Exclusive: Wolfe Releasing has acquired worldwide rights to Charles Busch and Carl Andress’ comedy The Sixth Reel, and to the late director Mark Rucker’s cult comedy Die, Mommie, Die!, slating the former film for release in theaters and on digital this fall. The latter will hit theaters in 2023, subsequently making its streaming debut.
In The Sixth Reel, a down-on-his-luck movie collector (Busch) discovers a legendary lost film and becomes entangled in an outrageous adventure to deliver it to the right hands before it is lost forever. Longtime collaborators Busch and Andress directed the pic from their script, with Julie Halston (And Just Like That…), Patrick Page (In the Heights), Tim Daly (Life & Beth) and Margaret Cho (Fire Island) rounding out the cast. The film was produced by Jamie Buckner and Alex Peace-Power of Derby City Productions, and the late Ash Christian of Cranium Entertainment. It won a Special...
In The Sixth Reel, a down-on-his-luck movie collector (Busch) discovers a legendary lost film and becomes entangled in an outrageous adventure to deliver it to the right hands before it is lost forever. Longtime collaborators Busch and Andress directed the pic from their script, with Julie Halston (And Just Like That…), Patrick Page (In the Heights), Tim Daly (Life & Beth) and Margaret Cho (Fire Island) rounding out the cast. The film was produced by Jamie Buckner and Alex Peace-Power of Derby City Productions, and the late Ash Christian of Cranium Entertainment. It won a Special...
- 6/30/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The bar for a Streetcar Named Desire revival is high: The play feels like settled law, and unless you're a brilliant Bdsm revisionist like Ivo van Hove, the iconography feels constraining, the possibilities for reinvention limited. Mark Rucker's hurtling yet slightly staid production at Yale Rep isn't a new vision of Streetcar at all, but an attempt to re-create, blockily and boxily, a bygone vision. Teeming urban chaos erupts in the form of shapeless, earsplitting jazz. When Stella (Detroit's Sarah Sokolovic) and Stanley (True Blood beefcake Joe Manganiello) make the earth move, Elysian Fields actually moves. And Rene Augesen's meticulously wrought Blanche — fine as old lace and just as prone to disintegration — is as canonical a version as you're likely to find.Canonical, but not typical: The garden-variety, community-theater Blanche whom too many of us grew up with is a toppling fruit-trifle of bad drawling and drag-show camp.
- 10/2/2013
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
Yale Repertory Theatre has announced that Rene Augesen will play Blanche DuBois and Joe Manganiello will play Stanley Kowalski in its first-ever production of A Streetcar Named Desire, the Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Mark Rucker, the production, which will open Yale Rep's 2013-14 season, will play tonight, September 20-October 12, at the University Theatre 222 York Street.
- 9/20/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Does Stanley Kowalski remove his shirt in "A Streetcar Named Desire?" He might this time around with "True Blood" and "Magic Mike" star Joe Manganiello taking on the iconic character. Mark Rucker will stage the production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning piece at the Yale Repertory Theatre in Connecticut. The play will mark Rucker's ninth show at the venue, including 2008's production of Tom Stoppard's "Rough Crossing," the theater's website says. See video: 'True Blood' Season 6 Previews: Friends, Frenemies and Faeries Here's description of the classic play from the Yale Repertory Theatre:...
- 6/14/2013
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Yale Repertory Theatre James Bundy, Artistic Director Victoria Nolan, Managing Director has announced that Rene Augesen will play Blanche DuBois and Joe Manganiello will play Stanley Kowalski in its first-ever production of A Streetcar Named Desire, the Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Mark Rucker, the production, which will open Yale Rep's 2013-14 season, will play September 20-October 12, at the University Theatre 222 York Street.
- 6/14/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York -- Stellaaagggrrrrr!!! Joe Manganiello, the actor best known as hunky werewolf Alcide Herveaux on HBO's True Blood, will tackle the plum role of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' 1947 drama about shattered illusions, A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Mark Rucker, the production will open the 2013-14 season at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Conn., running Sept. 20 through Oct. 12. Playing Blanche DuBois, the faded Southern belle whose facade of delicate refinement doesn't wash with her brutish brother-in-law Stanley, is Rene Augesen. The actress previously appeared at Yale Rep in The Beaux' Stratagem and A
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- 6/14/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Yale Repertory Theatre James Bundy, Artistic Director Victoria Nolan, Managing Director, dedicated to the production of new plays and bold interpretations of classics that make immediate connections to contemporary audiences, announces its 2013-14 season, which will begin with A Streetcar Named Desire, the Pulitzer Prize winning masterwork by Tennessee Williams, directed by Mark Rucker. Obie Award winning resident director Evan Yionoulis will mark her thirteenth production at Yale Rep with Owners, the dark comedy by Caryl Churchill. Director Christopher Bayes and actor Steven Epp return for Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.
- 3/15/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
She Stoops to Comedy by David Greenspan, Directed by Mark Rucker She Stoops to Comedy is an examination and deconstruction of theatrical convention, even the script of She Stoops to Comedy - and, thus, the very lives of the characters in it - is completely a work in progress, open to reinvention, reinterpretation, and even rewriting at the slightest whim.
- 12/11/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Sundance Channel has acquired all U.S. rights to Mark Rucker's directorial debut Die Mommie Die, a 2003 Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize honoree. Sundance will release the comedy theatrically as part of its recently announced Sundance Film Series, which will feature four films released in 10 cities in the fall. Michael Winterbottom's In This World and Mark Decena's Dopamine were the first two Film Series releases to be announced. Written by and starring Charles Busch, Die Mommie Die was created as an ode to the Ross Hunter-style big-screen soaps of the 1960s and features Busch as a fallen pop diva whose husband discovers that she's having an affair with a tennis pro and has him killed. What follows is a comedic mixture of whodunits and double-crossings. Die Mommie Die was produced by Dante Di Loreto and Anthony Edwards of Aviator Films and Bill Kenwright of Bill Kenwright Films. It was executive produced by Lonny Dubrofsky and co-stars Frances Conroy, Philip Baker Hall, Natasha Lyonne, Jason Priestley and Stark Sands.
- 5/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- Everyone is calling "Die Mommie, Die!" the funniest film at this year's Sundance, but then you must remember that Sundance will never be confused with the Aspen Comedy Festival. The movie essentially features one joke done extremely well.
Based on Charles Busch's stage play of the same name, director Mark Rucker (making an assured feature debut) apes the style, period decor and camerawork of those "women's films" of the '40s through the '60s, which usually starred Joan Crawford, Bette Davis or Susan Hayward. This is no "Far From Heaven", where a filmmaker wants audiences to reconsider the themes and social values of a period in American cinema. Rather, it's diva worship done more tastefully than John Waters, more adroitly than "8 Women" but less flamboyantly than RuPaul.
"Mommie" should score big with its target gay audience and could attract crossover trade. It certainly will be a hot gigglefest in DVD and video.
Busch adapts his own play to this screen pastiche while donning satin and pearls to play Angela Arden, a faded chanteuse who plots to escape a miserable marriage by slipping an arsenic-laced suppository to her producer-husband, Sol Sussman Philip Baker Hall). His death -- Busch actually insists his story is based on the Greek tragedy "The Orestia" -- throws the household into turmoil.
Daughter Edith (Natasha Lyonne), who has always hated Mom, now wants her as dead as Dad. Son Lance (Stark Sands), a mama's boy suffering from Brain Damage caused by his mother's pill popping during pregnancy, grows even more confused. Angela's stud boyfriend, Tony Jason Priestley), turns on the sexual charm to win both siblings over to his cause. Family servant Bootsie (Frances Conroy), who was always a great comfort to Sol, stands to inherit much of the estate, according to a will drawn up just before Sol's death. Before she can spend a penny, though, she turns up dead herself.
The queen of the ball here, of course, is Busch, who has got the diva act down pat: the head flips, pouty lips, studied posture and flair for melodrama. Busch's Angela is a hard-drinking, man-hungry temptress, a terrible mother and an over-the-hill star deluding herself about a comeback. She has a gift for gab, tossing off lines such as the one about a man who "slipped into my life as easily as vermouth into a glass of gin."
The rest of the cast catches the spirit, playing absolutely straight this melodrama twisted into farce. Hall is wonderfully funny as the overbearing producer past his prime, his "message" pictures coming back from the boxoffice marked "Return to Sender". Lyonne is a bratty little daughter with a large daddy complex, while Sands borrows from other era pictures to play the ambi-sexual rebel without a clue. Conroy is the shrewd maid who masks her intent with ditziness. Priestley, a character with an ulterior motive behind his ulterior motive, is delicious fun as a man who uses sex to attain all his goals.
Joseph B. Tintfass' sets, Kelly Evans' cinematography and Michael Bottari and Ronald Case's gowns for Busch amusingly capture the look and mood of all those old Made in Hollywood color movies.
DIE MOMMIE, DIE!
Aviator Films and Bill Kenwright Ltd.
Credits:
Director: Michael Rucker
Screenwriter: Charles Busch, based on his play
Producers: Dante Di Loreto, Anthony Edwards, Bill Kenwright
Executive producers: Lonny Dubrofsky, Neil Ellman
Director of photography: Kelly Evans
Production designer: Joseph B. Tintfass
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Costume designers: Michael Bottari, Ronald Case
Editor: Philip Harrison
Cast:
Angela Arden/Barbara Arden: Charles Busch
Edith: Natasha Lyonne
Sol Sussman: Philip Baker Hall
Boostie: Frances Conroy
Tony Parker: Jason Priestley
Lance: Stark Sands.
Running time -- 90 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- Everyone is calling "Die Mommie, Die!" the funniest film at this year's Sundance, but then you must remember that Sundance will never be confused with the Aspen Comedy Festival. The movie essentially features one joke done extremely well.
Based on Charles Busch's stage play of the same name, director Mark Rucker (making an assured feature debut) apes the style, period decor and camerawork of those "women's films" of the '40s through the '60s, which usually starred Joan Crawford, Bette Davis or Susan Hayward. This is no "Far From Heaven", where a filmmaker wants audiences to reconsider the themes and social values of a period in American cinema. Rather, it's diva worship done more tastefully than John Waters, more adroitly than "8 Women" but less flamboyantly than RuPaul.
"Mommie" should score big with its target gay audience and could attract crossover trade. It certainly will be a hot gigglefest in DVD and video.
Busch adapts his own play to this screen pastiche while donning satin and pearls to play Angela Arden, a faded chanteuse who plots to escape a miserable marriage by slipping an arsenic-laced suppository to her producer-husband, Sol Sussman Philip Baker Hall). His death -- Busch actually insists his story is based on the Greek tragedy "The Orestia" -- throws the household into turmoil.
Daughter Edith (Natasha Lyonne), who has always hated Mom, now wants her as dead as Dad. Son Lance (Stark Sands), a mama's boy suffering from Brain Damage caused by his mother's pill popping during pregnancy, grows even more confused. Angela's stud boyfriend, Tony Jason Priestley), turns on the sexual charm to win both siblings over to his cause. Family servant Bootsie (Frances Conroy), who was always a great comfort to Sol, stands to inherit much of the estate, according to a will drawn up just before Sol's death. Before she can spend a penny, though, she turns up dead herself.
The queen of the ball here, of course, is Busch, who has got the diva act down pat: the head flips, pouty lips, studied posture and flair for melodrama. Busch's Angela is a hard-drinking, man-hungry temptress, a terrible mother and an over-the-hill star deluding herself about a comeback. She has a gift for gab, tossing off lines such as the one about a man who "slipped into my life as easily as vermouth into a glass of gin."
The rest of the cast catches the spirit, playing absolutely straight this melodrama twisted into farce. Hall is wonderfully funny as the overbearing producer past his prime, his "message" pictures coming back from the boxoffice marked "Return to Sender". Lyonne is a bratty little daughter with a large daddy complex, while Sands borrows from other era pictures to play the ambi-sexual rebel without a clue. Conroy is the shrewd maid who masks her intent with ditziness. Priestley, a character with an ulterior motive behind his ulterior motive, is delicious fun as a man who uses sex to attain all his goals.
Joseph B. Tintfass' sets, Kelly Evans' cinematography and Michael Bottari and Ronald Case's gowns for Busch amusingly capture the look and mood of all those old Made in Hollywood color movies.
DIE MOMMIE, DIE!
Aviator Films and Bill Kenwright Ltd.
Credits:
Director: Michael Rucker
Screenwriter: Charles Busch, based on his play
Producers: Dante Di Loreto, Anthony Edwards, Bill Kenwright
Executive producers: Lonny Dubrofsky, Neil Ellman
Director of photography: Kelly Evans
Production designer: Joseph B. Tintfass
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Costume designers: Michael Bottari, Ronald Case
Editor: Philip Harrison
Cast:
Angela Arden/Barbara Arden: Charles Busch
Edith: Natasha Lyonne
Sol Sussman: Philip Baker Hall
Boostie: Frances Conroy
Tony Parker: Jason Priestley
Lance: Stark Sands.
Running time -- 90 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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