Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
-Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have acquireed “Youth in Oregon,” directed by Joel David Moore and written by Andrew Eisen. The film stars Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Mary Kay Place, Josh Lucas, Nicola Peltz and Alex Shaffer. “Youth in Oregon” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will screen at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January. The movie will be released theatrically and on demand in the U.S. on February 3, 2017.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “When 79-year-old curmudgeon Raymond (Langella) makes arrangements to be euthanized in Oregon, his family refuses to accept his decision. But when another family emergency arises, Raymond’s daughter Kate (Applegate) turns to her husband...
-Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have acquireed “Youth in Oregon,” directed by Joel David Moore and written by Andrew Eisen. The film stars Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Mary Kay Place, Josh Lucas, Nicola Peltz and Alex Shaffer. “Youth in Oregon” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will screen at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January. The movie will be released theatrically and on demand in the U.S. on February 3, 2017.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “When 79-year-old curmudgeon Raymond (Langella) makes arrangements to be euthanized in Oregon, his family refuses to accept his decision. But when another family emergency arises, Raymond’s daughter Kate (Applegate) turns to her husband...
- 12/23/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Orion Pictures has nabbed the family dramedy Youth in Oregon.
Frank Langella stars as an elderly man who has made the decision to take advantage of Oregon's assisted suicide law. His son-in-law (Billy Crudup) agrees to drive him 3,000 miles across the country, hoping to change his mind along the way.
Christina Applegate, Mary Kay Place and Nicola Peltz also star in the Joel David Moore-directed feature.
Stefan Nowicki, Joey Carey, Morgan White and Sirad Balducci produced the feature, which was executive produced by Langella and Ross Dinerstein.
Youth in Oregon premiered in April at the Tribeca Film Festival. Samuel Goldwyn and Orion has...
Frank Langella stars as an elderly man who has made the decision to take advantage of Oregon's assisted suicide law. His son-in-law (Billy Crudup) agrees to drive him 3,000 miles across the country, hoping to change his mind along the way.
Christina Applegate, Mary Kay Place and Nicola Peltz also star in the Joel David Moore-directed feature.
Stefan Nowicki, Joey Carey, Morgan White and Sirad Balducci produced the feature, which was executive produced by Langella and Ross Dinerstein.
Youth in Oregon premiered in April at the Tribeca Film Festival. Samuel Goldwyn and Orion has...
- 12/19/2016
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The origin of this project goes as far back in our women's collective memory to the time in the late 80s when Janet Grillo was head of Acquisitions for New Line Cinema and Sara Risher was head of production. I was buying features for Lorimar or Republic Pictures. We did not know at that time that one day, after Janet had completed her directorial debut, the lovely and loving film "Fly Away," that Sara would tell a certain writer-producer. to show her script to Janet as a possible director.
Janet liked it and together they developed it further at L.A. Film Independent. They then won the PGA Script Award. They hired an 18-year-old who had been a child actress and was a Nyu Freshman just finishing a TV Career. She agreed to star in January and the film was shot the following May 2014.
It premiered in Geena Davis’ Inaugural 2015 Bentonville Film Festival in May 2015 where it won the Jury Geena Davis’ new effort to celebrate the work of women and diverse voices in media also is the only festival to guarantee distribution for its winners’ project.
“The goal of the festival is not just to showcase women and diversity—it’s to really have a proactive and powerful effect on the industry,” says Davis, Bff co-founder and founder and chair of the nonprofit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. “We’re intent on being extremely proactive in showing the films that include women and that are very commercial. Our goal is to show that this is the direction in which things are heading and we should get there sooner.”
"Jack of the Red Hearts” has now arrived in theaters nationwide as of February 26, 2016. "Jack of the Red Hearts”. Arc Entertainment and Trent Drinkwaer who founded the Bentonville Film Festival with Geena guarantees a minimum of one week in AMC theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Mimai, Minneapolis, Orlando, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa and Washington D.C.
On its opening night, Thursday, February 25, Geena Davis, Famke Janssen, Phyllis Nagy (writer, “Carol”), Catherine Hardwicke (director, “Twilight ”) and Danielle Carrig (Svp Lifetime) joined "Jack of the Red Hearts” director Janet Grillo, producer Lucy Mukerjee-Brown and writer Jennifer Deaton for a special screening of the film and Q&A at the YouTube Space in L.A. In conjunction with Broad Focus, Lifetime, the Genna Davis Institute on Gender in Media and the Bentonville Film Festival, the Q&A, moderated by the Wrap’s Sharon Waxman, will begin immediately followed the 7pm screening.
It will play on Lifetime April 20 which is Autism Awareness Month. It will show again at Bentonville Film Festival’s second edition May 3 - 8 of this year.
Bentonville’s strong affiliation with Walmart, the only vendor and the largest still selling DVDs will release it in its stores and on its VOD site.
Anna Sophia Robb portrays “Jack,” a tough teenage runaway on the lam from her parole officer. The conniving street kid brazenly impersonates a trained caregiver and forms a unique bond with an 11 year-old autistic girl named Glory, brilliantly played by newcomer Taylor Richardson. Famke Janssen, as the child's desperate mother Kay, also bonds with the imposter, as a surrogate daughter she can actually talk to. And the girl’s cute older brother Robert (Israel Broussard) falls in love. When the deception is exposed and the cops descend, loving father Mark (Scott Cohen) struggles to hold his family together as the pieces of this puzzle are reshuffled into a new, satisfying whole.
"Jack of the Red Hearts” is directed by Janet Grillo (writer/director of “Fly Away” and executive producer of Emmy®-winning “Autism: The Musical”) and written by Jennifer Deaton. Both have strong ties to the autism community as Grillo is mother to a child on the autism spectrum and Deaton is aunt to a child on the spectrum. The producers are Stefan Nowicki, Joey Carey, Lucy Mukerjee-Brown, and Morgan White.
The film stars AnnaSophia Robb (“The Carrie Diaries,” “Soul Surfer”), Famke Janssen (“X-Men”), Scott Cohen (“One Life to Live”), Taylor Richardson (“Annie”), Israel Broussard (“The Bling Ring”) and John D’Leo (“Unbroken”).
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/jackoftheredhearts.
Janet liked it and together they developed it further at L.A. Film Independent. They then won the PGA Script Award. They hired an 18-year-old who had been a child actress and was a Nyu Freshman just finishing a TV Career. She agreed to star in January and the film was shot the following May 2014.
It premiered in Geena Davis’ Inaugural 2015 Bentonville Film Festival in May 2015 where it won the Jury Geena Davis’ new effort to celebrate the work of women and diverse voices in media also is the only festival to guarantee distribution for its winners’ project.
“The goal of the festival is not just to showcase women and diversity—it’s to really have a proactive and powerful effect on the industry,” says Davis, Bff co-founder and founder and chair of the nonprofit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. “We’re intent on being extremely proactive in showing the films that include women and that are very commercial. Our goal is to show that this is the direction in which things are heading and we should get there sooner.”
"Jack of the Red Hearts” has now arrived in theaters nationwide as of February 26, 2016. "Jack of the Red Hearts”. Arc Entertainment and Trent Drinkwaer who founded the Bentonville Film Festival with Geena guarantees a minimum of one week in AMC theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Mimai, Minneapolis, Orlando, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa and Washington D.C.
On its opening night, Thursday, February 25, Geena Davis, Famke Janssen, Phyllis Nagy (writer, “Carol”), Catherine Hardwicke (director, “Twilight ”) and Danielle Carrig (Svp Lifetime) joined "Jack of the Red Hearts” director Janet Grillo, producer Lucy Mukerjee-Brown and writer Jennifer Deaton for a special screening of the film and Q&A at the YouTube Space in L.A. In conjunction with Broad Focus, Lifetime, the Genna Davis Institute on Gender in Media and the Bentonville Film Festival, the Q&A, moderated by the Wrap’s Sharon Waxman, will begin immediately followed the 7pm screening.
It will play on Lifetime April 20 which is Autism Awareness Month. It will show again at Bentonville Film Festival’s second edition May 3 - 8 of this year.
Bentonville’s strong affiliation with Walmart, the only vendor and the largest still selling DVDs will release it in its stores and on its VOD site.
Anna Sophia Robb portrays “Jack,” a tough teenage runaway on the lam from her parole officer. The conniving street kid brazenly impersonates a trained caregiver and forms a unique bond with an 11 year-old autistic girl named Glory, brilliantly played by newcomer Taylor Richardson. Famke Janssen, as the child's desperate mother Kay, also bonds with the imposter, as a surrogate daughter she can actually talk to. And the girl’s cute older brother Robert (Israel Broussard) falls in love. When the deception is exposed and the cops descend, loving father Mark (Scott Cohen) struggles to hold his family together as the pieces of this puzzle are reshuffled into a new, satisfying whole.
"Jack of the Red Hearts” is directed by Janet Grillo (writer/director of “Fly Away” and executive producer of Emmy®-winning “Autism: The Musical”) and written by Jennifer Deaton. Both have strong ties to the autism community as Grillo is mother to a child on the autism spectrum and Deaton is aunt to a child on the spectrum. The producers are Stefan Nowicki, Joey Carey, Lucy Mukerjee-Brown, and Morgan White.
The film stars AnnaSophia Robb (“The Carrie Diaries,” “Soul Surfer”), Famke Janssen (“X-Men”), Scott Cohen (“One Life to Live”), Taylor Richardson (“Annie”), Israel Broussard (“The Bling Ring”) and John D’Leo (“Unbroken”).
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/jackoftheredhearts.
- 2/29/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
President of film Jamie Carmichael and head of sales Harry White will debut footage from the road trip comedy in Toronto after coming on to handle international sales.
Youth In Oregon stars Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Josh Lucas, Nicola Peltz and Alex Shaffer in the story of a man who must help his embittered father-in-law rekindle his will to live.
Paradigm handles Us sales for the film, which is in post-production.
Joel David Moore directed from a screenplay by Andrew Eisen and the producers are Stefan Nowicki, Morgan White and Joey Carey of Sundial Pictures. Ross M Dinerstein of Campfire serves as executive producer.
“Youth in Oregon reminds us of the importance of family, free-will, and forgiveness – with incredible performances from its stellar cast – that will have audiences laughing through their tears,” said Carmichael.
Content Media’s slate includes Dennis Hauck’s neo-noir Too Late starring John Hawkes; Venice and Toronto selection Janis: Little Girl Blue from Amy Berg...
Youth In Oregon stars Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Josh Lucas, Nicola Peltz and Alex Shaffer in the story of a man who must help his embittered father-in-law rekindle his will to live.
Paradigm handles Us sales for the film, which is in post-production.
Joel David Moore directed from a screenplay by Andrew Eisen and the producers are Stefan Nowicki, Morgan White and Joey Carey of Sundial Pictures. Ross M Dinerstein of Campfire serves as executive producer.
“Youth in Oregon reminds us of the importance of family, free-will, and forgiveness – with incredible performances from its stellar cast – that will have audiences laughing through their tears,” said Carmichael.
Content Media’s slate includes Dennis Hauck’s neo-noir Too Late starring John Hawkes; Venice and Toronto selection Janis: Little Girl Blue from Amy Berg...
- 9/1/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
President of film Jamie Carmichael and head of sales Harry White will debut footage from the road trip comedy in Toronto after coming on to handle international sales.
Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Josh Lucas, Nicola Peltz and Alex Shaffer star in the story of a man who must help his embittered father-in-law rekindle his will to live.
Paradigm handles Us sales for Youth In Oregon, which is in post-production.
Joel David Moore directed from a screenplay by Andrew Eisen and the producers are Stefan Nowicki, Morgan White and Joey Carey of Sundial Pictures. Ross M Dinerstein of Campfire serves as executive producer.
“Youth in Oregon reminds us of the importance of family, free-will, and forgiveness – with incredible performances from its stellar cast – that will have audiences laughing through their tears,” said Carmichael.
Content Media’s slate includes Dennis Hauck’s neo-noir Too Late starring John Hawkes; Venice and Toronto selection Janis: Little Girl Blue from Amy Berg...
Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Josh Lucas, Nicola Peltz and Alex Shaffer star in the story of a man who must help his embittered father-in-law rekindle his will to live.
Paradigm handles Us sales for Youth In Oregon, which is in post-production.
Joel David Moore directed from a screenplay by Andrew Eisen and the producers are Stefan Nowicki, Morgan White and Joey Carey of Sundial Pictures. Ross M Dinerstein of Campfire serves as executive producer.
“Youth in Oregon reminds us of the importance of family, free-will, and forgiveness – with incredible performances from its stellar cast – that will have audiences laughing through their tears,” said Carmichael.
Content Media’s slate includes Dennis Hauck’s neo-noir Too Late starring John Hawkes; Venice and Toronto selection Janis: Little Girl Blue from Amy Berg...
- 9/1/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Billy Crudup has been cast in a lead role in Youth in Oregon.
He will star opposite the previously announced Frank Langella in Joel David Moore's dark comedy, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The story follows a man who goes on a cross-country trip to Oregon with his father-in-law (Langella), who has given up on life.
He spends the trip trying to convince his father-in-law not to commit euthanasia when they arrive in the state.
The script has been penned by Andrew Eisen and Stefan Nowicki, with Morgan White and Joey Carey on board to produce.
Crudup can next be seen in The Stanford Prison Experiment alongside Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan and Olivia Thirlby.
He is also known for his roles in Watchmen, Eat Pray Love and the Longest Week.
He will star opposite the previously announced Frank Langella in Joel David Moore's dark comedy, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The story follows a man who goes on a cross-country trip to Oregon with his father-in-law (Langella), who has given up on life.
He spends the trip trying to convince his father-in-law not to commit euthanasia when they arrive in the state.
The script has been penned by Andrew Eisen and Stefan Nowicki, with Morgan White and Joey Carey on board to produce.
Crudup can next be seen in The Stanford Prison Experiment alongside Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan and Olivia Thirlby.
He is also known for his roles in Watchmen, Eat Pray Love and the Longest Week.
- 5/2/2015
- Digital Spy
Billy Crudup will star opposite Frank Langella in Youth in Oregon, a dark comedy from actor-turned-director Joel David Moore. Stefan Nowicki, Morgan White and Joey Carey of Sundial Pictures, the banner behind indie darlings Obvious Child and Jiro Dream of Sushi, are producing. The script by Andrew Eisen tells of a husband (Crudup) on a cross-country trip to Oregon with his cantankerous father-in-law (Langella), a man who has given up on life. He must convince his father-in-law not to commit euthanasia when they arrive to the state. This is the third feature for Moore,
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- 5/1/2015
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The distributor has picked up North American rights to Mickey Keating’s SXSW Midnight thriller.
Vertical co-president Rich Goldberg plans to release Pod theatrically and digitally day-and-date in autumn.
The film stars Dean Cates and Lauren Ashley Carter as estranged siblings who travel to their isolated family lake house in Maine hold an intervention on their troubled war veteran brother. Brian Morvant also stars.
Morgan White, Sean Fowler, William Day Frank and Keating produced, while Ryan W Keating and Lauren Conoscenti served as executive producers.
Nate Bolotin and Mette-Marie Katz of Xyz brokered the deal with Goldberg and Vertical vice-president of acquisitions Peter Jarowey.
Vertical co-president Rich Goldberg plans to release Pod theatrically and digitally day-and-date in autumn.
The film stars Dean Cates and Lauren Ashley Carter as estranged siblings who travel to their isolated family lake house in Maine hold an intervention on their troubled war veteran brother. Brian Morvant also stars.
Morgan White, Sean Fowler, William Day Frank and Keating produced, while Ryan W Keating and Lauren Conoscenti served as executive producers.
Nate Bolotin and Mette-Marie Katz of Xyz brokered the deal with Goldberg and Vertical vice-president of acquisitions Peter Jarowey.
- 4/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Frank Langella has been set to star in Youth In Oregon, to based on a true story about a cantankerous old man being driven by his son-in-law cross-country to Oregon with the intention of being euthanized in the state where physician-assisted suicide is legal. Joel David Moore revised Andrew Eisen’s script based on a true story and will direct after becoming attached last year. Joey Carey, Stefan Nowicki, and Morgan White are producing via Sundial Pictures, the outfit…...
- 3/20/2015
- Deadline
We're back with another horror round-up, this time turning our attention to the latest iZombie poster that puts a living dead spin on the ice cream cone, an unsettling new clip from Mickey Keating's Pod, and release details on Conor McMahon's From the Dark.
iZombie: "Co-created and executive produced by Rob Thomas & Diane Ruggiero-Wright (Veronica Mars), along with executive producers Danielle Stokdyk and Dan Etheridge (also of Veronica Mars), Rose McIver (Masters of Sex, Once Upon a Time) stars as Olivia “Liv” Moore, a 25-year-old medical resident on the fast track to a perfect life … until she’s turned into a zombie. Liv transfers her residency to the coroner’s office for access to the brains she must reluctantly eat, but with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories. With her medical examiner boss and a police detective, she now solves homicides to quiet the voices in her head.
iZombie: "Co-created and executive produced by Rob Thomas & Diane Ruggiero-Wright (Veronica Mars), along with executive producers Danielle Stokdyk and Dan Etheridge (also of Veronica Mars), Rose McIver (Masters of Sex, Once Upon a Time) stars as Olivia “Liv” Moore, a 25-year-old medical resident on the fast track to a perfect life … until she’s turned into a zombie. Liv transfers her residency to the coroner’s office for access to the brains she must reluctantly eat, but with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories. With her medical examiner boss and a police detective, she now solves homicides to quiet the voices in her head.
- 3/2/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Indie drama Jack Of The Red Hearts has begun filming in New York with X-Men‘s Famke Janssen and The Carrie Diaries‘ AnnaSophia Robb anchoring the cast. Janet Grillo (Fly Away) is directing the film about a teenage con artist who tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter. Writer Jennifer Deaton developed the project with Lucy Mukerjee-Brown at Film Independent’s Producers Lab, and Sundial Pictures is producing it hot off the release of the Jenny Slate-starring Sundance comedy Obvious Child. The company’s Stefan Nowicki, Joey Carey, and Morgan White are producing alongside […]...
- 6/27/2014
- Deadline
Morgan White has been named VP of production and development at Sundial Pictures, the company run by Stefan Nowicki and Joey Carey that produced of "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" and "Pariah," TheWrap has learned. Her hiring signals an expansion at Sundial, which also produced "28 Hotel Rooms" and "Little Birds." The company's most recent release was Brian Brightly's thriller "Liars All," which was released by Phase 4 Films. White previously worked at Caliber Media, where she co-produced the horror movie "Dark Was the Night" while serving as the company's director of production...
- 8/16/2013
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
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