It is to the credit of Helen Reddy and her chart topping 1972 breakout hit “I Am Woman”, that I went in completely blind to director Unjoo Moon’s movie, but despite knowing nothing about it, was able to gather precisely what I may be in for from its title. Almost 50 years on, this song and its artist still have that power and still resonate and I think this biopic, about Reddy’s rise to stardom and her life, might mange to do that too. If not even educate some fresher generations on this moment in music history.
As the 24-year-old aspiring singer Helen Reddy (a sensational Tilda-Cobham-Hervey) saves all she has and travels to the USA from Australia with her young daughter in 1966, I Am Woman follows her defiant battle against the sexism of the industry, as well as her attempts to get her music out there and speak to...
As the 24-year-old aspiring singer Helen Reddy (a sensational Tilda-Cobham-Hervey) saves all she has and travels to the USA from Australia with her young daughter in 1966, I Am Woman follows her defiant battle against the sexism of the industry, as well as her attempts to get her music out there and speak to...
- 9/27/2020
- by Jack Bottomley
- The Cultural Post
Chicago – “I Am Woman” is a song, which hit number one in 1972, and it’s the title of the newly released biopic of the song’s singer, the chanteuse Helen Reddy. The director of the film is Unjoo Moon, an Australian by way of South Korea. Since Reddy was a fellow Aussie, Moon understood the quirky dynamics of the singer’s life, and uniquely generated it in the film.
Although the film is about Reddy, it also is a journey to her “I Am Woman” power, and its prominence as a feminist anthem. Australian actress Tilda Cobham-Hervey distinctly portrays Reddy, who won a contest to record a record in the U.S. in the 1960s … only to travel there with her daughter and find out the prize didn’t exist. She stayed and eventually met agent and future husband Jeff Wald (Evan Peters) who took her on a rocky path...
Although the film is about Reddy, it also is a journey to her “I Am Woman” power, and its prominence as a feminist anthem. Australian actress Tilda Cobham-Hervey distinctly portrays Reddy, who won a contest to record a record in the U.S. in the 1960s … only to travel there with her daughter and find out the prize didn’t exist. She stayed and eventually met agent and future husband Jeff Wald (Evan Peters) who took her on a rocky path...
- 9/12/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on September 10th, 2020, reviewing the new films “I Am Woman” (VOD and theaters) and “Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President” (virtual and actual theaters).
Rating: 3.5/5.0
I Am Woman As you would guess, this film is about Helen Reddy, and the journey to her signature song. Fellow Australian Tilda Cobham-Hervey distinctly portrays Reddy, who won a contest to record a record in the U.S. in the 1960s … only to travel here with her daughter and find out the prize didn’t exist. She stayed and eventually met agent and future husband Jeff Wald (Evan Peters) who took her on a rocky path to her 1970s hit making period. 3.5/5 stars.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President The improbable rise of a peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, to the White House is told through the filter...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
I Am Woman As you would guess, this film is about Helen Reddy, and the journey to her signature song. Fellow Australian Tilda Cobham-Hervey distinctly portrays Reddy, who won a contest to record a record in the U.S. in the 1960s … only to travel here with her daughter and find out the prize didn’t exist. She stayed and eventually met agent and future husband Jeff Wald (Evan Peters) who took her on a rocky path to her 1970s hit making period. 3.5/5 stars.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President The improbable rise of a peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, to the White House is told through the filter...
- 9/12/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Audiences’ choices are limited as movie theaters in additional markets reopen this weekend, with only one new studio release, “The Broken Hearts Gallery,” joining high-profile holdovers “Tenet,” “The New Mutants” and “Unhinged” on megaplex marquees.
Meanwhile, limited releases are getting better exposure than usual, as indies and docs (such as “All In: The Fight for Democracy” about voter disenfranchisement and Stacey Abrams’ recent non-election) grab screens that might normally be crowded by blockbusters.
Streaming services HBO Max and Netflix are keeping subscribers flush with options, including “Unpregnant,” a comic look at a serious subject (minors traveling out of state to terminate a pregnancy) also addressed in indie breakout “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” earlier this year. For those worried about what all that screen time is doing to their heads, Netflix serves up eye-opening doc “The Social Dilemma,” one of the better-reviewed films out of Sundance.
Here’s a rundown of...
Meanwhile, limited releases are getting better exposure than usual, as indies and docs (such as “All In: The Fight for Democracy” about voter disenfranchisement and Stacey Abrams’ recent non-election) grab screens that might normally be crowded by blockbusters.
Streaming services HBO Max and Netflix are keeping subscribers flush with options, including “Unpregnant,” a comic look at a serious subject (minors traveling out of state to terminate a pregnancy) also addressed in indie breakout “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” earlier this year. For those worried about what all that screen time is doing to their heads, Netflix serves up eye-opening doc “The Social Dilemma,” one of the better-reviewed films out of Sundance.
Here’s a rundown of...
- 9/11/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Australian-American singer Helen Reddy, known for her feminist empowerment anthems and activism during the Seventies, is getting her own biopic, I Am Woman. The first full-length trailer was released on Wednesday, and the movie will be out in theaters and on-demand on September 11th.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey portrays Reddy, who starts out as a struggling artist in New York during the mid-Sixties, balancing her career with her own family life. Despite finding a friend and confidante in rock journalist Lillian Roxon (Danielle Macdonald), Reddy struggles to impress the male executives at major labels,...
Tilda Cobham-Hervey portrays Reddy, who starts out as a struggling artist in New York during the mid-Sixties, balancing her career with her own family life. Despite finding a friend and confidante in rock journalist Lillian Roxon (Danielle Macdonald), Reddy struggles to impress the male executives at major labels,...
- 8/5/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The biopic “I Am Woman” tells the story of Australian singer Helen Reddy and the song that served as a feminist anthem for the women’s liberation movement, and the inspiring trailer for the film will make you roar.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey stars in “I Am Woman” as Reddy, which follows her journey from being a single mom in the late ’60s who comes to New York and works to smash through the patriarchy to become a platinum recording artist. The first trailer shows Reddy getting paid less than the men in her own band and being turned away by male record executives, only for her to push back and prove she’s a star.
“Did it ever occur to you men to ask women what they want to listen to,” Reddy poses to one male gatekeeper who asks if she’s heard of The Beatles. “This is more than just a song to me.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey stars in “I Am Woman” as Reddy, which follows her journey from being a single mom in the late ’60s who comes to New York and works to smash through the patriarchy to become a platinum recording artist. The first trailer shows Reddy getting paid less than the men in her own band and being turned away by male record executives, only for her to push back and prove she’s a star.
“Did it ever occur to you men to ask women what they want to listen to,” Reddy poses to one male gatekeeper who asks if she’s heard of The Beatles. “This is more than just a song to me.
- 8/4/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
‘McLeod’s Daughters’ (Photo credit: Millennium Pictures).
Posie Graeme-Evans, co-creator of the Nine Network drama McLeod’s Daughters, is working on a feature film spin-off with producer Sue Clothier and screenwriter Emma Jensen.
Screen Tasmania is funding the early development of McLeods of Drovers Run, scripted by Jensen and produced by Graeme-Evans and Clothier.
Based on an origin story by Graeme-Evans, the plot sees tragic, unfinished business that begins in 1850s Scotland at the ancestral home of the McLeods return to haunt the present day family.
The logline reads: “In the end, family is all we have when the past will not die. That’s a good thing. Right?”
Graeme-Evans is convinced there is still a huge appetite for the McLeod’s franchise. Currently screening on Stan, the series won the Meaa’s The Great Australian Binge vote for Australia’s most favourite show.
A McLeod’s Daughters reunion attended by cast members Bridie Carter,...
Posie Graeme-Evans, co-creator of the Nine Network drama McLeod’s Daughters, is working on a feature film spin-off with producer Sue Clothier and screenwriter Emma Jensen.
Screen Tasmania is funding the early development of McLeods of Drovers Run, scripted by Jensen and produced by Graeme-Evans and Clothier.
Based on an origin story by Graeme-Evans, the plot sees tragic, unfinished business that begins in 1850s Scotland at the ancestral home of the McLeods return to haunt the present day family.
The logline reads: “In the end, family is all we have when the past will not die. That’s a good thing. Right?”
Graeme-Evans is convinced there is still a huge appetite for the McLeod’s franchise. Currently screening on Stan, the series won the Meaa’s The Great Australian Binge vote for Australia’s most favourite show.
A McLeod’s Daughters reunion attended by cast members Bridie Carter,...
- 6/21/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Georgina Jenkins.
Georgina Jenkins’ feature concept Blackbird has won the Aacta Pitch: Regional Landscapes competition.
Blackbird tells the story of a feisty but forgetful Greek woman who, when forced into aged care, must manipulate her carer into taking her on a road trip to retrieve her lifesavings before the family home is sold.
The Aacta pitch comp, put on in partnership with Screenworks, called for ideas inspired by Australia’s regional landscapes.
Blackbird was one of five finalists, with Jenkins’ prize including script development from Emma Jensen, industry connection opportunities through the Australian Writers’ Guild Pathway Program, and ongoing feedback from the judging panel, who included producers Michele Bennett and Deb Cox, Sbs acting head of scripted Amanda Duthie and Umbrella Entertainment MD Jeff Harrison. The writer will also receive Screenworks annual membership, Awg membership and tickets to the Aacta Awards.
“We operate in a highly competitive industry largely driven by relationships,...
Georgina Jenkins’ feature concept Blackbird has won the Aacta Pitch: Regional Landscapes competition.
Blackbird tells the story of a feisty but forgetful Greek woman who, when forced into aged care, must manipulate her carer into taking her on a road trip to retrieve her lifesavings before the family home is sold.
The Aacta pitch comp, put on in partnership with Screenworks, called for ideas inspired by Australia’s regional landscapes.
Blackbird was one of five finalists, with Jenkins’ prize including script development from Emma Jensen, industry connection opportunities through the Australian Writers’ Guild Pathway Program, and ongoing feedback from the judging panel, who included producers Michele Bennett and Deb Cox, Sbs acting head of scripted Amanda Duthie and Umbrella Entertainment MD Jeff Harrison. The writer will also receive Screenworks annual membership, Awg membership and tickets to the Aacta Awards.
“We operate in a highly competitive industry largely driven by relationships,...
- 4/6/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
London-based sales agent WestEnd Films has closed a North American deal with Jeff Sackman and Berry Meyerowitz’s company Aqute Media for “I Am Woman,” the biopic about Australian singer Helen Reddy.
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival as the opening film of the Special Presentations section. The film also recently opened the Athena Film Festival, where director Unjoo Moon received the Athena Breakthrough Award, a prize sponsored by Netflix designed to elevate first- or second-time female filmmakers.
In addition to North America, rights have gone to Metropolitan (France), Nos (Portugal), Inopia (Spain), Videovision (South Africa), Front Row (Middle East), Bliss Media (China), Scene & Sound (South Korea), Ale Kino+ (Poland), Vti (Ex-Yugoslavia), Cineplex (Taiwan), Golden A Entertainment (Thailand) and Cinesky (airlines).
Transmission Films will release the film in Australia and New Zealand later this year on around 200 prints.
Milan Records, an imprint of Sony Music Masterworks,...
The film had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival as the opening film of the Special Presentations section. The film also recently opened the Athena Film Festival, where director Unjoo Moon received the Athena Breakthrough Award, a prize sponsored by Netflix designed to elevate first- or second-time female filmmakers.
In addition to North America, rights have gone to Metropolitan (France), Nos (Portugal), Inopia (Spain), Videovision (South Africa), Front Row (Middle East), Bliss Media (China), Scene & Sound (South Korea), Ale Kino+ (Poland), Vti (Ex-Yugoslavia), Cineplex (Taiwan), Golden A Entertainment (Thailand) and Cinesky (airlines).
Transmission Films will release the film in Australia and New Zealand later this year on around 200 prints.
Milan Records, an imprint of Sony Music Masterworks,...
- 3/31/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Aacta, in partnership with Screenworks, has announced the five finalists for its feature film pitching competition, which called for ideas inspired by Australia’s regional landscapes.
They are:
The Artisan, Amanda Bridgeman, Western Australia
An eternally hopeful baker befriends a pessimistic graffiti artist, and together they fight to revive their dying town through art in order to win back the regional fair. Big Things, Anna Lindner, regional South Australia
When wide-eyed roller girl Stevie has a chance encounter with her long absent father, her dream comes true as they reconnect on a road trip across Australia to see the country’s ‘big things’. However, she soon suspects her father’s real motives for the journey are far bigger than any pineapple or prawn. Blackbird, Georgina Jenkins, Australian Capital Territory
Forced into aged care, a feisty but forgetful Greek woman must manipulate her carer into taking her on a road trip...
They are:
The Artisan, Amanda Bridgeman, Western Australia
An eternally hopeful baker befriends a pessimistic graffiti artist, and together they fight to revive their dying town through art in order to win back the regional fair. Big Things, Anna Lindner, regional South Australia
When wide-eyed roller girl Stevie has a chance encounter with her long absent father, her dream comes true as they reconnect on a road trip across Australia to see the country’s ‘big things’. However, she soon suspects her father’s real motives for the journey are far bigger than any pineapple or prawn. Blackbird, Georgina Jenkins, Australian Capital Territory
Forced into aged care, a feisty but forgetful Greek woman must manipulate her carer into taking her on a road trip...
- 3/23/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Aacta will hold a live pitching competition at Screenworks’ 2020 Business of Producing seminar in March, with the call out for feature film ideas inspired by Australia’s regional landscapes.
Put on with the support of the Australian Writers’ Guild (Awg), the brief is for story concept in which a regional setting lends itself as a central character.
Up to five finalists will be selected for the comp, with the winner to receive industry connection opportunities through the Awg’s Pathway program; script development from Emma Jensen; feedback and ongoing guidance from the judging panel; a three-day pass to all sessions at the Screenworks’ seminar; Aacta, Screenworks, and Awg annual memberships and two tickets to the 2020 Aacta Awards.
The judging panel will consist of:
Producer Michele Bennett Every Cloud Productions creative director and co-founder Deb Cox Sbs acting head of scripted and former Adelaide Film Festival CEO/creative director Amanda Duthie...
Put on with the support of the Australian Writers’ Guild (Awg), the brief is for story concept in which a regional setting lends itself as a central character.
Up to five finalists will be selected for the comp, with the winner to receive industry connection opportunities through the Awg’s Pathway program; script development from Emma Jensen; feedback and ongoing guidance from the judging panel; a three-day pass to all sessions at the Screenworks’ seminar; Aacta, Screenworks, and Awg annual memberships and two tickets to the 2020 Aacta Awards.
The judging panel will consist of:
Producer Michele Bennett Every Cloud Productions creative director and co-founder Deb Cox Sbs acting head of scripted and former Adelaide Film Festival CEO/creative director Amanda Duthie...
- 2/2/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Unjoo Moon at the Tiff premiere of ‘I Am Woman.’
In a sign of the times for independent distributors, Transmission Films expects to release approximately nine films in cinemas this year, down from 13 in 2019.
The more selective, cautious approach to acquisitions is Transmission’s response to the tightening market across-the-board for indie films, which co-founder Andrew Mackie estimates has dropped by 10-20 per cent.
That said, Mackie and co-founder Richard Payten are very confident about the 2020 slate, not least Unjoo Moon’s I Am Woman and Dean Murphy’s Paul Hogan comeback comedy The Very Excellent Mr Dundee.
Transmission has dated Moon’s Helen Reddy biopic starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey as the pioneering Australian feminist singer, which premiered at Toronto, on May 21.
Mackie says the release date for the film produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight and scripted by Emma Jensen avoids the “post-Oscar season crush and allows...
In a sign of the times for independent distributors, Transmission Films expects to release approximately nine films in cinemas this year, down from 13 in 2019.
The more selective, cautious approach to acquisitions is Transmission’s response to the tightening market across-the-board for indie films, which co-founder Andrew Mackie estimates has dropped by 10-20 per cent.
That said, Mackie and co-founder Richard Payten are very confident about the 2020 slate, not least Unjoo Moon’s I Am Woman and Dean Murphy’s Paul Hogan comeback comedy The Very Excellent Mr Dundee.
Transmission has dated Moon’s Helen Reddy biopic starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey as the pioneering Australian feminist singer, which premiered at Toronto, on May 21.
Mackie says the release date for the film produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight and scripted by Emma Jensen avoids the “post-Oscar season crush and allows...
- 2/2/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Unjoo Moon’s Helen Reddy biopic I Am Woman has been added to the Special Screening lineup at AFI Fest 2019. The pic, which debuted this fall at the Toronto Film Festival, will screen November 21 at the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres. The film has not been picked up by a U.S. distributor so it doesn’t have a domestic release date.
It joins fellow AFI Fest Special Screenings Clemency, Just Mercy and Blackbird.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey plays Reddy and Evan Peters and Danielle Macdonald co-star in the pic, which tells the story of the Aussie singer who wrote and sang the song “I Am Woman” that became an anthem for the women’s movement in the 1970s, and who smashed through the patriarchal norms of her time to become an international singing superstar.
Moon and Rosemary Blight produced I Am Woman, which was written by Emma Jensen.
This year’s AFI Fest...
It joins fellow AFI Fest Special Screenings Clemency, Just Mercy and Blackbird.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey plays Reddy and Evan Peters and Danielle Macdonald co-star in the pic, which tells the story of the Aussie singer who wrote and sang the song “I Am Woman” that became an anthem for the women’s movement in the 1970s, and who smashed through the patriarchal norms of her time to become an international singing superstar.
Moon and Rosemary Blight produced I Am Woman, which was written by Emma Jensen.
This year’s AFI Fest...
- 11/12/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ (Photo credit: Memento Films International/Ben King).
IFC Films’ acquisition of North American rights to Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang before the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival now seems savvy in light of the rave reviews.
Meanwhile Unjoo Moon’s debut narrative feature I Am Woman was lauded by some critics for Tilda Cobham-Hervey’s breakout performance as Helen Reddy after it opened the festival’s special presentations section.
IFC Films distributed Kurzel’s debut Snowtown, also penned by Shaun Grant, and currently is handling Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, which is playing on 79 screens in its sixth weekend in the Us and has grossed $US383,000.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with the assured IFC Films in North America and very excited to see the film go out in the world now,” says Porclight’s Liz Watts,...
IFC Films’ acquisition of North American rights to Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang before the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival now seems savvy in light of the rave reviews.
Meanwhile Unjoo Moon’s debut narrative feature I Am Woman was lauded by some critics for Tilda Cobham-Hervey’s breakout performance as Helen Reddy after it opened the festival’s special presentations section.
IFC Films distributed Kurzel’s debut Snowtown, also penned by Shaun Grant, and currently is handling Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale, which is playing on 79 screens in its sixth weekend in the Us and has grossed $US383,000.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with the assured IFC Films in North America and very excited to see the film go out in the world now,” says Porclight’s Liz Watts,...
- 9/8/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Helen Reddy was very far from a one-hit-wonder. Indeed, she had more chart hits than practically any other solo female act of the 1970s. Yet in a way, the song most associated with her feels like it came from an artist who was never heard from before or since. “I Am Woman” arrived exactly as the Women’s Liberation Movement was at its initial peak of popular consciousness, and it was the perfect unofficial anthem, as coolly upbeat and authoritative as the singular voice delivering. The smash single invariably rattled some male observers who called it “angry” or even “man-hating.” That simply underlined the many things women needed liberating from — nobody called Sinatra a menace when he sang “My Way,” a no less straightforward hymn to self-determination.
But those who expected Reddy to be any kind of feminist spokesperson were disappointed, particularly when her later hits veered almost exclusively into...
But those who expected Reddy to be any kind of feminist spokesperson were disappointed, particularly when her later hits veered almost exclusively into...
- 9/6/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
‘I Am Woman’ Review: Biopic Tropes Can’t Dim Shine of Tilda Cobham-Hervey’s Star Turn As Helen Reddy
There are a couple of tropes that seem to inevitably spell disaster for any biopic: the character who coughs a lot (and nobody notices) and the character who sniffs a lot of coke (and everyone ignores). Unjoo Moon’s fact based-accounting of singer Helen Reddy’s life — titled “I Am Woman,” after both her biggest hit and her essential ethos — is beholden to such cliches, but
Respiratory-based ailments are anathema for big star biopics, but nothing is more forgiving than a wallop of a leading performance and a story that has long needed to be told. For every mild misstep the film makes, Moon and Cobham-Hervey offer essential corrections. The result is a rousing, often tear-soaked crowdpleaser about a woman deserving of the most affectionate of feature-film treatments.
The film’s first big risk: screenwriter Emma Jensen’s choice to open it long after Helen has embarked on her career.
Respiratory-based ailments are anathema for big star biopics, but nothing is more forgiving than a wallop of a leading performance and a story that has long needed to be told. For every mild misstep the film makes, Moon and Cobham-Hervey offer essential corrections. The result is a rousing, often tear-soaked crowdpleaser about a woman deserving of the most affectionate of feature-film treatments.
The film’s first big risk: screenwriter Emma Jensen’s choice to open it long after Helen has embarked on her career.
- 9/6/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Variety has been given the first-look image of Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Evan Peters in “I Am Woman,” which open the Special Presentations section in Toronto Film Festival next week. The film tells the inspiring story of Helen Reddy, the writer and singer of the song “I Am Woman,” which became the anthem for the women’s movement in the 1970s.
Cobham-Hervey plays Reddy, a women of fearless ambition and passion, who overcomes male prejudice to become the international singing star she always dreamed of being. Peters is Helen’s manager and husband Jeff Wald. Danielle Macdonald features as the rock journalist Lilian Roxon and Helen’s friend.
“I Am Woman” is directed by Unjoo Moon (“The Zen of Bennett”), and produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight, and is written by Emma Jensen (“Mary Shelley”). WestEnd is handling world sales.
Cobham-Hervey plays Reddy, a women of fearless ambition and passion, who overcomes male prejudice to become the international singing star she always dreamed of being. Peters is Helen’s manager and husband Jeff Wald. Danielle Macdonald features as the rock journalist Lilian Roxon and Helen’s friend.
“I Am Woman” is directed by Unjoo Moon (“The Zen of Bennett”), and produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight, and is written by Emma Jensen (“Mary Shelley”). WestEnd is handling world sales.
- 8/29/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
‘True History of the Kelly Gang.’ (Photo: Ben King)
Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang and Unjoo Moon’s I Am Woman will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from September 5-15.
Scripted by Shaun Grant and starring George Mackay, Russell Crowe, Charlie Hunnam, Nicholas Hoult, Essie Davis and Harry Greenwood, the saga of the Australian bush-ranger and his gang as they flee from authorities during the 1870s will be among the gala premieres.
Moon’s biopic of the fiercely ambitious Australian singer Helen Reddy whose 1971 hit became the rallying cry of the women’s liberation movement, starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Evan Peters, Matty Cardarople and Danielle Macdonald, will open the special presentations section.
In addition, The Other Lamb, the first English-language feature by Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska, scripted by Australian Catherine Smyth-McMullen, will screen in special presentations.
The Belgian-Irish co-production is...
Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang and Unjoo Moon’s I Am Woman will have their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from September 5-15.
Scripted by Shaun Grant and starring George Mackay, Russell Crowe, Charlie Hunnam, Nicholas Hoult, Essie Davis and Harry Greenwood, the saga of the Australian bush-ranger and his gang as they flee from authorities during the 1870s will be among the gala premieres.
Moon’s biopic of the fiercely ambitious Australian singer Helen Reddy whose 1971 hit became the rallying cry of the women’s liberation movement, starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Evan Peters, Matty Cardarople and Danielle Macdonald, will open the special presentations section.
In addition, The Other Lamb, the first English-language feature by Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska, scripted by Australian Catherine Smyth-McMullen, will screen in special presentations.
The Belgian-Irish co-production is...
- 7/23/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
With the box office and awards season success of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” music biopics are roaring back. “Rocketman,” based on the life of Elton John, just released this past weekend, and several others are currently in the works, including films about Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Amy Winehouse
Monumental Pictures’ Alison Owen and Debra Hayward are producing a film on the life of the late Amy Winehouse. They’ll be working in coordination with Winehouse’s father Mitch, who previously said in a statement that he felt finally the “time was right.” Although no one has been cast yet as the soul singer, Owen tells TheWrap the project is in development and the plan is to shoot next year.
“Respect” – Aretha Franklin
Before her death in 2018, Aretha Franklin chose Jennifer Hudson to portray her on film. The biopic follows the Queen of Soul from her...
Amy Winehouse
Monumental Pictures’ Alison Owen and Debra Hayward are producing a film on the life of the late Amy Winehouse. They’ll be working in coordination with Winehouse’s father Mitch, who previously said in a statement that he felt finally the “time was right.” Although no one has been cast yet as the soul singer, Owen tells TheWrap the project is in development and the plan is to shoot next year.
“Respect” – Aretha Franklin
Before her death in 2018, Aretha Franklin chose Jennifer Hudson to portray her on film. The biopic follows the Queen of Soul from her...
- 6/4/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
WestEnd Films will launch Helen Reddy biopic “I Am Woman” at the American Film Market. Danielle Macdonald (“Patti Cake$”) has also been confirmed as a cast member. She will play legendary rock journalist Lilian Roxon and star alongside Tilda Cobham-Hervey (“Hotel Mumbai”) who plays singer/actor/activist Reddy, and Evan Peters (“American Animals”) who portrays Jeff Wald, her manager and husband.
Reddy notched a string of hits in the 1970s including “I Am Woman,” which hit No.1 in the U.S. charts. It became an anthem for the women’s movement in the 1970s. The film will tell the story of Reddy as an artist and a woman leading the way for others seeking equality and to smash through the patriarchy.
Unjoo Moon (“The Zen of Bennett“) will helm the picture. WestEnd acquired it under its WeLove banner, which is specifically for female-specific content, and aims to promote female talent.
Reddy notched a string of hits in the 1970s including “I Am Woman,” which hit No.1 in the U.S. charts. It became an anthem for the women’s movement in the 1970s. The film will tell the story of Reddy as an artist and a woman leading the way for others seeking equality and to smash through the patriarchy.
Unjoo Moon (“The Zen of Bennett“) will helm the picture. WestEnd acquired it under its WeLove banner, which is specifically for female-specific content, and aims to promote female talent.
- 10/31/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Evan Peters (Photo credit: YouTube).
American Horror Story star Evan Peters will play a key supporting role in I Am Woman, Goalpost Pictures’ Helen Reddy biopic which is about to start shooting in Australia and the Us.
Peters will play Jeff Wald, the Us talent manager who married the Australian singer in 1966 and negotiated her career-changing deal with Capitol Records in 1971, which spawned the global hit ‘I Am Woman.’
Tilda Cobham-Hervey is playing Reddy with Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$) as her close friend Lillian Roxon, the legendary rock journalist.
Produced by Rosemary Blight and scripted by Emma Jensen, the film will mark the narrative feature debut of Unjoo Moon, who directed The Zen of Bennett, a feature documentary set on the eve of singer Tony Bennett’s 85th birthday.
Deadline.com, which broke the casting of Peters, noted Wald reportedly had a drug problem that was considered a major contributing...
American Horror Story star Evan Peters will play a key supporting role in I Am Woman, Goalpost Pictures’ Helen Reddy biopic which is about to start shooting in Australia and the Us.
Peters will play Jeff Wald, the Us talent manager who married the Australian singer in 1966 and negotiated her career-changing deal with Capitol Records in 1971, which spawned the global hit ‘I Am Woman.’
Tilda Cobham-Hervey is playing Reddy with Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$) as her close friend Lillian Roxon, the legendary rock journalist.
Produced by Rosemary Blight and scripted by Emma Jensen, the film will mark the narrative feature debut of Unjoo Moon, who directed The Zen of Bennett, a feature documentary set on the eve of singer Tony Bennett’s 85th birthday.
Deadline.com, which broke the casting of Peters, noted Wald reportedly had a drug problem that was considered a major contributing...
- 10/22/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Evan Peters is set to star in I Am Woman, the film about the rise of empowering ’70s female singing star Helen Reddy that’s about to get underway in Australia. Unjoo Moon (The Zen of Bennett) is directing a script by Emma Jensen.
Tilda Cobham-Hervey had already been set to play Reddy, and Peters has just signed to play Jeff Wald, who married Reddy and helped build her career as her manager. Along with a list of clients that included Donna Summer, George Carlin, Sylvester Stallone and Crosby Stills and Nash, Wald also reportedly had a drug problem that was considered a major contributing factor to his divorce with Reddy and contentious custody battle for their kids. Wald long since has cleaned up his act.
Peters comes to the job after starring in the indie American Animals, and in Ryan Murphy’s hit FX series Pose. He can...
Tilda Cobham-Hervey had already been set to play Reddy, and Peters has just signed to play Jeff Wald, who married Reddy and helped build her career as her manager. Along with a list of clients that included Donna Summer, George Carlin, Sylvester Stallone and Crosby Stills and Nash, Wald also reportedly had a drug problem that was considered a major contributing factor to his divorce with Reddy and contentious custody battle for their kids. Wald long since has cleaned up his act.
Peters comes to the job after starring in the indie American Animals, and in Ryan Murphy’s hit FX series Pose. He can...
- 10/22/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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Mary Shelley [pictured]
Haifaa Al-Mansour cowrites (with Emma Jensen) and directs this biopic of the mother of science fiction, Frankenstein author Mary Shelley (Elle Fanning).
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Natalie Dormer cowrites and stars in this thriller about a blind woman who aurally witnesses the murder of her neighbor. (male director)
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This documentary biography explores the life, work, and death of 1980s and 90s pop-music queen Whitney Houston. (male director)
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- 7/6/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Saudi director Haifaa Al-Mansour captures the pathos and pity of the Frankenstein story while eliciting an insouciant and poised performance from her star
Haifaa Al-Mansour is the Saudi Arabian film-maker whose 2012 debut feature Wadjda was the first to be shot entirely in her home country and so far the only Saudi picture to be directed by a woman. So she is an interesting choice to take on this script from first-time screenwriter Emma Jensen, about the life of Mary Shelley, author of the 1818 classic Frankenstein, famously arrived at after a kind of competition, or dare, between Mary, her soon-to-be husband Percy Shelley and Lord Byron, as to who could create the scariest tale.
Mary was a woman working in a man’s world, creating an entirely new genre of writing and moreover one in a brutal and audacious and stereotypically male style. It was a thrilling story that tackled the themes of abandonment,...
Haifaa Al-Mansour is the Saudi Arabian film-maker whose 2012 debut feature Wadjda was the first to be shot entirely in her home country and so far the only Saudi picture to be directed by a woman. So she is an interesting choice to take on this script from first-time screenwriter Emma Jensen, about the life of Mary Shelley, author of the 1818 classic Frankenstein, famously arrived at after a kind of competition, or dare, between Mary, her soon-to-be husband Percy Shelley and Lord Byron, as to who could create the scariest tale.
Mary was a woman working in a man’s world, creating an entirely new genre of writing and moreover one in a brutal and audacious and stereotypically male style. It was a thrilling story that tackled the themes of abandonment,...
- 7/6/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Since seeing James McAvoy ham it up as the titular monster-maker, director Haifaa al-Mansour might wonder if we’ve had enough of Frankenstein movies by now. However, if there’s one story that we’d welcome, one that has hitherto remained untold, it’s that of the original story’s author, Mary Shelley.
A trailblazer for female writers, Shelley’s own story is a fascinating tale of an outsider dealing with a variety of obstacles before achieving success, and the process she went through before publishing her seminal work is something screenwriter Emma Jensen’s script focuses on for the new movie, imaginatively titled, Mary Shelley.
We met up with Haifaa al-Mansour, who helmed the new movie, to ask her about being a leading light in the world of female directors, and how a Saudi Arabian director with no experience of period dramas figured out how to depict 19th century London.
A trailblazer for female writers, Shelley’s own story is a fascinating tale of an outsider dealing with a variety of obstacles before achieving success, and the process she went through before publishing her seminal work is something screenwriter Emma Jensen’s script focuses on for the new movie, imaginatively titled, Mary Shelley.
We met up with Haifaa al-Mansour, who helmed the new movie, to ask her about being a leading light in the world of female directors, and how a Saudi Arabian director with no experience of period dramas figured out how to depict 19th century London.
- 7/3/2018
- by Richard Phippen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Review by Peter Belsito
A teenage woman is trapped by the restrictions of her position in a male dominated society. The torrid true-life tale of how a passionate love affair fueled the creation of trailblazing writer Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterwork, Frankenstein.
Elle Fanning stars as Mary Shelley.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin. The film passes through the following — mostly traumatic episodes — of her busy, short life.
Elle Fanning is superb. It focuses on the relationship with Shelley and the visit to the peculiar home of Lord Byron.
Her life is worth knowing a bit. After her mother’s death — the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft — less than a month after her daughter Mary was born, Mary was raised by Godwin,...
A teenage woman is trapped by the restrictions of her position in a male dominated society. The torrid true-life tale of how a passionate love affair fueled the creation of trailblazing writer Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterwork, Frankenstein.
Elle Fanning stars as Mary Shelley.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin. The film passes through the following — mostly traumatic episodes — of her busy, short life.
Elle Fanning is superb. It focuses on the relationship with Shelley and the visit to the peculiar home of Lord Byron.
Her life is worth knowing a bit. After her mother’s death — the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft — less than a month after her daughter Mary was born, Mary was raised by Godwin,...
- 5/6/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Mary Shelley, the British-set costume drama starring Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) and Elle Fanning about the 18-year-old author of the iconic Frankenstein, was just acquired in the U.S. by IFC. The film, which premiered in Toronto this year, was directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour who in 2012 helmed Wadjda, known as the first feature ever to be fully shot in Saudi Arabia. The script was done by Emma Jensen and the film was produced by Amy Baer (Last Vegas) through Gidden…...
- 10/27/2017
- Deadline
For a film that chronicles the rise of a creator obsessed with reanimating the dead, “Mary Shelley” is utterly lifeless. It contains a sparkling and startlingly raw performance by Elle Fanning, but Haifaa Al-Mansour’s disappointing followup to her remarkable “Wadjda” doesn’t push beyond paint-by-numbers biopic posturing, with revelations as insightful as the “Frankenstein” author’s Wikipedia page. The film documents the portion of Shelley’s life dominated by her romance with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and meanders toward the subsequent creation of her signature novel. As the budding writer hammers away at her craft, the film’s own structure and style weaken into nothing more than a thin fever dream.
Heightened emotions rule “Mary Shelley”; even the earliest moments of Shelley’s life saw tremendous tragedy. We first meet young Mary (then Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) as she dawdles by her long-dead mother’s gravesite, her lone place of respite and calm — entirely weird,...
Heightened emotions rule “Mary Shelley”; even the earliest moments of Shelley’s life saw tremendous tragedy. We first meet young Mary (then Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) as she dawdles by her long-dead mother’s gravesite, her lone place of respite and calm — entirely weird,...
- 9/14/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Emma Jensen.
Brisbane native Emma Jensen talks to Harry Windsor about her career as a writer and the path to her first feature, 'A Storm in the Stars', starring Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth and set for release this year.
How did you get into writing?
My background is in script development. I started as a producer.s assistant in London 17 years ago at Film4. I was their second assistant. I went to Queensland College of Art and studied film and television, and then graduated and thought — now what do I do? So I spent a few years in illustrious careers like Sizzler and working in a bank and I got to the point where I thought, maybe I should do that backpacking thing. I signed up with a temp agency and they asked if I wanted to do half a day at Film4, and I was like,...
Brisbane native Emma Jensen talks to Harry Windsor about her career as a writer and the path to her first feature, 'A Storm in the Stars', starring Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth and set for release this year.
How did you get into writing?
My background is in script development. I started as a producer.s assistant in London 17 years ago at Film4. I was their second assistant. I went to Queensland College of Art and studied film and television, and then graduated and thought — now what do I do? So I spent a few years in illustrious careers like Sizzler and working in a bank and I got to the point where I thought, maybe I should do that backpacking thing. I signed up with a temp agency and they asked if I wanted to do half a day at Film4, and I was like,...
- 2/2/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: British actor Ben Hardy has joined the cast of director Haifaa Al-Mansour’s The Storm In The Stars opposite Elle Fanning, Bel Powley and Douglas Booth. The project is a dramatization of the love affair between poet Percy Shelley and 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft — which resulted in Mary writing Frankenstein. Amy Baer of Gidden Media (Last Vegas) and Alan Moloney and Ruth Coady of Parallel Films produce from a script by Emma Jensen. Joanne Burstein and Rebecca…...
- 2/19/2016
- Deadline
17 year old Elle Fanning stars as Mary Godwin in A Storm in the Stars which follows the tumultuous relationship between Mary, who wrote the iconic gothic-horror novel Frankenstein when she was just 19, and the young poet Percy Shelley.
Mary is a rebellious and outspoken teenager. When she meets the poet Percy Shelley, there’s a spark of attraction between the two outsiders who feel trapped within polite society. Percy is contrary and selfish, talking of sexual freedom and progressive ideas that are beyond the boundaries of their age. For sheltered Mary, it’s love at first sight.
Douglas Booth (represented by Curtis Brown in the UK) stars as Shelley. Douglas can currently be seen in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and previously starred opposite another young American starlet, Hailee Steinfield in Romeo and Juliet.
BAFTA Rising Star nominee Bel Powley (represented by Bwh) plays Claire Claremont, Mary’s stepsister who...
Mary is a rebellious and outspoken teenager. When she meets the poet Percy Shelley, there’s a spark of attraction between the two outsiders who feel trapped within polite society. Percy is contrary and selfish, talking of sexual freedom and progressive ideas that are beyond the boundaries of their age. For sheltered Mary, it’s love at first sight.
Douglas Booth (represented by Curtis Brown in the UK) stars as Shelley. Douglas can currently be seen in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and previously starred opposite another young American starlet, Hailee Steinfield in Romeo and Juliet.
BAFTA Rising Star nominee Bel Powley (represented by Bwh) plays Claire Claremont, Mary’s stepsister who...
- 2/18/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Haifaa Al-Mansour’s A Storm In The Stars and comedy Halal Daddy among those supported in latest funding round.
A culture-clash comedy set in Ireland’s first Halal meat factory is among the productions backed by the Irish Film Board (Ifb) in its latest round of funding decisions, which totals more than €3m.
Halal Daddy - the story of a young Muslim’s struggle to manage a rundown abattoir in the West of Ireland - has received a production funding commitment of €500,000.
It is one of a number of comedies backed by the Ifb as it faces the challenge of building on what has been a buoyant period for the Irish film industry, with a number of projects performing strongly throughout awards season. Comedy traditionally performs well with domestic audiences.
Halal Daddy will begin shooting in Sligo in early summer and was written by Conor McDermottroe (Swansong: Story Of Occi Byrne) and Mark O’Halloran (Adam & Paul...
A culture-clash comedy set in Ireland’s first Halal meat factory is among the productions backed by the Irish Film Board (Ifb) in its latest round of funding decisions, which totals more than €3m.
Halal Daddy - the story of a young Muslim’s struggle to manage a rundown abattoir in the West of Ireland - has received a production funding commitment of €500,000.
It is one of a number of comedies backed by the Ifb as it faces the challenge of building on what has been a buoyant period for the Irish film industry, with a number of projects performing strongly throughout awards season. Comedy traditionally performs well with domestic audiences.
Halal Daddy will begin shooting in Sligo in early summer and was written by Conor McDermottroe (Swansong: Story Of Occi Byrne) and Mark O’Halloran (Adam & Paul...
- 1/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Screen Australia is investing $5 million over three years to address the gender imbalance in the Australian film industry.
The screen funding body has unveiled a five point plan which includes an immediate $3 million allocation of .jump start. funding to get female-led projects production-ready within two years, and a further $2 million of support for placements, distribution incentives, marketing and industry networking.
This also includes a goal to have production funding targeted at teams that are at least 50 per cent female by the end of 2018..
The plan follows the Australian Directors Guild's commitment to have women fill 50 per cent of the attachments and for 75 per cent of the attachemnts to reflect both gender and cultural diversity..
According to Screen Australia, the imbalance is most notable in tradtional film with 32 per cent of women working as producers, 23 per cent as writers and only 16 per cent as directors..
"Screen Australia film production funding is provided to producers,...
The screen funding body has unveiled a five point plan which includes an immediate $3 million allocation of .jump start. funding to get female-led projects production-ready within two years, and a further $2 million of support for placements, distribution incentives, marketing and industry networking.
This also includes a goal to have production funding targeted at teams that are at least 50 per cent female by the end of 2018..
The plan follows the Australian Directors Guild's commitment to have women fill 50 per cent of the attachments and for 75 per cent of the attachemnts to reflect both gender and cultural diversity..
According to Screen Australia, the imbalance is most notable in tradtional film with 32 per cent of women working as producers, 23 per cent as writers and only 16 per cent as directors..
"Screen Australia film production funding is provided to producers,...
- 12/5/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Douglas Booth will portray the poet Percy Shelley in pioneering female Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour’s anticipated follow-up to Wadjda. HanWay will start international sales in the south of France next week.
A Storm In The Stars also stars previously announced Elle Fanning and Bel Powley in what Amy Baer of Gidden Media and Alan Moloney and Ruth Coady of Parallel Films’ call an unconventional biopic of Mary Shelly.
UTA Independent Film Group helped package and structure the financing and represents North American rights.
The producers target a late autumn start on what is expected to become a European co-production.
Emma Jensen wrote the screenplay charting Mary Shelley’s tempestuous love affair with Percy Shelley, her notorious trip to Lake Geneva with Lord Byron and her rise to become a celebrated figure.
Joanne Burstein and Rebecca Miller serve as executive producers.
A Storm In The Stars also stars previously announced Elle Fanning and Bel Powley in what Amy Baer of Gidden Media and Alan Moloney and Ruth Coady of Parallel Films’ call an unconventional biopic of Mary Shelly.
UTA Independent Film Group helped package and structure the financing and represents North American rights.
The producers target a late autumn start on what is expected to become a European co-production.
Emma Jensen wrote the screenplay charting Mary Shelley’s tempestuous love affair with Percy Shelley, her notorious trip to Lake Geneva with Lord Byron and her rise to become a celebrated figure.
Joanne Burstein and Rebecca Miller serve as executive producers.
- 5/8/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Maleficent.s Elle Fanning will play the teenage Mary Shelley in A Storm in the Stars, a romantic drama scripted by Australian writer Emma Jensen, with Haifaa Al-Mansour attached to direct.
With a bit of luck, another of Jensen.s screenplays, Em, a comedic take on Jane Austen.s classic novel Emma, will shoot in Australia next year.
Those will be the Brisbane-based writer.s first works to be filmed. Romantic comedy Sex on the First Date, which she co-wrote with Los Angeles-based Aussie Sal Grover, was optioned by Gold Circle Films two years ago and Walt Becker (Wild Hogs) is attached to direct.
The prolific Jensen is pitching another project, the saga of actress Ava Gardner.s long-time friendship with her African-American personal assistant, which pre-dated the Civil Rights movement, at the Miff 37ºSouth Market.
Development of A Storm in the Stars was funded by Screen Nsw and Screen Australia,...
With a bit of luck, another of Jensen.s screenplays, Em, a comedic take on Jane Austen.s classic novel Emma, will shoot in Australia next year.
Those will be the Brisbane-based writer.s first works to be filmed. Romantic comedy Sex on the First Date, which she co-wrote with Los Angeles-based Aussie Sal Grover, was optioned by Gold Circle Films two years ago and Walt Becker (Wild Hogs) is attached to direct.
The prolific Jensen is pitching another project, the saga of actress Ava Gardner.s long-time friendship with her African-American personal assistant, which pre-dated the Civil Rights movement, at the Miff 37ºSouth Market.
Development of A Storm in the Stars was funded by Screen Nsw and Screen Australia,...
- 8/1/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Tammy
Melissa McCarthy and husband Ben Falcone have been hired to direct the comedy "Tammy" for New Line. The pair also penned the script.
McCarthy plays a woman who, after losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother. [Source: Variety]
Shore Leave
DreamWorks has acquired the male-driven action comedy script "Shore Leave" from Steve Pink and Jeff Morris. Steve Pink ("Hot Tub Time Machine," "Accepted") will direct.
The story is being kept under wraps, but the studio apparently sees franchise potential in the property. [Source: Deadline]
Sex On The First Date
Walt Becker ("Wild Hogs") has signed on to helm the rom-com "Sex On The First Date" at Gold Circle Films. Paul Brooks is producing.
Emma Jensen and Sall Grover penned the script which investigates the idea that having sex on the first date ruins any chance of a relationship really lasting. [Source: Deadline]...
Melissa McCarthy and husband Ben Falcone have been hired to direct the comedy "Tammy" for New Line. The pair also penned the script.
McCarthy plays a woman who, after losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother. [Source: Variety]
Shore Leave
DreamWorks has acquired the male-driven action comedy script "Shore Leave" from Steve Pink and Jeff Morris. Steve Pink ("Hot Tub Time Machine," "Accepted") will direct.
The story is being kept under wraps, but the studio apparently sees franchise potential in the property. [Source: Deadline]
Sex On The First Date
Walt Becker ("Wild Hogs") has signed on to helm the rom-com "Sex On The First Date" at Gold Circle Films. Paul Brooks is producing.
Emma Jensen and Sall Grover penned the script which investigates the idea that having sex on the first date ruins any chance of a relationship really lasting. [Source: Deadline]...
- 2/8/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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