Dark Harvest: "In a cursed town, the annual harvest becomes a brutal battle for survival. On Halloween 1963, Sawtooth Jack, a terrifying legend, rises from the cornfields, threatening the town's children. Groups of boys unite to defeat the murderous scarecrow before midnight. Richie, a rebellious outcast, joins the run, motivated by his brother's previous victory. As the hunt progresses, Richie makes a shocking discovery and faces a pivotal choice to break the relentless cycle."
Directed By: David Slade Screenplay By: Michael Gilio Based on the Novel by: Norman Partridge Produced By: Matt Tolmach, p.g.a., David Manpearl, p.g.a. Executive Producers: Pamela Hirsch, Michael Gilio Music By: Brian Reitzell Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer, Elizabeth Reaser with Jeremy Davies
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Killher: "Mattie and her three besties--Eddie, Jess, and Rae--head into the woods for a weekend to plan Mattie's upcoming wedding and bachelorette party.
Directed By: David Slade Screenplay By: Michael Gilio Based on the Novel by: Norman Partridge Produced By: Matt Tolmach, p.g.a., David Manpearl, p.g.a. Executive Producers: Pamela Hirsch, Michael Gilio Music By: Brian Reitzell Cast: Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer, Elizabeth Reaser with Jeremy Davies
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Killher: "Mattie and her three besties--Eddie, Jess, and Rae--head into the woods for a weekend to plan Mattie's upcoming wedding and bachelorette party.
- 9/13/2023
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
A new urban legend comes to life in the new trailer for Dark Harvest. The trailer starts with the ominous, almost Grimm fairy tale-esque narration that says, “It’s Halloween. You know what that means. Old Sawtooth Jack is gonna rise from the cornfields. It’s gotta be stopped. Kill or be killed.” David Slade returns to a grittier tone after the Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night director took on one of the chapters in the Twilight franchise, helming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The director also returns to features after Slade tried his hand at television with Breaking Bad and Black Mirror. He also once set to make a series, Red Bird Lane, with Crispin Glover and Susan Sarandon until Max (HBO Max at the time) opted not to continue with it.
Slade has now adapted Norman Partridge’s Halloween-themed novel (you can pick up a copy of...
Slade has now adapted Norman Partridge’s Halloween-themed novel (you can pick up a copy of...
- 9/13/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Well, the Directors Guild of America has had their say this evening. A few minutes ago, Sam Mendes was awarded the top prize from the DGA, wrapping up an Academy Award win in the process. Mark it down, folks. Mendes will win his second Oscar in Best Director for 1917, coming up the middle in the latter stages of the awards season. This Directors Guild win makes it all but a certainty. Read on for the rest of the results, which also included the Best First Time Feature prize going to Alma Har’el for Honey Boy. Congrats to all of the winners! Here are all of the DGA results: Theatrical Feature Film Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite” (Neon) Mr. Bong’s Directorial Team: Unit Production Manager: Park Min Chul First Assistant Director: Kim Seong Sik Winner: Sam Mendes, “1917” (Universal Pictures) Mr. Mendes’s Directorial Team: Unit Production Managers: Callum McDougall, Hannah Godwin...
- 1/26/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
In case you thought it was going to be a quiet Saturday, think again. Tonight is one of the bigger precursor days of the season, with several awards being given out that could tangibly impact the Oscar race. Without question, Academy Award voters will be paying attention, as American Society of Cinematographers Awards, the Annie Awards, the Cinema Audio Society Awards, the USC Scripter Awards, and of course the Directors Guild of America Awards are being announced. Look for the results to be posted later today here on the site, but for the moment, just settle in and expect an evening that shapes the race in its final days… As a reminder, here are the nominees at these precursors: Directors Guild Of America Awards The nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Theatrical Feature Film For 2019 are (in alphabetical order): Bong Joon Ho Parasite (Neon) Mr. Bong’s Directorial Team:...
- 1/25/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Directors Guild of America has nominated Bong Joon Ho for “Parasite,” Sam Mendes for “1917,” Martin Scorsese for “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and Taika Waititi for “Jojo Rabbit.”
The DGAs are seen as a stepping stone to the Oscars, where the last six best director winners also went home with an Academy Award. Last year, “Roma” filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón scored the feature film directing award, beating out Bradley Cooper for “A Star Is Born,” Spike Lee for “BlacKkKlansman,” Adam McKay for “Vice,” and Peter Farrelly for “Green Book.”
Three female filmmakers — Mati Diop for “Atlantics,” Alma Ha’rel for “Honey Boy” and Melina Matsoukas for “Queen & Slim” — were recognized by the Directors Guild in the first-time feature film award category differing from the Golden Globe Awards and the BAFTA Awards, which both failed to nominate female directors this year.
Some surprise...
The DGAs are seen as a stepping stone to the Oscars, where the last six best director winners also went home with an Academy Award. Last year, “Roma” filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón scored the feature film directing award, beating out Bradley Cooper for “A Star Is Born,” Spike Lee for “BlacKkKlansman,” Adam McKay for “Vice,” and Peter Farrelly for “Green Book.”
Three female filmmakers — Mati Diop for “Atlantics,” Alma Ha’rel for “Honey Boy” and Melina Matsoukas for “Queen & Slim” — were recognized by the Directors Guild in the first-time feature film award category differing from the Golden Globe Awards and the BAFTA Awards, which both failed to nominate female directors this year.
Some surprise...
- 1/7/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Annnd … action! The Directors Guild has raised the curtain on the film nominees for its 72nd annual DGA Awards.
Vying for the marquee Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film prize are Bong Joon Ho (Parasite), newly minted Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes (1917), Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) and Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit).
“In a year full of excellent films, DGA members have chosen an extraordinary group of filmmakers to nominate for this year’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film Award,” Directors Guild President Thomas Schlamme said. “These directors represent the highest standard of filmmaking, and their films are a testament to innovative storytelling, artistic achievement and the passion that filmmakers share with their audiences. Being nominated by their peers is what makes this award particularly meaningful for directors, and I congratulate all of the nominees for their outstanding work.”
Notably absent...
Vying for the marquee Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film prize are Bong Joon Ho (Parasite), newly minted Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes (1917), Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) and Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit).
“In a year full of excellent films, DGA members have chosen an extraordinary group of filmmakers to nominate for this year’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film Award,” Directors Guild President Thomas Schlamme said. “These directors represent the highest standard of filmmaking, and their films are a testament to innovative storytelling, artistic achievement and the passion that filmmakers share with their audiences. Being nominated by their peers is what makes this award particularly meaningful for directors, and I congratulate all of the nominees for their outstanding work.”
Notably absent...
- 1/7/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The Directors Guild of America’s feature-film nominations contain a lineup of acknowledged masters including Martin Scorsese for “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino for “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” Sam Mendes for “1917” and Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho for “Parasite.”
Taika Waititi may not have been mentioned in their company when he was best known for making comedies and horror flicks like “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” but he joined the ranks of those other directors on Tuesday morning when the Directors Guild nominated him for “Jojo Rabbit.”
But the slate of nominees also means that the DGA will face some of the same questions that were aimed at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association when it nominated an all-male slate of directors for the Golden Globe.
Also Read: Taika Waititi Says He Didn't Even Try to Pitch Studios on His WWII Comedy 'Jojo Rabbit...
Taika Waititi may not have been mentioned in their company when he was best known for making comedies and horror flicks like “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” but he joined the ranks of those other directors on Tuesday morning when the Directors Guild nominated him for “Jojo Rabbit.”
But the slate of nominees also means that the DGA will face some of the same questions that were aimed at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association when it nominated an all-male slate of directors for the Golden Globe.
Also Read: Taika Waititi Says He Didn't Even Try to Pitch Studios on His WWII Comedy 'Jojo Rabbit...
- 1/7/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Universal to release in Us on Nov. 27. AFI Fest 2019 runs Nov. 14-21.
The 33rd edition of AFI Fest presented by Audi will open on Nov. 14 with the world premiere of Makeready and Universal Pictures’ Queen & Slim starring Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith.
Melina Matsoukas (AFI Class of 2005) makes her feature directorial debut from a screenplay by Emmy winner Lena Waithe based on a romantic story by Waithe and James Frey that tackles racism and violence.
Kaluuya and Turner-Smith play a black couple on a first date whose evening transforms their lives when they are pulled over for a traffic infraction.
The 33rd edition of AFI Fest presented by Audi will open on Nov. 14 with the world premiere of Makeready and Universal Pictures’ Queen & Slim starring Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith.
Melina Matsoukas (AFI Class of 2005) makes her feature directorial debut from a screenplay by Emmy winner Lena Waithe based on a romantic story by Waithe and James Frey that tackles racism and violence.
Kaluuya and Turner-Smith play a black couple on a first date whose evening transforms their lives when they are pulled over for a traffic infraction.
- 8/27/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
“What if I told you I could get you to fall in love with me…?”
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet—and fall for each other—over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love? With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation as fiercely as she’s fighting her budding feelings for Daniel, who is working just as hard to convince her they are destined to be together. A modern-day story about finding love against all odds, “The Sun Is Also a Star” explores whether our lives...
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet—and fall for each other—over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love? With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation as fiercely as she’s fighting her budding feelings for Daniel, who is working just as hard to convince her they are destined to be together. A modern-day story about finding love against all odds, “The Sun Is Also a Star” explores whether our lives...
- 5/1/2019
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“What does America mean to you?” If it’s a tale of star-crossed young love threatened by a looming deportation from said Beacon of Liberty, check out the first trailer for The Sun Is Also a Star, featuring Grown-ish‘s Yara Shahidi and Riverdale‘s Charles Melton.
Here’s the logline: College-bound romantic Daniel Bae (Melton) and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley (Shadihi) meet — and fall for each other — on one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love? With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation as fiercely as she’s fighting her budding feelings for Daniel,...
Here’s the logline: College-bound romantic Daniel Bae (Melton) and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley (Shadihi) meet — and fall for each other — on one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love? With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation as fiercely as she’s fighting her budding feelings for Daniel,...
- 2/6/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Sarah Paulson has landed the starring role in Amazon Studios' serial-killer drama Lost Girls.
Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?) is making her narrative-film debut with the film, which is based on investigative reporter Robert Kolker's 2013 nonfiction book of the same name.
Michael Werwie wrote the adaptation, which centers on a mother searching for her missing daughter in Long Island, N.Y. She makes a horrifying discovery in the woods, where the murdered bodies of four girls have been dumped.
Kevin McCormick and David Kennedy are producing via their Langley Park production banner. Pamela Hirsch is...
Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?) is making her narrative-film debut with the film, which is based on investigative reporter Robert Kolker's 2013 nonfiction book of the same name.
Michael Werwie wrote the adaptation, which centers on a mother searching for her missing daughter in Long Island, N.Y. She makes a horrifying discovery in the woods, where the murdered bodies of four girls have been dumped.
Kevin McCormick and David Kennedy are producing via their Langley Park production banner. Pamela Hirsch is...
- 2/1/2017
- by Rebecca Ford,Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Project directed by The Diary Of A Teenage Girl helmer Marielle Heller.
Fox Searchlight has begun principal photography in New York on Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant (both pictured), Jane Curtin, Dolly Wells, Anna Deavere Smith and Jennifer Westfeldt.
Marielle Heller directs from a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the novel of the same name by Lee Israel.
Archer Gray president of production Anne Carey, Archer Gray founder Amy Nauiokas and David Yarnell produce and Pamela Hirsch, Jawal Nga and Bob Balaban serve as executive producers.
The film recounts the life of celebrity biographer Israel who turns to deception when she is no longer in style.
The Latin America Training Center will host a three-day entertainment, business and legal affairs programme in Miami from March 29-April 1. The event will cover copyright in the age of digital music, intellectual property, virtual reality, production, distribution...
Fox Searchlight has begun principal photography in New York on Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant (both pictured), Jane Curtin, Dolly Wells, Anna Deavere Smith and Jennifer Westfeldt.
Marielle Heller directs from a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the novel of the same name by Lee Israel.
Archer Gray president of production Anne Carey, Archer Gray founder Amy Nauiokas and David Yarnell produce and Pamela Hirsch, Jawal Nga and Bob Balaban serve as executive producers.
The film recounts the life of celebrity biographer Israel who turns to deception when she is no longer in style.
The Latin America Training Center will host a three-day entertainment, business and legal affairs programme in Miami from March 29-April 1. The event will cover copyright in the age of digital music, intellectual property, virtual reality, production, distribution...
- 1/30/2017
- ScreenDaily
Fox Searchlight has begun principal photography in New York on Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy (pictured in Spy), Richard E Grant, Jane Curtin, Dolly Wells, Anna Deavere Smith and Jennifer Westfeldt.
Marielle Heller directs from a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the novel of the same name by Lee Israel.
Archer Gray president of production Anne Carey, Archer Gray founder Amy Nauiokas and David Yarnell produce and Pamela Hirsch, Jawal Nga and Bob Balaban serve as executive producers.
The film recounts the life of celebrity biographer Israel who turns to deception when she is no longer in style.
The Latin America Training Center will host a three-day entertainment, business and legal affairs programme in Miami from March 29-April 1. The event will cover copyright in the age of digital music, intellectual property, virtual reality, production, distribution and licensing of new media content in Latin America, among other topics...
Marielle Heller directs from a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the novel of the same name by Lee Israel.
Archer Gray president of production Anne Carey, Archer Gray founder Amy Nauiokas and David Yarnell produce and Pamela Hirsch, Jawal Nga and Bob Balaban serve as executive producers.
The film recounts the life of celebrity biographer Israel who turns to deception when she is no longer in style.
The Latin America Training Center will host a three-day entertainment, business and legal affairs programme in Miami from March 29-April 1. The event will cover copyright in the age of digital music, intellectual property, virtual reality, production, distribution and licensing of new media content in Latin America, among other topics...
- 1/30/2017
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures Classics has pounced on a hot awards prospect, acquiring Us rights and all available territories on Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic and feature directorial debut.
Miles Ahead tells the story of a few lost days in the life of Davis as he bursts out of his silent period, conspires with a Rolling Stone writer to steal back his music and relives the years he had with his great love, Frances Taylor.
Spc tends to premiere its choice films in Telluride, although the film’s official world premiere has already been set for October 10 as the New York Film Festival closing night gala.
Steven Baigelman and Cheadle co-wrote and Cheadle stars alongside Ewan McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michael Stuhlbarg and Keith Stanfield.
Cheadle, Lenore Zerman, Pamela Hirsch, Daniel Wagner, Robert Ogden Barnum, Darryl Porter and Vince Wilburn, Jr produced, while Mark Amin, Baigelman, Jonathan Gardner, Davis’ son Erin Davis and daughter Cheryl Davis, serve as executive...
Miles Ahead tells the story of a few lost days in the life of Davis as he bursts out of his silent period, conspires with a Rolling Stone writer to steal back his music and relives the years he had with his great love, Frances Taylor.
Spc tends to premiere its choice films in Telluride, although the film’s official world premiere has already been set for October 10 as the New York Film Festival closing night gala.
Steven Baigelman and Cheadle co-wrote and Cheadle stars alongside Ewan McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michael Stuhlbarg and Keith Stanfield.
Cheadle, Lenore Zerman, Pamela Hirsch, Daniel Wagner, Robert Ogden Barnum, Darryl Porter and Vince Wilburn, Jr produced, while Mark Amin, Baigelman, Jonathan Gardner, Davis’ son Erin Davis and daughter Cheryl Davis, serve as executive...
- 8/5/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The world premiere of Don Cheadle’s directorial debut will close the 53rd New York Film Festival on October 11.
Miles Ahead bookends the festival with Robert Zemeckis’ previously announced opener The Walk.
Daniel Wagner’s BiFrost Pictures financed the project in association with Ingenious and Sobini Films and UTA packaged and represents Us rights to the film, which chronicles the life of the jazz pioneer in the late 1970s in Manhattan as he deals with sycophants, industry executives, career highs and lows and memories of the love of his life, Frances Taylor.
Cheadle stars opposite Emayatzy Corinealdi and Ewan McGregor and also produced with Pamela Hirsch, Lenore Zeman, Daniel Wagner, Robert Barnum, Vince Willburn and Daryl Porter. Im Global handled international sales.
“I admire Don’s film because of all the intelligent decisions he’s made about how to deal with Miles, but I was moved – deeply moved – by Miles Ahead for other reasons,” said [link=nm...
Miles Ahead bookends the festival with Robert Zemeckis’ previously announced opener The Walk.
Daniel Wagner’s BiFrost Pictures financed the project in association with Ingenious and Sobini Films and UTA packaged and represents Us rights to the film, which chronicles the life of the jazz pioneer in the late 1970s in Manhattan as he deals with sycophants, industry executives, career highs and lows and memories of the love of his life, Frances Taylor.
Cheadle stars opposite Emayatzy Corinealdi and Ewan McGregor and also produced with Pamela Hirsch, Lenore Zeman, Daniel Wagner, Robert Barnum, Vince Willburn and Daryl Porter. Im Global handled international sales.
“I admire Don’s film because of all the intelligent decisions he’s made about how to deal with Miles, but I was moved – deeply moved – by Miles Ahead for other reasons,” said [link=nm...
- 7/23/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
While putting my early Oscar predictions together I included Don Cheadle's directorial debut Miles Ahead, in which he not only directs but stars in the life story of Miles Davis, on my Best Actor (Cheadle) and Best Supporting Actress (Emayatzy Corinealdi) charts, but not on the Best Picture charts because the film is still without a domestic distributor and therefore without a release date and I didn't want to get too far ahead of myself. Well, the film is now set to premiere at the 53rd New York Film Festival as the closing night feature, which may be just the thing it needs to get a little buzz going. The announcement also comes with the following information regarding the story the film set out to tell: Miles Davis was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. And how do you make a movie about himc You get...
- 7/22/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Screen Media Films has acquired U.S. rights to Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s “Ten Thousand Saints,” which stars Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Emily Mortimer, Julianne Nicholson, Emile Hirsch and Ethan Hawke.
“Ten Thousand Saints” recently premiered at Sundance and Screen Media Films will release the movie in late summer 2015 with a 25-market theatrical and day-and-date VOD release.
After certain events lead Jude (Butterfield) to withdraw from school and his family, his mother sends him to live with his estranged pot-dealing father (Hawke) in New York City. There, in the crime-riddled East Village of the late 1980’s, Jude...
“Ten Thousand Saints” recently premiered at Sundance and Screen Media Films will release the movie in late summer 2015 with a 25-market theatrical and day-and-date VOD release.
After certain events lead Jude (Butterfield) to withdraw from school and his family, his mother sends him to live with his estranged pot-dealing father (Hawke) in New York City. There, in the crime-riddled East Village of the late 1980’s, Jude...
- 1/30/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, and Zoe Saldana will star in BiFrost Pictures’ Kill The Trumpet Player, it was announced today.
Kill The Trumpet Player tells the story of a few dangerous days in the life of Miles Davis, the virtuoso, fighter and genius, as he bursts out of his silent period and conspires with a Rolling Stone writer (McGregor) to steal back his music.
Cheadle will play Davis and will make his feature directorial debut from a script co-written with Steven Baigelman.
BiFrost principal Daniel Wagner is financing and will produce the project along with Robert Ogden Barnum, Cheadle and Lenore Zerman for their Crescendo Productions banner, Darryl Porter, and Vince Wilburn Jr. Executive producers are Pamela Hirsch, Cheryl Davis, Erin Davis, Cassian Elwes and Baigelman. Herbie Hancock, a legend in his own right and close collaborator of Davis, will participate in the project as well. The project was packaged...
Kill The Trumpet Player tells the story of a few dangerous days in the life of Miles Davis, the virtuoso, fighter and genius, as he bursts out of his silent period and conspires with a Rolling Stone writer (McGregor) to steal back his music.
Cheadle will play Davis and will make his feature directorial debut from a script co-written with Steven Baigelman.
BiFrost principal Daniel Wagner is financing and will produce the project along with Robert Ogden Barnum, Cheadle and Lenore Zerman for their Crescendo Productions banner, Darryl Porter, and Vince Wilburn Jr. Executive producers are Pamela Hirsch, Cheryl Davis, Erin Davis, Cassian Elwes and Baigelman. Herbie Hancock, a legend in his own right and close collaborator of Davis, will participate in the project as well. The project was packaged...
- 11/13/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Updated: The two actors will star opposite Cheadle, who will make his feature directorial debut with "Kill the Trumpet Player."
Ewan McGregor and Zoe Saldana have joined Don Cheadle's Miles Davis biopic Kill the Trumpet Player.
Kill the Trumpet Player centers on a few dangerous days in the life of Miles Davis (Cheadle), as he bursts out of his silent period and conspires with a Rolling Stone writer (McGregor) to steal back his music. Saldana will play Frances Davis, Miles' former wife.
Cheadle will make his feature directorial debut from a screenplay co-written by Steven Baigelman.
BiFrost's Daniel Wagner is financing and will produce with Robert Ogden Barnum, Cheadle and Lenore Zerman for Crescendo Productions, Darryl Porter and Vince Wilburn Jr. Executive producers are Pamela Hirsch, Cheryl Davis, Erin Davis, Cassian Elwes and Baigelman. Musician Herbie Hancock, a Davis collaborator, will also participate.
"Don is one of our generation's greatest actors,...
Ewan McGregor and Zoe Saldana have joined Don Cheadle's Miles Davis biopic Kill the Trumpet Player.
Kill the Trumpet Player centers on a few dangerous days in the life of Miles Davis (Cheadle), as he bursts out of his silent period and conspires with a Rolling Stone writer (McGregor) to steal back his music. Saldana will play Frances Davis, Miles' former wife.
Cheadle will make his feature directorial debut from a screenplay co-written by Steven Baigelman.
BiFrost's Daniel Wagner is financing and will produce with Robert Ogden Barnum, Cheadle and Lenore Zerman for Crescendo Productions, Darryl Porter and Vince Wilburn Jr. Executive producers are Pamela Hirsch, Cheryl Davis, Erin Davis, Cassian Elwes and Baigelman. Musician Herbie Hancock, a Davis collaborator, will also participate.
"Don is one of our generation's greatest actors,...
- 11/13/2013
- by Philiana Ng
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here are a few interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles.
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing – Nicole Kidman plans to produce and star in a remake of Alan Pakula's lesser-known love story about a young American abroad who strikes up a May-December romance with a British tourist. The film holds a special place in the actress' heart, as it also inspired hubby Keith Urban's hit album and tour, Love and Pain and the Whole Crazy Thing.
Annie – It's definitely not a hard-knock life for Will Smith's kids. The mega-star who helped kick start young Jaden Smith's movie career with last year's Karate Kid now has plans to produce an adaptation of the popular Broadway musical about Little Orphan Annie for his daughter Willow.
Apostles of Infinite Love – It's been a busy week for actor-filmmaker Richard Ayoade, who was recently tapped to adapt a feature version of Dostoevsky's The Double and who's debut film Submarine is currently screening at Sundance. Ayoade is also eying a directing gig for this family drama written by Victoria Strouse about three siblings trying to stop their youngest sister from a cult. Ben Stiller's producing via his Red Hour Films.
Sex on the Moon – Hot off their Golden Globe win for The Social Network, producers Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti are now going for the "Moon." The trio have optioned Ben Mezrich's upcoming nonfiction book about a NASA employee who convinces his intern girlfriend to steal moon rocks from the space program's heavily-secured headquarters.
Bigger Than Jesus – New York, I Love You producer Pamela Hirsch and her big apple-based Birdland Film have cast veteran Irish thesp Ciaran Hinds in Terry Loane's indie flick about a small time crook who recruits a group of monks to win an international singing contest so that he can use the money to pay off a Dublin mobster.
If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing – Nicole Kidman plans to produce and star in a remake of Alan Pakula's lesser-known love story about a young American abroad who strikes up a May-December romance with a British tourist. The film holds a special place in the actress' heart, as it also inspired hubby Keith Urban's hit album and tour, Love and Pain and the Whole Crazy Thing.
Annie – It's definitely not a hard-knock life for Will Smith's kids. The mega-star who helped kick start young Jaden Smith's movie career with last year's Karate Kid now has plans to produce an adaptation of the popular Broadway musical about Little Orphan Annie for his daughter Willow.
Apostles of Infinite Love – It's been a busy week for actor-filmmaker Richard Ayoade, who was recently tapped to adapt a feature version of Dostoevsky's The Double and who's debut film Submarine is currently screening at Sundance. Ayoade is also eying a directing gig for this family drama written by Victoria Strouse about three siblings trying to stop their youngest sister from a cult. Ben Stiller's producing via his Red Hour Films.
Sex on the Moon – Hot off their Golden Globe win for The Social Network, producers Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti are now going for the "Moon." The trio have optioned Ben Mezrich's upcoming nonfiction book about a NASA employee who convinces his intern girlfriend to steal moon rocks from the space program's heavily-secured headquarters.
Bigger Than Jesus – New York, I Love You producer Pamela Hirsch and her big apple-based Birdland Film have cast veteran Irish thesp Ciaran Hinds in Terry Loane's indie flick about a small time crook who recruits a group of monks to win an international singing contest so that he can use the money to pay off a Dublin mobster.
If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.
- 1/22/2011
- by Eric Greene
- IMDbPro News
Venue: Tribeca Film Festival (Plum Pictures) NEW YORK -- One can't help wondering if the agonies surrounding teenage sexual awakening will ever cease to mesmerize filmmakers.
The latest addition to the genre, "Bart Got a Room", got a rapturous response at the Tribeca Film Festival -- mainly from the director's extended family and friends who packed the premiere screening. That response probably will not be duplicated out in the real world, but "Bart" has enough laughs to snare a distributor and decent-sized audiences.
The premise could hardly be simpler. Time is running out, and Danny Stein (Steven Kaplan) still does not have a date for the prom. Danny is reluctant to invite his fallback date, his best friend Camille (Alia Shawkat), but most of his other prospects evaporate as the big night approaches. Danny is even forced to solicit the help of his divorced parents (William H. Macy, Cheryl Hines), though neither of them has much stored wisdom with regard to romantic relationships.
This familiar melange trots out adolescent sex jokes along with dysfunctional family jokes, and some of them are even funny, though the tone established by first-time writer-director Brian Hecker is much too broad.
The young actors help keep the movie afloat. Kaplan has innate charm, and Shawkat conveys just the right mixture of gawkiness and nascent self-assurance. Although it's a stretch to cast Macy and Hines as neurotic Jewish parents, they both score some belly laughs, and the supporting cast is deft. Jennifer Tilly has a brief but hilarious cameo as one of Macy's Internet dates.
Hecker makes good use of the south Florida locations, and the song selection -- including many Big Band favorites -- is winning. Hecker has said that the film was inspired by his own adolescent experiences, and while he is not the first filmmaker to mine his own teen crises for comedy, he would be well advised to move a little further afield if he wants to sustain a career.
CAST: Steven Kaplan, William H. Macy, Cheryl Hines, Alia Shawkat. SCREENWRITER-DIRECTOR: Brian Hecker. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Pamela Hirsch, Stephen Benedek, Ed Hart, Bruce Lunsford, Reagan Silber, Dina Burke, Mario Fallone, Michael Lafetra, Randy Simon.
No MPAA rating, 80 minutes.
The latest addition to the genre, "Bart Got a Room", got a rapturous response at the Tribeca Film Festival -- mainly from the director's extended family and friends who packed the premiere screening. That response probably will not be duplicated out in the real world, but "Bart" has enough laughs to snare a distributor and decent-sized audiences.
The premise could hardly be simpler. Time is running out, and Danny Stein (Steven Kaplan) still does not have a date for the prom. Danny is reluctant to invite his fallback date, his best friend Camille (Alia Shawkat), but most of his other prospects evaporate as the big night approaches. Danny is even forced to solicit the help of his divorced parents (William H. Macy, Cheryl Hines), though neither of them has much stored wisdom with regard to romantic relationships.
This familiar melange trots out adolescent sex jokes along with dysfunctional family jokes, and some of them are even funny, though the tone established by first-time writer-director Brian Hecker is much too broad.
The young actors help keep the movie afloat. Kaplan has innate charm, and Shawkat conveys just the right mixture of gawkiness and nascent self-assurance. Although it's a stretch to cast Macy and Hines as neurotic Jewish parents, they both score some belly laughs, and the supporting cast is deft. Jennifer Tilly has a brief but hilarious cameo as one of Macy's Internet dates.
Hecker makes good use of the south Florida locations, and the song selection -- including many Big Band favorites -- is winning. Hecker has said that the film was inspired by his own adolescent experiences, and while he is not the first filmmaker to mine his own teen crises for comedy, he would be well advised to move a little further afield if he wants to sustain a career.
CAST: Steven Kaplan, William H. Macy, Cheryl Hines, Alia Shawkat. SCREENWRITER-DIRECTOR: Brian Hecker. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Pamela Hirsch, Stephen Benedek, Ed Hart, Bruce Lunsford, Reagan Silber, Dina Burke, Mario Fallone, Michael Lafetra, Randy Simon.
No MPAA rating, 80 minutes.
- 4/29/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- Sundance was strewn with the remains of dysfunctional families this year, and perhaps none was more dysfunctional than the characters in Craig Lucas' "Birds of America". But quirkiness, as it is here, is often just an excuse for eccentric behavior with no real explanation. It's an opportunity for goofy people to parade an assortment of ticks and mannerisms that an audience will presumably find amusing. "Birds of America", unfortunately, is not very convincing or funny, and will have a hard time landing in theaters.
Set in Cheever country of upper-middle class suburban Connecticut, the story involves older brother Morrie (Matthew Perry) and the two siblings, Jay (Ben Foster) and Ida (Ginnifer Goodwin), he raised after his father jumped out of the window of the family house and killed himself. Now a grown up physics professor living with his wife (Lauren Graham), Morrie has never gotten over the trauma and a life of being responsible for others.
So naturally when Jay, a borderline personality who prefers living by himself in the woods, is almost run over by a car after lying down in the street, it's Big Brother to the rescue. And when Ida, a struggling photographer getting over a bad breakup, comes apart, she goes home too.
Morrie craves nothing more than an orderly life, and his highest goal is to be accepted by his neighbor (Gary Wilmes), who happens to be his boss, and his prissy wife (Hilary Swank), and secure the ultimate symbol of stability: tenure. But having his unstable family under the same roof again upsets everything, and slowly the fabric of Morrie's life starts to unravel.
In predictable film fashion, a sign that things are coming apart is the mandatory pot smoking scene in which Morrie temporarily lets go. And as his life becomes more unsettled, he does things like rollerblading to work, right into his classroom. And the climax of his rebellion is a grand gesture on his neighbor's lawn. No matter that it's not anything anyone would ever do in real life.
The problem here is that the characters' actions don't have the ring of authenticity and seem more designed to get a laugh or tug at the heartstrings, without earning the emotion. You don't really feel anything about these people.
It's not the performances that fail; Perry is actually quite appealing in a low-key way. It's more the premise by writer Elyse Freidman that seems lacking. The film is loaded with bird imagery, and Morrie's father did own a copy of the original Audubon engravings, but the bird connection doesn't resonate. The human species observed here just doesn't get off the ground.
BIRDS OF AMERICA
Plum Pictures and Ideal Partners
Credits:
Director: Craig Lucas
Writer: Elyse Friedman
Producers: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Jana Edelbaum, Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray
Executive producers: John Allen, Scott Hanson, Pamela Hirsch, Ed Hart, Bruce Lunsford, Eric Goldman
Director of cinematography: Yaron Orbach
Production designer: John Nyomarkay
Music: Ahrin Mishan
Costumes: Heidi Bivens
Editor: Eric Kissack
Cast:
Morrie: Matthew Perry
Betty: Lauren Graham
Jay: Ben Foster
Ida: Ginnifer Goodwin
Laura: Hilary Swank
Paul: Gary Wilmes
Gillian: Zoe Kravitz
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- Sundance was strewn with the remains of dysfunctional families this year, and perhaps none was more dysfunctional than the characters in Craig Lucas' "Birds of America". But quirkiness, as it is here, is often just an excuse for eccentric behavior with no real explanation. It's an opportunity for goofy people to parade an assortment of ticks and mannerisms that an audience will presumably find amusing. "Birds of America", unfortunately, is not very convincing or funny, and will have a hard time landing in theaters.
Set in Cheever country of upper-middle class suburban Connecticut, the story involves older brother Morrie (Matthew Perry) and the two siblings, Jay (Ben Foster) and Ida (Ginnifer Goodwin), he raised after his father jumped out of the window of the family house and killed himself. Now a grown up physics professor living with his wife (Lauren Graham), Morrie has never gotten over the trauma and a life of being responsible for others.
So naturally when Jay, a borderline personality who prefers living by himself in the woods, is almost run over by a car after lying down in the street, it's Big Brother to the rescue. And when Ida, a struggling photographer getting over a bad breakup, comes apart, she goes home too.
Morrie craves nothing more than an orderly life, and his highest goal is to be accepted by his neighbor (Gary Wilmes), who happens to be his boss, and his prissy wife (Hilary Swank), and secure the ultimate symbol of stability: tenure. But having his unstable family under the same roof again upsets everything, and slowly the fabric of Morrie's life starts to unravel.
In predictable film fashion, a sign that things are coming apart is the mandatory pot smoking scene in which Morrie temporarily lets go. And as his life becomes more unsettled, he does things like rollerblading to work, right into his classroom. And the climax of his rebellion is a grand gesture on his neighbor's lawn. No matter that it's not anything anyone would ever do in real life.
The problem here is that the characters' actions don't have the ring of authenticity and seem more designed to get a laugh or tug at the heartstrings, without earning the emotion. You don't really feel anything about these people.
It's not the performances that fail; Perry is actually quite appealing in a low-key way. It's more the premise by writer Elyse Freidman that seems lacking. The film is loaded with bird imagery, and Morrie's father did own a copy of the original Audubon engravings, but the bird connection doesn't resonate. The human species observed here just doesn't get off the ground.
BIRDS OF AMERICA
Plum Pictures and Ideal Partners
Credits:
Director: Craig Lucas
Writer: Elyse Friedman
Producers: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Jana Edelbaum, Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray
Executive producers: John Allen, Scott Hanson, Pamela Hirsch, Ed Hart, Bruce Lunsford, Eric Goldman
Director of cinematography: Yaron Orbach
Production designer: John Nyomarkay
Music: Ahrin Mishan
Costumes: Heidi Bivens
Editor: Eric Kissack
Cast:
Morrie: Matthew Perry
Betty: Lauren Graham
Jay: Ben Foster
Ida: Ginnifer Goodwin
Laura: Hilary Swank
Paul: Gary Wilmes
Gillian: Zoe Kravitz
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- In Diminished Capacity, actor-turned-first-time director Terry Kinney has a solid premise and two intriguing characters but only the lamest story to tell. Consequently, the film plays like diminished comedy.
The extremely talented Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda play a respective nephew and uncle, each struggling with memory loss, thereby creating a team Broderick calls, in one of the movie's few witty lines, Slow and slower. But yielding to the story demands of a novel by Sherwood Kiraly (who co-authored the script), these two are thrust into the world of baseball cards and sports memorabilia shows, an arcane and, as it works out, mirthless arena for these potentially compelling characters.
The project from Steppenwolf Films, a division of the famed Chicago theater company, did attract a stellar cast including Virginia Madsen, Bobby Cannavale and the great Lois Smith. But from the start, the film fails to get any comic traction. Boxoffice appeal is limited to those eager to see Broderick and Alda in unusual roles -- and possibly Chicago Cubs fans whose long-suffering fate is the butt of many jokes.
A head trauma has short-circuited the brain of Chicago journalist Cooper (Broderick). He must write notes to himself to aid his memory, and his newspaper job is tenuous as best. One problem here is that the film lacks the courage to really deal with "dimcap" symptoms. The film's star still gets his share of funny lines, he remembers everything he needs to and this supposedly scrambled memory plays no real role here as it did in a film like Memento.
Cooper's mom (Smith) summons him to his small Missouri hometown to help her settle Uncle Rollie (Alda), who shows signs of senile dementia. Here, too, you get not the pain and misery of an ailing elder -- as with the mentally fogged father in The Savages -- but a comically pixilated oldster obsessed about drying socks and tying baited fishing lines to typewriter keys so the fish can write poetry.
One of Uncle Rollie's obsessions proves downright intelligent. He possesses a rare baseball card, dating back to the last Cubs' World Championship, that is worth a fortune. So Slow and Slower take off for a Chicago baseball memorabilia show to sell the card. Along for the ride are Cooper's high school sweetheart, Charlotte (Madsen), who is now divorced and available again, and her son, Dillon (Jimmy Bennett).
All the characters that converge on this convention center seemingly suffer from "dimcap." The town drunk (Jim True-Frost), who follows the card-sellers, Cooper's Chicago buddy (comic Louis C.K.), a rabid Cubs fan (Dylan Baker) and a crooked dealer (Cannavale) are nothing more than cartoons. The theft of the card, a duplicate card and a few badly staged chases and fights are slapstick at its worst.
Alda actually is kind of interesting as the mentally unstable uncle, but Broderick appears to be sleepwalking. Madsen has little to do, and everyone else plays things far too broadly.
Cubs fans deserve a better tribute than this, but then again they are long suffering.
DIMINISHED CAPACITY
Plum Picturse/Steppenwolf Films/Hanson Allen Films/-Hard-Lunsford/Benedek Film
Credits:
Director: Terry Kinney
Screenwriters: Sherwood Kiraly, Doug Bost
Based on the novel by: Sherwood Kiraly
Producers: Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer, Tim Evans, Daniela Tapling Lundberg
Executive producers: Bill Benenson, Pamela Hirsch, Bruce Lunsford
Scott Hanson, John Allen, Ed Hart, Eric Warren Goldman
Director of photography: Vanja Cernjul
Production designer: Dan Davis
Music: Robert Burger
Costume designer: Sarah Holden
Editor: Tim Streeto
Cast:
Cooper: Matthew Broderick
Rollie: Alan Alda
Charlotte: Virginia Madsen
Mad Dog McClure: Dylan Baker
Big Stan: Louis C.K.
Lee: Bobby Cannavale
Dillon: Jimmy Bennett
Donny: Jim True-Frost
Belle: Lois Smith
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- In Diminished Capacity, actor-turned-first-time director Terry Kinney has a solid premise and two intriguing characters but only the lamest story to tell. Consequently, the film plays like diminished comedy.
The extremely talented Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda play a respective nephew and uncle, each struggling with memory loss, thereby creating a team Broderick calls, in one of the movie's few witty lines, Slow and slower. But yielding to the story demands of a novel by Sherwood Kiraly (who co-authored the script), these two are thrust into the world of baseball cards and sports memorabilia shows, an arcane and, as it works out, mirthless arena for these potentially compelling characters.
The project from Steppenwolf Films, a division of the famed Chicago theater company, did attract a stellar cast including Virginia Madsen, Bobby Cannavale and the great Lois Smith. But from the start, the film fails to get any comic traction. Boxoffice appeal is limited to those eager to see Broderick and Alda in unusual roles -- and possibly Chicago Cubs fans whose long-suffering fate is the butt of many jokes.
A head trauma has short-circuited the brain of Chicago journalist Cooper (Broderick). He must write notes to himself to aid his memory, and his newspaper job is tenuous as best. One problem here is that the film lacks the courage to really deal with "dimcap" symptoms. The film's star still gets his share of funny lines, he remembers everything he needs to and this supposedly scrambled memory plays no real role here as it did in a film like Memento.
Cooper's mom (Smith) summons him to his small Missouri hometown to help her settle Uncle Rollie (Alda), who shows signs of senile dementia. Here, too, you get not the pain and misery of an ailing elder -- as with the mentally fogged father in The Savages -- but a comically pixilated oldster obsessed about drying socks and tying baited fishing lines to typewriter keys so the fish can write poetry.
One of Uncle Rollie's obsessions proves downright intelligent. He possesses a rare baseball card, dating back to the last Cubs' World Championship, that is worth a fortune. So Slow and Slower take off for a Chicago baseball memorabilia show to sell the card. Along for the ride are Cooper's high school sweetheart, Charlotte (Madsen), who is now divorced and available again, and her son, Dillon (Jimmy Bennett).
All the characters that converge on this convention center seemingly suffer from "dimcap." The town drunk (Jim True-Frost), who follows the card-sellers, Cooper's Chicago buddy (comic Louis C.K.), a rabid Cubs fan (Dylan Baker) and a crooked dealer (Cannavale) are nothing more than cartoons. The theft of the card, a duplicate card and a few badly staged chases and fights are slapstick at its worst.
Alda actually is kind of interesting as the mentally unstable uncle, but Broderick appears to be sleepwalking. Madsen has little to do, and everyone else plays things far too broadly.
Cubs fans deserve a better tribute than this, but then again they are long suffering.
DIMINISHED CAPACITY
Plum Picturse/Steppenwolf Films/Hanson Allen Films/-Hard-Lunsford/Benedek Film
Credits:
Director: Terry Kinney
Screenwriters: Sherwood Kiraly, Doug Bost
Based on the novel by: Sherwood Kiraly
Producers: Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer, Tim Evans, Daniela Tapling Lundberg
Executive producers: Bill Benenson, Pamela Hirsch, Bruce Lunsford
Scott Hanson, John Allen, Ed Hart, Eric Warren Goldman
Director of photography: Vanja Cernjul
Production designer: Dan Davis
Music: Robert Burger
Costume designer: Sarah Holden
Editor: Tim Streeto
Cast:
Cooper: Matthew Broderick
Rollie: Alan Alda
Charlotte: Virginia Madsen
Mad Dog McClure: Dylan Baker
Big Stan: Louis C.K.
Lee: Bobby Cannavale
Dillon: Jimmy Bennett
Donny: Jim True-Frost
Belle: Lois Smith
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/23/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- On the heels of deals for films starring John Cusack, Julia Stiles and Leonardo DiCaprio, Plum Pictures is beefing up its staff with new heads of production, development and postproduction.
Pamela Hirsch will head physical production and serve as executive producer on Plum films. Joy Goodwin will head development, and Riva Marker will head postproduction. In addition, Plum has promoted Carina Alves to director of creative affairs.
Hirsch has co-produced Plum projects for two years, including Dedication and Watching the Detectives. She also executive-produced Plum's forthcoming Laws of Motion, starring Matthew Perry and Hilary Swank; Diminished Capacity, starring Matthew Broderick and Virginia Madsen; Trucker; and Bart Got a Room. Before working with the company, Hirsch co-produced Shortbus and worked on several New York-based indie features.
Goodwin is an Emmy-winning television producer who has worked on projects for ABC, A&E, the History Channel, NBC and Lifetime. She helped develop Plum's Capacity and Trucker and has written about theater for the New York Times and the New Yorker.
Pamela Hirsch will head physical production and serve as executive producer on Plum films. Joy Goodwin will head development, and Riva Marker will head postproduction. In addition, Plum has promoted Carina Alves to director of creative affairs.
Hirsch has co-produced Plum projects for two years, including Dedication and Watching the Detectives. She also executive-produced Plum's forthcoming Laws of Motion, starring Matthew Perry and Hilary Swank; Diminished Capacity, starring Matthew Broderick and Virginia Madsen; Trucker; and Bart Got a Room. Before working with the company, Hirsch co-produced Shortbus and worked on several New York-based indie features.
Goodwin is an Emmy-winning television producer who has worked on projects for ABC, A&E, the History Channel, NBC and Lifetime. She helped develop Plum's Capacity and Trucker and has written about theater for the New York Times and the New Yorker.
- 11/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- William H. Macy, Cheryl Hines, Alia Shawkat and Steven Kaplan will star in Brian Hecker's coming-of-age comedy Bart Got a Room for Plum Pictures.
Kaplan plays Bart, a high school senior living in a Florida retirement community with bickering parents (Macy and Hines). The nerdy teen struggles to find a date to his prom with the help of his best friend (Shawkat).
Plum is producing Bart in association with Hart-Lunsford Pictures, Shrink Media Inc., Basra Entertainment, and Benedek Films. Principal photography begins this month in Florida.
Plum's Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray, and Daniela Taplin Lundberg will produce with Shrink's Jai Stefan and Basra's Tony Shawkat. Ed Hart, Bruce Lunsford, Pam Hirsch, Dina Burke, Stephen Benedek, Mario Fallone, Randy Simon, and Michael LeFetra will executive produce.
Macy's many feature credits include Fargo and Wild Hogs. Hines, who recently appeared in Waitress, co-starred with Shawkat on Fox's Arrested Development. The film marks Kaplan's feature debut.
Kaplan plays Bart, a high school senior living in a Florida retirement community with bickering parents (Macy and Hines). The nerdy teen struggles to find a date to his prom with the help of his best friend (Shawkat).
Plum is producing Bart in association with Hart-Lunsford Pictures, Shrink Media Inc., Basra Entertainment, and Benedek Films. Principal photography begins this month in Florida.
Plum's Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray, and Daniela Taplin Lundberg will produce with Shrink's Jai Stefan and Basra's Tony Shawkat. Ed Hart, Bruce Lunsford, Pam Hirsch, Dina Burke, Stephen Benedek, Mario Fallone, Randy Simon, and Michael LeFetra will executive produce.
Macy's many feature credits include Fargo and Wild Hogs. Hines, who recently appeared in Waitress, co-starred with Shawkat on Fox's Arrested Development. The film marks Kaplan's feature debut.
- 10/2/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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