The rise and fall of theater subscription service MoviePass is captured in new HBO documentary “MoviePass, MovieCrash.”
Dubbed “the Netflix of the movie theater” in the trailer, MoviePass was founded by Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt in 2011 before former CEOs Mitch Lowe and Ted Farnsworth allegedly utilized fraudulent business tactics; the duo were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a 2022 lawsuit. The lawsuit additionally named ex-MoviePass Vice President Khalid Itum as a defendant, with Itum being accused of submitting false invoices for the company.
MoviePass filed for bankruptcy in 2020 after launching a $9.99 per month subscription in 2017 allowing people to see a movie a day. Upon moving to the $9.99 one movie per day model, subscriptions went from 20,000 to 100,000 users within two days, ultimately capping at more than 3 million subscribers in 2018. Yet the company still lost more than $150 million in 2017 alone. MoviePass filed for bankruptcy in 2019.
The company later...
Dubbed “the Netflix of the movie theater” in the trailer, MoviePass was founded by Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt in 2011 before former CEOs Mitch Lowe and Ted Farnsworth allegedly utilized fraudulent business tactics; the duo were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a 2022 lawsuit. The lawsuit additionally named ex-MoviePass Vice President Khalid Itum as a defendant, with Itum being accused of submitting false invoices for the company.
MoviePass filed for bankruptcy in 2020 after launching a $9.99 per month subscription in 2017 allowing people to see a movie a day. Upon moving to the $9.99 one movie per day model, subscriptions went from 20,000 to 100,000 users within two days, ultimately capping at more than 3 million subscribers in 2018. Yet the company still lost more than $150 million in 2017 alone. MoviePass filed for bankruptcy in 2019.
The company later...
- 5/16/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Isabel J Kim’s debut novel Sublimation, which has been causing quite a stir in publishing and television circles, has landed at Universal International Studios.
The Usg-studio acquired the rights to the literary science fiction novel in a highly competitive situation and is planning a series adaptation.
Assemble Media, the IP creation and production company, brought the book to publishers before shopping the adaptation rights for television. Kim’s book scored her a seven-figure three-book deal for the North American publishing rights after a six-publishing house auction.
That deal was brokered between Macmillan’s Tor Publishing Group Senior Editor Carl Engle-Laird and Steven Salpeter at Assemble Media, which is behind movies including The Forgiven, starring Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes and Matt Smith, and Gia Coppola’s Mainstream.
Salpeter, who is President of Literary and IP, principal Jack Heller and Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen, VP of Production and Development, worked...
The Usg-studio acquired the rights to the literary science fiction novel in a highly competitive situation and is planning a series adaptation.
Assemble Media, the IP creation and production company, brought the book to publishers before shopping the adaptation rights for television. Kim’s book scored her a seven-figure three-book deal for the North American publishing rights after a six-publishing house auction.
That deal was brokered between Macmillan’s Tor Publishing Group Senior Editor Carl Engle-Laird and Steven Salpeter at Assemble Media, which is behind movies including The Forgiven, starring Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes and Matt Smith, and Gia Coppola’s Mainstream.
Salpeter, who is President of Literary and IP, principal Jack Heller and Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen, VP of Production and Development, worked...
- 4/11/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Bluestone Entertainment has preemptively acquired rights to “Support Group for the Formerly Possessed,” an original horror short story written for Assemble Media by J. Preston Witt, with plans to produce a feature adaptation alongside Assemble.
Scribes set to adapt the pic are Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan, the duo behind Paramount’s found footage title Project Almanac, as well as Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension.
In Support Group, a patient, charged with a murder they cannot remember, finds themselves subjected to a 5150 psychiatric hold in an institution. There, they uncover a chilling truth: the facility is dedicated to treating disorders that stem from supernatural causes.
The Assemble team came up with the original concept before developing it into a short story, featured in the third edition of its genre-focused quarterly short story magazine Assemble Artifacts, which is published through Blackstone Publishing. Producers of the adaptation will include Richard Saperstein for Bluestone,...
Scribes set to adapt the pic are Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan, the duo behind Paramount’s found footage title Project Almanac, as well as Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension.
In Support Group, a patient, charged with a murder they cannot remember, finds themselves subjected to a 5150 psychiatric hold in an institution. There, they uncover a chilling truth: the facility is dedicated to treating disorders that stem from supernatural causes.
The Assemble team came up with the original concept before developing it into a short story, featured in the third edition of its genre-focused quarterly short story magazine Assemble Artifacts, which is published through Blackstone Publishing. Producers of the adaptation will include Richard Saperstein for Bluestone,...
- 12/14/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s that time year again—when one might, upon their daily neighborhood perambulation, casually stumble upon a man dressed in a blood-splattered full-body jumpsuit and think to themself, this is perfectly fine and normal. But that’s the Halloween season for you, when the ghosts and goblins and AMC-obsessed Nicole Kidmans are out in full force for their yearly Halloween rituals.
Aside from meticulously inserting razor blades into the apples we all intend to hand out to local children, everyone’s favorite part of the Halloween season is—of course—the excuse to binge-watch our favorite horror movies, from the silly-scary (Hocus Pocus), to the fun-scary (Trick R Treat), to the scary-scary (The Evil Dead) or the really scary-scary (any news channel). In fact, horror movies have long been an integral part of the indie film ecosystem—turning minuscule budgets into huge box office numbers and launching the...
Aside from meticulously inserting razor blades into the apples we all intend to hand out to local children, everyone’s favorite part of the Halloween season is—of course—the excuse to binge-watch our favorite horror movies, from the silly-scary (Hocus Pocus), to the fun-scary (Trick R Treat), to the scary-scary (The Evil Dead) or the really scary-scary (any news channel). In fact, horror movies have long been an integral part of the indie film ecosystem—turning minuscule budgets into huge box office numbers and launching the...
- 10/27/2023
- by Matt Warren
- Film Independent News & More
Based on the horror comic book series from Zenescope Entertainment, Sony’s Screen Gems is turning Paradise Court into a feature horror movie, Deadline has reported this week.
Assemble Media (Brawl in Cell Block 99) will be producing the feature film adaptation.
Deadline details the project and its comic book origins, “Created by Zenescope’s CEO Joe Brusha, Paradise Court takes its name from a luxurious and exclusive gated community where beneath an idyllic façade lies a deadly secret — all the residents are serial killers with unique proclivities and manicured lawns cut as sharp as the knives in their kitchens.”
Jack Heller will produce alongside Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen, Joe Brusha and Ralph Tedesco.
Stay tuned for more on Paradise Court as we learn it.
The post ‘Paradise Court’ – Screen Gems Turning Horror Comic into a Horror Movie appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
Assemble Media (Brawl in Cell Block 99) will be producing the feature film adaptation.
Deadline details the project and its comic book origins, “Created by Zenescope’s CEO Joe Brusha, Paradise Court takes its name from a luxurious and exclusive gated community where beneath an idyllic façade lies a deadly secret — all the residents are serial killers with unique proclivities and manicured lawns cut as sharp as the knives in their kitchens.”
Jack Heller will produce alongside Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen, Joe Brusha and Ralph Tedesco.
Stay tuned for more on Paradise Court as we learn it.
The post ‘Paradise Court’ – Screen Gems Turning Horror Comic into a Horror Movie appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
- 3/30/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Sony‘s Screen Gems is in very early development on a Paradise Court film based on the horror comic book series from Zenescope Entertainment, and has enlisted Assemble Media to produce it, Deadline has learned.
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Created by Zenescope’s CEO Joe Brusha, Paradise Court takes its name from a luxurious and exclusive gated community where beneath an idyllic facade lies a deadly secret — all the residents are serial killers with unique proclivities and manicured lawns cut as sharp as the knives in their kitchens.
The project was brought to Screen Gems by Jack Heller and Assemble Media. Assemble principal Heller will produce,...
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Created by Zenescope’s CEO Joe Brusha, Paradise Court takes its name from a luxurious and exclusive gated community where beneath an idyllic facade lies a deadly secret — all the residents are serial killers with unique proclivities and manicured lawns cut as sharp as the knives in their kitchens.
The project was brought to Screen Gems by Jack Heller and Assemble Media. Assemble principal Heller will produce,...
- 3/29/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Assemble Media, a literary incubator which concurrently develops its book projects for film and TV adaptation, has sold five new titles to major publishers.
Founded by by director and producer Jack Heller, the round of sales includes “Eat Post Like”, “Promposal” (to Joy Revolution, an imprint of Delacorte at Penguin Random House), “The Wayside,” “The Light Between Sirens,” and “The Girls From Hush Cabin” (to Blackstone Publishing). All of Assemble’s intellectual property and book concepts are developed in-house then packaged with writers and shopped to publishers. Heller’s team includes Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen and Steven Salpeter, president of literary and IP development.
“The original concepts that come to life from the collaboration of our Assemble team and brilliant writers truly showcase the ingenuity and boldness of those behind the scenes,” said Heller. “We have been extremely lucky to work alongside inspiring individuals and love watching these projects develop.”
The...
Founded by by director and producer Jack Heller, the round of sales includes “Eat Post Like”, “Promposal” (to Joy Revolution, an imprint of Delacorte at Penguin Random House), “The Wayside,” “The Light Between Sirens,” and “The Girls From Hush Cabin” (to Blackstone Publishing). All of Assemble’s intellectual property and book concepts are developed in-house then packaged with writers and shopped to publishers. Heller’s team includes Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen and Steven Salpeter, president of literary and IP development.
“The original concepts that come to life from the collaboration of our Assemble team and brilliant writers truly showcase the ingenuity and boldness of those behind the scenes,” said Heller. “We have been extremely lucky to work alongside inspiring individuals and love watching these projects develop.”
The...
- 10/14/2022
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Lifetime greenlit “Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez,” a film based on the real-life kidnapping of 14-year-old Abby Hernandez while walking home from school in North Conway, N.H. in 2013. The film premieres on Feb. 26 at 8 p.m.
“Girl in the Shed” will follow the state’s search for Abby (Lindsay Navarro) as captor Nathaniel Kibby (Ben Savage) psychologically and sexually abused her using a soundproof container and a shock collar, as well as Abby’s fight to stay alive in hopes of seeing her family again, including her mother Zenya (Erica Durance).
Sprott Productions Inc. produces in association with Johnson Production Group. Hernandez executive produces along with Stacy Mandelberg and Michael Vickerman, who also wrote the script. Jessica Harmon serves as director.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
Dates FX announced that Season 5 of “Snowfall” will premiere with two episodes on Feb. 23 at 10 p.m.
“Girl in the Shed” will follow the state’s search for Abby (Lindsay Navarro) as captor Nathaniel Kibby (Ben Savage) psychologically and sexually abused her using a soundproof container and a shock collar, as well as Abby’s fight to stay alive in hopes of seeing her family again, including her mother Zenya (Erica Durance).
Sprott Productions Inc. produces in association with Johnson Production Group. Hernandez executive produces along with Stacy Mandelberg and Michael Vickerman, who also wrote the script. Jessica Harmon serves as director.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
Dates FX announced that Season 5 of “Snowfall” will premiere with two episodes on Feb. 23 at 10 p.m.
- 12/21/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Lifetime is looking ahead to 2022.
The cabler has announced a string of movie premieres for the month of February, including Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez and Single Black Female.
Check out the movie details and premiere dates below.
Single Black Female
Premieres Saturday, February 5 at 8/7c
Reeling from the death of her beloved father and a difficult breakup, Monica (Raven Goodwin), is ready to move forward with her life as she tries to land the new hosting job for an afternoon talk show.
When she hires a new assistant, Simone (Amber Riley), the two quickly become close friends as Simone moves in next door and completely immerses herself in Monica’s life.
But underneath her sweet exterior, Simone harbors a dark secret and as time goes on cracks in her façade begin to appear. Monica decides to sever ties once and for all with Simone, but...
The cabler has announced a string of movie premieres for the month of February, including Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez and Single Black Female.
Check out the movie details and premiere dates below.
Single Black Female
Premieres Saturday, February 5 at 8/7c
Reeling from the death of her beloved father and a difficult breakup, Monica (Raven Goodwin), is ready to move forward with her life as she tries to land the new hosting job for an afternoon talk show.
When she hires a new assistant, Simone (Amber Riley), the two quickly become close friends as Simone moves in next door and completely immerses herself in Monica’s life.
But underneath her sweet exterior, Simone harbors a dark secret and as time goes on cracks in her façade begin to appear. Monica decides to sever ties once and for all with Simone, but...
- 12/21/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Exclusive: Steven Salpeter has joined Assemble Media as President of Literary and IP Development.
In his new role at the multi-platform production company, he will oversee IP development and book packaging, scouting literary and current event properties for its film and TV slate overseen by Director of Development Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen and Principal Jack Heller.
Salpeter will also oversee Assemble’s short story magazine, Assemble Artifacts, with De Lisser-Ellen. The mag put together in collaboration with Blackstone Audio looks to showcase new voices with a focus on stories of mystery and wonder. Both audio and digital versions of its first issue were released on October 27.
“We have had an outstanding time working with Steven and are thrilled to bring him and his years of experience in-house to continue the ramp-up of our literary and intellectual property division,” said Heller.
“I look forward to putting my eight years in the literary...
In his new role at the multi-platform production company, he will oversee IP development and book packaging, scouting literary and current event properties for its film and TV slate overseen by Director of Development Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen and Principal Jack Heller.
Salpeter will also oversee Assemble’s short story magazine, Assemble Artifacts, with De Lisser-Ellen. The mag put together in collaboration with Blackstone Audio looks to showcase new voices with a focus on stories of mystery and wonder. Both audio and digital versions of its first issue were released on October 27.
“We have had an outstanding time working with Steven and are thrilled to bring him and his years of experience in-house to continue the ramp-up of our literary and intellectual property division,” said Heller.
“I look forward to putting my eight years in the literary...
- 12/9/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Roadside Attractions and Vertical Entertainment have co-acquired North American rights to The Forgiven, a starry thriller written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, which premiered at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival. Roadside will release the film in theaters next spring, with Vertical handling its digital rollout.
The Forgiven is based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne. It centers on wealthy Londoners David (Ralph Fiennes) and Jo Henninger (Jessica Chastain), who are involved in a tragic accident with a local teenage boy, after speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend’s lavish weekend party. Arriving late at the grand villa with the debauched party raging, the couple attempts to cover up the incident with the collusion of the local police. But when the boy’s father arrives seeking justice, the stage is set for a tension-filled culture clash in which David...
The Forgiven is based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne. It centers on wealthy Londoners David (Ralph Fiennes) and Jo Henninger (Jessica Chastain), who are involved in a tragic accident with a local teenage boy, after speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend’s lavish weekend party. Arriving late at the grand villa with the debauched party raging, the couple attempts to cover up the incident with the collusion of the local police. But when the boy’s father arrives seeking justice, the stage is set for a tension-filled culture clash in which David...
- 11/11/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
IFC Films has released the official trailer for Gia Coppola’s stylized drama “Mainstream,” which opens in select theaters and on demand May 7.
Andrew Garfield and “Stranger Things” star Maya Hawke play two rising internet personalities, Link and Frankie, in the satire on social media stardom. While being a YouTube star has its perks, their lives quickly turn upside down as the dark side of their celebrity status threatens to consume them both.
Nat Wolff plays Frankie’s best friend Jake, who she recruits as a writer for her new project. Jason Schwartzman, Johnny Knoxville, Alexa Demie, Colleen Camp, Jacqui Getty, Nick Darmstaedter, Juanpa Zurita, Adam Barnhart and Marshall Bell also appear in the film.
The movie was co-written (with Tom Stuart) and directed by Coppola, the granddaughter of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Her breakout hit, 2013’s “Palo Alto,” followed a group of teenagers in...
Andrew Garfield and “Stranger Things” star Maya Hawke play two rising internet personalities, Link and Frankie, in the satire on social media stardom. While being a YouTube star has its perks, their lives quickly turn upside down as the dark side of their celebrity status threatens to consume them both.
Nat Wolff plays Frankie’s best friend Jake, who she recruits as a writer for her new project. Jason Schwartzman, Johnny Knoxville, Alexa Demie, Colleen Camp, Jacqui Getty, Nick Darmstaedter, Juanpa Zurita, Adam Barnhart and Marshall Bell also appear in the film.
The movie was co-written (with Tom Stuart) and directed by Coppola, the granddaughter of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Her breakout hit, 2013’s “Palo Alto,” followed a group of teenagers in...
- 4/6/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: After hitting the fall film festival circuit of Telluride, Venice and Toronto with her edgy coming-of-age directorial debut Palo Alto back in 2013, Gia Coppola is returning to the Lido with sophomore effort Mainstream. The film will screen in the Horizons section on September 5 with star Maya Hawke and producer Fred Berger, among others, also in town. Coppola wrote the script with Tom Stuart and also produces for American Zoetrope. Check out the exclusive first-look photo above.
The film is described as “a love story of being in love with someone who doesn’t love themselves set against the new emerging culture of today’s world.” Coppola tells Deadline she was partly inspired by her love for Elia Kazan’s classic Andy Griffith-starrer A Face In The Crowd about an Arkansas drifter who becomes an overnight media sensation and becomes drunk with fame and power. She says, “I connected...
The film is described as “a love story of being in love with someone who doesn’t love themselves set against the new emerging culture of today’s world.” Coppola tells Deadline she was partly inspired by her love for Elia Kazan’s classic Andy Griffith-starrer A Face In The Crowd about an Arkansas drifter who becomes an overnight media sensation and becomes drunk with fame and power. She says, “I connected...
- 8/20/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Assemble Media has set Zelda Williams, the daughter of the comedy icon Robin Williams, to make her feature directorial debut with Ama (Ask Me Anything), a 2018 Blacklist script by John Wikstrom that weaves dark celebrity secrets and the dangers of the digital age together into a cat-and-mouse thriller.
The premise: An online interview session with a fast-rising entertainment publicist and a music superstar is widely publicized as a candid “ask me anything” opportunity but a mysterious hacker hijacks the forum and systematically dismantles the privacy of the participants by revealing lurid secrets hidden from their past.
Assemble Media principal Jack Heller will produce. “We are thrilled to be working with Zelda on her feature directing debut,” Heller said. “She is an incredible talent who will bring her passionate, thoughtful and highly visual style to the material.”
Zelda Williams is the 29-year-old daughter of the late Robin Williams and his second wife,...
The premise: An online interview session with a fast-rising entertainment publicist and a music superstar is widely publicized as a candid “ask me anything” opportunity but a mysterious hacker hijacks the forum and systematically dismantles the privacy of the participants by revealing lurid secrets hidden from their past.
Assemble Media principal Jack Heller will produce. “We are thrilled to be working with Zelda on her feature directing debut,” Heller said. “She is an incredible talent who will bring her passionate, thoughtful and highly visual style to the material.”
Zelda Williams is the 29-year-old daughter of the late Robin Williams and his second wife,...
- 4/29/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
“There’s a reason I’m sitting behind this desk running things and you’re out there with a partner that’s 20 years younger than you,” the boss tells Detective Brett Ridgeman. “There’s a lot of imbeciles,” he reminds. Here’s the first trailer for Dragged Across Concrete, starring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn in a Hacksaw Ridge reunion. Check it out above.
Here is the logline: Two police detectives (Gibson and Vaughn) find themselves suspended after a video of their strong arm tactics is leaked to the media. With little money and no options, the embittered cops descend into the criminal underworld and find more than they wanted waiting in the shadows. The cast also includes Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, Jennifer Carpenter, Laurie Holden, Fred Melamed, Thomas Kretschmann and Don Johnson.
Written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, the Summit Entertainment pic was produced by Keith Kjarval,...
Here is the logline: Two police detectives (Gibson and Vaughn) find themselves suspended after a video of their strong arm tactics is leaked to the media. With little money and no options, the embittered cops descend into the criminal underworld and find more than they wanted waiting in the shadows. The cast also includes Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, Jennifer Carpenter, Laurie Holden, Fred Melamed, Thomas Kretschmann and Don Johnson.
Written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, the Summit Entertainment pic was produced by Keith Kjarval,...
- 2/21/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Assemble Media has acquired Potosi, a sci-fi short story written by Joe Pitkin and published by Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine. Djochoua Belovarski, who works on Legendary’s Lost In Space on Netflix, is adapting the deep-space thriller.
Pitkin’s 10,000-word story is set in a near-future where resources are scant and corporations and countries ruthlessly compete for them. The action follows Solomon, an astronaut and family man who reluctantly agrees to lead a secret mission to secure a platinum-rich asteroid before any rival countries discover its treasure. Solomon soon realizes that a rival faction has already reached the asteroid — and that his own team includes a dangerous traitor within its ranks.
“Potosi is the kind of short story that sets up an impressive, expansive world with relatable characters in very few pages,” said Brendan Deneen, Assemble’s President of IP & Literary Development. “And Djochoua’s take on the...
Pitkin’s 10,000-word story is set in a near-future where resources are scant and corporations and countries ruthlessly compete for them. The action follows Solomon, an astronaut and family man who reluctantly agrees to lead a secret mission to secure a platinum-rich asteroid before any rival countries discover its treasure. Solomon soon realizes that a rival faction has already reached the asteroid — and that his own team includes a dangerous traitor within its ranks.
“Potosi is the kind of short story that sets up an impressive, expansive world with relatable characters in very few pages,” said Brendan Deneen, Assemble’s President of IP & Literary Development. “And Djochoua’s take on the...
- 2/8/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
After first teaming up on the Oscar-nominated war movie Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn are pairing up again for Dragged Across Concrete, a gritty crime thriller from Bone Tomahawk filmmaker S. Craig Zahler.
Bloom will introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, with Wme repping U.S. rights.
Keith Kjarval of Unified Pictures is producing along with Zahler’s frequent collaborators, Dallas Sonnier of Cinestate and Assemble Media’s Jack Heller. Kjarval’s Unified Film Fund I is financing.
The script centers on two policemen, one an old-timer (Gibson), the other his volatile younger partner ...
Bloom will introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, with Wme repping U.S. rights.
Keith Kjarval of Unified Pictures is producing along with Zahler’s frequent collaborators, Dallas Sonnier of Cinestate and Assemble Media’s Jack Heller. Kjarval’s Unified Film Fund I is financing.
The script centers on two policemen, one an old-timer (Gibson), the other his volatile younger partner ...
After first teaming up on the Oscar-nominated war movie Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn are pairing up again for Dragged Across Concrete, a gritty crime thriller from Bone Tomahawk filmmaker S. Craig Zahler.
Bloom will introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, with Wme repping U.S. rights.
Keith Kjarval of Unified Pictures is producing along with Zahler’s frequent collaborators, Dallas Sonnier of Cinestate and Assemble Media’s Jack Heller. Kjarval’s Unified Film Fund I is financing.
The script centers on two policemen, one an old-timer (Gibson), the other his volatile younger partner ...
Bloom will introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, with Wme repping U.S. rights.
Keith Kjarval of Unified Pictures is producing along with Zahler’s frequent collaborators, Dallas Sonnier of Cinestate and Assemble Media’s Jack Heller. Kjarval’s Unified Film Fund I is financing.
The script centers on two policemen, one an old-timer (Gibson), the other his volatile younger partner ...
Exclusive: Caliber Media has added Chris Contopulos to its talent division as a manager, bringing with him clients Abigail Klein (Transformers 4), Nolan North (Star Trek Into Darkness), Josh Margolin (New Girl), and recording artist Kelsy Karter. Contopulos comes to Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller’s firm from Brillstein Entertainment Partners after coming up through ICM and Gersh. “With Chris, we have found a smart and savvy new manager willing to work hard and fight to protect his clients,” said Sonnier and Heller in a statement. “We are confident he is going to be very successful at Caliber.”...
- 7/13/2013
- by JEN YAMATO
- Deadline TV
Will Rowbotham has joined Caliber Media as a manager in the company’s new New York office. The former partner and literary manager at Prolific Entertainment is the first hire for Jack Heller and Dallas Sonnier’s east coast location, which formally opened Tuesday. I’m told that Rowbotham’s clients from Prolific are expected to follow him to his new gig. Those clients include writers Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari (Sabrina The Teenage Witch), Ian Fried (Spectral), Zak Olkewicz (Ink And Bone), Rfi Porto (Blue Caprice), Jessica Conrad (SNL), and directors Alexandre Moors (Blue Caprice), and Martha Pinson (Martin Scorsese-produced Tomorrow). Rowbotham was a producer on Blue Caprice, which stars Isaiah Washington and Joey Lauren Adams, both of whom are with Caliber. Blue Caprice debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by Sundance Selects in early March. The manager also served as a producer on...
- 4/24/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Caliber Media Co., the management-production outfit run by Jack Heller and Dallas Sonnier, is in expansion mode, with Laura Gibson and Jennifer Au joining the fold as managers, Caliber has told TheWrap. Gibson previously served as a talent agent at ICM. Her clients include actors like Luke Arnold ("Black Sails"), Shelby Young ("American Horror Story") and "Terminales" star Abhi Sinha (pictured). Au, who spent the last four years at Untitled Entertainment, represents John Todd and Brusta Brown ("Natural 20"), Megan Griffiths ("Eden") and Jim Beggarly ("Free Samples"), among others. Gibson and Au join current Caliber managers Adam Marshall, Jared Schwartz,...
- 12/19/2012
- by Liza Foreman
- The Wrap
Screenwriter S. Craig Zahler ("The Brigands of Rattleborge") will make his feature directorial debut on the brutal, character-driven horror western "Bone Tomahawk" at Caliber Media Co.
The story follows a sheriff (Kurt Russell), a gunslinger, a befuddled oldster (Richard Jenkins) and a cowboy (Peter Sarsgaard) as they attempt to rescue a group of captives (including Jennifer Carpenter) from a band of cannibalistic troglodytes.
Zahler wrote the script. Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller are producing and shooting aims to kick off in the Spring in New Mexico.
Source: Variety...
The story follows a sheriff (Kurt Russell), a gunslinger, a befuddled oldster (Richard Jenkins) and a cowboy (Peter Sarsgaard) as they attempt to rescue a group of captives (including Jennifer Carpenter) from a band of cannibalistic troglodytes.
Zahler wrote the script. Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller are producing and shooting aims to kick off in the Spring in New Mexico.
Source: Variety...
- 10/31/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The Scribbler, another graphic novel adaptation that we told you about in early March, begins production this week in downtown Los Angeles, and we have casting details along with the film's synopsis.
From the Press Release:
Katie Cassidy (pictured right; "Supernatural", A Nightmare on Elm Street) will topline as the title character in the mind-bending thriller feature The Scribbler. Starring alongside Cassidy will be Garret Dillahunt (Burning Bright, The Last House on the Left), Michelle Trachtenberg ("Weeds", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Eliza Dushku (Wrong Turn, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Gina Gershon (Killer Joe), Michael Imperioli (The Lovely Bones), Billy Campbell ("The Killing"), and Sasha Grey (The Girlfriend Experience). Rounding out the supporting cast are Ashlynn Yennie (The Human Centipede), Kunal Nayyar ("The Big Bang Theory"), and T.V. Carpio (Limitless). John Suits is directing.
The Scribbler concerns Suki (Cassidy), a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using "The Siamese Burn...
From the Press Release:
Katie Cassidy (pictured right; "Supernatural", A Nightmare on Elm Street) will topline as the title character in the mind-bending thriller feature The Scribbler. Starring alongside Cassidy will be Garret Dillahunt (Burning Bright, The Last House on the Left), Michelle Trachtenberg ("Weeds", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Eliza Dushku (Wrong Turn, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Gina Gershon (Killer Joe), Michael Imperioli (The Lovely Bones), Billy Campbell ("The Killing"), and Sasha Grey (The Girlfriend Experience). Rounding out the supporting cast are Ashlynn Yennie (The Human Centipede), Kunal Nayyar ("The Big Bang Theory"), and T.V. Carpio (Limitless). John Suits is directing.
The Scribbler concerns Suki (Cassidy), a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using "The Siamese Burn...
- 5/9/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Los Angeles (May 9, 2012)—Katie Cassidy (Taken) will topline as the title character in the mind-bending thriller feature, The Scribbler, which begins production this week in downtown Los Angeles. Starring alongside Cassidy will be Garret Dillahunt (Winter’S Bone), Michelle Trachtenberg (Gossip Girl), Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse), Gina Gershon (Killer Joe), Michael Imperioli (The Lovely Bones), Billy Campbell (The Killing), and Sasha Grey (The Girlfriend Experience). Rounding out the supporting cast are Ashlynn Yennie (The Human Centipede), Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory), and T.V. Carpio (Limitless). John Suits will direct. The Scribbler concerns Suki (Cassidy), a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using “The Siamese Burn”, an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being “cured”, she’s haunted by a thought… what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her? Naa Founder Gabriel Cowan will produce alongside NightSky productions Ken F. Levin.
- 5/9/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Over the years vampirism has gone from scourge to sexy. Sparkling forever-teens and brooding bushy-eyebrowed emo kids who shit broken hearts have romanticized the creatures to the point of envy so it was only a matter of time before some form of cinema examination would be made of this phenomenon.
Deadline reports that management-production companies Caliber Media Co. and Benderspink have teamed with Simplicity Media to launch an experimental feature film and social media project. Called Bloodloss, the concept is to stage a full-scale production within the modern-day subculture of “sanguine vampires”, a close-knit community with a spiritual obsession to drink human blood to maintain physical health. The feature narrative will be constructed from pseudo-documentary scenes using a combination of actors and true participants in this lifestyle (both human vampires and their blood donors) shot in real vampire-fetish nightclubs. A social media campaign of status updates, blog entries, and video...
Deadline reports that management-production companies Caliber Media Co. and Benderspink have teamed with Simplicity Media to launch an experimental feature film and social media project. Called Bloodloss, the concept is to stage a full-scale production within the modern-day subculture of “sanguine vampires”, a close-knit community with a spiritual obsession to drink human blood to maintain physical health. The feature narrative will be constructed from pseudo-documentary scenes using a combination of actors and true participants in this lifestyle (both human vampires and their blood donors) shot in real vampire-fetish nightclubs. A social media campaign of status updates, blog entries, and video...
- 3/29/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Management-production companies Caliber Media Co and Benderspink have teamed with Simplicity Media to launch an experimental feature film and social media project. Called Bloodloss, the concept is to stage a full-scale production within the modern-day subculture of “sanguine vampires”, a close-knit community with a spiritual obsession to drink human blood to maintain physical health. The feature narrative will be constructed from pseudo-documentary scenes using a combination of actors and true participants in this lifestyle (both human vampires and their blood donors) shot in real vampire-fetish nightclubs. A social media campaign of status updates, blog entries, and video posts will allow viewers to receive daily updates on Bloodloss, while being directly engaged with each character and their experience in this dark world. The film will be produced by Simplicity Media’s Les Lukacs and Amanda Cryer and Caliber Media’s Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller. Jc Spink, Chris Bender, Chris Cosmos,...
- 3/29/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The superbly attractive actress Sabina Gadecki (below), who you may recall as the sexy host of the fifth season of the 'World Poker Tour', is the splendid eye-candy that'll be catching my attention in the Jack Heller helmed creature feature 'Dark Was the Night'. The stunner will star alongside Kevin Durand ('Resident Evil: Retribution') who is on board to play the local towns sheriff and Lukas Haas ('Inception') who will play his deputy. Heath Freeman and Nick Damici also star in the new Caliber Media survival thriller penned by Tyler Hisel....
- 2/20/2012
- Horror Asylum
In Your Eyes
Mark Feuerstein has joined Brin Hill's soon-to-shoot romantic sci-fi indie "In Your Eyes" which Joss Whedon wrote. He'll shoot his role before he returns to filming on the fourth season of "Royal Pains".
Michael Stahl-David and Zoe Kazan play two people who live on opposite sides of the country and share a powerful connection, as they can see and hear each other despite having never met. Feuerstein will co-star as Kazan's cold, controlling husband. [Source: Variety]
Coffee Town
Adrianne Palicki is set to join Glenn Howerton in the workplace comedy “Coffee Town" on which Brad Copeland (“Arrested Development”) is writing and and making his feature directorial debut.
The story follows three thirty-something friends who band together when their freeloading existence is threatened. Palicki will play Becca, a coffee-loving nurse who Howerton’s character has a crush on. Ben Schwartz, Steve Little and Josh Groban co-star. [Source: Variety]
Dark Was the Night
Kevin Durand,...
Mark Feuerstein has joined Brin Hill's soon-to-shoot romantic sci-fi indie "In Your Eyes" which Joss Whedon wrote. He'll shoot his role before he returns to filming on the fourth season of "Royal Pains".
Michael Stahl-David and Zoe Kazan play two people who live on opposite sides of the country and share a powerful connection, as they can see and hear each other despite having never met. Feuerstein will co-star as Kazan's cold, controlling husband. [Source: Variety]
Coffee Town
Adrianne Palicki is set to join Glenn Howerton in the workplace comedy “Coffee Town" on which Brad Copeland (“Arrested Development”) is writing and and making his feature directorial debut.
The story follows three thirty-something friends who band together when their freeloading existence is threatened. Palicki will play Becca, a coffee-loving nurse who Howerton’s character has a crush on. Ben Schwartz, Steve Little and Josh Groban co-star. [Source: Variety]
Dark Was the Night
Kevin Durand,...
- 2/18/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
From the illustrious 2009 Black List, Hollywood's informal collection of the best unproduced scripts, comes Dark Was The Night, a monster-centered thriller penned by Tyler Hisel and directed by Jack Heller. Set in a remote woodland community, this feature focuses on the havoc that is unleashed when a local logging company's greedy encroachment into the surrounding forests unleashes an unknown evil upon the town. Only the noble sheriff and his dedicated deputy are fit to face down this mysterious monster and save the townsfolk from annihilation. With production on the film set to begin this Sunday, THR reveals that Kevin Durand and Lukas Haas have signed on to star in Dark Was The Night, joining a cast that includes Sabina Gadecki of the upcoming crime-thriller Freaky Deaky, Heath Freeman, the bright spot of the smug drama Skateland, and Nick Damici of the vampire horror flick Stake Land. Though not stated directly,...
- 2/17/2012
- cinemablend.com
Kevin Durand (Real Steel, Robin Hood) and Lukas Haas (Contraband, Inception) will star and will have to fight a never-before-seen monster in Jack Heller‘s upcoming horror thriller Dark Was the Night. The script, from Tyler Hisel, appeared on the 2009 Black List, Hollywood’s unofficial listing of best un-produced scripts, an exception for the monster genre, [...]
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- 2/17/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Here at Dread Central we're always on the lookout for a new monster movie to sate our creature cravings. Word has come our way of a new one, and we have all the details for you right here, cold off the slab!
Caliber Media Co., Sundial Pictures, and Preferred Content have started production on the talked-about thriller script Dark Was the Night with lensing taking place this coming Sunday, February 19th.
Kevin Durand (pictured right; Real Steel, Robin Hood) and Lukas Haas (Contraband, Inception) will star in and battle with a never-before-seen monster in director Jack Heller's upcoming horror feature. The script, from Tyler Hisel, appeared on the 2009 Black List of best unproduced scripts, a rarity for the monster genre, under the title The Trees.
"'Dark Was the Night' centers on the isolated town of Maiden Woods, where a nearby logging company has disrupted the balance of the life in the woods.
Caliber Media Co., Sundial Pictures, and Preferred Content have started production on the talked-about thriller script Dark Was the Night with lensing taking place this coming Sunday, February 19th.
Kevin Durand (pictured right; Real Steel, Robin Hood) and Lukas Haas (Contraband, Inception) will star in and battle with a never-before-seen monster in director Jack Heller's upcoming horror feature. The script, from Tyler Hisel, appeared on the 2009 Black List of best unproduced scripts, a rarity for the monster genre, under the title The Trees.
"'Dark Was the Night' centers on the isolated town of Maiden Woods, where a nearby logging company has disrupted the balance of the life in the woods.
- 2/17/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
In a story that you can file right under the department of “good actors who don’t get enough work,” Variety informs us that Lukas Haas and Kevin Durand are getting into the horror game with Dark Was the Night, an indie picture which Jack Heller will start shooting in Southampton, New York this Sunday. Caliber Media Co., Sundial Pictures and Preferred Content are all producing.
Written by Tyler Hisel — whose script made the Black List a few years ago — the picture depicts the Long Island town as one in which “a nearby logging company has disrupted the balance of the life in the woods. From the frozen forest, an evil will emerge and threaten the local citizens with their only hope being the local Sheriff and his trusted deputy.”
And now, with my unassailable powers of prediction and instinct, I’ll posit that Haas and Durand have those respective parts.
Written by Tyler Hisel — whose script made the Black List a few years ago — the picture depicts the Long Island town as one in which “a nearby logging company has disrupted the balance of the life in the woods. From the frozen forest, an evil will emerge and threaten the local citizens with their only hope being the local Sheriff and his trusted deputy.”
And now, with my unassailable powers of prediction and instinct, I’ll posit that Haas and Durand have those respective parts.
- 2/17/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Caliber Media Co., Sundial Pictures and Preferred Content have started production on the talked-about thriller script, Dark Was the Night with lensing taking place this coming Sunday, February 19th. Kevin Durand (Real Steel, Robin Hood) and Lukas Haas (Contraband, Inception) will star in and battle with a never-before-seen monster in director Jack Heller's upcoming horror feature. The script, from Tyler Hisel, appeared on the 2009 Black List of best un-produced scripts, a rarity for the monster genre, under the title "The Trees". " 'Dark Was the Night' centers on the isolated town of Maiden Woods, where a nearby logging company has disrupted the balance of the life in the woods. From the frozen forest, an evil will emerge and threaten the local citizens; their only hope being the local Sheriff and his trusted Deputy." Rounding out the cast are Sabina Gadecki, Heath Freeman and Nick Damici.
- 2/17/2012
- bloody-disgusting.com
Caliber Media Co., Sundial Pictures and Preferred Content have started production Dark Was the Night.
Shooting begins Sunday, February 19th with Kevin Durand (Real Steel, Lost) and Lukas Haas (Contraband, Inception) will star in and battle with a never-before-seen monster in director Jack Heller's upcoming horror feature.
The script, from Tyler Hisel, appeared on the 2009 Black List of best un-produced scripts, a rarity for the monster genre, under the title The Trees.
“Respectful to the success of vampire and zombie movies, we were immediately attracted to Tyler’s all-new monster mythology,” said producer Dallas Sonnier. “Jack has a great vision for bringing it to the big screen.”
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Shooting begins Sunday, February 19th with Kevin Durand (Real Steel, Lost) and Lukas Haas (Contraband, Inception) will star in and battle with a never-before-seen monster in director Jack Heller's upcoming horror feature.
The script, from Tyler Hisel, appeared on the 2009 Black List of best un-produced scripts, a rarity for the monster genre, under the title The Trees.
“Respectful to the success of vampire and zombie movies, we were immediately attracted to Tyler’s all-new monster mythology,” said producer Dallas Sonnier. “Jack has a great vision for bringing it to the big screen.”
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- 2/17/2012
- by ryanrotten@shocktillyoudrop.com (Ryan Turek)
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Kevin Durand and Lukas Haas are starring in Dark Was the Night, a thriller from Caliber Media, Sundial Pictures and Preferred Content that begins production Sunday. Caliber Media principal Jack Heller is directing the picture, which was written by Tyler Hisel. Dark appeared on the 2009 Black List, Hollywood’s unofficial listing of the best unproduced screenplays, under the title The Trees. Dark, which hopes to introduce a new monster in a horror landscape dominated by zombies and vampires, is set in an isolated town where a logging company has disrupted the balance of life in the woods, causing an evil
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- 2/17/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Caliber Media Co., Sundial Pictures and Preferred Content have started production on thriller Dark Was the Night . Shooting begins Sunday, February 19th. Kevin Durand ( Real Steel , Robin Hood ) and Lukas Haas ( Contraband , Inception ) will star in and battle with a never-before-seen monster in director Jack Heller's upcoming horror feature. The script, from Tyler Hisel, appeared on the 2009 Black List of best un-produced scripts, a rarity for the monster genre, under the title "The Trees." .Respectful to the success of vampire and zombie movies, we were immediately attracted to Tyler.s all-new monster mythology,. said producer Dallas Sonnier. .Jack has a great vision for bringing it to the big screen.. Dark Was the Night centers on the isolated town of Maiden...
- 2/17/2012
- Comingsoon.net
"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time ... yeah! Don't do it!" Oh, how we miss the funky television show theme songs of yesteryear! In any event, a new thriller is coming your way, and we have the news for ya cold off the slab!
Nasser Entertainment and Caliber Media Co. are partnering to bring the thriller Bodies at Rest to life. Penned by David Lesser, "the story centers on three thugs who break into a morgue to cover up a crime and the medical examiner and assistant who must figure out a way to stay alive as well as protect the evidence."
Lesser's worked extensively in TV, writing on "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" as well as "Who's the Boss?".
Joseph and Jack Nasser of Nasser Entertainment, along with Caliber's Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller, will produce and finance the feature. Mike Goldberg, Josh Adler, and Lesser will co-executive produce.
Nasser Entertainment and Caliber Media Co. are partnering to bring the thriller Bodies at Rest to life. Penned by David Lesser, "the story centers on three thugs who break into a morgue to cover up a crime and the medical examiner and assistant who must figure out a way to stay alive as well as protect the evidence."
Lesser's worked extensively in TV, writing on "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" as well as "Who's the Boss?".
Joseph and Jack Nasser of Nasser Entertainment, along with Caliber's Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller, will produce and finance the feature. Mike Goldberg, Josh Adler, and Lesser will co-executive produce.
- 12/13/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Since 2009 "The Blood List" (an offshoot of "The Black List") has shone the spotlight on horror scripts that were seeking a home. The 2011 list in now out, and as always we have it for you right here to chew on!
The Blood List is the top 13 most-liked screenplays in the horror, thriller, sci fi, fantasy, or dark comedy/drama genres. 75 industry insiders vote for their top three choices.
To make it on the list, a screenplay had to receive at least 3 votes and come out within the last calendar year (October 2010 to October 2011).
Maggie by John Scott III
Logline: After a zombie infects a 16-year-old girl, she has six weeks before she transforms.
Genre: Horror/Sci Fi
Status: Pierre Ange financing. Henry Hobson attached to direct. Casting.
Bethlehem by Larry Brenner
Logline: In a post-apocalyptic world overrun by flesh-eating zombies, a benevolent vampire teams up with a group of humans to survive.
The Blood List is the top 13 most-liked screenplays in the horror, thriller, sci fi, fantasy, or dark comedy/drama genres. 75 industry insiders vote for their top three choices.
To make it on the list, a screenplay had to receive at least 3 votes and come out within the last calendar year (October 2010 to October 2011).
Maggie by John Scott III
Logline: After a zombie infects a 16-year-old girl, she has six weeks before she transforms.
Genre: Horror/Sci Fi
Status: Pierre Ange financing. Henry Hobson attached to direct. Casting.
Bethlehem by Larry Brenner
Logline: In a post-apocalyptic world overrun by flesh-eating zombies, a benevolent vampire teams up with a group of humans to survive.
- 11/1/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Since the creation of The Black List in 2006, there's been a push for Hollywood insiders to collect and publish their own compiled lists of unproduced screenplays that they feel deserve more attention. The Black List is the best known of these, released every December, but today another list of recommended unproduced screenplays was released: The Blood List, a collection of horror, sci-fi and fantasy scripts that are deemed worthy by those toiling in the showbiz industry.
This is the third year that The Blood List has been assembled. Created by Kailey Marsh, the Blood List process goes like this: votes are collected from 100 industry insiders as to what the best unproduced screenplays were between Halloween last year and Halloween this year. The one that gets the most votes goes to the top Blood List. Results are then released to the Internet on October 31.
As Coming Attractions did with the 2009 Black List and 2010 Black List,...
This is the third year that The Blood List has been assembled. Created by Kailey Marsh, the Blood List process goes like this: votes are collected from 100 industry insiders as to what the best unproduced screenplays were between Halloween last year and Halloween this year. The one that gets the most votes goes to the top Blood List. Results are then released to the Internet on October 31.
As Coming Attractions did with the 2009 Black List and 2010 Black List,...
- 10/31/2011
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Former William Morris agent Roya Weiner has joined Caliber Media Co., the management and production company that last week represented the sale of S. Craig Zahler's spec script "The Big Stone Grid" to Sony. Weiner will work with the company's Jared Schwartz spearheading Caliber's actor representation business. The three-year-old company also promoted Julian Rosenberg to manager in its literary department. Also read: Mike De Luca Producing 'Big Stone Grid' for Sony Jack Heller and Dallas Sonnier founded the company, which is making a name for itself in spec script sales. In addition to the...
- 3/28/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
Brian Geraghty, Logan Huffman and Madeleine Martin are teaming for Jessica Goldberg's indie drama "Refuge" says Risky Biz Blog.
The story follows a young woman who must take care of her younger siblings after her parents abandon them. Krysten Ritter ("She's Out of My League") had already been cast.
Goldberg adapted the script from her own play while Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller are producing. Shooting kicks off this week in Southampton, New York.
The story follows a young woman who must take care of her younger siblings after her parents abandon them. Krysten Ritter ("She's Out of My League") had already been cast.
Goldberg adapted the script from her own play while Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller are producing. Shooting kicks off this week in Southampton, New York.
- 2/16/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The following is a list of Los Angeles-area stage and film acting schools, teachers, and coaches organized by category and alphabetically.Each of the entries contains the following information, if applicable: name of teacher or school; address; phone and fax numbers; email address and/or website; average number of students per class; whether beginning, intermediate, or advanced students are taught; whether auditing is permitted; whether a work/study program is offered. Descriptions of the class, school, or coaching are provided by the instructor of institution and edited by Back Stage.Schools of teacher who have been omitted may contact, in writing, Listing, c/o Back Stage, 5055 Wilshire Blvd., 6th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90036, so that we may include you in our next list. Acting Technique/Scene StudyAARON McPherson STUDIOWest Hollywood, CA aaron@aaronmcphersonstudio.comwww.aaronmcphersonstudio.com310-918-5335Class size varies, 12 max. for auditioning class, 40 max. for scene study; day...
- 6/18/2010
- backstage.com
-- One of the summer's most mysterious movies, "Inception," is now a little bit less mysterious thanks to director Christopher Nolan's willingness to speak out about the project. The article is filled with spoilers so read at your own risk, but here's a nice teaser — the film is described as "Hollywood's first existential heist movie." [The Los Angeles Times]
-- A new "National Treasure" sequel is coming courtesy of "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" co-writers Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and "Sorcerer's Apprentice" director Jon Turteltaub are involved, and series leads Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha and Jon Voight are expected to return, though not confirmed. [Coming Soon]
-- National Enquirer columnist Mike Walker appeared on the Howard Stern Show last week and revealed that disagreements between Bill Murray and the rest of the "Ghostbusters 3" team are preventing the film from going forward. Apparently, Dan Aykroyd called...
-- A new "National Treasure" sequel is coming courtesy of "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" co-writers Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and "Sorcerer's Apprentice" director Jon Turteltaub are involved, and series leads Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha and Jon Voight are expected to return, though not confirmed. [Coming Soon]
-- National Enquirer columnist Mike Walker appeared on the Howard Stern Show last week and revealed that disagreements between Bill Murray and the rest of the "Ghostbusters 3" team are preventing the film from going forward. Apparently, Dan Aykroyd called...
- 4/5/2010
- by Josh Wigler
- MTV Movies Blog
Jack Heller, one of the principals of managing-production outfit Caliber Media, is making his directorial debut with "Enter Nowhere," a thriller that goes into production this week in Southampton, N.Y.
Heller has lined up Katherine Waterston ("Taking Woodstock"), Scott Eastwood (Clint Eastwood's son, who appeared in "Invictus"), Sara Paxton ("The Last House on the Left"), Shaun Sipos ( the CW's "Melrose Place") and Christopher Denham ("Shutter Island") to star in a story that is described as having shades of "Lost" and which revolves around four strangers who find themselves stranded in a deserted, supernatural forest.
The strangers seek shelter in an abandoned cabin and must learn to trust one another and work together to find a way out of the woods. Character details are being kept under wraps.
Shawn Christensen -- who recently sold "Abduction," with Taylor Lautner attached, to Lionsgate -- and Jason Dolan wrote the script.
Heller...
Heller has lined up Katherine Waterston ("Taking Woodstock"), Scott Eastwood (Clint Eastwood's son, who appeared in "Invictus"), Sara Paxton ("The Last House on the Left"), Shaun Sipos ( the CW's "Melrose Place") and Christopher Denham ("Shutter Island") to star in a story that is described as having shades of "Lost" and which revolves around four strangers who find themselves stranded in a deserted, supernatural forest.
The strangers seek shelter in an abandoned cabin and must learn to trust one another and work together to find a way out of the woods. Character details are being kept under wraps.
Shawn Christensen -- who recently sold "Abduction," with Taylor Lautner attached, to Lionsgate -- and Jason Dolan wrote the script.
Heller...
- 4/4/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The following is a list of Los Angeles-area stage and film acting schools, teachers, and acoaches organized by category and alphabetically.Each of the entries contains the following information, if applicable: name of teacher or school; address; phone and fax numbers; email address and/or website; average number of students per class; whether beginning, intermediate, or advanced students are taught; whether auditing is permitted; whether classes are ongoing or by sessions; any special emphasis used in classes or coaching; whether a work/study program is offered. Descriptions of the class, schoool, or coaching are provided by the instructor or institutions and edited by Back Stage.Schools or teachers who have been omitted may contact, in writing, Listings, c/o Back Stage, 5055 Wilshire Blvd., 6th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90036, so that we may include you in our next list.Acting Technique/Scene StudyAARON McPherson STUDIOWest Hollywood, CA aaron@aaronmcphersonstudio.comwww.aaronmcphersonstudio.
- 3/25/2010
- backstage.com
(Tanna Frederick in Henry Jaglom's "Just 45 Minutes From Broadway," above, with David Garver.)
By Terry Keefe
The manner in which Iowa native Tanna Frederick received her break as an actress has sort of become a independent filmmaking legend, but it bears repeating, as a lesson in the type of chutzpah required to get anywhere in the film business. After a few years of struggling in the audition trenches of Hollywood, Frederick was told by a fellow actor that filmmaker Henry Jaglom often responded to fan letters. Frederick proceeded to write a copious letter to Jaglom, praising the merits of his 1997 film Deja Vu…which she had never actually seen. Nonetheless, a correspondence between Frederick and Jaglom began, and eventually, Jaglom gave the actress permission to do a stage production of his 1971 film debut, A Safe Place, the cinematic version of which starred Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, and Tuesday Weld.
By Terry Keefe
The manner in which Iowa native Tanna Frederick received her break as an actress has sort of become a independent filmmaking legend, but it bears repeating, as a lesson in the type of chutzpah required to get anywhere in the film business. After a few years of struggling in the audition trenches of Hollywood, Frederick was told by a fellow actor that filmmaker Henry Jaglom often responded to fan letters. Frederick proceeded to write a copious letter to Jaglom, praising the merits of his 1997 film Deja Vu…which she had never actually seen. Nonetheless, a correspondence between Frederick and Jaglom began, and eventually, Jaglom gave the actress permission to do a stage production of his 1971 film debut, A Safe Place, the cinematic version of which starred Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, and Tuesday Weld.
- 3/18/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Adam Beach will star opposite "Stone Cold" Steve Austin in "The Stranger," an action vehicle for the wrestling star being directed by Rob Lieberman. Nasser Entertainment Group and Caliber Media are financing and producing. The man-on-the-run story follows an FBI agent (Beach) who is tracking down a material witness (Austin) involved in a top-secret investigation. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jack and Joe Nasser are producing with Caliber's Jack Heller and Dallas Sonnier. "Stranger" begins shooting this week in Vancouver.
- 8/6/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Acting COACHINGThe following individuals or companies specialize in one-on-one acting coaching. Private coaching is also available from the majority of those listed in the "Acting Schools and Classes" category. Coaches in other specialties, such as musical theatre, voiceover, or young performers, are listed in those categories.Jules Aaron(323) 660-7342Aaron, the former head of of graduate programs at CalArts and U.C. Riverside, is an award-winning director and acting teacher. He has won directing awards from the L.A. Drama Critics Circle and Back Stage. He coaches actors for specific auditions, develops appropriate monologues, and conducts cold reading sessions. By audition only.Phyllis APPLEGATEOne-On-One(323) 655-5167Emmy-nominated character actor Applegate studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute on scholarship. She offers ongoing individual performance coaching combining Strasberg's methods with her own. Applegate coaches actors on audition techniques, cold readings, character creation, scene study, and text interpretation.The Audition COACHWest Hollwood, www.myspace.
- 3/25/2009
- backstage.com
Greta Gerwig is getting into "Greenberg."
The indie star has landed the lead role opposite Ben Stiller in the latest Noah Baumbach relationship dramedy.
Baumbach, best known for the Oscar-nominated intergenerational divorce saga "The Squid and the Whale," is writing and directing the film. The project's logline is being kept under wraps, but it is expected to be set in L.A. and center on relationship intimacies in the manner of past Baumbach pictures.
Scott Rudin will produce "Greenberg" and Focus Features will finance and distribute; the specialty division had been in talks to board the project. Shooting is expected to begin in March, with Stiller officially on board.
Gerwig, repped by UTA and managers Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller, is known for a host of indie movies, including the Duplass brothers' genre spoof "Baghead" and the offbeat relationship tale "Hannah Takes the Stairs," which she co-wrote.
Gerwig is affiliated...
The indie star has landed the lead role opposite Ben Stiller in the latest Noah Baumbach relationship dramedy.
Baumbach, best known for the Oscar-nominated intergenerational divorce saga "The Squid and the Whale," is writing and directing the film. The project's logline is being kept under wraps, but it is expected to be set in L.A. and center on relationship intimacies in the manner of past Baumbach pictures.
Scott Rudin will produce "Greenberg" and Focus Features will finance and distribute; the specialty division had been in talks to board the project. Shooting is expected to begin in March, with Stiller officially on board.
Gerwig, repped by UTA and managers Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller, is known for a host of indie movies, including the Duplass brothers' genre spoof "Baghead" and the offbeat relationship tale "Hannah Takes the Stairs," which she co-wrote.
Gerwig is affiliated...
- 2/10/2009
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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