Vmi Worldwide has boarded worldwide sales on the high finance satire Discussion Materials starring Tom Blyth from The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes.
Alfredo Barrios Jr. directed the existential tale about a former ice hockey player turned junior banker who navigates life at an investment bank following the death of a managing director.
The feature is based on Bill Keenan’s memoir Discussion Materials: Tales Of A Rookie Wall Street Investment Banker. Keenan, Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin, Andrew Sugerman, Doug Ellin, and William J. Immerman serve as producers.
Blyth portrayed the young Coriolanus Snow in the Hunger Games...
Alfredo Barrios Jr. directed the existential tale about a former ice hockey player turned junior banker who navigates life at an investment bank following the death of a managing director.
The feature is based on Bill Keenan’s memoir Discussion Materials: Tales Of A Rookie Wall Street Investment Banker. Keenan, Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin, Andrew Sugerman, Doug Ellin, and William J. Immerman serve as producers.
Blyth portrayed the young Coriolanus Snow in the Hunger Games...
- 2/17/2024
- ScreenDaily
Filmation caught lightning in a bottle. In 1965 or so, with no real money or track record, they bamboozled DC Comics into licensing Superman for animated fare. Just as the Man of Steel flew to his Broadway debut and Batmania was sweeping the country, they gave us Superman cartoons, followed by Aqualand and friends. Finally, in 1968, six months after the live-action series left ABC, CBS Saturday Morning welcomed The Batman/Superman Hour, mixing the 1966 super-doings with brand new 12-minute Bat-capades.
All 34 capers are now packaged in remastered form as The Adventures of Batman, a two-disc set from Warner Home Entertainment. At 10, I was delighted by these, even if some of the equipment and villains didn’t look quite on model, and even at that tender age, I recognized how many shots were reused to stretch the animation budget.
They played it straight and in animated form, worked without the camp element...
All 34 capers are now packaged in remastered form as The Adventures of Batman, a two-disc set from Warner Home Entertainment. At 10, I was delighted by these, even if some of the equipment and villains didn’t look quite on model, and even at that tender age, I recognized how many shots were reused to stretch the animation budget.
They played it straight and in animated form, worked without the camp element...
- 3/6/2023
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Exclusive: Tom Blyth (Billy the Kid), Chris Diamantopolous (Red Notice), Jordyn Denning (Pam & Tommy), Zach Villa (Good Mourning with a U) and Jay Mohr (The Cleaning Lady) have signed on to star in the comedy Discussion Materials, marking the feature directorial debut of TV writer, director and producer Alfredo Barrios Jr.
The offbeat comedy is based on the bestselling book Discussion Materials: Tales of a Rookie Wall Street Investment Banker by Bill Keenan. It follows Bobby Sanders (Blyth), a hustling and quick-talking former pro hockey player-turned-junior banker who navigates the quirky and somewhat surreal world of high finance as he confronts life’s meaning within this gilded cage.
Diamantopolous will play Masterson, the bank’s most-feared managing director, with Denning as Michelle, the brilliant and highflying corporate attorney Bobby falls for. Villa will portray Danny, an investment banking analyst whose financial brilliance is only matched by his insatiable libido, with Mohr as Abernathy,...
The offbeat comedy is based on the bestselling book Discussion Materials: Tales of a Rookie Wall Street Investment Banker by Bill Keenan. It follows Bobby Sanders (Blyth), a hustling and quick-talking former pro hockey player-turned-junior banker who navigates the quirky and somewhat surreal world of high finance as he confronts life’s meaning within this gilded cage.
Diamantopolous will play Masterson, the bank’s most-feared managing director, with Denning as Michelle, the brilliant and highflying corporate attorney Bobby falls for. Villa will portray Danny, an investment banking analyst whose financial brilliance is only matched by his insatiable libido, with Mohr as Abernathy,...
- 3/21/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
"Living the dream, aren't we?" Gravitas Ventures has unveiled an official trailer for an indie hockey drama titled Odd Man Rush, based on the memoirs of small-time hockey player Bill Keenan. "A hockey star once on the fast-track to the NHL tells of how he overcame multiple obstacles to find fulfillment and redemption in the strange world of European minor-league professional hockey." Jack Mulhern stars in the film as Bobby Sanders, a Harvard hockey player who lands in Sweden's minor leagues. His relationship with the girl at the local market forces him to confront the reality of his childhood NHL dream before the Hockey Gods intervene. Also starring Dylan Playfair, Elektra Kilbey, Trevor Gretzky, Alexa Lemieux, and Kazy Tauginas. I like that this doesn't look like every other hockey film, about fame and success. Seems a more personal story about not reaching the NHL, and deciding life is better spent with ones you love.
- 7/28/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Anna Schafer (Elizabeth Blue) has been tapped to star in Whose Child, a socially conscious film about undetected domestic child abuse from director Roxy Shih and producer Autumn Federici. The pic, which is slated to shoot in Los Angeles this fall with plans for a theatrical release, follows a woman (Schafer) working in public relations at a children’s hospital who gets her life turned around when she is assigned to be an “Auntie” for a young boy named Billy. Billy’s case is severe; he’s suffering from heavy head trauma, is in a coma, and is barely hanging on to life. When she realizes that the incident was a domestic abuse case, she takes matters into her own hands to overturn a system that would have otherwise failed him. Federici is producing under The Ninth House banner with partner Jake Helgren. Shih and Federici first worked together on...
- 6/24/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, the Santa Barbara Film Festival moves back, Legion M is backing “Save Yourselves!,” Gravitas buys “Odd Man Rush,” a Tiny Tim documentary finds a home and The Creative Coalition is backing films about obesity.
Film Festival
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has shifted its dates backwards for its 36th annual event, which will now take place from March 31 to April 10, 2021.
The festival, which typically occurs in January and is a key stop for awards campaigns, made the announcement Wednesday, two days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences postponed the 93rd Academy Awards telecast by two months to April 25, 2021. The Sbiff had previously been set for Jan. 27 – Feb. 6, 2021.
“Like so many other prestigious ceremonies and events, we’ve had to adjust our plans in this extremely unprecedented era,” said Sbiff Executive Director Roger Durling. “There has never been a more critical...
Film Festival
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has shifted its dates backwards for its 36th annual event, which will now take place from March 31 to April 10, 2021.
The festival, which typically occurs in January and is a key stop for awards campaigns, made the announcement Wednesday, two days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences postponed the 93rd Academy Awards telecast by two months to April 25, 2021. The Sbiff had previously been set for Jan. 27 – Feb. 6, 2021.
“Like so many other prestigious ceremonies and events, we’ve had to adjust our plans in this extremely unprecedented era,” said Sbiff Executive Director Roger Durling. “There has never been a more critical...
- 6/18/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Pacific Northwest Pictures to release in Canada on same day.
Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to the coming-of-age sports film Odd Man Rush featuring the children of ice hockey legends Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
The company has scheduled a September 1 release coinciding with the Canadian release through Pacific Northwest Pictures on the same day.
Based on Bill Keenan’s bestselling memoir of the same name, Odd Man Rush stars Jack Mulhern as an ice hockey player who lands in Sweden’s minor professional leagues.
A relationship with the girl at the local market (Elektra Jannson Kilbey) forces him...
Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to the coming-of-age sports film Odd Man Rush featuring the children of ice hockey legends Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
The company has scheduled a September 1 release coinciding with the Canadian release through Pacific Northwest Pictures on the same day.
Based on Bill Keenan’s bestselling memoir of the same name, Odd Man Rush stars Jack Mulhern as an ice hockey player who lands in Sweden’s minor professional leagues.
A relationship with the girl at the local market (Elektra Jannson Kilbey) forces him...
- 6/17/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Pacific Northwest Pictures to release in Canada on same day.
Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to the coming-of-age sports film Odd Man Rush featuring the children of ice hockey legends Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
The company has scheduled a September 1 release coinciding with the Canadian release through Pacific Northwest Pictures on the same day.
Based on Bill Keenan’s bestselling memoir of the same name, Odd Man Rush stars Jack Mulhern as an ice hockey player who lands in Sweden’s minor professional leagues.
A relationship with the girl at the local market (Elektra Jannson Kilbey) forces him...
Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to the coming-of-age sports film Odd Man Rush featuring the children of ice hockey legends Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
The company has scheduled a September 1 release coinciding with the Canadian release through Pacific Northwest Pictures on the same day.
Based on Bill Keenan’s bestselling memoir of the same name, Odd Man Rush stars Jack Mulhern as an ice hockey player who lands in Sweden’s minor professional leagues.
A relationship with the girl at the local market (Elektra Jannson Kilbey) forces him...
- 6/17/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
In today’s film news roundup, Marcia Gay Harden joins “Pink Skies Ahead,” Jack Mulhern stars in a Europe-set hockey movie, Oceana Studio opens its financing division and Participant hires a social impact veteran.
Castings
Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden has been added to the cast of the drama “Pink Skies Ahead,” the first feature film from Greg Silverman’s Stampede.
The Kelly Oxford film, which will begin production later this month in Los Angeles, tells the story of a wild young woman — played by Jessica Barden — whose life unravels after dropping out of college, moving in with her parents and being diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. It’s based on the essay “No Real Danger” from Oxford’s second book, “When You Find Out the World Is Against You.”
Henry Winkler, Rosa Salazar, Devon Bostick and Lewis Pullman also star. Silverman and Lisa Zambri are producing alongside Divide...
Castings
Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden has been added to the cast of the drama “Pink Skies Ahead,” the first feature film from Greg Silverman’s Stampede.
The Kelly Oxford film, which will begin production later this month in Los Angeles, tells the story of a wild young woman — played by Jessica Barden — whose life unravels after dropping out of college, moving in with her parents and being diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. It’s based on the essay “No Real Danger” from Oxford’s second book, “When You Find Out the World Is Against You.”
Henry Winkler, Rosa Salazar, Devon Bostick and Lewis Pullman also star. Silverman and Lisa Zambri are producing alongside Divide...
- 6/15/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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