Montreal-based WaZabi Films selling Spanish-language films at EFM.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Justin Lerner’s Guatemala-set gang thriller Cadejo Blanco from Canadian sales agent WaZabi Films. CDC United Network has taken Latin American rights.
The Spanish-language film premiered in Guadalajara and also screened in TIFF Industry Selects and at Tallinn Black Nights in Estonia in 2021. It is about a young woman who travels from Guatemala City to the seaside town of Puerto Barrios to infiltrate a gang and find out what happened to her sister. Karen Martínez stars with Rudy Rodríguez and Juan Pablo Olyslager.
Mauricio Escobar,...
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Justin Lerner’s Guatemala-set gang thriller Cadejo Blanco from Canadian sales agent WaZabi Films. CDC United Network has taken Latin American rights.
The Spanish-language film premiered in Guadalajara and also screened in TIFF Industry Selects and at Tallinn Black Nights in Estonia in 2021. It is about a young woman who travels from Guatemala City to the seaside town of Puerto Barrios to infiltrate a gang and find out what happened to her sister. Karen Martínez stars with Rudy Rodríguez and Juan Pablo Olyslager.
Mauricio Escobar,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Director Katharine O’Brien makes her feature debut with Lost Transmissions, an La-set drama about mental illness and its effect on a budding friendship between stars Juno Temple and Simon Pegg. Following a world premiere at Tribeca in April, O’Brien brought this intimate two-hander to the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, where she enjoyed an enthusiastic audience reception for its refreshingly grounded depiction of schizophrenia. Writing her own material (after her script for The Automatic Hate in 2015) in addition to directing, and drawing from personal experience with people close to her, the Californian filmmaker examines the blind spots of support systems, both institutional and private, and eschews grand narrative arcs in favor of a realistic approach to the subject.…...
- 3/13/2020
- by Tommaso Tocci
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Adelaide Clemens (Rectify) is set for a lead role opposite Edie Falco and Michael Chernus in CBS drama pilot Tommy (fka Nancy), from the Bull team of co-creator Paul Attanasio and producer Amblin TV.
Written by Attanasio and directed by Kate Dennis, Tommy stars Falco as the title character, a former high-ranking NYPD officer who becomes the first female chief of police for Los Angeles and uses her unflinching honesty and hardball tactics to navigate the social, political and national-security issues that converge with enforcing the law.
Clemens will play Blake. As the Press Secretary for the chief of police, she focuses less on substance than on how things look. Polished, confident whip-smart and hard-working, Blake worked as Press Secretary for the previous chief of police, whom she tolerated in exchange for ample appreciation of her efforts. By comparison, she’s uneasy with the new chief, who doesn’t know her — or,...
Written by Attanasio and directed by Kate Dennis, Tommy stars Falco as the title character, a former high-ranking NYPD officer who becomes the first female chief of police for Los Angeles and uses her unflinching honesty and hardball tactics to navigate the social, political and national-security issues that converge with enforcing the law.
Clemens will play Blake. As the Press Secretary for the chief of police, she focuses less on substance than on how things look. Polished, confident whip-smart and hard-working, Blake worked as Press Secretary for the previous chief of police, whom she tolerated in exchange for ample appreciation of her efforts. By comparison, she’s uneasy with the new chief, who doesn’t know her — or,...
- 2/28/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Ricky Jay, a singularly skilled magician whose acting career included roles in “Deadwood” and “Boogie Nights,” died in Los Angeles yesterday. He was 72. The news was confirmed by Jay’s manager, Winston Simone, who said that he died of natural causes and “was one of a kind. We will never see the likes of him again.”
“I am sorry to share that my remarkable friend, teacher, collaborator and co-conspirator is gone,” tweeted Michael Weber, Jay’s partner in the Deceptive Practices Company.
Jay was the subject of a 2012 documentary, “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay,” directed by Molly Bernstein. It explored his revered career as a magician, as did a 1993 New Yorker profile that referred to Jay as “perhaps the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive.” Those talents also brought him work as a behind-the-scenes consultant on movies like “The Prestige,” “The Illusionist,” and “Ocean’s Thirteen.
“I am sorry to share that my remarkable friend, teacher, collaborator and co-conspirator is gone,” tweeted Michael Weber, Jay’s partner in the Deceptive Practices Company.
Jay was the subject of a 2012 documentary, “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay,” directed by Molly Bernstein. It explored his revered career as a magician, as did a 1993 New Yorker profile that referred to Jay as “perhaps the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive.” Those talents also brought him work as a behind-the-scenes consultant on movies like “The Prestige,” “The Illusionist,” and “Ocean’s Thirteen.
- 11/25/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The Leftovers alum Regina King is re-teaming with series’ creator Damon Lindelof for Watchmen, his high-profile follow-up drama pilot at HBO. King has been cast along with Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Adelaide Clemens and Andrew Howard in the pilot. It is not specified if all of the actors will be series regulars, I hear at least one may be recurring.
Written by Lindelof based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ iconic limited comic series, Watchmen is considered a dark satirical and dystopian take on the superhero genre. Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.
Details of the cast’s roles are being kept under wraps though we have some ideas. King is believed to be playing Angela Abar, while Gossett Jr. likely is Old Man.
Written by Lindelof based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ iconic limited comic series, Watchmen is considered a dark satirical and dystopian take on the superhero genre. Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.
Details of the cast’s roles are being kept under wraps though we have some ideas. King is believed to be playing Angela Abar, while Gossett Jr. likely is Old Man.
- 5/23/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Damon Lindelof’s “Watchmen” pilot at HBO has set a number of actors in key roles, Variety has learned.
Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Adelaide Clemens, and Andrew Howard will all appear in the series, with King in the lead role. King previously appeared on “The Leftovers,” the HBO drama series co-created by Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, based on Perrotta’s novel of the same name.
The exact details of their characters are being kept under wraps. Lindelof on Tuesday posted a letter to fans in which he laid out his vision for the series, which he said will not be a re-telling of the story from the original graphic novel, but rather a new story in the same world with new characters set in the present day.
“Some of the characters will be unknown,” he said. “New faces. New masks to cover them. We...
Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Adelaide Clemens, and Andrew Howard will all appear in the series, with King in the lead role. King previously appeared on “The Leftovers,” the HBO drama series co-created by Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, based on Perrotta’s novel of the same name.
The exact details of their characters are being kept under wraps. Lindelof on Tuesday posted a letter to fans in which he laid out his vision for the series, which he said will not be a re-telling of the story from the original graphic novel, but rather a new story in the same world with new characters set in the present day.
“Some of the characters will be unknown,” he said. “New faces. New masks to cover them. We...
- 5/23/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Joseph Baxter Apr 22, 2019
Amazon’s Sneaky Pete will return for more scheming and conning for a third season in May.
Sneaky Pete Season 3 is officially coming to Amazon Prime. However, it marks a change, since the series made a coastal crossing from its production home of New York to California, taking advantage of a $9.2 million tax credit (with plans to spend $53 million in qualified expenditures); a substantial gain for a series of this scope.
The California Film Commission announced the Sneaky Pete relocation, revealing the series as the thirteenth to become California-bound in the aftermath of a tax credit, joining notables such as Showtime’s The Affair and Netflix’s The Oa. The move was a major U-Haul task for Sneaky Pete’s nearly 250 cast, 220 crew and 2,510 extras (including stand-ins measured in man-days). While the credit, selected by the amount of jobs the productions will bring, is for 20%, the migrating...
Amazon’s Sneaky Pete will return for more scheming and conning for a third season in May.
Sneaky Pete Season 3 is officially coming to Amazon Prime. However, it marks a change, since the series made a coastal crossing from its production home of New York to California, taking advantage of a $9.2 million tax credit (with plans to spend $53 million in qualified expenditures); a substantial gain for a series of this scope.
The California Film Commission announced the Sneaky Pete relocation, revealing the series as the thirteenth to become California-bound in the aftermath of a tax credit, joining notables such as Showtime’s The Affair and Netflix’s The Oa. The move was a major U-Haul task for Sneaky Pete’s nearly 250 cast, 220 crew and 2,510 extras (including stand-ins measured in man-days). While the credit, selected by the amount of jobs the productions will bring, is for 20%, the migrating...
- 3/19/2018
- Den of Geek
British multi-hyphenate to star in Pulse Films project.
Simon Pegg has boarded Lost Transmissions, Katharine O’Brien’s feature film directorial debut based on her original screenplay.
Pulse Films’ Thomas Benski and Lucas Ochoa will produce, and Brian Levy serves as executive producer.
The story centres on a shy songwriter who chases her schizophrenic record producer friend through Los Angeles in the hopes of committing him to a psychiatric facility after he forgets to take his medication.
UTA Independent Film Group represents North American rights.
“At Pulse we’ve always been about discovering and championing new filmmakers and therefore we’re super excited about Katharine and her debut film,” Benski said.
“We are genuinely excited that we will be bringing this remarkable true story to life with Katharine O’Brien and the incredibly talented Simon Pegg.”
O’Brien added: “In dealing with mental health, Lost Transmissions combines both comedic and tragic elements. Simon has such...
Simon Pegg has boarded Lost Transmissions, Katharine O’Brien’s feature film directorial debut based on her original screenplay.
Pulse Films’ Thomas Benski and Lucas Ochoa will produce, and Brian Levy serves as executive producer.
The story centres on a shy songwriter who chases her schizophrenic record producer friend through Los Angeles in the hopes of committing him to a psychiatric facility after he forgets to take his medication.
UTA Independent Film Group represents North American rights.
“At Pulse we’ve always been about discovering and championing new filmmakers and therefore we’re super excited about Katharine and her debut film,” Benski said.
“We are genuinely excited that we will be bringing this remarkable true story to life with Katharine O’Brien and the incredibly talented Simon Pegg.”
O’Brien added: “In dealing with mental health, Lost Transmissions combines both comedic and tragic elements. Simon has such...
- 4/4/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods Hail, Caesar! (Coen brothers-directed comedy-drama; Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson; rated PG-13) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Michael Bay directed action-adventure; James Badge Dale, John Krasinski; rated R) Zootopia (animated; voices: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman; rated PG) The Automatic Hate (drama-mystery; Joseph Cross, Adelaide Clemens; not rated) Touched with Fire (drama-romance...
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- 6/7/2016
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
On Demand DVD New Releases June 6-12 13 Hours Based on the 2014 book by Mitchell Zuckoff, this action-thriller follows the true story of the six members of a security team who fought to defend the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, after a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2012. John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, Toby Stephens (R, 2:24) 6/7 The Automatic Hate Davis and his newly discovered cousin Alexis try to uncover the source of the grudge that tore their family apart while wrestling with a taboo attraction to each other. Joseph Cross, Adelaide Clemens (Nr, 1:37) 6/7 Careful What … Continue reading →
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- 6/6/2016
- by Meredith Ennis
- ChannelGuideMag
In today's crowded film landscape about a dozen new releases hit theaters each weekend, most of which are limited or specialty films that don’t have the budget for large publicity campaigns but which are often the best and most compelling offers.
These films, lucky enough to get theatrical distribution, often only get one-week runs in one or two theaters per city, and even those who managed to get picked up by a larger specialty distributor have to fight to rise above the studio fare. Hoping to highlight some of these films for audiences to discover them, One Week Only is a new weekly podcast exclusively dedicated to international, independent and under-the-radar films that deserve a closer look.
Hosted by filmmaker Conor Holt and I, Carlos Aguilar, One Week Only hopes to be an alternative space for audiences to find out and get excited about cinema beyond the multiplex.
A new episode is released every Friday afternoon. You can follow One Week Only on Facebook and on Twitter.
One Week Only is now available for Free on iTunes!
About the Hosts:
Carlos Aguilar
Originally from Mexico City, Carlos Aguilar is a film journalist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Aguilar has written for several publications including Sydney'sBuzz, Indiewire, MovieMaker Magazine, Variety Latino, Creative Screenwriting, among others. In 2014 he was chosen as one of 6 young film critics to take part in the first Roger Ebert Fellowship organized by Indiewire and Sundance Institute. Aguilar is currently working on a short film titled "Probable Cause" and continues to cover international, independent, and animated films across diverse platforms.
Conor Holt
Conor Holt is a Minnesotan filmmaker based in Los Angeles, with a particular fondness for science fiction and animation, whose short film "A Better Life," a sci-fi drama, screened at Fantasia Fest, Sci-Fi London, and the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. His latest short film "Alternative" recently premiered at the 2016 Fargo Film Festival. Holt is currently working on an upcoming comedy web series titled "Hipster Jesus," a new short film project, and a feature-length screenplay.
Here is a list of episodes thus far and the films discussed in each of them.
Episode 4: "Krisha"
Films also featured in this episode: "Fireworks Wednesday," "The Clan," "My Golden Days," "The Bronze," "The Brainwashing of My Dad," and "We Like It Like That."
Episode 3: "Creative Control"
Films also featured in this episode: "Cemetery of Splendor," "The Automatic Hate," and "Boom Bust Boom"
Episode 2: "The Boy and the Beast"
Films also featured in this episode: "Knight of Cups" and "The Wave"
Episode 1: "Only Yesterday"
Films also featured in this episode: "They Look Like People," "Embrace of the Serpent," "Boy and the World"...
These films, lucky enough to get theatrical distribution, often only get one-week runs in one or two theaters per city, and even those who managed to get picked up by a larger specialty distributor have to fight to rise above the studio fare. Hoping to highlight some of these films for audiences to discover them, One Week Only is a new weekly podcast exclusively dedicated to international, independent and under-the-radar films that deserve a closer look.
Hosted by filmmaker Conor Holt and I, Carlos Aguilar, One Week Only hopes to be an alternative space for audiences to find out and get excited about cinema beyond the multiplex.
A new episode is released every Friday afternoon. You can follow One Week Only on Facebook and on Twitter.
One Week Only is now available for Free on iTunes!
About the Hosts:
Carlos Aguilar
Originally from Mexico City, Carlos Aguilar is a film journalist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Aguilar has written for several publications including Sydney'sBuzz, Indiewire, MovieMaker Magazine, Variety Latino, Creative Screenwriting, among others. In 2014 he was chosen as one of 6 young film critics to take part in the first Roger Ebert Fellowship organized by Indiewire and Sundance Institute. Aguilar is currently working on a short film titled "Probable Cause" and continues to cover international, independent, and animated films across diverse platforms.
Conor Holt
Conor Holt is a Minnesotan filmmaker based in Los Angeles, with a particular fondness for science fiction and animation, whose short film "A Better Life," a sci-fi drama, screened at Fantasia Fest, Sci-Fi London, and the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. His latest short film "Alternative" recently premiered at the 2016 Fargo Film Festival. Holt is currently working on an upcoming comedy web series titled "Hipster Jesus," a new short film project, and a feature-length screenplay.
Here is a list of episodes thus far and the films discussed in each of them.
Episode 4: "Krisha"
Films also featured in this episode: "Fireworks Wednesday," "The Clan," "My Golden Days," "The Bronze," "The Brainwashing of My Dad," and "We Like It Like That."
Episode 3: "Creative Control"
Films also featured in this episode: "Cemetery of Splendor," "The Automatic Hate," and "Boom Bust Boom"
Episode 2: "The Boy and the Beast"
Films also featured in this episode: "Knight of Cups" and "The Wave"
Episode 1: "Only Yesterday"
Films also featured in this episode: "They Look Like People," "Embrace of the Serpent," "Boy and the World"...
- 3/21/2016
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
With SXSW 2016 beginning this weekend, film fans will descend upon Austin, Texas to see some of the latest, and hopefully greatest, films that studios and distributors have come down the pipeline. However, not every film that plays this prestigious festival, even those that become buzzed about hits, end up getting a speedy release. Take Justin Lerner’s The Automatic Hate for example.
Becoming something of a small hit at last year’s festival, Lerner’s new film is finally arriving in theaters on March 11 thanks to Film Movement, and will hopefully find an eager audience going forward.
His follow-up to 2010’s oddly magnetic Girlfriend, a film that’s an engaging piece of craft more than it is a genuinely great narrative feature, Automatic Hate is a beast of a different color. Davis Green (played by Joseph Cross) is an unassuming chef in the throes of what may or may not...
Becoming something of a small hit at last year’s festival, Lerner’s new film is finally arriving in theaters on March 11 thanks to Film Movement, and will hopefully find an eager audience going forward.
His follow-up to 2010’s oddly magnetic Girlfriend, a film that’s an engaging piece of craft more than it is a genuinely great narrative feature, Automatic Hate is a beast of a different color. Davis Green (played by Joseph Cross) is an unassuming chef in the throes of what may or may not...
- 3/11/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Not all families are good or well-adjusted; there are often rifts (reasonable or not) between parents and children, siblings, cousins. Some of us might find out about skeletons in a closet, and sometimes those skeletons are best left undisturbed. In Justin Lerner's second feature film The Automatic Hate, those skeletons are rattled with disastrous consequences. And while some parts of the narrative become a bit cliched, overall, this is a strong drama with a serious and unexpected twist, revealed with very intense performances. Late one evening, Davis Green (Joseph Cross) is confronted by a woman, Alexis (Adelaide Clemens), who claims to be his cousin. Thinking his father Ronald (Richard Schiff) was an only child, he asks his grandfather, who almost has a heart attack when...
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- 3/10/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Director Justin Lerner likes to pitch his effectively eerie family drama "The Automatic Hate" as a combo of Thomas Vinterberg's "The Celebration" and Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye." A shrieking Dogme95 incest drama meets a Raymond Chandler potboiler? I was intrigued. As a "Romeo and Juliet" incest tale of two cousins who face their mutual attraction, this one has headline-making potential. Writer/director Lerner and co-writer Katharine O'Brien set up a bait-and-switch mystery that then pulls us into the world of an unstable and broken family as their buried grudges of the past come into shattering present-day focus. "Automatic Hate" begins as an alluring young blonde (Adelaide Clemens) drops on the doorstep of Davis (Joseph Cross) and tells him she's his cousin. He does not know the girl, who says her name is Alexis. His curiosity titillated, Davis follows her out of his boring city life and into the Upstate New York.
- 3/8/2016
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Here’s one of the more intriguing indie trailers to come across the transom: The Automatic Hate, from Emmy- and Gotham Award-winning director Justin Lerner (Girlfriend), starring Adelaide Clemens (Rectify), Joseph Cross (Born To Race) and Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood). Lerner and co-screenwriter Katharine O’Brien dig into forbidden-love territory as country mouse Alexis (Clemens) shows up at the Boston restaurant where David (Cross) is chef, revealing that they’re…...
- 2/4/2016
- Deadline
Not all families are good or well-adjusted; there are often rifts (reasonable or not) between parents and children, siblings, cousins. Some of us might find out about skeletons in a closet, and sometimes those skeletons are best left undisturbed. In Justin Lerner's second feature film The Automatic Hate, those skeletons are rattled with disastrous consequences. And while some parts of the narrative become a bit cliched, overall, this is a strong drama with a serious and unexpected twist, revealed with very intense performances.Late one evening, Davis Green (Joseph Cross) is confronted by a woman, Alexis (Adelaide Clemens), who claims to be his cousin. Thinking his father Ronald (Richard Schiff) was an only child, he asks his grandfather, who almost has a heart attack when Davis brings...
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- 11/30/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Line-up includes seven world premieres and Oscar submissions from the Netherlands, South Korea and Kazakhstan.Scroll down for full list
Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) has revealed the international competition line-up for its 19th edition.
The festival will screen 18 titles in competition, comprising seven world premieres, three international premieres and eight European premieres.
Among them is Vitaliy Manskiy’s North Korea documentary Under The Sun, which reveals a simultaneously absurd and sinister portrayal of life under the nation’s regime.
The line-up also includes three submissions for this year’s Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.
The Paradise Suite, The Netherlands’ submission, intertwines multiple storylines to highlight the trials and tribulations of modern day immigrants trying to survive in Amsterdam.
The Throne, South Korea’s entry, is an 18th-century historical drama about internal struggles within Korea’s royal family.
Stranger, Kazakhstan’s submission to the Academy, follows a nomad living out a meagre existence in the...
Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) has revealed the international competition line-up for its 19th edition.
The festival will screen 18 titles in competition, comprising seven world premieres, three international premieres and eight European premieres.
Among them is Vitaliy Manskiy’s North Korea documentary Under The Sun, which reveals a simultaneously absurd and sinister portrayal of life under the nation’s regime.
The line-up also includes three submissions for this year’s Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.
The Paradise Suite, The Netherlands’ submission, intertwines multiple storylines to highlight the trials and tribulations of modern day immigrants trying to survive in Amsterdam.
The Throne, South Korea’s entry, is an 18th-century historical drama about internal struggles within Korea’s royal family.
Stranger, Kazakhstan’s submission to the Academy, follows a nomad living out a meagre existence in the...
- 10/26/2015
- ScreenDaily
The former Newsweek film critic recently served as artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival and joins the Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff), set to run from January 1-11 2016.
As lead programmer Ansen will work with a team of six programmers under the direction of festival artistic director Helen du Toit.
He will be responsible for acquiring films from distributors and sales agents and will be a key member of the selection committee for films submitted to the festival from a wide variety of sources.
“I’m thrilled to have someone with David’s vast scope and depth of knowledge about film join us as a key member of the Psiff programming team,” said festival director Darryl Macdonald.
“His taste in films has always been impeccable, ranging from the discovery of unheralded works from gifted new international directors to a singular appreciation of films from seasoned filmmakers working in the major studio millieux.”
“As a longtime...
As lead programmer Ansen will work with a team of six programmers under the direction of festival artistic director Helen du Toit.
He will be responsible for acquiring films from distributors and sales agents and will be a key member of the selection committee for films submitted to the festival from a wide variety of sources.
“I’m thrilled to have someone with David’s vast scope and depth of knowledge about film join us as a key member of the Psiff programming team,” said festival director Darryl Macdonald.
“His taste in films has always been impeccable, ranging from the discovery of unheralded works from gifted new international directors to a singular appreciation of films from seasoned filmmakers working in the major studio millieux.”
“As a longtime...
- 9/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
With my first Siff now in the books, I can say that I’ve learned some valuable lessons. The first being what a remarkable festival and diverse program the organizers came up with for the 41st edition. From the venues to the volunteers, everything was top notch. Like most festivals, it was a bit front-loaded with premieres, but there were also notable premieres later in the program, including Max Landis’ Me Him Her on the closing weekend. From top to bottom, this was a great line-up with very few thin spots.
The other major lesson I learned is that it’s impossible to adequately cover a film festival in the city in which you live. Family, friends, and full-time jobs don’t simply disappear just because you want to have some fun. I come away feeling disappointed that time constraints kept me from seeing a lot of great films, as...
The other major lesson I learned is that it’s impossible to adequately cover a film festival in the city in which you live. Family, friends, and full-time jobs don’t simply disappear just because you want to have some fun. I come away feeling disappointed that time constraints kept me from seeing a lot of great films, as...
- 6/15/2015
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
The biggest deals of this year’s Cannes Marché du Film and how the Competition titles sold throughout the festival.
Behind the glamour of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, business was booming at the Marché du Film (May 13-22), with representatives from 120 countries in attendance - up four on 2014.
A total 3,300 films were on offer this year, around 1,000 at the project stage, with an estimated 11,000 film professionals in attendance, in line with last year.
In the opening days, Marché chief Jérôme Paillard told Screen: “Acquisition agents are telling me that it’s the first time in a number of years that there are so many big projects. I’ve been told there are around 50 high profile projects on offer.”
North AmericaHOT Projects
Universal Pictures and Focus Features took worldwide rights to Tom Ford’s upcoming thriller Nocturnal Animals, starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, in a deal reportedly worth $20m. [Story]
Open Road paid...
Behind the glamour of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, business was booming at the Marché du Film (May 13-22), with representatives from 120 countries in attendance - up four on 2014.
A total 3,300 films were on offer this year, around 1,000 at the project stage, with an estimated 11,000 film professionals in attendance, in line with last year.
In the opening days, Marché chief Jérôme Paillard told Screen: “Acquisition agents are telling me that it’s the first time in a number of years that there are so many big projects. I’ve been told there are around 50 high profile projects on offer.”
North AmericaHOT Projects
Universal Pictures and Focus Features took worldwide rights to Tom Ford’s upcoming thriller Nocturnal Animals, starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, in a deal reportedly worth $20m. [Story]
Open Road paid...
- 5/22/2015
- ScreenDaily
The New York-based film distributor has picked up North American rights to Shim Sung-Bo’s South Korean thriller Haemoo from Finecut in Cannes.
Shim co-wrote the film with Bong Joon-Ho, who also produced the thriller about a group of fisherman driven to madness when their attempt to smuggle illegal Chinese-Korean immigrants goes horribly wrong.
Haemoo premiered at Toronto last year and will screen at New Directors/New Films. The film will open in early 2016.
The North American rights deal with Wme Global on Justin Lerner’s The Automatic Hate follows the film’s world premiere at SXSW.
Film Movement plans a winter theatrical release for the family drama following select festival appearances including the Seattle International Film Festival later this month.
Shim co-wrote the film with Bong Joon-Ho, who also produced the thriller about a group of fisherman driven to madness when their attempt to smuggle illegal Chinese-Korean immigrants goes horribly wrong.
Haemoo premiered at Toronto last year and will screen at New Directors/New Films. The film will open in early 2016.
The North American rights deal with Wme Global on Justin Lerner’s The Automatic Hate follows the film’s world premiere at SXSW.
Film Movement plans a winter theatrical release for the family drama following select festival appearances including the Seattle International Film Festival later this month.
- 5/14/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Artsploitation Films has secured the U.S. rights to "Der Bunker," a German comedy that premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival. "Der Bunker," the debut feature from Nikias Chryssos, is a dark comedy set entirely within a windowless bunker housing a husband, wife and their learning-challenged son. A young graduate student soon enters the bunker to tutor the son...whom the parents are grooming to be president of the United States. Artsploitation's president Ray Murray described the film as, "So peculiar yet amazingly memorable," and said, "I felt we had to have this odd comedy. Reminiscent of the works of John Waters, David Lynch and Luis Buñuel, Chryssos creates a reality where conventional story-telling, and its accompanying logic, is left outside the steps, it will be a pleasure to present it to unsuspecting audiences!" Check out the poster below: Read More: Film Movement Picks Up Justin Lerner's SXSW Pick...
- 5/14/2015
- by Elizabeth Logan
- Indiewire
Justin Lerner's "The Automatic Hate" premiered this past March at South By Southwest in the Narrative Spotlight section and has finally found a home with Film Movement. The company has acquired all North American rights to the film and is planning a winter release following more festival screenings, including at the Seattle International Film Festival later in May. "The Automatic Hate" stars Joseph Cross, Adelaide Clemens, Richard Schiff and Deborah Ann Woll. The screenplay was co-written by Lerner and Katharine O'Brien. The story explores what happens when a young man meets a side of his family he's never known and begins feeling a taboo attraction to his cousin. Said Lerner, "It's been such an exciting journey already, which began at SXSW, and now to be partnering with a company like Film Movement -- that has such class and taste in both foreign and American independent cinema -- we feel...
- 5/14/2015
- by Elizabeth Logan
- Indiewire
Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to Justin Lerner’s The Automatic Hate. The distributor plans a winter theatrical release for the film, which world premiered at SXSW. The Automatic Hate stars Joseph Cross, Adelaide Clemens, Richard Schiff, Ricky Jay and Deborah Ann Woll. The film's screenplay is written by Lerner and Katharine O'Brien, and produced by Lerner along with Lacey Leavitt and Anonymous Content's Alix Madigan-Yorkin. Daniel Alexander…...
- 5/14/2015
- Deadline
The Automatic Hate tells the story of a man in his early thirties who finds out that his father has been hiding an entire other side of his family. He’s never known that he has an uncle or three cousins on his father’s side and when he finally meets one of them, he sets off to discover the secrets his family has kept and finds himself sucked into his cousins’ world. Directed by Justin Lerner, the movie stars Joseph Cross and was co-written by Katharine O’Brien.
Back in March, we had the chance to sit down with the trio after the film’s premiere at SXSW. During our exclusive interview, we talked crafting the story, taboo romances, playing characters who are older than the actor and much more.
Check out the full interview below, and enjoy!
What was it about that story that made you originally want to tell it?...
Back in March, we had the chance to sit down with the trio after the film’s premiere at SXSW. During our exclusive interview, we talked crafting the story, taboo romances, playing characters who are older than the actor and much more.
Check out the full interview below, and enjoy!
What was it about that story that made you originally want to tell it?...
- 4/8/2015
- by Alexander Lowe
- We Got This Covered
In The Automatic Hate, Joseph Cross plays New York City chef Davis Green, whose life goes into a tailspin after he’s introduced to a cousin and a family feud he never knew existed. Joseph Cross On ‘The Automatic Hate’ When Davis’ cousin Alexis (Adelaide Clemens) enters his life, he’s living an ordinary life in the city […]
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- 4/3/2015
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Testing the boundaries of your seemingly loving relationships with the most important people in your life, from your parents to your long-term significant other, can be a revealing insight into how strongly you trust them and believe in their commitment to protecting your well-being. That enticing process of engaging in seemingly dangerous situations is captivatingly showcased in director Justin Lerner’s second feature film directorial effort, ‘The Automatic Hate,’ the follow-up to his debut movie, the 2010 drama, ‘Girlfriend.’ The helmer, who co-wrote the script to his latest film with Katharine O’Brien, grippingly cast actor Joseph Cross to portray a seemingly successful young man who willingly put his connections with his [ Read More ]
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- 3/21/2015
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Early in The Automatic Hate, one of the characters poses a question about nature vs. nurture. It’s an age-old proverb, but his answer is simple: Essentially, both of them are bullshit. What follows shows that regardless of which actually matters more, if the influence is anything other than pristine, those involved are going to be stuck dealing with the same thing: A lot of bullshit.
Justin Lerner’s movie focuses on Davis (Joseph Cross), a chef working in Boston, who is approached by Alexis (Adelaide Clemens), a girl armed with a claim that they’re cousins. At first, Davis doesn’t believe her, as someone would when they’ve been told their father is an only child. But after the thought sticks with him for a few days, he finally finds out that his father does indeed have a brother, and he goes off to meet his cousins and aunt and uncle.
Justin Lerner’s movie focuses on Davis (Joseph Cross), a chef working in Boston, who is approached by Alexis (Adelaide Clemens), a girl armed with a claim that they’re cousins. At first, Davis doesn’t believe her, as someone would when they’ve been told their father is an only child. But after the thought sticks with him for a few days, he finally finds out that his father does indeed have a brother, and he goes off to meet his cousins and aunt and uncle.
- 3/18/2015
- by Alexander Lowe
- We Got This Covered
Read More: Closted Muslim Teens 'Naz & Maalik' Unveiled in Exclusive Poster Debut Five years after his award-winning debut feature "Girlfriend," writer-director Justin Lerner is back with his anticipated sophomore effort. The official synopsis for "The Automatic Hate" reads: "Davis Green's (Joseph Cross) alluring young cousin Alexis (Adelaide Clemens of "Rectify") appears on his doorstep one night, and he discovers that his father has kept a side of his family secret for 30 years. Against his father’s wishes, Davis travels to rural, upstate New York to meet his other cousins. Quickly developing a strong connection with them, he sets out with Alexis to reunite their broken family. But in getting to know each other, Davis and Alexis realize they are perhaps more like their own fathers than they thought. As the pair uncovers the incident that tore their family apart, the two cousins must resist the temptation to keep their fathers...
- 3/10/2015
- by David Canfield
- Indiewire
Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in TrainwreckPhoto: Universal Pictures With Sundance just wrapping up and Berlin starting up in a few days, we are now immersed in the year-long barrage of film festivals. One such festival in South By Southwest. A few weeks back they announced the first seven films of their program, including the opening night film Brand: A Second Coming. Today, they have revealed the rest of the features to be shown in March (except for the midnight program), and some of it has me very excited. The bigger titles announced do not do much for me. Paul Feig's Spy, starring Melissa McCarthy, and the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart starrer Get Hard leave a lot to be desired in terms of anticipation, as does a work in progress cut of Judd Apatow's latest film Trainwreck. I'm guessing an Apatow work in progress is probably around three and a half hours.
- 2/3/2015
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
South by Southwest, the multi-faceted film, music and technology festival held annually in Austin, TX will feature such upcoming films as Paul Feig’s Spy, David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, Alex Gibney’s documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, and Ondi Timoner’s Russell Brand profile Brand: A Second Coming as headliners in this year’s film festival lineup.
SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.
Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.
On the small screen,...
SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.
Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.
On the small screen,...
- 2/3/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Joseph Cross and Adelaide Clemons have been cast in the lead roles for writer-director Justin Lerner‘s “The Automatic Hate,” according to Deadline. Cross and Clemons will play Davis and Alexis, a pair of individuals who share a taboo attraction. Also announced to join them in a supporting role is Deborah Ann Woll, who will play [...]
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- 9/18/2013
- by Alfonso Espina
- UpandComers
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