Exclusive: Picture Tree Int’l (Pti) has boarded sales on German Sophie Scholls – The Final Days Oscar-nominee and hitmaker Marc Rothemund’s heart-warming family drama Weekend Rebels, inspired by the true story of a father who forged a special bond with his autistic son through the search for a perfect soccer club.
The film, currently in post-production, is produced by Justyna Muesch, Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann.
Their Oscar-winning banner Wiedemann & Berg Film company has delivered a slew of award-winning pictures over the years including The Lives Of Others, Never Look Away and Who Am I. SevenPictures Film co-produces.
Leonine Studios is also on board and will release the film in Germany on September 28, 2023.
Florian David Fitz leads the German cast as a father who gets closer to his 10-year-old autistic son through a quest to find a soccer club they can support together,...
The film, currently in post-production, is produced by Justyna Muesch, Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann.
Their Oscar-winning banner Wiedemann & Berg Film company has delivered a slew of award-winning pictures over the years including The Lives Of Others, Never Look Away and Who Am I. SevenPictures Film co-produces.
Leonine Studios is also on board and will release the film in Germany on September 28, 2023.
Florian David Fitz leads the German cast as a father who gets closer to his 10-year-old autistic son through a quest to find a soccer club they can support together,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Robert Sheehan ("Misfits"), Dev Patel ("Slumdog Millionaire") and Zoe Kravitz ("X-Men: First Class") have joined the cast of Gren Wells' indie drama "The Road Within" at Troika Pictures and Coup d’Etat Films.
A remake of the German feature "Vincent Will Meer", Sheehan will portray a man suffering from Tourette syndrome placed in a residential clinic, where he falls in love with an anorexic woman (Kravitz).
Patel plays a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Shooting begins July 1st in Los Angeles.
Bradley Gallo, Robert L. Stein, Michael A. Helfant, Brent Emery and Guy J. Louthan will produce.
Source: Variety...
A remake of the German feature "Vincent Will Meer", Sheehan will portray a man suffering from Tourette syndrome placed in a residential clinic, where he falls in love with an anorexic woman (Kravitz).
Patel plays a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Shooting begins July 1st in Los Angeles.
Bradley Gallo, Robert L. Stein, Michael A. Helfant, Brent Emery and Guy J. Louthan will produce.
Source: Variety...
- 6/4/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Troika Pictures and Coup d’Etat Films have signed Robert Sheehan, Dev Patel and Zoë Kravitz to star in The Road Within, an English-language adaptation of German comedic drama Vincent Will Meer.
Panorama kicked off international sales in Cannes last month. A Us sales agent is expected to be appointed shortly.
Gren Wells [pictured] adapted the screenplay from the 2010 German road movie — English title Vincent Wants To Sea — and will make her feature directorial debut when principal photography commences on Jul 1 in Los Angeles.
The Road Within follows a boy with Tourette Syndrome who embarks on a road trip with two fellow patients from a residential clinic to scatter his mother’s ashes in the ocean.
Bradley Gallo, Robert L Stein and Michael A Helfant produce for Troika Pictures alongside Brent Emery and Guy J Louthan. William Gallo will serve as executive producer.
Paradigm represents Wells and Kravtiz.
Panorama kicked off international sales in Cannes last month. A Us sales agent is expected to be appointed shortly.
Gren Wells [pictured] adapted the screenplay from the 2010 German road movie — English title Vincent Wants To Sea — and will make her feature directorial debut when principal photography commences on Jul 1 in Los Angeles.
The Road Within follows a boy with Tourette Syndrome who embarks on a road trip with two fellow patients from a residential clinic to scatter his mother’s ashes in the ocean.
Bradley Gallo, Robert L Stein and Michael A Helfant produce for Troika Pictures alongside Brent Emery and Guy J Louthan. William Gallo will serve as executive producer.
Paradigm represents Wells and Kravtiz.
- 6/3/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Zoë Kravitz has been tapped to star in The Road Within, an English-language adaptation of German dramedy titled Vincent Will Meer, to be backed by Troika Pictures and Coup d’Etat Films. Kravitz will star alongside Robert Sheehan and Dev Patel, in a story about a boy with Tourette Syndrome who goes on a road trip with two fellow patients from a residential clinic, to scatter his mother’s ashes in the ocean. Kravitz will play one-third of the trio. The original German film was the German Film Academy's picture of the year winner in 2011. Gren Wells will direct the film from her own screenplay adaptation of the 2010 German road movie - her feature film directorial...
- 6/3/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
• Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), Robert Sheehan (Misfits), and Zoe Kravitz (X-Men: First Class) will star in The Road Within, an indie drama adapted from award-winning 2010 German film Vincent Will Meer. Sheehan will star as Vincent, a young man with Tourette syndrome left at a residential clinic by his father following his mother’s death. Vincent and two fellow patients — an anorexic woman (Kravitz) and his Ocd roommate (Patel) — break out of the clinic on a road trip to take his mother’s ashes to the ocean. Production for The Road Within begins in Los Angeles this July. [Deadline]
• Judd Nelson is...
• Judd Nelson is...
- 6/3/2013
- by Emily Rome
- EW - Inside Movies
Al Capp, the creator of the comic strip "L'il Abner," was extremely conservative politically. During the Vietnam War protests, when students took over Columbia University, smoking the dean's cigars and sitting on the ledge outside his window, Capp sniffed: "The inmates are running the asylum." Generally, that's not a good idea, many of us would agree, but sometimes the residents of a institution for emotional problems can do more for one another than the staff. Think of how much better the nut-cases did when they were temporarily freed from the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched in Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." To prove the axiom once again, Raff Huettner directs principal actor Florian David Fitz's screenplay "Vincent Wants to Sea" (German language, English subtitles), the German title being "Vincent will meer," which is a pun for "Vincent wants more" and "Vincent Wants to Sea." When three...
- 7/17/2011
- Arizona Reporter
New poster from Vincent Wants to Sea a.k.a. Vincent will Meer, starring Florian David Fitz and Karoline Herfurth. This is the second poster from the Dalf Huettner drama which also stars Heino Ferch, Katharina Müller-Elmau, JOhannes Allmayer, Karin Thaler, Tim Seyfi and Christoph Zrenner. Vincent Wants to Sea follows a young man suffering from Tourette's syndrome who leaves a mental institution accompanied with two other inhabitants, aiming to travel to Italy and fulfill his mother's last wish.
- 6/23/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New poster from Vincent Wants to Sea a.k.a. Vincent will Meer, starring Florian David Fitz and Karoline Herfurth. This is the second poster from the Dalf Huettner drama which also stars Heino Ferch, Katharina Müller-Elmau, JOhannes Allmayer, Karin Thaler, Tim Seyfi and Christoph Zrenner. Vincent Wants to Sea follows a young man suffering from Tourette's syndrome who leaves a mental institution accompanied with two other inhabitants, aiming to travel to Italy and fulfill his mother's last wish.
- 6/23/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New poster from Vincent Wants to Sea a.k.a. Vincent will Meer, starring Florian David Fitz and Karoline Herfurth. This is the second poster from the Dalf Huettner drama which also stars Heino Ferch, Katharina Müller-Elmau, JOhannes Allmayer, Karin Thaler, Tim Seyfi and Christoph Zrenner. Vincent Wants to Sea follows a young man suffering from Tourette's syndrome who leaves a mental institution accompanied with two other inhabitants, aiming to travel to Italy and fulfill his mother's last wish.
- 6/23/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.