Veteran television executive Robin Schwartz is joining Big Beach as head of the company’s TV division. Based in Los Angeles, Schwartz will work closely with company founders Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf in creating series that Big Beach produces. Schwartz also will work with the company’s West Coast division Beachside, led by Alex Turtletaub and Michael B. Clark. Molly Breeskin, a TV executive at Big Beach, remains at the company’s New York office. “We have always put…...
- 12/8/2016
- Deadline TV
Desiree Akhavan’s directorial debut “Appropriate Behavior” received critical acclaim at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay the following year. Now the Iranian-American director, writer, and actress has lined up her next project.
Akhavan is set to direct “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” with Chloë Grace Moretz and “American Honey” breakout star Sasha Lane to star. The film is based on Emily Danforth’s acclaimed and controversial coming-of-age novel of the same name. Set in 1993, the story follows a girl who is forced into a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with the prom queen.
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Moretz will portray Cameron, an orphan who’s taken in by her ultra-conservative aunt, and Lane is Cameron’s friend and fellow “disciple” at the...
Akhavan is set to direct “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” with Chloë Grace Moretz and “American Honey” breakout star Sasha Lane to star. The film is based on Emily Danforth’s acclaimed and controversial coming-of-age novel of the same name. Set in 1993, the story follows a girl who is forced into a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with the prom queen.
Read More: ‘Suspiria’ Remake: Chloë Grace Moretz to Star in Luca Guadagnino’s Update Alongside Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson
Moretz will portray Cameron, an orphan who’s taken in by her ultra-conservative aunt, and Lane is Cameron’s friend and fellow “disciple” at the...
- 11/18/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Film Arcade has acquired U.S. rights to People, Places, Things, the Jim Strouse scripted and directed pic that premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section of Sundance. Pic, which stars Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams, Michael Chernus and Stephanie Allynne, will be released this summer. Alex Turtletaub and Michael B. Clark of Beachside produced and Summer Shelton is executive producer. In the film, a recently divorced father must navigate the…...
- 2/24/2015
- Deadline
• Oscar nominee Casey Affleck will return to his native Massachusetts to star in and produce a film based on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The script written by Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy (The Fighter) is based on the book "Boston Strong" by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge and chronicles the massive manhunt to find the two men believed responsible for the bombings and the city's response to the horrific events. [Variety] • Steve Carell will continue his trend of taking on less comedic roles in an untitled thriller from director Gore Verbinski (The Lone Ranger). The film will be the third straight...
- 10/8/2014
- by Jake Perlman
- EW - Inside Movies
Exclusive: Jemaine Clement, best known as one half of the comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, has linked up with Grace Is Gone helmer James C. Strouse for indie feature People Places Things. New Zealander Clement stars as a newly single, under-employed graphic novelist navigating life, his young twin daughters, a case of writer’s block, a classroom full of students, and a new love while letting go of the woman who left him.
Strouse recently wrapped principal photography, directing from his own script. Regina Hall, Stephanie Allynne, and Jessica Williams round out the cast of People Places Things. Michael B. Clark and Alex Turtletaub are producing for Big Beach spin-off shingle Beachside. Beachside’s Tim Foley is exec producer alongside Summer Shelton. Sundance award-winner Strouse, a recipient of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, made his writing debut with 2005’s Lonesome Jim for director Steve Buscemi and also penned Grace Is Gone...
Strouse recently wrapped principal photography, directing from his own script. Regina Hall, Stephanie Allynne, and Jessica Williams round out the cast of People Places Things. Michael B. Clark and Alex Turtletaub are producing for Big Beach spin-off shingle Beachside. Beachside’s Tim Foley is exec producer alongside Summer Shelton. Sundance award-winner Strouse, a recipient of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, made his writing debut with 2005’s Lonesome Jim for director Steve Buscemi and also penned Grace Is Gone...
- 10/7/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabelle Huppert star, Memento sells.
Joachim Trier’s English-language debut Louder Than Bombs has started production in New York.
Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Amy Ryan, David Stathairn and Devin McKenzie star.
The film follows Gene (Byrne) and his two sons (Eisenberg and Druid) struggling to cope with the death of Gene’s wife (Huppert), an internationally celebrated photographer.
The script was co-written by Eskil Vogt - who recently directed festival favorite Blind - and Trier.
The pair collaborated on Trier’s two previous films Oslo, August 31st and Reprise.
Producers are Motlys’ Thomas Robsahm and Memento Film’s Alexandre Mallet-Guy. On the Us side, producers include Animal Kingdom’s Joshua Astrachan, Beachside Film’s Marc Turtletaub, and Bona Fide’s Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa.
Executive producers include Sigve Endresen, Frederick W. Green, Michael B. Clark, Emilie Georges, Nicholas Shumaker, Naima Abed, Trier, and Vogt.
The film is...
Joachim Trier’s English-language debut Louder Than Bombs has started production in New York.
Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Amy Ryan, David Stathairn and Devin McKenzie star.
The film follows Gene (Byrne) and his two sons (Eisenberg and Druid) struggling to cope with the death of Gene’s wife (Huppert), an internationally celebrated photographer.
The script was co-written by Eskil Vogt - who recently directed festival favorite Blind - and Trier.
The pair collaborated on Trier’s two previous films Oslo, August 31st and Reprise.
Producers are Motlys’ Thomas Robsahm and Memento Film’s Alexandre Mallet-Guy. On the Us side, producers include Animal Kingdom’s Joshua Astrachan, Beachside Film’s Marc Turtletaub, and Bona Fide’s Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa.
Executive producers include Sigve Endresen, Frederick W. Green, Michael B. Clark, Emilie Georges, Nicholas Shumaker, Naima Abed, Trier, and Vogt.
The film is...
- 9/4/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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