J. Mills Goodloe ("The Age Of Adeline," "The Mountains Between Us") is set to re-write the script for the film adaptation of Andrea Portes' 2014 young adult novel "Anatomy Of A Misfit" at Paramount Pictures.
The story follows the third-most-popular girl in school who is secretly dating a troubled loner when the most popular guy is suddenly interested in her. She struggles to choose between them until she is faced with a tragedy that changes her entire perception of high school and the social order.
Allison Shearmur is producing the property which the studio acquired back in 2014. Goodloe takes over from Portes and Joel Silverman who penned previous drafts.
Source: Deadline...
The story follows the third-most-popular girl in school who is secretly dating a troubled loner when the most popular guy is suddenly interested in her. She struggles to choose between them until she is faced with a tragedy that changes her entire perception of high school and the social order.
Allison Shearmur is producing the property which the studio acquired back in 2014. Goodloe takes over from Portes and Joel Silverman who penned previous drafts.
Source: Deadline...
- 7/26/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: The Age Of Adaline scribe J. Mills Goodloe is set to rewrite the script for Andrea Portes’ 2014 Ya novel Anatomy Of A Misfit, which Paramount picked up in a pre-emptive deal in 2014 for producer Allison Shearmur. Goodloe is rewriting the latest draft from Portes and Joel Silverman. The book, published by HarperTeen right after the movie deal was struck, is based on a story from bestseller Portes’ life: It centers on the third-most-popular girl in school who is…...
- 7/26/2016
- Deadline
Exclusive: In a pre-emptive deal, Fox 2000 and Temple Hill partners Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen have acquired screen rights to Liberty, the Andrea Portes novel that is being adapted by Portes and Joel Silverman. The book was acquired by Harper Collins back in February, and is the second collaboration between novelist and scribe after Anatomy Of A Misfit, which Allison Shearmur is producing at Paramount. This deal is potentially worth seven figures to the duo and Greg…...
- 6/12/2015
- Deadline
Just when it seemed safe to punch out for the holiday, a hot book has studios in a lather. I’m hearing Paramount — with Allison Shearmur as producer — is in front-runner position and working on a pre-emptive deal for Anatomy Of A Misfit, a novel by Andrea Portes that sources feel has the potential to be a big book. The logline: The third-most-popular girl in school is secretly dating a troubled loner when the most popular guy is suddenly interested in her. She struggles to choose between them until she is faced with a tragedy that changes her entire […]...
- 7/2/2014
- Deadline
Exclusive: With their long-running vampire series coming to an end this summer, True Blood stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are staying in business with HBO. The duo’s production company Casm has signed a two-year, first-look deal with HBO to develop series, films and miniseries. That may include new starring vehicles for Paquin or Moyer as, in addition to producing, the pact includes options for the two to act and direct. This marks the first foray into television for Casm Films, which Paquin and Moyer launched in 2012 with producing partners Cerise Hallam Larkin and Mark Larkin, who, like the True Blood duo, are a married couple. The company so far had been focused on features, producing the 2013 indie Free Ride, which starred Paquin, with a number of projects in development. Those include Twinkle, to be directed by Howie Deutch and starring Moyer; Pink Hotel, based on the novel by...
- 5/8/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Blake Lively, Rory Culkin, Anson Mount, Juliette Lewis, Eddie Redmayne, Alec Baldwin| Written by Andrea Portes | Directed by Derick Martini
If I was asked to name a young actor or actress that I thought was going to be a big deal in the coming years of cinema, I’d have a few to choose from, but one name at the top of that list would have to be Chloe Moretz. Her performances in films like Kick-Ass, Hugo and Let Me In have been memorable and she seems to just keep getting better as she gets older.
Hick, in which Ms. Moretz is the main star, is a funny sort of film. An independent movie filmed in 2011, prior to Hugo, Hick was made on a fairly small budget and directed by Derick Martini, a guy whose directing chops are limited, very limited. This made for an experience...
If I was asked to name a young actor or actress that I thought was going to be a big deal in the coming years of cinema, I’d have a few to choose from, but one name at the top of that list would have to be Chloe Moretz. Her performances in films like Kick-Ass, Hugo and Let Me In have been memorable and she seems to just keep getting better as she gets older.
Hick, in which Ms. Moretz is the main star, is a funny sort of film. An independent movie filmed in 2011, prior to Hugo, Hick was made on a fairly small budget and directed by Derick Martini, a guy whose directing chops are limited, very limited. This made for an experience...
- 9/3/2013
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Once again, sixteen year old actress Chloë Grace Moretz has chosen a controversial role to perform. Moretz recently played a murderous child in Matthew Vaughn's Kick Ass. In Hick, she is provocatively dressed and she appears to be playing a lolita styled character. Abandoned by her parents, Luli (Moretz) hits the road for Las Vegas. Here, she hopes to meet a "sugar daddy" to take away the pain of her former life. However, she meets an assortment of hustlers and users on the open road. Will she even make it to sin city? Fans of dark comedies and thrillers will want to check this film out through Constellation TV's premiere event for Hick. This film will show online beginning tomorrow (Aug. 14th) and film fans can ask director Derick Martini questions about the showing. A link to this event is listed below along with the film's Red Band trailer.
- 8/18/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Chicago – It’s understandable that people from the Southern or rural United States would criticize the general media. With films like “Hick,” which generally portray them as idiots or sociopathic, there is no balance or honest characterizations. Chloe Moretz, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne and Alec Baldwin add their take on it all.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
This is a strange and thoughtless film, with characters that meet each other one second, and become emotionally or too familiarly involved the next. It supposes that a 13-year old girl would get a gun for her birthday, and then hook up – Wizard of Oz-like – with a cast of stereotypes that will become her new family. Alec Baldwin plays a guy named Beau, which is all you need to know about the authenticity of this story.
Luli (Chloe Grace Moretz) is restless on her 13th birthday. Her main present is a handgun, and her parents (Juliette Lewis...
Rating: 2.0/5.0
This is a strange and thoughtless film, with characters that meet each other one second, and become emotionally or too familiarly involved the next. It supposes that a 13-year old girl would get a gun for her birthday, and then hook up – Wizard of Oz-like – with a cast of stereotypes that will become her new family. Alec Baldwin plays a guy named Beau, which is all you need to know about the authenticity of this story.
Luli (Chloe Grace Moretz) is restless on her 13th birthday. Her main present is a handgun, and her parents (Juliette Lewis...
- 5/25/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
There would seem to be plenty to get excited about in Derick Martini’s second feature film, Hick (based on the novel by Andrea Portes). If the plot is not especially enticing (a young girl from a hick town leaves home, travels West, and experiences the evils of the world), then the cast certainly garners attention. Chloë Grace Moretz takes the lead, playing alongside Juliette Lewis, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne and Alec Baldwin. Moretz and Redmayne each starred in two major pictures from last year (Hugo and My Week With Marilyn, respectively), and their pairing here certainly makes for an intriguing...
- 5/21/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Hick
Directed by Derick Martini
Written by Andrea Portes
USA, 2011
There ought to be a place for films in which young children are graphically exposed to the evils of the world. The problem is that if those films are mishandled in the least, the average audience member will feel like a child pornographer just by paying money to watch them. Derick Martini doesn’t mishandle every scene in Hick, but he blows enough of them to make any audience uncomfortable and a little bit dirty.
Chloe Grace Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick-Ass) plays Luli, a 13-year-old Nebraska girl caught between a pair of drunken, battling parents who are making the 1980s miserable for her. So she runs away, hitchhiking up Interstate 80 with a plan to go to Las Vegas. But her encounters with the crippled cowboy Eddie (Eddie Redmayne) and conwoman Glenda (Blake Lively) quickly send her on a different path.
Directed by Derick Martini
Written by Andrea Portes
USA, 2011
There ought to be a place for films in which young children are graphically exposed to the evils of the world. The problem is that if those films are mishandled in the least, the average audience member will feel like a child pornographer just by paying money to watch them. Derick Martini doesn’t mishandle every scene in Hick, but he blows enough of them to make any audience uncomfortable and a little bit dirty.
Chloe Grace Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick-Ass) plays Luli, a 13-year-old Nebraska girl caught between a pair of drunken, battling parents who are making the 1980s miserable for her. So she runs away, hitchhiking up Interstate 80 with a plan to go to Las Vegas. But her encounters with the crippled cowboy Eddie (Eddie Redmayne) and conwoman Glenda (Blake Lively) quickly send her on a different path.
- 5/12/2012
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
Coming-of-age stories can be many things, but rarely are they pointless. It’s unfortunately the case with Hick. Chloe Grace Moretz plays Luli, a precocious teenage dreamer who decides to flee her dead-end white trash Nebraska life and, ostensibly headed for Vegas, falls in with a cast of even more dead-end characters who, while they do upend her life, manage to teach her (and us) nothing of any significance. One senses that director Derrick Martini and writer Andrea Portes (who also wrote the novel) have lofty ambitions here for a stylized journey of self-discovery, but it’s hard to reconcile that with the undigested hodgepodge of influences and story lines that winds up onscreen.Hick does have its moments. They’re mostly in the first half, and they’re mostly thanks to Moretz, who gives her undeveloped and mostly cliché character an inner life the movie probably doesn’t deserve.
- 5/11/2012
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
So “The Avengers” knocked it out of the park, huh? With a $600 million intake worldwide and lots and lots of good reviews, Joss Whedon and the folks over at Marvel can probably even one-up James Cameron at the next Masters of the Hollywood Universe fete. (That sounds fun, doesn’t it? I’d go to a party like that.) This weekend is a little smaller, but looking good nonetheless. A number of foreign films that have done well in the festival circuit, and the latest eyefeast from Burton and Co. hit theaters today, providing quite a lot of competition – if not dazzling CGI and budget – for the massive blockbuster winner of last week. Let’s see how they measure up.
Tim Burton’s “Dark Shadows,” an adaptation of a 1960s television show, opens this weekend, with Johnny Depp playing Barnabas, a wealthy landowner-turned-vampire that is awoken after a 200-year nap in the ground,...
Tim Burton’s “Dark Shadows,” an adaptation of a 1960s television show, opens this weekend, with Johnny Depp playing Barnabas, a wealthy landowner-turned-vampire that is awoken after a 200-year nap in the ground,...
- 5/11/2012
- by Emma Bernstein
- The Playlist
Later, there will be a brief discussion of how literature is not film, and how some actions and themes do not survive translation from the page to the big screen because our mind can better deal with envisioning them than it can with actually seeing them. Before that though, I feel I have to pause and note that "Hick," adapting Andrea Portes' novel for the screen under the direction of Derick Martini ("Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire," "Lymelife"), is one of the most unclean and clammy films I've ever had to endure at a film festival. Not because it was incompetent and not because it deals with violent and sexual material but, rather, because it is both incompetent in general and even more incompetent specifically when it is concerned with violent and sexual material. We're supposed to be watching the cross-country adventures of 13-year-old Luli (Chloe Moretz, who...
- 5/8/2012
- by James Rocchi
- The Playlist
Not really feeling "Dark Shadows" or "The Avengers" at the multiplex next weekend? Feel like staying home instead and not dealing with hassle, hustle and bustle of a busy weekend audience? Well, you'll have an option on VOD with "Hick" (which is also opening in limited release as well) and a few more images have arrived to give you a sneak peek at what you're going to get.
The film from "Lymelife" director Derick Martini is based on the Andrea Portes' novel, the film follows Luli (Chloe Grace Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Balke Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes Luli under her wing. The hard-to-tell apart red and green band trailers have pointed to a very white trash tone, though it remains to be seen...
The film from "Lymelife" director Derick Martini is based on the Andrea Portes' novel, the film follows Luli (Chloe Grace Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Balke Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes Luli under her wing. The hard-to-tell apart red and green band trailers have pointed to a very white trash tone, though it remains to be seen...
- 5/7/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Co-starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Blake Lively in the leads, along with a great supporting cast filled out by Eddie Redmayne, Alec Baldwin, Juliette Lewis, and Rory Culkin, Hick is due out in Us cinemas next weekend after debuting at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
The film marks director Derick Martini’s second feature behind the camera, with Andrea Portes adapting from her own original novel. Following on from the red-band trailer we saw last week, we now have a similar green-band (suitable for work) trailer to share, along with three great new images of the lovely pairing of Moretz and Lively.
“When 13-year-old Luli gets fed up with her mother.s love of high drama and men who drink too much, she leaves Nebraska takes to the road, going west to follow her dreams of stardom. Along the way she meets Eddie, a drifter with an attitude,...
The film marks director Derick Martini’s second feature behind the camera, with Andrea Portes adapting from her own original novel. Following on from the red-band trailer we saw last week, we now have a similar green-band (suitable for work) trailer to share, along with three great new images of the lovely pairing of Moretz and Lively.
“When 13-year-old Luli gets fed up with her mother.s love of high drama and men who drink too much, she leaves Nebraska takes to the road, going west to follow her dreams of stardom. Along the way she meets Eddie, a drifter with an attitude,...
- 5/1/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The kind folks over at Phase 4 Films have given us 4 exclusive photos from Hick, opening in theaters, Friday, May 11th. The drama/comedy stars Chloe Grace Moretz, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, Juliette Lewis and Alec Baldwin. From the official synopsis: "Small town teenager Luli (CHLOË Grace Moretz) escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Blake Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls you into a provocative world...
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- 5/1/2012
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Well, if you can tell us the major differences between this green band trailer and the (not very) red band version that dropped last week for "Hick," you've got better eyes than we do. We're still not quite sure what made that previous trailer so naughty, but here's a cleaned up version you can watch at work along with a few new stills from the flick.
Starring Blake Lively, Chloe Moretz, Eddie Redmayne and a whole lot of accents, this wild story revolves around Luli (Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes Luli under her wing. Derick Martini (”Lymelife”) directs the adaptation of Andrea Portes novel and the result is something certainly....pulpy....though the tone seems to be a bit all over...
Starring Blake Lively, Chloe Moretz, Eddie Redmayne and a whole lot of accents, this wild story revolves around Luli (Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes Luli under her wing. Derick Martini (”Lymelife”) directs the adaptation of Andrea Portes novel and the result is something certainly....pulpy....though the tone seems to be a bit all over...
- 5/1/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
A Nebraska teen gets much more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of the big city in Hick and Phase 4 Films has released both the red band and green band trailers for the upcoming limited and video on demand release starring Blake Lively, Chloe Moretz, Alec Baldwin, Juliette Lewis, Eddie Redmayne and Rory Culkin. Based on the novel by Andrea Portes and directed by Derek Martini, the film centers on Luli (Moretz), a small town teenager who runs away from her abusive parents to Las Vegas armed with a pistol and some pocket money. On her way west she crosses paths with Eddie (Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. The film hits limited theaters on May 11 and will be On Demand at the same time. I've included both the red band and green band trailers directly below.
- 4/29/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
A gun-packing Chloe Moretz (ah, that brings back memories, doesn’t it, “Kick Ass” fans?) headlines director Derick Martini’s 2011 funky drama “Hick”, the story of a small-town girl with big-time problems. That girl is played by Chloe Moretz, or as she’s credited nowadays, Chloe Grace Moretz. Blake Lively puts on some kind of Southern accent to play the adult our gal falls in with, and with whom she encounters one skeezy, no-good man after another. Oh, men, why are you always so skeezy? Small town teenager Luli (CHLOË Grace Moretz) escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Blake Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes,...
- 4/28/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
New trailers from Hick, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Blake Lively and Eddie Redmayne. Pic from Phase 4 Films is helmed by Derick Martini from a script by Martini and Andrea Portes, and opens on May 11th in theatres and VOD. Small town teenager Luli (Moretz) escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Blake Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls you into a provocative world of drugs, seduction and murder...
- 4/27/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New trailers from Hick, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Blake Lively and Eddie Redmayne. Pic from Phase 4 Films is helmed by Derick Martini from a script by Martini and Andrea Portes, and opens on May 11th in theatres and VOD. Small town teenager Luli (Moretz) escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Blake Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls you into a provocative world of drugs, seduction and murder...
- 4/27/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The kid-core revolution resumes in September
The world of hillbilly noir keeps registering twangy blips on the Complex radar of late. This beautiful day brings us the red bad trailer for Derick Martini’s upcoming film, Hick, based upon the novel by Andrea Portes. The film stars Chloe Moretz and it-girl-of-the-moment, Blake Lively.
Hick debuted at last September’s Toronto Film Festival to mixed reviews. From what I’ve read of the synopsis, it doesn’t strike me as anything that would even prompt a Redbox raid. You can check out the trailer here:
Why it’s a red band trailer, I don’t know. As for the content of Hick, it does seem to be latching onto something of a recent trend within films, which is the placement of young girls into extremely dangerous scenarios in desolate, stark locations. The problem is that this one doesn’t look to...
The world of hillbilly noir keeps registering twangy blips on the Complex radar of late. This beautiful day brings us the red bad trailer for Derick Martini’s upcoming film, Hick, based upon the novel by Andrea Portes. The film stars Chloe Moretz and it-girl-of-the-moment, Blake Lively.
Hick debuted at last September’s Toronto Film Festival to mixed reviews. From what I’ve read of the synopsis, it doesn’t strike me as anything that would even prompt a Redbox raid. You can check out the trailer here:
Why it’s a red band trailer, I don’t know. As for the content of Hick, it does seem to be latching onto something of a recent trend within films, which is the placement of young girls into extremely dangerous scenarios in desolate, stark locations. The problem is that this one doesn’t look to...
- 4/27/2012
- by Josh Converse
- Boomtron
The red band trailer for the adaptation of Andrea Portes’ novel, Hick is sure to grab your attention. A relentless rock-n-roll soundtrack filled with twangy guitars and words like Innocent, Honest, Brutal, Emotional and Controversial are splashing across the screen in white letters… No doubt that Portes adaptation of her coming-of-age novel is one gritty tale [...]
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- 4/27/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Here's a red-band trailer for a depressingly intense drama called Hick, which stars Chloe Moretz, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, Juliette Lewis, and Alec Baldwin. It's definitely a different role for Moretz than what we're used to seeing her in. The movie looks good, I just don't think I'll make an effort to go out and see it on the big screen.
The story follows a small town teenager Luli (Moretz) who escapes to Las Vegas, "leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls you into a provocative world of drugs, seduction and murder."
The film is set to be released on May 11th,...
The story follows a small town teenager Luli (Moretz) who escapes to Las Vegas, "leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls you into a provocative world of drugs, seduction and murder."
The film is set to be released on May 11th,...
- 4/27/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Whether she's playing an innocent girl like Rachel in 500 Days of Summer or Isabelle in Hugo, or a force to be reckoned with, as Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass or Abby in Let Me In, Chloe Moretz continues to demonstrate an excellent range, putting her among some of the more talented young actors emerging. It's going to be especially great to see how she takes on the starring role in the remake/adaptation of the classic Stephen King story Carrie. But well before that, Hick arrives in theaters. Adapted from Andrea Portes' novel, Hick made its official debut at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, but arrives in theaters and on demand next month. In addition to Moretz, the film also stars Blake Lively in a role that, based on the trailer below, bears little resemblance to her Gossip Girl character Serena van der Woodsen. While Moretz plays Luli, a...
- 4/26/2012
- cinemablend.com
After directing the quirky, funny festival favorite Lymelife, director Derick Martini is back with a completely different kind of film. The adaptation of Andrea Portes' novel Hick follows a 13-year-old Nebraska girl (Chloe Moretz), who gets more than she bargained for when she runs away to Las Vegas and finds herself under the tutelage of Glenda (Blake Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes the young girl under her wing. Now the first red band trailer gives us a taste of the gritty, edgy drama, but it's still fairly tame with the only real controversial material being the focus on a 13-year old girl being risque and violent. Watch below! Here's the red band trailer for Derick Martini's adaptation of Hick from Yahoo! Movies: Derick Martini (Lymelife) directs this adaptation of Hick adapted by Andrea Portes, author of the novel on which the film is based. The story follows...
- 4/26/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Well, we will say this. You ain't seen Blake Lively or Chloë Moretz -- or hell, most of the other cast really -- in anything like this before. Whether it all works or not is entirely a different matter, but the red band trailer for "Hick" is sure to grab your attention.
Soundtracked to some relentlessly twangy guitar with words like Brutal, Emotional and Controversial splashing across the screen, Phase 4 Films really want to push that this is one gritty tale. And on paper at least, it is. Directed by Derick Martini (”Lymelife”), the film is an adaptation of Andrea Portes’ coming-of-age novel of the same name (she penned the script as well). The story revolves around Luli (Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Lively), a hard-living...
Soundtracked to some relentlessly twangy guitar with words like Brutal, Emotional and Controversial splashing across the screen, Phase 4 Films really want to push that this is one gritty tale. And on paper at least, it is. Directed by Derick Martini (”Lymelife”), the film is an adaptation of Andrea Portes’ coming-of-age novel of the same name (she penned the script as well). The story revolves around Luli (Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Lively), a hard-living...
- 4/26/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
A red band trailer for Hick is now online, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies . The film stars Chloe Moretz, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, Juliette Lewis and Alec Baldwin and you can check the trailer out in the player below! In the May 11 release, directed by Derick Martini, smalltown teenager Luli (Moretz) escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls you into a provocative world of drugs, seduction and murder.
- 4/26/2012
- Comingsoon.net
While reviews out of Tiff weren't great -- we called it "a black blot of shame for everyone who had a part in its making" -- "Hick" still remains a curiosity because it offers up a grittier side we've rarely seen from the cast led by Blake Lively, Chloe Moretz and Eddie Redmayne.
Directed by Derick Martini (”Lymelife”), the film is an adaptation of Andrea Portes’ coming-of-age novel of the same name (she penned the script as well). The story revolves around Luli (Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes Luli under her wing. With the movie's release on the horizon, a new poster and a few new images have arrived, serving up another look at the film that seems both glamorous and trashy.
Directed by Derick Martini (”Lymelife”), the film is an adaptation of Andrea Portes’ coming-of-age novel of the same name (she penned the script as well). The story revolves around Luli (Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes Luli under her wing. With the movie's release on the horizon, a new poster and a few new images have arrived, serving up another look at the film that seems both glamorous and trashy.
- 3/29/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
That Chloe Moretz is getting a lot of attention lately. We'll be seeing her soon in Dark Shadows and she just nabbed the iconic role of Carrie in the remake. Another film the little leading lady is soon to be seen in is Hick. This is one that may not have hit your radar. It's adapted from the novel of the same name by Andrea Portes. There's a great cast behind it as well with Moretz, Blake Lively, Alec Baldwin, Eddie Redmayne, Juliette Lewis, and Rory Culkin. The first poster for the flick...
- 3/28/2012
- by Niki Stephens
- JoBlo.com
Chloe Moretz packing a pistol is nothing new, especially after playing Hit Girl in “Kick Ass”. Her role in “Hick”, though, promises to be a little more grounded in reality, so no running around beating men five times bigger than her, I’m guessing. The film is based on the novel by Andrea Portes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Derick Martini. If you like what you see, “Hick” opens in theaters and will be available on VOD on May 11th, 2012. Smalltown teenager Luli (CHLOË Grace Moretz) escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Blake Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls...
- 3/28/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
We got our first look at Chloë Grace Moretz and Blake Lively last summer, and now the first poster for the film has debuted ahead of its release in the Us in May.
Derick Martini has assembled an impressive cast, including Moretz, Lively, Eddie Redmayne, Alec Baldwin, Juliette Lewis, and Rory Culkin.
“When 13-year-old Luli gets fed up with her mother.s love of high drama and men who drink too much, she leaves Nebraska takes to the road, going west to follow her dreams of stardom. Along the way she meets Eddie, a drifter with an attitude, and a troubled woman named Glenda. With the help of these new friends and the strength of her dreams, Luli protects herself from the unpredictable people she meets in her new life.”
The reviews coming out of Toronto International Film Festival were a bit of a mixed bag after the film debuted there last September,...
Derick Martini has assembled an impressive cast, including Moretz, Lively, Eddie Redmayne, Alec Baldwin, Juliette Lewis, and Rory Culkin.
“When 13-year-old Luli gets fed up with her mother.s love of high drama and men who drink too much, she leaves Nebraska takes to the road, going west to follow her dreams of stardom. Along the way she meets Eddie, a drifter with an attitude, and a troubled woman named Glenda. With the help of these new friends and the strength of her dreams, Luli protects herself from the unpredictable people she meets in her new life.”
The reviews coming out of Toronto International Film Festival were a bit of a mixed bag after the film debuted there last September,...
- 3/28/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
ComingSoon.net has received the poster for Hick , starring Chloe Moretz ( the new Carrie! ), Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, Juliette Lewis and Alec Baldwin. In the May 11 release, directed by Derick Martini, smalltown teenager Luli (Moretz) escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls you into a provocative world of drugs, seduction and murder. Click the poster for a bigger version!
- 3/28/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Poster and images from Hick. The Phase 4 Films comedy drama directed by Derek Martini, who scripts with Andrea Portes, opens May 11th in theaters as well as Ultra VOD. We have a clearer poster added than before, as well as images from the film which follows teenager Luli (Chloë Grace Moretz) who escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Blake Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls you into a provocative world of drugs, seduction and murder.
- 3/28/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Poster and images from Hick. The Phase 4 Films comedy drama directed by Derek Martini, who scripts with Andrea Portes, opens May 11th in theaters as well as Ultra VOD. We have a clearer poster added than before, as well as images from the film which follows teenager Luli (Chloë Grace Moretz) who escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Blake Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls you into a provocative world of drugs, seduction and murder.
- 3/28/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Poster and images from Hick. The Phase 4 Films comedy drama directed by Derek Martini, who scripts with Andrea Portes, opens May 11th in theaters as well as Ultra VOD. We have a clearer poster added than before, as well as images from the film which follows teenager Luli (Chloë Grace Moretz) who escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Blake Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls you into a provocative world of drugs, seduction and murder.
- 3/28/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
There’s a whole lot of release dates for a wide range of films, so let’s get right down to it. First up, we’re hearing from Variety that David Ayer‘s End of Watch — which was picked up by Open Road last week — will go into a wide release on the surprisingly packed day of September 28th. On that date alone, we can also expect Eastwood‘s Trouble With the Curve, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis‘ Won’t Back Down, Adam Sandler‘s animated Hotel Transylvania, and Rian Johnson‘s Looper.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick, and America Ferrera are all starring in the cop drama, a project described as something of a mix between found footage and a traditional narrative. (Variety says that we can expect “footage from handheld cameras of police officers, gang members, surveillance cameras and citizens.”) I’m definitely curious to see how...
Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick, and America Ferrera are all starring in the cop drama, a project described as something of a mix between found footage and a traditional narrative. (Variety says that we can expect “footage from handheld cameras of police officers, gang members, surveillance cameras and citizens.”) I’m definitely curious to see how...
- 3/3/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Get out your marker and dry erase board of upcoming movies, because you'll have to add a few more dates to the calendar.
First up, despite Vulture's suggestion that Disney was trying to offload the DreamWorks drama (they have a distribution arrangement), "Welcome To People," from tentpole writers and producers Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman, it is now slated with a June 29th release date. The film stars Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Jon Favreau, Mark Duplass and Michelle Pffeifer and tells the story a twenty-something business man who, after the death of his father, must deliver $150,000 in cash to the alcoholic sister he didn’t know he had, and her son, a 12-year-old with major anger management issues. So yeah, definitely counter-programming in the midst of the summer. No word yet on the exact release plans (limited or wide) but we presume this means a trailer and more is just around the corner.
First up, despite Vulture's suggestion that Disney was trying to offload the DreamWorks drama (they have a distribution arrangement), "Welcome To People," from tentpole writers and producers Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman, it is now slated with a June 29th release date. The film stars Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Jon Favreau, Mark Duplass and Michelle Pffeifer and tells the story a twenty-something business man who, after the death of his father, must deliver $150,000 in cash to the alcoholic sister he didn’t know he had, and her son, a 12-year-old with major anger management issues. So yeah, definitely counter-programming in the midst of the summer. No word yet on the exact release plans (limited or wide) but we presume this means a trailer and more is just around the corner.
- 2/29/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
[Editor's Note: Apologies from Nathaniel, I've been under the weather and Paolo, who has been so dependable at sending capsules and reviews our way, now has a log jam of them. So many movies to discuss. Enjoy. Tiff wraps this weekend. -Nathaniel R]
Paolo here, discovering that Hysteria, a film about inventing the vibrator, isn't based on the recent Broadway play "In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play" although they tackle the same subject. However, some scenes here still look like you might see them in a stage play, set in offices of upper middle class Londoners. These are perfectly designed offices, with the requisite deep trendy colours of today's period films. The character played by the unrecognizable Rupert Everett is an electricity geek. A generator occupies his office, a Rube Goldberg like thing connected to a feather duster. However, protagonist Mortimer Granville (a composite of three actual doctors played by Hugh Dancy) sees something else in this feather duster.
The comedy in the film is repetitive; how many 'strong hands' jokes can one take even if Jonathan Pryce, playing Mortimer's boss Dalrymple, delivers them so capably? Dalrymple's daughter Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal) enters the plot,...
Paolo here, discovering that Hysteria, a film about inventing the vibrator, isn't based on the recent Broadway play "In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play" although they tackle the same subject. However, some scenes here still look like you might see them in a stage play, set in offices of upper middle class Londoners. These are perfectly designed offices, with the requisite deep trendy colours of today's period films. The character played by the unrecognizable Rupert Everett is an electricity geek. A generator occupies his office, a Rube Goldberg like thing connected to a feather duster. However, protagonist Mortimer Granville (a composite of three actual doctors played by Hugh Dancy) sees something else in this feather duster.
The comedy in the film is repetitive; how many 'strong hands' jokes can one take even if Jonathan Pryce, playing Mortimer's boss Dalrymple, delivers them so capably? Dalrymple's daughter Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal) enters the plot,...
- 9/17/2011
- by Paolo
- FilmExperience
So we got our first look at Tim Burton's feature film adaptation Dark Shadows, based on the classic 60s vampire television series, and well... Johnny Depp is very pale as Barnabas Collins. Also starring in the film is Chloe Moretz (as Carolyn Stoddard), who spoke with Movies.com about the tone in Burton's vampire film, as well as her upcoming film Hugo, controversial film Hick ("from author/screenwriter Andrea Portes’ autobiographical story and writer/director Derick Martini") and the possibility of Kick-Ass 2.
- 9/15/2011
- by Mario Melidona
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Chloe Moretz had one of the more difficult films of the Toronto International Film Festival. From author/screenwriter Andrea Portes’ autobiographical story and writer/director Derick Martini, Hick casts Moretz as Luli, who escapes her alcoholic parents but meets even more dangerous people on the road: sexual predators and drug addicts. Many people walked out of the press and industry screening on Monday morning. It doesn’t phase Moretz. The fan favorite from (500) Days of Summer, Kick-Ass and Let Me In ran from room to room at the Toronto Intercontinental like the most popular girl in school. In our session, we had a chance to talk about her about watching herself grow up and her upcoming films Hugo, Dark Shadows and, we hope, Kick-Ass 2. Movies.com...
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- 9/14/2011
- by Fred Topel
- Movies.com
Later, there will be a brief discussion of how literature is not film and how some actions and themes do not survive translation from the page to the big screen because our mind can better deal with envisioning them than it can with actually seeing them Before that, though I feel I have to pause and note that "Hick," adapting Andrea Portes' novel for the screen under the direction of Derick Martini ("Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire," "Lymelife"), is one of the most unclean and clammy films I've ever had to endure at a film festival. Not because it…...
- 9/14/2011
- The Playlist
While she made a name for herself as the effortlessly beautiful lead in "Gossip Girl," Blake Lively has been known to switch it up from time to time.
She played a weathered mother in a push-up bra in Ben Affleck's "The Town" and now we get to see Lively play a down-home Southern girl in "Hick."
Starring alongside Chloe Moretz, Eddie Redmayne, Juliette Lewis and Alec Baldwin, the movie is an adaptation of Andrea Portes's novel. The story follows a 13-year-old Nebraska girl who runs away to Las Vegas only to find herself in sticky, often troubling situations.
In the clip below Moretz and the actress/Chanel model whisper over a chiseled-featured boy in a cowboy hat who is, allegedly, following them.
Regardless how the film is received, I think we can agree no matter what Lively does, she always seems to look good doing it.
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She played a weathered mother in a push-up bra in Ben Affleck's "The Town" and now we get to see Lively play a down-home Southern girl in "Hick."
Starring alongside Chloe Moretz, Eddie Redmayne, Juliette Lewis and Alec Baldwin, the movie is an adaptation of Andrea Portes's novel. The story follows a 13-year-old Nebraska girl who runs away to Las Vegas only to find herself in sticky, often troubling situations.
In the clip below Moretz and the actress/Chanel model whisper over a chiseled-featured boy in a cowboy hat who is, allegedly, following them.
Regardless how the film is received, I think we can agree no matter what Lively does, she always seems to look good doing it.
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- 9/7/2011
- by Jessie Heyman
- Huffington Post
On the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, clips have now been unveiled for two of the premiering films hoping to make an impact: Derick Martini's adaptation of Andrea Portes’ coming-of-age novel "Hick" and Marc Forster's take on the real-life story of a criminal-turned-do-gooder "Machine Gun Preacher." Martini returns to the fest after 2008's "Lymelife" with his star-studded film featuring Blake Lively, Chloe Moretz and Eddie Redmayne alongside Alec Baldwin, Juliette Lewis and Rory Culkin. The story follows a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl named Luli (Moretz), and her rough-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful…...
- 9/7/2011
- The Playlist
The first clip from Derick Martini's Hick has come online and can be watched using the player below. Starring Chloe Moretz, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, Juliette Lewis and Alec Baldwin, the dramedy is an adaptation of Andrea Portes' novel. Portes wrote the script based on her book, which tracks a 13-year-old Nebraska girl who gets more than she bargained for when she runs away to Las Vegas. Get More: Movie Trailers , Movies Blog...
- 9/7/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Despite being only 13 years old at the time, Chloe Moretz played two of the strongest female characters seen on film in 2010. It began in Matthew Vaughn's Kick Ass, where she played the tough-as-nails killing machine known as Hit Girl and continued into Matt Reeves' Let Me In, in which she played a blood-hungry creature of the night. In Derick Martini's Hick, though, she plays a wholly different kind of character with a new personality trait: vulnerability. Check out the first clip from the film below, courtesy of MTV. Based on the book by Andrea Portes, the story follows Luli McMullen (Moretz), a young girl from a broken home in Nebraska. When her parents begin having a huge fight in the middle of her birthday party, she decides to hit the road to Vegas with only her birthday present - a Smith & Wesson .45 - by her side. The...
- 9/7/2011
- cinemablend.com
#10. Hick The Gist: An adaptation of Andrea Portes' novel, this coming-of-age story about 13 year old Nebraska girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) on the road. Whatever is thrown at young Luli only makes her stronger and more defiant, and yet somehow she is able to remain undefeated and undeterred from her goal for a better life. Director: Derick Martini (Lymelife)Sales Agent: CAA/WMESelling Point/Suited For: Derick Martini's debut film was an especially strong with believable, mature well-rounded and written characters, and perhaps the book as a built in audience, but distributors will be looking beyond the allure of the two girls and a gun, coming of age road-trip premise and instead discern the potential return on a Chloe Moretz and Blake Lively combo. ...
- 9/1/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
[1] The Toronto International Film Festival has just announced the first fifty or so films from its 2011 line-up today, including new works by Alexander Payne, the Duplass Brothers, Sarah Polley, and Madonna, and many, many others. In the process, Tiff also released a crop of brand-new photos from several films from the schedule. Hit the jump for new photos from the following: Derick Martini's Hick, starring Blake Lively and Chloe Moretz The Duplass Brothers' Jeff Who Lives at Home, starring Jason Segel and Ed Helms Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz, starring Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby, and Sarah Silverman [gallery columns="2"] [all photos from the Tiff website [2]] Let's go in order, shall we? First, we have a still of Chloe Moretz and Blake Lively in Hick, Derick Martini's adaptation of the novel by Andrea Portes. The film centers around Moretz' character, a...
- 7/27/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
The first image from "Hick" comes out at the same time when its participation in 2011 Toronto International Film Festival is announced. The photo captures two female leads Blake Lively and Chloe Moretz who are clad in a pink floral dress and a crop top respectively.
In this Derick Martini-directed movie, Moretz plays 13-year-old Luli who flees her mother, who is obsessed with hard-drinking men. Heading west on her own, she meets Eddie, a drifter with a chip on his shoulder, and Glenda, a troubled but spirited woman who takes Luli under her wing.
Her quick wit and colourful daydreams, some help from Glenda, as well as the mercurial Eddie help Luli get through a hard-going life on the road.
Based on Andrea Portes' novel of the same name, this indie road drama movie will have its world premiere at Tiff which runs September 8 to 18. Moretz and Lively are...
In this Derick Martini-directed movie, Moretz plays 13-year-old Luli who flees her mother, who is obsessed with hard-drinking men. Heading west on her own, she meets Eddie, a drifter with a chip on his shoulder, and Glenda, a troubled but spirited woman who takes Luli under her wing.
Her quick wit and colourful daydreams, some help from Glenda, as well as the mercurial Eddie help Luli get through a hard-going life on the road.
Based on Andrea Portes' novel of the same name, this indie road drama movie will have its world premiere at Tiff which runs September 8 to 18. Moretz and Lively are...
- 7/27/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Eager to put the teen soap "Gossip Girl" behind her, Blake Lively has been making strong turns in feature films like "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," last year's "The Town" (and less notably, this year's "Green Lantern"). The actress is set to make a return trip to Toronto this year for the indie drama "Hick" and it should be another shift for the actress for those who mostly know her as Serena van der Woodsen. Directed by Derick Martini (”Lymelife”), the film is an adaptation of Andrea Portes’ coming-of-age novel of the same name (she penned the script as…...
- 7/26/2011
- The Playlist
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