Exclusive: The sales company has added The Preppie Connection and We Don’t Belong Here to its roster of titles on the eve of the Efm.
Joseph Castelo wrote and directed The Preppie Connection (pictured) starring Thomas Mann from Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, Lucy Fry, Sam Page and Logan Huffman.
The story is inspired by the true story of students at the private Choate Rosemary Hall School in Connecticut who attempted to smuggle $300,000 of cocaine into the country. IFC will distribute in the Us on March 18.
Joseph Mensch, Adam Folk, Joseph Castelo, Billy Raftery, Charlie Bunting, Eric Schultz, and Carlo Sirtori produced.
Tony Piantedosi, director of development and acquisitions at Premiere Entertainment Group, brokered the deal with Schultz and ICM Partners.
Premiere Entertainment svp of sales and acquisitions, Jack Campbell, who brokered the deal, said: “This true account takes the viewer on a wild ride of building a drug empire as an outsider at a stuffy...
Joseph Castelo wrote and directed The Preppie Connection (pictured) starring Thomas Mann from Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, Lucy Fry, Sam Page and Logan Huffman.
The story is inspired by the true story of students at the private Choate Rosemary Hall School in Connecticut who attempted to smuggle $300,000 of cocaine into the country. IFC will distribute in the Us on March 18.
Joseph Mensch, Adam Folk, Joseph Castelo, Billy Raftery, Charlie Bunting, Eric Schultz, and Carlo Sirtori produced.
Tony Piantedosi, director of development and acquisitions at Premiere Entertainment Group, brokered the deal with Schultz and ICM Partners.
Premiere Entertainment svp of sales and acquisitions, Jack Campbell, who brokered the deal, said: “This true account takes the viewer on a wild ride of building a drug empire as an outsider at a stuffy...
- 2/6/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
• Maya Rudolph will reunite with her Saturday Night Live alums Tina Fey and Amy Poehler for Universal’s The Nest. She’ll play a childhood friend of Poehler and Fey’s characters, who are sisters who throw one last blowout in their parents’ up-for-sale house. Greta Lee (Girls) has also joined the cast. She’ll play a woman who gets a “pity invite” to the party. Paula Pell wrote the screenplay, and Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect) will direct. [THR; Deadline]
• Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) is reportedly set to play the lead in director Courtney Hunt’s legal drama The Whole Truth. Renee Zellweger,...
• Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) is reportedly set to play the lead in director Courtney Hunt’s legal drama The Whole Truth. Renee Zellweger,...
- 6/14/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
I Saw the Light
Tom Hiddleston is set to portray country singer Hank Williams in Marc Abraham's "I Saw The Light" for Bron Studios and RatPac Entertainment.
Abraham penned the script based on Colin Escott's award-winning biography. Shooting is scheduled to begin in Louisiana in October. Aaron L Gilbert, Brett Ratner, G Marq Roswell and Abraham will produce. [Source: Screen]
The Intern
"Workaholics" creator and star Anders Holm will play the romantic lead opposite Anne Hathaway in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy "The Intern" at Warner Bros. Pictures.
The story centers on the owner of a successful fashion website (Hathaway) who bonds with the elderly intern (De Niro) her company has hired. Meyers penned the screenplay. [Source: THR]
The Nest
Maya Rudolph ("Bridesmaids") and Greta Lee ("Girls") have joined the cast of the Amy Poehler-Tina Fey comedy "The Nest" at Universal Pictures.
The story follows two grown sisters who throw...
Tom Hiddleston is set to portray country singer Hank Williams in Marc Abraham's "I Saw The Light" for Bron Studios and RatPac Entertainment.
Abraham penned the script based on Colin Escott's award-winning biography. Shooting is scheduled to begin in Louisiana in October. Aaron L Gilbert, Brett Ratner, G Marq Roswell and Abraham will produce. [Source: Screen]
The Intern
"Workaholics" creator and star Anders Holm will play the romantic lead opposite Anne Hathaway in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy "The Intern" at Warner Bros. Pictures.
The story centers on the owner of a successful fashion website (Hathaway) who bonds with the elderly intern (De Niro) her company has hired. Meyers penned the screenplay. [Source: THR]
The Nest
Maya Rudolph ("Bridesmaids") and Greta Lee ("Girls") have joined the cast of the Amy Poehler-Tina Fey comedy "The Nest" at Universal Pictures.
The story follows two grown sisters who throw...
- 6/13/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Denzel Washington, about to end a run on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun, is in talks to star in a remake of the 1960 western The Magnificent Seven for MGM. Washington would once again work with Antoine Fuqua, who directed his Oscar-winning performance in Training Day and the upcoming film The Equalizer. Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt had previously been eyed for the project with drafts of the script written by Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective) and most recently John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side). [The Hollywood Reporter]
• Judi Dench (Philomena) will play The Abbess of St. Ursula’s, a rescuer of orphan children,...
• Judi Dench (Philomena) will play The Abbess of St. Ursula’s, a rescuer of orphan children,...
- 6/5/2014
- by Jake Perlman
- EW - Inside Movies
Kiernan Shipka and Anton Yelchin are set to star in “The Greens Are Gone,” the directorial debut of Peer Pedersen. The film also stars Riley Keough, Annie Stark, Catherine Keener, Cary Elwes, Lois Smith and Ryan Eggold. The film follows the family matriarch (Keener), who is sent over the edge after the disappearance of her son (Yelchin). Shipka will play her bipolar daughter whose reality is warped in magical realism,” and Keough and Starke will play two older daughters who are also troubled. Variety reports that filming is set to start in Massachusetts next month. Shipka is best known for [...]
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The post Kiernan Shipka and Anton Yelchin Join Indie Family Drama ‘The Greens Are Gone’ appeared first on Up and Comers.
- 5/15/2014
- by Brittney Seegers
- UpandComers
Kidnap
Halle Berry is set to star in Luis Prieto's thriller "Kidnap" at Lotus Entertainment. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Erik Howsam are producing.
Knate Gwaltney's script follows a mother who does whatever it takes to rescue her abducted son. [Source: Screen]
Untitled Anne Fletcher Project
John Carroll Lynch, Richard T. Jones and Robert Kazinsky are joining Anne Fletcher's untitled female buddy action comedy at MGM and New Line. Lynch will play a humorless police captain, Jones a cocky detective partner, Kazinsky a charming parolee.
The story centers on an uptight, by-the-book cop (Reese Witherspoon) who is trying to protect the sexy and outgoing widow of a drug boss (Sofia Vergara) as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen. [Source: THR]
The Greens Are Gone
Catherine Keener, Kiernan Shipka and Anton Yelchin are set to star in Peer Pedersen's "The Greens Are Gone" which begins shooting next month in Massachusetts.
Halle Berry is set to star in Luis Prieto's thriller "Kidnap" at Lotus Entertainment. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Erik Howsam are producing.
Knate Gwaltney's script follows a mother who does whatever it takes to rescue her abducted son. [Source: Screen]
Untitled Anne Fletcher Project
John Carroll Lynch, Richard T. Jones and Robert Kazinsky are joining Anne Fletcher's untitled female buddy action comedy at MGM and New Line. Lynch will play a humorless police captain, Jones a cocky detective partner, Kazinsky a charming parolee.
The story centers on an uptight, by-the-book cop (Reese Witherspoon) who is trying to protect the sexy and outgoing widow of a drug boss (Sofia Vergara) as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen. [Source: THR]
The Greens Are Gone
Catherine Keener, Kiernan Shipka and Anton Yelchin are set to star in Peer Pedersen's "The Greens Are Gone" which begins shooting next month in Massachusetts.
- 5/15/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Variety reports that Catherine Keener, Anton Yelchin, and Kiernan Shipka are set to star in the dysfunctional family drama The Greens Are Gone, from novice director Peer Pedersen. Keener will play the matriarch who is devastated when her son (Star Trek's Anton Yelchin) goes missing, while Shipka will play her bipolar daughter whose "reality is warped in magical realism." Poor Kiernan Shipka. With Mad Men and Flowers in the Attic, the 14-year-old really hasn't had the best luck with her fictional domestic environments. Can her next project be a feel-good high school rom-com, please?...
- 5/15/2014
- by Anna Silman
- Vulture
At the Cannes Film Festival we rest on the first day, not the seventh day. Traditionally the first Wednesday of the fest sees an onslaught of two types of travellers: film people that are a. recovering from jet lag or b. landing at the Aéroport Nice Côte d’Azur. Opening day festivities include: the opening film (we will get to this in a minute), the presentation of the jury to the media (see my recap below) and the start of the Market screenings (peppered around the town’s handful of movie theatres). It’s an ideal way for journos to catch up on select Sundance and Berlin titles they might have missed. Our Blake Williams and Nicholas Bell (who had to deal with unfortunate upgrade and downgrade badge issues) will be venturing into select titles. The badge system here in Cannes is a complex one — all media organizations including the web,...
- 5/14/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Romantic comedy, starring Toni Collette, heading for the American Film Market.
The Works International has come on board comedy romance Lucky Them for worldwide sales.
Set within the world of Seattle’s indie music scene, the film centres on music journalist Ellie Klug (Toni Collette) who reluctantly agrees to take an assignment to investigate the disappearance of a revered local musician who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend.
Collette co-stars with Thomas Haden Church, who plays a music-hating, aspiring documentarian that accompanies Ellie on the ensuing road trip.
The company will commence sales at the Afm. IFC previously picked up Us rights.
The deal was brokered between Clare Crean and Andy Ordonez of The Works International and John Sloss of Cinetic.
Lucky Them is directed by Megan Griffiths, produced by Emily Wachtel, Amy Hobby and Adam Gibbs and executive produced by Joanne Woodward and Peer Pedersen.
The film, which received its world premiere at the Toronto International...
The Works International has come on board comedy romance Lucky Them for worldwide sales.
Set within the world of Seattle’s indie music scene, the film centres on music journalist Ellie Klug (Toni Collette) who reluctantly agrees to take an assignment to investigate the disappearance of a revered local musician who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend.
Collette co-stars with Thomas Haden Church, who plays a music-hating, aspiring documentarian that accompanies Ellie on the ensuing road trip.
The company will commence sales at the Afm. IFC previously picked up Us rights.
The deal was brokered between Clare Crean and Andy Ordonez of The Works International and John Sloss of Cinetic.
Lucky Them is directed by Megan Griffiths, produced by Emily Wachtel, Amy Hobby and Adam Gibbs and executive produced by Joanne Woodward and Peer Pedersen.
The film, which received its world premiere at the Toronto International...
- 10/29/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films has picked up Us rights from Cinetic Media to the recent Toronto world premiere Lucky Them starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Oliver Platt. Separately, Distrib Films has acquired Just A Sigh while D Fims will release My Old Lady in Canada.
Megan Griffiths, directed Lucky Them from a screenplay by Emily Wachtel and Huck Botko about a rock journalist who embarks on a cathartic autobiographical assignment.
The film is presented by MyMy Productions in association with Tangerine Entertainment. Wachtel, Amy Hobby produced with Adam Gibbs, while Joanne Woodward and Peer Pedersen served as executive producers.
D Films has acquired Canadian rights in all media from Cohen Media Group to Israel Horovitz’ My Old Lady starring Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jane Birkin. My Old Lady is currently shooting in Paris and tells of a down-and-out New Yorker who travels to Paris to liquidate a huge apartment and encounters his father...
Megan Griffiths, directed Lucky Them from a screenplay by Emily Wachtel and Huck Botko about a rock journalist who embarks on a cathartic autobiographical assignment.
The film is presented by MyMy Productions in association with Tangerine Entertainment. Wachtel, Amy Hobby produced with Adam Gibbs, while Joanne Woodward and Peer Pedersen served as executive producers.
D Films has acquired Canadian rights in all media from Cohen Media Group to Israel Horovitz’ My Old Lady starring Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jane Birkin. My Old Lady is currently shooting in Paris and tells of a down-and-out New Yorker who travels to Paris to liquidate a huge apartment and encounters his father...
- 10/9/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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