Ali Abbasi’s 1970s-set The Apprentice starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as his fixer Roy Cohn heads into tonight’s world premiere without US distribution in place despite selling across the world.
While Rocket Science has quietly sold international territories, US reps CAA Media Finance and WME Independent may be holding out for a deal after the first screening. “You need to see these films to gauge playability,” said one US buyer.
Yet the film may also be too hot to handle, exacerbating what is already a well-known lack of appetite for big bets due to...
While Rocket Science has quietly sold international territories, US reps CAA Media Finance and WME Independent may be holding out for a deal after the first screening. “You need to see these films to gauge playability,” said one US buyer.
Yet the film may also be too hot to handle, exacerbating what is already a well-known lack of appetite for big bets due to...
- 5/20/2024
- ScreenDaily
UK documentary specialist Dogwoof has boarded international sales on Oliver Stone’s Lula, ahead of its world premiere at Cannes, where it will receive a special screening.
Gersh is handling US rights on the project, which follows the story of Brazil’s beloved president Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva, and his journey from the presidential palace to imprisonment for 19 months, and back again to regain the presidency in 2022.
The documentary, co-directed by Rob Wilson, features unprecedented access to Lula and his closest advisors through a series of interviews, revealing the inside story of ‘Operation Car Wash’ – a landmark anti-corruption probe...
Gersh is handling US rights on the project, which follows the story of Brazil’s beloved president Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva, and his journey from the presidential palace to imprisonment for 19 months, and back again to regain the presidency in 2022.
The documentary, co-directed by Rob Wilson, features unprecedented access to Lula and his closest advisors through a series of interviews, revealing the inside story of ‘Operation Car Wash’ – a landmark anti-corruption probe...
- 5/13/2024
- ScreenDaily
Updating previous exclusive with trailer: Watch the first trailer Nuclear Now, the pro-nuclear energy documentary from three-time Academy Award winner Oliver Stone. Abramorama and Giant Pictures on March 3 acquired North American rights to the pic, which premiered (as Nuclear) at last year’s Venice Film Festival.
Abramorama will open the film theatrically in New York, Los Angeles, and select markets beginning April 28, bringing it to theaters across the U.S. and Canada on its “Nuclear Now Day” of May 1st, with Giant Pictures then bringing it to digital and streaming platforms.
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The film that Stone wrote with professor & Ph.
Abramorama will open the film theatrically in New York, Los Angeles, and select markets beginning April 28, bringing it to theaters across the U.S. and Canada on its “Nuclear Now Day” of May 1st, with Giant Pictures then bringing it to digital and streaming platforms.
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The film that Stone wrote with professor & Ph.
- 3/21/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s been a crazy year for Fernando Sulichin. But then crazy is kind of Sulichin’s wheelhouse.
The 56-year-old head of production at finance group New Element Media — born in Argentina, based in London — has built his career in the independent film business backing the movies and directors that don’t fit the mainstream models. His first big break came with Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, which he joined as an associate producer, helping secure the first-ever film shoot in Mecca for the project.
Sulichin’s eclectic tastes have led him to work with auteur outsiders Larry Clark ...
The 56-year-old head of production at finance group New Element Media — born in Argentina, based in London — has built his career in the independent film business backing the movies and directors that don’t fit the mainstream models. His first big break came with Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, which he joined as an associate producer, helping secure the first-ever film shoot in Mecca for the project.
Sulichin’s eclectic tastes have led him to work with auteur outsiders Larry Clark ...
- 11/1/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s been a crazy year for Fernando Sulichin. But then crazy is kind of Sulichin’s wheelhouse.
The 56-year-old head of production at finance group New Element Media — born in Argentina, based in London — has built his career in the independent film business backing the movies and directors that don’t fit the mainstream models. His first big break came with Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, which he joined as an associate producer, helping secure the first-ever film shoot in Mecca for the project.
Sulichin’s eclectic tastes have led him to work with auteur outsiders Larry Clark ...
The 56-year-old head of production at finance group New Element Media — born in Argentina, based in London — has built his career in the independent film business backing the movies and directors that don’t fit the mainstream models. His first big break came with Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, which he joined as an associate producer, helping secure the first-ever film shoot in Mecca for the project.
Sulichin’s eclectic tastes have led him to work with auteur outsiders Larry Clark ...
- 11/1/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Docuseries
Amazon Prime Video and Rtg Features have dropped the trailer for “Pau Gasol: It’s About the Journey,” announced by Variety in April of this year, a four-part docuseries covering the twilight of the former NBA star’s career which will premiere on Prime Video in more than 200 countries on Nov. 12.
A Lakers legend, Gasol’s last NBA game was in March of 2019 when, shortly after signing with the Milwaukee Bucks, a team that looked perhaps one star short of their first NBA title in nearly half a century, Gasol’s season and NBA career were ended prematurely by a stress fracture. A year later, he signed for Fc Barcelona’s men’s basketball team, where he began his professional career more than 20 years ago, to prepare for his final appearance with the Spanish Men’s National Team at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
“In this documentary, I tell the...
Amazon Prime Video and Rtg Features have dropped the trailer for “Pau Gasol: It’s About the Journey,” announced by Variety in April of this year, a four-part docuseries covering the twilight of the former NBA star’s career which will premiere on Prime Video in more than 200 countries on Nov. 12.
A Lakers legend, Gasol’s last NBA game was in March of 2019 when, shortly after signing with the Milwaukee Bucks, a team that looked perhaps one star short of their first NBA title in nearly half a century, Gasol’s season and NBA career were ended prematurely by a stress fracture. A year later, he signed for Fc Barcelona’s men’s basketball team, where he began his professional career more than 20 years ago, to prepare for his final appearance with the Spanish Men’s National Team at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
“In this documentary, I tell the...
- 10/21/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
United Artists Releasing opens Flag Day, directed and starring Sean Penn, in a uneven specialty market where the Delta Variant spike has theaters in key cities requiring proof of vaccination, theaters are hard to book, and hits have been rare since the industry reopened.
Eventually “We’ll crack the code, because good movie and good stories win out.” said Erik Lomis, President, Distribution at Uar. Older demos — the meat-and-potatoes of arthouse — “are less comfortable coming back than we all hoped. It’s a tough, tough market to crack… but there’s nothing like seeing it in a movie theater.”
The film from MGM Studios premiered at Cannes and debuts in 24 theaters in 10 markets. It expands next weekend to 24 markets and 50 theaters. “We’ll continue to roll out like that until we really step on the gas depending upon market conditions,...
Eventually “We’ll crack the code, because good movie and good stories win out.” said Erik Lomis, President, Distribution at Uar. Older demos — the meat-and-potatoes of arthouse — “are less comfortable coming back than we all hoped. It’s a tough, tough market to crack… but there’s nothing like seeing it in a movie theater.”
The film from MGM Studios premiered at Cannes and debuts in 24 theaters in 10 markets. It expands next weekend to 24 markets and 50 theaters. “We’ll continue to roll out like that until we really step on the gas depending upon market conditions,...
- 8/20/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
MGM is releasing “Flag Day” exclusively in theaters on August 20, because Michael De Luca is still running the studio — until the sale to Amazon goes through. A decade ago, he had fallen in love with the Jez Butterworth (“Ford v. Ferrari”) adaptation of Jennifer Vogel’s novel about her con man father. After two-time Oscar-winner Sean Penn finally directed and starred in the independent film, De Luca snapped it up. An old-fashioned, ’70s-inflected, intense father-daughter drama shot on super-16mm, “Flag Day” was made in defiance of contemporary movie conventions. After A.G. Iñárritu and other directors fell out over the years, producer William Horberg (“The Queen’s Gambit”) kept trying to get the film financed until Penn, who had been circling it as either actor or director, finally convinced his daughter Dylan to take on the role of the young journalist who tangles with her father.
“Sean is coming from a pure place,...
“Sean is coming from a pure place,...
- 8/20/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
MGM is releasing “Flag Day” exclusively in theaters on August 20, because Michael De Luca is still running the studio — until the sale to Amazon goes through. A decade ago, he had fallen in love with the Jez Butterworth (“Ford v. Ferrari”) adaptation of Jennifer Vogel’s novel about her con man father. After two-time Oscar-winner Sean Penn finally directed and starred in the independent film, De Luca snapped it up. An old-fashioned, ’70s-inflected, intense father-daughter drama shot on super-16mm, “Flag Day” was made in defiance of contemporary movie conventions. After A.G. Iñárritu and other directors fell out over the years, producer William Horberg (“The Queen’s Gambit”) kept trying to get the film financed until Penn, who had been circling it as either actor or director, finally convinced his daughter Dylan to take on the role of the young journalist who tangles with her father.
“Sean is coming from a pure place,...
“Sean is coming from a pure place,...
- 8/20/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Sean Penn’s upcoming film “Flag Day” has released its first trailer, featuring Penn and his children, Dylan Frances Penn and Hopper Jack Penn, as the dysfunctional Vogel family.
Sean Penn serves as both star and director for the movie, which is based on Jenifer Vogel’s 2004 memoir recounting her fractured relationship with her father, criminal and con-man John Vogel. The film stays true to the memoir, offering up the troubled relationship between John (Sean Penn), a grandiose deadbeat-narcissist, and Jennifer (Dylan Frances Penn), an aspiring journalist. Katheryn Winnick plays John’s wife, Patty, and Hopper Jack Penn portrays their adrift son, Nick. “Flag Day” marks Dylan Frances Penn’s debut leading role.
The trailer shows that though John has a demented way of parenting — and mess up his relationships again and again — he truly loves his children. So in order to prove to his daughter that she can rely on him,...
Sean Penn serves as both star and director for the movie, which is based on Jenifer Vogel’s 2004 memoir recounting her fractured relationship with her father, criminal and con-man John Vogel. The film stays true to the memoir, offering up the troubled relationship between John (Sean Penn), a grandiose deadbeat-narcissist, and Jennifer (Dylan Frances Penn), an aspiring journalist. Katheryn Winnick plays John’s wife, Patty, and Hopper Jack Penn portrays their adrift son, Nick. “Flag Day” marks Dylan Frances Penn’s debut leading role.
The trailer shows that though John has a demented way of parenting — and mess up his relationships again and again — he truly loves his children. So in order to prove to his daughter that she can rely on him,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Jennifer Yuma
- Variety Film + TV
When you think reliable narrator, Oliver Stone doesn’t exactly come to mind. Since his start as a director in the 1970s, the lightning-rod filmmaker, now 74, has leaned into fiction narratives with political points of view, from “Salvador,” “Wall Street,” and “W.” to Best Director Oscar-winners “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” His last Oscar nomination came in 1996, for “Nixon,” arguably his peak of high regard in Hollywood. It’s hard to recall that in 1992, controversial global smash “JFK” earned three Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
Times change, and Stone’s complex historic and global point of view is far more layered and nuanced than current American partisanship will accept. That’s why the Yale-grad-turned-Vietnam-vet has managed to alienate folks on every side of the political spectrum, including accusations of promulgating violence with “Natural Born Killers,” promoting a whistleblower in “Snowden,” and conducting friendly documentary interviews with dictators,...
Times change, and Stone’s complex historic and global point of view is far more layered and nuanced than current American partisanship will accept. That’s why the Yale-grad-turned-Vietnam-vet has managed to alienate folks on every side of the political spectrum, including accusations of promulgating violence with “Natural Born Killers,” promoting a whistleblower in “Snowden,” and conducting friendly documentary interviews with dictators,...
- 7/24/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
When you think reliable narrator, Oliver Stone doesn’t exactly come to mind. Since his start as a director in the 1970s, the lightning-rod filmmaker, now 74, has leaned into fiction narratives with political points of view, from “Salvador,” “Wall Street,” and “W.” to Best Director Oscar-winners “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” His last Oscar nomination came in 1996, for “Nixon,” arguably his peak of high regard in Hollywood. It’s hard to recall that in 1992, controversial global smash “JFK” earned three Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
Times change, and Stone’s complex historic and global point of view is far more layered and nuanced than current American partisanship will accept. That’s why the Yale-grad-turned-Vietnam-vet has managed to alienate folks on every side of the political spectrum, including accusations of promulgating violence with “Natural Born Killers,” promoting a whistleblower in “Snowden,” and conducting friendly documentary interviews with dictators,...
Times change, and Stone’s complex historic and global point of view is far more layered and nuanced than current American partisanship will accept. That’s why the Yale-grad-turned-Vietnam-vet has managed to alienate folks on every side of the political spectrum, including accusations of promulgating violence with “Natural Born Killers,” promoting a whistleblower in “Snowden,” and conducting friendly documentary interviews with dictators,...
- 7/24/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Exclusive: Business continues to trickle through during the physical Cannes film festival, primarily on titles here in the selection. On the ground, Altitude Film Sales has now wrapped a deal for French rights on JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass with L’Atelier Distribution.
Oliver Stone’s documentary debuted here in the new Cannes Premieres section to strong reviews. Stone is in town also to accompany a screening of the director’s cut of his seminal feature JFK, on the beach, to mark the film’s 30th anniversary. Deadline sat down with the filmmaker to talk movies and politics on Saturday.
The France rights deal was negotiated by Altitude’s Mike Runagall and Hugues Peysson of L’Atelier. The French distributor was founded by Peysson with Pierre Paga and has made a name for itself in the documentary field, releasing high-profile titles such as Rbg, about Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
Oliver Stone’s documentary debuted here in the new Cannes Premieres section to strong reviews. Stone is in town also to accompany a screening of the director’s cut of his seminal feature JFK, on the beach, to mark the film’s 30th anniversary. Deadline sat down with the filmmaker to talk movies and politics on Saturday.
The France rights deal was negotiated by Altitude’s Mike Runagall and Hugues Peysson of L’Atelier. The French distributor was founded by Peysson with Pierre Paga and has made a name for itself in the documentary field, releasing high-profile titles such as Rbg, about Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
- 7/13/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Sean Penn returns to the Cannes Film Festival today in the official competition with the first film he has ever directed in which he also stars.
Flag Day actually is a solid and worthwhile effort for him both as actor and director. But first and foremost, it will be remembered as a dazzling showcase for the acting talents of his daughter, Dylan Penn, who takes on the key role in a real-life story based on Jennifer Vogel’s memoir, Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.
Dylan plays Jennifer (she shares the role with Addison Tymec at age 6 and Jadyn Rylee at ages 11-13) as the film becomes a story of a unique bond between a daughter and a messed-up but charismatic father, who spent years in prison for a bank robbery, was a grand schemer and dreamer, and who became the most notorious counterfeiter in US history,...
Flag Day actually is a solid and worthwhile effort for him both as actor and director. But first and foremost, it will be remembered as a dazzling showcase for the acting talents of his daughter, Dylan Penn, who takes on the key role in a real-life story based on Jennifer Vogel’s memoir, Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.
Dylan plays Jennifer (she shares the role with Addison Tymec at age 6 and Jadyn Rylee at ages 11-13) as the film becomes a story of a unique bond between a daughter and a messed-up but charismatic father, who spent years in prison for a bank robbery, was a grand schemer and dreamer, and who became the most notorious counterfeiter in US history,...
- 7/10/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Altitude Film Sales has sold forthcoming Oliver Stone documentary “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” in a number of territories including Australia, Italy and Spain.
Thirty years after Stone’s wildly successful “JFK,” the director returns with an in-depth look at the assassinated president’s death with new, recently-declassified evidence as well as testimonies from witnesses, historians and experts. Academy Award-winners Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland will narrate the documentary.
A sales promo was shown during the Pre-Cannes Screenings last week, with the feature scheduled to make its debut at Cannes Premiere, the new festival section, this month.
DocPlay, a subsidiary of Madman Entertainment, have taken the doc for Australia and New Zealand, A Contracorriente Films in Spain and I Wonder Pictures in Italy.
In Scandinavia, Nonstop Entertainment have bought the feature, as well as Monolith in Poland. Altitude Film Distribution are set to release the film in the U.
Thirty years after Stone’s wildly successful “JFK,” the director returns with an in-depth look at the assassinated president’s death with new, recently-declassified evidence as well as testimonies from witnesses, historians and experts. Academy Award-winners Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland will narrate the documentary.
A sales promo was shown during the Pre-Cannes Screenings last week, with the feature scheduled to make its debut at Cannes Premiere, the new festival section, this month.
DocPlay, a subsidiary of Madman Entertainment, have taken the doc for Australia and New Zealand, A Contracorriente Films in Spain and I Wonder Pictures in Italy.
In Scandinavia, Nonstop Entertainment have bought the feature, as well as Monolith in Poland. Altitude Film Distribution are set to release the film in the U.
- 7/5/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Altitude Film Sales has closed a selection of international territory deals on JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, Oliver Stone’s new documentary that re-examines the assassination of John F. Kennedy some 30 years after the release of Stone’s Kevin Costner-starring thriller JFK.
The company screened a sales promo at the recent pre-Cannes screenings event and has now locked deals for Australia & New Zealand, Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Scandinavia (Nonstop Entertainment), Poland (Monolith) and Ex-Yugoslavia (Blitz). Altitude will release in the UK and Ireland in late 2021.
The film is set to have its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival’s new Cannes Premiere section on July 12. The pic has not screened to U.S. buyers yet so that deal could get done later in the fest.
In JFK Revisited, Stone re-examines the JFK case using now-de-classified documents and expert testimony.
The company screened a sales promo at the recent pre-Cannes screenings event and has now locked deals for Australia & New Zealand, Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Scandinavia (Nonstop Entertainment), Poland (Monolith) and Ex-Yugoslavia (Blitz). Altitude will release in the UK and Ireland in late 2021.
The film is set to have its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival’s new Cannes Premiere section on July 12. The pic has not screened to U.S. buyers yet so that deal could get done later in the fest.
In JFK Revisited, Stone re-examines the JFK case using now-de-classified documents and expert testimony.
- 7/5/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Altitude Film Sales has closed deals for Stone’s documentary, which has its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Altitude Film Sales has closed the first distribution deals for Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass ahead of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (July 6-17).
The UK-based sales agent has sold the film to Australia and New Zealand (DocPlay), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Scandinavia (Nonstop Entertainment), Poland (Monolith) and ex-Yugoslavia (Blitz). Altitude Film Distribution will release in the UK and Ireland in late 2021.
The documentary, made 30 years after the...
Altitude Film Sales has closed the first distribution deals for Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass ahead of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (July 6-17).
The UK-based sales agent has sold the film to Australia and New Zealand (DocPlay), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Scandinavia (Nonstop Entertainment), Poland (Monolith) and ex-Yugoslavia (Blitz). Altitude Film Distribution will release in the UK and Ireland in late 2021.
The documentary, made 30 years after the...
- 7/5/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
United Artist Releasing has set a limited theatrical release for Sean Penn’s Cannes Film Festival premiere Flag Day for Aug. 13.
The movie, which we told you about on Friday, was scooped up by MGM and stars Penn with his daughter Dylan Penn, in what could be a career-making role.
The pic, written by Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth is adapted from Jennifer Vogel’s memoir Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life. Dylan Penn plays Vogel across two decades as she comes of age while navigating a fraught relationship with her beloved, career criminal father John Vogel, played by Sean Penn.
Katheryn Winnick stars as Vogel’s mother Patty. Also starring are Josh Brolin, Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble and Hopper Jack Penn.
The pic is produced by Golden Globe winner William Horberg, Oscar nominee Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin. Original songs are by Cat Power,...
The movie, which we told you about on Friday, was scooped up by MGM and stars Penn with his daughter Dylan Penn, in what could be a career-making role.
The pic, written by Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth is adapted from Jennifer Vogel’s memoir Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life. Dylan Penn plays Vogel across two decades as she comes of age while navigating a fraught relationship with her beloved, career criminal father John Vogel, played by Sean Penn.
Katheryn Winnick stars as Vogel’s mother Patty. Also starring are Josh Brolin, Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble and Hopper Jack Penn.
The pic is produced by Golden Globe winner William Horberg, Oscar nominee Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin. Original songs are by Cat Power,...
- 6/15/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Altitude Film Sales has boarded “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass,” Oliver Stone’s forthcoming examination of the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
The London-based sales agent will debut footage and launch worldwide sales at the Cannes Virtual Market later this month. Meanwhile, Altitude Film Distribution will also release the film in the U.K. and Ireland in late 2021.
Funded by Ingenious Media and produced by Stone’s own Ixtlan Productions, alongside Pantagruel Productions, “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” will take viewers through recently declassified evidence and testimony in the infamous case.
Joined by Academy Award-winning narrators Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland, as well as a team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents evidence that in the Kennedy case, the “conspiracy theory” is now “conspiracy fact.”
“Oliver Stone continues to deliver fascinating and challenging detail on the assassination of President Kennedy, and Altitude...
The London-based sales agent will debut footage and launch worldwide sales at the Cannes Virtual Market later this month. Meanwhile, Altitude Film Distribution will also release the film in the U.K. and Ireland in late 2021.
Funded by Ingenious Media and produced by Stone’s own Ixtlan Productions, alongside Pantagruel Productions, “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” will take viewers through recently declassified evidence and testimony in the infamous case.
Joined by Academy Award-winning narrators Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland, as well as a team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents evidence that in the Kennedy case, the “conspiracy theory” is now “conspiracy fact.”
“Oliver Stone continues to deliver fascinating and challenging detail on the assassination of President Kennedy, and Altitude...
- 6/14/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
‘JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass’ will play in new Cannes Premiere section.
The UK’s Altitude Film Sales has acquired worldwide rights to Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass and Altitude Film Distribution will release the film in the UK and Ireland following its screening in the new Cannes Premiere section on the Croisette next month.
Thirty years after the release of Stone’s Oscar-winning drama JFK, the film will feature recently declassified evidence and testimony in relation to the 1963 assassination of the US president.
Altitude will screen footage to buyers at the virtual Pre...
The UK’s Altitude Film Sales has acquired worldwide rights to Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass and Altitude Film Distribution will release the film in the UK and Ireland following its screening in the new Cannes Premiere section on the Croisette next month.
Thirty years after the release of Stone’s Oscar-winning drama JFK, the film will feature recently declassified evidence and testimony in relation to the 1963 assassination of the US president.
Altitude will screen footage to buyers at the virtual Pre...
- 6/14/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
MGM has acquired one of the hot Cannes Film Festival acquisitions titles, director Sean Penn’s father-daughter coming-of-age drama “Flag Day,” marking the lead film debut of his daughter Dylan Penn (“Elvis & Nixon”), which will have its world premiere on the Croisette. (Check out our full list of 2021 Cannes acquisitions here.)
Thirty years ago, Cannes veteran Penn premiered his first film as a director, MGM’s “The Indian Runner,” in 1991, and has continued to bring his films to the festival throughout, from Best Actor-winning “She’s So Lovely” to eventual Oscar-winner “Mystic River” and “The Last Face.” He also served as the president of the jury in 2008.
Playwright and screenwriter Jez Butterworth (“Edge of Tomorrow”) adapted Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” “Hearing the love and enthusiasm that Mike and his team at MGM have for bringing the movie to audiences...
Thirty years ago, Cannes veteran Penn premiered his first film as a director, MGM’s “The Indian Runner,” in 1991, and has continued to bring his films to the festival throughout, from Best Actor-winning “She’s So Lovely” to eventual Oscar-winner “Mystic River” and “The Last Face.” He also served as the president of the jury in 2008.
Playwright and screenwriter Jez Butterworth (“Edge of Tomorrow”) adapted Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” “Hearing the love and enthusiasm that Mike and his team at MGM have for bringing the movie to audiences...
- 6/11/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
MGM has acquired one of the hot Cannes Film Festival acquisitions titles, director Sean Penn’s father-daughter coming-of-age drama “Flag Day,” marking the lead film debut of his daughter Dylan Penn (“Elvis & Nixon”), which will have its world premiere on the Croisette. (Check out our full list of 2021 Cannes acquisitions here.)
Thirty years ago, Cannes veteran Penn premiered his first film as a director, MGM’s “The Indian Runner,” in 1991, and has continued to bring his films to the festival throughout, from Best Actor-winning “She’s So Lovely” to eventual Oscar-winner “Mystic River” and “The Last Face.” He also served as the president of the jury in 2008.
Playwright and screenwriter Jez Butterworth (“Edge of Tomorrow”) adapted Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” “Hearing the love and enthusiasm that Mike and his team at MGM have for bringing the movie to audiences...
Thirty years ago, Cannes veteran Penn premiered his first film as a director, MGM’s “The Indian Runner,” in 1991, and has continued to bring his films to the festival throughout, from Best Actor-winning “She’s So Lovely” to eventual Oscar-winner “Mystic River” and “The Last Face.” He also served as the president of the jury in 2008.
Playwright and screenwriter Jez Butterworth (“Edge of Tomorrow”) adapted Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” “Hearing the love and enthusiasm that Mike and his team at MGM have for bringing the movie to audiences...
- 6/11/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Penn’s feature directorial debut The Indian Runner played on the Croisette in 1991.
MGM has acquired North America rights to Sean Penn’s Cannes Competition selection Flag Day, in which he also stars opposite daughter Dylan Penn in her debut lead role.
The awards season prospect will open theatrically in the US later this year via MGM’s distribution and marketing Jv United Artists Releasing.
Penn brought his feature directorial debut, MGM film The Indian Runner, to the Croisette in 1991 and returns with a true story based on Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth’s adaptation of Jennifer Vogel’s memoir...
MGM has acquired North America rights to Sean Penn’s Cannes Competition selection Flag Day, in which he also stars opposite daughter Dylan Penn in her debut lead role.
The awards season prospect will open theatrically in the US later this year via MGM’s distribution and marketing Jv United Artists Releasing.
Penn brought his feature directorial debut, MGM film The Indian Runner, to the Croisette in 1991 and returns with a true story based on Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth’s adaptation of Jennifer Vogel’s memoir...
- 6/11/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
“Flag Day,” a new drama from Sean Penn, has sold North American rights to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer weeks before it is scheduled to have its global debut at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film was directed by Penn, with the Oscar-winner starring alongside his daughter, Dylan Penn. It’s an adaptation of Jennifer Vogel’s acclaimed memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life,” and recounts the author’s difficult relationship with her con-man father, John Vogel. Frequently operating on the wrong side of the law, John Vogel torched buildings, robbed banks, and counterfeited more than $20 million. But he could also be a charming and caring father, complicating his ties with his daughter.
Penn’s directorial debut, “The Indian Runner,” had its world premiere at Cannes in 1991. His acting credits include “Mystic River,” “Dead Man Walking,” and “Milk.” Penn also directed “The Crossing Guard” and “Into the Wild.
The film was directed by Penn, with the Oscar-winner starring alongside his daughter, Dylan Penn. It’s an adaptation of Jennifer Vogel’s acclaimed memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life,” and recounts the author’s difficult relationship with her con-man father, John Vogel. Frequently operating on the wrong side of the law, John Vogel torched buildings, robbed banks, and counterfeited more than $20 million. But he could also be a charming and caring father, complicating his ties with his daughter.
Penn’s directorial debut, “The Indian Runner,” had its world premiere at Cannes in 1991. His acting credits include “Mystic River,” “Dead Man Walking,” and “Milk.” Penn also directed “The Crossing Guard” and “Into the Wild.
- 6/11/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
MGM has taken North American distribution rights to Sean Penn’s upcoming Flag Day, which is making its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in July. Penn directs and also stars with his daughter Dylan Penn in what we’re already hearing is a star-making role for the actress. The studio will release Flag Day via its marketing-distribution joint venture United Artists Releasing later this year.
The pic is based on Jennifer Vogel’s memoir Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life and tells the story of the author’s coming of age, who Dylan Penn plays, over two decades while navigating a fraught relationship with her beloved, career criminal father, con man John Vogel, played by Sean Penn. Jez Butterworth (Ford v. Ferrari) adapted Vogel’s book for the screen.
Flag Day reps Sean Penn’s 30th anniversary at Cannes: His directorial debut, the MGM film The Indian Runner,...
The pic is based on Jennifer Vogel’s memoir Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life and tells the story of the author’s coming of age, who Dylan Penn plays, over two decades while navigating a fraught relationship with her beloved, career criminal father, con man John Vogel, played by Sean Penn. Jez Butterworth (Ford v. Ferrari) adapted Vogel’s book for the screen.
Flag Day reps Sean Penn’s 30th anniversary at Cannes: His directorial debut, the MGM film The Indian Runner,...
- 6/11/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
MGM has acquired the North American rights to “Flag Day,” the next feature from director Sean Penn that will make its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
Penn stars in the film alongside his daughter, Dylan Penn, in her first lead actress role. MGM plans to release “Flag Day” theatrically later this year as part of its distribution and marketing joint venture with United Artists Releasing.
“Flag Day” is Sean Penn’s return to Cannes after his directorial debut, “The Indian Runner,” which was also released by MGM and had its world premiere there 30 years ago, in 1991.
“Flag Day” is based on a memoir by Jennifer Vogel titled “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” It tells the story of Vogel’s fraught relationship with her father, John Vogel, who lived a double life as a con-man, bank robber and counterfeiter in order to provide for his family.
Penn stars in the film alongside his daughter, Dylan Penn, in her first lead actress role. MGM plans to release “Flag Day” theatrically later this year as part of its distribution and marketing joint venture with United Artists Releasing.
“Flag Day” is Sean Penn’s return to Cannes after his directorial debut, “The Indian Runner,” which was also released by MGM and had its world premiere there 30 years ago, in 1991.
“Flag Day” is based on a memoir by Jennifer Vogel titled “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” It tells the story of Vogel’s fraught relationship with her father, John Vogel, who lived a double life as a con-man, bank robber and counterfeiter in order to provide for his family.
- 6/11/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Fernando Sulichin is used to doing things differently.
The veteran producer and CEO of New Element Media has established a reputation for working with maverick auteurs — Oliver Stone, Sean Pean, Abel Ferrara, Michael Winterbottom, Larry Clark, Harmony Korine — and finding creative ways to get films made that don't fit the industry's cookie-cutter models. As such, the 55-year-old Argentine is very much at home in the creative chaos of the Cannes Film Festival, the ultimate meeting place of film art and the film business [2020 will be the first time in 25 years Sulichin will not ...
The veteran producer and CEO of New Element Media has established a reputation for working with maverick auteurs — Oliver Stone, Sean Pean, Abel Ferrara, Michael Winterbottom, Larry Clark, Harmony Korine — and finding creative ways to get films made that don't fit the industry's cookie-cutter models. As such, the 55-year-old Argentine is very much at home in the creative chaos of the Cannes Film Festival, the ultimate meeting place of film art and the film business [2020 will be the first time in 25 years Sulichin will not ...
- 6/26/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Fernando Sulichin is used to doing things differently.
The veteran producer and CEO of New Element Media has established a reputation for working with maverick auteurs — Oliver Stone, Sean Pean, Abel Ferrara, Michael Winterbottom, Larry Clark, Harmony Korine — and finding creative ways to get films made that don't fit the industry's cookie-cutter models. As such, the 55-year-old Argentine is very much at home in the creative chaos of the Cannes Film Festival, the ultimate meeting place of film art and the film business [2020 will be the first time in 25 years Sulichin will not ...
The veteran producer and CEO of New Element Media has established a reputation for working with maverick auteurs — Oliver Stone, Sean Pean, Abel Ferrara, Michael Winterbottom, Larry Clark, Harmony Korine — and finding creative ways to get films made that don't fit the industry's cookie-cutter models. As such, the 55-year-old Argentine is very much at home in the creative chaos of the Cannes Film Festival, the ultimate meeting place of film art and the film business [2020 will be the first time in 25 years Sulichin will not ...
- 6/26/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jesus is back — that is, John Turturro’s Jesus Quntana character from “The Big Lebowski” in a Screen Media’s trailer for the spinoff movie “The Jesus Rolls.”
The footage shows Turturro, who also directed, with his memorable licking of a bowling ball before sending it down a lane and into outer space.
“The Jesus Rolls” also stars Bobby Cannavale, Susan Sarandon, Jon Hamm, Audrey Tautou, and Christopher Walken. The trailer did not include an appearance by Jeff Bridges’ character Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski from the original 1998 movie, in which Turturro’s character taunted Lebowski and his bowling team at a bowling alley and referred to himself as “The Jesus.”
“The Jesus Rolls” follows a trio of misfits — Turturro, Cannavle and Tatou — whose sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds.
The footage shows Turturro, who also directed, with his memorable licking of a bowling ball before sending it down a lane and into outer space.
“The Jesus Rolls” also stars Bobby Cannavale, Susan Sarandon, Jon Hamm, Audrey Tautou, and Christopher Walken. The trailer did not include an appearance by Jeff Bridges’ character Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski from the original 1998 movie, in which Turturro’s character taunted Lebowski and his bowling team at a bowling alley and referred to himself as “The Jesus.”
“The Jesus Rolls” follows a trio of misfits — Turturro, Cannavle and Tatou — whose sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds.
- 1/31/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Cornerstone is selling the film which premiered at Rome Film Festival.
At the start of Afm, John Turturro’s Big Lebowski spin-off The Jesus Rolls has been picked up for the UK and Ireland by new UK distributor Blue Finch Film Releasing.
The film, which Turturro wrote, directed and stars in, premiered at Rome Film Festival last month and is being sold by Cornerstone Films. Carla Quarto di Palo, Cornerstone’s director of international sales, negotiated the deal with Blue Finch co-ceo Mike Chapman.
With Turturro reprising his role as Jesus Quintana from the Coen brothers’ comedy The Big Lebowski,...
At the start of Afm, John Turturro’s Big Lebowski spin-off The Jesus Rolls has been picked up for the UK and Ireland by new UK distributor Blue Finch Film Releasing.
The film, which Turturro wrote, directed and stars in, premiered at Rome Film Festival last month and is being sold by Cornerstone Films. Carla Quarto di Palo, Cornerstone’s director of international sales, negotiated the deal with Blue Finch co-ceo Mike Chapman.
With Turturro reprising his role as Jesus Quintana from the Coen brothers’ comedy The Big Lebowski,...
- 11/7/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Cannes — Agc Television, the TV production-distribution division of Stuart Ford’s still fast expanding independent content studio Agc Studios, has landed worldwide rights to another high-profile doc-series which it describes as “probing” and “explosive”: Oliver Stone’s “JFK: Destiny Betrayed.”
The acquisition was announced early Monday by Agc Television president Lourdes Diaz.
The acquisition continues Agc Television substantial investment in non-fiction which is in high-demand in the streaming and premium cable space, allowing operators to reach diverse audience segments with high-profile original content at relatively modest cost.
Few filmmakers are as high-profile as Oliver Stone and“JFK” has proved the most controversial of his films. In the new doc-series, Stone and writer James Dieugenio, author of “Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case,” place now declassified files related to President Kennedy’s assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in...
The acquisition was announced early Monday by Agc Television president Lourdes Diaz.
The acquisition continues Agc Television substantial investment in non-fiction which is in high-demand in the streaming and premium cable space, allowing operators to reach diverse audience segments with high-profile original content at relatively modest cost.
Few filmmakers are as high-profile as Oliver Stone and“JFK” has proved the most controversial of his films. In the new doc-series, Stone and writer James Dieugenio, author of “Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case,” place now declassified files related to President Kennedy’s assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in...
- 10/13/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Worldwide distribution rights to filmmaker Oliver Stone’s documentary “JFK: Destiny Betrayed” have been acquired by Agc Television, the content studio announced Sunday.
Stone’s 1991 film “JFK” reignited interest in John F. Kennedy’s presidency and assassination, and renewed demands to open sealed files that could shed light on his tragic end in 1963. Many of those files have now been declassified.
In this three-part series, Stone and writer James Dieugenio assemble the pieces of the puzzle and expose little-known but hugely consequential aspects of JFK’s life, career, foreign policy actions and murder. Accessing the new evidence in Kennedy’s assassination and under-reported coverage of his far-reaching policy speeches that threatened the status-quo, Stone puts Kennedy’s assassination in context politically with interviews, documents and forensics reports.
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“This documentary film represents an important bookend to my 1991 film,” Stone said in a statement.
Stone’s 1991 film “JFK” reignited interest in John F. Kennedy’s presidency and assassination, and renewed demands to open sealed files that could shed light on his tragic end in 1963. Many of those files have now been declassified.
In this three-part series, Stone and writer James Dieugenio assemble the pieces of the puzzle and expose little-known but hugely consequential aspects of JFK’s life, career, foreign policy actions and murder. Accessing the new evidence in Kennedy’s assassination and under-reported coverage of his far-reaching policy speeches that threatened the status-quo, Stone puts Kennedy’s assassination in context politically with interviews, documents and forensics reports.
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“This documentary film represents an important bookend to my 1991 film,” Stone said in a statement.
- 10/13/2019
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
John Turturro’s “Big Lebowski” spinoff, “The Jesus Rolls,” which follows his “Lebowski” character Jesus Quintana, is scheduled to hit theaters in early 2020.
Screen Media purchased the rights to the film, which Turturro directed from his own script. “Jesus Rolls” also stars Bobby Cannavale and Audrey Tautou and features Jon Hamm, Susan Sarandon and Pete Davidson.
“The Jesus Rolls” follows a trio of misfits whose sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds. When they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser, their journey becomes one of constant escape from the law, from society and from the hairdresser, all while the bonds of their outsider family strengthen.
The film, formerly titled “Going Places,” is produced by Robert Salerno, John Penotti, Fernando Sulichin, Sidney Kimmel and Paul-Dominique Win Vacharasinthu.
Screen Media purchased the rights to the film, which Turturro directed from his own script. “Jesus Rolls” also stars Bobby Cannavale and Audrey Tautou and features Jon Hamm, Susan Sarandon and Pete Davidson.
“The Jesus Rolls” follows a trio of misfits whose sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds. When they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser, their journey becomes one of constant escape from the law, from society and from the hairdresser, all while the bonds of their outsider family strengthen.
The film, formerly titled “Going Places,” is produced by Robert Salerno, John Penotti, Fernando Sulichin, Sidney Kimmel and Paul-Dominique Win Vacharasinthu.
- 7/8/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
John Turturro’s long-buzzed-about “Big Lebowski” sequel has a fresh title, and a fast-approaching release date. Screen Media announced today that the boutique distribution company has picked up the North American rights to Turturro’s film, now known as “The Jesus Rolls” (and formerly known as “Going Places”), and is planning a release in early 2020.
Written, directed by, and starring Turturro, the new film sees the multi-hyphenate reprising his role of Jesus Quintana from the beloved Coen brothers film. He’ll be joined by a wide-ranging supporting cast that includes Bobby Cannavale, Audrey Tautou, Jon Hamm, Susan Sarandon, and Pete Davidson.
Per the film’s official synopsis, it follows “a trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds. When they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser,...
Written, directed by, and starring Turturro, the new film sees the multi-hyphenate reprising his role of Jesus Quintana from the beloved Coen brothers film. He’ll be joined by a wide-ranging supporting cast that includes Bobby Cannavale, Audrey Tautou, Jon Hamm, Susan Sarandon, and Pete Davidson.
Per the film’s official synopsis, it follows “a trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds. When they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser,...
- 7/8/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Dios mio, man, the Jesus is back. Screen Media has acquired the North American rights to “The Jesus Rolls,” the spinoff film based on John Turturro’s breakout character, Jesus Quintana, from the Coen Brothers’ “The Big Lebowski,” the company announced Monday.
Turturro wrote and directed the film (formerly titled “Going Places”) in which he reprises his role as Jesus Quintana, and Screen Media is planning to release “The Jesus Rolls” in early 2020.
Bobby Cannavale, Audrey Tautou, Jon Hamm, Susan Sarandon and Pete Davidson star in the film, which follows a trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story. Their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds. When they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser, their journey becomes one of constant escape from the law, from society and from the hairdresser,...
Turturro wrote and directed the film (formerly titled “Going Places”) in which he reprises his role as Jesus Quintana, and Screen Media is planning to release “The Jesus Rolls” in early 2020.
Bobby Cannavale, Audrey Tautou, Jon Hamm, Susan Sarandon and Pete Davidson star in the film, which follows a trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story. Their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds. When they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser, their journey becomes one of constant escape from the law, from society and from the hairdresser,...
- 7/8/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Screen Media has acquired North American rights The Jesus Rolls, the movie from John Turturro that returns his Big Lebowski character Jesus Quintana to the big screen more than 20 years later. Turturro wrote, directed and stars in the pic, which the indie distributor now plans to release in early 2020.
The movie — part Big Lebowski spinoff, part remake of Bertrand Blier’s 1974 pic Going Places (this film’s original name) follows a trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds. When they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser, their journey becomes one of constant escape from the law, from society and from the hairdresser, all while the bonds of their outsider family strengthen.
Bobby Cannavale and Audrey Tautou also star in the film,...
The movie — part Big Lebowski spinoff, part remake of Bertrand Blier’s 1974 pic Going Places (this film’s original name) follows a trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds. When they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser, their journey becomes one of constant escape from the law, from society and from the hairdresser, all while the bonds of their outsider family strengthen.
Bobby Cannavale and Audrey Tautou also star in the film,...
- 7/8/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Cornerstone Films handles international sales.
Screen Media has acquired all North American rights to John Turturro’s The Jesus Rolls featuring the notorious character Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski.
Turturro wrote, directed and stars in the eagerly awaited spin-off (formerly Going Places), in which a trio of misfits go on the run when they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser.
Bobby Cannavale and Audrey Tautou also star with Jon Hamm, Susan Sarandon and Pete Davidson. Screen Media plans a release in early 2020, and Cornerstone Films handles international sales.
Robert Salerno, John Penotti, Fernando Sulichin, Sidney Kimmel, and Paul-Dominique Win Vacharasinthu...
Screen Media has acquired all North American rights to John Turturro’s The Jesus Rolls featuring the notorious character Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski.
Turturro wrote, directed and stars in the eagerly awaited spin-off (formerly Going Places), in which a trio of misfits go on the run when they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser.
Bobby Cannavale and Audrey Tautou also star with Jon Hamm, Susan Sarandon and Pete Davidson. Screen Media plans a release in early 2020, and Cornerstone Films handles international sales.
Robert Salerno, John Penotti, Fernando Sulichin, Sidney Kimmel, and Paul-Dominique Win Vacharasinthu...
- 7/8/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
‘Avengers: End Game’ actor Josh Brolin and Miles Teller have joined the cast of Sean Penn’s ‘Flag Day’ which will also star Penn’s children Dylan and Hopper.
Based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir ‘Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life’. The book tells the story of a daughter that has to come to terms with her perceptions of her criminal father, a bank robber and career counterfeiter that evaded arrest for six months.
Penn will take the director’s chair while Tony-winning playwright Jez Butterworth will pen the screenplay which will also star Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble and Katheryn Winnick. William Horberg, Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin will produce.
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Brolin was last seen as Thano’s being defeated once and for all in ‘Avengers: Endgame’. No stranger to the comic...
Based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir ‘Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life’. The book tells the story of a daughter that has to come to terms with her perceptions of her criminal father, a bank robber and career counterfeiter that evaded arrest for six months.
Penn will take the director’s chair while Tony-winning playwright Jez Butterworth will pen the screenplay which will also star Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble and Katheryn Winnick. William Horberg, Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin will produce.
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Brolin was last seen as Thano’s being defeated once and for all in ‘Avengers: Endgame’. No stranger to the comic...
- 6/20/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sean Penn is set to direct and star in the conman drama “Flag Day” alongside his daughter Dylan Penn, his son Hopper Penn, Josh Brolin and Miles Teller.
The cast includes two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz (“Fosse/Verdon”), Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, and Katheryn Winnick (“Vikings”).
Jez Butterworth (“Edge of Tomorrow”) wrote the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” “Flag Day” is described an illuminating portrait of a daughter struggling to overcome the loving yet dark legacy of her conman father.
Producers are William Horberg, Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin. Production companies are Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde Is Hungry Films.
Rocket Science and Wild Bunch will executive produce and are handling international sales, with CAA Media Finance, which arranged financing for the film, representing the U.S. and China rights.
The cast includes two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz (“Fosse/Verdon”), Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, and Katheryn Winnick (“Vikings”).
Jez Butterworth (“Edge of Tomorrow”) wrote the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” “Flag Day” is described an illuminating portrait of a daughter struggling to overcome the loving yet dark legacy of her conman father.
Producers are William Horberg, Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin. Production companies are Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde Is Hungry Films.
Rocket Science and Wild Bunch will executive produce and are handling international sales, with CAA Media Finance, which arranged financing for the film, representing the U.S. and China rights.
- 6/19/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Sean Penn is set to direct and star in “Flag Day” opposite his daughter Dylan Penn, Josh Brolin and Miles Teller.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn and Katheryn Winnick will also star in the film on which principal photography will begin this week.
Tony Award-winning playwright Jez Butterworth wrote the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Film-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.”
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“Flag Day” is the story of a daughter struggling to overcome the legacy of her con-man father. William Horberg, Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin will produce the film, which is a Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde is Hungry Films production. Christelle Conan, Anders Erdén, Peter Touche, Phyllis Laing, Devan Towers, Thorsten Schumacher, Vincent Maraval,...
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn and Katheryn Winnick will also star in the film on which principal photography will begin this week.
Tony Award-winning playwright Jez Butterworth wrote the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Film-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.”
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“Flag Day” is the story of a daughter struggling to overcome the legacy of her con-man father. William Horberg, Jon Kilik and Fernando Sulichin will produce the film, which is a Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde is Hungry Films production. Christelle Conan, Anders Erdén, Peter Touche, Phyllis Laing, Devan Towers, Thorsten Schumacher, Vincent Maraval,...
- 6/19/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Shoot is under way on Sean Penn-directed feature drama Flag Day, in which Penn will star alongside daughter Dylan Penn (Elvis & Nixon).
The strong supporting cast joining the production includes Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men), Norbert Leo Butz (Fair Game), Dale Dickey (Hell Or High Water), Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky), Bailey Noble (True Blood), Hopper Penn (War Machine), Miles Teller (Whiplash), and Katheryn Winnick (Vikings).
Jez Butterworth (Edge Of Tomorrow) has penned the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir Film-Flam Man: The True Story Of My Father’s Counterfeit Life. Based on a true story, the long-gestating film is a portrait of a daughter struggling to overcome the loving but dark legacy of her con man father.
William Horberg (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Jon Kilik (Babel) and Fernando Sulichin (Snowden) are producing the feature, which is a Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde Is Hungry Films production.
The strong supporting cast joining the production includes Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men), Norbert Leo Butz (Fair Game), Dale Dickey (Hell Or High Water), Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky), Bailey Noble (True Blood), Hopper Penn (War Machine), Miles Teller (Whiplash), and Katheryn Winnick (Vikings).
Jez Butterworth (Edge Of Tomorrow) has penned the screenplay, which is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir Film-Flam Man: The True Story Of My Father’s Counterfeit Life. Based on a true story, the long-gestating film is a portrait of a daughter struggling to overcome the loving but dark legacy of her con man father.
William Horberg (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Jon Kilik (Babel) and Fernando Sulichin (Snowden) are producing the feature, which is a Wonderful Films, Rahway Road, New Element Films and Clyde Is Hungry Films production.
- 6/19/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Rocket Science, Wild Bunch handle international
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Tony...
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Tony...
- 6/19/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Rocket Science, Wild Bunch handle international sales.
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn directs and stars in alongside his daughter Dylan Penn, Josh Brolin, and Miles Teller.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn directs and stars in alongside his daughter Dylan Penn, Josh Brolin, and Miles Teller.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
- 6/19/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Rocket Science, Wild Bunch handle international sales.
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
- 6/19/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Rocket Science, Wild Bunch handle international
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Tony...
Production has begun this week on the long-in-the-works drama Flag Day, which Sean Penn will direct and star alongside his daughter Dylan Penn and Josh Brolin.
Rocket Science has come on board and will serve as executive producer alongside Wild Bunch, with both handling international sales. CAA Media Finance arranged financing and represents Us and China rights.
The project had been set up several years ago with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch.
Norbert Leo Butz, Dale Dickey, Eddie Marsan, Bailey Noble, Hopper Penn, Miles Teller, and Katheryn Winnick round out the key cast.
Tony...
- 6/19/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Benicio Del Toro is set to star in Oliver Stone’s drama “White Lies.”
Stone will direct from his own script in a project that’s departure from his previous work, offering an intimate exploration of family, loss, and love. Nighthawk Capital Limited is financing the film, which will be produced by Fernando Sulichin with Ross Katz. Sulichin’s New Element Media, which has worked with Stone on several projects, raised the financing for the film. Production will begin in New York City in the spring.
In a story covering three generations, Del Toro will portray a child of divorce now repeating his parents’ mistakes in his own marriage and with his troubled son. Feeling trapped, he embarks on a lust-filled journey to free himself, but only becomes more lost. When he meets a woman whose life is the opposite of his own, he begins a journey of rediscovery.
It...
Stone will direct from his own script in a project that’s departure from his previous work, offering an intimate exploration of family, loss, and love. Nighthawk Capital Limited is financing the film, which will be produced by Fernando Sulichin with Ross Katz. Sulichin’s New Element Media, which has worked with Stone on several projects, raised the financing for the film. Production will begin in New York City in the spring.
In a story covering three generations, Del Toro will portray a child of divorce now repeating his parents’ mistakes in his own marriage and with his troubled son. Feeling trapped, he embarks on a lust-filled journey to free himself, but only becomes more lost. When he meets a woman whose life is the opposite of his own, he begins a journey of rediscovery.
It...
- 8/13/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Sicario star Benicio Del Toro will lead the cast in Oliver Stone’s next directorial outing White Lies. The three-time Oscar winner Stone has written the script for the intimate New York-set drama, which tonally will mark a departure for the big-canvas director.
In a story covering three generations, the film will follow Jack (Del Toro), a child of divorce now repeating his parents’ mistakes in his own marriage and with his troubled son. Feeling trapped, he embarks on a lust-filled journey to free himself, but only becomes more lost. When he meets a woman whose life is the opposite of his own, he begins a journey of rediscovery.
Production is scheduled to begin in New York in spring 2019. Additional casting is underway.
Nighthawk Capital Limited is financing the film, which will be produced by Fernando Sulichin with Ross Katz (Lost In Translation). Sulichin’s New Element Media, which has...
In a story covering three generations, the film will follow Jack (Del Toro), a child of divorce now repeating his parents’ mistakes in his own marriage and with his troubled son. Feeling trapped, he embarks on a lust-filled journey to free himself, but only becomes more lost. When he meets a woman whose life is the opposite of his own, he begins a journey of rediscovery.
Production is scheduled to begin in New York in spring 2019. Additional casting is underway.
Nighthawk Capital Limited is financing the film, which will be produced by Fernando Sulichin with Ross Katz (Lost In Translation). Sulichin’s New Element Media, which has...
- 8/13/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Watch out – a bloodsucking fiend is stalking the highways and by-ways of lower Manhattan… and she has a PhD! Abel Ferrara’s vampire mini-epic puts Lili Taylor through an ordeal that’s harrowing, transformational and either profound or pretentious depending on how you roll with existential philosophy. We acknowledge that Ferrara is a good judge of actor-flesh: sharing in the theory-speak and blood-soaked grue are Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, and Kathryn Erbe.
The Addiction
Blu-ray
Arrow Video USA
1995 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 82 min. / Street Date June 26, 2018 / Available from Arrow Video
Starring: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Paul Calderon, Fredro Starr, Kathryn Erbe, Michael Imperioli, Jamal Simmons, Robert W. Castle, Michael Fella.
Cinematography: Ken Kelsch
Film Editor: Mayin Lo
Production design: Charles Lagola
Original Music: Joe Delia
Written by Nicholas St. John
Produced by Denis Hann, Fernando Sulichin
Directed by Abel Ferrara
By the time Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction came along,...
The Addiction
Blu-ray
Arrow Video USA
1995 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 82 min. / Street Date June 26, 2018 / Available from Arrow Video
Starring: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Paul Calderon, Fredro Starr, Kathryn Erbe, Michael Imperioli, Jamal Simmons, Robert W. Castle, Michael Fella.
Cinematography: Ken Kelsch
Film Editor: Mayin Lo
Production design: Charles Lagola
Original Music: Joe Delia
Written by Nicholas St. John
Produced by Denis Hann, Fernando Sulichin
Directed by Abel Ferrara
By the time Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction came along,...
- 6/26/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Movie mogul Ted Field is set to stand trial next week in a legal fight over a $500,000 loan he solicited for a remake of Kickboxer, the 1989 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Central Films Media, run by Fernando Sulichin (Snowden), sued Field and Radar Pictures in 2015, and early this year added fraud claims, alleging that it issued a bridge loan for the film after Field was "extremely aggressive" in soliciting the money and that he breached their agreement by failing to repay the loan on time.
In a trial brief filed Thursday, Central Films attorney Mathew...
Central Films Media, run by Fernando Sulichin (Snowden), sued Field and Radar Pictures in 2015, and early this year added fraud claims, alleging that it issued a bridge loan for the film after Field was "extremely aggressive" in soliciting the money and that he breached their agreement by failing to repay the loan on time.
In a trial brief filed Thursday, Central Films attorney Mathew...
- 9/7/2017
- by Ashley Cullins
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oliver Stone's The Putin Interviews will be broadcast in the UK on Sky Atlantic and Now TV in a four-part special event next month. The interviews, which were produced for Showtime, will begin airing in the UK on June 13. For the series, Stone, with the help of his longtime documentary producer Fernando Sulichin, interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin more than a dozen times, most recently in February after the U.S presidential elections. Throughout the documentary…...
- 5/31/2017
- Deadline TV
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