The unexpected but surprisingly entertaining prequel Orphan: First Kill (read our review Here) is now available to watch on the Paramount Plus streaming service, and will be coming to Blu-ray and DVD on October 18th. (Amazon is already accepting pre-orders at This Link.) To promote the fact that the film is streaming, Paramount Plus has shared a behind-the-scenes featurette on Twitter, and you can check it out in the embed below.
The featurette not only includes interviews with producer Alex Mace, director William Brent Bell, and cast members Isabelle Fuhrman, Julia Stiles, and Matthew Finlan, but also shows off some of the trickery that was used to allow Fuhrman to play a character who looks like she’s still a child.
Esther fans, this one's for you #OrphanFirstKill streaming now on #ParamountPlus pic.twitter.com/yIBCldaMoO
— Paramount+ (@paramountplus) September 6, 2022
Isabelle Fuhrman reprises the role of Leena Klammer / Esther, an adult...
The featurette not only includes interviews with producer Alex Mace, director William Brent Bell, and cast members Isabelle Fuhrman, Julia Stiles, and Matthew Finlan, but also shows off some of the trickery that was used to allow Fuhrman to play a character who looks like she’s still a child.
Esther fans, this one's for you #OrphanFirstKill streaming now on #ParamountPlus pic.twitter.com/yIBCldaMoO
— Paramount+ (@paramountplus) September 6, 2022
Isabelle Fuhrman reprises the role of Leena Klammer / Esther, an adult...
- 9/8/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The unexpected but surprisingly entertaining prequel Orphan: First Kill (read our review Here) is now in theatres and available to watch on the Paramount Plus streaming service, but if you’ve been hoping to secure a physical copy of the movie you’ll be glad to hear that Orphan: First Kill is going to reach Blu-ray and DVD on October 18th. And Amazon is already accepting pre-orders at This Link! So if you want to include the physical media version of this one in your Halloween horror marathons, head over there and put in your pre-order.
Directed by William Brent Bell from a screenplay by David Coggeshall, Orphan: First Kill has the following synopsis:
Esther’s terrifying saga continues in this thrilling prequel to the original and shocking horror hit, Orphan. After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family.
Directed by William Brent Bell from a screenplay by David Coggeshall, Orphan: First Kill has the following synopsis:
Esther’s terrifying saga continues in this thrilling prequel to the original and shocking horror hit, Orphan. After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family.
- 8/24/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Thirteen years after playing serial killer Leena Klammer (a.k.a. Esther) in the horror thriller Orphan, Isabelle Fuhrman has reprised the role in the prequel Orphan: First Kill (read our review Here) – which was released through the Paramount+ streaming service last Friday. Orphan: First Kill was also given a 498 screen theatrical release in the United States, and earned 1,675,000 over the weekend – a decent haul for that number of screens. So there was clearly an interest in seeing Fuhrman play Esther again. And during an interview with Variety, Fuhrman confirmed that she would be willing to come back for an Orphan 3 if it gets made.
Leena Klammer / Esther is an adult who was able to pass herself off as a 9 year old kid in the first Orphan. Looking 9 was easy for Fuhrman at the time because she was a child when she made that movie… but some trickery had to...
Leena Klammer / Esther is an adult who was able to pass herself off as a 9 year old kid in the first Orphan. Looking 9 was easy for Fuhrman at the time because she was a child when she made that movie… but some trickery had to...
- 8/22/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Orphan: First Kill, the prequel to the 2009 thriller Orphan, is set to receive a limited theatrical release this Friday, August 19th, and will also be receiving a digital release and will be available to watch on the Paramount+ streaming service that same day. In anticipation of the film’s release, we were able to interview stars Isabelle Fuhrman and Julia Stiles about how this gig came about for them and what it was like for them to work together. To find out what they had to say about Orphan: First Kill, check out the video embedded above!
Directed by William Brent Bell from a screenplay by David Coggeshall, Orphan: First Kill has the following synopsis:
Esther’s terrifying saga continues in this thrilling prequel to the original and shocking horror hit, Orphan. After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family.
Directed by William Brent Bell from a screenplay by David Coggeshall, Orphan: First Kill has the following synopsis:
Esther’s terrifying saga continues in this thrilling prequel to the original and shocking horror hit, Orphan. After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family.
- 8/16/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Buyers flock to genre slate starring Gerard Butler, Rosamund Pike, Julia Stiles.
Sierra/Affinity has reported a strong response to its EFM genre sales slate and has closed key territories on Rosamund Pike thriller Rich Flu, action thriller Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera starring Gerard Butler and Orphan: First Kill, the prequel to Dark Castle horror film Orphan.
Buyers on Rich Flu include Square One for Germany, Sun Distribution Group for Latin America, Originals Factory for France, Scanbox for Scandinavia, Watcha for South Korea, and Cai Chang for Taiwan.
In other deals the thriller has gone in Switzerland (Ascot...
Sierra/Affinity has reported a strong response to its EFM genre sales slate and has closed key territories on Rosamund Pike thriller Rich Flu, action thriller Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera starring Gerard Butler and Orphan: First Kill, the prequel to Dark Castle horror film Orphan.
Buyers on Rich Flu include Square One for Germany, Sun Distribution Group for Latin America, Originals Factory for France, Scanbox for Scandinavia, Watcha for South Korea, and Cai Chang for Taiwan.
In other deals the thriller has gone in Switzerland (Ascot...
- 4/5/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Thanks to TorontoFilm.Net here is the Toronto Film Production Update for December 2016, including "12 Monkeys", "Kin", "Molly's Game" and a whole lot more:
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12 Monkeys Season 3
TV Series
Gep 12 Monkeys B Inc.
Prod.: Michael Wray
Exec. Prod.: David Grossman, Terry Matalas
Oct 17 - Feb 17/17
Anne
TV Series
CBC/Netflix
Prod.: Susan Murdoch
Exec. Prod.: Miranda de Pencier, Moira Walley-Beckett
Sep 22/16 - Feb 03/17
Conviction Season 1
TV Series
ABC / Eone / Mark Gordon Company
Exec. Prod.: Mark Gordon, Nick Pepper, Liz Friedlander, Liz Friedman
Jul 18 – Dec 1 / 16
Food Market
Feature
New Metric Media, Sphere Media
Exec. Prod.: Mark Montefiore, Virginia Rankin, Michael Konyves
Dir.: Alain Desrochers
Oct 11 - Dec 16/16
Green Harvest
TV Series
Streak Productions Inc. / CBS
Prod.: Kevin Lafferty, Loretta Ramos, Aaron Baiers
Exec. Prod.: Bryan Fuller,
Heather Kadin, Gretchen Berg,
Aaron Harberts
Sept 26/16 - Mar...
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12 Monkeys Season 3
TV Series
Gep 12 Monkeys B Inc.
Prod.: Michael Wray
Exec. Prod.: David Grossman, Terry Matalas
Oct 17 - Feb 17/17
Anne
TV Series
CBC/Netflix
Prod.: Susan Murdoch
Exec. Prod.: Miranda de Pencier, Moira Walley-Beckett
Sep 22/16 - Feb 03/17
Conviction Season 1
TV Series
ABC / Eone / Mark Gordon Company
Exec. Prod.: Mark Gordon, Nick Pepper, Liz Friedlander, Liz Friedman
Jul 18 – Dec 1 / 16
Food Market
Feature
New Metric Media, Sphere Media
Exec. Prod.: Mark Montefiore, Virginia Rankin, Michael Konyves
Dir.: Alain Desrochers
Oct 11 - Dec 16/16
Green Harvest
TV Series
Streak Productions Inc. / CBS
Prod.: Kevin Lafferty, Loretta Ramos, Aaron Baiers
Exec. Prod.: Bryan Fuller,
Heather Kadin, Gretchen Berg,
Aaron Harberts
Sept 26/16 - Mar...
- 12/5/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Thanks to TorontoFilm.Net here is the Toronto Film Production Update for November 2016, including "Designated Survivor", "12 Monkeys" "The Handmaid's Tale" and a whole lot more:
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12 Monkeys Season 3
TV Series
Gep 12 Monkeys B Inc.
Prod.: Michael Wray
Exec. Prod.: David Grossman, Terry Matalas
Oct 17 - Feb 17/17
Alias Grace
Mini Series
Halfire Entertainment
Prod.: Sarah Polley, DJ Carson
Dir.: Mary Harron
Aug 15 - Nov 15/16
Anne
TV Series
CBC/Netflix
Prod.: Susan Murdoch
Exec. Prod.: Miranda de Pencier, Moira Walley-Beckett
Sep 22/16 - Feb 03/17
Anne Of Green Gables
TV Movie
Gables 23 Productions Inc.
Prod.: Jim Corston
Exec. Prod.: Joan Lambur, Peter Williamson
Dir.: John Kent Harrison
Sep 12 - Nov 4/16
Black Mirror
TV Series (one episode)
T5 Mirror Productions Inc.
Exec. Prod.: Annabelle Jones, Charlie Brooker
Dir.: Jodie Foster
Nov 7 – Nov 30/16
Business Ethics
Feature
Business Ethic Film Inc.
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12 Monkeys Season 3
TV Series
Gep 12 Monkeys B Inc.
Prod.: Michael Wray
Exec. Prod.: David Grossman, Terry Matalas
Oct 17 - Feb 17/17
Alias Grace
Mini Series
Halfire Entertainment
Prod.: Sarah Polley, DJ Carson
Dir.: Mary Harron
Aug 15 - Nov 15/16
Anne
TV Series
CBC/Netflix
Prod.: Susan Murdoch
Exec. Prod.: Miranda de Pencier, Moira Walley-Beckett
Sep 22/16 - Feb 03/17
Anne Of Green Gables
TV Movie
Gables 23 Productions Inc.
Prod.: Jim Corston
Exec. Prod.: Joan Lambur, Peter Williamson
Dir.: John Kent Harrison
Sep 12 - Nov 4/16
Black Mirror
TV Series (one episode)
T5 Mirror Productions Inc.
Exec. Prod.: Annabelle Jones, Charlie Brooker
Dir.: Jodie Foster
Nov 7 – Nov 30/16
Business Ethics
Feature
Business Ethic Film Inc.
- 10/27/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Matt Alvarez has been named Broad Green president of production after coming in-house last year under an exclusive pact.
Alvarez will continue to work on the films he has in active development at Broad Green and besides his core duties will assume daily management of the development and production team.
Chief creative officer Daniel Hammond previously carried out that role and will expand his overall management role at the company
President of physical production Victor Moyers will focus on executing on the slate, while chief creative officer and Marc Danon will continue as president of acquisitions and co-productions.
Broad Green and Alvarez have announced two projects together since the in-house deal: comedy Ain’t No Half Steppin, which is set to begin shooting in June, and The Fight Before Christmas, a comedic holiday pitch from Daddy’s Home writer Brian Burns.
Alvarez’ career credits include Straight Outta Compton as well as the Friday, Barbershop, Are We...
Alvarez will continue to work on the films he has in active development at Broad Green and besides his core duties will assume daily management of the development and production team.
Chief creative officer Daniel Hammond previously carried out that role and will expand his overall management role at the company
President of physical production Victor Moyers will focus on executing on the slate, while chief creative officer and Marc Danon will continue as president of acquisitions and co-productions.
Broad Green and Alvarez have announced two projects together since the in-house deal: comedy Ain’t No Half Steppin, which is set to begin shooting in June, and The Fight Before Christmas, a comedic holiday pitch from Daddy’s Home writer Brian Burns.
Alvarez’ career credits include Straight Outta Compton as well as the Friday, Barbershop, Are We...
- 5/6/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Matt Alvarez has been named Broad Green Pictures’ president of production. Alvarez, who joined the Hammond Brothers’ company last October from Relativity, will develop and acquire new commercial-facing projects and manage the ongoing slate, it was announced Thursday. Acting President of Production Victor Moyers will move to President of Physical Production. “With Matt’s extraordinary track record of success and excellent leadership skills, we are confident that he has the experience and commitment to lead the team as we expand into greater original production efforts,” Broad Green Pictures CEO Gabriel Hammond said in a statement. Also Read: Broad Green to...
- 5/5/2016
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
It might be a case of deja vu all over again for director Jeremy Saulnier. It’s hard enough breaking into Sundance, but the festival’s Spotlight section features about eight films that have landed a theatrical release deal and are being championed as favorites from the film festival circuit (some have pending releases just after January and some are up for major award consideration). Saulnier premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight with 2013’s Blue Ruin and that was followed by stops just about everywhere including Tiff and a couple of U.S. play dates and this didn’t prevent the festival from inviting the film all the same in 2014. With an almost identical route this time out and the same critical support, Green Room connected with the same auds this year and could make a quick detour before being released theatrically on April 1st by the A24 film folks.
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- 11/24/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Nick Meyer and his team will commence international sales next week on the Billy Bob Thornton dark comedy sequel that Miramax and Broad Green Pictures will co-finance and co-produce.
Thornton reprises his role from the 2003 Dimension Films release that grossed $60m in North America and a further $16m from international markets.
Principal photography is scheduled for January in Montréal, Québec, and the parties have earmarked a 2016 Us holiday season release via Broad Green.
David Thwaites will oversee the project for Miramax and Victor Moyers for Broad Green Pictures. Geyer Kosinski will produce.
Thornton reprises his role from the 2003 Dimension Films release that grossed $60m in North America and a further $16m from international markets.
Principal photography is scheduled for January in Montréal, Québec, and the parties have earmarked a 2016 Us holiday season release via Broad Green.
David Thwaites will oversee the project for Miramax and Victor Moyers for Broad Green Pictures. Geyer Kosinski will produce.
- 10/29/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Broad Green Pictures announced today a partnership with Imagine Entertainment to produce and distribute an untitled film about the infamous Los Angeles riots that transformed America’s perceptions on race, justice and economics, and sparked massive change in the Los Angeles Police Department (Lapd).
John Ridley, the Academy Award-winning 12 Years A Slave scribe and creator of the Emmy Award-winning “American Crime,” will direct the film from his own screenplay. Academy Award winner Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, American Gangster) will produce.
The film will begin principal photography in spring 2016.
In April of 1992, America’s worst civil disturbance in the 20th century took place in Los Angeles.
Sparked by the acquittal of four Lapd officers tried for the near-fatal beating of black motorist Rodney King and fueled by racial tension, growing despair surrounding the economic climate, and a deep-seated distrust of law enforcement, the riots left the city devastated.
Looting and...
John Ridley, the Academy Award-winning 12 Years A Slave scribe and creator of the Emmy Award-winning “American Crime,” will direct the film from his own screenplay. Academy Award winner Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, American Gangster) will produce.
The film will begin principal photography in spring 2016.
In April of 1992, America’s worst civil disturbance in the 20th century took place in Los Angeles.
Sparked by the acquittal of four Lapd officers tried for the near-fatal beating of black motorist Rodney King and fueled by racial tension, growing despair surrounding the economic climate, and a deep-seated distrust of law enforcement, the riots left the city devastated.
Looting and...
- 10/12/2015
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years A Slave will direct from his own script for Broad Green Pictures and Imagine Entertainment.
Production on the untitled project about the cataclysmic 1992 event will commence in spring 2016.
Brian Grazer will serve as producer. The La Riots were triggered by the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers for the severe beating of black motorist Rodney King.
The judgement sparked one of the worst Us civil disturbances of the 20th century and resulted in the death of 50 people, injuries to more than 2,000 and approximately $1bn in property damage.
Broad Green founders CEO Gabriel Hammond and chief creative officer Daniel Hammond issued a statement that included the following line: “This is why we started this company. To make movies like this.”
Grazer added: “We have barely seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of John Ridley’s talent.”
Victor Moyers and Asher Goldstein will oversee the project for Broad Green. [link...
Production on the untitled project about the cataclysmic 1992 event will commence in spring 2016.
Brian Grazer will serve as producer. The La Riots were triggered by the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers for the severe beating of black motorist Rodney King.
The judgement sparked one of the worst Us civil disturbances of the 20th century and resulted in the death of 50 people, injuries to more than 2,000 and approximately $1bn in property damage.
Broad Green founders CEO Gabriel Hammond and chief creative officer Daniel Hammond issued a statement that included the following line: “This is why we started this company. To make movies like this.”
Grazer added: “We have barely seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of John Ridley’s talent.”
Victor Moyers and Asher Goldstein will oversee the project for Broad Green. [link...
- 10/12/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
A24 will give writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s violent thriller “Green Room” a limited release on April 1, 2016 before the film expands on April 8 and opens nationwide on April 15, the distributor announced Monday. Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots and Alia Shawkat star alongside Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Eric Edelstein, Macon Blair and Kai Lennox. The film, which has not been rated yet, was produced by Anish Savjani, Neil Kopp, Victor Moyers. Also Read: Toronto's Midnight Madness: Nazis, Cyborgs, Slashers, Psychokinetics and Satan “Green Room” is a horror-thriller that stars Stewart as a diabolical club owner who squares off against.
- 10/5/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
The latest addition to Broad Green Pictures' expanding film slate is a hotly coveted property that will star Michael B. Jordan as renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative who has fought to free condemned death row prisoners, including Walter McMillian. That case drew him into a tangled web of political machination and judicial conspiracy. Variety adds that Paramount and Universal bid on the project before it landed at Broad Green, whose production leaders Victor Moyers and Asher Goldstein will oversee it. Read More: Broad Green Dates 'Knight of Cups' and Two Other Releases Director Cretton broke out with 2013 SXSW winner and critics' fave "Short Term 12" and has since been adapting another memoir, Jeannette Walls' "The Glass Castle," at Lionsgate. Read More: Meet the Hammonds, Indie Film's New Kids on the Block Jordan has moved deftly between television ("The Wire,...
- 7/24/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
The company announced on Friday it is adapting Bryan Stevenson’s memoir Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption.
Destin Daniel Cretton of Short Term 12 fame will direct and Gil Netter will produce the story of a civil rights defence lawyer’s death row case.
Michael B. Jordan is attached to star and will also serve as executive producer with Stevenson, Arthur Spector with Broad Green Pictures in association with Gil Netter Productions. Cretton and Andrew Lanham are adapting book.
Victor Moyers and Asher Goldstein are overseeing the project at Broad Green Pictures.
Josep Veltre at the Gersh Agency represented the author, Wme Global the producers, writers and director. Christopher Tricarico, evp of business affairs, negotiated for Broad Green.
Destin Daniel Cretton of Short Term 12 fame will direct and Gil Netter will produce the story of a civil rights defence lawyer’s death row case.
Michael B. Jordan is attached to star and will also serve as executive producer with Stevenson, Arthur Spector with Broad Green Pictures in association with Gil Netter Productions. Cretton and Andrew Lanham are adapting book.
Victor Moyers and Asher Goldstein are overseeing the project at Broad Green Pictures.
Josep Veltre at the Gersh Agency represented the author, Wme Global the producers, writers and director. Christopher Tricarico, evp of business affairs, negotiated for Broad Green.
- 7/24/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The company announced on Friday it is adapting Bryan Stevenson’s memoir Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption.
Destin Daniel Cretton of Short Term 12 fame will direct and Gil Netter will produce the story of a civil rights defence lawyer’s death row case.
Jordan is attached to star and will also serve as executive producer with Stevenson, Arthur Spector with Broad Green Pictures in association with Gil Netter Productions. Cretton and Andrew Lanham are adapting book.
Victor Moyers and Asher Goldstein are overseeing the project at Broad Green Pictures.
Josep Veltre at the Gersh Agency represented the author, Wme Global the producers, writers and director. Christopher Tricarico, evp of business affairs, negotiated for Broad Green.
Destin Daniel Cretton of Short Term 12 fame will direct and Gil Netter will produce the story of a civil rights defence lawyer’s death row case.
Jordan is attached to star and will also serve as executive producer with Stevenson, Arthur Spector with Broad Green Pictures in association with Gil Netter Productions. Cretton and Andrew Lanham are adapting book.
Victor Moyers and Asher Goldstein are overseeing the project at Broad Green Pictures.
Josep Veltre at the Gersh Agency represented the author, Wme Global the producers, writers and director. Christopher Tricarico, evp of business affairs, negotiated for Broad Green.
- 7/24/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sundance Institute has announced the participants for its weeklong Creative Film Producing Initiative at the Sundance Resort in Utah, July 27 – August 3, including nine feature film and documentary projects for the Creative Producing Labs and more than 50 industry leaders for the Creative Producing Summit.
The Institute’s Creative Producing Initiative encompasses a year-round series of Labs, Fellowships, granting and events focusing on nurturing the next generation of independent producers and renewing the community of veteran producers who sustain the vibrancy and vitality of independent film.
The Feature Film Creative Producing Lab (July 27 – July 31) identifies emerging producers and, under the guidance of Creative Advisors, allows them to develop their creative instincts and evolve their communicating and problem-solving skills at all stages of their feature film project. This year’s Creative Advisors include producers Lindsay Doran ("Sense and Sensibility"), Lynette Howell Taylor (The Place Beyond the Pines), Gina Kwon ("Me You and Everyone We Know"), Paul Mezey ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), Jay Van Hoy (
"Beginners" ) and director Matthew Ross ("28 Hotel Rooms" ).
The Documentary Film Creative Producing Lab (July 27 – August 1) brings together documentarians with award-winning Advisors to focus on their current projects to explore the wide range of creative approaches to distribution, outreach and impact strategies. This year’s Creative Advisors include producers Julie Goldman ( "Best of Enemies"), Bonni Cohen ("3 1/2 Minutes," "10 Bullets"), Ryan Werner (Cinetic), Maxyne Franklin (Britdoc), and Wendy Cohen (Picture Motion).
The Creative Producing Summit takes place immediately following the Labs, July 31 – August 3. More than 50 industry leaders will participate in a series of curated panels, case studies, roundtables, and one-on-one meetings addressing critical issues producers face including financing, distribution, audience engagement, marketing and sustainability. Panelists this year include Len Amato (HBO Films),
Michael Barker (Sony Pictures Classics), Dori Begley (Magnolia Pictures), Josh Braun (Submarine), Dan Cogan (Impact Partners), Victoria S. Cook (Frankfurt Kurnit), Danielle Di Giacomo (The Orchard), Fred Dust (Ideo), Ted Hope (Amazon), Micah Green (CAA), John Hoffman (Discovery Channel), Marcus Hu (Strand Releasing), Charles King (MacRo), Jessica Lacy (ICM Partners), Stephanie Langhoff (Duplass Brothers), David Magdael (Tcdm Associates), Victor Moyers (Broad Green), Annie Roney (ro*co Films), John Sloss (Cinetic Media), Graham Taylor (William Morris Endeavor), and Jay Van Hoy (Parts & Labor).
The Fellows and projects selected for the 2015 Feature Film Creative Producing Lab are:
"50 Miles From Boomtown"
Producing Fellow: Alex Scharfman
After years of saving for her hard-earned dream, the only woman working on the fracking fields of North Dakota can finally quit but unexpectedly finds herself falling in love with the young man she's training to take her place. (writer/director Flo Linus Baumann).
Alex Scharfman is a New York-based producer whose past feature credits include "The Heart Machine" and "Lyle," as well as the short film "Superior," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, and the WGA Award-nominated webseries "F to 7th." He is an executive at Parts & Labor Films where he worked on films including "Keep The Lights On" and "Loitering with Intent." He has also produced content for Vice, Google, the Ford Foundation, and At&T. Alex received his BA from Cornell University, is a former Mfa candidate from Nyu’s Tisch School of the Arts, and received his Mba from Nyu’s Stern School of Business.
"Bexar County"
Mark Silverman Honorees and Producing Fellows: Blake Pickens and Stephen Love Jr.
In sunny San Antonio, Texas, where nothing ever changes, a town is turned on its head when a delusional Texas housewife accidentally poisons her son’s fiancée, learning that killing people is an efficient way to solve her problems. (Co-writer/director Catherine Grieve, co-writer Dylan Slocum)
Blake Pickens is from the south side of Oklahoma City, from a neighborhood known as the Flats. Despite the community’s rampant drug use and gang wars, Blake found his way into storytelling with a writing position at National Lampoon. He later attended the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC where he and his producing partner, Stephen Love Jr., formed their company Bs Pictures. They are currently in pre-production on the Steven Caple Jr.’s film The Land and in development on "The Friendship Nine" with producer Nina Yang Bongiovi. Blake’s aspirations are to tell the stories that make people laugh, cry, and ultimately impact their lives.
Stephen Love Jr. grew up in the rural towns of Filbert and Bennettsville, South Carolina. During his time as a business major at Morehouse College, Love founded the Morehouse Filmmakers' Association, for which Spike Lee is the honorary advisor. He also received his Mfa from USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program and formed Bs Pictures with fellow graduate Blake Pickens. Love’s primary career goal is to produce film and television that gives "a voice to the voiceless" while challenging the confines of the business of filmmaking.
"Dolores"
Producing Fellow: Drew Houpt
A restless teenager becomes obsessed with a mysterious Colombian woman who exploits his desire and lures him into her plot for revenge. (Writer/director Mary Angélica Molina)
Drew Houpt is an independent producer based in Brooklyn. For over ten years he was the head of operations at Mike Zoss Productions, Joel and Ethan Coen’s Tribeca-based production company. During that time he worked on the Academy Award-winning "No Country For Old Men" and the Academy Award-nominated "A Serious Man" and "True Grit." He served as Associate Producer on the Coens’ Grand Prix-winning "Inside Llewyn Davis" and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Academy Award-winning film "Birdman: or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance." This past year he co-produced Maris Curran’s directorial-debut "Five Nights in Maine" and produced "Every Day,' a short documentary for Espn’s 30 for 30 Shorts series that had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015. He has also produced music videos for the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang and an experimental documentary, "When A Priest Marries A Witch," by Suzanne Bocanegra.
"Rita Mahtoubian Is Not A Terrorist"
Producing Fellow: Deanna Barillari
When Iranian-born Rita Mahtoubian sets out to change her life from ordinary to extraordinary, she accidentally captures the attention of a homeland security agent in this satirical comedy about romance, terrorism and trying to be a better person. (Co-writers/directors Roja Gashtili & Julia Lerman)
Upon graduating Nyu Tisch, Deanna Barillari co-founded a non-profit theater company producing Off-Off-Broadway plays, including the NYC premiere of Leslye Headland's "Cinephilia" (2008), which funded in-school arts initiatives in the NYC Public School system. She then went on to work in TV on NBC's "Mercy" (2009), CBS’ "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" (2010), ABC’s "Pan Am," 86th Oscars (Ellen DeGeneres; 2014) and in Drama Development at Universal Television. Recently, she collaborated with AFI Dww Fellows Roja Gashtili and Julia Lerman, producing their web-series K(ID) starring Caterina Scorsone ("Grey's Anatomy") and their short "Rita Mahtoubian Is Not A Terrorist" starring Patrick Fugit ("Almost Famous") which made its World Premiere at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. She also produces for the La based Ovation Award-winning Iama Theatre Company.
"The Space Between"
Producing Fellow: Angela C. Lee
A female body builder devotes her life to turning ‘pro’ when she unexpectedly falls in love, forcing her to confront her fractured past with her dying father. (Writer/director Philiane Phang)
Angela C. Lee is a Los Angeles based independent producer. She produced "Songs My Brothers Taught Me," which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and recently screened in the Directors’ Fortnight program at the Cannes Film Festival. Angela is also the Artist Development Manager at Film Independent, where she oversees the selection process and curriculum for the Filmmaker Labs program, including Screenwriting, Directing, Producing, and Documentary Labs, the Fast Track Finance Market and the Fox Writers Intensive, managed in conjunction with Fox Audience Strategy. Previously, Angela served as Director of Creative Affairs at New York based Vox3 Films. Prior to her career in film, Angela was an Associate at Goldman Sachs. A native Chicagoan, Angela graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Economics and is on the Board of Directors for the University of Chicago National Arts Alumni Network.
The Fellows and projects selected for the 2015 Documentary Film Creative Producing Lab are:
"Brick"
Co-Directors/Producers: Jessica Dimmock & Christopher Lamarca
"Brick" reveals the raw emotional and physical experience of being a middle aged to senior transgender woman coming out for the first time in the Pacific Northwest. The film follows three intersecting stories of individuals who have lived their whole lives as men and decided this burdensome secret is one they can no longer keep.
Jessica Dimmock is the recipient of the 2013 World Press Photo Multimedia Contest as the director and cinematographer of the online feature, "Too Young to Wed." In 2010, Dimmock won Kodak's Best Cinematography Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival for "Without." The film premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, received an Independent Spirit Award, and was nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award. Dimmock contributed two short films to Doctors Without Borders' Emmy-nominated campaign, “Starved for Attention.” Her first photojournalism project, “The Ninth Floor” was published as a monograph. Most recently, she worked as photographer and videographer for Emmy-nominated HBO series, "The Weight of the Nation." She is represented by VII agency.
Christopher Lamarca is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker and based in Portland, Oregon. Lamarca has recently entered post-production on his first feature length film, "Boone." In 2012, it was chosen as one of eight films for Film Independent's Documentary Film lab. Lamarca's monograph, “Forest Defenders: The Confrontational American Landscape ” was published by PowerHouse Books in 2008. He was chosen to participate in the International Center of Photography’s triennial exhibition (2007), New York Photo festival (2009) and Lishui photo festival in China (2010). He reported on environmental and energy issues for magazines such as Rolling Stone, GQ, Fortune, and Newsweek.
"The Island and the Whales" (working title)
Directore/Producer: Mike Day
The pilot whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but when a local professor makes a grim discovery about the effects of marine pollution, and the seabirds populations collapse, environmental changes threaten to change the community and their way of life forever.
Mike Day is a Scottish director and producer. Formerly a lawyer in London and the Middle East he founded Intrepid Cinema in 2009 before heading out into the North Atlantic to make his previous film. His debut documentary "The Guga Hunters of Ness" broadcast on the BBC in 2011 and screened at festivals internationally to critical acclaim. It was while at sea in the Atlantic that he met a group of Faroese sailors, leading to his next film. Mike was listed as one of '10 Filmmakers to Watch' by Filmmaker Magazine, he was one of Edn's ’12 for the Future 2012’, and is supported by the Scottish Documentary Institute's Docscene programme. Intrepid Cinema also has two other feature documentaries in development.
"The Road From Hainan"
Director/Producer: Nanfu Wang
State surveillance. Harassment. Imprisonment. Human rights activist Ye Haiyan, Aka Sparrow, knew she faced these risks when she went to Hainan Province to seek justice for six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. But the scale and intensity of the government's reaction surprised even the most seasoned activists across China.
"The Road From Hainan" follows Sparrow as she was chased from town to town by local governments, national secret police, and even her own neighbors. Nanfu Wang is a documentary filmmaker based in New York. Originally from a remote village in China, Wang overcame poverty and lack of access to formal secondary education and went on to earn graduate degrees in communications and documentary film from universities in China and the United States. Her work often features the stories of marginalized or mistreated people, from Chinese blood donors stricken with HIV after being issued used needles by the government to the left-behind children of migrant laborers. During the production of her first full-length documentary, Wang lived on the streets of Miami with a homeless former drug dealer who relied on the kindness of strangers for his survival. Wang’s short films have been distributed on many platforms and translated into several languages, and she continues to seek out and tell the stories of people who have been ignored by their societies.
"Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four"
Director/Producer: Deborah Esquenazi
"Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four" excavates the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez — four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of allegedly gang-raping two little girls in San Antonio, Texas. The film also unravels the sinister interplay of mythology, homophobia and prosecutorial fervor which led to this modern day witch hunt during the 'Satanic Sexual Abuse Panic' of the late-80's and early-90's in the United States.
Deborah S. Esquenazi is an Austin, Texas-based documentary film and radio producer, instructor, and journalist. Her in-progress documentary feature, "Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four," has received international attention for its investigation into this controversial criminal case, and has been mentioned in Forbes Magazine, New York Times, Texas Observer, Vice Magazine, among others. Her film and radio documentaries have been funded by Chicken & Egg Pictures, Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Initiative, Humanities Texas, Astraea Global Arts Fund, and many others.
The Institute’s Creative Producing Initiative encompasses a year-round series of Labs, Fellowships, granting and events focusing on nurturing the next generation of independent producers and renewing the community of veteran producers who sustain the vibrancy and vitality of independent film.
The Feature Film Creative Producing Lab (July 27 – July 31) identifies emerging producers and, under the guidance of Creative Advisors, allows them to develop their creative instincts and evolve their communicating and problem-solving skills at all stages of their feature film project. This year’s Creative Advisors include producers Lindsay Doran ("Sense and Sensibility"), Lynette Howell Taylor (The Place Beyond the Pines), Gina Kwon ("Me You and Everyone We Know"), Paul Mezey ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), Jay Van Hoy (
"Beginners" ) and director Matthew Ross ("28 Hotel Rooms" ).
The Documentary Film Creative Producing Lab (July 27 – August 1) brings together documentarians with award-winning Advisors to focus on their current projects to explore the wide range of creative approaches to distribution, outreach and impact strategies. This year’s Creative Advisors include producers Julie Goldman ( "Best of Enemies"), Bonni Cohen ("3 1/2 Minutes," "10 Bullets"), Ryan Werner (Cinetic), Maxyne Franklin (Britdoc), and Wendy Cohen (Picture Motion).
The Creative Producing Summit takes place immediately following the Labs, July 31 – August 3. More than 50 industry leaders will participate in a series of curated panels, case studies, roundtables, and one-on-one meetings addressing critical issues producers face including financing, distribution, audience engagement, marketing and sustainability. Panelists this year include Len Amato (HBO Films),
Michael Barker (Sony Pictures Classics), Dori Begley (Magnolia Pictures), Josh Braun (Submarine), Dan Cogan (Impact Partners), Victoria S. Cook (Frankfurt Kurnit), Danielle Di Giacomo (The Orchard), Fred Dust (Ideo), Ted Hope (Amazon), Micah Green (CAA), John Hoffman (Discovery Channel), Marcus Hu (Strand Releasing), Charles King (MacRo), Jessica Lacy (ICM Partners), Stephanie Langhoff (Duplass Brothers), David Magdael (Tcdm Associates), Victor Moyers (Broad Green), Annie Roney (ro*co Films), John Sloss (Cinetic Media), Graham Taylor (William Morris Endeavor), and Jay Van Hoy (Parts & Labor).
The Fellows and projects selected for the 2015 Feature Film Creative Producing Lab are:
"50 Miles From Boomtown"
Producing Fellow: Alex Scharfman
After years of saving for her hard-earned dream, the only woman working on the fracking fields of North Dakota can finally quit but unexpectedly finds herself falling in love with the young man she's training to take her place. (writer/director Flo Linus Baumann).
Alex Scharfman is a New York-based producer whose past feature credits include "The Heart Machine" and "Lyle," as well as the short film "Superior," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, and the WGA Award-nominated webseries "F to 7th." He is an executive at Parts & Labor Films where he worked on films including "Keep The Lights On" and "Loitering with Intent." He has also produced content for Vice, Google, the Ford Foundation, and At&T. Alex received his BA from Cornell University, is a former Mfa candidate from Nyu’s Tisch School of the Arts, and received his Mba from Nyu’s Stern School of Business.
"Bexar County"
Mark Silverman Honorees and Producing Fellows: Blake Pickens and Stephen Love Jr.
In sunny San Antonio, Texas, where nothing ever changes, a town is turned on its head when a delusional Texas housewife accidentally poisons her son’s fiancée, learning that killing people is an efficient way to solve her problems. (Co-writer/director Catherine Grieve, co-writer Dylan Slocum)
Blake Pickens is from the south side of Oklahoma City, from a neighborhood known as the Flats. Despite the community’s rampant drug use and gang wars, Blake found his way into storytelling with a writing position at National Lampoon. He later attended the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC where he and his producing partner, Stephen Love Jr., formed their company Bs Pictures. They are currently in pre-production on the Steven Caple Jr.’s film The Land and in development on "The Friendship Nine" with producer Nina Yang Bongiovi. Blake’s aspirations are to tell the stories that make people laugh, cry, and ultimately impact their lives.
Stephen Love Jr. grew up in the rural towns of Filbert and Bennettsville, South Carolina. During his time as a business major at Morehouse College, Love founded the Morehouse Filmmakers' Association, for which Spike Lee is the honorary advisor. He also received his Mfa from USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program and formed Bs Pictures with fellow graduate Blake Pickens. Love’s primary career goal is to produce film and television that gives "a voice to the voiceless" while challenging the confines of the business of filmmaking.
"Dolores"
Producing Fellow: Drew Houpt
A restless teenager becomes obsessed with a mysterious Colombian woman who exploits his desire and lures him into her plot for revenge. (Writer/director Mary Angélica Molina)
Drew Houpt is an independent producer based in Brooklyn. For over ten years he was the head of operations at Mike Zoss Productions, Joel and Ethan Coen’s Tribeca-based production company. During that time he worked on the Academy Award-winning "No Country For Old Men" and the Academy Award-nominated "A Serious Man" and "True Grit." He served as Associate Producer on the Coens’ Grand Prix-winning "Inside Llewyn Davis" and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Academy Award-winning film "Birdman: or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance." This past year he co-produced Maris Curran’s directorial-debut "Five Nights in Maine" and produced "Every Day,' a short documentary for Espn’s 30 for 30 Shorts series that had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015. He has also produced music videos for the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang and an experimental documentary, "When A Priest Marries A Witch," by Suzanne Bocanegra.
"Rita Mahtoubian Is Not A Terrorist"
Producing Fellow: Deanna Barillari
When Iranian-born Rita Mahtoubian sets out to change her life from ordinary to extraordinary, she accidentally captures the attention of a homeland security agent in this satirical comedy about romance, terrorism and trying to be a better person. (Co-writers/directors Roja Gashtili & Julia Lerman)
Upon graduating Nyu Tisch, Deanna Barillari co-founded a non-profit theater company producing Off-Off-Broadway plays, including the NYC premiere of Leslye Headland's "Cinephilia" (2008), which funded in-school arts initiatives in the NYC Public School system. She then went on to work in TV on NBC's "Mercy" (2009), CBS’ "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" (2010), ABC’s "Pan Am," 86th Oscars (Ellen DeGeneres; 2014) and in Drama Development at Universal Television. Recently, she collaborated with AFI Dww Fellows Roja Gashtili and Julia Lerman, producing their web-series K(ID) starring Caterina Scorsone ("Grey's Anatomy") and their short "Rita Mahtoubian Is Not A Terrorist" starring Patrick Fugit ("Almost Famous") which made its World Premiere at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. She also produces for the La based Ovation Award-winning Iama Theatre Company.
"The Space Between"
Producing Fellow: Angela C. Lee
A female body builder devotes her life to turning ‘pro’ when she unexpectedly falls in love, forcing her to confront her fractured past with her dying father. (Writer/director Philiane Phang)
Angela C. Lee is a Los Angeles based independent producer. She produced "Songs My Brothers Taught Me," which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and recently screened in the Directors’ Fortnight program at the Cannes Film Festival. Angela is also the Artist Development Manager at Film Independent, where she oversees the selection process and curriculum for the Filmmaker Labs program, including Screenwriting, Directing, Producing, and Documentary Labs, the Fast Track Finance Market and the Fox Writers Intensive, managed in conjunction with Fox Audience Strategy. Previously, Angela served as Director of Creative Affairs at New York based Vox3 Films. Prior to her career in film, Angela was an Associate at Goldman Sachs. A native Chicagoan, Angela graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Economics and is on the Board of Directors for the University of Chicago National Arts Alumni Network.
The Fellows and projects selected for the 2015 Documentary Film Creative Producing Lab are:
"Brick"
Co-Directors/Producers: Jessica Dimmock & Christopher Lamarca
"Brick" reveals the raw emotional and physical experience of being a middle aged to senior transgender woman coming out for the first time in the Pacific Northwest. The film follows three intersecting stories of individuals who have lived their whole lives as men and decided this burdensome secret is one they can no longer keep.
Jessica Dimmock is the recipient of the 2013 World Press Photo Multimedia Contest as the director and cinematographer of the online feature, "Too Young to Wed." In 2010, Dimmock won Kodak's Best Cinematography Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival for "Without." The film premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, received an Independent Spirit Award, and was nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award. Dimmock contributed two short films to Doctors Without Borders' Emmy-nominated campaign, “Starved for Attention.” Her first photojournalism project, “The Ninth Floor” was published as a monograph. Most recently, she worked as photographer and videographer for Emmy-nominated HBO series, "The Weight of the Nation." She is represented by VII agency.
Christopher Lamarca is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker and based in Portland, Oregon. Lamarca has recently entered post-production on his first feature length film, "Boone." In 2012, it was chosen as one of eight films for Film Independent's Documentary Film lab. Lamarca's monograph, “Forest Defenders: The Confrontational American Landscape ” was published by PowerHouse Books in 2008. He was chosen to participate in the International Center of Photography’s triennial exhibition (2007), New York Photo festival (2009) and Lishui photo festival in China (2010). He reported on environmental and energy issues for magazines such as Rolling Stone, GQ, Fortune, and Newsweek.
"The Island and the Whales" (working title)
Directore/Producer: Mike Day
The pilot whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but when a local professor makes a grim discovery about the effects of marine pollution, and the seabirds populations collapse, environmental changes threaten to change the community and their way of life forever.
Mike Day is a Scottish director and producer. Formerly a lawyer in London and the Middle East he founded Intrepid Cinema in 2009 before heading out into the North Atlantic to make his previous film. His debut documentary "The Guga Hunters of Ness" broadcast on the BBC in 2011 and screened at festivals internationally to critical acclaim. It was while at sea in the Atlantic that he met a group of Faroese sailors, leading to his next film. Mike was listed as one of '10 Filmmakers to Watch' by Filmmaker Magazine, he was one of Edn's ’12 for the Future 2012’, and is supported by the Scottish Documentary Institute's Docscene programme. Intrepid Cinema also has two other feature documentaries in development.
"The Road From Hainan"
Director/Producer: Nanfu Wang
State surveillance. Harassment. Imprisonment. Human rights activist Ye Haiyan, Aka Sparrow, knew she faced these risks when she went to Hainan Province to seek justice for six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. But the scale and intensity of the government's reaction surprised even the most seasoned activists across China.
"The Road From Hainan" follows Sparrow as she was chased from town to town by local governments, national secret police, and even her own neighbors. Nanfu Wang is a documentary filmmaker based in New York. Originally from a remote village in China, Wang overcame poverty and lack of access to formal secondary education and went on to earn graduate degrees in communications and documentary film from universities in China and the United States. Her work often features the stories of marginalized or mistreated people, from Chinese blood donors stricken with HIV after being issued used needles by the government to the left-behind children of migrant laborers. During the production of her first full-length documentary, Wang lived on the streets of Miami with a homeless former drug dealer who relied on the kindness of strangers for his survival. Wang’s short films have been distributed on many platforms and translated into several languages, and she continues to seek out and tell the stories of people who have been ignored by their societies.
"Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four"
Director/Producer: Deborah Esquenazi
"Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four" excavates the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez — four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of allegedly gang-raping two little girls in San Antonio, Texas. The film also unravels the sinister interplay of mythology, homophobia and prosecutorial fervor which led to this modern day witch hunt during the 'Satanic Sexual Abuse Panic' of the late-80's and early-90's in the United States.
Deborah S. Esquenazi is an Austin, Texas-based documentary film and radio producer, instructor, and journalist. Her in-progress documentary feature, "Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four," has received international attention for its investigation into this controversial criminal case, and has been mentioned in Forbes Magazine, New York Times, Texas Observer, Vice Magazine, among others. Her film and radio documentaries have been funded by Chicken & Egg Pictures, Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Initiative, Humanities Texas, Astraea Global Arts Fund, and many others.
- 7/20/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Broad Green Pictures announced today a partnership with Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features to produce and finance Brain On Fire, a film based on Susannah Cahalan’s critically acclaimed memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, which was first published in 2012 and quickly became a New York Times bestseller.
The film will be directed by Gerard Barrett (Glassland, Pilgrim Hill). Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix and Beth Kono of Denver & Delilah, and Rob Merilees and Lindsay Macadam of Foundation Features are producing.
The film will star Chloë Grace Moretz (If I Stay, Kick-Ass), Jenny Slate (Obvious Child) and Thomas Mann (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Project X). Principal photography will begin July 13 in Vancouver and the film is set for release in 2016.
Brain On Fire follows Cahalan (Moretz), a rising journalist at the New York Post who mysteriously starts having seizures and hearing voices. As weeks go...
The film will be directed by Gerard Barrett (Glassland, Pilgrim Hill). Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix and Beth Kono of Denver & Delilah, and Rob Merilees and Lindsay Macadam of Foundation Features are producing.
The film will star Chloë Grace Moretz (If I Stay, Kick-Ass), Jenny Slate (Obvious Child) and Thomas Mann (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Project X). Principal photography will begin July 13 in Vancouver and the film is set for release in 2016.
Brain On Fire follows Cahalan (Moretz), a rising journalist at the New York Post who mysteriously starts having seizures and hearing voices. As weeks go...
- 7/7/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Screen La Star Of Tomorrow Gerard Barrett will direct the adaptation of Susannah Cahalan’s memoir to star Chloë Grace Moretz.
Broad Green Pictures, Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features will produce and finance Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness.
Charlize Theron will serve as producer on the story starring Moretz as a New York Post journalist afflicted by debilitating seizures who finds salvation in a last-gasp diagnosis. Jenny Slate and Thomas Mann also star.
Principal photography is scheduled to start on July 13 in Vancouver for a 2016 Us release via Broad Green. Theron’s Denver & Delilah partners A.J. Dix and Beth Kono will also produce alongside Rob Merilees and Lindsay Macadam of Foundation Features.
Mister Smith continues to represent international sales after launching the project at the Efm last February. Broad Green owns a 45% stake in the company and the partners previously announced they were working together on Buena Vista Social Club – Adios.
Barrett’s drama...
Broad Green Pictures, Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features will produce and finance Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness.
Charlize Theron will serve as producer on the story starring Moretz as a New York Post journalist afflicted by debilitating seizures who finds salvation in a last-gasp diagnosis. Jenny Slate and Thomas Mann also star.
Principal photography is scheduled to start on July 13 in Vancouver for a 2016 Us release via Broad Green. Theron’s Denver & Delilah partners A.J. Dix and Beth Kono will also produce alongside Rob Merilees and Lindsay Macadam of Foundation Features.
Mister Smith continues to represent international sales after launching the project at the Efm last February. Broad Green owns a 45% stake in the company and the partners previously announced they were working together on Buena Vista Social Club – Adios.
Barrett’s drama...
- 7/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Us director’s follow-up to Blue Ruin stars Patrick Stewart as a white supremacist and played at Cannes.
Picturehouse Entertainment and Altitude Film Entertainment have jointly acquired the UK distribution rights from WestEnd Films to Jeremy Saulnier’s thriller Green Room, starring Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots and Patrick Stewart.
Review: Green Room
It marks the second joint acquisition between Picturehouse and Altitude after the purchase of Cédric Jimenez’s The Connection in Cannes last year. The Connection will be released in the UK this weekend.
Picturehouse Entertainment released Saulnier’s acclaimed revenge thriller Blue Ruin last May, which won the Fipresci prize at Cannes 2014.
Green Room centres on a group of luckless punk band that find themselves hemmed in by far right skinheads at a remote woodland gig. The film received its world premiere in Director’s Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Picturehouse Entertainment director of programming and acquisitions Clare Binns described the film...
Picturehouse Entertainment and Altitude Film Entertainment have jointly acquired the UK distribution rights from WestEnd Films to Jeremy Saulnier’s thriller Green Room, starring Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots and Patrick Stewart.
Review: Green Room
It marks the second joint acquisition between Picturehouse and Altitude after the purchase of Cédric Jimenez’s The Connection in Cannes last year. The Connection will be released in the UK this weekend.
Picturehouse Entertainment released Saulnier’s acclaimed revenge thriller Blue Ruin last May, which won the Fipresci prize at Cannes 2014.
Green Room centres on a group of luckless punk band that find themselves hemmed in by far right skinheads at a remote woodland gig. The film received its world premiere in Director’s Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Picturehouse Entertainment director of programming and acquisitions Clare Binns described the film...
- 5/28/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Broad Green Pictures is launching production on "Buena Vista Social Club - Adios," a sequel sixteen years after Wim Wenders' original Oscar-nominated film that put Cuban music culture on the global stage, following Ry Cooder as he brought prominent Cuban musicians out of retirement. Two-time Academy Award nominee Lucy Walker will direct, with Christine Cowin and Zak Kilberg producing. With the band on their final and hugely ambitious world tour, the five original band members take us on a journey revealing their personal and professional highs and lows since 1999, while remembering the infamous band members they've lost. The tour will culminate in a series of homecoming concerts in Havana. Principal photography is slated to begin in July 2015 with theatrical release targeted in 2016. Broad Green’s Victor Moyers and Asher Goldstein will oversee production for the studio. Walker's documentary credits including Oscar nominees "The Tsunami and the...
- 5/1/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Mister Smith Entertainment to begin international sales at Cannes Marche.
La-based Broad Green Pictures is to produce a sequel to Buena Vista Social Club, 16 years after the release of Wim Wenders’ seminal Cuban music documentary and the band’s Grammy-winning album.
Buena Vista Social Club - Adios will be directed by Oscar-nominated film-maker Lucy Walker (Waste Land) and will catch up with the band on their final world tour, culminating in a series of concerts in Havana. Producers are Christine Cowin and Zak Kilberg.
Principal photography is slated to begin this July with theatrical release targeted in 2016.
Broad Green Pictures is financing the project and will lead production, with Victor Moyers and Asher Goldstein will oversee production for the studio, alongside Blink TV and Convergent Media (formerly Social Construct Media).
Broad Green has worldwide rights to the film and will distribute in the Us, while London-based Mister Smith Entertainment will handle international sales, which will begin...
La-based Broad Green Pictures is to produce a sequel to Buena Vista Social Club, 16 years after the release of Wim Wenders’ seminal Cuban music documentary and the band’s Grammy-winning album.
Buena Vista Social Club - Adios will be directed by Oscar-nominated film-maker Lucy Walker (Waste Land) and will catch up with the band on their final world tour, culminating in a series of concerts in Havana. Producers are Christine Cowin and Zak Kilberg.
Principal photography is slated to begin this July with theatrical release targeted in 2016.
Broad Green Pictures is financing the project and will lead production, with Victor Moyers and Asher Goldstein will oversee production for the studio, alongside Blink TV and Convergent Media (formerly Social Construct Media).
Broad Green has worldwide rights to the film and will distribute in the Us, while London-based Mister Smith Entertainment will handle international sales, which will begin...
- 5/1/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Here’s your first look at Broad Green Pictures’ Green Room.
In the crime thriller Green Room, a young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence, fighting for their lives against a gang of white power skinheads intent on eliminating all witnesses.
Patrick Stewart plays Darcy Banker, the unflinching and industrial leader of a ferocious white supremacist fiefdom based in the Pacific Northwest. Rounding out the cast is Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Kai Lennox, Eric Edelstein and Saulnier’s Blue Ruin star Macon Blair.
Bgp is producing and financing the film and plans to release the movie in 2015. The film is written by Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin), who will also direct. Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp of filmscience will produce the film along with Bgp’s Victor Moyers. Gabriel and Daniel Hammond...
In the crime thriller Green Room, a young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence, fighting for their lives against a gang of white power skinheads intent on eliminating all witnesses.
Patrick Stewart plays Darcy Banker, the unflinching and industrial leader of a ferocious white supremacist fiefdom based in the Pacific Northwest. Rounding out the cast is Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Kai Lennox, Eric Edelstein and Saulnier’s Blue Ruin star Macon Blair.
Bgp is producing and financing the film and plans to release the movie in 2015. The film is written by Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin), who will also direct. Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp of filmscience will produce the film along with Bgp’s Victor Moyers. Gabriel and Daniel Hammond...
- 11/20/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In the crime thriller Green Room, a young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence, fighting for their lives against a gang of white power skinheads intent on eliminating all witnesses. Patrick Stewart plays Darcy Banker, the unflinching and industrial leader of a ferocious white supremacist fiefdom based in the Pacific Northwest. Rounding out the cast is Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Kai Lennox, Eric Edelstein and Saulnier’s Blue Ruin star Macon Blair. Bgp is producing and financing the film and plans to release the movie in 2015. The film is written by Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin), who will also direct. Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp of filmscience will produce the film along with Bgp’s Victor Moyers. Gabriel and Daniel Hammond of Broad Green Pictures and Vincent Savino of filmscience will be executive producing the project.
- 11/20/2014
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Exclusive: UK sales outfit boards thriller starring Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots.
UK sales outfit WestEnd Films has boarded Blue Ruin writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s buzzed-about thriller Green Room.
Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots star alongside Patrick Stewart in the thriller which began shoot this month and will be among the most in-demand elevated genre scripts at the Afm.
The film charts the story of a punk four-piece called The Ain’t Rights, who on the final days of a failed concert tour get more than they bargained for when they accept a shady last-minute gig at an isolated venue in the wilds of Oregon.
Their survival journey then sees white supremacists pitted against anarchists with Stewart on board to play the unflinching leader of the ferocious white supremacist fiefdom.
Principal photography began this month in and around Portland, Oregon.
Saulnier’s acclaimed 2013 thriller Blue Ruin debuted at Sundance and then went on to play in Cannes in the...
UK sales outfit WestEnd Films has boarded Blue Ruin writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s buzzed-about thriller Green Room.
Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots star alongside Patrick Stewart in the thriller which began shoot this month and will be among the most in-demand elevated genre scripts at the Afm.
The film charts the story of a punk four-piece called The Ain’t Rights, who on the final days of a failed concert tour get more than they bargained for when they accept a shady last-minute gig at an isolated venue in the wilds of Oregon.
Their survival journey then sees white supremacists pitted against anarchists with Stewart on board to play the unflinching leader of the ferocious white supremacist fiefdom.
Principal photography began this month in and around Portland, Oregon.
Saulnier’s acclaimed 2013 thriller Blue Ruin debuted at Sundance and then went on to play in Cannes in the...
- 10/29/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK sales outfit boards thriller starring Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots.
UK sales outfit WestEnd Films has boarded writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s (Blue Ruin) buzzed-about thriller Green Room.
Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots star alongside Patrick Stewart in the thriller which began shoot this month and will be among the most in-demand elevated genre scripts at the Afm.
The film charts the story of a punk four-piece called The Ain’t Rights, who on the final days of a failed concert tour get more than they bargained for when they accept a shady last-minute gig at an isolated venue in the wilds of Oregon.
Their survival journey then sees white supremacists pitted against anarchists with Stewart on board to play the unflinching leader of the ferocious white supremacist clan.
Saulnier’s acclaimed 2013 cult thriller Blue Ruin debuted at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight strand where it won the Fipresci Prize and went on to rack up a string...
UK sales outfit WestEnd Films has boarded writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s (Blue Ruin) buzzed-about thriller Green Room.
Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots star alongside Patrick Stewart in the thriller which began shoot this month and will be among the most in-demand elevated genre scripts at the Afm.
The film charts the story of a punk four-piece called The Ain’t Rights, who on the final days of a failed concert tour get more than they bargained for when they accept a shady last-minute gig at an isolated venue in the wilds of Oregon.
Their survival journey then sees white supremacists pitted against anarchists with Stewart on board to play the unflinching leader of the ferocious white supremacist clan.
Saulnier’s acclaimed 2013 cult thriller Blue Ruin debuted at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight strand where it won the Fipresci Prize and went on to rack up a string...
- 10/29/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Broad Green Pictures (Bgp) together with filmscience have announced that Patrick Stewart has been added to the cast of Green Room. The film is written by Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin), who will also direct.
Patrick Stewart plays Darcy Banker, the unflinching and industrial leader of a ferocious white supremacist fiefdom based in the Pacific Northwest. Rounding out the cast is Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Kai Lennox, Eric Edelstein and Saulnier’s Blue Ruin star Macon Blair.
In the crime thriller Green Room, a young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence, fighting for their lives against a gang of white power skinheads intent on eliminating all witnesses.
Last seen reprising his iconic role in the summer blockbuster, X-men: Days Of Future Past, Stewart next stars opposite Matthew Lillard and Carla Gugino in IFC’s Match,...
Patrick Stewart plays Darcy Banker, the unflinching and industrial leader of a ferocious white supremacist fiefdom based in the Pacific Northwest. Rounding out the cast is Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Kai Lennox, Eric Edelstein and Saulnier’s Blue Ruin star Macon Blair.
In the crime thriller Green Room, a young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence, fighting for their lives against a gang of white power skinheads intent on eliminating all witnesses.
Last seen reprising his iconic role in the summer blockbuster, X-men: Days Of Future Past, Stewart next stars opposite Matthew Lillard and Carla Gugino in IFC’s Match,...
- 10/22/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
• Natalie Dormer is set to star in Lava Bear Films and Phantom Four's The Forest, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed. Jason Zada is directing from a script rewritten by Sarah Cornwell and Nick Antosca that was based on an original idea by David S. Goyer. Set in the Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji, the supernatural thriller tells the story of a young American woman who goes in pursuit of her missing twin sister. When she wanders off the path, she is met by the undead. Lava Bear is producing along with Goyer under his Phantom Four banner.
- 10/22/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Broad Green Pictures (Bgp) and filmscience have announced that Patrick Stewart has joined the cast of Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room.
Bgp is producing and financing Green Room and plans to release in 2015.
Saulnier (Blue Ruin) wrote the script about members of a punk band who fight for survival against a white supremacist gang after they witness a horrific act of violence.
Production is underway in Portland, Oregon. Stewart, star of the X-Men and Star Trek series, will play the leader of the supremacist organisation.
The cast includes Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Kai Lennox, Eric Edelstein and Macon Blair.
Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp of filmscience will produce with Bgp’s Victor Moyers.
Gabriel and Daniel Hammond of Broad Green Pictures and Vincent Savino of filmscience will serve as executive producers.
Bgp is producing and financing Green Room and plans to release in 2015.
Saulnier (Blue Ruin) wrote the script about members of a punk band who fight for survival against a white supremacist gang after they witness a horrific act of violence.
Production is underway in Portland, Oregon. Stewart, star of the X-Men and Star Trek series, will play the leader of the supremacist organisation.
The cast includes Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Kai Lennox, Eric Edelstein and Macon Blair.
Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp of filmscience will produce with Bgp’s Victor Moyers.
Gabriel and Daniel Hammond of Broad Green Pictures and Vincent Savino of filmscience will serve as executive producers.
- 10/21/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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