Exclusive: 108 Media has picked up Us rights to the award-winning Canadian comedy and plans a one-week theatrical run in August.
Matthew Kowalchuk directed Lawrence & Holloman, which recently won best feature at the 15th annual Canadian Comedy Awards and has picked up awards across the Canadian festival cicruit including Vancouver and Edmonton international film festivals.
The film charts the exploits of a suicidal debt collector and an ebullient suit salesman whose fortunes change as their friendship develops.
Kowalchuk and Daniel Arnold adapted the stage play by Morris Panych. Ben Cotton, Katharine Isabelle, Amy Matysio and Daniel Arnold star.
108 Media will release Lawrence & Holloman in Los Angeles at the Downtown Independent from August 7-13, followed by VOD release on iTunes, Amazon, Xbox, Vudu, Google Play and other platforms on August 11.
Paul Armstrong, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Andrew Currie, Robyn Wiener and Don Thompson produced.
“108 Media can’t wait to introduce Lawrence & Holloman to the United States,” said CEO [link...
Matthew Kowalchuk directed Lawrence & Holloman, which recently won best feature at the 15th annual Canadian Comedy Awards and has picked up awards across the Canadian festival cicruit including Vancouver and Edmonton international film festivals.
The film charts the exploits of a suicidal debt collector and an ebullient suit salesman whose fortunes change as their friendship develops.
Kowalchuk and Daniel Arnold adapted the stage play by Morris Panych. Ben Cotton, Katharine Isabelle, Amy Matysio and Daniel Arnold star.
108 Media will release Lawrence & Holloman in Los Angeles at the Downtown Independent from August 7-13, followed by VOD release on iTunes, Amazon, Xbox, Vudu, Google Play and other platforms on August 11.
Paul Armstrong, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Andrew Currie, Robyn Wiener and Don Thompson produced.
“108 Media can’t wait to introduce Lawrence & Holloman to the United States,” said CEO [link...
- 7/14/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Lawrence & Holloman is one of those movies you either love or you hate. Based on a stage play from Morris Panych, it tells the story of two very opposite men – successful and sunny suit salesman Lawrence and dour, depressed clerk Holloman – who become friends and, later, foes.
It was a bold move for a first-time feature director, Vancouver’s Matthew Kowalchuk, and Daniel Arnold, who plays Holloman, to attempt to take the text to a different medium. The play is challenging and darkly funny, and its transition from a two-person show to the big screen was full of challenges and changes.
Last week, I sat down for an exclusive interview with Arnold and Kowalchuk, who discussed why their film is like Barton Fink, the biggest changes from stage to screen and when it is ok for a dark comedy to cross the line.
Check it out below and enjoy!
Of...
It was a bold move for a first-time feature director, Vancouver’s Matthew Kowalchuk, and Daniel Arnold, who plays Holloman, to attempt to take the text to a different medium. The play is challenging and darkly funny, and its transition from a two-person show to the big screen was full of challenges and changes.
Last week, I sat down for an exclusive interview with Arnold and Kowalchuk, who discussed why their film is like Barton Fink, the biggest changes from stage to screen and when it is ok for a dark comedy to cross the line.
Check it out below and enjoy!
Of...
- 9/2/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Dark comedy is a difficult thing to get right. The humor must be daring enough to go to uncompromising places, but mean and sardonic jokes only work if they are funny. The issue with jokes that aim to be savage and nasty is that they are also easy to make: it is simple to poke fun at someone in a vulgar way if the humor depends on humiliating that target. It is too simple for a screenwriter to whip up a joke that emasculates a male character – for instance, one making fun of their lack of sexual prowess – and put it down on the page. Similarly, it also demands little effort to turn the person who is making that crude joke into a boorish stereotype.
On those counts, Lawrence & Holloman is a comedic failure, a film empty of originality, compassion or humanity. Director and co-writer Matthew Kowalchuk does not give...
On those counts, Lawrence & Holloman is a comedic failure, a film empty of originality, compassion or humanity. Director and co-writer Matthew Kowalchuk does not give...
- 8/25/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
The Harold Greenberg Fund Script Program, a financing program from the entertainment company Astral Media, unveiled twenty-four upcoming Canadian films - chosen out of ninety-nine films - that will get its financial support.
Moreover, the selection of films include Neuromancer, an adaptation of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube), and Prisoner of Tehran, from Kari Skogland (Fifty Dead Men Walking). If you're an enthusiast of literature, you'll notice the presence of the film Cockroach, which is an adaptation of a novel by award-winning author Rawi Hage.
Now, without further ado, let's have a cursory look at the films that will get funded.
Story Optioning
Bottle Rocket Hearts
Sonia Hosko, Michelle Mama and Stephanie Markowitz
Screenwriter: Zoe Whittall and Linsey Stewart
Cockroach
Films du Boulevard Inc.
Screenwriter: Arto Paragamian
The Program
Acqua Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Hal Niedzviecki
Consecrated Ground
Emotion Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Thom Fitzgerald
Prisoner of Tehran
Miracle Pictures Inc.
Moreover, the selection of films include Neuromancer, an adaptation of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube), and Prisoner of Tehran, from Kari Skogland (Fifty Dead Men Walking). If you're an enthusiast of literature, you'll notice the presence of the film Cockroach, which is an adaptation of a novel by award-winning author Rawi Hage.
Now, without further ado, let's have a cursory look at the films that will get funded.
Story Optioning
Bottle Rocket Hearts
Sonia Hosko, Michelle Mama and Stephanie Markowitz
Screenwriter: Zoe Whittall and Linsey Stewart
Cockroach
Films du Boulevard Inc.
Screenwriter: Arto Paragamian
The Program
Acqua Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Hal Niedzviecki
Consecrated Ground
Emotion Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Thom Fitzgerald
Prisoner of Tehran
Miracle Pictures Inc.
- 5/6/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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