QC Entertainment will produce and finance the comedic drama and represents sales rights with ICM Partners in Berlin.
Burstyn will star in the feature and the producers are scouting for additional casting with a view to starting production in New York this spring.
Bathing Flo centres on a man who entices another man to house-sit for free, without mentioning that the latter will share the home with his eccentric mother.
QC Entertainment’s Sean McKittrick and Ray Mansfield, Thruline Entertainment’s Danny Sherman and Lauren Lake will produce. QC’s Edward H Hamm Jr and Shaun Redick will serve as executive producers. Erica Steinberg will serve in a producorial capacity.
First-time writer Lake wrote the script from an initial screenplay by Danny Brocklehurst and Sherman based on a true story.
“We’re incredibly excited and honoured to be joining this fantastic team, both as producers and financiers, in working with a singular artist such as Ellen in making...
Burstyn will star in the feature and the producers are scouting for additional casting with a view to starting production in New York this spring.
Bathing Flo centres on a man who entices another man to house-sit for free, without mentioning that the latter will share the home with his eccentric mother.
QC Entertainment’s Sean McKittrick and Ray Mansfield, Thruline Entertainment’s Danny Sherman and Lauren Lake will produce. QC’s Edward H Hamm Jr and Shaun Redick will serve as executive producers. Erica Steinberg will serve in a producorial capacity.
First-time writer Lake wrote the script from an initial screenplay by Danny Brocklehurst and Sherman based on a true story.
“We’re incredibly excited and honoured to be joining this fantastic team, both as producers and financiers, in working with a singular artist such as Ellen in making...
- 2/7/2017
- ScreenDaily
At the age of 84, Oscar-winning actress Ellen Burstyn is about to add director to her long and impressive résumé.
Burstyn will make her feature helming debut with the comedy Bathing Flo, which will be produced and financed by upstart QC Entertainment. The Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore actress will also co-star in the film and executive produce.
With Bathing Flo, Burstyn joins Eleanor Coppola as that rare octogenarian making a narrative directing debut (the 80-year-old Coppola's Paris Can Wait debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, though both she and Burstyn are younger than record...
Burstyn will make her feature helming debut with the comedy Bathing Flo, which will be produced and financed by upstart QC Entertainment. The Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore actress will also co-star in the film and executive produce.
With Bathing Flo, Burstyn joins Eleanor Coppola as that rare octogenarian making a narrative directing debut (the 80-year-old Coppola's Paris Can Wait debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, though both she and Burstyn are younger than record...
- 2/7/2017
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The sales agent has commenced international sales on the Sigma Films and Thruline Entertainment horror supported by Creative Scotland.
Former Screen UK Star Of Tomorrow Sophie Cookson, riding high on the success of global hit Kingsman: The Secret Service, plays a young woman who runs a ghostbusting racket with her sibling.
When the pair investigate a haunted foster home where a sadistic killer used to operate, they uncover a far more terrifying supernatural force.
Iceland’s Olaf de Fleur will direct Hush and Sigma’s Brian Coffey and Thruline’s Danny Sherman produce. Coffey produced The Legend Of Barney Thomson and Citadel, while Sherman is working on the upcoming The Wild One Hundreds and Bathing Flo.
Principal photography is set to kick off in October in Scotland.
Ben Ketai, whose credits include The Forest and The Strangers 2, adapted the screenplay from a novella by Em Blomqvist. Eva Konstantopoulos made script revisions.
de Fleur won...
Former Screen UK Star Of Tomorrow Sophie Cookson, riding high on the success of global hit Kingsman: The Secret Service, plays a young woman who runs a ghostbusting racket with her sibling.
When the pair investigate a haunted foster home where a sadistic killer used to operate, they uncover a far more terrifying supernatural force.
Iceland’s Olaf de Fleur will direct Hush and Sigma’s Brian Coffey and Thruline’s Danny Sherman produce. Coffey produced The Legend Of Barney Thomson and Citadel, while Sherman is working on the upcoming The Wild One Hundreds and Bathing Flo.
Principal photography is set to kick off in October in Scotland.
Ben Ketai, whose credits include The Forest and The Strangers 2, adapted the screenplay from a novella by Em Blomqvist. Eva Konstantopoulos made script revisions.
de Fleur won...
- 5/1/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Eighty-one-year-old actress Ellen Burstyn will direct and star in Bathing Flo. The movie, which has nothing to do with the esteemed spokeswoman for Progressive car insurance, is about a man who’s suddenly unemployed and evicted, but is able to house sit in exchange for free rent. However, to his surprise, he also has to share a roof with Flo, the house owner’s eccentric, elderly mother.
The story is based on events experienced by Danny Sherman, one of the film’s producers. Actress Lauren Lake is making her writing debut with the script.
Burstyn has had a long career in front of the camera,...
The story is based on events experienced by Danny Sherman, one of the film’s producers. Actress Lauren Lake is making her writing debut with the script.
Burstyn has had a long career in front of the camera,...
- 8/26/2014
- by Jacob Shamsian
- EW - Inside Movies
Since beginning a career in on-screen entertainment in 1958, Ellen Burstyn has earned herself an Emmy, an Oscar and a Tony, and already has a legacy that speaks for itself. But she's not content with retirement just yet as Deadline reports she has just signed on to make her feature directorial debut in a film that she will also star in called Bathing Flo, a character piece inspired by events in the actual life of Thruline Entertainment manager/producer Danny Sherman. The story is set in New York, following a man looking for a place to live, who ends up house-sitting for a man in a home occupied by the resident's mother, Flo. “A long time ago in the ’70s, when AFI initiated a directing workshop for women, I was in the first one. I made a nice little film and thought I should direct, but I was so busy acting,...
- 8/26/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Bathing Flo
Actress Ellen Burstyn has signed on to make her feature directorial debut on the character drama "Bathing Flo" inspired by the life of Thruline manager-producer Danny Sherman.
The New York-set story centers on a man in need of a place to live, who’s given the chance to house-sit in exchange for free rent. He discovers the house is occupied by the man’s elderly mother Flo, who is part of the deal. [Source: Deadline]
Exodus 47
Chris Columbus is set to produce and possibly direct the Holocaust refugee story "Exodus 47" for Crystal City Entertainment, 1492 Pictures and Ocean Blue Entertainment. Mark Friedman penned the script, based on the autobiography of a Baptist minister who was on a worn-down steamer on its mission to deliver Holocaust survivors to freedom in 1947.
The ship picked up 4,500 refugees from the French port of Sete but was turned back near Palestine. The plight of the refugees,...
Actress Ellen Burstyn has signed on to make her feature directorial debut on the character drama "Bathing Flo" inspired by the life of Thruline manager-producer Danny Sherman.
The New York-set story centers on a man in need of a place to live, who’s given the chance to house-sit in exchange for free rent. He discovers the house is occupied by the man’s elderly mother Flo, who is part of the deal. [Source: Deadline]
Exodus 47
Chris Columbus is set to produce and possibly direct the Holocaust refugee story "Exodus 47" for Crystal City Entertainment, 1492 Pictures and Ocean Blue Entertainment. Mark Friedman penned the script, based on the autobiography of a Baptist minister who was on a worn-down steamer on its mission to deliver Holocaust survivors to freedom in 1947.
The ship picked up 4,500 refugees from the French port of Sete but was turned back near Palestine. The plight of the refugees,...
- 8/25/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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