Exclusive: RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio is returning for a third movie in the Hurricane Bianca franchise and will star alongside Willam Belli (A Star Is Born), Rachel Dratch (Wine Country), Thora Birch (The Walking Dead), Drag Race contestant fan favorite Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, and Doug Plaut (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt).
Hurricane Bianca: The Roots Of All Evil, which is due to shoot in early 2023, is written and directed by Matt Kugelman.
Pic will see Richard Martinez return home to Florida for his beloved grandmother’s funeral. There, he is lured back into a decades-old feud with his mother who owns a homophobic fast-food chain restaurant, and so decides to go undercover as Bianca Del Rio to put his mother out of business. With the help of his chosen family, he embarks on an adventure exposing corruption, confronting cults and healing relationships.
Tony...
Hurricane Bianca: The Roots Of All Evil, which is due to shoot in early 2023, is written and directed by Matt Kugelman.
Pic will see Richard Martinez return home to Florida for his beloved grandmother’s funeral. There, he is lured back into a decades-old feud with his mother who owns a homophobic fast-food chain restaurant, and so decides to go undercover as Bianca Del Rio to put his mother out of business. With the help of his chosen family, he embarks on an adventure exposing corruption, confronting cults and healing relationships.
Tony...
- 12/20/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Wolfe Releasing has acquired worldwide rights to Charles Busch and Carl Andress’ comedy The Sixth Reel, and to the late director Mark Rucker’s cult comedy Die, Mommie, Die!, slating the former film for release in theaters and on digital this fall. The latter will hit theaters in 2023, subsequently making its streaming debut.
In The Sixth Reel, a down-on-his-luck movie collector (Busch) discovers a legendary lost film and becomes entangled in an outrageous adventure to deliver it to the right hands before it is lost forever. Longtime collaborators Busch and Andress directed the pic from their script, with Julie Halston (And Just Like That…), Patrick Page (In the Heights), Tim Daly (Life & Beth) and Margaret Cho (Fire Island) rounding out the cast. The film was produced by Jamie Buckner and Alex Peace-Power of Derby City Productions, and the late Ash Christian of Cranium Entertainment. It won a Special...
In The Sixth Reel, a down-on-his-luck movie collector (Busch) discovers a legendary lost film and becomes entangled in an outrageous adventure to deliver it to the right hands before it is lost forever. Longtime collaborators Busch and Andress directed the pic from their script, with Julie Halston (And Just Like That…), Patrick Page (In the Heights), Tim Daly (Life & Beth) and Margaret Cho (Fire Island) rounding out the cast. The film was produced by Jamie Buckner and Alex Peace-Power of Derby City Productions, and the late Ash Christian of Cranium Entertainment. It won a Special...
- 6/30/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Quiver Distribution has acquired Mayim Bialik’s feature directorial debut As They Made Us, starring Diana Agron, Simon Helberg, Oscar nominee Candice Bergen and two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman, slating it for release in theaters and on VOD on April 8.
The dysfunctional family dramedy written and directed by the former Big Bang Theory star follows Abigail (Agron), a divorced mother of two, who is struggling to balance the dynamic forces within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love.
Justin Chu Cary, Charlie Weber and Bialik’s Call Me Kat co-star Julian Gant round out the cast. Yale Productions’ Jordan Beckerman and Jordan Yale Levine produced with Anne Clements, Michael Day, Mark Maxey and the late Ash Christian,...
The dysfunctional family dramedy written and directed by the former Big Bang Theory star follows Abigail (Agron), a divorced mother of two, who is struggling to balance the dynamic forces within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love.
Justin Chu Cary, Charlie Weber and Bialik’s Call Me Kat co-star Julian Gant round out the cast. Yale Productions’ Jordan Beckerman and Jordan Yale Levine produced with Anne Clements, Michael Day, Mark Maxey and the late Ash Christian,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
“Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” will open the 39th edition of Outfest, the Los Angeles LGBTQ film festival.
The big-screen adaptation of the West End musical of the same name will kick off the festival Aug. 13 with its first ever outdoor gala hosted by Cinespia at Hollywood Forever cemetery. Closing night on Aug. 22 will feature a screening of “Fanny: The Right to Rock,” a film about the first female rock band to release an album with a major label. The evening will include a reunion performance by Fanny.
Outfest returns to in-person screenings and events after having gone virtual in 2020 due to the pandemic. This year’s lineup includes nearly 200 films with more than 50 international entries. There will be seven world premieres Charles Busch’s “The Sixth Reel”; “Homebody”; Outfest alum Jeffrey Schwarz’s true story of Gloria Swanson’s quest to star in a Sunset Boulevard musical, “Boulevard! A Hollywood Story”; “Gemmel and Tim,...
The big-screen adaptation of the West End musical of the same name will kick off the festival Aug. 13 with its first ever outdoor gala hosted by Cinespia at Hollywood Forever cemetery. Closing night on Aug. 22 will feature a screening of “Fanny: The Right to Rock,” a film about the first female rock band to release an album with a major label. The evening will include a reunion performance by Fanny.
Outfest returns to in-person screenings and events after having gone virtual in 2020 due to the pandemic. This year’s lineup includes nearly 200 films with more than 50 international entries. There will be seven world premieres Charles Busch’s “The Sixth Reel”; “Homebody”; Outfest alum Jeffrey Schwarz’s true story of Gloria Swanson’s quest to star in a Sunset Boulevard musical, “Boulevard! A Hollywood Story”; “Gemmel and Tim,...
- 7/26/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Outfest has unveiled the dates, venues, and lineup for its 39th film festival, which is returning to in-person screenings more than a year and a half after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival will be held this year between August 13-22.
The 2021 edition of the nation’s leading LGBTQ festival kicks off with an opening night screening of Jonathan Butterell’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. The screening, which is being put on in concert with Cinespia, will mark the fest’s first-ever outdoor gala, taking place at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Screening at the Orpheum Theatre on August 22, the closing night film is Fanny: The Right to Rock, a documentary about the female rock band of the same name, which was the first to release an album with a major label.
Nearly 200 films will screen at this year’s festival, including 50 international features...
The Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival will be held this year between August 13-22.
The 2021 edition of the nation’s leading LGBTQ festival kicks off with an opening night screening of Jonathan Butterell’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. The screening, which is being put on in concert with Cinespia, will mark the fest’s first-ever outdoor gala, taking place at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Screening at the Orpheum Theatre on August 22, the closing night film is Fanny: The Right to Rock, a documentary about the female rock band of the same name, which was the first to release an album with a major label.
Nearly 200 films will screen at this year’s festival, including 50 international features...
- 7/26/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Cast has rounded out on As Sick As They Made Us, the feature directing debut of The Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik.
As Deadline previously revealed, Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, and fellow Big Bang Theory cast member Simon Helberg will lead the comedy-drama. New additions are Justin Chu Cary (Black Summer) and Charlie Weber (How To Get Away With Murder), with Dianna Agron also in the cast.
The story is as follows – a new romance with Jay (Justin Chu Cary) for recently divorced Abigail (Dianna Agron), who has just split from her husband (Charlie Webb), arrives right in the midst of her parents’ (Dustin Hoffman and Candice Bergen) chaotic antics. After a lifetime of dysfunctional hilarity, the family, accompanied by an estranged brother (Simon Helberg) find it within themselves to embrace for one final goodbye.
Filming is now underway in New Jersey on the movie. Screen Media Ventures,...
As Deadline previously revealed, Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, and fellow Big Bang Theory cast member Simon Helberg will lead the comedy-drama. New additions are Justin Chu Cary (Black Summer) and Charlie Weber (How To Get Away With Murder), with Dianna Agron also in the cast.
The story is as follows – a new romance with Jay (Justin Chu Cary) for recently divorced Abigail (Dianna Agron), who has just split from her husband (Charlie Webb), arrives right in the midst of her parents’ (Dustin Hoffman and Candice Bergen) chaotic antics. After a lifetime of dysfunctional hilarity, the family, accompanied by an estranged brother (Simon Helberg) find it within themselves to embrace for one final goodbye.
Filming is now underway in New Jersey on the movie. Screen Media Ventures,...
- 6/23/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Batman Begins and Thank You for Smoking actress Katie Holmes has completed shooting on her second feature directorial, untitled romance in Connecticut. This is the first news we’re hearing about the project.
Produced by Yale Productions, the movie stars Holmes, Jim Sturgess, Derek Luke, Melissa Leo, Zosia Mamet, Luke Kirby, and Becky Ann Baker.
In the pic, two strangers embroiled in bad relationships wind up in the same upstate New York Airbnb. They’re forced to confront quarantine and their disdain for one another in this unexpected and unlikely love story. Holmes wrote and produced alongside Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions.
“As soon as we read this script, and heard Katie’s vision, we knew this was a project we had to be a part of. Katie is just as talented a writer/director as she is an actress,” said Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman.
Produced by Yale Productions, the movie stars Holmes, Jim Sturgess, Derek Luke, Melissa Leo, Zosia Mamet, Luke Kirby, and Becky Ann Baker.
In the pic, two strangers embroiled in bad relationships wind up in the same upstate New York Airbnb. They’re forced to confront quarantine and their disdain for one another in this unexpected and unlikely love story. Holmes wrote and produced alongside Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions.
“As soon as we read this script, and heard Katie’s vision, we knew this was a project we had to be a part of. Katie is just as talented a writer/director as she is an actress,” said Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman.
- 5/4/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Meander, a horror thriller written and directed by Mathieu Turi. It will now get a July 9, 2021 release date in theaters and on on-demand platforms.
The film stars Gaïa Weiss, Peter Franzen and Romane Libert. Weiss plays Lisa, who after getting a car ride from an unknown man wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 10 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, she will have to face the memories of her dead daughter.
“Gravitas is thrilled to be able to present audiences with one of the best new additions to the sci-fi and horror genres in the past decade,” said Brett Rogalsky, Gravitas Ventures’ acquisitions manager. “What Mathieu...
The film stars Gaïa Weiss, Peter Franzen and Romane Libert. Weiss plays Lisa, who after getting a car ride from an unknown man wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 10 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, she will have to face the memories of her dead daughter.
“Gravitas is thrilled to be able to present audiences with one of the best new additions to the sci-fi and horror genres in the past decade,” said Brett Rogalsky, Gravitas Ventures’ acquisitions manager. “What Mathieu...
- 4/30/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Entertainment Squad has picked up the North American rights to Paper Spiders, a comedy-drama from director by Inon Shampanier. Lili Taylor, Stefania Lavie Owen, Ian Nelson and Peyton List star in the indie film, which will be released in select theaters on Mother’s Day weekend and will be available to rent and own on North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms starting on May 7. Written by Shampanier and Natalie Shampanier, the plot follows a high school senior whose life turns upside down as her mother’s paranoid delusions spiral out of control.
Producers are Idiot Savant Pictures’ Anne Clements and the late Ash Christian of Cranium Entertainment who passed away last year. Cercamon is selling foreign rights at the current European Film Market.
“We are thrilled to share this film, which features outstanding performances from Lili Taylor and Stefania Lavie Owen as a mother-daughter grappling with mental illness,...
Producers are Idiot Savant Pictures’ Anne Clements and the late Ash Christian of Cranium Entertainment who passed away last year. Cercamon is selling foreign rights at the current European Film Market.
“We are thrilled to share this film, which features outstanding performances from Lili Taylor and Stefania Lavie Owen as a mother-daughter grappling with mental illness,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario and Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Quiver Distribution and Redbox Entertainment have announced the North American acquisition rights to Chick Fight, an action-comedy featuring a starry cast that includes Malin Akerman, Emmy winner Alec Baldwin, Bella Thorne, and Kevin Connolly. Paul Leyden directed the film which will get a day-and-date release on November 13.
Written by first-time feature writer Joseph Downey, the plot follows Anna Wyncomb (Akerman), who is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn her life around, when she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.
Dominique Jackson, former pro-wrestler Kevin Nash, Fortune Feimster, Dulcé Sloan, and Alec Mapa round out the cast.
Producers are Akerman, Yale Productions’ Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Michael J. Rothstein, Idiot Savant Pictures’ Anne Clements as well as Frances Lausell and Ash Christian, who spearheaded the film’s development. Christian, a beloved Emmy-winning independent producer,...
Written by first-time feature writer Joseph Downey, the plot follows Anna Wyncomb (Akerman), who is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn her life around, when she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.
Dominique Jackson, former pro-wrestler Kevin Nash, Fortune Feimster, Dulcé Sloan, and Alec Mapa round out the cast.
Producers are Akerman, Yale Productions’ Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Michael J. Rothstein, Idiot Savant Pictures’ Anne Clements as well as Frances Lausell and Ash Christian, who spearheaded the film’s development. Christian, a beloved Emmy-winning independent producer,...
- 9/10/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Ash Christian, an Emmy Award-winning producer, actor and filmmaker, died in his sleep while vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He was 35.
Christian, who was born in Paris, Texas on Jan. 16, 1985, moved to Los Angeles at 16 to pursue a career in acting. At 19, he wrote, starred and directed in his first feature film, Fat Girls, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Outstanding Emerging Talent Award at L.A. Outfest 2006. Other directing credits of Christian’s include Petunia and Mangus!.
In 2014, Christian won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding special-class short-form daytime program for “mI Promise....
Christian, who was born in Paris, Texas on Jan. 16, 1985, moved to Los Angeles at 16 to pursue a career in acting. At 19, he wrote, starred and directed in his first feature film, Fat Girls, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Outstanding Emerging Talent Award at L.A. Outfest 2006. Other directing credits of Christian’s include Petunia and Mangus!.
In 2014, Christian won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding special-class short-form daytime program for “mI Promise....
- 8/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ash Christian, an Emmy Award-winning producer, actor and filmmaker, died in his sleep while vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He was 35.
Christian, who was born in Paris, Texas on Jan. 16, 1985, moved to Los Angeles at 16 to pursue a career in acting. At 19, he wrote, starred and directed in his first feature film, Fat Girls, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Outstanding Emerging Talent Award at L.A. Outfest 2006. Other directing credits of Christian’s include Petunia and Mangus!.
In 2014, Christian won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding special-class short-form daytime program for “mI Promise....
Christian, who was born in Paris, Texas on Jan. 16, 1985, moved to Los Angeles at 16 to pursue a career in acting. At 19, he wrote, starred and directed in his first feature film, Fat Girls, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Outstanding Emerging Talent Award at L.A. Outfest 2006. Other directing credits of Christian’s include Petunia and Mangus!.
In 2014, Christian won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding special-class short-form daytime program for “mI Promise....
- 8/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Hollywood has lost one of its own. Emmy-winning producer, director and actor Ash Christian has passed away. Variety, Deadline and other outlets reported the entertainment insider died in his sleep on Thursday, Aug. 13, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He was only 35 years old. At this time, it's unknown what caused Christian's death. In light of the news, many took to social media to express their heartache over the star's loss. Thora Birch posted a tribute on Twitter. "One of my very few truly wonderful friends. He was genuinely hilarious and to loose him is just... I can't even say," she wrote. "In complete shock. Rip to my brother @ashchristian. This...
- 8/15/2020
- E! Online
Actor, filmmaker and Emmy-winning producer Ash Christian died on Thursday. He was 35.
No further details about his passing or cause of death have been released.
Christian was the founder of Cranium Entertainment, where he developed and produced a number of films, including “Burn,” Coyote Lake,” Hurricane Bianca,” “Social Animals” and “1985.” He was currently working on Mayim Bialik’s directorial debut “As Sick as They Made Us,” starring Candice Bergen and Dustin Hoffman. The film is slated for an October release.
“Ash was a great friend, colleague and partner in crime,” Anne Clements, Christian’s friend and producing partner said. “He was a champion of indie film and filmmakers and his love of the process of putting movies together was infectious. My heart goes out to his family, especially his mother. The world lost one of the good ones.”
Also Read: Linda Manz, Star of 'Days of Heaven,' Dies...
No further details about his passing or cause of death have been released.
Christian was the founder of Cranium Entertainment, where he developed and produced a number of films, including “Burn,” Coyote Lake,” Hurricane Bianca,” “Social Animals” and “1985.” He was currently working on Mayim Bialik’s directorial debut “As Sick as They Made Us,” starring Candice Bergen and Dustin Hoffman. The film is slated for an October release.
“Ash was a great friend, colleague and partner in crime,” Anne Clements, Christian’s friend and producing partner said. “He was a champion of indie film and filmmakers and his love of the process of putting movies together was infectious. My heart goes out to his family, especially his mother. The world lost one of the good ones.”
Also Read: Linda Manz, Star of 'Days of Heaven,' Dies...
- 8/15/2020
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
Ash Christian, an Emmy award-winning producer, actor, filmmaker and founder of Cranium Entertainment, died in his sleep on Thursday in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He was 35.
Born on Jan. 16, 1985, in Paris, Tex., Christian began writing and directing short films at the age of 14, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams just two years later. He wrote, directed and starred in his first feature film, “Fat Girls,” in 2006 at just 19 years old. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won an award for outstanding emerging talent at L.A. Outfest.
In 2014, Christian won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding special-class short-format daytime program for “mI Promise.” He shared the award with his producing partner Anne Clements and executive producers Lauralee Bell and Scott Martin.
Christian went on to act in several television shows including “The Good Fight,” “The Good Wife” and “Law and Order,” but found his true calling with production.
Born on Jan. 16, 1985, in Paris, Tex., Christian began writing and directing short films at the age of 14, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams just two years later. He wrote, directed and starred in his first feature film, “Fat Girls,” in 2006 at just 19 years old. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won an award for outstanding emerging talent at L.A. Outfest.
In 2014, Christian won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding special-class short-format daytime program for “mI Promise.” He shared the award with his producing partner Anne Clements and executive producers Lauralee Bell and Scott Martin.
Christian went on to act in several television shows including “The Good Fight,” “The Good Wife” and “Law and Order,” but found his true calling with production.
- 8/15/2020
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Ash Christian, an Emmy Award-winning producer, actor and filmmaker, died in his sleep on Thursday, August 13 while vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He was 35 years old. Ash was a prolific filmmaker, with numerous projects in various stages of production, including many set to start filming this year. Under his own company, Cranium Entertainment, Christian developed and produced thought-provoking feature films for both specialized and mainstream audiences. He went on to produce dozens of award-winning films and productions, including Hurricane Bianca, 1985, Hello Again, Social Animals, and Coyote Lake. His current projects included As Sick As They Made Us, Mayim Bialik’s directorial debut starring Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen and Simon Helberg; Nightfall with Matt Bomer and Sam Worthington, directed by Addison McQuigg (Bloodline); and The Sixth Reel, directed by and starring Charles Busch and co-directed by Carl Andress; Chick Fight with Malin Akerman, Fortune Feimster, and Alec Baldwin; and Paper Spiders,...
- 8/15/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Ash Christian, a producer, actor and director known for Social Animals and Coyote Lake, has died. He was 35.
Christian died in his sleep while vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, according to his representatives.
He ran his own production company based in New York, Cranium Entertainment, producing numerous films including the SXSW hit 1985, Hurricane Bianca, Little Sister and Coin Heist.
In 2006, Christian won outstanding emerging talent for his first feature film Fat Girls at Outfest. In 2014, Christian won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding special-class short-form daytime program for "mI Promise." He shared the win with producing partner ...
Christian died in his sleep while vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, according to his representatives.
He ran his own production company based in New York, Cranium Entertainment, producing numerous films including the SXSW hit 1985, Hurricane Bianca, Little Sister and Coin Heist.
In 2006, Christian won outstanding emerging talent for his first feature film Fat Girls at Outfest. In 2014, Christian won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding special-class short-form daytime program for "mI Promise." He shared the win with producing partner ...
- 8/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ash Christian, a producer, actor and director known for Social Animals and Coyote Lake, has died. He was 35.
Christian died in his sleep while vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, according to his representatives.
He ran his own production company based in New York, Cranium Entertainment, producing numerous films including the SXSW hit 1985, Hurricane Bianca, Little Sister and Coin Heist.
In 2006, Christian won outstanding emerging talent for his first feature film Fat Girls at Outfest. In 2014, Christian won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding special-class short-form daytime program for "mI Promise." He shared the win with producing partner ...
Christian died in his sleep while vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, according to his representatives.
He ran his own production company based in New York, Cranium Entertainment, producing numerous films including the SXSW hit 1985, Hurricane Bianca, Little Sister and Coin Heist.
In 2006, Christian won outstanding emerging talent for his first feature film Fat Girls at Outfest. In 2014, Christian won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding special-class short-form daytime program for "mI Promise." He shared the win with producing partner ...
- 8/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Dubai-based Cercamon has boarded international sales on Paper Spiders, starring Lili Taylor, Stefania Lavie Owen and Peyton List. The drama will be handled by Cercamon outside North America and will be proffered to buyers, including a promo reel, at the Efm which kicks off today in Berlin.
The film is directed by Inon Shampanier and is based on his and Natalie Shampanier’s original screenplay. It tells a bittersweet coming of age story in the shadow of mental illness. Recently-widowed Dawn experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An altercation with a hostile new neighbor aggravates Dawn’s condition and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Melanie attempts a series of interventions to help her mom, but Dawn’s paranoia spirals out of control. Challenging Dawn’s reality of persecution threatens to destroy their loving relationship. Melanie is forced to make...
The film is directed by Inon Shampanier and is based on his and Natalie Shampanier’s original screenplay. It tells a bittersweet coming of age story in the shadow of mental illness. Recently-widowed Dawn experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An altercation with a hostile new neighbor aggravates Dawn’s condition and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Melanie attempts a series of interventions to help her mom, but Dawn’s paranoia spirals out of control. Challenging Dawn’s reality of persecution threatens to destroy their loving relationship. Melanie is forced to make...
- 2/20/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, “Apollo 13” gets a three-day re-release, “Calm With Horses” gets a home, and Malin Akerman’s action-comedy “Chick Fight” rounds out its cast.
Anniversary Release
“Apollo 13” will be re-released to 600 North American theaters on April 5, 6 and 8, nearly 50 years after the liftoff of the ill-fated 1970 space mission.
Fathom Events, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment made the announcement Wednesday.
“Apollo 13” starred Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan. The film, directed by Ron Howard, received nine Academy Award nominations and grossed $355 million worldwide.
The movie recounts the three astronauts dealing with the aftermath of an on-board explosion, reported with the line, “Houston, we have a problem.” With their spacecraft depleted of most of its oxygen supply and electrical power, they looped around the Moon with an improvised plan to returned to earth in the pre-digital age.
“Apollo 13...
Anniversary Release
“Apollo 13” will be re-released to 600 North American theaters on April 5, 6 and 8, nearly 50 years after the liftoff of the ill-fated 1970 space mission.
Fathom Events, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment made the announcement Wednesday.
“Apollo 13” starred Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan. The film, directed by Ron Howard, received nine Academy Award nominations and grossed $355 million worldwide.
The movie recounts the three astronauts dealing with the aftermath of an on-board explosion, reported with the line, “Houston, we have a problem.” With their spacecraft depleted of most of its oxygen supply and electrical power, they looped around the Moon with an improvised plan to returned to earth in the pre-digital age.
“Apollo 13...
- 2/13/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Alec Baldwin and Bella Thorne have joined the cast of Chick Fight, the indie action comedy starring and to be produced by Malin Akerman. Paul Leyden is directing Joseph Downey’s original script for the pic, which is being produced by Yale Productions and Idiot Savant Pictures. A January shooting start is in the works.
Akerman stars as Anna, who still hasn’t reconciled with the recent death of her adored mother. She’s just discovered that her loving and supportive father is gay, and she accidentally burns down her uninsured coffee shop after learning a thrown joint and a spilled bottle of moonshine don’t mix. Knowing Anna needs to be abruptly shaken and stirred from her deep funk, her best friend takes her to an all-women underground fight club, where she encounters an eclectic cast of characters.
Thorne plays Olivia, the club’s intimidatingly perfect and most brutally efficient fighter,...
Akerman stars as Anna, who still hasn’t reconciled with the recent death of her adored mother. She’s just discovered that her loving and supportive father is gay, and she accidentally burns down her uninsured coffee shop after learning a thrown joint and a spilled bottle of moonshine don’t mix. Knowing Anna needs to be abruptly shaken and stirred from her deep funk, her best friend takes her to an all-women underground fight club, where she encounters an eclectic cast of characters.
Thorne plays Olivia, the club’s intimidatingly perfect and most brutally efficient fighter,...
- 12/10/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman and five-time Emmy winner Candice Bergen are teaming up alongside Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory) and Olivia Thirlby (Juno) for As Sick as They Made Us.
The comedy-drama comes from writer-director Mayim Bialik, former star of Blossom and The Big Bang Theory. Making its market debut at Afm, with Film Mode Entertainment handling sales, As Sick as They Made Us is being producing by Anne Clements (Stage Mother) and Ash Christian (After Everything, Burn), with Film Mode’s Clay Epstein serving as exec producer.
The movie follows a divorced mother of two who rekindles love in her life ...
The comedy-drama comes from writer-director Mayim Bialik, former star of Blossom and The Big Bang Theory. Making its market debut at Afm, with Film Mode Entertainment handling sales, As Sick as They Made Us is being producing by Anne Clements (Stage Mother) and Ash Christian (After Everything, Burn), with Film Mode’s Clay Epstein serving as exec producer.
The movie follows a divorced mother of two who rekindles love in her life ...
- 11/8/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman and five-time Emmy winner Candice Bergen are teaming up alongside Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory) and Olivia Thirlby (Juno) for As Sick as They Made Us.
The comedy-drama comes from writer-director Mayim Bialik, former star of Blossom and The Big Bang Theory. Making its market debut at Afm, with Film Mode Entertainment handling sales, As Sick as They Made Us is being producing by Anne Clements (Stage Mother) and Ash Christian (After Everything, Burn), with Film Mode’s Clay Epstein serving as exec producer.
The movie follows a divorced mother of two who rekindles love in her life ...
The comedy-drama comes from writer-director Mayim Bialik, former star of Blossom and The Big Bang Theory. Making its market debut at Afm, with Film Mode Entertainment handling sales, As Sick as They Made Us is being producing by Anne Clements (Stage Mother) and Ash Christian (After Everything, Burn), with Film Mode’s Clay Epstein serving as exec producer.
The movie follows a divorced mother of two who rekindles love in her life ...
- 11/8/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dustin Hoffman and Candice Bergen are set to star in the directorial debut film from “The Big Bang Theory” star Mayim Bialik. The film will be presented to buyers this week at the American Film Market by Film Mode Entertainment, the sales company announced on Thursday.
Bialik wrote the screenplay and will direct the comedy-drama titled “As Sick As They Made Us,” which will also star Olivia Thirlby and Bialik’s “Big Bang” co-star Simon Helberg.
“As Sick as They Made Us” is about a successful, divorced mother of two who rekindles love in her life amidst the crazy antics of her dysfunctional family. Now she attempts to convince the stubborn and comically unfortunate family members to hold it together while they embrace one final farewell.
Also Read: 'Big Bang Theory' Stars Mayim Bialik, Jim Parsons Re-Team for Comedy 'Carla' at Fox
Anne Clements and Ash Christian are producing,...
Bialik wrote the screenplay and will direct the comedy-drama titled “As Sick As They Made Us,” which will also star Olivia Thirlby and Bialik’s “Big Bang” co-star Simon Helberg.
“As Sick as They Made Us” is about a successful, divorced mother of two who rekindles love in her life amidst the crazy antics of her dysfunctional family. Now she attempts to convince the stubborn and comically unfortunate family members to hold it together while they embrace one final farewell.
Also Read: 'Big Bang Theory' Stars Mayim Bialik, Jim Parsons Re-Team for Comedy 'Carla' at Fox
Anne Clements and Ash Christian are producing,...
- 11/7/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: We can reveal that Mayim Bialik, known for her role as Amy in The Big Bang Theory, is set to make her directing debut on comedy-drama As Sick As They Made Us and has gathered a starry cast for the pic.
Starring are Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, Olivia Thirlby (Juno), and fellow Big Bang Theory cast member Simon Helberg.
Bialik also wrote the screenplay, which is about a successful divorced mother of two who rekindles love in her life amidst the crazy antics of her dysfunctional family. Now she attempts to convince the stubborn, and comically unfortunate family members to hold it together while they embrace one final farewell.
Project comes from producers Anne Clements (Stage Mother), and Ash Christian (After Everything) and Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment, which is shopping it at Afm.
Bialik is a two-time winner of the Critic’s Choice Television Award for best...
Starring are Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, Olivia Thirlby (Juno), and fellow Big Bang Theory cast member Simon Helberg.
Bialik also wrote the screenplay, which is about a successful divorced mother of two who rekindles love in her life amidst the crazy antics of her dysfunctional family. Now she attempts to convince the stubborn, and comically unfortunate family members to hold it together while they embrace one final farewell.
Project comes from producers Anne Clements (Stage Mother), and Ash Christian (After Everything) and Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment, which is shopping it at Afm.
Bialik is a two-time winner of the Critic’s Choice Television Award for best...
- 11/7/2019
- by Tom Grater and Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik will write and direct As Sick As They Made Us, a comedy drama feature film based on her own experiences that will mark her screenwriting and helming debut.
Anne Clements and Ash Christian are aboard to produce the pic, which will be executive produced by Clay Epstein of Film Mode Entertainment. Film Mode is repping world rights and handling the pic’s market premiere this week at the Toronto Film Festival.
The plot centers on a divorced mother who struggles to help her estranged brother visit their father on his deathbed. The death throws the family into disarray as she attempts to cultivate new love and manage her relationship with her difficult mother and brother. Casting is underway.
“Growing up surrounded by mental illness is not something that is easy to write about, nor is it easy to live through,...
Anne Clements and Ash Christian are aboard to produce the pic, which will be executive produced by Clay Epstein of Film Mode Entertainment. Film Mode is repping world rights and handling the pic’s market premiere this week at the Toronto Film Festival.
The plot centers on a divorced mother who struggles to help her estranged brother visit their father on his deathbed. The death throws the family into disarray as she attempts to cultivate new love and manage her relationship with her difficult mother and brother. Casting is underway.
“Growing up surrounded by mental illness is not something that is easy to write about, nor is it easy to live through,...
- 9/9/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The 2019 Screamfest Horror Film Festival has taken a bite out of Eat, Brains, Love, setting the Rodman Flender-directed zombie romantic comedy as its opening-night film. The annual genre fest will run October 8-17 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood.
Eat, Brains, Love, which world premiered last month at the UK’s Frighfest, is about Jake (Jake Cannavale) and his dream girl Amanda (Angelique Rivera). The good news is she finally knows his name — but the bad news is both contracted a mysterious sexually transmitted zombie virus and devoured the brains of half their senior class. A teen psychic (Sarah Yarkin) sent by the government’s top-secret Necrotic Control Division is sent to track them down. Patrick Fabian also stars.
Mike Herro and David Strauss wrote the script based on the novel by Jeff Hart. The pic is produced by Tommy Coriale, Tony Disanto, Brian Hoff, Van Toffler and Cody Weig.
Eat, Brains, Love, which world premiered last month at the UK’s Frighfest, is about Jake (Jake Cannavale) and his dream girl Amanda (Angelique Rivera). The good news is she finally knows his name — but the bad news is both contracted a mysterious sexually transmitted zombie virus and devoured the brains of half their senior class. A teen psychic (Sarah Yarkin) sent by the government’s top-secret Necrotic Control Division is sent to track them down. Patrick Fabian also stars.
Mike Herro and David Strauss wrote the script based on the novel by Jeff Hart. The pic is produced by Tommy Coriale, Tony Disanto, Brian Hoff, Van Toffler and Cody Weig.
- 9/9/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Malin Akerman has come aboard to star in Chick Fight, an action comedy being directed by Paul Leyden. The new project is being produced by Akerman; Yale Productions’ Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman and Michael J. Rothstein; Idiot Savant Pictures’ Anne Clements; and Ash Christian.
The film, which reteams Akerman and Leyden after they worked together on the 2009 short film Bye Bye Sally, will be presented to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market.
The original script from Joseph Downey centers on Anna (Akerman), who still hasn’t reconciled with the recent death of her adored mother. She’s also just discovered her loving and supportive father is gay. And she accidentally burns down her uninsured coffee shop. Knowing Anna needs to be abruptly shaken and stirred from her deep funk, her best friend Charleen takes Anna to an all-women underground fight club,...
The film, which reteams Akerman and Leyden after they worked together on the 2009 short film Bye Bye Sally, will be presented to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market.
The original script from Joseph Downey centers on Anna (Akerman), who still hasn’t reconciled with the recent death of her adored mother. She’s also just discovered her loving and supportive father is gay. And she accidentally burns down her uninsured coffee shop. Knowing Anna needs to be abruptly shaken and stirred from her deep funk, her best friend Charleen takes Anna to an all-women underground fight club,...
- 9/4/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Former Disney Channel star Peyton List is set to play opposite Lili Taylor and Stefania Lavie Owen in Paper Spiders, the Inon Shampanier-directed indie drama about coming-of-age in the shadow of mental illness. Shampanier and Natalie Shampanier wrote the script for the film, which will shoot in in Syracuse, NY.
List will play the best friend to Owen’s character, Melanie, a high school senior struggling to help her mother Dawn (Taylor), whose paranoid delusions spiral out of control.
Producers are Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures and Cranium Entertainment’s Ash Christian.
List is perhaps best known for her role as Emma Ross in Disney Channel’s Jessie series and its spinoff Bunk’d. She also starred in the Hulu series, Light As A Feather, and recurred on n YouTube Red’s Cobra Kai series. On the film side, she’ll next appear in MGM’s Valley Girl musical comedy remake.
List will play the best friend to Owen’s character, Melanie, a high school senior struggling to help her mother Dawn (Taylor), whose paranoid delusions spiral out of control.
Producers are Anne Clements of Idiot Savant Pictures and Cranium Entertainment’s Ash Christian.
List is perhaps best known for her role as Emma Ross in Disney Channel’s Jessie series and its spinoff Bunk’d. She also starred in the Hulu series, Light As A Feather, and recurred on n YouTube Red’s Cobra Kai series. On the film side, she’ll next appear in MGM’s Valley Girl musical comedy remake.
- 5/1/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lili Taylor and Stefania Lavie Owen have been set to star in Paper Spiders, an indie drama that is being directed by Inon Spampanier based on a script by Inon Shampanier and Natalie Shampanier. Shooting gets underway this month in Syracuse, NY.
Owen, currently onscreen in Harmonie Korine’s The Beach Bum, is playing Melanie, a high school senior struggling to help her mother Dawn (Taylor), whose paranoid delusions spiral out of control. The pic is described as a bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Idiot Savant Pictures’ Anne Clements and Cranium Entertainment’s Ash Christian are producing.
Taylor’s recent film credits include The Nun and upcoming indie The Evening Hour. She’s reppped by Apa and Untitled Entertainment. Owen, next up in the Netflix suspense thriller Messiah, is with Paradigm and McKeon/Myones Entertainment. Natalie and...
Owen, currently onscreen in Harmonie Korine’s The Beach Bum, is playing Melanie, a high school senior struggling to help her mother Dawn (Taylor), whose paranoid delusions spiral out of control. The pic is described as a bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Idiot Savant Pictures’ Anne Clements and Cranium Entertainment’s Ash Christian are producing.
Taylor’s recent film credits include The Nun and upcoming indie The Evening Hour. She’s reppped by Apa and Untitled Entertainment. Owen, next up in the Netflix suspense thriller Messiah, is with Paradigm and McKeon/Myones Entertainment. Natalie and...
- 4/24/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Thora Birch is attached to star in Kindred Spirits, an indie thriller from genre director Lucky McKee. Macon Blair and Caitlin Stasey also co-star in the film, which will shoot in Austin, Texas.
Birch, who just celebrated 25 years since the release of Disney’s Hocus Pocus, will play Chloe, a single mother in a relationship with Alex (Blair). Chloe’s life is turned upside down when her sister, Sadie (Stasey) comes home after a long unexplained absence.
Ash Christian is producing. Long-time friends, Christian and Birch previously worked together on the 2012 indie Petunia, which Christian directed and Birch produced and starred opposite Christine Lahti and Brittany Snow.
Birch’s upcoming film slate includes Plan B and A24’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco from writer-director Joe Talbot, and Above Suspicion with Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, and Johnny Knoxville.
Birch is repped by Berwick & Kovacik.
Birch, who just celebrated 25 years since the release of Disney’s Hocus Pocus, will play Chloe, a single mother in a relationship with Alex (Blair). Chloe’s life is turned upside down when her sister, Sadie (Stasey) comes home after a long unexplained absence.
Ash Christian is producing. Long-time friends, Christian and Birch previously worked together on the 2012 indie Petunia, which Christian directed and Birch produced and starred opposite Christine Lahti and Brittany Snow.
Birch’s upcoming film slate includes Plan B and A24’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco from writer-director Joe Talbot, and Above Suspicion with Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, and Johnny Knoxville.
Birch is repped by Berwick & Kovacik.
- 10/25/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, teen drama “Sadie” gets a release, “Younger” star Molly Bernard and a comedy about Chuck Taylor sneakers is in the works.
Release Date
Filmmaker Megan Griffiths and producers Lacey Leavitt and Jennessa West will independently release their drama “Sadie” starting with openings on Oct. 12 in Los Angeles and New York.
“Sadie,” which debuted at SXSW and won the Gryphon Jury Award at the 2018 Giffoni Film Festival, centers on a 13-year-old girl, played by Sophia Mitri Schloss, whose behavior worsens due to a fierce affection for her faraway father, a solider she hasn’t seen during the several years he has pulled multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan.
Joe Leydon said in his SXSW review for Variety, “Equal parts coming-of-age story and slow-burn thriller, writer-director Megan Griffiths’ quietly absorbing and methodically disquieting drama is a genuine rarity.”
Melanie Lynskey stars as the mother along with John Gallagher Jr.,...
Release Date
Filmmaker Megan Griffiths and producers Lacey Leavitt and Jennessa West will independently release their drama “Sadie” starting with openings on Oct. 12 in Los Angeles and New York.
“Sadie,” which debuted at SXSW and won the Gryphon Jury Award at the 2018 Giffoni Film Festival, centers on a 13-year-old girl, played by Sophia Mitri Schloss, whose behavior worsens due to a fierce affection for her faraway father, a solider she hasn’t seen during the several years he has pulled multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan.
Joe Leydon said in his SXSW review for Variety, “Equal parts coming-of-age story and slow-burn thriller, writer-director Megan Griffiths’ quietly absorbing and methodically disquieting drama is a genuine rarity.”
Melanie Lynskey stars as the mother along with John Gallagher Jr.,...
- 8/28/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Scoot McNairy becomes the newest cast member of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and deals close for “40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie” and “1985.”
Casting
Scoot McNairy has been cast in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
The drama, set against the backdrop of the Manson Family murders, hits theaters on Aug. 9, 2019 — the 50th anniversary of the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others at the hands of Manson’s followers.
DiCaprio will play Rick Dalton, former star of a western TV series, while Pitt will play his longtime stunt double, Cliff Booth. McNairy will play the role of a fictional cowboy named Business Bob Gilbert, a character in the western TV series. The cast also includes Margot Robbie, Timothy Olyphant, Luke Perry, Damian Lewis, Dakota Fanning, Al Pacino,...
Casting
Scoot McNairy has been cast in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
The drama, set against the backdrop of the Manson Family murders, hits theaters on Aug. 9, 2019 — the 50th anniversary of the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others at the hands of Manson’s followers.
DiCaprio will play Rick Dalton, former star of a western TV series, while Pitt will play his longtime stunt double, Cliff Booth. McNairy will play the role of a fictional cowboy named Business Bob Gilbert, a character in the western TV series. The cast also includes Margot Robbie, Timothy Olyphant, Luke Perry, Damian Lewis, Dakota Fanning, Al Pacino,...
- 6/22/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Yen Tan’s emotionally wrought AIDS drama “1985” will see a theatrical rollout from Wolfe Releasing this October, the company announced Wednesday,
The distributor is also eyeing an awards push for lead Cory Michael Smith (“Gotham”), an individual familiar with their plans told TheWrap.
Well-reviewed out of this year’s SXSW Film Festival, the black-and-white film follows a young man who visits his Texas hometown at the holidays for potentially the last time, as he battles the disease at the height of its historical mortality rate.
Also Read: Hollywood So Straight: Studio Films With Lgbt Characters Dropped to Record Low Last Year
“Smith has the kind of very severe male beauty and moral gravity that distinguished the leading men in Jacques Demy’s movies from the 1960s. He has the ability to suggest profound levels of decency and despair while also somehow never losing an astringent quality that keeps some of...
The distributor is also eyeing an awards push for lead Cory Michael Smith (“Gotham”), an individual familiar with their plans told TheWrap.
Well-reviewed out of this year’s SXSW Film Festival, the black-and-white film follows a young man who visits his Texas hometown at the holidays for potentially the last time, as he battles the disease at the height of its historical mortality rate.
Also Read: Hollywood So Straight: Studio Films With Lgbt Characters Dropped to Record Low Last Year
“Smith has the kind of very severe male beauty and moral gravity that distinguished the leading men in Jacques Demy’s movies from the 1960s. He has the ability to suggest profound levels of decency and despair while also somehow never losing an astringent quality that keeps some of...
- 6/20/2018
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
Wolfe Releasing has obtained the theatrical distribution rights to writer-director Yen Tan’s Texas-set family drama 1985 following its world premiere at SXSW this year. Gotham‘s Cory Michael Smith stars alongside Oscar nominee Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Golden Globe winner Michael Chiklis (The Shield), and Jamie Chung (Fox’s The Gifted). The pic is set for release in October. Inspired by Tan’s short film of the same name, the plot follows Adrian (Smith), a closeted young man returning to his Texas hometown for Christmas during the first wave of the AIDS crisis. Burdened with an unspeakable tragedy in New York, Adrian reconnects with his brother (Aidan Langford) and estranged childhood friend (Chung), as he struggles to divulge his dire circumstances to his religious parents (Madsen and Chiklis). Producers are Ash Christian of Cranium Entertainment and HutcH of MuseLessMime Productions. The deal was negotiated by Jim Stephens, President of Wolfe Releasing,...
- 6/20/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Josh Hutcherson is armed, dangerous and in dire need of a wash in this first-look still from Burn.
The twist-filled thriller, formerly called Plume and the feature debut from writer-director Mike Gan, also stars Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Hotel Mumbai) and Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation).
The film, from Film Mode Entertainment and Yale Production, is produced by Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, Sukee Chew, Russ Posternak, Ash Christian and Michael J. Rothstein.
Filmed in the idyllic Hudson Valley, Burn follows lonely, unstable gas station attendant Melinda (Cobham-Hervey) who constantly feels overshadowed by her more outgoing co-worker Sheila (Waterhouse). When the gas station...
The twist-filled thriller, formerly called Plume and the feature debut from writer-director Mike Gan, also stars Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Hotel Mumbai) and Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation).
The film, from Film Mode Entertainment and Yale Production, is produced by Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, Sukee Chew, Russ Posternak, Ash Christian and Michael J. Rothstein.
Filmed in the idyllic Hudson Valley, Burn follows lonely, unstable gas station attendant Melinda (Cobham-Hervey) who constantly feels overshadowed by her more outgoing co-worker Sheila (Waterhouse). When the gas station...
- 5/11/2018
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Josh Hutcherson is armed, dangerous and in dire need of a wash in this first-look still from <em>Burn</em>.
The twist-filled thriller, formerly called <em>Plume</em> and the feature debut from writer-director Mike Gan, also stars Tilda Cobham-Hervey (<em>Hotel Mumbai</em>) and Suki Waterhouse (<em>Assassination Nation</em>).
The film, from Film Mode Entertainment and Yale Production, is produced by Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, Sukee Chew, Russ Posternak, Ash Christian and Michael J. Rothstein.
Filmed in the idyllic Hudson Valley, <em>Burn</em> follows lonely, unstable gas station attendant Melinda (Cobham-Hervey) who constantly feels overshadowed by her more outgoing co-worker Sheila (Waterhouse). When the gas station they work at ...
The twist-filled thriller, formerly called <em>Plume</em> and the feature debut from writer-director Mike Gan, also stars Tilda Cobham-Hervey (<em>Hotel Mumbai</em>) and Suki Waterhouse (<em>Assassination Nation</em>).
The film, from Film Mode Entertainment and Yale Production, is produced by Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, Sukee Chew, Russ Posternak, Ash Christian and Michael J. Rothstein.
Filmed in the idyllic Hudson Valley, <em>Burn</em> follows lonely, unstable gas station attendant Melinda (Cobham-Hervey) who constantly feels overshadowed by her more outgoing co-worker Sheila (Waterhouse). When the gas station they work at ...
- 5/11/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Cranked Up Films plans 2019 Us theatrical release.
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has come on board to handle international sales in Cannes the Us-Mexico border thriller Falcon Lake.
Cranked Up Films plans to distribute theatrically in the Us in 2019 and is the genre arm of Good Deed Entertainment, the Us distributor Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent, which Cmg licensed internationally.
Adriana Barraza and rising Latino talent Camila Mendes will star as a mother and daughter who run a makeshift motel along the border where they drug their guests and kill them if the money is right.
Manny Perez and...
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has come on board to handle international sales in Cannes the Us-Mexico border thriller Falcon Lake.
Cranked Up Films plans to distribute theatrically in the Us in 2019 and is the genre arm of Good Deed Entertainment, the Us distributor Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent, which Cmg licensed internationally.
Adriana Barraza and rising Latino talent Camila Mendes will star as a mother and daughter who run a makeshift motel along the border where they drug their guests and kill them if the money is right.
Manny Perez and...
- 5/7/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Talks to continue on Behold My Heart, Madeline’s Madeline.
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films heads to the Croisette with a sales slate that encompasses SXSW selection 1985, Tribeca entries Maine and Slut In A Good Way, and documentary City Of Joel, among others.
Kampe and his team will continue talks on Behold My Heart starring Marisa Tomei, and Sundance and Berlinale selection Madeline’s Madeline.
1985 (pictured) stars Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Michael Chiklis, and Jamie Chung and follows a closeted young man returning to his Texas hometown for Christmas during the first wave of the AIDS crisis.
Burdened...
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films heads to the Croisette with a sales slate that encompasses SXSW selection 1985, Tribeca entries Maine and Slut In A Good Way, and documentary City Of Joel, among others.
Kampe and his team will continue talks on Behold My Heart starring Marisa Tomei, and Sundance and Berlinale selection Madeline’s Madeline.
1985 (pictured) stars Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Michael Chiklis, and Jamie Chung and follows a closeted young man returning to his Texas hometown for Christmas during the first wave of the AIDS crisis.
Burdened...
- 5/4/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Independence Day: Resurgence star Maika Monroe and Shameless actor Jeremy Allen White will lead the cast of Shotgun, written and directed by Hannah Marks and Joey Power.
The project is described as a unique romance blending heartfelt drama with offbeat comedy. The story follows Elliot (White) and Mia (Monroe) as they develop a fast relationship after one of them is diagnosed with a life-changing illness.
Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, Michael J. Rothstein and Ash Christian are producing the project. Sean Glover also will produce, and Wei Wang of Wysj Media will executive produce. Production is slated for later this...
The project is described as a unique romance blending heartfelt drama with offbeat comedy. The story follows Elliot (White) and Mia (Monroe) as they develop a fast relationship after one of them is diagnosed with a life-changing illness.
Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, Michael J. Rothstein and Ash Christian are producing the project. Sean Glover also will produce, and Wei Wang of Wysj Media will executive produce. Production is slated for later this...
- 3/23/2017
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Maika Monroe and Jeremy Allen White have been set to star in Shotgun, a romantic drama/offbeat comedy indie film that was written and will be directed by Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency co-star Hannah Marks and Joey Power in their feature directorial debuts. Yale Productions’ Jordan Yale Levine will produce with Jordan Beckerman, Michael J. Rothstein, Ash Christian and Wysj Media’s Sean Glover. Wysj’s Wei Wang is executive producer. The pic centers on…...
- 3/23/2017
- Deadline
A mother and daughter discover that getting along with each other is the least of their worries when a frightening force haunts their home in Unwanted, a new horror film that will be directed by Eduardo Rodriguez (2013's Fright Night 2).
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA (December 19, 2016) – Katia Winter (Fox’s Sleepy Hollow) and newcomer Ashley Jones will star in the horror-thriller Unwanted. Zach Avery (Fury) will co-star.
After the premature death of her estranged husband, Emma (Winter) regains custody of their young daughter Isla (Jones) and hopes to rebuild their relationship after many years apart. But when an evil entity begins to torment them, mother and daughter are forced to face the inexplicable presence that inhabits the walls of their new home.
Unwanted is directed by Eduardo Rodriguez (El Gringo, Fright Night 2) from a screenplay by Andrew Wong. Unwanted marks the first original horror film for Eduardo Rodriguez since Curandero,...
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA (December 19, 2016) – Katia Winter (Fox’s Sleepy Hollow) and newcomer Ashley Jones will star in the horror-thriller Unwanted. Zach Avery (Fury) will co-star.
After the premature death of her estranged husband, Emma (Winter) regains custody of their young daughter Isla (Jones) and hopes to rebuild their relationship after many years apart. But when an evil entity begins to torment them, mother and daughter are forced to face the inexplicable presence that inhabits the walls of their new home.
Unwanted is directed by Eduardo Rodriguez (El Gringo, Fright Night 2) from a screenplay by Andrew Wong. Unwanted marks the first original horror film for Eduardo Rodriguez since Curandero,...
- 12/20/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Having just appeared in last night’s Season 2 finale of Mr. Robot, Carly Chaikin is boarding Theresa Bennett’s indie film F*cking People. The pic follows a young woman (Noel Wells) and her friends, who are struggling with both a failing business and love lives. Chaikin plays a strong-willed music manager and the young woman’s best friend who finds herself having relationship struggles of her own. Ash Christian is producing. Mason Novick and Michelle…...
- 9/22/2016
- Deadline
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the indie drama “Dynamite: A 60’s Love Story,” which stars Ian Harding (“”Pretty Little Liars”) as a heroin addict working in the illegal porn industry. Breaking Glass announced it is planning a theatrical release for Oct. 2015. Harding plays Max Bornstein, who actually wrote the script with Jason Noto about his own story of addiction and redemption. Bornstein also produced the film with Jordan Yale Levine and Ash Christian. Tate Steinsiek made his feature directorial debut with “Dynamite,” which also stars Evanna Lynch (the “Harry Potter” franchise) as Bornstein’s wife, Carol Kane.
- 6/22/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Sales agent snaps up two Us indie features - one exec produced by Spike Lee - ahead of Cannes.
Sydney-based sales agent Odin’s Eye Entertainment (Oee) has acquired two NYC indie productions: Nathan Adloff’s Miles; and Julius Onah’s The Girl is in Trouble. Oee will kick off sales for both films at the Marche Du Film during next month’s Cannes Film Festival.
Miles is a dramatic-comedy produced by Emmy Award winner Ash Christian of Cranium Entertainment and stars Molly Shannon (Me and Earl and The Dying Girl) alongside Paul Reiser (Whiplash) and newcomer Tim Boardman as Miles.
Odin’s Eye will represent worldwide rights to the film, which is in production in New York.
The story centres on Miles, a young gay man who - after discovering his recently deceased father had squandered his tuition fund on an illicit affair - joins the girls volleyball team to win a college scholarship, causing...
Sydney-based sales agent Odin’s Eye Entertainment (Oee) has acquired two NYC indie productions: Nathan Adloff’s Miles; and Julius Onah’s The Girl is in Trouble. Oee will kick off sales for both films at the Marche Du Film during next month’s Cannes Film Festival.
Miles is a dramatic-comedy produced by Emmy Award winner Ash Christian of Cranium Entertainment and stars Molly Shannon (Me and Earl and The Dying Girl) alongside Paul Reiser (Whiplash) and newcomer Tim Boardman as Miles.
Odin’s Eye will represent worldwide rights to the film, which is in production in New York.
The story centres on Miles, a young gay man who - after discovering his recently deceased father had squandered his tuition fund on an illicit affair - joins the girls volleyball team to win a college scholarship, causing...
- 4/29/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Recently, CBS released the new, official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "The Good Wife" premiere episode 1 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "The Line," and it sounds like things will very interesting as Diane contemplates joining Alicia's new firm as a partner. Alicia refuses to run for state's attorney, and more. In the new, 1st episode press release: Alicia will be adamant in her refusal to run for state's attorney. Press release number 2: Alicia is going to be adamant in her refusal to run for State’s Attorney despite Eli’s attempts to persuade her to launch a campaign. Meanwhile, as Diane considers joining Florrick/Agos as partner, an internal crisis will threaten to destroy the firm. Guest stars will include: Jess Weixler (Robyn Burdine), Michael Cerveris (James Castro), Kelli Giddish (Sophia Russo), Katie Paxton (Lauren Lytton), Fred Melamed (Judge Alan Karpman), Samantha Mathis (Bonita Yarrow), Nicole Roderick (Nora...
- 9/3/2014
- by Megan
- OnTheFlix
“Pretty Little Liars” star Ian Harding, “Harry Potter” actress Evanna Lynch and Oscar nominee Carol Kane will star in the crime thriller “Dynamite: A Cautionary Tale,” which will mark the feature directorial debut of Tate Steinsiek. Jason Noto wrote the film, which will co-star Brendan Sexton III (“The Killing”), Leo Fitzpatrick (“Kids”), Chaske Spencer (“Twilight Saga”), Polly Draper (“thirtysomething”) and Ray Santiago (“Dexter”). “Dynamite: A Cautionary Tale” is produced by Ash Christian, Jordan Yale Levine and Max Bornstein for Ironclad Pictures. Also Read: ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Actor Shane Coffey Cast as Lead in USA Pilot ‘Novice’ Based on a true story,...
- 12/5/2013
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Tate Steinsiek has begun shooting his feature directorial debut Dynamite: A Cautionary Tale.
Ian Harding, Evanna Lynch and Carol Kane star in the crime thriller alongside Brendan Sexton III, Leo Fitzpatrick, Chaske Spencer, Polly Draper and Ray Santiago.
Jason Noto wrote the screenplay about a family man in New York in the late 1960s who unbeknown to his wife is a full-time dope fiend working in the illegal pornography industry with the FBI on his tail.
Ash Christian, Jordan Yale Levine and Max Bornstein are producing Dynamite: A Cautionary Tale for Ironclad Pictures.
Production on the anticipated 18-day shoot started on location in New York on December 2.
Steinsiek is an accomplished effects make-up artist who founded Ill Willed Productions in 2001 and whose clients have included The Jim Henson Company, DreamWorks, Lionsgate, MTV, Law And Order, SNL, The History Channel, Discovery, and HBO.
Ian Harding, Evanna Lynch and Carol Kane star in the crime thriller alongside Brendan Sexton III, Leo Fitzpatrick, Chaske Spencer, Polly Draper and Ray Santiago.
Jason Noto wrote the screenplay about a family man in New York in the late 1960s who unbeknown to his wife is a full-time dope fiend working in the illegal pornography industry with the FBI on his tail.
Ash Christian, Jordan Yale Levine and Max Bornstein are producing Dynamite: A Cautionary Tale for Ironclad Pictures.
Production on the anticipated 18-day shoot started on location in New York on December 2.
Steinsiek is an accomplished effects make-up artist who founded Ill Willed Productions in 2001 and whose clients have included The Jim Henson Company, DreamWorks, Lionsgate, MTV, Law And Order, SNL, The History Channel, Discovery, and HBO.
- 12/5/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Family conflict has always been and always will be rife with room for film to explore, and to the credit of writers Ash Christian and Theresa Bennett, they managed to create a family that’s genuinely messed up in a number of ways. The problems constructed for the Petunia family aren’t far off from those faced by families throughout the Us, but the way they unravel in Petunia isn’t particularly insightful, clever, or all that original. There’s a lot of truth to be found in the broken and mending relationships the film puts forward, but it gets tiresome very quickly as it relies heavily on catty dialogue to give it its only real buoyancy in a script that doesn’t live up to the large collection of talent assembled for the ensemble cast.
Read more...
Read more...
- 9/5/2013
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
DVD Release Date: Sept. 3, 2013; Digital Release Date: Aug. 6, 2013
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: Wolfe Video
Christine Lahti and Tobias Segal light up in Petunia.
An offbeat family of New Yorkers, the Petunias, comes to terms with their own misgivings about life, relationships and the sheer unpredictability of love itself in the 2012 independent comedy-drama film Petunia.
The movie weaves together the lives of brothers Charlie (Tobias Segal, R.I.P.D.), Adrian (Jimmy Heck), and Michael (Eddie Kaye Thomas, A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas) as they unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them.
While Michael’s cynical wife Vivian (Thora Birch, American Beauty) discovers she is pregnant, the family is also changing. Charlie’s would be boyfriend George (Michael Urie, The Decoy Bride) is in a polyamorous relationship with fitness fanatic Robin (Brittany Snow, Pitch Perfect) and Adrian has developed an unrelenting sex addiction. Meanwhile, meddling parents Felicia (Christine Lahti, ...And Justice for All) and Percy (David Rasche,...
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: Wolfe Video
Christine Lahti and Tobias Segal light up in Petunia.
An offbeat family of New Yorkers, the Petunias, comes to terms with their own misgivings about life, relationships and the sheer unpredictability of love itself in the 2012 independent comedy-drama film Petunia.
The movie weaves together the lives of brothers Charlie (Tobias Segal, R.I.P.D.), Adrian (Jimmy Heck), and Michael (Eddie Kaye Thomas, A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas) as they unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them.
While Michael’s cynical wife Vivian (Thora Birch, American Beauty) discovers she is pregnant, the family is also changing. Charlie’s would be boyfriend George (Michael Urie, The Decoy Bride) is in a polyamorous relationship with fitness fanatic Robin (Brittany Snow, Pitch Perfect) and Adrian has developed an unrelenting sex addiction. Meanwhile, meddling parents Felicia (Christine Lahti, ...And Justice for All) and Percy (David Rasche,...
- 7/25/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.