Exclusive: Ella Bleu Travolta is set to star in Get Lost, a young adult film that was written and will be directed by Daniela Amavia.
Get Lost is a modern-day re-imagining of Alice In Wonderland with the creatures turned into human characters. Travolta plays Alicia/Alice, who goes on a wildly magical trip into the wonderland that is Budapest. Alicia is backpacking through Europe to fulfill her mother’s last wish, and a chance encounter with a strange girl forces Alicia to go on a mind-bending overnight adventure. There she meets not only a mysterious young man, but a whole menagerie of individuals that take her on an odyssey that will open her heart and mind. In the end, her journey ends with a revelation, and freedom.
Travolta was last seen in The Poison Rose, and recently appeared in the Scotts Miracle-Gro Super Bowl commercial with her dad. She is...
Get Lost is a modern-day re-imagining of Alice In Wonderland with the creatures turned into human characters. Travolta plays Alicia/Alice, who goes on a wildly magical trip into the wonderland that is Budapest. Alicia is backpacking through Europe to fulfill her mother’s last wish, and a chance encounter with a strange girl forces Alicia to go on a mind-bending overnight adventure. There she meets not only a mysterious young man, but a whole menagerie of individuals that take her on an odyssey that will open her heart and mind. In the end, her journey ends with a revelation, and freedom.
Travolta was last seen in The Poison Rose, and recently appeared in the Scotts Miracle-Gro Super Bowl commercial with her dad. She is...
- 3/2/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Kids helmer Larry Clark circumvented traditional distribution when he put his latest film, Marfa Girl, online for fans to stream on his own website for $5.99 a pop. Thanks to Breaking Glass Pictures, he’ll see the sexually charged West Texas-set drama hit theaters in limited release next year. Marfa Girl revolves around Adam (Adam Mediano), a directionless 16-year-old living in Marfa, and his relationships with his girlfriend, his neighbor, his teacher, a newly arrived local artist, and a local Border Patrol officer. The film won top honors at the 2012 Rome Film Festival and will open in a 10- to 15-theater run in the spring. “I think Marfa Girl is my best film or at least as good as any film I’ve made,” said Clark in a statement. Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff negotiated the deal with Ryan McCombs of Spotlight Pictures.
FilmBuff has acquired writer-director J.C. Khoury’s romantic comedy All Relative,...
FilmBuff has acquired writer-director J.C. Khoury’s romantic comedy All Relative,...
- 10/14/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Five more NBC pilots have picked up casting directors, Back Stage has confirmed.Lynn Kressel and Kevin Kuffa will cast "Chicago Fire," a drama project from Universal Television and Wolf Films. Plot specifics are scarce, but the show will focus on a group of Chicago firefighters, and not the 1871 disaster (or the professional soccer team). The New York–based Kressel, who has cast all three "Law & Order" series, is temporarily relocating to Los Angeles to cast the pilot, which will then shoot in Chicago this spring.Another drama, "County," also from Universal Television, will be cast by Carrie Audino and Laura Schiff. The pilot, about a group of doctors and administrators who struggle to provide quality care at a drastically underfunded L.A. hospital, will shoot in mid March. Schiff/Audino also casts "AMC's "Mad Men" and the CW's "Nikita."The following three comedy pilots have also picked up casting directors: "Go On" and.
- 2/3/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Pete Keeley)
- backstage.com
The Casting Society of America unveiled nominations for its 27th annual Artois Awards, recognizing the best in casting. The honors will be bestowed Sept. 26 in simultaneous ceremonies at the Beverly Hilton in L.A. and at District 36 in New York. The Csa also is giving lifetime achievement awards to Whoopi Goldberg (the New York Apple Award), Dick Wolf (the Career Achievement Award) and Meg Liberman (the Hoyt Bowers Award). Here's the full list of nominees: Big Budget Feature – Drama “The Fighter,” Sheila Jaffe, Angela Peri (Location Casting) “Inception,” John Papsidera “The Social Network,” Laray Mayfield “The Town,” Lora Kennedy, Carolyn Pickman (Location Casting) “True Grit,” Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner, JoEdna Boldin (Location Casting) Big Budget Feature – Comedy “How Do You Know,” Francine Maisler, Lynn Kressel (Location Casting) “Morning Glory,” Ellen Lewis * “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” Francine Maisler * “Red,” Deborah Aquila, Tricia Wood, Craig Fincannon (Location Casting), Lisa Mae Fincannon...
- 8/16/2011
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
The Casting Society of America announced today the nominees for the 27th annual Artios Awards, honoring artistic achievement in casting. The awards will be presented in duel ceremonies Sept. 26 in New York and Los Angeles. In addition to honoring film, television, and theater casting directors in 23 categories, Csa will present three special awards. This year, Whoopi Goldberg will receive the New York Apple Award; Meg Liberman will receive the Hoyt Bowers Award; and Dick Wolf will receive the Career Achievement Award.Below is the list of nominees:Big Budget Feature – Drama“The Fighter,” Sheila Jaffe, Angela Peri (Location Casting)“Inception,” John Papsidera“The Social Network,” Laray Mayfield“The Town,” Lora Kennedy, Carolyn Pickman (Location Casting)“True Grit,” Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner, JoEdna Boldin (Location Casting)Big Budget Feature – Comedy“How Do You Know,” Francine Maisler, Lynn Kressel (Location Casting)“Morning Glory,” Ellen Lewis *“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” Francine Maisler *“Red,...
- 8/16/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Holloway)
- backstage.com
Casting directors came out from behind the curtain to be honored by their peers last night at the 25th Annual Artios Awards. The bi-coastal awards, which were held simultaneously at the new Times Center in New York City and the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, are presented yearly for outstanding achievement in casting in theater, film, and television categories on the criteria of originality, creativity, and contribution of casting to the overall quality of a project.Celebrity awards presenters in New York were Patrick Wilson ("Little Children," "Angels in America"), Carrie Preston ("True Blood"), Michael Shannon ("Revolutionary Road"), Jennifer Morrison ("House"), Bill Pullman ("Oleanna"), Christine Ebersole ("Grey Gardens"), Vincent Kartheiser ("Mad Men"), and Elizabeth Reaser ("Twilight"). Stanley Tucci and producer Daryl Roth presented the New York Big Apple Award to Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, whose "Love, Loss and What I Wore" recently opened Off-Broadway to rave reviews.
- 11/3/2009
- backstage.com
Producer Laura Ziskin, writer-director Nora Ephron, writer Delia Ephron and casting director John Frank Levey will be honored at the Casting Society of America's 24th annual Artios Awards.
Simultaneous awards ceremonies will be held in at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles and the New York Times Building in New York on Nov. 2.
Ziskin is set to receive the group's Career Achievement Award. The New York Apple Award will be presented to Nora and Delia Ephron. Levy is this year's recipient of the Hoyt Bowers Award.
Representing 425 members in the United States, Canada, England and Australia, Cas also announced its nominees in film TV and theater on Thursday.
In the category of big budget feature drama, Ellen Chenoweth scored two noms for "Changeling" and "Duplicity." The category nominees are John Papsidera for "The Dark Knight"; April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg for "Star Trek" and Avy Kaufman for "State of Play.
Simultaneous awards ceremonies will be held in at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles and the New York Times Building in New York on Nov. 2.
Ziskin is set to receive the group's Career Achievement Award. The New York Apple Award will be presented to Nora and Delia Ephron. Levy is this year's recipient of the Hoyt Bowers Award.
Representing 425 members in the United States, Canada, England and Australia, Cas also announced its nominees in film TV and theater on Thursday.
In the category of big budget feature drama, Ellen Chenoweth scored two noms for "Changeling" and "Duplicity." The category nominees are John Papsidera for "The Dark Knight"; April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg for "Star Trek" and Avy Kaufman for "State of Play.
- 9/17/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The following is a list of the top 25 Power Casting Directors in film and television (including Casting Director of the Year, Debra Zane; see page 9). We began with more than 100 candidates. In some cases, collaborations were so closely tied that we considered multiple people as one entity. Several drafts later, all 25 spots were cast.Notably omitted from the list are in-house casting executives at studios and networks, the inclusion of whom would have ballooned our list to 50 or more. But read about them online at www.backstage.com/spotlight. Focusing on independent casting directors leveled the playing field and highlighted people whose puissance is not affected by one scale-tipping affiliation. Now, on to the top 25!Kerry BardenCan you imagine Monster's Ball starring Erykah Badu, or American Psycho starring Leonardo DiCaprio? Kerry Barden can, because he saw them read the parts. "There are so many great actors that sometimes it's a...
- 4/2/2009
- backstage.com
'Shadow' Runs but Can't Hide Faults / Truth is buried too deeply in CBS' take on the real 'Fugitive' tale
Somewhere in this ambitious and occasionally poignant CBS retelling of the true-life story that inspired the long-running "The Fugitive" series and film, there is an illuminating kernel of truth about the behavior of ordinary men and women under enormous pressure.
The story is told, first abruptly but later more softly, through the eyes of Sam Sheppard's son, using nostalgic, sepia-colored flashbacks. A fine cast includes Peter Strauss as the doctor -- first found guilty and then acquitted of the savage murder of his wife -- as well as Henry Czerny as his son; Jonathan Kroeker and Bradley Reid as the son at various ages; and John Colicos in a well-judged portrait-in-miniature of the man who might have been the actual killer.
As a journey of self-understanding and, in an odd way, repatriation, "My Father's Shadow" promises much, and it is no wonder the production team paid careful attention to detail.
Whether viewers stick around for the inevitable conclusion, however, may depend on whether they catch the tension between the terrible brutality and the innate sadness that kept Czerny's character from growing up, and whether they respond to the on-screen relationship between Czerny and Strauss. Neither finds a way into their characters until relatively late in the proceedings, perhaps in time with Adam Greenman's spare script and Peter Levin's cautious direction.
And while, in the process, there may be an important statement about the hysteria that surrounded the trial and the outbreak of public opinion that allegedly contributed to Sheppard's conviction, it is lost in its lack of convincing documentation and the drama's greater interest in telling the stories of the main characters.
-- Laurence Vittes
MY FATHER'S SHADOW: THE Sam Sheppard STORY
CBS
Jaffe/Braunstein Films Ltd.
Credits: Executive producers: Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein, Yvonne Chotzen, William Jenner; Producers: Adam Greenman, Christine Sacani; Director: Peter Levin; Screenwriter: Adam Greenman; Editor: Stephen Lawrence; Photography: Frank Tidy; Music: Louis Febre; Casting adviser: Lynn Kressel, Tina Gerussi. Cast: Peter Strauss, Henry Czerny, Bradley Reid, Jonathan Kroeker, Lindsay Frost, John Bourgeois, John Colicos, Janet-Laine Green, Ralph Small. Airdate: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 9-11 p.m.
Somewhere in this ambitious and occasionally poignant CBS retelling of the true-life story that inspired the long-running "The Fugitive" series and film, there is an illuminating kernel of truth about the behavior of ordinary men and women under enormous pressure.
The story is told, first abruptly but later more softly, through the eyes of Sam Sheppard's son, using nostalgic, sepia-colored flashbacks. A fine cast includes Peter Strauss as the doctor -- first found guilty and then acquitted of the savage murder of his wife -- as well as Henry Czerny as his son; Jonathan Kroeker and Bradley Reid as the son at various ages; and John Colicos in a well-judged portrait-in-miniature of the man who might have been the actual killer.
As a journey of self-understanding and, in an odd way, repatriation, "My Father's Shadow" promises much, and it is no wonder the production team paid careful attention to detail.
Whether viewers stick around for the inevitable conclusion, however, may depend on whether they catch the tension between the terrible brutality and the innate sadness that kept Czerny's character from growing up, and whether they respond to the on-screen relationship between Czerny and Strauss. Neither finds a way into their characters until relatively late in the proceedings, perhaps in time with Adam Greenman's spare script and Peter Levin's cautious direction.
And while, in the process, there may be an important statement about the hysteria that surrounded the trial and the outbreak of public opinion that allegedly contributed to Sheppard's conviction, it is lost in its lack of convincing documentation and the drama's greater interest in telling the stories of the main characters.
-- Laurence Vittes
MY FATHER'S SHADOW: THE Sam Sheppard STORY
CBS
Jaffe/Braunstein Films Ltd.
Credits: Executive producers: Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein, Yvonne Chotzen, William Jenner; Producers: Adam Greenman, Christine Sacani; Director: Peter Levin; Screenwriter: Adam Greenman; Editor: Stephen Lawrence; Photography: Frank Tidy; Music: Louis Febre; Casting adviser: Lynn Kressel, Tina Gerussi. Cast: Peter Strauss, Henry Czerny, Bradley Reid, Jonathan Kroeker, Lindsay Frost, John Bourgeois, John Colicos, Janet-Laine Green, Ralph Small. Airdate: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 9-11 p.m.
- 11/17/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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