Exclusive: As his Showtime series Ray Donovan moves to New York for its sixth season, Liev Schreiber has joined up with Matthew Stillman to launch Illuminated Content, a Gotham-based venture to develop, produce and finance TV and movie projects. Former Maven Pictures producer Hardy Justice will head up development and production at the company’s offices in New York. The aim is to generate three to four projects per year across various platforms, with Illuminated Content producing and co-financing.
The company will allow Schreiber and Stillman to accelerate the entrepreneurial ambitions they have built on separate tracks. Operating around his Ray Donovan schedule — where he is producer and has directed several pivotal episodes — Schreiber has methodically been broadening his canvas. Schreiber made his feature directorial debut on an adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer bestseller Everything is Illuminated and most recently starred, co-wrote, and produced Chuck, the indie drama about the life of Chuck Wepner,...
The company will allow Schreiber and Stillman to accelerate the entrepreneurial ambitions they have built on separate tracks. Operating around his Ray Donovan schedule — where he is producer and has directed several pivotal episodes — Schreiber has methodically been broadening his canvas. Schreiber made his feature directorial debut on an adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer bestseller Everything is Illuminated and most recently starred, co-wrote, and produced Chuck, the indie drama about the life of Chuck Wepner,...
- 9/5/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Focus takes key international markets including UK, Australia and Germany on Cannes competition entry.
Focus Features has acquired the majority of key international territories – including Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, UK, Italy and Scandinavia - to Andrea Arnold’s anticipated Cannes competition entry American Honey, which screens this weekend.
Protagonist Pictures, which is repping international rights on the film, inked the deal with Focus in Cannes. Focus will release the film via Universal Pictures International.
American Honey, written and directed by Arnold, stars Shia Labeouf, Sasha Lane and Riley Keough in the story of Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door to door.
Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia Labeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard-partying nights, law-bending days, and young love...
Focus Features has acquired the majority of key international territories – including Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, UK, Italy and Scandinavia - to Andrea Arnold’s anticipated Cannes competition entry American Honey, which screens this weekend.
Protagonist Pictures, which is repping international rights on the film, inked the deal with Focus in Cannes. Focus will release the film via Universal Pictures International.
American Honey, written and directed by Arnold, stars Shia Labeouf, Sasha Lane and Riley Keough in the story of Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door to door.
Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia Labeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard-partying nights, law-bending days, and young love...
- 5/14/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Focus takes key international markets including UK, Australia and Germany on Cannes competition entry.
Focus Features has acquired the majority of key international territories – including Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, UK, Italy and Scandinavia - to Andrea Arnold’s anticipated Cannes competition entry American Honey, which screens this weekend.
Protagonist Pictures, which is repping international rights on the film, inked the deal with Focus in Cannes. Focus will release the film via Universal Pictures International.
American Honey, written and directed by Arnold, stars Shia Labeouf, Sasha Lane and Riley Keough in the story of Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door to door.
Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia Labeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard-partying nights, law-bending days, and young love...
Focus Features has acquired the majority of key international territories – including Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, UK, Italy and Scandinavia - to Andrea Arnold’s anticipated Cannes competition entry American Honey, which screens this weekend.
Protagonist Pictures, which is repping international rights on the film, inked the deal with Focus in Cannes. Focus will release the film via Universal Pictures International.
American Honey, written and directed by Arnold, stars Shia Labeouf, Sasha Lane and Riley Keough in the story of Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door to door.
Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia Labeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard-partying nights, law-bending days, and young love...
- 5/14/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Focus takes key international markets including UK, Australia and Germany on Cannes competition entry.
Focus Features has acquired the majority of key international territories – including Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, UK, Italy and Scandinavia - to Andrea Arnold’s anticipated Cannes competition entry American Honey, which screens this weekend.
Protagonist Pictures, which is repping international rights on the film, inked the deal with Focus in Cannes. Focus will release the film via Universal Pictures International.
American Honey, written and directed by Arnold, stars Shia Labeouf, Sasha Lane and Riley Keough in the story of Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door to door.
Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia Labeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard-partying nights, law-bending days, and young love...
Focus Features has acquired the majority of key international territories – including Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, UK, Italy and Scandinavia - to Andrea Arnold’s anticipated Cannes competition entry American Honey, which screens this weekend.
Protagonist Pictures, which is repping international rights on the film, inked the deal with Focus in Cannes. Focus will release the film via Universal Pictures International.
American Honey, written and directed by Arnold, stars Shia Labeouf, Sasha Lane and Riley Keough in the story of Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door to door.
Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia Labeouf), she soon gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard-partying nights, law-bending days, and young love...
- 5/14/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Celine Rattray is leaving her post as president of Mandalay Vision to partner with Trudie Styler in the launch of Maven Pictures, a Gotham-based film development, production and financing company. The Maven partners hope to produce three to five films per year and fund development and provide equity for films. Mandalay Vision was formed in 2010 and came out of the gate with the Oscar-nominated The Kids Are All Right. Rattray was one of the producers. Rattray is bringing over her production team from Mandalay Vision, formed to produce and finance prestige pictures. Exiting staffers are Hardy Justice, who’ll be senior VP of production/development, Jenny Halper, who'll be development executiv,e and Nic Marshall, who'll be director of operations. Aside from The Kids Are All Right, Rattray and Mandalay Vision produced the Rachel Weisz-starrer The Whistleblower. Styler’s credits include the Guy Ritchie-directed Lock Stock and...
- 5/12/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Working from his student Academy award winning short, the feature version of Jesus Henry Christ centres around a young boy named Henry James Herman (Jason Spevack) who remembers everything he learns. Singled out as an exceptional child prodigy and treated like a science experiment by adults wanting to capitalize off of him, including a college professor (Michael Sheen), whose child psychology book has ruined the life of his preteen daughter Audrey (Samantha Weinstein). Toni Collette plays Henry’s mother, a woman who also had to grow up fast due to unfortunate childhood circumstances. Filmmaker Dennis Lee borrows from both the dark and the funny, using death as a recurring motif and examining how sometimes being “extraordinary” isn’t as special as it may seem. I spoke with Lee through an email interview shortly after Tribeca wrapped. Melissa Silvestri: How did you develop the story of Jesus Henry Christ? Dennis Lee...
- 5/11/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Universal Pictures has picked up the feature film rights to Sophie Kinsella's upcoming book The Undomestic Goddess for studio-based Tribeca Films to produce. Goddess, set to be published in July by the Dial Press, a division of Random House, is about an attorney who is fired on the day she is to be made partner at her firm and then flees to London, where she winds up getting a job as a maid. Kinsella is a prominent author in the genre known as "chick lit," having penned the successful Confessions of a Shopaholic series of books as well as Can You Keep a Secret? Jane Rosenthal will produce via Tribeca. The company's Hardy Justice brought the book into the studio, where it will be overseen by senior vp production Holly Bario and production executive Kristin Lowe. Kinsella was repped by CAA, Valerie Hoskins Associates and Lucas Alexander Whitley in the deal.
- 3/10/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- This year's Tribeca Film Festival will close with Lions Gate Films' upcoming period piece Stage Beauty -- starring Billy Crudup, Claire Danes and Rupert Everett -- to be screened May 8 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. The screening will mark a world premiere for Beauty, directed by Richard Eyre and based on a real-life actor in 1660s London who made a successful career portraying female characters but whose livelihood was threatened when men were banned from playing women onstage. The move to bring Beauty to the Tribeca fest marks a homecoming of sorts for the film: Tribeca fest founders Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro are the film's producers, along with Hardy Justice. Jeffrey Hatcher penned the screenplay, based on his own stage play, and Eyre, Michael Kuhn, James Stern, Rachel Cohen and Amir Malin executive produced Beauty. The cast also features Ben Chaplin, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Griffiths and Zoe Tapper. Beauty was originally on the Artisan Entertainment slate before the company's takeover by Lions Gate. The film is slated to hit theaters in October. This year's Tribeca Film Festival will run May 1-9 in various locations throughout Lower Manhattan.
- 4/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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