Coming-of-age tale co-stars Alex Wolff, Ellen Burstyn, and Nick Offerman.
La-based Premiere Entertainment Group arrives in Berlin with international rights to coming-of-age tale The House Of Tomorrow starring Asa Butterfield, Alex Wolff, Ellen Burstyn, and Nick Offerman.
Peter Livolsi makes his feature directorial debut on the dramedy, which Shout! Factory will release in the Us in limited theatres on April 20.
Butterfield, whose credits include Hugo, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas and Ender’s Game, plays the lead as a sheltered teenager who lives with his overbearing grandmother and meets another youngster who wants to start a punk band.
Maude Apatow and Michaela Watkins round out the key cast. Livolsi adapted the screenplay from the novel by Peter Bognanni, and Danielle Renfrew Behrens and Tarik Karam serve as producers.
The House Of Tomorrow was made with support from the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program and the Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Fund.
Premiere president and CEO...
La-based Premiere Entertainment Group arrives in Berlin with international rights to coming-of-age tale The House Of Tomorrow starring Asa Butterfield, Alex Wolff, Ellen Burstyn, and Nick Offerman.
Peter Livolsi makes his feature directorial debut on the dramedy, which Shout! Factory will release in the Us in limited theatres on April 20.
Butterfield, whose credits include Hugo, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas and Ender’s Game, plays the lead as a sheltered teenager who lives with his overbearing grandmother and meets another youngster who wants to start a punk band.
Maude Apatow and Michaela Watkins round out the key cast. Livolsi adapted the screenplay from the novel by Peter Bognanni, and Danielle Renfrew Behrens and Tarik Karam serve as producers.
The House Of Tomorrow was made with support from the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program and the Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Fund.
Premiere president and CEO...
- 2/15/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Asa Butterfield and Alex Wolff have joined the film adaptation of Peter Bognanni's 2011 coming-of-age novel "The House of Tomorrow" at Superlative Film and Water's End Productions.
The story follows a teenage boy who lives in a geodesic dome with his eccentric grandmother, who has spent the last eleven years homeschooling him on the teachings of futurist, architect and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller.
When his grandmother has a stroke, he's forced to leave the dome and discover what it means to live a normal life. Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Maude Apatow and Michaela Watkins also star.
Peter Livolsi helms and shooting is currently underway in Minnesota. Tarik Karam and Danielle Renfrew Behrens will produce.
Source: Variety...
The story follows a teenage boy who lives in a geodesic dome with his eccentric grandmother, who has spent the last eleven years homeschooling him on the teachings of futurist, architect and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller.
When his grandmother has a stroke, he's forced to leave the dome and discover what it means to live a normal life. Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Maude Apatow and Michaela Watkins also star.
Peter Livolsi helms and shooting is currently underway in Minnesota. Tarik Karam and Danielle Renfrew Behrens will produce.
Source: Variety...
- 7/28/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Peter Livolsi’s big screen adaptation of Peter Bognanni’s award-winning novel “The House of Tomorrow” has added a slew of impressive new cast members. The film, which has already started shooting in Minnesota, is set to star Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Asa Butterfield, Alex Wolff, Maude Apatow and Michaela Watkins.
The film follows “futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller’s incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.” The book was published in 2011.
Read More: Watch: Academy Award Winner Ellen Burstyn and Danny Glover Team Up in Exclusive ‘About Scout’ Trailer
The film is Livolsi’s feature debut, and he is set to serve as both writer and director on the project. He previously participated in the 2016 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the project was a recipient of the Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Grant.
Of the news, Livolsi commented, “Peter Bognanni...
The film follows “futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller’s incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.” The book was published in 2011.
Read More: Watch: Academy Award Winner Ellen Burstyn and Danny Glover Team Up in Exclusive ‘About Scout’ Trailer
The film is Livolsi’s feature debut, and he is set to serve as both writer and director on the project. He previously participated in the 2016 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the project was a recipient of the Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Grant.
Of the news, Livolsi commented, “Peter Bognanni...
- 7/25/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
What They Left Behind, a new documentary film chronicling the stories of three children whose lives were lost to gun violence, will premiere December 10 at the Helen Mills Theater in New York.
The film, directed by Tarik Karam and executive produced by Stephen Daldry, the Oscar-nominated director of The Reader, The Hours and Billy Elliot, is being released four days in advance of the second anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. Seven-year-old Mark Barden, who was one of the 20 children murdered at Sandy Hook that day, is one of the three children featured in the film. His father, Mark Barden, will be on hand for the premiere. Bill Sherlach, the husband of Mary Sherlach, the Sandy Hook school psychologist who was killed while heroically trying to protect the students, will also be present at the film’s premiere.
The film, presented by the non-profit group Sandy Hook Promise,...
The film, directed by Tarik Karam and executive produced by Stephen Daldry, the Oscar-nominated director of The Reader, The Hours and Billy Elliot, is being released four days in advance of the second anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. Seven-year-old Mark Barden, who was one of the 20 children murdered at Sandy Hook that day, is one of the three children featured in the film. His father, Mark Barden, will be on hand for the premiere. Bill Sherlach, the husband of Mary Sherlach, the Sandy Hook school psychologist who was killed while heroically trying to protect the students, will also be present at the film’s premiere.
The film, presented by the non-profit group Sandy Hook Promise,...
- 12/10/2014
- by David Robb
- Deadline
For short films, the Tribeca Film Festival is a must. Winning the award for Narrative Short or Best Documentary Short automatically qualifies a film for the Academy Awards. Their track record isn’t too bad either. Shawn Christensen’s Curfew had its New York premiere at the Festival and went on to win the Academy Award.
This year, Tribeca will show 60 short films in eight categories, from a variety of new and returning directors (including Christensen with Grandma’s Not A Toaster), and featuring performances from a number of Hollywood stars. Elijah Wood plays a standup comic who attempts a daring set in Setup,...
This year, Tribeca will show 60 short films in eight categories, from a variety of new and returning directors (including Christensen with Grandma’s Not A Toaster), and featuring performances from a number of Hollywood stars. Elijah Wood plays a standup comic who attempts a daring set in Setup,...
- 3/11/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
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