According to Deadline, TriStar is picking up the rights to Aimee Molloy’s thriller novel The Perfect Mother, with Kerry Washington set to star in and produce the adaptation. The book is about a group of Brooklyn moms who have regularly scheduled hangout sessions where they can socialize and relax away from their babies, but during one of these get-togethers, a single mom in the group discovers that her six-week-old son has been abducted. The rest of the story takes place over the next two weeks, with the moms going to “increasingly desperate lengths” to find the missing boy. Along the way, “damaging secrets are revealed, marriages are tested, and friendships are created and destroyed.”
As Deadline notes, Molloy is also the co-author behind Rosewater, the book that Jon Stewart adapted into a movie.
As Deadline notes, Molloy is also the co-author behind Rosewater, the book that Jon Stewart adapted into a movie.
- 2/10/2017
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
Tri-Star has picked up adaptations rights to author Aimee Molloy’s novel “The Perfect Mother,” with Kerry Washington attached to star as well as produce via her recently-formed Simpson Street production company. “The Perfect Mother” tells a story of a group… Continue Reading →...
- 2/9/2017
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
Tri-Star has preemptively picked up the rights to The Perfect Mother, the debut novel of writer Aimee Molloy, with Kerry Washington attached to star as well as produce via her Simpson Street production company.
Amy Pascal also will produce with her partner Rachel O’Connor.
With shades of Gone Girl and Big Little Lies, The Perfect Mother tells of a group of moms (and one dad) whose quaint lives are disrupted when a baby of one of the mothers is abducted from his crib. Over the course of 13 days, police bungle the investigation, the media begins to finger the baby-losing...
Amy Pascal also will produce with her partner Rachel O’Connor.
With shades of Gone Girl and Big Little Lies, The Perfect Mother tells of a group of moms (and one dad) whose quaint lives are disrupted when a baby of one of the mothers is abducted from his crib. Over the course of 13 days, police bungle the investigation, the media begins to finger the baby-losing...
- 2/8/2017
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: TriStar has preemptively acquired rights to The Perfect Mother, a thriller novel by Aimee Molloy that just sold in a seven-figure HarperCollins publishing deal. Kerry Washington is attached to star in the film, and also produce through her Simpson Street banner. She will join lead producer Amy Pascal, who got in there early on this. TriStar president Hannah Minghella will oversee with Nicole Brown. The novel revolves around a Brooklyn group called May Mothers…...
- 2/8/2017
- Deadline
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Celebrating Individual and Community Efforts to Effect Change
18-27 March 2015, London
Barbican, British Museum, Curzon Soho, Ritzy Picturehouse
(London, February 12, 2015) – The 19th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London will be presented from 18 to 27 March, 2015 with a programme of 16 award-winning documentary and feature films, Human Rights Watch said today.
The festival will include live music performances following screenings of Beats of the Antonov and No Land’s Song and a Guardian Masterclass focusing on human rights reporting and digital storytelling. The festival will take place at the Barbican, British Museum, Curzon Soho, and Ritzy Brixton.
“This year’s festival features many determined, brave individuals – such as Colombia’s philosopher-politician-teacher Antanas Mockus, the Afghan school founder Razia Jan, and Guatemala’s first female attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz – who have made huge personal sacrifices to bring about change”, said John Biaggi, director...
Celebrating Individual and Community Efforts to Effect Change
18-27 March 2015, London
Barbican, British Museum, Curzon Soho, Ritzy Picturehouse
(London, February 12, 2015) – The 19th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London will be presented from 18 to 27 March, 2015 with a programme of 16 award-winning documentary and feature films, Human Rights Watch said today.
The festival will include live music performances following screenings of Beats of the Antonov and No Land’s Song and a Guardian Masterclass focusing on human rights reporting and digital storytelling. The festival will take place at the Barbican, British Museum, Curzon Soho, and Ritzy Brixton.
“This year’s festival features many determined, brave individuals – such as Colombia’s philosopher-politician-teacher Antanas Mockus, the Afghan school founder Razia Jan, and Guatemala’s first female attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz – who have made huge personal sacrifices to bring about change”, said John Biaggi, director...
- 2/19/2015
- by John
- SoundOnSight
Jon ‘The Daily Show’ Stewart made his motion picture directorial debut last year with Rosewater, the true story of Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist who was detained and violently interrogated in Iran for 118 days, suspected of being a spy. One of the main pieces of evidence his captors used as proof of his guilt was a satirical interview he did on Stewart’s ‘The Daily Show’. Stewart directed and wrote the film which he adapted from the memoir ‘Then They Came for Me‘, by Maziar and Aimee Molloy. It starred Gael Garcia Bernal as the journalist and also features Kim Bodnia, Haluk Bilginer, Dimitri Leonidas and Shohreh Aghdashloo.
Though not Oscar material, Rosewater was generally well-received. Jim Batts here at Wamg gave it 3 ½ stars and wrote: “Stewart directs with a confident, steady hand. … this is an impressive first work from the beloved comic observer. When he’s through with the anchor desk,...
Though not Oscar material, Rosewater was generally well-received. Jim Batts here at Wamg gave it 3 ½ stars and wrote: “Stewart directs with a confident, steady hand. … this is an impressive first work from the beloved comic observer. When he’s through with the anchor desk,...
- 2/9/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This weekend’s onslaught of smaller new films will have awards contenders and big names to jostle with at the box office. Awards hopefuls Foxcatcher and The Homesman begin their theatrical runs in limited New York and L.A. rollouts, with the former a likely winner in the first weekend when the numbers come in Sunday. The films from Sony Pictures Classics and Roadside Attractions, respectively, tell particularly American stories, though from very different eras. The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart took time off in 2013 to work on his directorial debut. Open Road’s Rosewater, starring Gael García Bernal, will begin its theatrical rollout this weekend. It will be the biggest opener of this weekend’s cadre of specialty newcomers, playing in several hundred locations in the U.S. and Canada. Actor Chris Lowell also makes his filmmaking launch with Beside Still Waters. The project had smooth sailing until it came time for distribution,...
- 11/14/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
It’s hard to believe that two years have passed since the release of Ben Affleck’s Argo, which went on to grab many Oscars, including Best Picture (over another true tale with similar themes, Zero Dark Thirty). Since then the Middle East continues to be the setting for many “ripped from the headlines” stories. Now comes another such film, but with several interesting twists. Once more we’re in Iran, part of the “axis of evil” trio named by a former president. But unlike those earlier films, it barely concerns “Westerners” with only a few Brits in small roles. The film’s lead is Iranian-born with nearly all of the action taking place there. As with Affleck helming Argo, another high-profile American is behind the camera, but he doesn’t have a couple of features on his directing resume’.This movie making newcomer arrives right from the world of late-night comedy TV: Jon Stewart.
- 11/14/2014
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Solitary Confinement Is Boring: Stewart’s Adaptation Of Bahari’s Lengthy Detainment is a Slick, Tame Affair
Jon Stewart’s first foray into the fictional film arena is as topical and slick as one might expect from the premier late night comedy newsman whose highly attuned fingers happens to live on the pulse of world politics and whose industry connections must run deeper than most, yet in parts, Rosewater is either screwed in too tightly or not enough. Depicting the brutal facts with humanity and style, Stewart let’s a surprising amount of heart shine through his signature ironic cynicism, so much so that his film tends toward bland melodrama rather than the hard hitting realism this story of media righteousness might require.
This follows the highly publicized story of real life Iranian born, Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari’s attempt to cover the controversial Iranian 2009 elections and his subsequent arrest and 118 day detainment,...
Jon Stewart’s first foray into the fictional film arena is as topical and slick as one might expect from the premier late night comedy newsman whose highly attuned fingers happens to live on the pulse of world politics and whose industry connections must run deeper than most, yet in parts, Rosewater is either screwed in too tightly or not enough. Depicting the brutal facts with humanity and style, Stewart let’s a surprising amount of heart shine through his signature ironic cynicism, so much so that his film tends toward bland melodrama rather than the hard hitting realism this story of media righteousness might require.
This follows the highly publicized story of real life Iranian born, Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari’s attempt to cover the controversial Iranian 2009 elections and his subsequent arrest and 118 day detainment,...
- 11/13/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Jon Stewart has roasted and toasted journalists for years on The Daily Show. When it came time to make his directorial debut (and take off for several months from The Daily Show), as I say in my video review above, Stewart chose this project, to which he has a personal if indirect connection.
It’s the story of TV journalist Maziar Bahari, played by Gael Garcia Bernal and who went to Iran during the 2009 elections there. Bahari was imprisoned and tortured for half a year by a man known as Rosewater, played by Kim Bodnia, before being released. He went on to write a book with Aimee Molloy about the experience that then became the basis for the film, whose screenplay Stewart also wrote. Producers are Stewart, Scott Rudin and Gigi Pritzker.
The film was a selection at the Telluride, Toronto and London film festivals ahead of its debut this weekend.
It’s the story of TV journalist Maziar Bahari, played by Gael Garcia Bernal and who went to Iran during the 2009 elections there. Bahari was imprisoned and tortured for half a year by a man known as Rosewater, played by Kim Bodnia, before being released. He went on to write a book with Aimee Molloy about the experience that then became the basis for the film, whose screenplay Stewart also wrote. Producers are Stewart, Scott Rudin and Gigi Pritzker.
The film was a selection at the Telluride, Toronto and London film festivals ahead of its debut this weekend.
- 11/13/2014
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline
Jon Stewart is a lot of things -- smart, funny, a s**t-disturber -- and now we can add another thing to the list: feature-film director.
His directorial debut, "Rosewater," is, of course, heavy material. Based on the memoir "Then They Came for Me" by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy, it follows the real-life story of Bahari, who was arrested in Iran after appearing on Stewart's "The Daily Show" in a satirical interview. After Iranian authorities viewed the brief interview, they interpreted it as Bahari being in communication with an American spy.
Bahari was detained for 118 days in Iranian prison, and endured long hours of torture and deprivation. Played by Gael Garcia Bernal in "Rosewater," main character Bahari provides a harrowing and eyeopening look at the oppressive regimes in power in the Middle East.
Moviefone Canada spoke with Stewart and Bahari at the Toronto Film Festival.
Moviefone Canada: This is an incredible story.
His directorial debut, "Rosewater," is, of course, heavy material. Based on the memoir "Then They Came for Me" by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy, it follows the real-life story of Bahari, who was arrested in Iran after appearing on Stewart's "The Daily Show" in a satirical interview. After Iranian authorities viewed the brief interview, they interpreted it as Bahari being in communication with an American spy.
Bahari was detained for 118 days in Iranian prison, and endured long hours of torture and deprivation. Played by Gael Garcia Bernal in "Rosewater," main character Bahari provides a harrowing and eyeopening look at the oppressive regimes in power in the Middle East.
Moviefone Canada spoke with Stewart and Bahari at the Toronto Film Festival.
Moviefone Canada: This is an incredible story.
- 11/12/2014
- by Chris Jancelewicz
- Moviefone
Last summer, Jon Stewart abandoned his The Daily Show desk — and his irony — to write and direct Rosewater, based on the true story of the London-based Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari, who was jailed and tortured in 2009 on a trumped-up espionage charge after the (questionable) election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The odd thing is what apparently set off the government: not so much his reporting on Ahmadinejad’s more secular opponent, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, but his appearance from Tehran on The Daily Show, where he good-naturedly took part in the usual mock interview making fun of the corrupt president. Rightly or wrongly, Stewart felt implicated, and he went on to use Bahari’s book, Then They Came for Me (written with Aimee Molloy), to carry this brutal story beyond his usual realm of influence.In outline, Rosewater sounds earnest, one-note, relentless — something you’d watch out of a sense of duty. But it...
- 11/11/2014
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
Over the past 15 years, through his hilarious and even-handed nightly presentation of current events on his Comedy Central program The Daily Show, comedian Jon Stewart has become, against all odds, the Walter Cronkite of his generation: the most trusted man in news. But when a 2009 Daily Show interview with Maziar Bahari, a London-based journalist who was in Iran covering the Ahmadinejad-Mousavi election for Newsweek, resulted in that journalist’s imprisonment, it was no laughing matter.
Fortunately, after spending 118 days behind bars, Bahari was released and, in 2011, wrote about his ordeal in Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival, which was co-authored by Aimee Molloy. At that point, the “real” journalist asked the “fake” journalist to help bring his story to the attention of Hollywood; Stewart, however, decided it would be easier to adapt and direct the film himself.
The Hollywood Reporter
Over the past 15 years, through his hilarious and even-handed nightly presentation of current events on his Comedy Central program The Daily Show, comedian Jon Stewart has become, against all odds, the Walter Cronkite of his generation: the most trusted man in news. But when a 2009 Daily Show interview with Maziar Bahari, a London-based journalist who was in Iran covering the Ahmadinejad-Mousavi election for Newsweek, resulted in that journalist’s imprisonment, it was no laughing matter.
Fortunately, after spending 118 days behind bars, Bahari was released and, in 2011, wrote about his ordeal in Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival, which was co-authored by Aimee Molloy. At that point, the “real” journalist asked the “fake” journalist to help bring his story to the attention of Hollywood; Stewart, however, decided it would be easier to adapt and direct the film himself.
- 9/5/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
On Friday evening, Telluride Film Festival moviegoers became the first members of the public to see the fruits of the three-month hiatus that Jon Stewart took from The Daily Show in the summer of 2013 -- during which John Oliver's solo career took off -- when the world premiere of Rosewater, Stewart's feature directorial debut, unspooled at the Galaxy Theatre and was met with warm applause. Stewart, who also penned the film's script -- which he adapted from London-based journalist Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy's 2011 book Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival, about
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- 8/30/2014
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jon Stewart showcases his sensitivity and scope in the first trailer for Rosewater, the Daily Show host's directorial debut. The straightforward clip sets up the film's basic plot, which focuses on the captivating true story of Maziar Bahari (Gael Garcia Bernal), a journalist who, while covering the Iranian presidential elections in June 2009, was arrested and brutally interrogated by a man who smelled like Rosewater.
The trailer starts out with Bahari leaving his pregnant fiancée for a scheduled one-week trip. As the elections end in protests and chaos, the journalist immerses...
The trailer starts out with Bahari leaving his pregnant fiancée for a scheduled one-week trip. As the elections end in protests and chaos, the journalist immerses...
- 8/29/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Jon Stewart is, arguably, a national treasure. Appearing on TV screens night after night with his popular satirical series The Daily Show, the comedian accurately skewers everything from politics to the media to social trends, and offers an alternative view of world events. He occupies that venerated space – a trusted voice on television – thanks to the consistent, rational and, above all, kind way in which he regards his audience, and their best interests. He does excellent comedy, yes, but always with a serious undertone. So, it is with an overwhelming sense of curiosity that we press play on the first trailer for his dramatic directorial debut, Rosewater.
The film is an adaptation of a memoir written by Iranian/Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari (and co-written by Aimee Molloy), titled Then They Came For Me, which details his experience of being incarcerated in Iran for 118 days, following the 2009 election protests in that country.
The film is an adaptation of a memoir written by Iranian/Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari (and co-written by Aimee Molloy), titled Then They Came For Me, which details his experience of being incarcerated in Iran for 118 days, following the 2009 election protests in that country.
- 8/28/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
The trailer for Jon Stewart's directorial debut Rosewater chronicles the struggle for freedom of the press in Iran.
Rosewater is based on the true story of journalist Maziar Bahari's detainment in an Iranian jail for more than 100 days.
Bahari is played in the biopic by Gael García Bernal (No, The Science of Sleep), with the movie dramatising the journalist's imprisonment for raising questions about Iran's 2009 presidential election.
Stewart based the screenplay for Rosewater on Bahari and Aimee Molloy's book Then They Came for Me.
The film also includes a score from Academy Award-winning composer Howard Shore.
Rosewater was shot on location in Jordan during Stewart's hiatus from The Daily Show last summer.
Stewart's Rosewater opens on November 7 in the Us.
Rosewater is based on the true story of journalist Maziar Bahari's detainment in an Iranian jail for more than 100 days.
Bahari is played in the biopic by Gael García Bernal (No, The Science of Sleep), with the movie dramatising the journalist's imprisonment for raising questions about Iran's 2009 presidential election.
Stewart based the screenplay for Rosewater on Bahari and Aimee Molloy's book Then They Came for Me.
The film also includes a score from Academy Award-winning composer Howard Shore.
Rosewater was shot on location in Jordan during Stewart's hiatus from The Daily Show last summer.
Stewart's Rosewater opens on November 7 in the Us.
- 8/28/2014
- Digital Spy
Mark your calendars for Nov. 7 and don’t forget to record The Daily Show: Open Road Films announced Thursday that it would release Jon Stewart’s directorial debut Rosewater in select theaters on the awards-friendly November date opposite wide-releases Interstellar and Big Hero 6.
The Iranian political drama starring Gael Garcia Bernal as a BBC journalist who was arrested while covering an election protest in Iran and subsequently imprisoned and tortured over the next 118 days is based on Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy’s best-selling memoir Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival.
The Iranian political drama starring Gael Garcia Bernal as a BBC journalist who was arrested while covering an election protest in Iran and subsequently imprisoned and tortured over the next 118 days is based on Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy’s best-selling memoir Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival.
- 7/31/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Open Road Films will release Jon Stewart's Iranian political drama Rosewater in select theaters on Nov. 7, two months after it has its worldwide premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. The movie marks The Daily Show host's feature directorial debut. Stewart took a three-month break from The Daily Show in 2013 to shoot the independent film, which was financed and produced by OddLot Entertainment. Rosewater is the film adaptation of BBC journalist Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy's New York Times best-selling memoir Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival, which tells the story
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- 7/31/2014
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
He took a noticeable leave of absence from the Daily Show back in July to shoot a project close to his heart. With an A-team comprised of Shohreh Aghdashloo, Gael García Bernal and the presence of DS gagster Jason Jones, Jon Stewart shot his directorial debut in Jordan side by side with cinematographer Bobby Bukowski (Rampart). If ready on time, it certainly feels like a perfect match between the anti-Argo, Iranian political drama and the politicized festival.
Gist: Written by Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy, and based on the Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity, And Survival, this is about a journalist is detained in Iran for more than 100 days and brutally interrogated in prison.
Production Co./Producers: Oddlot’s Gigi Pritzker, Scott Rudin and Stewart. Exec Producing: Lila Yacoub, Eli Bush and Chris McShane.
Prediction: Buyer interest through the roof for...
Gist: Written by Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy, and based on the Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity, And Survival, this is about a journalist is detained in Iran for more than 100 days and brutally interrogated in prison.
Production Co./Producers: Oddlot’s Gigi Pritzker, Scott Rudin and Stewart. Exec Producing: Lila Yacoub, Eli Bush and Chris McShane.
Prediction: Buyer interest through the roof for...
- 11/20/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart is heading to Toronto this weekend to pitch potential foreign buyers on his feature directorial debut, “Rosewater,” an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. At an event hosted by Sierra/Affinity, the company representing the film’s international rights, Stewart will screen footage from the Iranian political drama. Also read: Jon Stewart Casts Gael Garcia Bernal as Lead in His Directorial Debut ‘Rosewater’ (Exlcusive) “Rosewater” is an adaptation of Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy’s memoir, “Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival.” The New York...
- 9/3/2013
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
Gael García Bernal has been cast in Jon Stewart's Rosewater.
The Motorcycle Diaries actor will take the lead role in the adaptation of Maziar Bahari's memoir Then They Came For Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival, reports The Wrap.
Stewart will film the movie during his 12-week hiatus from his role as host of The Daily Show.
Written with Aimee Molloy, the book charts the tale of the journalist who left his pregnant fiancée in London while he went on a short trip to cover Iran's presidential election.
Arrested from his family home, Bahari spent three months in Iran's most notorious prison, tortured by a man he recognised only by the distinctive smell of rosewater.
Bernal signed on for a historical movie centring around the death of Eva Peron earlier this week.
He was most recently seen in the Chilean political drama No.
The Motorcycle Diaries actor will take the lead role in the adaptation of Maziar Bahari's memoir Then They Came For Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival, reports The Wrap.
Stewart will film the movie during his 12-week hiatus from his role as host of The Daily Show.
Written with Aimee Molloy, the book charts the tale of the journalist who left his pregnant fiancée in London while he went on a short trip to cover Iran's presidential election.
Arrested from his family home, Bahari spent three months in Iran's most notorious prison, tortured by a man he recognised only by the distinctive smell of rosewater.
Bernal signed on for a historical movie centring around the death of Eva Peron earlier this week.
He was most recently seen in the Chilean political drama No.
- 5/24/2013
- Digital Spy
Jon Stewart is taking a three-month Daily Show hiatus this summer while he helms Rosewater, his debut feature film. Stewart has now tapped Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También, The Loneliest Planet, Babel) as his star. The film is based on Maziar Bahari's Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival, adapted for the screen by Stewart and Aimee Molloy. Bernal will likely play Bahari, a journalist who covered Iran's 2009 election and was imprisoned by the Iranian government for 118 days.
- 5/24/2013
- by Zach Dionne
- Vulture
Gael Garcia Bernal is set to star in Jon Stewart's feature directorial debut "Rosewater" at OddLot Entertainment.
The project is adapted from Maziar Bahari's 2011 true story book "Then They Came For Me". Stewart co-wrote the script with Aimee Molloy, and will produce with Scott Rudin and Gigi Pritzker.
Bernal will play the journalist who left his pregnant fiancée behind in London while he travels to Iran to spend a week covering the country's presidential elections.
Instead, he winds up spending nearly four months in a notorious Iranian prison where he is brutally interrogated by a man whose defining trait was that he smelt of rosewater.
Stewart is about to take a twelve-week hiatus from hosting "The Daily Show" in order to make the movie.
Source: The Wrap...
The project is adapted from Maziar Bahari's 2011 true story book "Then They Came For Me". Stewart co-wrote the script with Aimee Molloy, and will produce with Scott Rudin and Gigi Pritzker.
Bernal will play the journalist who left his pregnant fiancée behind in London while he travels to Iran to spend a week covering the country's presidential elections.
Instead, he winds up spending nearly four months in a notorious Iranian prison where he is brutally interrogated by a man whose defining trait was that he smelt of rosewater.
Stewart is about to take a twelve-week hiatus from hosting "The Daily Show" in order to make the movie.
Source: The Wrap...
- 5/24/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Amanda Seyfried may have started out playing teenage bombshells, but she’s defied the trap of typecasting and translated those beginnings into an interesting and diverse career including the high-profile Les Miserables and the upcoming porn-star biopic Lovelace. Now, she’s in talk to join director Noah Baumbach’s (Frances Ha) next project While We’re Young, alongside Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts (The Impossible), and Adam Driver (Girls). Seyfried would play Driver’s partner in the film, about an older couple who befriends a younger, more free-spirited duo. [The Wrap]
• Jon Stewart has cast Gael Garcia Bernal (No) as the lead in Rosewater,...
• Jon Stewart has cast Gael Garcia Bernal (No) as the lead in Rosewater,...
- 5/24/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Jon Stewart is sharply hilarious and Gael Garcia Bernal honed his comedic chops against Will Ferrell, but the pair are teaming up for the first time to tackle a grimly serious subject.
Stewart has cast the 34-year-old Mexican actor as the lead in his directorial debut, according to TheWrap.com. "The Daily Show" host will take a leave of absence this summer to work on the Iranian-set "Rosewater." While correspondent Jon Oliver sits at the news desk for eight of the 12 weeks his boss will be gone, Stewart will direct the star of "Amores Perros" in the story of a journalist, Maziar Bahari, who visits Iran on assignment and ends up jailed for 118 days and roughed up by an interrogator who smells of rosewater. Hey, look, it's the title!
Stewart and writer Aimee Molloy adapted the story from Bahari's 2011 memoir, "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love,...
Stewart has cast the 34-year-old Mexican actor as the lead in his directorial debut, according to TheWrap.com. "The Daily Show" host will take a leave of absence this summer to work on the Iranian-set "Rosewater." While correspondent Jon Oliver sits at the news desk for eight of the 12 weeks his boss will be gone, Stewart will direct the star of "Amores Perros" in the story of a journalist, Maziar Bahari, who visits Iran on assignment and ends up jailed for 118 days and roughed up by an interrogator who smells of rosewater. Hey, look, it's the title!
Stewart and writer Aimee Molloy adapted the story from Bahari's 2011 memoir, "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love,...
- 5/24/2013
- by Ryan J Downey
- NextMovie
Daily Show host Jon Stewart sparked headlines back in March when he announced he’d take a 12-week break this summer from the satirical news show to direct a film called Rosewater. Well, now we know who will be starring, because The Wrap reports that Gael Garcia Bernal has been cast in the lead.Stewart adapted the script from BBC journalist Maziar Bahari’s book Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival. He picked up the rights a while ago, and has been hard at work at the keyboard in between hosting duties and his usual meetings with his staff to come up with ways to describe Dick Cheney’s heartless attitude towards the world.The book, co-written with Aimee Molloy, is the harrowing story of Bahari’s assignment to cover the Iranian presidential elections in 2009. The plan was that he'd only be...
- 5/23/2013
- EmpireOnline
Gael Garcia Bernal, star of the recent No , has signed on to play the lead in Jon Stewart's directorial debut, Rosewater , The Wrap reports. Rosewater is based on the memoir "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival" by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy. Published in 2011, it is officially described as follows: When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran.s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he.d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iran.s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knew only by his smell: Rosewater. For the Bahari family, wars,...
- 5/23/2013
- Comingsoon.net
"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's directorial debut "Rosewater" will hit the Cannes market this May. Independent film finance company Sierra/Affinity will sell rights to the film, which is produced by Stewart, Scott Rudin and Gigi Pritzker, whose production company OddLot Entertainment will finance this screen adaptation of Maziar Bahari's 2011 memoir "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival." Stewart officially announced his venture into filmmaking earlier this month. Bahari is an Iranian-Canadian journalist who was detained in Tehran for 118 days during the 2009 presidential election in Iran. Stewart, who covered Bahari's imprisonment extensively on "The Daily Show," adapted the screenplay himself from the memoir, which was co-written by journalist Aimee Molloy. Watch a "Daily Show" clip with Stewart and Bahari below:...
- 3/27/2013
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
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