Six film projects currently at development stage have been selected to take part in a workshop session as part of mylab+@Jogja next month. The six share a common characteristic of Indonesian co-production and a recurring theme of luminescence.
“This theme underscores the importance of having the distinctive light of Asian cinema arise from its own characteristics. The participants reflect the new hope of Asian cinema with a fresh and authentic perspective. With this kind of program I really hope Asian films continue to shine by their own characters and beauty throughout the world,” said Ifa Isfansyah, producer, director and festival director of the Jogja-netpac Asian Film Festival.
Selected from over 60 applications, the six include a mix of youth on the directing side and experience on the producing side
They include: “A Ballad of Long Hair” with director-scriptwriter Giovanni Rustanto, producer Annisa Adjam and co-producer Fran Borgia; “Carpet” (aka “Karpet”) (Malaysia) with director Mien.
“This theme underscores the importance of having the distinctive light of Asian cinema arise from its own characteristics. The participants reflect the new hope of Asian cinema with a fresh and authentic perspective. With this kind of program I really hope Asian films continue to shine by their own characters and beauty throughout the world,” said Ifa Isfansyah, producer, director and festival director of the Jogja-netpac Asian Film Festival.
Selected from over 60 applications, the six include a mix of youth on the directing side and experience on the producing side
They include: “A Ballad of Long Hair” with director-scriptwriter Giovanni Rustanto, producer Annisa Adjam and co-producer Fran Borgia; “Carpet” (aka “Karpet”) (Malaysia) with director Mien.
- 10/26/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap will be serving as directing mentor along with fellow filmmakers Anthony Chen, Ifa Isfansyah, Joko Anwar and Ho Yuhang, for the ongoing Malaysian Development Lab for Fiction Feature Films (mylab) initiative at the Busan International Film Festival.
The directing mentors will work with the filmmakers of mylab and participate in conversations and exchanges on cinema and filmmaking, reports Variety.
An incubator programme for scriptwriters, directors, producers to work on developing scripts and film projects under lectures and the guidance of regional and international experts in scriptwriting, directing, producing, distribution, and markets and festivals, mylab focuses on projects at an early stage of development, with a team of scriptwriter, director and/or producer attached, targeted at regional or international audiences.
According to Variety, the programme is supported by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas). Other partners include Singapore Film Commission, Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp...
The directing mentors will work with the filmmakers of mylab and participate in conversations and exchanges on cinema and filmmaking, reports Variety.
An incubator programme for scriptwriters, directors, producers to work on developing scripts and film projects under lectures and the guidance of regional and international experts in scriptwriting, directing, producing, distribution, and markets and festivals, mylab focuses on projects at an early stage of development, with a team of scriptwriter, director and/or producer attached, targeted at regional or international audiences.
According to Variety, the programme is supported by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas). Other partners include Singapore Film Commission, Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp...
- 10/6/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Celebrated filmmakers Anthony Chen (“Wet Season”), Anurag Kashyap (“Dobaaraa”), Ifa Isfansyah (“Losmen Bu Broto”), Joko Anwar (“Impetigore”) and Ho Yuhang (“The Ghost Bride”) are serving as directing mentors for the ongoing Malaysian Development Lab for Fiction Feature Films (mylab) initiative at the Busan International Film Festival.
The directing mentors will work with the filmmakers of mylab and participate in depth conversations and exchanges on cinema and filmmaking.
An incubator program for scriptwriters, directors, producers to work on developing scripts and film projects under lectures and the guidance of regional and international experts in scriptwriting, directing, producing, distribution, and markets and festivals, mylab focuses on projects at an early stage of development, with a team of scriptwriter, director and/or producer attached, targeted at regional or international audiences.
The program is supported by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas). Other partners include Singapore Film Commission, Film Development Council of the Philippines...
The directing mentors will work with the filmmakers of mylab and participate in depth conversations and exchanges on cinema and filmmaking.
An incubator program for scriptwriters, directors, producers to work on developing scripts and film projects under lectures and the guidance of regional and international experts in scriptwriting, directing, producing, distribution, and markets and festivals, mylab focuses on projects at an early stage of development, with a team of scriptwriter, director and/or producer attached, targeted at regional or international audiences.
The program is supported by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (Finas). Other partners include Singapore Film Commission, Film Development Council of the Philippines...
- 10/6/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Co-operative whose alumni include Corin Hardy and Rachel Dargavel rebrands as UK courses company run by former Salt MD Samantha Horley.
UK filmmaker collective The Vipers Nest, whose alumni include Corin Hardy (The Hallow), Kevin Lehane (Grabbers) and Rachel Dargavel (Norfolk), is to relaunch as a training and courses brand under the stewardship of its founder, the former Salt MD Samantha Horley.
The first course, presented in association with cinema app Usheru, will be ‘How Low Can You Go? Swapping Money For Imagination’, a two-day low-budget film course in June presented by consultant and producer Stephen Cleary, whose credits as story consultant include 2014 Sundance and Berlin winner 52 Tuesdays [pictured].
The Vipers Nest was originally set up in 2010 by former Summit and Polygram sales executive Horley as a co-operative aimed at supporting first-time writers, directors and producers working on commercial films.
“Everywhere I go I’m asked about The Vipers Nest, so it seemed...
UK filmmaker collective The Vipers Nest, whose alumni include Corin Hardy (The Hallow), Kevin Lehane (Grabbers) and Rachel Dargavel (Norfolk), is to relaunch as a training and courses brand under the stewardship of its founder, the former Salt MD Samantha Horley.
The first course, presented in association with cinema app Usheru, will be ‘How Low Can You Go? Swapping Money For Imagination’, a two-day low-budget film course in June presented by consultant and producer Stephen Cleary, whose credits as story consultant include 2014 Sundance and Berlin winner 52 Tuesdays [pictured].
The Vipers Nest was originally set up in 2010 by former Summit and Polygram sales executive Horley as a co-operative aimed at supporting first-time writers, directors and producers working on commercial films.
“Everywhere I go I’m asked about The Vipers Nest, so it seemed...
- 4/1/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Musician and up-and-coming thesp Tyson Ritter is cozying up to Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette for friendship comedy/drama Miss You Already. The All-American Rejects frontman and Parenthood actor is joining the shoot this weekend in London and will play the young love interest to one of the ladies.
Barrymore and Collette star as Milly and Jess, best friends who have shared everything since they were kids. Now, Milly has a high-flying job and lives in a beautiful townhouse with husband Kit (Dominic Cooper) and their two kids. Jess is a town planner and she and her boyfriend Jago (Paddy Considine) live on a bohemian houseboat on a London canal. Their friendship is tested when Jess struggles to have a baby and Milly finds out she has breast cancer. Jacqueline Bisset also stars as Milly’s mother.
Ritter says he’s “thrilled and humbled to be a part of this compelling project.
Barrymore and Collette star as Milly and Jess, best friends who have shared everything since they were kids. Now, Milly has a high-flying job and lives in a beautiful townhouse with husband Kit (Dominic Cooper) and their two kids. Jess is a town planner and she and her boyfriend Jago (Paddy Considine) live on a bohemian houseboat on a London canal. Their friendship is tested when Jess struggles to have a baby and Milly finds out she has breast cancer. Jacqueline Bisset also stars as Milly’s mother.
Ritter says he’s “thrilled and humbled to be a part of this compelling project.
- 10/3/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Exclusive: Deals for Miss You Already, from Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke, which starts shooting on Sunday.
The Salt Company has closed deals on comedy drama Miss You Already, which gets underway in London on Sunday [Sept 7].
Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine and Jacqueline Bisset have newly joined Toni Collette on the Catherine Hardwicke-directed film, written by Morwenna Banks, about two life-long girlfriends whose friendship is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Salt has sold the film to Dutch FilmWorks in Benelux; Filmcoopi in Switzerland; Odeon in Greece; Tanweer Films in India and Turkey; Front Row Filmed Entertainment in the Middle East; Sena in Iceland; Forum Film in Israel; and Nos Lusomundo in Portugal.
eOne has UK rights.
All deals were negotiated by Salt partner and head of international James Norrie. Salt and CAA rep Us.
Producers are Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo Films. Executive producers...
The Salt Company has closed deals on comedy drama Miss You Already, which gets underway in London on Sunday [Sept 7].
Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine and Jacqueline Bisset have newly joined Toni Collette on the Catherine Hardwicke-directed film, written by Morwenna Banks, about two life-long girlfriends whose friendship is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Salt has sold the film to Dutch FilmWorks in Benelux; Filmcoopi in Switzerland; Odeon in Greece; Tanweer Films in India and Turkey; Front Row Filmed Entertainment in the Middle East; Sena in Iceland; Forum Film in Israel; and Nos Lusomundo in Portugal.
eOne has UK rights.
All deals were negotiated by Salt partner and head of international James Norrie. Salt and CAA rep Us.
Producers are Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo Films. Executive producers...
- 9/6/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Deals for Miss You Already, which starts shooting on Sunday.
The Salt Company has closed deals on comedy drama Miss You Already, which gets underway in London on Sunday [Sept 7].
Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine and Jacqueline Bisset have newly joined Toni Collette on the Catherine Hardwicke-directed film, written by Morwenna Banks, about two life-long girlfriends whose friendship is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Salt has sold the film to Dutch FilmWorks in Benelux; Filmcoopi in Switzerland; Odeon in Greece; Tanweer Films in India and Turkey; Front Row Filmed Entertainment in the Middle East; Sena in Iceland; Forum Film in Israel; and Nos Lusomundo in Portugal.
eOne has UK rights.
All deals were negotiated by Salt partner and head of international James Norrie. Salt and CAA rep Us.
Producers are Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo. Executive producers are Morwenna Banks, Catherine Hardwicke, [link...
The Salt Company has closed deals on comedy drama Miss You Already, which gets underway in London on Sunday [Sept 7].
Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine and Jacqueline Bisset have newly joined Toni Collette on the Catherine Hardwicke-directed film, written by Morwenna Banks, about two life-long girlfriends whose friendship is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Salt has sold the film to Dutch FilmWorks in Benelux; Filmcoopi in Switzerland; Odeon in Greece; Tanweer Films in India and Turkey; Front Row Filmed Entertainment in the Middle East; Sena in Iceland; Forum Film in Israel; and Nos Lusomundo in Portugal.
eOne has UK rights.
All deals were negotiated by Salt partner and head of international James Norrie. Salt and CAA rep Us.
Producers are Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo. Executive producers are Morwenna Banks, Catherine Hardwicke, [link...
- 9/6/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Salt Company has licensed international rights to Base jumping documentary Sunshine Superman to Universal Pictures International Entertainment ahead of this week’s world premiere in Toronto.
Marah Strauch’s Sunshine Superman will premiere in Canada on September 4 and chronicles the life of Carl Boenish who pioneered Base jumping in the 70s and 80s.
Submarine handles North American sales on the film, which uses 16mm footage shot by Boenish himself and reenactments of his exploits as he and his wife plot his attempt to jump from the towering Trollveggen cliffs in Norway.
Eric Bruggemann and Strauch produced with Lars Loge, while the executive producers are Alex Gibney, Josh Braun and Dan Braun of Submarine, Samantha Horley of The Salt Company and Phil Hunt and Compton Ross of Head Gear Films.
Horley and Nina Kolokouri brokered the deal with Universal Pictures International Entertainment. Sunshine Superman is a co-production between Scissor Kick Films, Flimmer Films and...
Marah Strauch’s Sunshine Superman will premiere in Canada on September 4 and chronicles the life of Carl Boenish who pioneered Base jumping in the 70s and 80s.
Submarine handles North American sales on the film, which uses 16mm footage shot by Boenish himself and reenactments of his exploits as he and his wife plot his attempt to jump from the towering Trollveggen cliffs in Norway.
Eric Bruggemann and Strauch produced with Lars Loge, while the executive producers are Alex Gibney, Josh Braun and Dan Braun of Submarine, Samantha Horley of The Salt Company and Phil Hunt and Compton Ross of Head Gear Films.
Horley and Nina Kolokouri brokered the deal with Universal Pictures International Entertainment. Sunshine Superman is a co-production between Scissor Kick Films, Flimmer Films and...
- 9/2/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Around this time last year we learned that Cujo has found itself on the remake chopping block, though we've heard little about the project since then. If you're hungry for some violent dog-on-human action, and don't want to wait, then have no fear, because Cujo isn't the only rabid canine in town!
Screen Daily reports that UK sales outfit The Salt Company has boarded international rights to horror flick The Pool, with Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House) attached to direct. Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera wrote the script, with revisions by Hyett, Conal Palmer and Steven Lally.
Set to be produced by Tim Dennison of Tall Man Films, The Pool follows a pool party at a luxury cliff top location that becomes a desperate fight for survival when the beloved family dog turns rabid.
In addition to directing, Hyett is also handling the makeup effects. He has previously worked in...
Screen Daily reports that UK sales outfit The Salt Company has boarded international rights to horror flick The Pool, with Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House) attached to direct. Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera wrote the script, with revisions by Hyett, Conal Palmer and Steven Lally.
Set to be produced by Tim Dennison of Tall Man Films, The Pool follows a pool party at a luxury cliff top location that becomes a desperate fight for survival when the beloved family dog turns rabid.
In addition to directing, Hyett is also handling the makeup effects. He has previously worked in...
- 5/13/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: Rabid dog horror written by Johannes Roberts to hit Cannes marché.
UK sales outfit The Salt Company has boarded international rights to horror The Pool, to be directed by Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House, Howl).
Written by Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera (with revisions by Hyett, Conal Palmer and Steven Lally), and set to be produced by Tim Dennison of Tall Man Films, The Pool follows a pool party at a luxury cliff top location that becomes a desperate fight for survival when the beloved family dog turns rabid.
FX specialist Hyett, who has worked on hits including The Descent and The Woman in Black, said: “What elevates a horror into a classic is making the audience terrified of the everyday – in this case, man’s best friend.” Hyett is handling FX for the project.
The film is due to start shoot in autumn 2014 in Puerto Rico.
Executive producers are Peter La Terriere of Platform 9 Pictures...
UK sales outfit The Salt Company has boarded international rights to horror The Pool, to be directed by Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House, Howl).
Written by Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera (with revisions by Hyett, Conal Palmer and Steven Lally), and set to be produced by Tim Dennison of Tall Man Films, The Pool follows a pool party at a luxury cliff top location that becomes a desperate fight for survival when the beloved family dog turns rabid.
FX specialist Hyett, who has worked on hits including The Descent and The Woman in Black, said: “What elevates a horror into a classic is making the audience terrified of the everyday – in this case, man’s best friend.” Hyett is handling FX for the project.
The film is due to start shoot in autumn 2014 in Puerto Rico.
Executive producers are Peter La Terriere of Platform 9 Pictures...
- 5/13/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK comedy-drama also starring Toni Collette readies for September 2014 shoot.
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz have newly boarded UK comedy-drama Miss You Already from writer Morwenna Banks.
Weisz will star alongside previously announced Toni Collette as vivacious best friends, inseparable since childhood, whose relationship is tested when one becomes pregnant and the other sick.
The UK production, due to shoot in September 2014, is produced by Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo Films, producers of I, Anna, The Sweeney and Still Life.
The Salt Company is selling the film internationally with CAA co-repping North America. Salt, Exponential Media and Maven Pictures are co-producing.
Director Hardwicke said of Banks’ script: “When I met Morwenna Banks, and read her script, I really felt her passion for this story - this is something she lived through. She managed to take real life and turn it into a powerful, laugh- and cry-out-loud...
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz have newly boarded UK comedy-drama Miss You Already from writer Morwenna Banks.
Weisz will star alongside previously announced Toni Collette as vivacious best friends, inseparable since childhood, whose relationship is tested when one becomes pregnant and the other sick.
The UK production, due to shoot in September 2014, is produced by Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo Films, producers of I, Anna, The Sweeney and Still Life.
The Salt Company is selling the film internationally with CAA co-repping North America. Salt, Exponential Media and Maven Pictures are co-producing.
Director Hardwicke said of Banks’ script: “When I met Morwenna Banks, and read her script, I really felt her passion for this story - this is something she lived through. She managed to take real life and turn it into a powerful, laugh- and cry-out-loud...
- 4/22/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK comedy-drama also starring Toni Collette readies for September 2014 shoot.
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz have newly boarded UK comedy-drama Miss You Already from writer Morwenna Banks.
Weisz will star alongside previously announced Toni Collette as vivacious best friends, inseparable since childhood, whose relationship is tested when one becomes pregnant and the other sick.
The UK production, due to shoot in September 2014, is produced by Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo Films, producers of I, Anna, The Sweeney and Still Life.
The Salt Company is selling the film internationally with CAA co-repping North America. Salt, Exponential Media and Maven Pictures are co-producing.
Director Hardwicke said of Banks’ script: “When I met Morwenna Banks, and read her script, I really felt her passion for this story - this is something she lived through. She managed to take real life and turn it into a powerful, laugh- and cry-out-loud...
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz have newly boarded UK comedy-drama Miss You Already from writer Morwenna Banks.
Weisz will star alongside previously announced Toni Collette as vivacious best friends, inseparable since childhood, whose relationship is tested when one becomes pregnant and the other sick.
The UK production, due to shoot in September 2014, is produced by Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo Films, producers of I, Anna, The Sweeney and Still Life.
The Salt Company is selling the film internationally with CAA co-repping North America. Salt, Exponential Media and Maven Pictures are co-producing.
Director Hardwicke said of Banks’ script: “When I met Morwenna Banks, and read her script, I really felt her passion for this story - this is something she lived through. She managed to take real life and turn it into a powerful, laugh- and cry-out-loud...
- 4/22/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Jennifer Aniston has spent the past three years appearing in comedic pictures for better (Horrible Bosses) or worse (Just Go With It), but she could be bringing this solely silly streak to a close with Miss You Already, a dramedy that's currently being sold around the European Film Market. Aniston is reportedly attached to star in the film that follows the decay of two life-long friends' relationship following one's pregnancy and the other's illness. The film's executive producer, Samantha Horley of The Salt Company, described it to Deadline as: .The idea is that it.s Beaches set in a glossy London, it.s a real old-fashioned tearjerker.. Details are scarce beyond this terse description, and there's no promise of who would co-star with Aniston, only that casting is now underway. However, we do know that writer-director Paul Andrew Williams, best-known for the crime thriller London to Brighton, is set to...
- 2/13/2012
- cinemablend.com
Jennifer Aniston is attached to star in Paul Andrew Williams' comedy drama Miss You Already, giving the project a healthy glow for buyers at the Efm. Being touted by Samantha Horley's The Salt Co., the script is written by Williams (Song for Marion) and British actress-writer-producer Morwenna Banks. Entertainment One prebought U.K., Australian and Canadian rights to the movie, which follows two lifelong friends whose friendship falls apart when one gets pregnant and the other becomes ill. The film will be produced by Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo Films. Aniston is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and CAA,
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- 2/12/2012
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Head over to twitter.com/TwistTheMovie and hashtag your video #faginsgang DescriptionHOW Do I Audition?
Via Twitter. Submit videos to us on our Twitter page: @twistthemovie using the hashtag #faginsgang. The videos must show you performing Parkour or any transferable skill or discipline (eg skateboarding, bike Parkour, breakdancing, gymnastics etc) and please introduce yourself (we need to see your charisma and your face).
Who Are We Looking For?
In this Casting Call we, the Producers of the film, are looking for actors who are also practitioners of Parkour and freerunning (or skateboarding, breakdancing etc), 16-24, male and female, to star as Fagin’s gang:
Oliver
Oliver is 17, an orphan who has learned to live off his wits, as well as his speed, there’s not many who can catch him. When he meets the gang and starts to learn Parkour just as fast, he’s going to become an invaluable asset to Fagin.
Via Twitter. Submit videos to us on our Twitter page: @twistthemovie using the hashtag #faginsgang. The videos must show you performing Parkour or any transferable skill or discipline (eg skateboarding, bike Parkour, breakdancing, gymnastics etc) and please introduce yourself (we need to see your charisma and your face).
Who Are We Looking For?
In this Casting Call we, the Producers of the film, are looking for actors who are also practitioners of Parkour and freerunning (or skateboarding, breakdancing etc), 16-24, male and female, to star as Fagin’s gang:
Oliver
Oliver is 17, an orphan who has learned to live off his wits, as well as his speed, there’s not many who can catch him. When he meets the gang and starts to learn Parkour just as fast, he’s going to become an invaluable asset to Fagin.
- 10/30/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
The stars and filmmaker of the new indie film Dirty Girl are speaking up and helping to spread the message, it gets better.
The film tells the story of a pair of mismatched misfits who must discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship. Abe Sylvia’s touching story of growing up in an intolerant place shares the universal message of hope, making it a great fit with author Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” project.
For more information visit: www.itgetsbetter.org
Synopsis:
Dirty Girl is the story of Danielle (Juno Temple), the dirty girl of Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, circa 1987. When Danielle.s misbehavior gets her banished to a remedial class, she is paired on a parenting project with Clarke (Jeremy Dozier), an innocent closet-case with no friends. Danielle is determined to get to California to find the father she.s never met,...
The film tells the story of a pair of mismatched misfits who must discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship. Abe Sylvia’s touching story of growing up in an intolerant place shares the universal message of hope, making it a great fit with author Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” project.
For more information visit: www.itgetsbetter.org
Synopsis:
Dirty Girl is the story of Danielle (Juno Temple), the dirty girl of Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, circa 1987. When Danielle.s misbehavior gets her banished to a remedial class, she is paired on a parenting project with Clarke (Jeremy Dozier), an innocent closet-case with no friends. Danielle is determined to get to California to find the father she.s never met,...
- 10/5/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: Arc Entertainment and XLrator Media have teamed to acquire North American distribution rights to the rock and roll comedy Killing Bono, which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival. They plan a VOD release in October and a theatrical release a month later. The film's directed by Nick Hamm, stars Ben Barnes, Krysten Ritter and Martin McCann and features the last performance by the late actor Pete Postlethwaite. Written by The Commitments scribes Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais and Simon Maxwell, the film tells the story of young Irish rock musician Neil McCormick and his brother Ivan. They try to become rock stars in Dublin but are upstaged by four of their friends when they form the band U2 and become the biggest rock stars in the world. Pic's an adaptation of Neil McCormick's memoir Killing Bono: I Am Bono's Doppelganger. Arc Entertainment CEO Trevor Drinkwater and...
- 8/4/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Robin Wright Penn is set to star in Rebecca Miller's "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" for Elevation Filmworks and Plan B Entertainment.
Wright Penn will play Pippa Lee, with Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder co-starring.
London-based Lumina Films is co-producing the film and handling worldwide sales, with CAA partnering on the sale of domestic distribution rights. Lumina plans to introduce the film to buyers at AFM.
Adapted from Miller's novel, the film takes an adventurous trip through Pippa Lee's past and present, as a methamphetamine-addicted mother whose husband leaves her for a younger woman. Pippa indulges in an array of erotic adventures while heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
Principal photography is set to start in April in Connecticut.
"To have this incredible cast come together is an amazing credit to the story and vision Rebecca has presented us with," said Elevation's Lemore Syvan, who negotiated the deal with Lumina's Samantha Horley and Cyril Megret and CAA.
Wright Penn and Moore are represented by CAA.
Wright Penn will play Pippa Lee, with Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder co-starring.
London-based Lumina Films is co-producing the film and handling worldwide sales, with CAA partnering on the sale of domestic distribution rights. Lumina plans to introduce the film to buyers at AFM.
Adapted from Miller's novel, the film takes an adventurous trip through Pippa Lee's past and present, as a methamphetamine-addicted mother whose husband leaves her for a younger woman. Pippa indulges in an array of erotic adventures while heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
Principal photography is set to start in April in Connecticut.
"To have this incredible cast come together is an amazing credit to the story and vision Rebecca has presented us with," said Elevation's Lemore Syvan, who negotiated the deal with Lumina's Samantha Horley and Cyril Megret and CAA.
Wright Penn and Moore are represented by CAA.
- 10/30/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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