On the heels of crowning the class of 2023, Variety is marking 25 years of keeping a keen eye on the next generation of filmmakers with its annual 10 Directors to Watch franchise.
Over the past quarter-century, the editorial initiative has cast an important career spotlight on such future boldface-name directors as Alfonso Cuaron, Christopher Nolan, Ava DuVernay, Wes Anderson, Chloé Zhao, Barry Jenkins, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Steve McQueen, Taika Waititi, Kasi Lemmons, Michael Winterbottom, Sarah Polley, Catherine Hardwicke, Lulu Wang, Jay Chandrasekhar, David Gordon Green and Fernando Meirelles.
The scouting for 10 Directors to Watch goes on all year among Variety‘s editorial staff. The series was birthed in January 1997 by veteran Variety editor Steven Gaydos, executive VP of global content and leader of the Focus features department. The goal is to identify hot helmers before they pick up any significant hardware — aka major award wins, Gaydos said.
Variety‘s Steven Gaydos
“We look for a distinctive voice,...
Over the past quarter-century, the editorial initiative has cast an important career spotlight on such future boldface-name directors as Alfonso Cuaron, Christopher Nolan, Ava DuVernay, Wes Anderson, Chloé Zhao, Barry Jenkins, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Steve McQueen, Taika Waititi, Kasi Lemmons, Michael Winterbottom, Sarah Polley, Catherine Hardwicke, Lulu Wang, Jay Chandrasekhar, David Gordon Green and Fernando Meirelles.
The scouting for 10 Directors to Watch goes on all year among Variety‘s editorial staff. The series was birthed in January 1997 by veteran Variety editor Steven Gaydos, executive VP of global content and leader of the Focus features department. The goal is to identify hot helmers before they pick up any significant hardware — aka major award wins, Gaydos said.
Variety‘s Steven Gaydos
“We look for a distinctive voice,...
- 1/8/2023
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
BERLIN -- Patrick Stettner's The Night Listener, which debuted at Sundance, will get a special screening at the Berlin International Film Festival, organizers announced Wednesday. Based on the best-selling novel by Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener stars Robin Williams as a writer named Gabriel who reads his stories on night-time radio. His biggest fan is 14-year-old Pete, played by Rory Culkin, who has written an autobiography about being abused and tortured by his parents while growing up. Gabriel and Pete become friendly over the air but Gabriel begins to suspect Pete may be a fraud and travels to his home to find out the truth. The Night Listener will have its gala screening at the Berlin Filmpalast on Feb. 12. Stettner and Maupin are expected to attend.
PARK CITY -- Miramax Films has nabbed North American rights to Patrick Stettner's mystery-thriller The Night Listener from Hart Sharp Entertainment and IFC Films for more than $3 million plus boxoffice bonuses. According to a source close to the deal, interest from buyers started slowly after the Saturday evening premiere of the film, which stars Robin Williams and Toni Collette. The initial screening, which Williams wasn't able to attend because he was filming in Canada, met with lukewarm reaction; observers reported a better reaction to the second screening Sunday. Listener is based on the best-selling semiautobiographical novel by Armistead Maupin, who co-wrote the screenplay with Terry Anderson and Stettner. It centers on a radio storyteller (Williams) who receives a manuscript written by an ill abused child (Rory Culkin). After striking up a phone conversation with the young man and his guardian (Collette), he begins to sense a hoax, leading him on a journey to uncover the truth.
- 1/25/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- This year Ioncinema.com is covering the 2006 edition of the Sundance Film Festival Live from Park City, Utah. Weâ.ll be on hand to cover the festival, and while we wonâ.t be able to cover everything from A to Z: here is a comprehensive beforehand look at the selections in each of the festivalâ.s sections. (Note: To access individual preview pages, simply click on the links below) January 19, 2006Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 19, 2006'); A Little Trip to Heaven - Baltasar Kormakur Alpha Dog - Nick Cassavetes New Line Cinema) Art School Confidential - Terry Zwigoff (Sony Pictures Classics) Cargo - Clive Gordon The Darwin Awards - Finn Taylor Don't Come Knocking - Wim Wenders (Sony Pictures Classics) Friends With Money - Nicole Holofcener (Sony Pictures Classics) The Illusionist - Neil Burger Kinky Boots - Julian Jarrold Miramax Films Little Miss Sunshine - Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
- 1/18/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
IFC Films said Wednesday that it will partner with Hart Sharp Entertainment on The Night Listener, from director Patrick Stettner and starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. IFC Films will executive produce the film, which is based on Armistead Maupin's international best-seller. The deal was brokered by UTA and Hart Sharp chief operating officer Michael Hogan, IFC vp theatrical acquisitions Sarah Lash and IFC Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring. The film, which centers on popular radio host Gabriel Noone (Williams) and the events that unfold after he strikes up a telephone relationship with his biggest fan, a troubled and precocious young boy, just wrapped production in New York. The companies are hoping for a late fall or winter 2006 festival premiere.
Hollywood funnyman Robin Williams is so desperate to play his next role, a homosexual radio DJ in forthcoming movie The Night Listener, he's accepted a dramatically reduced salary. The Mrs Doubtfire star will receive just £65,000 to play a radio host who befriends his biggest fan over the telephone in the movie adaptation of Armistead Maupin's best-selling novel of the same name, reports US newspaper New York Daily News. Sideways star Sandra Oh and Muriel's Wedding actress Toni Collette are in talks to join Williams in director Patrick Stettner's forthcoming movie, which will begin shooting later this month.
- 3/2/2005
- WENN
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