Saban Films has acquired North American rights to Alexandre Moors' The Yellow Birds, a war drama that bowed at Sundance and heralds a strong cast with Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Toni Collette, Jason Patric, Jack Huston and Jennifer Aniston. Saban is planning a theatrical release in Spring 2018. The film, which won the Special Jury Prize for Best Cinematrography, was based on the novel by Kevin Powers. Adapted for the screen by David Lowery and R.F.I Porto, The Yellow…...
- 12/19/2017
- Deadline
American war drama “The Yellow Birds,” which has been one of the hottest titles at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, examines post-traumatic stress disorder and its causes. “A lot of these guys sign up to go to war because it’s something to do,” actor Jack Huston, who plays Sgt. Sterling in the film, tells TheWrap. ‘The Yellow Birds” also stars Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Toni Collette and Jennifer Aniston. Alexandre Moors (“Blue Caprice”) directed from a script by David Lowery (“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”), who adapted Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers’ 2012 book of the same name. Also...
- 1/26/2017
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
War, of course, is hell. We know this, but it stands that we should be reminded now and again. With The Yellow Birds, filmmaker Alexandre Moors tries to find beauty in the brutality. From a screenplay by David Lowery and R.F.I. Porto and based on the novel by Kevin Powers, the film centers on two young soldiers, Brandon Bartle (Alden Ehrenreich) and Daniel Murphy (Tye Sheridan), in the thick of the Iraq War.
Taking orders from the intense and unstable Sergeant Sterling (Jack Huston, doing a lot here, for better and worse), Bartle and Murphy become fast friends. At a family event, Murphy’s mother Maureen (Jennifer Aniston, also on as executive producer) meets Bartle and asks that he look after her son. This interaction underlines the conflict to come.
The narrative is structured around a mystery: what happened to Murphy? It’s a disjointed framework, in which we slowly...
Taking orders from the intense and unstable Sergeant Sterling (Jack Huston, doing a lot here, for better and worse), Bartle and Murphy become fast friends. At a family event, Murphy’s mother Maureen (Jennifer Aniston, also on as executive producer) meets Bartle and asks that he look after her son. This interaction underlines the conflict to come.
The narrative is structured around a mystery: what happened to Murphy? It’s a disjointed framework, in which we slowly...
- 1/24/2017
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Alexandre Moors (Blue Caprice) returns to Sundance this year with The Yellow Birds, based on the Kevin Powers novel about young soldiers at war, the effect it has on them when they return home, and the questions they face when one of their number doesn’t return. Alden Ehrenreich plays Brandon Bartle, tasked by his Staff Sergeant (Jack Huston) to look after Murph (Tye Sheridan), who is far from ready for the traumas of the front lines. Ehrenreich couldn’t make it to the…...
- 1/23/2017
- Deadline
This article originally appeared on Entertainment Weekly.
Jennifer Aniston will soon be seen showing off her dramatic chops once again, in Alexandre Moors’ Iraq War drama The Yellow Birds. The film will make its debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, and EW caught up with Aniston ahead of its premiere.
“War movies aren’t usually my thing; I find them very hard to watch,” Aniston says. “ the way this script read, and the vision that Alex had — it was really connecting into the humanity of the soldiers; the parents that are left behind waiting, counting the minutes; the loss of innocence.
Jennifer Aniston will soon be seen showing off her dramatic chops once again, in Alexandre Moors’ Iraq War drama The Yellow Birds. The film will make its debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, and EW caught up with Aniston ahead of its premiere.
“War movies aren’t usually my thing; I find them very hard to watch,” Aniston says. “ the way this script read, and the vision that Alex had — it was really connecting into the humanity of the soldiers; the parents that are left behind waiting, counting the minutes; the loss of innocence.
- 1/21/2017
- by Maria Mercedes Lara
- PEOPLE.com
A Shout in the Ruins (Little, Brown 2018) by Kevin Powers
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With the adaptation of his prize-winning debut, The Yellow Birds, heading to Sundance as one of the fest's hottest titles, Powers' second novel, weaving post-Civil War stories with tales of love and loss set more than 50 years later, is ready for its big-screen bid.
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Russia's rumored involvement with Donald Trump has renewed interest in its cloak-and-dagger shenanigans like the mysterious 2012 death of dissident businessman...
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- 1/18/2017
- by Andy Lewis,Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Later this week, Lrm will be attending this year’s Sundance Film Festival. While the festival tends to be a mixed bag of indie films, some will be picked up for distribution by studios and turned into mainstream hits, others will flounder and be lucky to get a VOD release. Even so, there’s no denying that Sundance is the real beginning of the year for most movie lovers as we’ll be talking about the movies below for the next 12 months.
Last year alone, Sundance held the premieres for The Birth of a Nation, Manchester by the Sea, Captain Fantastic, Love and Friendship, The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Sing Street and many more films, some that appeared on The Weekend Warrior’s year-end Top 25. One or two of those might even receive Oscar nominations when they’re announced next week on January 24.
Most of the films I’ve selected...
Last year alone, Sundance held the premieres for The Birth of a Nation, Manchester by the Sea, Captain Fantastic, Love and Friendship, The Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Sing Street and many more films, some that appeared on The Weekend Warrior’s year-end Top 25. One or two of those might even receive Oscar nominations when they’re announced next week on January 24.
Most of the films I’ve selected...
- 1/17/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
This year’s Sundance Film Festival is mere days from unspooling in snowy Park City, Utah and, with it comes a brand new year of indie filmmaking to get excited about. As ever, the annual festival is playing home to dozens of feature films, short offerings and technologically-influenced experiences, and while there’s plenty to anticipate seeing, we’ve waded through the lineup to pick out the ones we’re most looking forward to checking out.
From returning filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry and Gillian Robesepierre to a handful of long-gestating passion projects and at least one film about a ghost, we’ve got a little something for every stripe of film fan.
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Ahead, check out 20 titles we’re excited to finally check out at this year’s festival.
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From returning filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry and Gillian Robesepierre to a handful of long-gestating passion projects and at least one film about a ghost, we’ve got a little something for every stripe of film fan.
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- 1/11/2017
- by Chris O'Falt, Eric Kohn, Graham Winfrey, Jude Dry, Kate Erbland, Steve Greene and Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Untitled Lee Daniels Project
Benjamin Bratt is set to headline Lee Daniels' music drama pilot at Fox which was formerly known as "Star". Bratt will play a talent manager with a hidden life and drive for redemption.
Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny, Brittany O'Grady play three young women who form a girl group with hopes of making it big in the industry, and the choices they face along the way to success and stardom. Queen Latifah also star. [Source: The Live Feed]
The Yellow Birds
Toni Collette and Jason Patric have joined Alexandre Moors' war drama "The Yellow Birds" at Cinelou Films. David Lowery is adapting the script from Kevin Powers' novel.
The story follows two young soldiers (Alden Ehrenreich and Tye Sheridan) who become friends in boot camp and vow to take care of each other during wartime. Toni Collette and Jennifer Aniston play the mothers of soldiers will play Capt.
Benjamin Bratt is set to headline Lee Daniels' music drama pilot at Fox which was formerly known as "Star". Bratt will play a talent manager with a hidden life and drive for redemption.
Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny, Brittany O'Grady play three young women who form a girl group with hopes of making it big in the industry, and the choices they face along the way to success and stardom. Queen Latifah also star. [Source: The Live Feed]
The Yellow Birds
Toni Collette and Jason Patric have joined Alexandre Moors' war drama "The Yellow Birds" at Cinelou Films. David Lowery is adapting the script from Kevin Powers' novel.
The story follows two young soldiers (Alden Ehrenreich and Tye Sheridan) who become friends in boot camp and vow to take care of each other during wartime. Toni Collette and Jennifer Aniston play the mothers of soldiers will play Capt.
- 12/12/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Oscar nominee Toni Collette and Jason Patric have joined war drama The Yellow Birds for director Alexandre Moors (Blue Caprice) and Cinelou Films. The story follows two young soldiers (Alden Ehrenreich and Tye Sheridan) who become friends in boot camp. They vow to take care of each other, but it becomes increasingly difficult in wartime. Then the unthinkable happens. David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) wrote the script based on Kevin Powers’ novel. Collette (Muriel’s W…...
- 12/11/2015
- Deadline
Cinelou Films has released the first photo (see below) of Jennifer Aniston from “The Yellow Birds,” which has added Oscar-nominated actress Toni Collette and Jason Patric, it was announced Friday. Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich and Jack Huston co-star in the film, which Alexandre Moors (“Blue Caprice”) is directing from a script by David Lowery (“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”), who adapted Kevin Powers’ 2012 book of the same name. “The Yellow Birds” follows two young soldiers (Sheridan and Ehrenreich) who enlist in the Army and are sent off to fight in the Gulf War, where they form an unbreakable bond and vow.
- 12/11/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
The Yellow Birds: Jennifer Aniston and Jack Huston (TV's Boardwalk Empire) will star in The Yellow Birds, a war drama. Based on a novel by Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers, the story revolves around the friendship that develops between two soldiers (Alden Ehrenreich and Tye Sheridan), first in boot camp and then during wartime. Aniston will play the mother of one of the soldiers, and Huston will portray a Staff Sergeant, a role previously pegged for Benedict Cumberbatch. [Deadline] Haywire: Steven Soderbergh's action movie Haywire, which starred Channing Tatum and Gina Carano, is now in development as a television series. The movie followed a secret agent who seeks revenge after she is betrayed by her superiors. Soderbergh has since retired from directing feature...
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- 10/7/2015
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Jennifer Aniston has remained the most successfully employed of the Friends actors outside of television. The actress has mainly stuck to her comedy roots, but has also slowly been creeping into more dramatic territory as of late, and she just signed on to add another serious film to her resume. The actress will star in The Yellow Birds with Jack Huston. The movie is due out sometime next year, and will arrive with a fantastic cast. The casting story broke on The Wrap. The Yellow Birds follows two young soldiers who meet and befriend each other in boot camp, and promise to look out for one another. But, as they get deeper and deeper into the Iraq war, their promise becomes harder to keep. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Kevin Powers, an Iraq war veteran who served in that country in 2004 and 2005. In...
- 10/7/2015
- cinemablend.com
His cold, steely biopic Blue Caprice might have not received the same fanfare as Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, but both were nonetheless stellar offerings at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (here was my recap). A project that we could perhaps lump into the same category as Oren Moverman’s The Messenger was originally mounted at Cannes has changed its components of its line-up, Variety reports that The Yellow Birds now sees Alexandre Moors replace David Lowery in the director’s chair, while Jack Huston replaces Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of Sergeant Sterling in an Iraq war drama that includes Jennifer Aniston, Tye Sheridan and Alden Ehrenreich. Story Mining and Supply Co. CEO-president Jeffrey Sharp and Evan Hayes (The Circle) are producing along with Cinelou Films’ Courtney Solomon and Mark Canton (Cake). Jim Kohlberg (The Music Never Stopped) will executive produce.
Gist: Scripted by David Lowery, this is based on the novel by Kevin Powers,...
Gist: Scripted by David Lowery, this is based on the novel by Kevin Powers,...
- 10/7/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The Yellow Birds: Jennifer Aniston and Jack Huston (TV's Boardwalk Empire) will star in The Yellow Birds, a war drama. Based on a novel by Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers, the story revolves around the friendship that develops between two soldiers (Alden Ehrenreich and Tye Sheridan), first in boot camp and then during wartime. Aniston will play the mother of one of the soldiers, and Huston will portray a staff sergeant, a role previously pegged for Benedict Cumberbatch. [Deadline] ...
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- 10/7/2015
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Iraq War drama The Yellow Birds has cast Jack Huston and Jennifer Aniston in leading roles.
Boardwalk Empire's Huston takes over from Benedict Cumberbatch, who was previously attached to the project, according to Deadline.
As well as a leading man change, the project has a new director in Blue Caprice's Alexandre Moors.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers and also stars Tye Sheridan and Alden Ehrenreich.
The Yellow Birds focuses on two young soldiers who meet in a boot camp on the eve of their deployment and face the atrocities of war together.
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Huston can next be seen starring in the Ben-Hur remake alongside Morgan Freeman.
Aniston is currently filming Mother's Day with Julia Roberts and Kate Hudson, and will also be teaming up with Robert De Niro for forthcoming movie The Comedian.
Boardwalk Empire's Huston takes over from Benedict Cumberbatch, who was previously attached to the project, according to Deadline.
As well as a leading man change, the project has a new director in Blue Caprice's Alexandre Moors.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers and also stars Tye Sheridan and Alden Ehrenreich.
The Yellow Birds focuses on two young soldiers who meet in a boot camp on the eve of their deployment and face the atrocities of war together.
6 Jennifer Aniston movies that are actually good
Huston can next be seen starring in the Ben-Hur remake alongside Morgan Freeman.
Aniston is currently filming Mother's Day with Julia Roberts and Kate Hudson, and will also be teaming up with Robert De Niro for forthcoming movie The Comedian.
- 10/6/2015
- Digital Spy
Jennifer Aniston is joining the cast of “The Yellow Birds,” while Jack Huston is stepping into the role that Benedict Cumberbatch was previously set to play. Tye Sheridan and Alden Ehrenreich are also starring in the film, which will be directed by Alexandre Moors. The film is based on the novel by Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers, which follows two young soldiers who become friends in boot camp promising to take care of each other, which gets more difficult as the war goes on. Huston will play Sgt. Sterling, while Aniston will play the mother of Ehrenreich’s character. Also Read: Jack Huston Exits.
- 10/6/2015
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
If you were anticipating watching Benedict Cumberbatch in David Lowery’s developing new war drama The Yellow Birds, we have disappointing news: no Sherlock for you, as his busy schedule means he had to drop out. Will Poulter has also jumped ship, but now Alden Ehrenreich and remaining original Tye Sheridan will be joined by Jack Huston and Jennifer Aniston. Adapted by Lowery and Iraq War veteran author Kevin Powers from the latter’s book, the story focuses on two young soldiers, 21-year-old Private Bartle (Ehrenreich) and 18-year-old Private Murphy (Sheridan), who meet and become friends in boot camp while preparing to head off for combat in Iraq. Bartle promise’s Murphy’s mother (Aniston) that he’ll bring him home safely, but they discover that keeping such oaths is difficult in a place where death lurks all around.Huston is taking Cumberbatch’s place as Staff Sergeant Sterling, who oversees the younger soldiers.
- 10/6/2015
- EmpireOnline
Jack Huston is stepping into the role previously eyed by Benedict Cumberbatch in war drama The Yellow Birds with Tye Sheridan, and Alden Ehrenreich. Jennifer Aniston is also joining the film directed by the project’s new director Alexandre Moors. The project is based on the novel by Kevin Powers who is an Iraqi War vet. The project is the second to go before the cameras for Mark Canton and Courtney Solomon’s Cinelou Films. It was first announced for sale at Cannes with…...
- 10/6/2015
- Deadline
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