandango. Ferrante also serves as an executive producer.
Written and directed by Betts, The Days of Abandonment revolves around Tess, played by Portman. When Tess, a woman who abandoned her own dreams for a stable home life, is in turn abandoned by her husband, her world is thrown off its axis. Adapted from Ferrante’s tour-de-force novel of the same name, The Days of Abandonment is a visceral, no-holds-barred journey into the mind of a woman in crisis that confronts the norms of motherhood and female identity as Tess traverses the darkest reaches of her own psyche.
Betts executive...
Written and directed by Betts, The Days of Abandonment revolves around Tess, played by Portman. When Tess, a woman who abandoned her own dreams for a stable home life, is in turn abandoned by her husband, her world is thrown off its axis. Adapted from Ferrante’s tour-de-force novel of the same name, The Days of Abandonment is a visceral, no-holds-barred journey into the mind of a woman in crisis that confronts the norms of motherhood and female identity as Tess traverses the darkest reaches of her own psyche.
Betts executive...
- 4/13/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Portman, Sophie Mas are executive producers through their MountainA.
Natalie Portman will star in HBO Films’ adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s psychodrama novel The Days Of Abandonment.
The Oscar-winning star of Black Swan will play Tess, who finds herself in crisis when, after abandoning her dreams of a stable home life, is in turn abandoned by her husband.
In a hint at things to come, Portman enthused about the novel and Ferrante’s Neapolitan series on Instagram last September when she called them the kind of books “you’re sad to finish because you feel so connected to the characters...
Natalie Portman will star in HBO Films’ adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s psychodrama novel The Days Of Abandonment.
The Oscar-winning star of Black Swan will play Tess, who finds herself in crisis when, after abandoning her dreams of a stable home life, is in turn abandoned by her husband.
In a hint at things to come, Portman enthused about the novel and Ferrante’s Neapolitan series on Instagram last September when she called them the kind of books “you’re sad to finish because you feel so connected to the characters...
- 4/13/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The new film by the director of The Viceroys tells the story of Nobel medicine prize winner Mario Capecchi. An Italian-American co-production by Jean Vigo Italia and Rhino Films. Yesterday, 24 August, in Alto Adige, shooting started on Resilient, the new film by Roberto Faenza about the story of Italian geneticist Mario Capecchi. Produced by Elda Ferri and Milena Canonero for Jean Vigo Italia with Rai Cinema, and by Rex Glensy for the American production company Rhino Films, with the support of Idm Film Fund, the 19th film by the director of According to Pereira and The Viceroys is about the life and childhood of Mario Capecchi, Nobel medicine prize winner born in Italy from an American mother, poet and political activist, arrested by fascists in 1941 and later imprisoned in a German concentration camp. It is with this arrest when he was 5 years old that Mario’s life quickly...
The bond between American and Italian costumers has been a strong and long-lasting one that has contributed to some of the best-looking movies ever made, says acclaimed Italian costume designer Carlo Poggioli. “We are the country that has won the most Oscars, both for set design and costumes, after the Americans,” says Poggioli, head of Italy’s costume and production designers guild. “The Italian flag stands high.”
That bond will be celebrated with a master class series of panels set for Oct. 31, Nov. 13 and Dec. 5 at the City University of New York, in which Piera Detassis, president of Italy’s David di Donatello Awards — the country’s equivalent of the Oscars — will lead a discussion among Italian designers Poggioli and Milena Canonero (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”) and Americans Ann Roth (“The English Patient”) and Donna Zakowska (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”).
When she started prepping the HBO miniseries “John Adams,” Zakowska...
That bond will be celebrated with a master class series of panels set for Oct. 31, Nov. 13 and Dec. 5 at the City University of New York, in which Piera Detassis, president of Italy’s David di Donatello Awards — the country’s equivalent of the Oscars — will lead a discussion among Italian designers Poggioli and Milena Canonero (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”) and Americans Ann Roth (“The English Patient”) and Donna Zakowska (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”).
When she started prepping the HBO miniseries “John Adams,” Zakowska...
- 10/31/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Matt Dillon and Alessandro Preziosi are set to star in this film co-produced with Switzerland and shot in the Alto Adige region, while funding has also been confirmed for German and Latvian projects. The new projects set to receive support from the Idm Südtirol - Alto Adige Film Fund & Commission in this year’s second round of funding for films in the production or pre-production phase hail from Italy, Germany and Latvia. Standing tall among the four new projects to be supported in the production stage is Resilient (a provisional title), the new film by Roberto Faenza who is returning to the Alto Adige region following his previous work Anita B. to recount the extraordinary life of Mario Capecchi, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and who spent his childhood on the streets before being reunited with his mother, who had managed to survive imprisonment in the infamous concentration.
Both films based on novels by cult Italian author to receive limited theatrical releases later this year.
Film Movement Classics has acquired all rights in multiple territories to adaptations of Italian publishing phenomenon Elena Ferrante’s first two novels as HBO prepares to launch its mini-series My Brilliant Friend.
The New York-based distributor has picked up North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand on Troubling Love (L’amore Molesto) from True Colors, and The Days Of Abandonment (I Giorni Dell’Abbandono) from Medusa Films.
Both films will receive limited theatrical releases later this year and will launch across digital and platforms including iTunes,...
Film Movement Classics has acquired all rights in multiple territories to adaptations of Italian publishing phenomenon Elena Ferrante’s first two novels as HBO prepares to launch its mini-series My Brilliant Friend.
The New York-based distributor has picked up North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand on Troubling Love (L’amore Molesto) from True Colors, and The Days Of Abandonment (I Giorni Dell’Abbandono) from Medusa Films.
Both films will receive limited theatrical releases later this year and will launch across digital and platforms including iTunes,...
- 8/14/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
It’s become a great breaking in the new year traditional here at Ioncinema.com. We begin our countdown to the our most anticipated foreign films (anything outside the U.S.) with our own Nicholas Bell curating the best bets for 2016. Here are the titles and filmmakers that didn’t make our final Top 100 cut, but are nonetheless “radar” worthy.
101. El Rey del Once – Daniel Burman
102. The Dancer – Stephanie Di Giusto
103. Le Cancre – Paul Vecchiali
104. While the Women are Sleeping – Wayne Wang
105. Tomorrow – Martha Pinson
106. Spring Again – Gael Morel
107. Crowhurst – Simon Rumley
108. Le Garcon – Philippe Lioret *
109. Marie and the Misfits – Sebastien Betbeder
110. Le Caravage – Alain Chevalier
111. Night Song – Raphael Nadjari
112. Réparer les vivants – Katell Quillevere *
113. Project Lazarus – Mateo Gil
114. Afterimages – Andrzej Wajda
115. Don’t Knock Twice – Caradog James
116. Detour – Christopher Smith
117. The Bride of Rip Van Winkle – Shunji Iwai
118. Three on the Road – Johnnie To
119. Le Vin et le Vent...
101. El Rey del Once – Daniel Burman
102. The Dancer – Stephanie Di Giusto
103. Le Cancre – Paul Vecchiali
104. While the Women are Sleeping – Wayne Wang
105. Tomorrow – Martha Pinson
106. Spring Again – Gael Morel
107. Crowhurst – Simon Rumley
108. Le Garcon – Philippe Lioret *
109. Marie and the Misfits – Sebastien Betbeder
110. Le Caravage – Alain Chevalier
111. Night Song – Raphael Nadjari
112. Réparer les vivants – Katell Quillevere *
113. Project Lazarus – Mateo Gil
114. Afterimages – Andrzej Wajda
115. Don’t Knock Twice – Caradog James
116. Detour – Christopher Smith
117. The Bride of Rip Van Winkle – Shunji Iwai
118. Three on the Road – Johnnie To
119. Le Vin et le Vent...
- 1/4/2016
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Anita (Eline Powell), the hero of Roberto Faenza’s new Holocaust film, is a Hungarian Jew and, as the picture opens, survivor of a recently liberated Auschwitz, where she had been interned since childhood through the war. We’re introduced to Anita as she’s welcomed, a bit cautiously, into a small-town home in the mountains of Czechoslovakia. There her Aunt Monica (Andrea Osvárt), now Anita’s closest living relation, is leading a quiet, docile life with her family — and wants very much to keep the horrors of the Shoah in the past. Anita’s arrival, it soon becomes clear, makes all this willed ignorance difficult: In this young girl’s face Monica sees the lingering pain of a history she’d rather not think about. This ...
- 4/22/2015
- Village Voice
Rome-based sales company Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (Ace) will launch sales on Roberto Faenza’s English-language Anita B., about a young Auschwitz survivor trying to re-build her life after the war, at the Efm.
Eline Powell, who got her big screen break in Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet, plays Anita opposite Robert Sheehan, as a young man with whom she embarks on a passionate affair.
Rising star Sheehan, best known for his roles in TV series Misfits and fantasy feature The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, is also set to star in Tiago Mesquita’s Caesar and Gren Wells’ The World Within this year.
Life is Beautiful producer Elda Ferri of Jean Vigo Italia and Luigi Musini of Cinema Undici co-produced the film.
Ace is handling all international rights except for the Us. The picture’s Us co-producer Ron Stein of Four of a Kind Productions is handling North America rights. Stein also co-produced Faenza’s last film Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You...
Eline Powell, who got her big screen break in Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet, plays Anita opposite Robert Sheehan, as a young man with whom she embarks on a passionate affair.
Rising star Sheehan, best known for his roles in TV series Misfits and fantasy feature The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, is also set to star in Tiago Mesquita’s Caesar and Gren Wells’ The World Within this year.
Life is Beautiful producer Elda Ferri of Jean Vigo Italia and Luigi Musini of Cinema Undici co-produced the film.
Ace is handling all international rights except for the Us. The picture’s Us co-producer Ron Stein of Four of a Kind Productions is handling North America rights. Stein also co-produced Faenza’s last film Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You...
- 1/28/2014
- ScreenDaily
Matthew McConaughey and Scarlett Johansson win actor prizes.Scroll down for full list of winners
Tir, the first narrative film by Italian director Alberto Fasulo, has picked up the Golden Marc Aurelio Award for best film at the 8th Rome Film Fesival.
The docu-drama explores the current econmic crisis as seen through the eyes of a former professor who becomes a trucker to solve his money problems. It stars Slovenian actor Branko Zavrsan (No Man’s Land).
Fasulo is best known for documentaries including White Noise (Rumore bianco). Tir is being sold internationally by Fandango Sales.
One of 18 competition titles, Tir beat heavyweight Us titles including Jean-Marc Vallee’s Dallas Buyers Club, Spike Jonze’s Her and Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace.
However, all three of those films did manage to secure wins at the festival on Saturday evening.
Scarlett Johansson, who walked the red carpet at Rome earlier in the festival, won the best...
Tir, the first narrative film by Italian director Alberto Fasulo, has picked up the Golden Marc Aurelio Award for best film at the 8th Rome Film Fesival.
The docu-drama explores the current econmic crisis as seen through the eyes of a former professor who becomes a trucker to solve his money problems. It stars Slovenian actor Branko Zavrsan (No Man’s Land).
Fasulo is best known for documentaries including White Noise (Rumore bianco). Tir is being sold internationally by Fandango Sales.
One of 18 competition titles, Tir beat heavyweight Us titles including Jean-Marc Vallee’s Dallas Buyers Club, Spike Jonze’s Her and Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace.
However, all three of those films did manage to secure wins at the festival on Saturday evening.
Scarlett Johansson, who walked the red carpet at Rome earlier in the festival, won the best...
- 11/17/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
14th Mumbai Film Festival (Mff) announced its complete lineup today in a press conference. Mff will be held from October 18th to 25th at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Ncpa) and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues. Click here to watch trailers and highlights from the festival.
Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)
International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors
1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)
Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)
2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)
Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)
3. The Sapphires
Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)
4. The Wall (Die Wand)
Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)
5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)
Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)
6. Augustine
Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.
Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)
International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors
1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)
Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)
2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)
Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)
3. The Sapphires
Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)
4. The Wall (Die Wand)
Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)
5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)
Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)
6. Augustine
Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.
- 9/24/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Check out the first poster for Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, based on the best-selling novel by Peter Cameron, and starring Marcia Gay Harden, Peter Gallagher, Lucy Liu and Stephen Lang. Pic comes from the producers of winners Life is Beautiful and The Kids Are All Right, so expect strong performances in this drama helmed by Roberto Faenza (I vicerè). Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You is based on the best selling novel by Peter Cameron, "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You" is a funny and heartfelt film about a vulnerable yet precocious teenager named James (played by extraordinary newcomer, Toby Regbo) with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it.
- 8/28/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out the first poster for Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, based on the best-selling novel by Peter Cameron, and starring Marcia Gay Harden, Peter Gallagher, Lucy Liu and Stephen Lang. Pic comes from the producers of winners Life is Beautiful and The Kids Are All Right, so expect strong performances in this drama helmed by Roberto Faenza (I vicerè). Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You is based on the best selling novel by Peter Cameron, "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You" is a funny and heartfelt film about a vulnerable yet precocious teenager named James (played by extraordinary newcomer, Toby Regbo) with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it.
- 8/28/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"So, what the hell is James Gray, anyway?" Evan Davis at the House Next Door: "That's the question Paris-based Hollywood Reporter critic and Gray enthusiast Jordan Mintzer attempts to answer in his new book, James Gray. Comprised of interviews with Gray and his collaborators, along with storyboards, annotated script pages, production stills, and frame grabs, Mintzer's volume is the first full-length study of Gray in any language. It is, unfortunately, only being published in France. But fear not: Synecdoche has released a bilingual edition that can be purchased on their website for a cool $65 Usd."
Gray will be on hand this evening for a Q&A following a screening of We Own the Night (2007), part of BAMcinématek's Brooklyn Close Up series. And in December, Moving Image Source ran an excerpt from the book's chapter on The Yards (1999).
Meantime, Gray's wrapped Low Life, his first period film. Featuring Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner and Marion Cotillard,...
Gray will be on hand this evening for a Q&A following a screening of We Own the Night (2007), part of BAMcinématek's Brooklyn Close Up series. And in December, Moving Image Source ran an excerpt from the book's chapter on The Yards (1999).
Meantime, Gray's wrapped Low Life, his first period film. Featuring Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner and Marion Cotillard,...
- 3/26/2012
- MUBI
#60. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You - Roberto Faenza I'd normally wouldn't associate a veteran Italian filmmaker such as Roberto Faenza (see pic above) with the festival - but this shot in NYC, coming-of-age indie drama based on the novel by the same name (Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You) features a mix of the next generation of actors (Toby Regbo and Deborah Ann Woll) along with some stellar actresses in the biz (Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden) and is backed by producers who've been to the fest with some recent indie items Allen Bain (The Missing Person) and Ron Stein (The Romantics). Premieres category a possibility. Gist: Based on the award-winning novel Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You by Peter Cameron, is a funny and tender film about James Sveck (Toby Regbo), a vulnerable teenager with a deep appreciation for the world and...
- 11/13/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
First look at Sky TV's adaptation of Treasure Island with Eddie Izzard as the nefarious Long John Silver, Hollywood icon Elijah Wood playing Ben Gunn and a glimpse of one of Screenterrier's rising stars from 2009, 19 year old Toby Regbo playing young hero Jim Hawkins.
Toby is set to appear in the final Harry Potter film as Young Dumbledore, and stars in the lead role of James Sveck in Roberto Faenza's New York-based Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You.
The rest of the cast includes Rupert Penry-Jones, Phillip Glenister, David Harewood, Danny Mays, Keith Allen and Donald Sutherland.
The two part drama filmed in Ireland at the end of last year and on location in Puerto Rico and is expected to be broadcast on Sky during Christmas 2011.
Treasure Island is being produced for Sky by Kindle Entertainment, Rhi Entertainment and Parallel Films.
Toby is set to appear in the final Harry Potter film as Young Dumbledore, and stars in the lead role of James Sveck in Roberto Faenza's New York-based Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You.
The rest of the cast includes Rupert Penry-Jones, Phillip Glenister, David Harewood, Danny Mays, Keith Allen and Donald Sutherland.
The two part drama filmed in Ireland at the end of last year and on location in Puerto Rico and is expected to be broadcast on Sky during Christmas 2011.
Treasure Island is being produced for Sky by Kindle Entertainment, Rhi Entertainment and Parallel Films.
- 5/26/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
One of Screenterrier's rising stars from 2009, 19 year old Toby Regbo leads an all-star cast, including Hollywood star Elijah Wood and Eddie Izzard, in Sky TV's new adaption of the much loved Robert Louis Stevenson classic Treasure Island, directed by Steve Barron.
Toby, who is also set to appear in the final Harry Potter film as Young Dumbledore, takes on the role of Jim Hawkins, a gutsy, eager and courageous young lad who finds himself battling with Long John Silver (Eddie Izzard) for the treasure and his life. Shirley Henderson plays his mother and Nina Sosanya will be Silver’s wife. Elijah Wood plays Ben Gunn, Philip Glenister plays Captain Smollet, Rupert Penry-Jones takes on the role of Squire Trelawney and Daniel Mays is Dr Livesey – who all join the voyage with Jim aboard The Hispaniola.
The two part drama was filming in Ireland at the end of last year and...
Toby, who is also set to appear in the final Harry Potter film as Young Dumbledore, takes on the role of Jim Hawkins, a gutsy, eager and courageous young lad who finds himself battling with Long John Silver (Eddie Izzard) for the treasure and his life. Shirley Henderson plays his mother and Nina Sosanya will be Silver’s wife. Elijah Wood plays Ben Gunn, Philip Glenister plays Captain Smollet, Rupert Penry-Jones takes on the role of Squire Trelawney and Daniel Mays is Dr Livesey – who all join the voyage with Jim aboard The Hispaniola.
The two part drama was filming in Ireland at the end of last year and...
- 1/23/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
This week's in-production column takes a look at a new film from Roberto Faenza, an adaptation of the young adult novel from Peter Cameron, "Someday This Pay Will Be Useful to You," starring Marcia Gay Harden, Peter Gallagher, Ellen Burstyn, and more. Also on the docket is a look at a Hawaiian film that explores the behind-the-scenes world of stage productions, a doc about one of the world's largest employers of ...
- 10/7/2010
- Indiewire
Deborah Ann Woll has joined the cast of the drama "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You." According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu, Toby Regbo and Stephen Lang have already been cast. The film focuses on an isolated young adult (Regbo) who must deal with his dysfunctional family the summer before he heads to college. Roberto Faenza is directing the film, which is adapted from the novel by Peter Cameron. John Heyman of World Productions and Elda Ferri of Jean Viggo Italia are producing. Shooting begins next month in New York. Woll is best known for her role on HBO's "True Blood." She recently booked "Catch .44," a crime drama with...
- 8/20/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
HollywoodNews.com: “True Blood” hottie Deborah Ann Woll is sinking her fangs into to some feature film work.
She has signed onto the upcoming drama “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You” which also stars such girl power as Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu and Ellen Burstyn. In addition Woll is set to star alongside Bruce Willis in the drama “Catch .44” and the sports drama “Seven Days in Utopia.”
“Someday” begins lensing in New York in September under the direction of Roberto Faenza. The film is based on a book by Peter Cameron and tells the tale of an isolated young man and his warped family before he escapes to college.
Woll will portray the protagonist’s sister; a wannabe writer who is dating a married professor.
The Hollywood Reporter scored the news.
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She has signed onto the upcoming drama “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You” which also stars such girl power as Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu and Ellen Burstyn. In addition Woll is set to star alongside Bruce Willis in the drama “Catch .44” and the sports drama “Seven Days in Utopia.”
“Someday” begins lensing in New York in September under the direction of Roberto Faenza. The film is based on a book by Peter Cameron and tells the tale of an isolated young man and his warped family before he escapes to college.
Woll will portray the protagonist’s sister; a wannabe writer who is dating a married professor.
The Hollywood Reporter scored the news.
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- 8/19/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
According to reports by Variety, Tony winner Marcia Gay Harden will star in the upcoming film "Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You," which is set to be directed by Roberto Faenza. According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, co-stars in "Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You," include Stephen Lang, Lucy Liu and Deborah Ann Woll (star of "True Blood").
- 8/19/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
Deborah Ann Woll ("True Blood") has signed on for the ensemble drama "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You" for World Prods. and Jean Viggo Italia says The Hollywood Reporter.
The story follows an isolated young adult (Toby Regbo) who must contend with his dysfunctional family during his pre-college summer. He's also dating a married professor and writing her memoirs.
Woll plays his sister Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu and Stephen Lang also star. Roberto Faenza is directing and adapted the script from Peter Cameron's novel.
John Heyman and Elda Ferri are producing bad shooting kicks off next month in New York City.
The story follows an isolated young adult (Toby Regbo) who must contend with his dysfunctional family during his pre-college summer. He's also dating a married professor and writing her memoirs.
Woll plays his sister Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu and Stephen Lang also star. Roberto Faenza is directing and adapted the script from Peter Cameron's novel.
John Heyman and Elda Ferri are producing bad shooting kicks off next month in New York City.
- 8/19/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Deborah Ann Woll, one of the key players in HBO's "True Blood," is joining the ensemble drama "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You."
The drama tells the tale of an isolated young adult who must contend with his dysfunctional family the summer before he heads to college.
Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu and Stephen Lang are already on board.
Woll plays the sister of the young adult (Toby Regbo), who is dating a married professor and writing her memoirs, hoping to cash in on the youthful memoirs craze.
Roberto Faenza is directing the pic, which adapts the novel by Peter Cameron and shoots next month in New York. John Heyman of World Prods. and Elda Ferri of Jean Viggo Italia are producing.
The heat generated from "True Blood" has opened doors for many of the cast. Alexander Skarsgard is a couple of weeks away from shooting "Battleship,...
The drama tells the tale of an isolated young adult who must contend with his dysfunctional family the summer before he heads to college.
Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu and Stephen Lang are already on board.
Woll plays the sister of the young adult (Toby Regbo), who is dating a married professor and writing her memoirs, hoping to cash in on the youthful memoirs craze.
Roberto Faenza is directing the pic, which adapts the novel by Peter Cameron and shoots next month in New York. John Heyman of World Prods. and Elda Ferri of Jean Viggo Italia are producing.
The heat generated from "True Blood" has opened doors for many of the cast. Alexander Skarsgard is a couple of weeks away from shooting "Battleship,...
- 8/18/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"True Blood" star Deborah Ann Woll is joining Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu and Stephen Lang in the drama Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You . The film tells the tale of an isolated young adult who must contend with his dysfunctional family the summer before he heads to college. Woll plays the sister of the young adult (Toby Regbo), who is dating a married professor and writing her memoirs, hoping to cash in on the youthful memoirs craze. Roberto Faenza is directing the adaptation of the novel by Peter Cameron. Filming will start next month in New York.
- 8/18/2010
- Comingsoon.net
The Italian production starts shooting today in Central Park, New York City. The Oscar-winning actress joins Marcia Gay Harden, Toby Regbo (Harry Potter), Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels), Stephen Lang (Avatar) and Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood) in this coming-of-age story. Italian financiers including Rai Cinema are fully financing this adaptation of the teenage novel by New York-based author Peter Cameron, which was a bestseller in Italy. The novel tells a Holden Caufield-ish tale of a teenager working in his mother’s pretentious Manhattan art gallery, where he finds himself accused of sexual harassment. Roberto Faenza is the director and the producer is Elda Ferri (Life Is Beautiful). It’s a wholly Italian-financed production, partly financed by Rai Cinema. One footnote is that the script is by Dahlia Heyman, step-sister of Harry Potter producer David Heyman. By my reckoning, she’s the fifth member of the Heyman dynasty to enter the business.
- 8/18/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
ROME -- Roberto Faenza's I Vincere dominated the nominations for the Cinecitta Holding Awards for Film Excellence, which were announced Thursday.
The historical drama made a modest splash at the boxoffice when released last year and attracted some critical acclaim, but it was considered something of a surprise that it was nominated in nine of 13 possible categories for the annual awards presented by the storied Rome studios.
Antonio Grimaldi's Caos Calmo (Quiet Chaos) -- which stars and was co-written by director Nanni Moretti -- garnered five nominations for the prizes, which will be handed out April 28.
The historical drama made a modest splash at the boxoffice when released last year and attracted some critical acclaim, but it was considered something of a surprise that it was nominated in nine of 13 possible categories for the annual awards presented by the storied Rome studios.
Antonio Grimaldi's Caos Calmo (Quiet Chaos) -- which stars and was co-written by director Nanni Moretti -- garnered five nominations for the prizes, which will be handed out April 28.
ROME -- Italy's RAI Trade said Thursday that it would be representing more titles than ever at MIPTV in Cannes, including the heralded historical drama "The Viceroys" and the documentary "Maybe God is Ill" headlining the docket.
RAI Trade -- the sales arm of state-controlled Italian broadcaster RAI -- said its presence in Cannes for the April 7-11 event will be stronger than ever, with some two-dozen films and series to be shopped around. RAI Trade said it is betting heavily on MIPTV this year.
"The Viceroys"is a historical drama set in Sicily from director Roberto Faenza, available in both miniseries and feature format. "Maybe God is Ill" is a 90-minute docu about travels in Africa from Franco Brogi Taviani and based on a book by former Rome mayor Walter Veltroni, the founder of the three-year-old RomaCinemaFest and one of the two main candidates for prime minister in elections scheduled for next month.
Taviani is the brother of award-winning directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, whose latest film, "La Masseria della Allodole" (The Lark Film), will also be shopped around at MIPTV.
RAI Trade -- the sales arm of state-controlled Italian broadcaster RAI -- said its presence in Cannes for the April 7-11 event will be stronger than ever, with some two-dozen films and series to be shopped around. RAI Trade said it is betting heavily on MIPTV this year.
"The Viceroys"is a historical drama set in Sicily from director Roberto Faenza, available in both miniseries and feature format. "Maybe God is Ill" is a 90-minute docu about travels in Africa from Franco Brogi Taviani and based on a book by former Rome mayor Walter Veltroni, the founder of the three-year-old RomaCinemaFest and one of the two main candidates for prime minister in elections scheduled for next month.
Taviani is the brother of award-winning directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, whose latest film, "La Masseria della Allodole" (The Lark Film), will also be shopped around at MIPTV.
- 3/21/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Canadian independent film distributor Mongrel Media on Thursday said it will partner with Capri Releasing to distribute its film titles domestically, beginning with the May 4 theatrical release of Sarah Polley directorial debut "Away From Her".
As part of the co-distribution agreement, Toronto-based Capri Releasing will retain the rights to films it acquires, while Mongrel Media will partner on their theatrical and home video releases on a fee-for-work basis.
Mongrel president Hussain Amarshi said Capri is tying up with his company to take advantage of its growing leverage and muscle in the Canadian exhibition sector.
"It's a recognition that we have a certain expertise that we've developed over the last many years, and the films they are interested in will be better served with the setup we have," Amarshi said.
In recent years, Mongrel has grown as a boutique distributor to the point it has a Canadian output deal with Sony Pictures Classics.
Gabriella Martinella, president of Capri Films and Releasing, said in a statement that partnering with Mongrel Media on releasing films will allow her company "to focus on supporting and working with Canadian producers to make the best films possible."
Other Capri titles that Mongrel will help release include Roberto Faenza's "Come into the Light", Marcelo Gomes's "Cinema, Aspirins & Vultures," Robert Duvall's "Angelo My Love" and Stephen and Timothy Quay's "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes".
The platform release of Polley's "Away From Her" will be timed to coincide with Lionsgate's U.S.
As part of the co-distribution agreement, Toronto-based Capri Releasing will retain the rights to films it acquires, while Mongrel Media will partner on their theatrical and home video releases on a fee-for-work basis.
Mongrel president Hussain Amarshi said Capri is tying up with his company to take advantage of its growing leverage and muscle in the Canadian exhibition sector.
"It's a recognition that we have a certain expertise that we've developed over the last many years, and the films they are interested in will be better served with the setup we have," Amarshi said.
In recent years, Mongrel has grown as a boutique distributor to the point it has a Canadian output deal with Sony Pictures Classics.
Gabriella Martinella, president of Capri Films and Releasing, said in a statement that partnering with Mongrel Media on releasing films will allow her company "to focus on supporting and working with Canadian producers to make the best films possible."
Other Capri titles that Mongrel will help release include Roberto Faenza's "Come into the Light", Marcelo Gomes's "Cinema, Aspirins & Vultures," Robert Duvall's "Angelo My Love" and Stephen and Timothy Quay's "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes".
The platform release of Polley's "Away From Her" will be timed to coincide with Lionsgate's U.S.
- 3/16/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
VENICE -- Sprinkled with surrealist touches and involving some pleasant music, writer and director Roberto Faenza's "The Days of Abandonment" offers reassurance to abandoned wives that while there may be some pain, they will come to appreciate life better for the experience of being unceremoniously dumped.
The attractively made film, screened In Competition at the Venice International Film Festival, is based on a novel with the same title by Elena Ferrante. It allows Margherita Buy to display her considerable dramatic skills as a wife whose husband leaves her for a younger woman but the predictable story is an unexceptional addition to the many on the topic that have gone before. It is unlikely to make a box office splash.
Buy plays Olga, a contentedly married 40-something with two great kids and an engineer husband named Mario (Luca Zingaretti) who provides a beautiful home in Turin, is loving and attentive, and walks Otto the dog dutifully. Until one day he doesn't.
Explaining that he has found "a lack of meaning" in life, Mario says he needs to be alone to reflect upon it. Olga's best friend Lea (Gea Lionello) urges her to ask her errant husband what the lack of meaning's name is.
It turns out to be Carla Gaia Bermani Amaral), a beautiful young student Mario has been tutoring. This information is slow to emerge, however, and in the mean time, Olga goes to pieces and at one point physically assaults Mario and Carla in the street.
Into her life, however, come a bushy-haired musician named Damian (composer Goran Bregovic, who also scored the film), who has previously just been the annoying neighbor downstairs, and a vaguely threatening young bag lady (Alessia Goria) camped across the street.
The story winds to its mundane conclusion with Olga's children, the tramp, the musician and Otto the dog each playing a part in the woman's discovery that life goes on. As indeed it does.
The attractively made film, screened In Competition at the Venice International Film Festival, is based on a novel with the same title by Elena Ferrante. It allows Margherita Buy to display her considerable dramatic skills as a wife whose husband leaves her for a younger woman but the predictable story is an unexceptional addition to the many on the topic that have gone before. It is unlikely to make a box office splash.
Buy plays Olga, a contentedly married 40-something with two great kids and an engineer husband named Mario (Luca Zingaretti) who provides a beautiful home in Turin, is loving and attentive, and walks Otto the dog dutifully. Until one day he doesn't.
Explaining that he has found "a lack of meaning" in life, Mario says he needs to be alone to reflect upon it. Olga's best friend Lea (Gea Lionello) urges her to ask her errant husband what the lack of meaning's name is.
It turns out to be Carla Gaia Bermani Amaral), a beautiful young student Mario has been tutoring. This information is slow to emerge, however, and in the mean time, Olga goes to pieces and at one point physically assaults Mario and Carla in the street.
Into her life, however, come a bushy-haired musician named Damian (composer Goran Bregovic, who also scored the film), who has previously just been the annoying neighbor downstairs, and a vaguely threatening young bag lady (Alessia Goria) camped across the street.
The story winds to its mundane conclusion with Olga's children, the tramp, the musician and Otto the dog each playing a part in the woman's discovery that life goes on. As indeed it does.
VENICE, Italy -- Italian independent producer Domenico Procacci took aim at Venice International Film Festival artistic director Marco Muller for ignoring his mandate to discover first-time directors in his selection process. Procacci, in town with first-time helmer Fausto Paravidino's Texas, which is screening in the Venice Horizons section, openly questioned at a news conference why his film was not selected to compete for the Golden Lion. "For Muller, in fact, as he declared to the press, the festival should photograph the present and doesn't have to discover new talent. I do not share this view," said Procacci, who noted that the three Italian films in competition -- Roberto Faenza's I Giorni dell'Abbandono, Cristina Comencini's La Bestia Nel Cuore and Pupi Avati's La Seconda Notte di Nozze -- are all from established directors.
VENICE -- James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, John Turturro and the Coen Brothers waltzed their way onto the Lido Tuesday for the premiere of the bawdy musical Romance & Cigarettes. Director Turturro's movie was the second U.S. title to unspool here in competition. One of the largest entourages to arrive yet provided ample opportunity for a packed news conference to quiz the filmmaker and stars. But the event was largely dominated by questions fired to Sarandon about her views on Hollywood and politics. Sarandon joshed that the only way to end your career in Hollywood was to get "old and fat." She said Hollywood wasn't really a "political entity that is going to evolve in some way." She also said that it was a pity that men got paid more than women to be in movies but added that many of the roles did not appeal to her. The movie script, described by producers Joel and Ethan Coen as "sufficiently demented" to bring them on board, trades in foulmouthed dialogue and lewd sexual references. "Dirty language of a certain kind is a certain art and everything can't be sweet," said Turturro, who penned the project in addition to directing it. "We made a list of interesting expressions and as long as it is humorous it is fun." Prior to the news conference, a war of words broke out between Venice festival organizers and a major Italian newswire service. Organizers said Italy's second-largest wire service, Adnkronos, had misrepresented the tone and content of festival coverage from outlets including The Hollywood Reporter. Adnkronos ran an article -- picked up by the Venice daily Il Gazzettino -- which said that U.S. press coverage had slammed the festival organization and the movies so far. But organizers fired back at the wire service, saying in a press statement that the "tone and comments" of coverage "were in fact positive." As the war of words broke out, Venice entered the home stretch and Italian entries pushed to the fore. Tuesday saw the first Italian movie unspool in competition as Roberto Faenza's I Giorni dell'Abbandono hit the screen. Both Cristina Comencini's La Bestia Nel Cuore and Pupi Avati's La Seconda Notte di Nozze also will vie for the jury's attention as Saturday's awards ceremony approaches.
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