UK sales outfit Bankside Films has unveiled a first look image of Mala Emde in the role of Vera Brandes in Ido Fluk’s The Girl From Köln, as well as a slew of key deals on the film as the company heads into the European Film Market (EFM).
The feature, currently in post-production, tells the little-known story of one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, US pianist Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, and how one formidable German teenager, Vera Brandes, was instrumental in its creation. Bankside will be showing a sales promo to buyers at the EFM.
The feature, currently in post-production, tells the little-known story of one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, US pianist Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, and how one formidable German teenager, Vera Brandes, was instrumental in its creation. Bankside will be showing a sales promo to buyers at the EFM.
- 2/9/2024
- ScreenDaily
New projects from Cherien Dabis, Anders Thomas Jensen and Ameer Fakher Eldin have also been awarded
Ariane Labed’s feature-directing debut Sisters is among the 33 projects to receive funding from Eurimages second wave of 2023 co-production funding.
The French-Greek actor’s feature directing debut received €350,000 from the €9.7m pot. The Ireland, UK, Germany and Greece co-production is produced by Ireland’s Element Pictures. An English-language adaptation of Daisy Johnson’s gothic novel of the same name it follows two sisters who move to the countryside with their maniac depressive mother. Labed previously directed short film Olla which won three awards at...
Ariane Labed’s feature-directing debut Sisters is among the 33 projects to receive funding from Eurimages second wave of 2023 co-production funding.
The French-Greek actor’s feature directing debut received €350,000 from the €9.7m pot. The Ireland, UK, Germany and Greece co-production is produced by Ireland’s Element Pictures. An English-language adaptation of Daisy Johnson’s gothic novel of the same name it follows two sisters who move to the countryside with their maniac depressive mother. Labed previously directed short film Olla which won three awards at...
- 7/4/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: New indie film financier Mizzel Media is launching in Cannes with what we understand to be a healthy six-figure investment in feature The Girl From Köln, the next film from Holy Spider and The Tale outfit One Two Films.
The movie, which is due to shoot later this year, will star Mala Emde (And Tomorrow The Entire World) and John Magaro (Past Lives) in the lead roles.
Bankside is handling world sales in Cannes on the project, which will tell the little-known backstory of how a maverick German teenager named Vera Brandes was instrumental in the creation of the best-selling solo piano record of all time, U.S. pianist Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert. Ido Fluk (The Ticket) directs from his own script.
The investment is U.S. outfit Mizzel’s first to date. The New York-based company is run by producer and veteran manager Lillian Lasalle, whose clients...
The movie, which is due to shoot later this year, will star Mala Emde (And Tomorrow The Entire World) and John Magaro (Past Lives) in the lead roles.
Bankside is handling world sales in Cannes on the project, which will tell the little-known backstory of how a maverick German teenager named Vera Brandes was instrumental in the creation of the best-selling solo piano record of all time, U.S. pianist Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert. Ido Fluk (The Ticket) directs from his own script.
The investment is U.S. outfit Mizzel’s first to date. The New York-based company is run by producer and veteran manager Lillian Lasalle, whose clients...
- 5/19/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
I have been tracking producer Sol Bondy since 2016 when co-production The Happiest Day in the Life of Ölli Mäki won the Un Certain Regard Grand Prize and the European Film Award for Best Debut. He and Fred Burle have been developing The Girl from Köln (aka Köln 75) with writer-director Ido Fluk, the filmmaker behind 2016 Tribeca selection The Ticket since 2019. "This project has been very close to our hearts in the last few years and we're very excited with the way it's been shaped so far," said Bondy, a Variety Producer to Watch in 2018. "It's been such a joy working with Ido on this exciting story and we're thrilled to have put an amazing team together," added Burle, Brazilian born producer who was just made a partner in One Two Films, alongside co-founders Sol Bondy and Christoph Lange. Burle joined One Two in January 2017, having graduated from the German Film and Television Academy (dffb) the previous year. He has previously worked as a film critic, at The Match Factory, and as curator of the inaugural dffb film festival. One Two Films has produced and co-produced award-winning films such as Holy Spider (Read my blog about it here), Vadim Perelman's Persian Lessons (Read my blog about it here), Jennifer Fox's Sundance breakout The Tale, Isabel Coixet's The Bookshop and Juho Kuosmanen's The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki.Other titles in the pipeline include Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson's dark comedy Northern Comfort, which premieres in SXSW later this month, Annemarie Jacir's survival drama The Oblivion Theory, Sarah Arnold's debut feature Wild Encounters and Michiel ten Horn's romantic comedy Any Other Night. In Berlin this year it was announced that Bankside would be The Girl from Köln's international sales agent and was launching sales. Alamode Film already has German-speaking territories and is a coproducer, who have very recently secured funding through the Fff, the local fund in Bavaria. It is in early pre-production and will shoot this year in Poland and Germany. The Girl from Köln tells the little-known story of Vera Brandes, who, in 1975, at the age of 17, staged the famous Köln Concert by jazz musician Keith Jarrett, which became the top-selling jazz solo album of all time. With Polish Film Institute backing, Oscar-winning Polish producer Ewa Puszczynska (Ida, Cold War) of Extreme Emotions is co-producing along with Annegret Weitkämper-Krug of Germany's Gretchenfilm (Seneca). Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Oren Moverman (Love & Mercy, Bad Education) serves as executive producer. Moverman also produced Fluk's previous feature, The Ticket. The Tale writer-director Jennifer Fox also serves as executive producer. Stephen Kelliher and Sophie Green executive produce for Bankside. It stars Mala Emde (Skin Deep, And Tomorrow the Entire World) in the lead role, alongside John Magaro (Past Lives) as Jarrett. Magaro was also in Cannes last year with Kelly Reichardt's competition title Showing Up.Other cast attached include Alexander Scheer (Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush), Ulrich Tukur (The Life of Others), Susanne Wolff (Sisi & I, Styx), Jördis Triebel (Dark), Jan Bülow (Lindenberg) and Marie-Lou Sellem (Tar, Exit Marrakesh). The NYU-graduate Fluk was dubbed "a talent to watch" by Variety following his feature debut Never Too Late, the first crowd-sourced Israeli film ever made. His American debut, the Tribeca competition selection, The Ticket, starred Dan Stevens and Malin Akerman. Upcoming projects include 24 Hours in June, a retelling of the final day in the life of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union, to be produced by Academy Award winner James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain) and Joe Pirro (Driveways). Fluk is repped by Amotz Zakai, Amy Schiffman, and Kegan Schell at Echo Lake Entertainment. He is also created the recently-announced HBO series Empty Mansions for Fremantle with director Joe Wright (Atonement, Darkest Hour) attached to direct the pilot. "From the moment I heard Vera's story, about how as a high school teenager she organized one of the greatest concerts in history, I knew her story had to be told," said Fluk. "We were immediately exhilarated by Vera Brandes' remarkable female empowerment story. Her strength, courage and sheer belief in herself and the music of Keith Jarrett will entertain and inspire audiences around the world," added Kelliher.
- 3/5/2023
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
The film follows a grieving widower and his son whose lives are uplifted by the arrival of a Bulgarian au pair.
UK sales outfit Bankside Films has boarded Rebekah Fortune’s Learning To Breathe Under Water with Rory Kinnear and Maria Bakalova attached
Bankside is handling worldwide sales and will introduce the title to buyers at next week’s European Film Market.
Currently in pre-production, the film follows a grieving widower and his son whose lives are uplifted by the arrival of a Bulgarian au pair. It is based on a screenplay from Richard Brabin.
Jack Tarling at UK production company Shudder Films,...
UK sales outfit Bankside Films has boarded Rebekah Fortune’s Learning To Breathe Under Water with Rory Kinnear and Maria Bakalova attached
Bankside is handling worldwide sales and will introduce the title to buyers at next week’s European Film Market.
Currently in pre-production, the film follows a grieving widower and his son whose lives are uplifted by the arrival of a Bulgarian au pair. It is based on a screenplay from Richard Brabin.
Jack Tarling at UK production company Shudder Films,...
- 2/10/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The film follows a grieving widower and his son whose lives are uplifted by the arrival of a Bulgarian au pair.
UK sales outfit Bankside Films has boarded Rebekah Fortune’s Learning To Breathe Underwater starring Rory Kinnear and Maria Bakalova.
Bankside is handling worldwide sales and will introduce the title to buyers at next week’s European Film Market.
Currently in pre-production, the film follows a grieving widower and his son whose lives are uplifted by the arrival of a Bulgarian au pair. It is based on a screenplay from Richard Brabin.
Jack Tarling at UK production company Shudder Films,...
UK sales outfit Bankside Films has boarded Rebekah Fortune’s Learning To Breathe Underwater starring Rory Kinnear and Maria Bakalova.
Bankside is handling worldwide sales and will introduce the title to buyers at next week’s European Film Market.
Currently in pre-production, the film follows a grieving widower and his son whose lives are uplifted by the arrival of a Bulgarian au pair. It is based on a screenplay from Richard Brabin.
Jack Tarling at UK production company Shudder Films,...
- 2/10/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Parks, experiences and products division reported 21 climb in revenues over last quarter.
The number of global Disney+ subscribers fell by 2.4m to 161.8m to mark the first membership drop since the service launched in November 2019, while revenues at The Walt Disney Company for the first quarter of 2023 beat analysts’ forecasts.
Revenue rose 8 to 23.5bn, powered by the ongoing strong performance of the company’s parks division. Diluted earnings per share excluding certain items reached 99 cents following a decline of 7 cents, also beating Wall Street expectations.
The parks, experiences and products division reported a 21 climb in revenues over last quarter to 8.7bn,...
The number of global Disney+ subscribers fell by 2.4m to 161.8m to mark the first membership drop since the service launched in November 2019, while revenues at The Walt Disney Company for the first quarter of 2023 beat analysts’ forecasts.
Revenue rose 8 to 23.5bn, powered by the ongoing strong performance of the company’s parks division. Diluted earnings per share excluding certain items reached 99 cents following a decline of 7 cents, also beating Wall Street expectations.
The parks, experiences and products division reported a 21 climb in revenues over last quarter to 8.7bn,...
- 2/8/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Germany’s Mala Emde and US actor John Magaro are set to star.
UK sales outfit Bankside Films has boarded worldwide sales on director Ido Fluk’s feature Köln 75, that tells the little-known story of one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, US pianist Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, and how one maverick German teenager was instrumental in its creation.
The film meets teenager Vera Brandes while she is still in high school and starts producing and promoting music concerts in Cologne, and risks everything to put on what will become Jarrett’s legendary show.
German star of...
UK sales outfit Bankside Films has boarded worldwide sales on director Ido Fluk’s feature Köln 75, that tells the little-known story of one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, US pianist Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, and how one maverick German teenager was instrumental in its creation.
The film meets teenager Vera Brandes while she is still in high school and starts producing and promoting music concerts in Cologne, and risks everything to put on what will become Jarrett’s legendary show.
German star of...
- 2/8/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: HBO is developing a series adaptation of nonfiction book Empty Mansions, about a wealthy recluse.
The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned premium network is working on the project with The Ticket filmmaker Ido Fluk, Atonement and Darkest Hour director Joe Wright and The Mosquito Coast producer Fremantle.
The story follows Huguette Clark, an elderly, fabulously wealthy recluse who is hospitalized for a number of seemingly minor ailments and a series of events is set into motion regarding her fortune and an unsigned will.
Fluk will write and exec produce, Wright will direct the potential pilot and exec produce alongside Fremantle.
At the Rtl-owned producer and distributor, the project comes from Dante Di Loreto, President of Scripted Programming in the U.S. Di Loreto, in fact, previously worked closely with Ryan Murphy, exec producing series including Glee and American Horror Story. Murphy had optioned the book back in 2014, a year after it was published.
The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned premium network is working on the project with The Ticket filmmaker Ido Fluk, Atonement and Darkest Hour director Joe Wright and The Mosquito Coast producer Fremantle.
The story follows Huguette Clark, an elderly, fabulously wealthy recluse who is hospitalized for a number of seemingly minor ailments and a series of events is set into motion regarding her fortune and an unsigned will.
Fluk will write and exec produce, Wright will direct the potential pilot and exec produce alongside Fremantle.
At the Rtl-owned producer and distributor, the project comes from Dante Di Loreto, President of Scripted Programming in the U.S. Di Loreto, in fact, previously worked closely with Ryan Murphy, exec producing series including Glee and American Horror Story. Murphy had optioned the book back in 2014, a year after it was published.
- 2/7/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Alamode to co-produce Ido Fluk’s jazz feature ’Köln 75’
Munich-based distributor Alamode Film is set to make its first foray into production as a co-producer of Köln 75 with Holy Spider’s German producer One Two Films.
The feature by New-York-based Israeli filmmaker Ido Fluk centres on Vera Brandes who staged jazz musician Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert in 1975 at the tender age of 17.
She has subsequently run her own record label and become an award-winning music producer as well as one of the world’s leading authorities on music medicine research.
Speaking exclusively to Screen Daily at Holy Spider...
Munich-based distributor Alamode Film is set to make its first foray into production as a co-producer of Köln 75 with Holy Spider’s German producer One Two Films.
The feature by New-York-based Israeli filmmaker Ido Fluk centres on Vera Brandes who staged jazz musician Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert in 1975 at the tender age of 17.
She has subsequently run her own record label and become an award-winning music producer as well as one of the world’s leading authorities on music medicine research.
Speaking exclusively to Screen Daily at Holy Spider...
- 10/10/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Alamode to co-produce Ido Fluk’s jazz feature ’Köln 75’
Munich-based distributor Alamode Film is set to make its first foray into production as a co-producer of Köln 75 with Holy Spider’s German producer One Two Films.
The feature, by New-York-based Israeli filmmaker Ido Fluk, centres on Vera Brandes who staged jazz musician Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert in 1975 at the tender age of 17.
Since then, she has subsequently run her own record label and become an award-winning music producer as well as one of the world’s leading authorities on music medicine research.
Speaking exclusively to Screen Daily at...
Munich-based distributor Alamode Film is set to make its first foray into production as a co-producer of Köln 75 with Holy Spider’s German producer One Two Films.
The feature, by New-York-based Israeli filmmaker Ido Fluk, centres on Vera Brandes who staged jazz musician Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert in 1975 at the tender age of 17.
Since then, she has subsequently run her own record label and become an award-winning music producer as well as one of the world’s leading authorities on music medicine research.
Speaking exclusively to Screen Daily at...
- 10/9/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Berlin-based One Two Films, in Cannes this week with Ali Abbasi’s competition title “Holy Spider,” is prepping a new feature from writer-director Ido Fluk, the filmmaker behind 2016 Tribeca selection “The Ticket.”
“Köln 75” tells the true story of Vera Brandes, who, in 1975 and at the age of 17, staged the famous Köln Concert by jazz musician Keith Jarrett, which became the top-selling jazz solo album of all time. It stars Mala Emde (“And Tomorrow the Entire World”) in the lead role, alongside John Magaro (“First Cow”) as Jarrett. Magaro is also in Cannes with Kelly Reichardt’s competition title “Showing Up.”
Oscar-winning Polish producer Ewa Puszczynska of Extreme Emotions will co-produce, with Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Oren Moverman serving as executive producer. Moverman also produced Fluk’s previous feature, “The Ticket.”
Other cast attached include Alexander Scheer (“Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush”), Ulrich Tukur (“The Life of Others”), Susanne Wolff...
“Köln 75” tells the true story of Vera Brandes, who, in 1975 and at the age of 17, staged the famous Köln Concert by jazz musician Keith Jarrett, which became the top-selling jazz solo album of all time. It stars Mala Emde (“And Tomorrow the Entire World”) in the lead role, alongside John Magaro (“First Cow”) as Jarrett. Magaro is also in Cannes with Kelly Reichardt’s competition title “Showing Up.”
Oscar-winning Polish producer Ewa Puszczynska of Extreme Emotions will co-produce, with Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Oren Moverman serving as executive producer. Moverman also produced Fluk’s previous feature, “The Ticket.”
Other cast attached include Alexander Scheer (“Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush”), Ulrich Tukur (“The Life of Others”), Susanne Wolff...
- 5/20/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Harvey Keitel has accepted an offer he can’t refuse to take on the role of notorious gangster Meyer Lansky in the Eytan Rockaway directed untitled biopic.
Keitel will be joined by Sam Worthington, Emory Cohen and Austin Stowell on the cast while Alexandra Daddario and Tony Danza are still currently in talks.
The story follows an ageing Lansky living quietly in Miami Beach after being investigated and pursued for decades by the FBI. He enlists a young journalist named David Stone (Sam Worthington) to tell his story, but the Feds use the young man as a pawn to track the hundreds of millions the mobster is suspected of stashing.
Also in news – Michael Fassbender and Peter Dinklage in talks to star in Mel Gibson’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ remake
Stone finds himself caught in the middle of a game of cat and mouse, uncovering the hidden truth about the...
Keitel will be joined by Sam Worthington, Emory Cohen and Austin Stowell on the cast while Alexandra Daddario and Tony Danza are still currently in talks.
The story follows an ageing Lansky living quietly in Miami Beach after being investigated and pursued for decades by the FBI. He enlists a young journalist named David Stone (Sam Worthington) to tell his story, but the Feds use the young man as a pawn to track the hundreds of millions the mobster is suspected of stashing.
Also in news – Michael Fassbender and Peter Dinklage in talks to star in Mel Gibson’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ remake
Stone finds himself caught in the middle of a game of cat and mouse, uncovering the hidden truth about the...
- 5/21/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Harvey Keitel will star as notorious gangster Meyer Lansky, a contemporary of Bugsy Siegel, in a biopic directed by Eytan Rockaway. Sam Worthington, Emory Cohen and Austin Stowell are also set to star in the picture, with Alexandra Daddario and Tony Danza in talks to join.
Voltage Pictures has boarded the project and hopes to spark international sales at Cannes. Rockaway wrote the script from a story by Ido Fluk and Sharon Mashihi, partially based on interviews with the real-life Lansky conducted by Rockaway’s father, history professor Robert Rockaway.
The film centers on an aging Lansky living in anonymity in Miami Beach after being investigated and pursued for decades by the FBI. When he enlists a young journalist named David Stone (Worthington) to tell his story, the Feds use him as a pawn to track down the hundreds of millions of dollars that the mobster has been suspected of stashing.
Voltage Pictures has boarded the project and hopes to spark international sales at Cannes. Rockaway wrote the script from a story by Ido Fluk and Sharon Mashihi, partially based on interviews with the real-life Lansky conducted by Rockaway’s father, history professor Robert Rockaway.
The film centers on an aging Lansky living in anonymity in Miami Beach after being investigated and pursued for decades by the FBI. When he enlists a young journalist named David Stone (Worthington) to tell his story, the Feds use him as a pawn to track down the hundreds of millions of dollars that the mobster has been suspected of stashing.
- 5/17/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Filmmaker Oren Moverman has never shied away from tackling difficult, seemingly impossible material to adapt to film with some of his writing work including the screenplays for Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There and the equally intriguing Brian Wilson biopic, Love and Mercy.
As a director and producer he’s followed suit with his 2nd film Rampart starring Woody Harrelson as an L.A. police officer with questionable motives, followed by a meditative look at homelessness with Richard Gere in Time Out of Mind.
For his latest movie, The Dinner, Moverman adapts Dutch author Herman Koch’s novel, which on the surface is about a dinner between two related couples with all the requisite food porn. As it progresses, it explores a variety of topics including mental illness and the battle of Gettysburg.
At the core of the film is Steve Coogan and Richard Gere playing brothers, the former a history professor,...
As a director and producer he’s followed suit with his 2nd film Rampart starring Woody Harrelson as an L.A. police officer with questionable motives, followed by a meditative look at homelessness with Richard Gere in Time Out of Mind.
For his latest movie, The Dinner, Moverman adapts Dutch author Herman Koch’s novel, which on the surface is about a dinner between two related couples with all the requisite food porn. As it progresses, it explores a variety of topics including mental illness and the battle of Gettysburg.
At the core of the film is Steve Coogan and Richard Gere playing brothers, the former a history professor,...
- 5/2/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
The Dan Stevens takeover of 2017 continues with Ido Fluk’s “The Ticket,” a new film where he plays a blind man who suddenly regains his vision. It doesn’t go as well as you might think.
Stevens plays James, whose contented existence with his wife and son is disrupted when, after inexplicably gaining his sight back, he grows possessed by a drive to make a better life for himself. When his relationships begin to falter under the strain of his ambition, it becomes uncertain whether he will be able to save them, or himself.
Read More: ‘The Ticket’ Trailer: Dan Stevens Returns From Darkness in Ido Fluk Drama — Watch
In addition to Stevens, Malin Åkerman, Oliver Platt, and Kerry Bishé also star in the morality tale.
“The Ticket” opens in theaters and will be released on VOD today, April 7. Check out our exclusive clip below.
Stay on top of the...
Stevens plays James, whose contented existence with his wife and son is disrupted when, after inexplicably gaining his sight back, he grows possessed by a drive to make a better life for himself. When his relationships begin to falter under the strain of his ambition, it becomes uncertain whether he will be able to save them, or himself.
Read More: ‘The Ticket’ Trailer: Dan Stevens Returns From Darkness in Ido Fluk Drama — Watch
In addition to Stevens, Malin Åkerman, Oliver Platt, and Kerry Bishé also star in the morality tale.
“The Ticket” opens in theaters and will be released on VOD today, April 7. Check out our exclusive clip below.
Stay on top of the...
- 4/7/2017
- by Allison Picurro
- Indiewire
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
Three New Movies May Have Trouble Making Much of a Mark
After a couple impressive March weekends with one new box office record, and a couple impressive openings, we’re now into April, and of the new movies, there just doesn’t seem like anything can defeat last week’s powerful duo of DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby--which exceeded all predictions with $49 million, taking the top spot from Beauty and the Beast. Ghost in the Shell didn’t even do as well as I thought it may, opening with just $19 million, those late reviews helping to kill its weekend.
Sony Pictures Animation are giving the loveable blue Smurfs a third go at American audiences with The Smurfs: The Lost Village (Sony), after two previous movies,...
Three New Movies May Have Trouble Making Much of a Mark
After a couple impressive March weekends with one new box office record, and a couple impressive openings, we’re now into April, and of the new movies, there just doesn’t seem like anything can defeat last week’s powerful duo of DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby--which exceeded all predictions with $49 million, taking the top spot from Beauty and the Beast. Ghost in the Shell didn’t even do as well as I thought it may, opening with just $19 million, those late reviews helping to kill its weekend.
Sony Pictures Animation are giving the loveable blue Smurfs a third go at American audiences with The Smurfs: The Lost Village (Sony), after two previous movies,...
- 4/7/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Murmured words are shared between a man and woman in the intimate opening moments of Ido Fluk's character drama, accompanied by indistinct images in motion. What emerges clearly is the man relating a tale about a lottery ticket and God, followed by the same man's sincere prayer to God. It's easy to imagine that the man finds comfort in the familiar, perhaps opt-repeated words. In the morning, the man awakens and finds that he can see for the first time in his life. A visit to a doctor reveals that a tumor that was pressing on the man's optic nerve since birth suddenly and unexpectedly moved, and now he can see. The kindly James (Dan Stevens) and his devoted wife Sam (Malin Akerman) are elated,...
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- 4/6/2017
- Screen Anarchy
What happened if one day, you woke up, and the biggest obstacle in your life — a physical ailment, financial woes — were removed. What you would change? How would you live differently? And would you like the person that you became? That’s the question at the core of “The Ticket,” and today we have an exclusive clip from the clip.
Starring Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman, Kerry Bishé and Oliver Platt, and directed by Ido Fluk, the story follows James, blind since childhood, who one day miraculously has his sight restored.
Continue reading Exclusive: Dan Stevens Reinvents Himself In Clip From ‘The Ticket’ at The Playlist.
Starring Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman, Kerry Bishé and Oliver Platt, and directed by Ido Fluk, the story follows James, blind since childhood, who one day miraculously has his sight restored.
Continue reading Exclusive: Dan Stevens Reinvents Himself In Clip From ‘The Ticket’ at The Playlist.
- 4/5/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Dan Stevens is having a bit of a moment. In February, you could see him in Legion, FX's stellar, must-see Marvel TV series in which the 34-year-old English actor plays a troubled young man who, despite having lived in a mental institution since his teens, discovers that he's not really schizophrenic. (The bad news: He's actually an all-powerful mutant, wanted by the government and controlled by a vicious parasite living inside his mind.) A month later, you might waltz down to your local multiplex and detect Stevens under lots of fur,...
- 4/5/2017
- Rollingstone.com
A favorite sermon you might hear on a Sunday is based on the saying, “I once was blind, but now I see.” People who were once metaphorically blind and now can “see” are assumed to go from a materialistic, devil-may-care attitude to a respect for spirituality. British-born director and co-writer Ido Fluk upends the metaphoric […]
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- 4/3/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Ana Lily Amirpour made one of the most attention-grabbing debuts in recent memory with “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,” and now the writer/director is back with “The Bad Batch.” The newly launched Neon is set to release the film this summer, and to commemorate the occasion they’ve also put out a new trailer. Watch below.
Read More: ‘The Bad Batch’ Review: Jim Carrey and Keanu Reeves’ Thriller Is ‘Mad Max’ Meets ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ — Venice Film Festival
Amirpour, whose debut is regarded as the first (and, to date, only) Iranian vampire Western, appears to be back in genre-bending mode: “The Bad Batch” has been described as a post-apocalyptic melding of “Mad Max” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Neon’s growing slate also includes the Anne Hathaway–starring “Colossal” and Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats,” which won a directing prize at Sundance.
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Read More: ‘The Bad Batch’ Review: Jim Carrey and Keanu Reeves’ Thriller Is ‘Mad Max’ Meets ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ — Venice Film Festival
Amirpour, whose debut is regarded as the first (and, to date, only) Iranian vampire Western, appears to be back in genre-bending mode: “The Bad Batch” has been described as a post-apocalyptic melding of “Mad Max” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Neon’s growing slate also includes the Anne Hathaway–starring “Colossal” and Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats,” which won a directing prize at Sundance.
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- 2/13/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
“The Case for Christ” is an upcoming film that is based on Lee Strobel’s 1998 best-selling book of the same name. Ahead of its April release, USA Today shared the first look at the big screen adaptation.
The true story follows Strobel (Mike Vogel) as a Chicago Tribune investigative reporter in 1980, as he tries to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife Leslie (Erika Christensen). The search then leads him to life-altering results.
“I spent my entire career as a journalist uncovering the truth until my wife presented me with the biggest story of my life,” says Vogel in the trailer. “What happened next, changed me forever.”
Read More: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: First Footage Teases Marvel’s Biggest All-Star Team-Up Yet — Watch
Directed by Jon Gunn, the film also co-stars Faye Dunaway as the skeptic Dr. Roberta Walters, Robert Forster as Strobel’s father Walter, Frankie Faison and Mike Pniewski.
The true story follows Strobel (Mike Vogel) as a Chicago Tribune investigative reporter in 1980, as he tries to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife Leslie (Erika Christensen). The search then leads him to life-altering results.
“I spent my entire career as a journalist uncovering the truth until my wife presented me with the biggest story of my life,” says Vogel in the trailer. “What happened next, changed me forever.”
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Directed by Jon Gunn, the film also co-stars Faye Dunaway as the skeptic Dr. Roberta Walters, Robert Forster as Strobel’s father Walter, Frankie Faison and Mike Pniewski.
- 2/11/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Good news for “Billions” fans: Showtime is letting viewers watch the Season 2 premiere episode for free, ahead of its Sunday, February 19 debut.
Starting today, those who don’t have a Showtime subscription can watch the episode for free on YouTube (see video below) and Sho.com.
Network subscribers can watch the second season premiere on Showtime on Demand and Showtime Anytime now. The episode is also available on the Showtime stand-alone streaming service through Amazon, Apple, Google and Roku, as well as through Amazon Channels, Hulu, Sony PlayStation Vue and Samsung TVs, and TV providers’ authenticated online services.
Additionally, right after the on-air premiere on the 19th, Showtime will make the second episode available early only to subscribers starting at 11 p.m. Et on Showtime Anytime and at midnight on Showtime On Demand.
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Starting today, those who don’t have a Showtime subscription can watch the episode for free on YouTube (see video below) and Sho.com.
Network subscribers can watch the second season premiere on Showtime on Demand and Showtime Anytime now. The episode is also available on the Showtime stand-alone streaming service through Amazon, Apple, Google and Roku, as well as through Amazon Channels, Hulu, Sony PlayStation Vue and Samsung TVs, and TV providers’ authenticated online services.
Additionally, right after the on-air premiere on the 19th, Showtime will make the second episode available early only to subscribers starting at 11 p.m. Et on Showtime Anytime and at midnight on Showtime On Demand.
Read More: ’Billions’ Season 2 Behind the Scenes Video: Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti Square off in War...
- 2/11/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
From the studio that brought you “The Monster” and “The Witch,” comes an even scarier horror film than any other: “Breitbart.”
A24 released a fake trailer for its new “avant-garde horror thriller,” which actually is a video that pokes fun at the disastrous White House interview between Breitbart News journalist Charlie Spiering and Trump press secretary Sean Spicer about Trump’s travel ban.
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The video begins with the two suited men sitting awkwardly at a table and waiting for the cameras to start rolling. Then the cringe-worthy interview begins with Spiering introducing Spicer, who looks less-than-thrilled to be there.
The trailer includes the unforgettable moment of awkward silence, the strange camera angles and adds spooky sound effects to give this painful interview an entertaining twist. Check it out below.
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A24 released a fake trailer for its new “avant-garde horror thriller,” which actually is a video that pokes fun at the disastrous White House interview between Breitbart News journalist Charlie Spiering and Trump press secretary Sean Spicer about Trump’s travel ban.
Read More: Watch: Australian Comedian Jim Jeffries Fires Back at Trump Fan Piers Morgan on Explosive ‘Bill Maher’ Episode
The video begins with the two suited men sitting awkwardly at a table and waiting for the cameras to start rolling. Then the cringe-worthy interview begins with Spiering introducing Spicer, who looks less-than-thrilled to be there.
The trailer includes the unforgettable moment of awkward silence, the strange camera angles and adds spooky sound effects to give this painful interview an entertaining twist. Check it out below.
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- 2/11/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Shout! Factory Unleashes First Official Trailer For Ido Fluk’S Acclaimed Dramatic Feature “The Ticket” Starring Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman, Kerry Bishé and Oliver Platt Highly Anticipated Film Opens In U.S. Cinemas On April 7, 2017 Shout! Factory Films today unveiled the official movie trailer for Ido Fluk’s The Ticket, starring Dan Stevens (Beauty and the …
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- 2/11/2017
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
Australian comedian Jim Jefferies did not hold back on the latest episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher” when Piers Morgan was supporting Donald Trump.
Blasting the Morgan for saying that Trump’s executive order wasn’t a Muslim ban, Jefferies told the British journalist to “f*ck off.”
“This is what you do, Piers. You say, ‘He hasn’t done this, he hasn’t done that, he’s not going to do all these things,’” the comedian said. “Give him a f*cking chance, mate. Hitler didn’t kill the Jews on the first day, he worked up to it, mate.”
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Morgan replied by calling his response “ridiculous,” which made Jeffries flip him off and reply, “You just like that you won ‘The Apprentice’ and you have a famous friend,...
Blasting the Morgan for saying that Trump’s executive order wasn’t a Muslim ban, Jefferies told the British journalist to “f*ck off.”
“This is what you do, Piers. You say, ‘He hasn’t done this, he hasn’t done that, he’s not going to do all these things,’” the comedian said. “Give him a f*cking chance, mate. Hitler didn’t kill the Jews on the first day, he worked up to it, mate.”
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Morgan replied by calling his response “ridiculous,” which made Jeffries flip him off and reply, “You just like that you won ‘The Apprentice’ and you have a famous friend,...
- 2/11/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Dan Stevens is seemingly everywhere these days. On the small screen, he’s got Legion. On the big screen, he’s the titular Beast in Beauty and the Beast. But the fun doesn’t stop there, as he’s also on the indie circuit, too, commanding your attention with the mysterious new film The Ticket, which hands him either a miracle or a curse – depending on how you see things.
Written and directed by Ido Fluk, The Ticket finds James (Stevens), a blind man, miraculously given the gift of sight one odd morning. Faith is obviously the answer here, but as this trailer suggests, there’s a lot of ugliness a man must bear to see when given vision. Malin Ackerman, Oliver Platt, Kerry Bishé, Liza J. Bennett and Skylar Gaertner fill out the ensemble.
The Ticket played at Tiff last fall, where it got a somewhat underwhelming response. Nevertheless,...
Written and directed by Ido Fluk, The Ticket finds James (Stevens), a blind man, miraculously given the gift of sight one odd morning. Faith is obviously the answer here, but as this trailer suggests, there’s a lot of ugliness a man must bear to see when given vision. Malin Ackerman, Oliver Platt, Kerry Bishé, Liza J. Bennett and Skylar Gaertner fill out the ensemble.
The Ticket played at Tiff last fall, where it got a somewhat underwhelming response. Nevertheless,...
- 2/11/2017
- by Will Ashton
- We Got This Covered
‘Time: The Kalief Browder Story’ Trailer: Jay Z’s Docuseries Profiles a Falsely Imprisoned Young Boy
In May 2010, 16-year old Kalief Browder was arrested while walking home for allegedly stealing a backpack. Falsely charged, he was imprisoned for three years without conviction, spending two of those years in solitary confinement. After the charges were dropped and he was release from Rikers Island, Browder took his own life.
Now in a six-part docuseries titled “Time: The Kalief Browder Story,” his story will be shared with the world, as well as expose the problems in the criminal justice system. Produced by Jay Z and Weinstein Television, the series will include first-person accounts, archival footage, and cinematic recreations of key moments from his life. It also includes interviews from his family members, social reformers and politicians like Governor Andrew Cuomo and Van Jones, who will dive deep into the tragic truth of racial inequality.
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Now in a six-part docuseries titled “Time: The Kalief Browder Story,” his story will be shared with the world, as well as expose the problems in the criminal justice system. Produced by Jay Z and Weinstein Television, the series will include first-person accounts, archival footage, and cinematic recreations of key moments from his life. It also includes interviews from his family members, social reformers and politicians like Governor Andrew Cuomo and Van Jones, who will dive deep into the tragic truth of racial inequality.
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- 2/10/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
"Like you wouldn't have done the same thing if you had the chance..." Shout Factory has debuted a trailer for an indie drama titled The Ticket, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year. The Ticket stars Dan Stevens (who can be seen as the Beast in the upcoming Beauty and the Beast movie) as a blind man who regains his vision, only to find himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial. The full cast includes Malin Akerman, Kerry Bishé, Oliver Platt, Liza J. Bennett, Peter Mark Kendall and Ekaterina Samsonov. This looks like a very deep, dark, depressing drama addressing some heavy themes of passion and obsession and ambition. Haven't heard much about it, but seems intense. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Ido Fluk's The Ticket, direct from YouTube: After James (Dan Stevens), a blind man, inexplicably regains his vision, he becomes...
- 2/10/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
After spending three years in prison, Ashley Douglas (played by “The Wire” alum Andre Royo) returns to his old neighborhood hoping to pick up his life right where he left off. However, he soon finds that there is little waiting for him out there. His girlfriend Linda and even his own family have moved on and forgotten about his existence. That’s where “Hunter Gatherer” picks up, and from there, it takes some inventive and unique turns.
For the main character in his feature debut, writer/director Joshua Locy drew inspiration from the story of a close friend named Eddie, “an optimistic, hopeful, inspiring man whose life before I met him had been full of obstacles and hard times and struggles and small victories. I wanted to make a film that combined my love and respect for Eddie with a small, anecdotal love story. I hoped that the simplicity and...
For the main character in his feature debut, writer/director Joshua Locy drew inspiration from the story of a close friend named Eddie, “an optimistic, hopeful, inspiring man whose life before I met him had been full of obstacles and hard times and struggles and small victories. I wanted to make a film that combined my love and respect for Eddie with a small, anecdotal love story. I hoped that the simplicity and...
- 2/10/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
“For Ahkeem” follows the story of Daje Shelton, a 17-year old girl who ends up in a court-supervised alternative high school after getting into a fight at her school. She’s from a tough St. Louis neighborhood, but realizes she wants a better future for herself and is committed to turn her life around.
But staying focused on school proves to be a challenge for the eleventh grader, who loses multiple friends to gun violence. She also falls in love for the first time; his name is Antonio. Daje gets pregnant and is faced with the harsh reality of having to raise her son under the same rough circumstances she grew up in. The story takes place just as the Ferguson conflict is erupting a few miles down the road.
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The documentary film is helmed by Emmy award-winning filmmakers Jeremy S. Levine...
But staying focused on school proves to be a challenge for the eleventh grader, who loses multiple friends to gun violence. She also falls in love for the first time; his name is Antonio. Daje gets pregnant and is faced with the harsh reality of having to raise her son under the same rough circumstances she grew up in. The story takes place just as the Ferguson conflict is erupting a few miles down the road.
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The documentary film is helmed by Emmy award-winning filmmakers Jeremy S. Levine...
- 2/10/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
After screening at both last year’s Sundance Film Festival and New York Film Festival, Shimon Dotan’s exceedingly timely look at the world of Israeli settlements — appropriately entitled “The Settlers” — is bound for a theatrical release. With the film, the filmmaker and educator aims for a full examination of not just the current state of the settlements sprinkled around the Occupied Territories, but the history of how things ended up in a such a complicated state.
By the end of the Six-Day War, Israel had tripled its territory, occupying the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank. Since that time, hundreds of thousands of settlers have made homes in these Occupied Territories, a move that makes a peace agreement with the Palestinians all the more complex. “The Settlers” starts from there and only grows bigger as it moves along.
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By the end of the Six-Day War, Israel had tripled its territory, occupying the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank. Since that time, hundreds of thousands of settlers have made homes in these Occupied Territories, a move that makes a peace agreement with the Palestinians all the more complex. “The Settlers” starts from there and only grows bigger as it moves along.
Read More: Watch: Enter the...
- 2/10/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
After receiving critical acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Luca Guadagnino’s Italian masterpiece, “Call Me by Your Name,” will screen at Berlinale. Based on André Aciman’s beloved 2007 novel of the same name, the drama chronicles a romance between a 17-year old boy and a handsome American intern who is staying at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.
In a new clip shared by Berlinale’s website, audiences witness the young man, Elio’s (Timothée Chalamet), first interaction with Oliver (Armie Hammer). Oliver is seen arriving to the Perlman estate and greeted by Mr. Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) and his wife. Elio is then called down and takes Oliver’s bags to his room.
In the beginning Elio is somewhat distant towards Oliver until then the two begin to spend more time together. Per the website’s film description, “Elio begins to make tentative overtures towards...
In a new clip shared by Berlinale’s website, audiences witness the young man, Elio’s (Timothée Chalamet), first interaction with Oliver (Armie Hammer). Oliver is seen arriving to the Perlman estate and greeted by Mr. Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) and his wife. Elio is then called down and takes Oliver’s bags to his room.
In the beginning Elio is somewhat distant towards Oliver until then the two begin to spend more time together. Per the website’s film description, “Elio begins to make tentative overtures towards...
- 2/10/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Although it premiered last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, Shout! Factory was smart to wait until this spring to release the drama The Ticket. On the heels of Legion and Beauty and the Beast, the star of Dan Stevens has now risen. In his new film, he plays a blind man who regains his vision and finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial. Ahead of a release this April, the first trailer has now landed.
We said in our review, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, which is one of the lessons that the protagonist at the heart of Ido Fluk’s moral thriller The Ticket learns firsthand. The title refers to an antidote told one too many times about a man who prayed to God to win the lottery without every buying a ticket. I suppose, like James (Dan Stevens...
We said in our review, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, which is one of the lessons that the protagonist at the heart of Ido Fluk’s moral thriller The Ticket learns firsthand. The title refers to an antidote told one too many times about a man who prayed to God to win the lottery without every buying a ticket. I suppose, like James (Dan Stevens...
- 2/10/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Exclusive: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Nick Corporon’s debut feature film, “Retake.” The film follows “a handsome businessman [who] hires a prostitute to role-play as his long-lost love. What follows is a road trip full of manipulation and mystery as both men near their final destination.” The film premiered in 2016 at Frameline, and went on to play ImageOut, Reel Q, Seattle Twist, Reel Affirmations and Outfest. It stars Tuc Watkins and Devon Graye.
Breaking Glass is planning a theatrical premiere in Los Angeles followed by an On Demand and DVD release early in the first quarter of 2017.
– Strand Releasing has acquired all U.S. rights to Portuguese director Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ “The Ornithologist,...
– Exclusive: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Nick Corporon’s debut feature film, “Retake.” The film follows “a handsome businessman [who] hires a prostitute to role-play as his long-lost love. What follows is a road trip full of manipulation and mystery as both men near their final destination.” The film premiered in 2016 at Frameline, and went on to play ImageOut, Reel Q, Seattle Twist, Reel Affirmations and Outfest. It stars Tuc Watkins and Devon Graye.
Breaking Glass is planning a theatrical premiere in Los Angeles followed by an On Demand and DVD release early in the first quarter of 2017.
– Strand Releasing has acquired all U.S. rights to Portuguese director Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ “The Ornithologist,...
- 10/14/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Damien Chazelle’s awards season prospect won the audience award for narrative feature as the Hamptons International Film Festival came to a close.
Corresponding honours for documentary went to Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, while Orlando von Einsiedel’s The White Helmets earned the award for best short film.
The festival ran from October 6-10 and screened more than 125 films.
Shout Factory has acquired North American rights from Wme Entertainment and Preferred Content to Ido Fluk’s The Ticket starring Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman, Oliver Platt and Kerry Bishé. The film premiered at Tribeca and Oren Moverman and Lawrence Inglee are among the producers.Chris Bender and Jake Weiner’s fledgling management and production company Good Fear Films has acquired rights to the Africa-set fantasy role playing game Aurion: Legacy Of The Kori-Odan. Madiba Olivier created the game about heirs to a throne who struggle to regain their rightful seat. Good Fear is...
Corresponding honours for documentary went to Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, while Orlando von Einsiedel’s The White Helmets earned the award for best short film.
The festival ran from October 6-10 and screened more than 125 films.
Shout Factory has acquired North American rights from Wme Entertainment and Preferred Content to Ido Fluk’s The Ticket starring Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman, Oliver Platt and Kerry Bishé. The film premiered at Tribeca and Oren Moverman and Lawrence Inglee are among the producers.Chris Bender and Jake Weiner’s fledgling management and production company Good Fear Films has acquired rights to the Africa-set fantasy role playing game Aurion: Legacy Of The Kori-Odan. Madiba Olivier created the game about heirs to a throne who struggle to regain their rightful seat. Good Fear is...
- 10/11/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Plus: Stx plans Bad Moms spin-off; Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations; and more…
Shout! Factory has acquired North American distribution rights to Ido Fluk’s The Ticket and is planning a multi-platform rollout for the drama, beginning with a theatrical launch in 2017.
The film, which premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival, stars Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman, Oliver Platt and Kerry Bishé. It was written by Fluk and Sharon Mashihi and produced by Lawrence Inglee, Oren Moverman, William L Walton and Matthew Malek.
Fluksaid: “We’re excited to be a part of Shout! Factory’s new push into the theatrical space with meaningful, envelope-pushing films. In Shout we’ve found a real home and new partners who are as passionate about the film as the people who made it.”
- Stx Entertainment is to produce Bad Dads, an offshoot from the company’s comedy hit Bad Moms, for a July 14, 2017 release. The company...
Shout! Factory has acquired North American distribution rights to Ido Fluk’s The Ticket and is planning a multi-platform rollout for the drama, beginning with a theatrical launch in 2017.
The film, which premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival, stars Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman, Oliver Platt and Kerry Bishé. It was written by Fluk and Sharon Mashihi and produced by Lawrence Inglee, Oren Moverman, William L Walton and Matthew Malek.
Fluksaid: “We’re excited to be a part of Shout! Factory’s new push into the theatrical space with meaningful, envelope-pushing films. In Shout we’ve found a real home and new partners who are as passionate about the film as the people who made it.”
- Stx Entertainment is to produce Bad Dads, an offshoot from the company’s comedy hit Bad Moms, for a July 14, 2017 release. The company...
- 10/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Plus: Stx plans Bad Moms spin-off; Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations; and more…
Shout! Factory has acquired North American distribution rights to Ido Fluk’s The Ticket and is planning a multi-platform rollout for the drama, beginning with a theatrical launch in 2017.
The film, which premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival, stars Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman, Oliver Platt and Kerry Bishé. It was written by Fluk and Sharon Mashihi and produced by Lawrence Inglee, Oren Moverman, William L Walton and Matthew Malek.
Fluksaid: “We’re excited to be a part of Shout! Factory’s new push into the theatrical space with meaningful, envelope-pushing films. In Shout we’ve found a real home and new partners who are as passionate about the film as the people who made it.”
- Stx Entertainment is to produce Bad Dads, an offshoot from the company’s comedy hit Bad Moms, for a July 14, 2017 release. The company...
Shout! Factory has acquired North American distribution rights to Ido Fluk’s The Ticket and is planning a multi-platform rollout for the drama, beginning with a theatrical launch in 2017.
The film, which premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival, stars Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman, Oliver Platt and Kerry Bishé. It was written by Fluk and Sharon Mashihi and produced by Lawrence Inglee, Oren Moverman, William L Walton and Matthew Malek.
Fluksaid: “We’re excited to be a part of Shout! Factory’s new push into the theatrical space with meaningful, envelope-pushing films. In Shout we’ve found a real home and new partners who are as passionate about the film as the people who made it.”
- Stx Entertainment is to produce Bad Dads, an offshoot from the company’s comedy hit Bad Moms, for a July 14, 2017 release. The company...
- 10/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Shout! Factory has acquired North American distribution rights to The Ticket, which had its premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by Ido Fluk and written by Fluk and Sharon Mashihi, the film stars Downton Abbey and Beauty and the Beast‘s Dan Stevens in a story about a blind man who inexplicably regains his vision and becomes possessed by a drive to make a better life for himself. However, his new improvements — a nicer home, a higher-paying…...
- 10/10/2016
- Deadline
What would you do if you were blind and suddenly regained your sight? Director Ido Fluk's drama inspires a number of questions for its audience, particularly around their own reactions in this hypothetical situation. By allowing viewers to see through the eyes of its protagonist, “The Ticket” gives them deeper insight into the experience of living as a blind person, as well as what choices they might make if given a new chance at life. Blind since childhood, James (Dan Stevens) awakens one morning to discover that his sight is slowly coming back to him. A pituitary tumor has begun shrinking, and he is able to see his wife Sam (Malin Akerman) and son Jonah (Skylar Gaertner) for the first time. His joy at his new opportunities quickly grows into a hunger for more. He outgrows his job as a telemarketer at a realtor, alongside blind employees like his...
- 4/23/2016
- by Kimber Myers
- The Playlist
The former Downton Abbey star excels as a family man who becomes an arrogant villain – but the film-makers don’t know what to do with his transformation
Imagine you’re blind, then one morning you wake up having inexplicably regained your eyesight. How would that change you? Affect your loved ones? Alter the course of your life?
As conceived by writer/director Ido Fluk in his stylish, slow-burning psychological drama The Ticket, that scenario would spell your doom. Admirably cynical until it loses its way in the final stretch, The Ticket nevertheless maintains a provocative allure, bolstered by a fiercely committed performance from Dan Stevens.
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Imagine you’re blind, then one morning you wake up having inexplicably regained your eyesight. How would that change you? Affect your loved ones? Alter the course of your life?
As conceived by writer/director Ido Fluk in his stylish, slow-burning psychological drama The Ticket, that scenario would spell your doom. Admirably cynical until it loses its way in the final stretch, The Ticket nevertheless maintains a provocative allure, bolstered by a fiercely committed performance from Dan Stevens.
Continue reading...
- 4/18/2016
- by Nigel M Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
The former Downton Abbey star excels as a family man who becomes an arrogant villain – but the film-makers don’t know what to do with his transformation
Imagine you’re blind, then one morning you wake up having inexplicably regained your eyesight. How would that change you? Affect your loved ones? Alter the course of your life?
As conceived by writer/director Ido Fluk in his stylish, slow-burning psychological drama The Ticket, that scenario would spell your doom. Admirably cynical until it loses its way in the final stretch, The Ticket nevertheless maintains a provocative allure, bolstered by a fiercely committed performance from Dan Stevens.
Continue reading...
Imagine you’re blind, then one morning you wake up having inexplicably regained your eyesight. How would that change you? Affect your loved ones? Alter the course of your life?
As conceived by writer/director Ido Fluk in his stylish, slow-burning psychological drama The Ticket, that scenario would spell your doom. Admirably cynical until it loses its way in the final stretch, The Ticket nevertheless maintains a provocative allure, bolstered by a fiercely committed performance from Dan Stevens.
Continue reading...
- 4/18/2016
- by Nigel M Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
The Ticket, premiering today at the Tribeca Film Festival, is Israeli filmmaker Ido Fluk’s first American film, dubbed a “morality fable” exploring all the various behaviors that manifest in a blind man who mysteriously, one day, gains his vision. Dan Stevens plays the suddenly social-climbing, newly-sighted man, and Malin Akerman is the old-model wife who may no longer be enough for him. Writer/director Oren Moverman is one of the film’s producers, and, below, Fluk talks about how that collaboration came to be and how he visualized a movie about a man new to vision. Filmmaker: What inspired this story of a blind […]...
- 4/17/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Top brass at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T have announced selections in the Us Narrative, International Narrative and Documentary Competition strands.
The films comprise 55 out of 110 features that will play during the 15th edition of the New York festival from April 13-24. The festival will present features films in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Sections on March 8.
Also included in Wednesday’s announcement are the out-of-competition Viewpoints titles.
The world premiere of Bill Ross and Turner Ross’ Contemporary Color will open the World Documentary competition on April 14, while the world premiere of Kicks by Justin Tipping will open the Us Narrative competition.
The world premiere of Madly directed by Gael García Bernal, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Silva, Anurag Kashyap, Sion Sono, and Natasha Khan will open the International Narrative Competition. Viewpoints will open with the world premiere of Nerdland directed by Chris Prynoski.
One third of the festival’s feature films are directed by women...
The films comprise 55 out of 110 features that will play during the 15th edition of the New York festival from April 13-24. The festival will present features films in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Sections on March 8.
Also included in Wednesday’s announcement are the out-of-competition Viewpoints titles.
The world premiere of Bill Ross and Turner Ross’ Contemporary Color will open the World Documentary competition on April 14, while the world premiere of Kicks by Justin Tipping will open the Us Narrative competition.
The world premiere of Madly directed by Gael García Bernal, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Silva, Anurag Kashyap, Sion Sono, and Natasha Khan will open the International Narrative Competition. Viewpoints will open with the world premiere of Nerdland directed by Chris Prynoski.
One third of the festival’s feature films are directed by women...
- 3/2/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Location and setting are typically big contributors to a horror film’s success — an old, darkly-lit house is inherently creepier than a bright and newly-built high-rise (sorry Poltergeist 3) — and while a great setting is no guarantee of a great film it never hurts. The Abandoned (previously The Confines) takes that lesson to heart and delivers one of the year’s most effective and atmospheric haunted houses. Streak (Louisa Krause) is a young woman trying to move on from a rough past so she can regain custody of her daughter, and moving on includes showing financial stability. She starts a new job as overnight security for an empty apartment building — construction was never finished, and the floors were never occupied — and is partnered with a grumpy, wheelchair-bound prick named Cooper (Jason Patric) who resents her youth as much as he does her very presence. Her routine rounds reveal sights and sounds that both frighten and intrigue, but...
- 2/18/2016
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Stars: Jason Patric, Louisa Krause, Mark Margolis, Ezra Knight, Lou Carbonneau, Massiel Hernandez, Henry Kelemen, Brandon Kieffer, James Murtaugh, John Sampson, Carlos Velazquez | Written by Ido Fluk | Directed by Eytan Rockaway
Looking to get her life back on track, desperate mom Streak (Louisa Krause) takes a job as an overnight security guard in a grand but abandoned (The Abandoned being the film’s original title) apartment complex. Trapped with no-one to talk to but asshole colleague Cooper (Jason Patric), Streak is in for a long night.
The awful company and terrible hours aren’t the only thing Streak has to worry about – there’s the sinister homeless guy, the CCTV not working properly and, well, whatever it is that’s lurking in the building’s corridors, stalking her and Cooper from the shadows. Already on edge, Streak is pushed to her limit and beyond by supernatural (?) terrors, both real and...
Looking to get her life back on track, desperate mom Streak (Louisa Krause) takes a job as an overnight security guard in a grand but abandoned (The Abandoned being the film’s original title) apartment complex. Trapped with no-one to talk to but asshole colleague Cooper (Jason Patric), Streak is in for a long night.
The awful company and terrible hours aren’t the only thing Streak has to worry about – there’s the sinister homeless guy, the CCTV not working properly and, well, whatever it is that’s lurking in the building’s corridors, stalking her and Cooper from the shadows. Already on edge, Streak is pushed to her limit and beyond by supernatural (?) terrors, both real and...
- 1/24/2016
- by Joel Harley
- Nerdly
It’s a shame when a film’s ending nullifies the preceding hour-plus worth of content, but such are my feelings on Eytan Rockaway’s The Abandoned. I was engaged for most of the its entirety, chilled by the stony isolation of a dilapidated luxury building. Atmosphere and tension go a long way towards the end of Act I and an eerily haunting Act II, but an Act III ending jumps into a realm that simply doesn’t have to be addressed. There’s an extension into a more personal story, one that throws away horror for something more human – more affecting – yet it’s one of the film’s major downfalls. Rockaway pulls the rug out from unsuspecting horror fans in this moment, jumping ship in a way that’s neither emotional, nor powerfully satisfying.
Louisa Krause stars as Julia Streak, a rookie night watchwoman who’s about to...
Louisa Krause stars as Julia Streak, a rookie night watchwoman who’s about to...
- 1/7/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Be Afraid of the Dark: Rockaway’s Familiar Debut Enhanced by Atmospheric Locale
Director Eytan Rockaway makes his directorial debut with the claustrophobic single set horror film The Abandoned (initially titled The Confines). Apart from its undistinguished title already being similar to a 2002 Katie Holmes flick and a 2006 Nacho Cerda thriller, Rockaway adapts from a story co-written by Ido Fluk, a narrative determined exclusively by its impressive venue, a discarded luxury apartment house complex. Though the film features uncustomarily polished performances for an indie horror feature from its two known lead performers, their energy only lasts so long in yet another dwindling account of wayward supernatural forces terrorizing protagonists for vague, unexplained reasons until its final, elucidating frames.
Streak (Louisa Krouse) is an emotionally frayed young woman desperate to keep her life together. Struggling to keep custody of her daughter, she flings herself into an employment opportunity which involves taking...
Director Eytan Rockaway makes his directorial debut with the claustrophobic single set horror film The Abandoned (initially titled The Confines). Apart from its undistinguished title already being similar to a 2002 Katie Holmes flick and a 2006 Nacho Cerda thriller, Rockaway adapts from a story co-written by Ido Fluk, a narrative determined exclusively by its impressive venue, a discarded luxury apartment house complex. Though the film features uncustomarily polished performances for an indie horror feature from its two known lead performers, their energy only lasts so long in yet another dwindling account of wayward supernatural forces terrorizing protagonists for vague, unexplained reasons until its final, elucidating frames.
Streak (Louisa Krouse) is an emotionally frayed young woman desperate to keep her life together. Struggling to keep custody of her daughter, she flings herself into an employment opportunity which involves taking...
- 1/6/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Some say, write what you know. I guess the idiom here would be to…run with what you know. A project that producer Laura Wagner received support on via Sffs and the Sundance Institute, Tracktown is the sum of a devotion to a sport and a creative collaboration that sprung up at Dartmouth College. Grads Jeremy Teicher and Alexi Pappas combined forces (both personally and professionally) in 2012 on the micro feature Tall as the Baobab Tree, and they are currently in finish line mode with their second creative collaboration. Teicher (featured in Filmmaker Mag’s Top 25 in 2013) co-wrote/directed/produced the project with Pappas who stars an literally borrows from her blistered feet days of the sport. Lensing on Tracktown began back in October of 2014 in Eugene, Oregon and the film also includes players such as newbie Chase Offerle, Rachel Dratch and Andy Buckley.
Gist: This follows Plumb Marigold (Pappas...
Gist: This follows Plumb Marigold (Pappas...
- 11/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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