Exclusive: The Awakening producer boards dark comedy adapted by the late Johnny Ferguson.
UK producer Sarah Curtis (The Awakening) of Forthcoming Films has boarded an adaptation of celebrated twentieth century Irish writer Flann O’Brien’s darkly comedic story The Dead Spit Of Kelly about a taxidermist who kills his boss and then dons his skin to hide the crime.
“It’s a very unusual story,” said Irish producer Michael Garland of Grand Pictures who initiated the project, which is based on a screenplay by the late writer Johnny Ferguson (Gangster No.1).
“We’ll be looking to use the Irish...
UK producer Sarah Curtis (The Awakening) of Forthcoming Films has boarded an adaptation of celebrated twentieth century Irish writer Flann O’Brien’s darkly comedic story The Dead Spit Of Kelly about a taxidermist who kills his boss and then dons his skin to hide the crime.
“It’s a very unusual story,” said Irish producer Michael Garland of Grand Pictures who initiated the project, which is based on a screenplay by the late writer Johnny Ferguson (Gangster No.1).
“We’ll be looking to use the Irish...
- 6/16/2016
- ScreenDaily
Best-selling author Peter Straub will bring his 1980 horror/fantasy novel "Shadowland" to the big screen says The Hollywood Reporter.
Straub is teaming with Benjamin Straub and Larry Leahy to adapt the author's books, starting with this $20 million 3D feature which will be shot on location in Ireland and the U.K. next year.
The story follows two young boys, Tom and Del, who spend a summer with Del's uncle who is one of the foremost magicians in the world. As time passes, however, Tom soon begins to suspect the uncle isn't a harmless illusionist but a real sorcerer.
Donald C. Archbold, Paul Myler and Leahy will produce and are said to be in talks with Bill Nighy and Jackson Rathbone for roles.
Straub is teaming with Benjamin Straub and Larry Leahy to adapt the author's books, starting with this $20 million 3D feature which will be shot on location in Ireland and the U.K. next year.
The story follows two young boys, Tom and Del, who spend a summer with Del's uncle who is one of the foremost magicians in the world. As time passes, however, Tom soon begins to suspect the uncle isn't a harmless illusionist but a real sorcerer.
Donald C. Archbold, Paul Myler and Leahy will produce and are said to be in talks with Bill Nighy and Jackson Rathbone for roles.
- 11/8/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Author Peter Straub has been plugging along in the literary horror genre for decades now, and we're always interested when word of a film adaptation of one of his novels crosses our desks. Especially when it includes a cast with such talented actors as Jackson Rathbone (Dread, The Twilight Saga) and Bill Nighy (Underworld, Shaun of the Dead).
Per Variety both thesps are in advanced negotiations to star in a 3D feature adaptation of Straub's Shadowland.
The film follows two young boys who spend a summer with a famous magician, who teaches them more than just harmless tricks but real sorcery. It will be shot in Ireland and the U.K. for under $20 million and marks the first project in a collaborative arrangement with Straub and Santa Monica-based screenwriter-producer Larry Leahy and Benjamin Straub to bring his tomes to the big screen.
Erik Canuel (Cadavers, The Outlander) will helm the...
Per Variety both thesps are in advanced negotiations to star in a 3D feature adaptation of Straub's Shadowland.
The film follows two young boys who spend a summer with a famous magician, who teaches them more than just harmless tricks but real sorcery. It will be shot in Ireland and the U.K. for under $20 million and marks the first project in a collaborative arrangement with Straub and Santa Monica-based screenwriter-producer Larry Leahy and Benjamin Straub to bring his tomes to the big screen.
Erik Canuel (Cadavers, The Outlander) will helm the...
- 11/5/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Borrowing the name but little else from a famous comedy brand, The Honeymooners starring Cedric the Entertainer is a lackluster affair, devoid of laughs and just about anything else one might construe as entertainment. Boxoffice prospects for the John Schultz-directed comedy, even among its African-American target audience, are poor.
This Honeymooners bears scant resemblance to Jackie Gleason's CBS series, which all but invented the situation-comedy format on television in the mid-'50s. Cedric the Entertainer's Ralph Kramden is still a guy with an explosive temper and a fatal attraction to get-rich-quick schemes, and Mike Epps' Ed Norton is still his hapless stooge, who can take three minutes to execute a 20-second task. Otherwise, the Kramden and Norton households wallow in a generic blandness unrelated to the old series.
What passes for plot in a screenplay, credited to Danny Jacobson, David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein and Don Rhymer, revolves around the desire of Ralph's wife Alice (Gabrielle Union) to buy a duplex with Ed and his wife, Trixie (Regina Hall), and Ralph's harebrained schemes that continually drain all the money from the couple's meager savings account.
Initially, the movie has a hard time settling on which harebrained scheme will drive Alice To divorce court. First, Ralph purchases Mets memorabilia in anticipation of a big World Series win, but the cartons turn out to contain children's gear of negligible value. Then Ralph buys a vintage train car in hopes of turning this into a tourist bus. Finally, the movie decides the story should be about a greyhound Ralph and Ed rescue from a Dumpster, which for no discernible reason Ralph believes will make them a fortune as a race dog.
The movie lurches from one lame comedy skit to another without the personality of its main character ever taking hold. Gleason's blustery Everyman disguised as a Brooklyn bus driver was actually an endearing figure, a man whose schemes and frustrations found common ground with all viewers. Cedric the Entertainer's Ralph is an annoying man with whom no sensible person would want to find anything in common.
Epps' character seems almost masochistic in his relationship to his bellicose upstairs neighbor. Union's Alice is too hot and too smart to be with such an oaf, while Hall's Trixie barely registers.
The two best performances -- "best" being a relative term here -- come from John Leguizamo, as a transparent fifth-rate con artist who claims to be a dog trainer, and Carol Woods as Alice's mom, the one individual who sees Ralph for what he is. Eric Stoltz dutifully plays the nominal villain, a developer with his eyes on the coveted duplex.
Schultz never finds any traction with the scattershot screenplay. The movie simply spins its wheels. With exteriors shot in New York and interiors at Ardmore Studios in Ireland, Schultz and his crew blend these elements together smoothly enough, but the film lacks visual style.
The closest The Honeymooners comes to a comic idea worth exploring comes when Ed confesses to Ralph he once saw Alice naked and can't get the image out of his mind. Nothing like this ever transpired on the original Honeymooners, but one wishes the movie hadn't rushed past such an intriguing development.
THE HONEYMOONERS
Paramount Pictures
A Deep River production
Credits:
Director: John Schultz
Screenwriters: Danny Jacobson, David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein, Don Rhymer
Based on characters from the CBS-TV series
Producers: David T. Friendly, Marc Turtletaub, Eric Rhone, Julie Dark
Executive producers: Hal Ross, Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps
Director of photography: Shawn Maurer
Production designer: Charles Wood
Music: Richard Gibbs
Co-producers: Paul Myler, Niles Kirchner
Costumes: Joan Bergin
Editor: John Pace
Cast:
Ralph Kramden: Cedric the Entertainer
Ed Norton: Mike Epps
Alice Kramden: Gabrielle Union
Trixie Norton: Regina Hall
William: Eric Stoltz
Kirby: Jon Polito
Dodge: John Leguizamo
Alice's Mom: Carol Woods
Vivek: Ajay Naidu
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 90 minutes...
This Honeymooners bears scant resemblance to Jackie Gleason's CBS series, which all but invented the situation-comedy format on television in the mid-'50s. Cedric the Entertainer's Ralph Kramden is still a guy with an explosive temper and a fatal attraction to get-rich-quick schemes, and Mike Epps' Ed Norton is still his hapless stooge, who can take three minutes to execute a 20-second task. Otherwise, the Kramden and Norton households wallow in a generic blandness unrelated to the old series.
What passes for plot in a screenplay, credited to Danny Jacobson, David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein and Don Rhymer, revolves around the desire of Ralph's wife Alice (Gabrielle Union) to buy a duplex with Ed and his wife, Trixie (Regina Hall), and Ralph's harebrained schemes that continually drain all the money from the couple's meager savings account.
Initially, the movie has a hard time settling on which harebrained scheme will drive Alice To divorce court. First, Ralph purchases Mets memorabilia in anticipation of a big World Series win, but the cartons turn out to contain children's gear of negligible value. Then Ralph buys a vintage train car in hopes of turning this into a tourist bus. Finally, the movie decides the story should be about a greyhound Ralph and Ed rescue from a Dumpster, which for no discernible reason Ralph believes will make them a fortune as a race dog.
The movie lurches from one lame comedy skit to another without the personality of its main character ever taking hold. Gleason's blustery Everyman disguised as a Brooklyn bus driver was actually an endearing figure, a man whose schemes and frustrations found common ground with all viewers. Cedric the Entertainer's Ralph is an annoying man with whom no sensible person would want to find anything in common.
Epps' character seems almost masochistic in his relationship to his bellicose upstairs neighbor. Union's Alice is too hot and too smart to be with such an oaf, while Hall's Trixie barely registers.
The two best performances -- "best" being a relative term here -- come from John Leguizamo, as a transparent fifth-rate con artist who claims to be a dog trainer, and Carol Woods as Alice's mom, the one individual who sees Ralph for what he is. Eric Stoltz dutifully plays the nominal villain, a developer with his eyes on the coveted duplex.
Schultz never finds any traction with the scattershot screenplay. The movie simply spins its wheels. With exteriors shot in New York and interiors at Ardmore Studios in Ireland, Schultz and his crew blend these elements together smoothly enough, but the film lacks visual style.
The closest The Honeymooners comes to a comic idea worth exploring comes when Ed confesses to Ralph he once saw Alice naked and can't get the image out of his mind. Nothing like this ever transpired on the original Honeymooners, but one wishes the movie hadn't rushed past such an intriguing development.
THE HONEYMOONERS
Paramount Pictures
A Deep River production
Credits:
Director: John Schultz
Screenwriters: Danny Jacobson, David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein, Don Rhymer
Based on characters from the CBS-TV series
Producers: David T. Friendly, Marc Turtletaub, Eric Rhone, Julie Dark
Executive producers: Hal Ross, Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps
Director of photography: Shawn Maurer
Production designer: Charles Wood
Music: Richard Gibbs
Co-producers: Paul Myler, Niles Kirchner
Costumes: Joan Bergin
Editor: John Pace
Cast:
Ralph Kramden: Cedric the Entertainer
Ed Norton: Mike Epps
Alice Kramden: Gabrielle Union
Trixie Norton: Regina Hall
William: Eric Stoltz
Kirby: Jon Polito
Dodge: John Leguizamo
Alice's Mom: Carol Woods
Vivek: Ajay Naidu
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 90 minutes...
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