Exclusive: Get ready to don your Versace (pronounced Ver-sayce) and dine on brown rice and vegetables because Jeffrey McHale’s Showgirls documentary You Don’t Nomi is coming. Rlje Films, which is part of AMC Networks, has acquired the U.S. You Don’t Nomi and is set to release the film in theaters and VOD in June 2020.
You Don’t Nomi marks the feature directorial debut of McHale. The film, which switched hands from Nacelle, explores the complicated afterlife of Paul Verhoeven’s campy and glitzy Showgirls. The docu, named after the film’s heroine played by Elizabeth Berkley, sheds light on the salacious movie that many consider a flop and how it rose from the ashes and became a cult phenomenon. The film features Adam Nayman (Vice Guide to Film), April Kidwell and Peaches Christ (Milk) as well as archive interview footage with the cast and crew of Showgirls.
You Don’t Nomi marks the feature directorial debut of McHale. The film, which switched hands from Nacelle, explores the complicated afterlife of Paul Verhoeven’s campy and glitzy Showgirls. The docu, named after the film’s heroine played by Elizabeth Berkley, sheds light on the salacious movie that many consider a flop and how it rose from the ashes and became a cult phenomenon. The film features Adam Nayman (Vice Guide to Film), April Kidwell and Peaches Christ (Milk) as well as archive interview footage with the cast and crew of Showgirls.
- 4/14/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Nacelle Company announced today that they have acquired the North American rights to the campy glitz and glamour of the Showgirls documentary You Don’t Nomi directed by Jeffrey McHale.
The docu, which made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, puts the spotlight on the Paul Verhoeven-directed 1995 cult classic. It made brown rice and vegetables a staple in everyone’s diet and had everyone pronouncing Versace as “Versayce”. Over time, the film starring Elizabeth Berkley as aspiring Vegas showgirl Nomi Malone garnered a loyal community of fans that absolutely adore this Nc-17 rated movie that was subject to derision when it was released.
You Don’t Nomi examines Showgirls and Verhoeven with a renewed sense of appreciation for what documentary filmmaker McHale believes is a misunderstood masterpiece. Guided by a chorus of film critics and fervent devotees, McHale’s reassessment of Showgirls takes...
The docu, which made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, puts the spotlight on the Paul Verhoeven-directed 1995 cult classic. It made brown rice and vegetables a staple in everyone’s diet and had everyone pronouncing Versace as “Versayce”. Over time, the film starring Elizabeth Berkley as aspiring Vegas showgirl Nomi Malone garnered a loyal community of fans that absolutely adore this Nc-17 rated movie that was subject to derision when it was released.
You Don’t Nomi examines Showgirls and Verhoeven with a renewed sense of appreciation for what documentary filmmaker McHale believes is a misunderstood masterpiece. Guided by a chorus of film critics and fervent devotees, McHale’s reassessment of Showgirls takes...
- 6/4/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Xyz Films has come aboard as an executive producer and co-financier with Grade 5 Films on You Don’t Nomi, the Jeffrey McHale documentary about the Showgirls movie phenomenon that will have its world premiere in the Midnight section of the Tribeca Film Festival next month. The move, which ramps up Xyz’s documentary initiative, will see the company rep global rights on the pic, one of three Xyz docs (and six films overall) in the fest’s lineup.
McHale’s pic centers on the odd arc of Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 Nc-17 look at Vegas dancers, at the time met with near-unanimous derision by critics and audiences. But the film has inspired an ever-growing fan community and debate over its quality, artistic intent and messages about sex and gender. The docu explores Showgirls‘ legacy and broader implications. It’s also the feature debut of McHale, whose original trailer mashup of...
McHale’s pic centers on the odd arc of Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 Nc-17 look at Vegas dancers, at the time met with near-unanimous derision by critics and audiences. But the film has inspired an ever-growing fan community and debate over its quality, artistic intent and messages about sex and gender. The docu explores Showgirls‘ legacy and broader implications. It’s also the feature debut of McHale, whose original trailer mashup of...
- 4/2/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
While the SXSW Film Festival is kicking off in Austin this week, the Tribeca Film Festival will continue to shine a spotlight on upcoming genre films in April and May, including Joe Begos' Bliss, Ant Timpson's Come to Daddy (starring Elijah Wood and Stephen McHattie), and Something Else (directed by Jeremy Gardner and Christian Stella).
From the Press Release: "New York – March 5, 2019 – The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by At&T, today unveiled its feature film lineup. Continuing its tradition of elevating exceptional storytelling rooted in today’s global film communities, the 18th annual Festival will showcase debut works from emerging talent and new works from notable filmmakers. The program includes discoveries, comedies, music-centered, political and social films. The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 24 - May 5.
The feature program includes 103 films from 124 filmmakers. The films selected in the three competition sections consist of 50% women directed films. The lineup includes 81 World Premieres,...
From the Press Release: "New York – March 5, 2019 – The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by At&T, today unveiled its feature film lineup. Continuing its tradition of elevating exceptional storytelling rooted in today’s global film communities, the 18th annual Festival will showcase debut works from emerging talent and new works from notable filmmakers. The program includes discoveries, comedies, music-centered, political and social films. The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 24 - May 5.
The feature program includes 103 films from 124 filmmakers. The films selected in the three competition sections consist of 50% women directed films. The lineup includes 81 World Premieres,...
- 3/8/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Every year since 2009, the San Francisco Film Society (Sffs) selects multiple film projects to receive the biannual Sffs/Krf Filmmaking Grant that helps fund some of the best up-and-coming narrative features that support the Bay Area filmmaking industry.
The grant is presented in tangent with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and is the largest granting body for independent narrative feature films in the U.S. The winners of the grant will be announced in November, with one or more of the fifteen projects eligible to receive upwards of $250,000 for assistance in post-production, screenwriting, or packing.
The fall 2016 finalists are as follows:
Read More: San Francisco Film Society Announces Winners of 2016 Documentary Film Fund
“Buoyancy” – Rodd Rathjen, writer/director:
Chakra, a Cambodian teenager, leaves his family to seek a better life in Thailand, but is soon sold onto a Thai fishing trawler and enslaved at sea indefinitely, working 22 hours a day with little food.
The grant is presented in tangent with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and is the largest granting body for independent narrative feature films in the U.S. The winners of the grant will be announced in November, with one or more of the fifteen projects eligible to receive upwards of $250,000 for assistance in post-production, screenwriting, or packing.
The fall 2016 finalists are as follows:
Read More: San Francisco Film Society Announces Winners of 2016 Documentary Film Fund
“Buoyancy” – Rodd Rathjen, writer/director:
Chakra, a Cambodian teenager, leaves his family to seek a better life in Thailand, but is soon sold onto a Thai fishing trawler and enslaved at sea indefinitely, working 22 hours a day with little food.
- 10/25/2016
- by Mark Burger
- Indiewire
First Run Features has picked up rights to Garrett Zevgetis' documentary Best and Most Beautiful Things, a coming-of-age story that celebrates outcasts of the world. First Run is eyeing a December theatrical release for the film, which is produced by Zevgetis, Ariana Garfinkel, Jeff Consiglio and Jordan Salvatoriello. The documentary premiered at SXSW in March and has seen a successful festival run across the country. Best and Most Beautiful Thing follows Michelle, a…...
- 10/4/2016
- Deadline
On the heels of the 39th edition of the Toronto Int. Film Festival (Sept 4-14), Ifp’s Independent Film Week is where a plethora of fiction, non-fiction and new this year, web-based series from the likes of Desiree Akhavan and Calvin Reeder find future coin. Sectioned off as projects at the very beginning of financing to those that are nearing completion, there happens to be tons of Sundance alumni in the names below. Among those that caught our attention we have Medicine for Melancholy‘s Barry Jenkins’ sophomore feature, produced by Bad Milo!‘s Adele Romanski, Moonlight is about “two Miami boys navigate the temptations of the drug trade and their burgeoning sexuality in this triptych drama about black queer youth”. Concussion‘s Stacie Passon digs into the thriller genre with Strange Things Started Happening. Produced by vet Mary Jane Skalski (Mysterious Skin), this is about “a woman who has...
- 7/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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