With the first film adaptation of Veronica Roth’s Divergent book series having earned over $267 million at the box office since March, it comes as no surprise that the sequel – Insurgent – is already in production in Atlanta. Divergent stars Shailene Woodley and Theo James return, along with Jai Courtney, Kate Winslet, Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller and Zoe Kravitz. That list of talent will now be joined by Rosa Salazar – previously of Parenthood fame – as she continues to stage her own insurgency onto the big screen.
Following on from the setting and events of Divergent – in which citizens are divided into groups based on aspects of their personality, values and virtues – Insurgent sees Woodley and James become fugitives intent on uncovering the truth about their families, and consequently, the implications of that truth on their current lives. The adapted script is by Akiva Goldsman and Brian Duffield, with Robert Schwentke at the helm.
Following on from the setting and events of Divergent – in which citizens are divided into groups based on aspects of their personality, values and virtues – Insurgent sees Woodley and James become fugitives intent on uncovering the truth about their families, and consequently, the implications of that truth on their current lives. The adapted script is by Akiva Goldsman and Brian Duffield, with Robert Schwentke at the helm.
- 6/10/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
May The Best Man Win, a new mockumentary style comedy from director Andrew O’Connor, had its world premiere at SXSW on Saturday, March 8.
The film is about two friends obsessed with viral pranks, who film everything with YouTube stardom in mind.
The two pranksters, Whit (Whitmer Thomas) and Drew (Drew Tarver), invite a girl, played by Rosa Salazar, to join their team and end up fighting each other in an all-out, R-rated prank war for her affection. The film borrows heavily from Borat and Jackass, or the recently Oscar-nominated Bad Grandpa, with the filmmakers playing pranks on unsuspecting bystanders within the context of the fiction film. In other words, just as Borat famously featured some non-scripted pranks mixed in with scripted character development, May The Best Man Win features real-life pranks and a scripted love story.
Director O’Connor also acted as producer and co-writer, has a long history...
The film is about two friends obsessed with viral pranks, who film everything with YouTube stardom in mind.
The two pranksters, Whit (Whitmer Thomas) and Drew (Drew Tarver), invite a girl, played by Rosa Salazar, to join their team and end up fighting each other in an all-out, R-rated prank war for her affection. The film borrows heavily from Borat and Jackass, or the recently Oscar-nominated Bad Grandpa, with the filmmakers playing pranks on unsuspecting bystanders within the context of the fiction film. In other words, just as Borat famously featured some non-scripted pranks mixed in with scripted character development, May The Best Man Win features real-life pranks and a scripted love story.
Director O’Connor also acted as producer and co-writer, has a long history...
- 3/10/2014
- Uinterview
The South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival (SXSW) has made a final announcement for their 14th annual festival announcing a final keynote speaker, the lineup for their conference and more films that will play at the festival that begins March 7. Marc Webb (director of "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "(500) Days of Summer") has been announced as the festival's fourth and final keynote speaker. Actors Jason Bateman, Mike Myers, Ralph Steadman, Robert Duvall and Tilda Swinton are scheduled to speak as well. The following eight films also join the previously announced lineup (Descriptions provided by SXSW):Visions: "May the Best Man Win" (World Premiere) Directed by Andrew O'Connor and written by Matthew Robinson, Lee Hupfield and Andrew O'Connor Cast: Whit Thomas, Drew Tarver, Rosa Salazar Two pranksters compete against each other in a series of increasingly outrageous stunts to win the affections of the girl they’ve both fallen for "Yakona" (World Premiere) Directed by Anlo.
- 2/12/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
Ashley Zukerman has been cast as one of the leads in Wgn America’s 13-episode scripted series Manhattan. The show, from writer Sam Shaw and director Thomas Schlamme, Skydance TV, Tribune Studios and Lionsgate TV, is set during the clandestine mission to build the world’s first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, Nm, and follows the brilliant but flawed scientists and their families. Zukerman will play Charlie Abrams, a super-bright, self-described “numbers guy” with an Iq of 180 and a good sense of humor. Zukerman next will be seen in the six-part Australian thriller The Code for ABC1. Other TV credits include a recurring on Fox’s Terra Nova. He also guested in a multi-episode arc on HBO’s The Pacific and starred in Australian drama series Rush. Zukerman is repped in the U.S. by Apa and Cohn/Torgan Management and in Australia by Lisa Mann Management. Whitmer Thomas has...
- 2/3/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: ABC and ABC Studios have signed actress Rosa Salazar in a talent holding deal targeted for next pilot season. Last season, Salazar had a talent deal at Fox where she co-starred in the drama pilot Boomerang and guest starred on the network’s freshman comedy Ben & Kate. The previous season, Salazar co-starred in another Fox pilot, comedy Little Brother. Additionally, she recurred on NBC’s Parenthood, FX’s American Horror Story and VH1′s Stevie TV, regularly appears in College Humor originals and guest stars on HBO’s upcoming comedy series Hello Ladies. On the feature side, Salazar, repped by Paradigm, Seven Summits and Nelson Davis Wetzstein, just wrapped a supporting role in Universal’s Search Party and a starring turn in the indie May The Best Man Win.
- 8/21/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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