In today’s film news roundup, “In 27 Days” and “The Keys to the Kingdom” are in the works as films, Pamela Adlon has been cast in Pete Davidson’s movie, an “On the Waterfront” actor received SAG-AFTRA membership and Dances With Films sets its lineup.
Projects Launched
Dan Angel is developing Alison Gervais’ teen paranormal story “In 27 Days” as a movie under his family content banner, Fezziwig Studios, Variety has learned exclusively.
The story centers on a teen girl’s opportunity to change fate’s outcome by striking a deal with death after she attends the funeral of a classmate who committed suicide. The book has been praised for its positive focus on the importance of understanding, supporting and having compassion for the mental health and emotional wellbeing of adolescents and young adults.
Angel has shepherded R.L. Stine’s “Goosebumps” and “The Haunting Hour” franchises, as well as...
Projects Launched
Dan Angel is developing Alison Gervais’ teen paranormal story “In 27 Days” as a movie under his family content banner, Fezziwig Studios, Variety has learned exclusively.
The story centers on a teen girl’s opportunity to change fate’s outcome by striking a deal with death after she attends the funeral of a classmate who committed suicide. The book has been praised for its positive focus on the importance of understanding, supporting and having compassion for the mental health and emotional wellbeing of adolescents and young adults.
Angel has shepherded R.L. Stine’s “Goosebumps” and “The Haunting Hour” franchises, as well as...
- 5/30/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
For its 22nd year, Dances With Films returns to Los Angeles this June with an eclectic lineup of films both feature-length and short-form that span a wide range of genres.
Dances With Films 2019 will take place June 13th–23rd at the Tcl Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Horror fans attending the festival will want to keep an eye out for several genre-centric titles, including Come, Said the Night (pictured above).
You can check out the Dances With Films 2019 lineup below, and to learn more, visit the film festival's official website.
"Opening Night Film
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Apple Seed
West Coast Premiere I USA, 2019, HD, 121 min.
Writer/Dir: Michael Worth
Prods: Jody Marriott Bar-Lev, Dustin Rikert, Avi Bar-Lev, Michael Worth
Cast: Rance Howard, Michael Worth, Esther Anderson, Clint Howard, Adrienne Barbeau, Robby Benson
Prince McCoy has found himself almost to the middle of age, and definitely to the end of his rope. Losing his home,...
Dances With Films 2019 will take place June 13th–23rd at the Tcl Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Horror fans attending the festival will want to keep an eye out for several genre-centric titles, including Come, Said the Night (pictured above).
You can check out the Dances With Films 2019 lineup below, and to learn more, visit the film festival's official website.
"Opening Night Film
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Apple Seed
West Coast Premiere I USA, 2019, HD, 121 min.
Writer/Dir: Michael Worth
Prods: Jody Marriott Bar-Lev, Dustin Rikert, Avi Bar-Lev, Michael Worth
Cast: Rance Howard, Michael Worth, Esther Anderson, Clint Howard, Adrienne Barbeau, Robby Benson
Prince McCoy has found himself almost to the middle of age, and definitely to the end of his rope. Losing his home,...
- 5/17/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In today’s film news roundup, India Eisley-Mickey River drama “Adolescence” gets distribution and romance “Castle of Water” and horror short “They Hear It” are in development.
Distribution Rights
North of Two has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the dark coming-of-age drama “Adolescence,” starring India Eisley and Mickey River with Ashley Avis directing, Variety has learned exclusively.
The film was produced by Winterstone Pictures and is set to make its festival debut this fall. River portrays a shy teenager who falls in love with a beautiful, enigmatic runaway, played by Eisley, and is lured away from his bland life and into her vibrant and unpredictable world. He slips down a progressively dark path, filled with raging parties, drugs, and eventually heroin addiction.
The cast also includes Romeo Miller, Tommy Flanagan, Elisabeth Rohm, Jere Burns, Ever Carradine, Michael Milford, and Zac Brown Band member John Driskell Hopkins.
The film...
Distribution Rights
North of Two has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the dark coming-of-age drama “Adolescence,” starring India Eisley and Mickey River with Ashley Avis directing, Variety has learned exclusively.
The film was produced by Winterstone Pictures and is set to make its festival debut this fall. River portrays a shy teenager who falls in love with a beautiful, enigmatic runaway, played by Eisley, and is lured away from his bland life and into her vibrant and unpredictable world. He slips down a progressively dark path, filled with raging parties, drugs, and eventually heroin addiction.
The cast also includes Romeo Miller, Tommy Flanagan, Elisabeth Rohm, Jere Burns, Ever Carradine, Michael Milford, and Zac Brown Band member John Driskell Hopkins.
The film...
- 7/10/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
From RedBand.Ca, Sneak Peek restricted 'red band' footage from director Dan Bush's upcoming thriller "The Vault" starring Francesca Eastwood, Taryn Manning, Scott Haze, Q'orianka Kilcher, Clifton Collins Jr. and James Franco, opening September 1, 2017:
"...two estranged sisters are forced to rob a bank in order to save their brother. But this is no ordinary bank..."
Cast also includes Keith Loneker, Jeff Gum, Jill Jane Clements, Michael Milford, Aleksander Vayshelboym, Debbie Sherman, Lee Broda, Anthony Dirocco and Dmitry Paniotto.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Vault"...
"...two estranged sisters are forced to rob a bank in order to save their brother. But this is no ordinary bank..."
Cast also includes Keith Loneker, Jeff Gum, Jill Jane Clements, Michael Milford, Aleksander Vayshelboym, Debbie Sherman, Lee Broda, Anthony Dirocco and Dmitry Paniotto.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Vault"...
- 8/26/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Stars: Mischa Barton, Jackson Davis, Winter Ave Zoli, Trent Ford, Dana Rosendorff, Michael Milford, Kelly Brannigan, Tyler Sellers, Jake Busey, Sebastian Bach, Gerry Bednob, Lance Henriksen | Written and Directed by Ashley Avis
When twenty-four-year old Jae (Barton) is released from prison for killing her mother, she returns home to small-town Ridgecrest, California. It’s the last place she wants to be, with the judgement of the town, old friends, and old ghosts. She decides to join her brother Robin (Davis) and his girlfriend Rosemary (Zoli) on a road trip to “Burn the Moon”, a music festival in Death Valley. Linking up with a trio of idiosyncratic characters along the way, the group ends up getting impossibly lost amongst the three-million acres of salt flats, sand dunes, vistas and winding dirt roads. To survive they will have to overcome both the dangerous terrain and each other.
Billed a survival thriller in some quarters,...
When twenty-four-year old Jae (Barton) is released from prison for killing her mother, she returns home to small-town Ridgecrest, California. It’s the last place she wants to be, with the judgement of the town, old friends, and old ghosts. She decides to join her brother Robin (Davis) and his girlfriend Rosemary (Zoli) on a road trip to “Burn the Moon”, a music festival in Death Valley. Linking up with a trio of idiosyncratic characters along the way, the group ends up getting impossibly lost amongst the three-million acres of salt flats, sand dunes, vistas and winding dirt roads. To survive they will have to overcome both the dangerous terrain and each other.
Billed a survival thriller in some quarters,...
- 2/15/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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