The spotlight's shining brightly on Olivia Cooke these days -- largely due to her quietly powerful role as Alicent Hightower in HBO's "House of the Dragon."(Of course, the viral video in which she and co-star Emma D'arcy trade cocktail preferences certainly helped to sway the public.) But for those who have been paying attention, Cooke has consistently demonstrated an eclectic taste for projects and a scene-stealing presence right from the get-go.
The Oldham-born actress, whose natural British accent isn't often used on-screen, has starred in an impressive amount of television and film projects since her feature film debut in 2012's "The Quiet Ones." It's no wonder she's caught the attention of directors like Steven Spielberg, given her prowess and range across theatre, television, live-action, and animated film.
Cooke holds her own against cinematic heavyweights like Bill Nighy and Anya Taylor-Joy. Even in the most unfortunate cinematic misfires, she delivers memorable performances.
The Oldham-born actress, whose natural British accent isn't often used on-screen, has starred in an impressive amount of television and film projects since her feature film debut in 2012's "The Quiet Ones." It's no wonder she's caught the attention of directors like Steven Spielberg, given her prowess and range across theatre, television, live-action, and animated film.
Cooke holds her own against cinematic heavyweights like Bill Nighy and Anya Taylor-Joy. Even in the most unfortunate cinematic misfires, she delivers memorable performances.
- 2/24/2023
- by Kyle Milner
- Slash Film
MPI Media Group has acquired U.S. and international sales rights, outside the U.K. and Latin America, to award-winning sci-fi thriller “Minor Premise,” making its market debut at this year’s Cannes Marché du Film. MPI has already closed sales in three key territories: France to Koba Films, the Middle East to Phoenicia Pictures Intl. and in Taiwan with Moviecloud.
MPI VP of sales and acquisitions Nicola Goelzhaeuser handles sales of the company’s catalog, including “Minor Premise.”
“Minor Premise” is the debut directorial feature of exciting up-and-coming filmmaker Eric Schultz, which impressed at Spain’s prestigious Sitges Festival for genre films and finished 2020 as the year’s second best-reviewed film on Rotten Tomatoes.
Starring Dana Ashbrook, a genre cult icon for his work as Bobby Briggs in David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks,” and featuring a critically acclaimed performance by emerging actor Sathya Sridharan (“Bikini Moon”), “Minor Premise” is...
MPI VP of sales and acquisitions Nicola Goelzhaeuser handles sales of the company’s catalog, including “Minor Premise.”
“Minor Premise” is the debut directorial feature of exciting up-and-coming filmmaker Eric Schultz, which impressed at Spain’s prestigious Sitges Festival for genre films and finished 2020 as the year’s second best-reviewed film on Rotten Tomatoes.
Starring Dana Ashbrook, a genre cult icon for his work as Bobby Briggs in David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks,” and featuring a critically acclaimed performance by emerging actor Sathya Sridharan (“Bikini Moon”), “Minor Premise” is...
- 7/7/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Chris Lowell is set to star opposite Hilary Duff on Hulu’s “How I Met Your Mother” spinoff series, “How I Met Your Father,” TheWrap has learned.
Here’s the official description for the show, which received a straight-to-series order at the streaming service: In the near future, Sophie (Hilary Duff) is telling her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options.
Lowell will play Jesse, who is described as “smart, a bit of an edge and cynical about love. He’s an aspiring musician who works as an Uber driver to make ends meet and lives with his best friend Tom.
Here’s the official description for the show, which received a straight-to-series order at the streaming service: In the near future, Sophie (Hilary Duff) is telling her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options.
Lowell will play Jesse, who is described as “smart, a bit of an edge and cynical about love. He’s an aspiring musician who works as an Uber driver to make ends meet and lives with his best friend Tom.
- 6/16/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Carrie Coon delivered one of the all-time great television performances in her three-season run on HBO’s “The Leftovers,” and fans have been waiting for the actress to deliver the same dazzling tour-de-force on the big screen. Coon earned acclaim for her feisty supporting turn in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” and had roles in “The Post” and “Widows,” but this fall Coon will get the leading film role she deserves. The actress and Jude Law headline “The Nest,” the long-awaited second feature from “Martha Marcy May Marlene” director Sean Durkin.
The official synopsis from IFC Films reads: “Rory (Law), an ambitious entrepreneur and former commodities broker … persuades his American wife, Allison (Coon), and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the 1980s. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison’s...
The official synopsis from IFC Films reads: “Rory (Law), an ambitious entrepreneur and former commodities broker … persuades his American wife, Allison (Coon), and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the 1980s. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison’s...
- 6/16/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Thompson on Hollywood
Carrie Coon delivered one of the all-time great television performances in her three-season run on HBO’s “The Leftovers,” and fans have been waiting for the actress to deliver the same dazzling tour-de-force on the big screen. Coon earned acclaim for her feisty supporting turn in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” and had roles in “The Post” and “Widows,” but this fall Coon will get the leading film role she deserves. The actress and Jude Law headline “The Nest,” the long-awaited second feature from “Martha Marcy May Marlene” director Sean Durkin.
The official synopsis from IFC Films reads: “Rory (Law), an ambitious entrepreneur and former commodities broker … persuades his American wife, Allison (Coon), and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the 1980s. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison’s...
The official synopsis from IFC Films reads: “Rory (Law), an ambitious entrepreneur and former commodities broker … persuades his American wife, Allison (Coon), and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the 1980s. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison’s...
- 6/16/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
“Katie Says Goodbye” is a drama that examines how a patriarchal society relegates economically disadvantaged women into sex work and then punishes them for taking on such work to survive. “Katie Says Goodbye” is also the latest in a long line of dramas in which male writers and directors serve up the physical and psychological destruction of women for the delectation of an audience.
Which version of the film each viewer sees will be a subjective choice, of course, but the fact that the lead character is so utterly guileless and innocent and kindhearted — she’s essentially a smiley face with a “Kick Me” sign taped to her back — makes Katie less a victim of the world and more a victim of first time writer-director Wayne Roberts.
Katie is an Arizona waitress with dreams of moving to San Francisco to go to beauty school. Saving money is hard, particularly since...
Which version of the film each viewer sees will be a subjective choice, of course, but the fact that the lead character is so utterly guileless and innocent and kindhearted — she’s essentially a smiley face with a “Kick Me” sign taped to her back — makes Katie less a victim of the world and more a victim of first time writer-director Wayne Roberts.
Katie is an Arizona waitress with dreams of moving to San Francisco to go to beauty school. Saving money is hard, particularly since...
- 6/5/2019
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
"Men are simple, Katie. Find yourself a man with sad eyes..." Vertical Entertainment has released a brand new Us trailer for the indie drama Katie Says Goodbye, which originally premiered at film festivals back in 2016. After three years being on the shelf, the film is finally getting a small VOD release starting in June this year. Katie Says Goodbye stars Olivia Cooke as a young woman from New Mexico who turns to small-time prostitution in order to fund her dream to move to San Francisco. However, she falls in love with a handsome mechanic which soon messes up her big plans. The film also stars Christopher Abbott, James Belushi, Keir Gilchrist, Chris Lowell, Mireille Enos, and Mary Steenburgen. This is a strong indie trailer, and it doesn't seem like there's any real reason for this to be held up for so many years. Check it out. Here's the new official...
- 5/30/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Since her memorable breakout role in “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” rocked Sundance in 2015, British actress Olivia Cooke has filled her resume with a bevy of highbrow and intriguing projects. In 2017, she returned to Sundance in Cry Finley’s “Thoroughbreds,” where she was electric as a troubled Connecticut rich girl with an axe to grind. She also landed a plum role in Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One,” and thrilled critics with her portrayal of ambitious and scheming Becky Sharp in the latest TV mini-series of William Makepeace Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair.”
Now, she takes on another mature and intense role in Wayne Roberts’ feature directorial debut, “Katie Says Goodbye.” The film follows a small town waitress who is mistreated by nearly everyone in her life — from her abusive mother (a terrifying Mireille Enos) to a seemingly never-ending string of men who pay her for sexual acts — but...
Now, she takes on another mature and intense role in Wayne Roberts’ feature directorial debut, “Katie Says Goodbye.” The film follows a small town waitress who is mistreated by nearly everyone in her life — from her abusive mother (a terrifying Mireille Enos) to a seemingly never-ending string of men who pay her for sexual acts — but...
- 5/20/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Johnny Depp may be something of a persona non grata in North America, but the controversial actor was met with open arms at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland yesterday where he appeared as a guest of honor, premiered his new film, “Richard Says Goodbye” and spoke at an “In Conversation” Q&A talk.
Robert Pattinson Movie With ‘Embrace Of The Serpent’ Director Ciro Guerra Adds Mark Rylance, In Danger Of Being Very Good
Directed by Wayne Roberts (“Katie Says Goodbye”), “Richard Says Goodbye” co-stars Zoey Deutch, Danny Huston, Rosemarie DeWitt and centers on a college professor who lives his life with reckless abandon after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Continue reading Johnny Depp To Star In Ciro Guerra’s Next Film With Robert Pattinson [Zurich Film Festival] at The Playlist.
Robert Pattinson Movie With ‘Embrace Of The Serpent’ Director Ciro Guerra Adds Mark Rylance, In Danger Of Being Very Good
Directed by Wayne Roberts (“Katie Says Goodbye”), “Richard Says Goodbye” co-stars Zoey Deutch, Danny Huston, Rosemarie DeWitt and centers on a college professor who lives his life with reckless abandon after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Continue reading Johnny Depp To Star In Ciro Guerra’s Next Film With Robert Pattinson [Zurich Film Festival] at The Playlist.
- 10/6/2018
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
It’s not as if there’s ever a particularly good time for rose-tinted character studies of morally dubious men, but even with that caveat in place, “Richard Says Goodbye” hasn’t exactly picked its moment. At a time when unresolved abuse allegations against Johnny Depp have placed his star image in flux, watching him play a college lecturer whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends him into a tailspin of social, sexual and professional misbehavior is an unavoidably discomfiting experience, however much gonzo gusto he brings to the part. Given more favorable circumstances, however, Wayne Roberts’ second feature would still be an unpalatable proposition, with its iffy sexual politics and a comic tone caught awkwardly between nihilistic irony and dewy-eyed sentiment. Saban Films and DirecTV have already secured U.S. rights to the film, which had it world premiere at the Zurich Film Festival; despite some theatrical play, “Richard” will primarily...
- 10/5/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
"I just think people need to learn to appreciate things more... 'Cause if you look at it in a certain way, life is just so amazing." Signature Entertainment has released an official trailer for an indie coming-of-age film titled Katie Says Goodbye, which originally premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016. It played at numerous festivals in late 2016 and 2017 but never found a distributor and never got a release. Katie Says Goodbye stars Olivia Cooke as a young woman from New Mexico who turns to small-time prostitution in order to fund her dream to move to San Francisco. However, she falls in love with a handsome mechanic messing up her plans. The film also stars Christopher Abbott, James Belushi, Keir Gilchrist, Chris Lowell, Mireille Enos, and Mary Steenburgen. This looks like a very cliche indie flick, unfortunately. Here's the new official trailer (+ old poster) for Wayne Roberts' Katie Says Goodbye,...
- 6/21/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sean Durkin is finally returning to independent cinema. The “Martha Marcy May Marlene” director has cast Carrie Coon and Jude Law in his family psychodrama “The Nest,” which marks his first indie film since “Martha Marcy” made him a breakout director in 2011. While Durkin directed four episodes of the television miniseries “Southcliffe,” the upcoming film will be his first feature in eight years. Variety first reported the news.
“The Nest” is being described as “part psychological thriller, part family drama.” Law plays an entrepreneur named Rory, who brings his American wife and kids to live with him in England so that he can look for new business ventures. The family leaves the American suburbs and move into an isolated house that pushes them a part and “plunges them into the despair of an archaic ’80s Britain.”
The movie gives Coon one of her biggest lead roles in a film to date.
“The Nest” is being described as “part psychological thriller, part family drama.” Law plays an entrepreneur named Rory, who brings his American wife and kids to live with him in England so that he can look for new business ventures. The family leaves the American suburbs and move into an isolated house that pushes them a part and “plunges them into the despair of an archaic ’80s Britain.”
The movie gives Coon one of her biggest lead roles in a film to date.
- 4/26/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Danny Huston, Rosemarie Dewitt, Zoey Deutch, Devon Terrell and Odessa Young also join cast.
The first image of Johnny Depp on the set of Richard Says Goodbye has been released (see above, full image below).
Shooting has started on location in Vancouver on the comedy drama, which is written and directed by Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye).
Danny Huston (Wonder Woman), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land), Zoey Deutch (Everybody Wants Some!!), Devon Terrell (Barry), and Odessa Young (Looking For Grace) have also joined the cast.
In the film Depp plays Richard, a world-weary college professor who is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to abandon conventions and live his life as freely as possible.
Richard Says Goodbye is co-financed by Im Global and Cirrina Studios with additional financing from Leeding Media. Im Global is also handling international sales with CAA repping domestic rights.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Midnight Special) of Automatik Entertainment and Im Global’s President of Production...
The first image of Johnny Depp on the set of Richard Says Goodbye has been released (see above, full image below).
Shooting has started on location in Vancouver on the comedy drama, which is written and directed by Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye).
Danny Huston (Wonder Woman), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land), Zoey Deutch (Everybody Wants Some!!), Devon Terrell (Barry), and Odessa Young (Looking For Grace) have also joined the cast.
In the film Depp plays Richard, a world-weary college professor who is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to abandon conventions and live his life as freely as possible.
Richard Says Goodbye is co-financed by Im Global and Cirrina Studios with additional financing from Leeding Media. Im Global is also handling international sales with CAA repping domestic rights.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Midnight Special) of Automatik Entertainment and Im Global’s President of Production...
- 7/25/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Principal photography started on location in Vancouver on Richard Says Goodbye starring three-time Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp, it was announced today by Im Global Founder and CEO Stuart Ford.
Golden Globe® nominee Danny Huston (Wonder Woman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land, Rachel’s Getting Married), Zoey Deutch (Everybody Wants Some!!, upcoming The Disaster Artist), Devon Terrell (Barry), and Odessa Young (Looking for Grace, The Daughter) have joined the cast of the comedy drama, which is written and directed by Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye).
Im Global and Cirrina Studios are co-financing the film with additional financing from Leeding Media.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Midnight Special) of Automatik Entertainment and Im Global’s President of Production Greg Shapiro (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) are producing the film. Ford and Miguel Palos of Im Global, Karine Martin, David Lipman and Jim Pesoli of Cirrina Studios, David U. Lee...
Golden Globe® nominee Danny Huston (Wonder Woman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land, Rachel’s Getting Married), Zoey Deutch (Everybody Wants Some!!, upcoming The Disaster Artist), Devon Terrell (Barry), and Odessa Young (Looking for Grace, The Daughter) have joined the cast of the comedy drama, which is written and directed by Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye).
Im Global and Cirrina Studios are co-financing the film with additional financing from Leeding Media.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Midnight Special) of Automatik Entertainment and Im Global’s President of Production Greg Shapiro (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) are producing the film. Ford and Miguel Palos of Im Global, Karine Martin, David Lipman and Jim Pesoli of Cirrina Studios, David U. Lee...
- 7/25/2017
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The comedy-drama Richard Says Goodbye starring Johnny Depp is rounding out its cast with Danny Huston, Rosemarie DeWitt, Zoey Deutch, Devon Terrell and Odessa Young.
The film, which is currently shooting in Vancouver, is written and directed by Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye). It follows the story of Richard (Depp), a world-weary college professor who is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak, and a touch of madness.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Automatik Entertainment and Im Global’s president of production Greg...
The film, which is currently shooting in Vancouver, is written and directed by Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye). It follows the story of Richard (Depp), a world-weary college professor who is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak, and a touch of madness.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Automatik Entertainment and Im Global’s president of production Greg...
- 7/25/2017
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Arrangement builds on partnership on upcoming comedy Richard Says Goodbye.
Im Global has announced a first-look deal with Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil as the star’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales crossed $600m at the global box office.
The parties negotiated the arrangement shortly before Cannes where Im Global launched pre-sales on Richard Says Goodbye, which will star Depp as a university professor who indulges in every vice imaginable after he receives a life-changing diagnosis.
Im Global is fully financing and co-producing the feature, which Wayne Roberts, who earned plaudits with Katie Says Goodbye, is set to direct this summer. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Automatik produces alongside Im Global president of production Greg Shapiro, with Im Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford and Depp serving as executive producers. CAA represents Us rights.
Im Global’s relationship with Infinitum Nihil began last year when Im Global Television announced it was developing a music-driven series...
Im Global has announced a first-look deal with Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil as the star’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales crossed $600m at the global box office.
The parties negotiated the arrangement shortly before Cannes where Im Global launched pre-sales on Richard Says Goodbye, which will star Depp as a university professor who indulges in every vice imaginable after he receives a life-changing diagnosis.
Im Global is fully financing and co-producing the feature, which Wayne Roberts, who earned plaudits with Katie Says Goodbye, is set to direct this summer. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Automatik produces alongside Im Global president of production Greg Shapiro, with Im Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford and Depp serving as executive producers. CAA represents Us rights.
Im Global’s relationship with Infinitum Nihil began last year when Im Global Television announced it was developing a music-driven series...
- 6/13/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Avatar: Cliff Curtis (above), star of TV's Fear the Walking Dead, has nabbed a lead role in all four sequels to James Cameron's Avatar. He'll play the leader of a clan of reef people. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver will be reprising their roles from the original. Production is now expected to begin next year, with the first of the sequels scheduled to arrive in 2020. [New Zealand Herald] Richard Says Goodbye: Johnny Depp will star in Richard Says Goodbye. The comic drama will follow a college professor who decides to change his life, trying every vice possible and taking pleasure from insulting people. Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye) wrote the original screenplay and will direct. [Deadline] Ana: Dafne Keen (Logan, above...
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- 5/9/2017
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Some actors’ careers fall apart once they get stuck playing the same roles over and over again, but while Johnny Depp tends to play similar characters pretty frequently, his case is different. He’s super famous, which means he gets to choose to play characters who are similar to each other, and also he has more than one kind of character he always plays. Sometimes he’s a pirate who swaggers around and does whatever he wants, and sometimes he’s an insane/drug-addled genius who swaggers around and does whatever he wants. And according to Deadline, he’ll be solidly in the latter mode for the upcoming film Richard Says Goodbye.
The movie is a comedy/drama from Katie Says Goodbye writer/director Wayne Roberts, and it’ll star Depp as a “world-weary college professor” who decides to “live his life as boldly and freely as possible” after receiving...
The movie is a comedy/drama from Katie Says Goodbye writer/director Wayne Roberts, and it’ll star Depp as a “world-weary college professor” who decides to “live his life as boldly and freely as possible” after receiving...
- 5/8/2017
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
Exclusive: Johnny Depp is set to star in Richard Says Goodbye, a comedy-drama from writer-director Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye).
Stuart Ford's IM Global is fully financing the project and commencing international sales in Cannes this month on what is sure to be one of the hottest projects of the market. CAA is repping domestic rights.
Automatik's Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, whose credits include Loving, Midnight Special and I Think We're Alone Now, will produce with Im…...
Stuart Ford's IM Global is fully financing the project and commencing international sales in Cannes this month on what is sure to be one of the hottest projects of the market. CAA is repping domestic rights.
Automatik's Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, whose credits include Loving, Midnight Special and I Think We're Alone Now, will produce with Im…...
- 5/8/2017
- Deadline
California festival’s 18th edition ran from April 20-27.
Moon Dogs was named best film in the juried awards as the 18th Newport Beach Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.
Jack Parry-Jones of Moon Dogs took the best actor award and Olivia Cooke was named best actress for Katie Says Goodbye (pictured).
City Of Joy claimed best documentary honours, as the best director prize went to Len Collin for Sanctuary, and Marden Dean claimed the cinematography award for Boys In The Trees.
In the audience awards, Don’t Tell won best film, Sami Blood (Sameblod) won best foreign film, and I’ll Push You took documentary honours.
The 18th annual Newport Beach Film Festival ran from April 20-April 27 and screened more than 350 films.
For further details of prize-winners, click here.
Moon Dogs was named best film in the juried awards as the 18th Newport Beach Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.
Jack Parry-Jones of Moon Dogs took the best actor award and Olivia Cooke was named best actress for Katie Says Goodbye (pictured).
City Of Joy claimed best documentary honours, as the best director prize went to Len Collin for Sanctuary, and Marden Dean claimed the cinematography award for Boys In The Trees.
In the audience awards, Don’t Tell won best film, Sami Blood (Sameblod) won best foreign film, and I’ll Push You took documentary honours.
The 18th annual Newport Beach Film Festival ran from April 20-April 27 and screened more than 350 films.
For further details of prize-winners, click here.
- 4/28/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Christopher Abbott essentially has two modes: Intense, and way more intense. The former “Girls” star, whose blooming career is still often seen as a response to his brief time on (and tumultuous exit from) that epochal HBO show, has spent the last few years playing one brooding knuckle-dragger after another, like he’s trying to rid himself of whatever cooties Lena Dunham may have left behind.
From “James White” to “Katie Says Goodbye,” the Greenwich, Ct native seems exclusively drawn to characters who could punch a wall at any moment — you can’t take your eyes off the guy, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that he picks his roles by imagining what might happen if Marlon Brando’s Stanley Kowalski walked off the screen and started wandering through the modern indie landscape.
But that’s all about to change, as Jamie M. Dagg’s “Sweet Virginia” brings...
From “James White” to “Katie Says Goodbye,” the Greenwich, Ct native seems exclusively drawn to characters who could punch a wall at any moment — you can’t take your eyes off the guy, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that he picks his roles by imagining what might happen if Marlon Brando’s Stanley Kowalski walked off the screen and started wandering through the modern indie landscape.
But that’s all about to change, as Jamie M. Dagg’s “Sweet Virginia” brings...
- 4/23/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
This years Manchester Film Festival has announced the full line-up of the 2017 official selection. This year’s three main strands are Rising Stars, Be Who You Are Say What You Feel and and Maniff’s annual Women In Film.
From the press release:
New to 2017 the Rising Stars strand will showcase emerging talent from behind and in front of the independent camera with closing night film Katie Says Goodbye starring Olivia Cooke spearheading a line-up of films that include UK premieres The Journey Is The Destination starring Ben Schnetzer, Creedmoria starring Steff Dawson, Cardboard Gangsters starring John Connors, When The Sun Shines starring Elias Monk and a string of films from first time filmmakers that include U.S feature Joesphine Doe by Ryan Michael, U.K micro budget feature Across The River by Warren Malone and first time director Joshua Locy’s Hunter Gatherer, starring Andre Royo.
The festival’s...
From the press release:
New to 2017 the Rising Stars strand will showcase emerging talent from behind and in front of the independent camera with closing night film Katie Says Goodbye starring Olivia Cooke spearheading a line-up of films that include UK premieres The Journey Is The Destination starring Ben Schnetzer, Creedmoria starring Steff Dawson, Cardboard Gangsters starring John Connors, When The Sun Shines starring Elias Monk and a string of films from first time filmmakers that include U.S feature Joesphine Doe by Ryan Michael, U.K micro budget feature Across The River by Warren Malone and first time director Joshua Locy’s Hunter Gatherer, starring Andre Royo.
The festival’s...
- 1/17/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Iffr reveals lineup and jury for programme focused on emerging filmmakers.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (25 Jan – 5 Feb) has announced the full line-up of its Bright Future programme, including the titles that will compete for the Bright Future Award.
Scroll down for the full lineup
The competition for the Bright Future Award 2017 consists of sixteen debut films, including Chinese documentary Children Are Not Afraid of Death, Children Are Afraid of Ghosts by Rong Guang Rong and Caroline Leone’s melancholy Brazilian road movie Pela Janela. Also competing are Belgian title Inside the Distance and German feature Self-Criticism Of A Bourgeois Dog.
The jury for the award will be made up of Italian film producer Marta Donzelli (Le Quattro Volte); Marleen Slot, Netherlands producer for Viking Film (Neon Bull) and chair of Film Producers Netherlands (Fpn); and Jean-Pierre Rehm, director of the French film festival Fid Marseille.
Outside of this competition, Bright Future also presents...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (25 Jan – 5 Feb) has announced the full line-up of its Bright Future programme, including the titles that will compete for the Bright Future Award.
Scroll down for the full lineup
The competition for the Bright Future Award 2017 consists of sixteen debut films, including Chinese documentary Children Are Not Afraid of Death, Children Are Afraid of Ghosts by Rong Guang Rong and Caroline Leone’s melancholy Brazilian road movie Pela Janela. Also competing are Belgian title Inside the Distance and German feature Self-Criticism Of A Bourgeois Dog.
The jury for the award will be made up of Italian film producer Marta Donzelli (Le Quattro Volte); Marleen Slot, Netherlands producer for Viking Film (Neon Bull) and chair of Film Producers Netherlands (Fpn); and Jean-Pierre Rehm, director of the French film festival Fid Marseille.
Outside of this competition, Bright Future also presents...
- 1/4/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Ten Screen critics select their hidden film gems of the year.Fionnuala Halligan, chief film critic
A Date For Mad Mary
Dir Darren Thornton
This big-hearted Irish romcom, which shared the top prize at Galway this summer, has all the smarts to hit with younger audiences should it get the chance. Just released from prison, surly, boozy Mary pines for her bridezilla Bff who has moved on. Now she needs a date for the wedding and rarely has someone looked for love with less interest. Thornton directs a scuzzily radiant Seana Kerslake as the miserably mad Mary, wildly unpredictable and widely misunderstood, in a film that feels like the love child of Weekend and Once.
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Tim Grierson, Senior Us critic
The Student
Dir Kirill Serebrennikov
The dangers of religious fervor overwhelming reason is the cauldron into which The Student drops its audience, taking us to a Russian high school where a Bible-quoting...
A Date For Mad Mary
Dir Darren Thornton
This big-hearted Irish romcom, which shared the top prize at Galway this summer, has all the smarts to hit with younger audiences should it get the chance. Just released from prison, surly, boozy Mary pines for her bridezilla Bff who has moved on. Now she needs a date for the wedding and rarely has someone looked for love with less interest. Thornton directs a scuzzily radiant Seana Kerslake as the miserably mad Mary, wildly unpredictable and widely misunderstood, in a film that feels like the love child of Weekend and Once.
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Tim Grierson, Senior Us critic
The Student
Dir Kirill Serebrennikov
The dangers of religious fervor overwhelming reason is the cauldron into which The Student drops its audience, taking us to a Russian high school where a Bible-quoting...
- 12/15/2016
- ScreenDaily
Other winners include Sand Storm, American Honey, Old Stone, Hooligan Sparrow.
The jury of the 27th Stockholm International Film Festival has given the top award, the Bronze Horse, to Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova for Godless.
The film previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno as well as the New Talent Grant Pix in Copenhagen last week. It tells the story of a young physiotherapist struggling to survive in an economically depressed mountain town in post-Communist Bulgaria, who forms an unlikely bond with one of her elderly patients.
The jury — comprised of producer Annika Rogell, directors Roland Vranik, Wayne Roberts and Frida Kempff, and actress Julia Ragnarsson – said the film was “an astonishing masterpiece. This is filmmaking of the highest order and marks the arrival of a new great within cinema. A film that will forever live in the hearts and minds of viewers. It is a true work of art and, simply put, is...
The jury of the 27th Stockholm International Film Festival has given the top award, the Bronze Horse, to Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova for Godless.
The film previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno as well as the New Talent Grant Pix in Copenhagen last week. It tells the story of a young physiotherapist struggling to survive in an economically depressed mountain town in post-Communist Bulgaria, who forms an unlikely bond with one of her elderly patients.
The jury — comprised of producer Annika Rogell, directors Roland Vranik, Wayne Roberts and Frida Kempff, and actress Julia Ragnarsson – said the film was “an astonishing masterpiece. This is filmmaking of the highest order and marks the arrival of a new great within cinema. A film that will forever live in the hearts and minds of viewers. It is a true work of art and, simply put, is...
- 11/20/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Considering how fashionable a “spiritual sequel” is in Hollywood these days, it’s a pity that those behind Katie Says Goodbye can’t legally flaunt it as one of the prequel variety to Martin Scorsese’s early drama Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. Sharing more than just the pink waitress uniforms donned by Olivia Cooke and Ellen Burstyn, respectively, both films explore a seemingly inescapable life below the poverty line in the American southwest, with big dreams to emerge out of the rut. Wayne Roberts‘ directorial debut certainly gets darker than that 1974 drama, but, despite a transfixing performance from Cooke, it’s in search of a more distinctive personality on both the page and screen.
Katie spends most of her time working as a waitress at the local truck stop, seemingly the biggest attraction in her desolate town. At night, she tends to her alcoholic, unemployed mother (Mireille Enos...
Katie spends most of her time working as a waitress at the local truck stop, seemingly the biggest attraction in her desolate town. At night, she tends to her alcoholic, unemployed mother (Mireille Enos...
- 9/12/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
What's it like to audition for one of Hollywood's preeminent filmmakers? Olivia Cooke found out first hand, after going through the process to star in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. "I auditioned in New York for the casting director, then was flown over to L.A. to read with Spielberg, and mix and match with a bunch of boys over two days there. Then I was flown [back] to New York," Cooke said at the People / EW / InStyle portrait studio during this year's Toronto International Film Festival, where she was promoting the films Katie Says Goodbye and The Limehouse Golem.
- 9/11/2016
- by Christopher Rosen
- PEOPLE.com
What's it like to audition for one of Hollywood's preeminent filmmakers? Olivia Cooke found out first hand, after going through the process to star in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. "I auditioned in New York for the casting director, then was flown over to L.A. to read with Spielberg, and mix and match with a bunch of boys over two days there. Then I was flown [back] to New York," Cooke said at the People / EW / InStyle portrait studio during this year's Toronto International Film Festival, where she was promoting the films Katie Says Goodbye and The Limehouse Golem.
- 9/11/2016
- by Christopher Rosen
- PEOPLE.com
La La Land, Jackie, Nocturnal Animals and Manchester By The Sea have all been garnering early awards buzz.
With Venice and Telluride spun out and Toronto through its first weekend, the 2016 awards race is coming into focus with some films already making strong plays – reinforced by yesterday’s win at Venice for Emma Stone (best actress for La La Land) and Tom Ford (Grand Jury prize for Nocturnal Animals).
Still in clear Best Picture (and, by extension, Best Director) contention from Sundance is Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea. He seems likely to be joined by Pablo Larrain’s Jackie, Damien Chazelle’s lustrous ode to Los Angeles and musicals, La La Land, and Garth Davis’ Lion, which screened in Toronto last night to a rapturous reception. Jostling them along are Ford’s dark drama, Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival
Also in the frame are Moonlight, Loving, and Mel Gibson’s directorial comeback Hacksaw Ridge. Still to be seen...
With Venice and Telluride spun out and Toronto through its first weekend, the 2016 awards race is coming into focus with some films already making strong plays – reinforced by yesterday’s win at Venice for Emma Stone (best actress for La La Land) and Tom Ford (Grand Jury prize for Nocturnal Animals).
Still in clear Best Picture (and, by extension, Best Director) contention from Sundance is Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea. He seems likely to be joined by Pablo Larrain’s Jackie, Damien Chazelle’s lustrous ode to Los Angeles and musicals, La La Land, and Garth Davis’ Lion, which screened in Toronto last night to a rapturous reception. Jostling them along are Ford’s dark drama, Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival
Also in the frame are Moonlight, Loving, and Mel Gibson’s directorial comeback Hacksaw Ridge. Still to be seen...
- 9/11/2016
- by finn.halligan@screendaily.com (Fionnuala Halligan)
- ScreenDaily
La La Land, Jackie, Nocturnal Animals and Manchester By The Sea have all been garnering early awards buzz.
With Venice and Telluride spun out and Toronto through its first weekend, the 2016 awards race is coming into focus with some films already making strong plays – reinforced by yesterday’s win at Venice for Emma Stone (best actress for La La Land) and Tom Ford (Grand Jury prize for Nocturnal Animals).
Still in clear Best Picture (and, by extension, Best Director) contention from Sundance is Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea. He seems likely to be joined by Pablo Larrain’s Jackie, Damien Chazelle’s lustrous ode to Los Angeles and musicals, La La Land, and Garth Davis’ Lion, which screened in Toronto last night to a rapturous reception. Jostling them along are Ford’s dark drama, Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival
Also in the frame are Moonlight, Loving, and Mel Gibson’s directorial comeback Hacksaw Ridge. Still to be seen...
With Venice and Telluride spun out and Toronto through its first weekend, the 2016 awards race is coming into focus with some films already making strong plays – reinforced by yesterday’s win at Venice for Emma Stone (best actress for La La Land) and Tom Ford (Grand Jury prize for Nocturnal Animals).
Still in clear Best Picture (and, by extension, Best Director) contention from Sundance is Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea. He seems likely to be joined by Pablo Larrain’s Jackie, Damien Chazelle’s lustrous ode to Los Angeles and musicals, La La Land, and Garth Davis’ Lion, which screened in Toronto last night to a rapturous reception. Jostling them along are Ford’s dark drama, Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival
Also in the frame are Moonlight, Loving, and Mel Gibson’s directorial comeback Hacksaw Ridge. Still to be seen...
- 9/11/2016
- by finn.halligan@screendaily.com (Fionnuala Halligan)
- ScreenDaily
Katie Says Goodbye reps the feature directing debut of Alaska-born Nyu writer/director Wayne Roberts. An alumni film of the Ifp Narrative Lab, Katie Says Goodbye is described as “a cautionary tale for dreamers,” a dark drama about a young waitress striving to leave New Mexico for a new and better life in San Francisco. There’s a brutal scene at the film’s core, which we circle around in non-spoiler fashion in the below interview, in which we also discuss Roberts’ casting of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl‘s Olivia Cooke in his lead role as well as his advice to […]...
- 9/10/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Producers Jacob Wasserman and Kimberly Parker have launched Unknown Subject, a production company with a first feature debuting this weekend at the Toronto film festival: Katie Says Goodbye stars Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and The Dying Girl) and Christopher Abbott (Girls). Wasserman, a coproducer of Sundance 2015’s James White (also starring Abbott), and Parker, a coproducer of the 2015 James Franco-starrer The Adderall Diaries, say their new company will focus “on…...
- 9/10/2016
- Deadline
Sundance 2015 belonged to “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s crowd-pleasing big screen take on the popular Ya novel of the same name by Jesse Andrews. The adulation was obvious from the start, thanks to a premiere punctuated by a massive standing ovation and a late-night bidding war (with Fox Searchlight ultimately paying $12 million for the indie), all topped off nicely by the double-whammy win of the festival’s Grand Jury Prize and its Audience Award.
The tearjerking dramedy even came complete with a trio of up-and-coming talents to watch — the me, the Earl and, yes, the dying girl — including Thomas Mann, Rj Cyler and Olivia Cooke. As “dying girl” Rachel, former scream queen Cooke was tasked with being funny, sad, dramatic, creative, worldly and wise, all in one appealingly unsentimental package. Best known to audiences for her turns in a series of horror offerings, including “The Quiet Ones,...
The tearjerking dramedy even came complete with a trio of up-and-coming talents to watch — the me, the Earl and, yes, the dying girl — including Thomas Mann, Rj Cyler and Olivia Cooke. As “dying girl” Rachel, former scream queen Cooke was tasked with being funny, sad, dramatic, creative, worldly and wise, all in one appealingly unsentimental package. Best known to audiences for her turns in a series of horror offerings, including “The Quiet Ones,...
- 9/9/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
This past Wednesday, the Toronto Film Festival hosted its annual pre-opening-night fundraising event the Tiff Soirée, where proceeds go to help the festival as well under-served Toronto youth. The guest of honor for the evening was actor Michael Fassbender who participated in a career-long retrospective with Tiff artistic director Cameron Bailey. During the event, Fassbender provided some interesting details about his creative process as well as his thoughts about his performances, including the one’s he didn’t like so much, such as Magneto in “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” According to Vulture, he was “cringing and rubbing his face with embarrassment” when the clip was playing for the audience and eventually admitted that he’s not a fan of his acting. “I just think it’s me shouting. It’s just like…some dude shouting.”
Read More: ‘The Light Between Oceans’ First Look: Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander’s...
Read More: ‘The Light Between Oceans’ First Look: Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander’s...
- 9/9/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Once the guns start blazing in Ben Wheatley’s “Free Fire,” they don’t really stop. Prolific British director Ben Wheatley’s massively entertaining recovery from the messy J.G. Ballard adaptation “High-Rise” is a more controlled form of chaos, a chamber piece in which no chamber stays empty for long. Almost exclusively set in the confines of a small warehouse, Wheatley and screenwriter Amy Jump deliver the craziest movie shootout of all time by making an entire movie out of it. The cheeky dialogue and relentless violence leans heavily on the influences of Sam Peckinpah and “Reservoir Dogs,” although in this case the comic mayhem of the protracted battle amounts to little more than a lengthy gimmick. But a what fun gimmick: Less bullet ballet than bullet drum solo, Wheatley’s zany 90-minute set piece borrows the right ingredients to put on a good show.
Ever since his debut “Down Terrace,...
Ever since his debut “Down Terrace,...
- 9/9/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Rosamund Pike understands how Hollywood works. Best known to mainstream audiences for her breakthrough role in David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” – a turn that earned Pike her first Academy Award nomination – Pike is now moving into a new period of her career, one marked by very personal choices, and one she knows is at least partially possible because of her work in the Gillian Flynn adaptation.
“Obviously, with a film like ‘A United Kingdom,’ I’m sure that ‘Gone Girl’ and the nomination helped hugely,” Pike said of her latest feature, debuting this week at the Toronto International Film Festival. “I might not have been able to get the movie financed if I hadn’t just done that part, so there’s things like that that usually help.”
Read More: Watch: Supercut Details David Fincher’s Use Of Doubling In ‘Gone Girl’
But that’s hardly the only impact that...
“Obviously, with a film like ‘A United Kingdom,’ I’m sure that ‘Gone Girl’ and the nomination helped hugely,” Pike said of her latest feature, debuting this week at the Toronto International Film Festival. “I might not have been able to get the movie financed if I hadn’t just done that part, so there’s things like that that usually help.”
Read More: Watch: Supercut Details David Fincher’s Use Of Doubling In ‘Gone Girl’
But that’s hardly the only impact that...
- 9/9/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Writer/director Wayne Roberts, whose Olivia Cooke starring film Katie Says Goodbye premieres this Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival, has signed with CAA. The film marks Roberts’ directorial debut; he actually wrote the film while still a student at at Nyu Tisch School of the Arts where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. The film about a truck-stop waitress (Cooke) who believes she has found a way out of her dead end when she falls in love with a handsome young mechanic, also…...
- 9/8/2016
- Deadline
The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off this week, and with it, the rest of a very busy fall festival season. In preparation for the Canadian festival, we’ll be rolling out a series of previews to point you in the direction of all the movies you have to see (or at least, all the movies you have to start anticipating right now). First up, we’re looking at all the up-and-coming talents who just might break through at this year’s festival. Keep your eyes peeled, this batch just might end up being the brightest one yet.
Alex Lehmann, director, “Blue Jay”
Director Alex Lehmann cut his teeth as a cinematographer on short films and horror movies before landing his feature film directorial debut, “Blue Jay.” A comedic drama starring Sarah Paulson and Mark Duplass, who also wrote the screenplay for the film, “Blue Jay” centers on a pair...
Alex Lehmann, director, “Blue Jay”
Director Alex Lehmann cut his teeth as a cinematographer on short films and horror movies before landing his feature film directorial debut, “Blue Jay.” A comedic drama starring Sarah Paulson and Mark Duplass, who also wrote the screenplay for the film, “Blue Jay” centers on a pair...
- 9/6/2016
- by Kate Erbland, Steve Greene, Graham Winfrey, Chris O'Falt and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Sebastien Chesneau’s company will launch international sales in Toronto next week on Wayne Roberts’ highly regarded directorial debut starring Olivia Cooke.
Parallell Cinéma, Relic Pictures and Unknown Subject produced Katie Says Goodbye, which will receive its world premiere on September 11.
CAA represents Us rights to the story of a young waitress in the American Southwest who falls in love with an ex-convict.
The relationship throws her world into disarray as those close to her challenge her spirit and determination.
“Sebastien and his team at Cercamon provide the level of experience and curated taste that we were looking for,” said Roberts.
“Alongside the exceptional team at CAA, we hold no doubt that Cercamon will enable Katie Says Goodbye to find its home among distributors and audiences worldwide.”
Rounding out the key cast are Mireille Enos, Jim Belushi, Mary Steenburgen, and Christopher Abbott.
Eric Schultz of Relic Pictures, Carlo Sirtori, David Steiner and [link...
Parallell Cinéma, Relic Pictures and Unknown Subject produced Katie Says Goodbye, which will receive its world premiere on September 11.
CAA represents Us rights to the story of a young waitress in the American Southwest who falls in love with an ex-convict.
The relationship throws her world into disarray as those close to her challenge her spirit and determination.
“Sebastien and his team at Cercamon provide the level of experience and curated taste that we were looking for,” said Roberts.
“Alongside the exceptional team at CAA, we hold no doubt that Cercamon will enable Katie Says Goodbye to find its home among distributors and audiences worldwide.”
Rounding out the key cast are Mireille Enos, Jim Belushi, Mary Steenburgen, and Christopher Abbott.
Eric Schultz of Relic Pictures, Carlo Sirtori, David Steiner and [link...
- 8/31/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Next month’s Toronto International Film Festival has nearly completed its lineup announcements, and each one is more impressive than the last. Today’s Tiff picks feature a number of slate additions for sections as varied as the forward-focused Discovery, their burgeoning Pop Vr section and even a handful of last minute additions to the Tiff Docs list. New titles of note that have just been announced include the Cannes hit “The Red Turtle,” Wayne Roberts’ “Katie Says Goodbye” and the well-regarded “Sand Storm,” all of which will screen as part of Discovery.
Read More: Tiff Lineup: 5 Reasons to Get Excited About the 2016 Program
Both the Next Wave and Tiff Kids section pull titles from other, previously announced sections to create an appealing lineup for the next generation of cinephiles. Standout titles include “Moonlight,” “My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea” and “The Eagle Huntress.”
Additionally, the festival has...
Read More: Tiff Lineup: 5 Reasons to Get Excited About the 2016 Program
Both the Next Wave and Tiff Kids section pull titles from other, previously announced sections to create an appealing lineup for the next generation of cinephiles. Standout titles include “Moonlight,” “My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea” and “The Eagle Huntress.”
Additionally, the festival has...
- 8/23/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday finalized the lineup for its 41st edition, adding onstage conversations with Deepwater Horizon star Mark Wahlberg and Chinese star Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as well as 35 films from first- and second-time directors, more docs and virtual reality fare. Toronto's Discovery sidebar will feature world premieres of Wayne Roberts' Katie Says Goodbye, starring Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and The Killing star Mireille Enos; Scottish director Hope Dickson Leach's The Levelling, starring Game of Thrones' Ellie Kendrick; and Rachel Lambert's In the Radiant City, produced by Jeff
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- 8/23/2016
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
McCaul Lombardi (who’ll be on the Croisette in the featured Andrea Arnold’s American Honey quartet comprised of Sasha Lane, Shia Labeouf and Arielle Holmes) will topline and Tashiana Washington (Gimme the Loot), recording Artist Breezay and veteran actor James Belushi (who’ll next be seen in Katie Says Goodbye) are part of the make-up of indie Baltimore based helmer Matt Porterfield‘s Soller’s Point.
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- 4/15/2016
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Shortly after the Sundance Institute named their January Screenwriter’s Lab roster, it’s another West coast entity that is offering some support to the next gen of producers. The San Francisco Film Society folks have bestowed the Producer Fellowships to Reena Dutt, Kyle Martin (who is know best from producing Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture and Lance Edmands’ Bluebird) and Kimberly Parker (who most recently produced Katie Says Goodbye – a title we had pegged for Sundance). Here is the press release.
This round of Sffs Producer Fellowships runs from January to June 2016, kicking off with a 5-day networking trip to the Sundance Film Festival. In addition to this excursion, over the course of the Fellowship each winner will receive:
A $25,000–$40,000 cash grant to be used for living expenses. Individual amounts depend on place of residence and estimated travel costs to participate in Bay Area fellowship components.
Placement in our...
This round of Sffs Producer Fellowships runs from January to June 2016, kicking off with a 5-day networking trip to the Sundance Film Festival. In addition to this excursion, over the course of the Fellowship each winner will receive:
A $25,000–$40,000 cash grant to be used for living expenses. Individual amounts depend on place of residence and estimated travel costs to participate in Bay Area fellowship components.
Placement in our...
- 1/15/2016
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Take two thesps from the previous Sundance film festival who both broke out big and then pair them up for your directorial debut. This is the chance that was afforded to Wayne Roberts. Grand Jury Sundance winning Me and Earl and the Dying Girl‘s Olivia Cooke and Next section winning James White‘s Christopher Abbott were enlisted for Katie Says Goodbye back in March for the New Mexico production. Included on the Blacklist’s weekly top read scripts and described as a blend of coming-of-ager, a modern Western and the first part of a possible trilogy, this appears to visit some dark matter and tonally could be the antithesis of The Girlfriend Experience.
Gist: Katie (Cooke), a kindhearted seventeen-year-old turns to prostitution to overcome poverty and fulfill her dream of a new life in San Francisco.
Production Co./Producers: Producers: Tandem Pictures’ Jake Wasserman (Katie Says Goodbye) and Schuyler Weiss...
Gist: Katie (Cooke), a kindhearted seventeen-year-old turns to prostitution to overcome poverty and fulfill her dream of a new life in San Francisco.
Production Co./Producers: Producers: Tandem Pictures’ Jake Wasserman (Katie Says Goodbye) and Schuyler Weiss...
- 11/24/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The unpredictability with this filmmaker-actor is that he has got plenty of projects stoking the fire and we never know which item might push forth next. Prolific, inexhaustible, enervating and stoic with literature’s greats, James Franco‘s selected career path merits its own NYC course of its own. Franco could probably fit it in his schedule and teach it. After tending to the rabbits on Broadways’ Of Mice and Men, it’s Steinbeck follow in the footsteps of Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner as book to film interests. Production began on In Dubious Battle at the beginning of the year. Mostly shot in Atlanta, this amassed a crew of players comprised of Analeigh Tipton, Josh Hutcherson, Selena Gomez, Bryan Cranston, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ashley Greene, Nat Wolff, Ed Harris, Duvall, Zach Braff, Austin Stowell, Keegan Allen, Darin Cooper, Ahna O’Reilly, John Savage, Beth Grant, Scott Haze and of course Franco himself.
- 11/24/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Supported by the same folks who brought us Mona Fastvold’s The Sleepwalker (Sundance 2014) and accompanied by the Borderline Films crew (who need no introduction on this site but what is worth the mention is how extremely productive they are beyond their own back-to-back features (James White and Christine) first-time filmmaker Nicolas Pesce is well versed in the art of eye candy (this year’s clip for Tei Shi’s Bassically is addictive). The under the radar project saw principal photography come to a close this October. Starring Kika Malgahaes, Will Brill, Clara Wong, Flora Diaz, and Olivia Bond, The Eyes of My Mother sounds indie spirit from someone who appears to have a skillset and more importantly, already have a distinct eye.
Gist: This centers around a young girl who raises herself alone in isolation after a tragedy besets her family.
Production Co./Producers: Producers: Tandem Pictures’ Jake Wasserman...
Gist: This centers around a young girl who raises herself alone in isolation after a tragedy besets her family.
Production Co./Producers: Producers: Tandem Pictures’ Jake Wasserman...
- 11/24/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Olivia Cooke is in talks to play the lead role in Steven Spielberg's latest project Ready Player One.
The adaptation of Ernest Cline's 2011 novel, set in a dystopian video game future, is the latest Young Adult novel to get the Hollywood treatment.
Set in 2044 in a virtual world called Oasis, a young man spends his time jacked into a virtual gaming world to discover hidden puzzles within the games.
The puzzles are based on their creator's obsession with past pop culture and promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
Cooke is on track to play Sam, a Canadian blogger who is both teen's love interest and major competitor, whose name in the virtual world is Art3mis.
The Hollywood Reporter also reveals that Zak Penn, who co-wrote the script for X-Men: The Last Stand and contributed to the story for The Avengers, has adapted the...
The adaptation of Ernest Cline's 2011 novel, set in a dystopian video game future, is the latest Young Adult novel to get the Hollywood treatment.
Set in 2044 in a virtual world called Oasis, a young man spends his time jacked into a virtual gaming world to discover hidden puzzles within the games.
The puzzles are based on their creator's obsession with past pop culture and promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
Cooke is on track to play Sam, a Canadian blogger who is both teen's love interest and major competitor, whose name in the virtual world is Art3mis.
The Hollywood Reporter also reveals that Zak Penn, who co-wrote the script for X-Men: The Last Stand and contributed to the story for The Avengers, has adapted the...
- 9/12/2015
- Digital Spy
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
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