In today’s film news roundup, the teen hospital romance “Five Five Apart” gets a release date, Lawrence Kasdan will direct an Anita Bryant movie, and James Ivory joins an Italian film.
Release Date
CBS Films and Lionsgate have set a March 22 release for romance-drama “Five Feet Apart,” starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse.
The duo is portraying cystic fibrosis patients in the same hospital, where strict rules dictate that they must stay five feet apart at all times. As the connection intensifies, so does their willingness to defy the rules that govern every moment of their lives. Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Parminder Nagra, Emily Baldoni, Gary Weeks, and Moises Arias also star.
Justin Baldoni is directing from a script by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. Producers are Cathy Schulman, whose credits include best picture winner “Crash” and “The Foreigner,” and Baldoni.
“Five Feet Apart” is the first title to...
Release Date
CBS Films and Lionsgate have set a March 22 release for romance-drama “Five Feet Apart,” starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse.
The duo is portraying cystic fibrosis patients in the same hospital, where strict rules dictate that they must stay five feet apart at all times. As the connection intensifies, so does their willingness to defy the rules that govern every moment of their lives. Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Parminder Nagra, Emily Baldoni, Gary Weeks, and Moises Arias also star.
Justin Baldoni is directing from a script by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. Producers are Cathy Schulman, whose credits include best picture winner “Crash” and “The Foreigner,” and Baldoni.
“Five Feet Apart” is the first title to...
- 5/31/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Rebecca Romijn will star as the third witch on ABC's drama pilot "Eastwick: which tells of three young witches who discover their powers. Romijn will apparently play Roxie, a single mother with a sharp tongue. The other two witches will be played by Lindsay Price and Jaime Ray Newman.Romijn co-starred in ABC's "Ugly Betty" prior to her maternity leave to give birth to her twins. Prior to that, her film career has dwindled since her last appearance in Fox's "X-Men: The Last Stand" back in 2006. The last film she starred in the Hunter Hill and Perry Moore helmed "Lake City" drama along with Sissy Spacek and Troy Garity. ...
- 3/10/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Hunter Hill and Perry Moore were unlikely directors for Lake City. It was their first feature and the two had extremely limited experience with film, the only other credits to their names Moore's work as executive producer on the Chronicles of Narnia films. Whatever its success, it was a bold undertaking. Apparently it or Hill's work with Paper magazine attracted the notice of Spike Jonze, who's currently at work on the effects and post-production of Where the Wild Things Are.
- 12/10/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
One clear sign you're stranded in IndieLand: You're watching famous people slumming it in roles they weren't exactly born to play. Lake City features two such adventures in résumé-padding. Former fashion model Rebecca Romijn plays, of all things, a small-town Southern cop, while jam-band icon Dave Matthews plays a brutal drug dealer. (Matthews' presence is also evidence that Lake City was shot in Virginia, his home state.) Romijn and Matthews appear alongside such stalwart character actors as The Sopranos' Drea de Matteo, as an unstable addict, and Sissy Spacek, as a melancholy loner coping with the return of her wayward son, Troy Garity. All the performers are fine—even the miscast Romijn—but they're still too much like actors playing dress-up. As to why Spacek feels melancholy, and when Garity went wayward. well, in keeping with modern screenplay convention, co-writer/directors Hunter Hill and Perry Moore withhold these details from the audience.
- 11/20/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
- And they say moderation is the spice of life. Screen Media Films, a late-comer to the frenzy of Tribeca wheelin' and dealin', has just announced that they are picking up the scraps, err -- have acquired international distribution rights to "Lake City", a feature directed by Hunter Hill and Perry Moore. The film, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, describes the tempestuous relationship between a boy (Billy, played by Troy Garity) and his estranged mother (Sissy Spacek). It's a great opportunity for mother and son to figure out their issues, if only Billy's wife (Drea de Matteo) didn't stiff a murderous drug dealer (ironically played by Dave Matthews) and set him on Billy's trail. Set in the Virginia countryside, Billy is forced to make amends for his past and reconnects with a childhood pal (Rebecca Romijn). "Lake City" was produced by Allison Sarofim, Donna Bascom and Mike Ryan,
- 7/9/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
New York -- Screen Media Films has acquired worldwide rights to the dramatic thriller "Lake City," starring Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity, Rebecca Romijn and Dave Matthews.
Keith Carradine and Drea De Matteo also star in the film, the latest theatrical acquisition from this spring's Tribeca Film Festival.
Writer-directors Perry Moore and Hunter Hill's feature follows a young man (Garity) who journeys to the rural Virginia home of his mother (Spacek) to hide from the drug dealer (Matthews) of his estranged wife (De Matteo).
Screen Media will release the film in New York, Los Angeles and five urban markets on Nov. 7. Allison Sarofim, Donna Bascom and Mike Ryan produced the film with executive producers Mark Johnson, Weiman Seid and Sally Pope through N.Y.-based Sixty-Six Productions.
Robert Baruc and David Fannon negotiated the deal on behalf of Screen Media.
Keith Carradine and Drea De Matteo also star in the film, the latest theatrical acquisition from this spring's Tribeca Film Festival.
Writer-directors Perry Moore and Hunter Hill's feature follows a young man (Garity) who journeys to the rural Virginia home of his mother (Spacek) to hide from the drug dealer (Matthews) of his estranged wife (De Matteo).
Screen Media will release the film in New York, Los Angeles and five urban markets on Nov. 7. Allison Sarofim, Donna Bascom and Mike Ryan produced the film with executive producers Mark Johnson, Weiman Seid and Sally Pope through N.Y.-based Sixty-Six Productions.
Robert Baruc and David Fannon negotiated the deal on behalf of Screen Media.
- 7/8/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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