Updated with participation of Space: 1999 cast member Nick Tate in the documentary The Eagle Has Landed: Exclusive: Actress Barbara Bain, star of the British sci-fi series Space: 1999, is preparing to board an upcoming documentary about the Eagle, the famed spacecraft at the heart of the show that ran from 1975-1977.
Bain will appear in The Eagle Has Landed as will Nick Tate, her cast mate from Space: 1999. The documentary includes the participation of several other notable figures: Apollo XVI astronaut Charles Duke Jr., Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Bill George, and Brian Johnson, the VFX artist on Space: 1999 whose work is said to have influenced Star Wars. The film is being directed and produced by Jeffrey Morris, who also hosts the documentary.
The Eagle spacecraft in ‘The Eagle Has Landed’
The Eagle Has Landed “explores the cross-generational impact of the iconic vessel...
Bain will appear in The Eagle Has Landed as will Nick Tate, her cast mate from Space: 1999. The documentary includes the participation of several other notable figures: Apollo XVI astronaut Charles Duke Jr., Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Bill George, and Brian Johnson, the VFX artist on Space: 1999 whose work is said to have influenced Star Wars. The film is being directed and produced by Jeffrey Morris, who also hosts the documentary.
The Eagle spacecraft in ‘The Eagle Has Landed’
The Eagle Has Landed “explores the cross-generational impact of the iconic vessel...
- 8/23/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ming-Na Wen (The Book of Boba Fett) and Esai Morales (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One) have signed on to star alongside Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) in the long-gestating sci-fi thriller Persephone, from director Jeffrey Morris (Oceanus: Act One).
Morris’ first feature follows refugees from a dying earth, who are traveling aboard an enormous space vessel called Odyssey. Their destination is Proxima b—a planet orbiting the nearest star. When a crew is dispatched to repair a shield designed to protect their colony from deadly solar flares, a computer malfunction causes them to crash-land on the alien planet. The crew then discover that they may not be the only life on this hostile world. A mystery unfolds that may not only derail their mission, but also prevent the colonists from ever setting foot on the planet.
Morris penned the script, also co-authoring a companion novel with New York Times bestselling...
Morris’ first feature follows refugees from a dying earth, who are traveling aboard an enormous space vessel called Odyssey. Their destination is Proxima b—a planet orbiting the nearest star. When a crew is dispatched to repair a shield designed to protect their colony from deadly solar flares, a computer malfunction causes them to crash-land on the alien planet. The crew then discover that they may not be the only life on this hostile world. A mystery unfolds that may not only derail their mission, but also prevent the colonists from ever setting foot on the planet.
Morris penned the script, also co-authoring a companion novel with New York Times bestselling...
- 5/4/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Concord Originals has partnered with Outfest Fusion to launch a one-of-a-kind short film financing and IP licensing initiative, in support of up-and-coming Lgbtqia+ filmmakers of color.
During Outfest Los Angeles in July, eligible filmmakers will pitch original short films incorporating one of three Concord-licensed songs to Outfest’s Artistic Director Faridah Gbadamosi, Concord Originals’ Director of Development and Production, Charles Hopkins, and a special guest judge yet to be announced. The winning filmmakers will be announced at the conclusion of the festival and will produce their short films with the support of Concord Originals and Outfest, ahead of being showcased at Outfest Fusion in 2023.
Concord Originals will provide financing of up to 25,000 per short film. The songs to be featured in them are “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real),” by Sylvester (co-written by James Wirrick), “Tres Días De Carnaval,” by Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco and “You’ll Never Walk Alone,...
During Outfest Los Angeles in July, eligible filmmakers will pitch original short films incorporating one of three Concord-licensed songs to Outfest’s Artistic Director Faridah Gbadamosi, Concord Originals’ Director of Development and Production, Charles Hopkins, and a special guest judge yet to be announced. The winning filmmakers will be announced at the conclusion of the festival and will produce their short films with the support of Concord Originals and Outfest, ahead of being showcased at Outfest Fusion in 2023.
Concord Originals will provide financing of up to 25,000 per short film. The songs to be featured in them are “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real),” by Sylvester (co-written by James Wirrick), “Tres Días De Carnaval,” by Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco and “You’ll Never Walk Alone,...
- 4/15/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Graham McTavish has signed on to star in Somewhere in Montana, an upcoming indie from writer-director Brandon Smith that will go before cameras later this year.
In the film, the Scottish actor will play John Thomas, a ranch owner who allows a Hollywood production company to come and use his ranch as a location for their movie when he runs into financial difficulties. Eden Matson is exec producing for Nova Vento Entertainment.
“I’m excited to be working on this film with Brandon,” said McTavish. “Not only because this is a script that only comes along rarely in an actor’s career, but also because it fulfills a dream of visiting the beautiful state of Montana. It’s going to be something special that I can’t wait to share.”
“We are lucky to have the opportunity to film...
In the film, the Scottish actor will play John Thomas, a ranch owner who allows a Hollywood production company to come and use his ranch as a location for their movie when he runs into financial difficulties. Eden Matson is exec producing for Nova Vento Entertainment.
“I’m excited to be working on this film with Brandon,” said McTavish. “Not only because this is a script that only comes along rarely in an actor’s career, but also because it fulfills a dream of visiting the beautiful state of Montana. It’s going to be something special that I can’t wait to share.”
“We are lucky to have the opportunity to film...
- 2/25/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sean Astin (Stranger Things), Ali Larter (The Rookie), Madison Wolfe (The Conjuring 2), Brec Bassinger (Stargirl), Skai Jackson (Bunk’d), Gavin Warren (12 Mighty Orphans) and Julianne Arrieta (Reagan) have signed on to star in The Man in the White Van, a true-crime thriller from Garrison Film Productions, Legion M, XYZ Films and writer-director Warren Skeels (Siesta Key).
The film co-written by Sharon Y. Cobb is set in 1974, watching as an ominous white van begins stalking a young girl from the town of Brooksville, Fl. Her parents’ disbelief that this is really happening, given her tendency to exaggerate, leads in the end to a terrifying Halloween nightmare. Pic will explore the origins of the “white van” trope in popular culture, and chart the beginnings of the destruction fomented by real-world serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr.
Wolfe will play the lead role of Annie, with Bassinger cast as Annie’s sister Margaret.
The film co-written by Sharon Y. Cobb is set in 1974, watching as an ominous white van begins stalking a young girl from the town of Brooksville, Fl. Her parents’ disbelief that this is really happening, given her tendency to exaggerate, leads in the end to a terrifying Halloween nightmare. Pic will explore the origins of the “white van” trope in popular culture, and chart the beginnings of the destruction fomented by real-world serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr.
Wolfe will play the lead role of Annie, with Bassinger cast as Annie’s sister Margaret.
- 9/21/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Game Of Thrones effects house Pixomondo Studios on board as co-producer.
Highland Film Group will launch international sales in Cannes on the sci-fi Persephone to star Mary Louise Parker, Brianna Hildebrand, Emile Hirsch, and Malcolm McDowell.
Writer-director Jeffrey Morris’ feature is set in the year 2185 when humans have fled an uninhabitable earth in search of a new world. When a team of three astronauts discover a massive planet, they are dispatched to engage with an unexpected lifeform that threatens the future of humanity.
Cassian Elwes will produce and represent Us rights. Anne Marie Gillen also produces, and Jere Hausfater serves as executive producer.
Highland Film Group will launch international sales in Cannes on the sci-fi Persephone to star Mary Louise Parker, Brianna Hildebrand, Emile Hirsch, and Malcolm McDowell.
Writer-director Jeffrey Morris’ feature is set in the year 2185 when humans have fled an uninhabitable earth in search of a new world. When a team of three astronauts discover a massive planet, they are dispatched to engage with an unexpected lifeform that threatens the future of humanity.
Cassian Elwes will produce and represent Us rights. Anne Marie Gillen also produces, and Jere Hausfater serves as executive producer.
- 5/9/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Deadpool‘s Brianna Hildebrand has joined Mary-Louise Parker, Emile Hirsch and Malcolm McDowell in Persephone, a sci-fi space adventure written and directed by Jeffrey Morris in his feature debut. Lance Reddick has also boarded the pic, produced by Pixomondo Studios, FutureDude and Evolutionary Films.
Producers are Anne Marie Gillen, John Adams and Diane Shorthouse. Evolutionary Films is selling rights at the American Film Market.
The plot centers on three astronauts from Colony One, a space vessel carrying 20,000 colonists from a dying Earth to the nearest star system of Alpha Centauri in the late 22nd century. The trio have been dispatched to repair a system designed to shield their new world of Proxima B — also known as Persephone — from constant and deadly solar flares, the outpost the only option for the survival of the species. While commanding a critical mission to the planet Proxima B, shuttle pilot Darcy (Hildebrand) goes head-to-head...
Producers are Anne Marie Gillen, John Adams and Diane Shorthouse. Evolutionary Films is selling rights at the American Film Market.
The plot centers on three astronauts from Colony One, a space vessel carrying 20,000 colonists from a dying Earth to the nearest star system of Alpha Centauri in the late 22nd century. The trio have been dispatched to repair a system designed to shield their new world of Proxima B — also known as Persephone — from constant and deadly solar flares, the outpost the only option for the survival of the species. While commanding a critical mission to the planet Proxima B, shuttle pilot Darcy (Hildebrand) goes head-to-head...
- 11/2/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Afm top brass claimed this year’s event, which wraps on November 13, registered a 3% gain in
Buyer attendance at this year’s Afm gained 3% on 2012 while the number of participants affiliated to exhibitors dropped 9%.
According to the organisation there were 779 buyers. Exhibitor attendance delivered 357 from 33 countries and the number of exhibitor-affiliated participants reached 2,807.
Attorneys, bankers, festival programmers, film commissioners, film-makers, financiers, producers, writers and representatives of post-production facilities and studio facilities finished at 2,606, up 21% from last year.
Overall the market drew 7,876 participants, up 2% from 2012. The Afm Conference Series (Anne Marie Gillen, pictured) drew roughly 700 people a day.
The Afm screened 402 films with 327 market premieres, 76 world premieres and a total of 627 screenings across the Afm Campus in Santa Monica.
The 16 inaugural Afm Producers Forum sessions covered topics like China, the Us Guilds and the role of the producer.
Buyer attendance at this year’s Afm gained 3% on 2012 while the number of participants affiliated to exhibitors dropped 9%.
According to the organisation there were 779 buyers. Exhibitor attendance delivered 357 from 33 countries and the number of exhibitor-affiliated participants reached 2,807.
Attorneys, bankers, festival programmers, film commissioners, film-makers, financiers, producers, writers and representatives of post-production facilities and studio facilities finished at 2,606, up 21% from last year.
Overall the market drew 7,876 participants, up 2% from 2012. The Afm Conference Series (Anne Marie Gillen, pictured) drew roughly 700 people a day.
The Afm screened 402 films with 327 market premieres, 76 world premieres and a total of 627 screenings across the Afm Campus in Santa Monica.
The 16 inaugural Afm Producers Forum sessions covered topics like China, the Us Guilds and the role of the producer.
- 11/11/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
We just can't get enough of the undead around these parts, and that's a good thing because lately zombies are everywhere, especially in comics and movies, so it's no surprise that another comic book movie adaptation is on its way featuring the flesh-eating fiends.
Variety reports that writers Bob Layton and David Michelinie are working on Shambler, a big-screen adaptation of their comic book.
Touted as an action-horror-comedy, Shamblercenters on a scientist who creates a serum that reanimates dead tissue. He's murdered but reanimated by associates as a mummy encased in black-and-yellow crime scene tape.
The film has been budgeted at $4 million and is being touted at Cannes by Anne Marie Gillen, whose Hollywood lineage includes exec producing Fried Green Tomatoes. Layton and Michelinie are authors of many of the Iron Man comic book stories and created characters including Rhodey Rhodes and Justin Hammer.
"They have a huge following so...
Variety reports that writers Bob Layton and David Michelinie are working on Shambler, a big-screen adaptation of their comic book.
Touted as an action-horror-comedy, Shamblercenters on a scientist who creates a serum that reanimates dead tissue. He's murdered but reanimated by associates as a mummy encased in black-and-yellow crime scene tape.
The film has been budgeted at $4 million and is being touted at Cannes by Anne Marie Gillen, whose Hollywood lineage includes exec producing Fried Green Tomatoes. Layton and Michelinie are authors of many of the Iron Man comic book stories and created characters including Rhodey Rhodes and Justin Hammer.
"They have a huge following so...
- 5/23/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
by guest blogger Peter Belsito Women to Blog About We have known Anne Marie Gillen since my first days in acquisitions at Lorimar Home Video. She was selling ancillary rights for Hemdale, and we did some business together I think, though I can't recall for what film. What has always impressed me about Anne Marie is that she is fearless and daring doing whatever she sets out to do. In Fall 2010 Anne Marie will be releasing her first book – the 3rd edition of The Producer’s Business Handbook - through Focal Press and co-branded by Variety. Read more below,…...
- 10/3/2010
- Sydney's Buzz
John Lee's book The Producer's Handbook is used by most film schools as a text covering the business, finance and distribution responsibilities of motion picture producers, ‘The Producer’s Business Handbook’ provides a comprehensive orientation to those desiring to become producers, as well as those focused specifically in finance, distribution, banking, completion bonds, legal, company operations and other aspects unique to the business of motion pictures. In addition to thorough orientation, this book also provides a CD with spreadsheets, organization charts and other elements enabling readers to put what they learn to use. Also included in the book are helpful statistics and charts indicating global positioning and trends.
One reader had this to say:
If you’re planning to produce a movie or thinking about investing in a movie and
want a realistic, in-depth look at the business of show business, you need to
read The Producer’s Business...
One reader had this to say:
If you’re planning to produce a movie or thinking about investing in a movie and
want a realistic, in-depth look at the business of show business, you need to
read The Producer’s Business...
- 4/21/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Kristin Chenoweth has signed on to star opposite Jeremy Sisto in the indie drama Into Temptation for writer-director Patrick Coyle.
Chenoweth will play a suicidal prostitute who confesses to a priest her plans to end her life on her birthday. The priest (Sisto) then searches for her to intervene.
Coyle, a playright/actor-turned-filmmaker, penned the script, which won the McKnight Screenwriting Fellowship.
Shooting begins next week in Minneapolis.
Ann Luster is producing, and Anne Marie Gillen executive produces.
Tony winner Chenoweth, repped by CAA and Untitled, recently wrapped production on the New Line comedy Four Christmases and stars on ABC's Pushing Daisies. The show resumes production in mid-June.
Sisto, repped by CAA, stars on Law & Order and voiced the character of Batman in Justice League: The New Frontier. His most recent film was Waitress opposite Keri Russell.
Chenoweth will play a suicidal prostitute who confesses to a priest her plans to end her life on her birthday. The priest (Sisto) then searches for her to intervene.
Coyle, a playright/actor-turned-filmmaker, penned the script, which won the McKnight Screenwriting Fellowship.
Shooting begins next week in Minneapolis.
Ann Luster is producing, and Anne Marie Gillen executive produces.
Tony winner Chenoweth, repped by CAA and Untitled, recently wrapped production on the New Line comedy Four Christmases and stars on ABC's Pushing Daisies. The show resumes production in mid-June.
Sisto, repped by CAA, stars on Law & Order and voiced the character of Batman in Justice League: The New Frontier. His most recent film was Waitress opposite Keri Russell.
- 5/14/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Art of War director Christian Duguay has signed on to direct The Runelords for Franchise Pictures Story Island Entertainment, Origin Entertainment and Entertainment Business Group. The $80 million project -- the first of three films based on the novels by David Farland -- is scheduled to start principal photography in July in Prague. The project is described as an epic adventure set in the medieval world of Rofehaven. Franchise topper Elie Samaha is executive producing, with the company's Joseph Merhi handling producing chores alongside David Wolverton (who wrote the novels under the pen name David Farland), W. David McBrayer, Richard Shaw and Anne Marie Gillen. Published in 1997, Runelords was the first novel in Farland's series. Duguay has been nominated two times for an Emmy for his work on the small screen for Hitler: The Rise of Evil and Joan of Arc. His feature credits include The Assignment and Screamers.
"Under Suspicion" accomplishes a seemingly impossible feat. Two of the movies' finest actors, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman, turn in thoroughly artificial performances. Not terrible ones, mind you. But in having to give life to contrived characters caught up in an unconvincing dramatic situation, you can see how hard they have to work. In other words, you catch them acting.
Their admirers will certainly turn out in the early days of any theatrical release. But word will soon get around so only modest returns can be expected.
That Hackman and Freeman served as executive producers again underscores the old truism that actors are not always the best judges of what material is best for them. A French film, Claude Miller's "Garde a vue", apparently caught the eye of Hackman, who talked Freeman into doing a remake for Freeman's company, Revelations Entertainment.
But what was implied in the French film is overt in this American version. For director Stephen Hopkins hits every dramatic point with sledgehammer intensity. Clearly, the word "subtle" was never uttered on his set.
The film's setup has police Capt. Victor Benezet (Freeman) asking his old friend Henry Hearst (Hackman), one of Puerto Rico's most prominent lawyers, to drop by the station "for 10 minutes" to clear up a detail or two in a case under investigation. One doesn't need clairvoyance to suspect that 10 minutes will stretch to several hours.
Writers Tom Provost and W. Peter Iliff then throw in this additional melodramatic device: Henry has to be across the town square in half an hour to deliver a speech at a gala benefit -- attended by the captain's boss, no less.
Even more implausible, though, is the very idea that any lawyer would remain two minutes in a police station once he realizes he's being grilled as a suspect in the rape and murder of two young girls.
Whatever compels Henry Hearst to delve into every unsavory aspect of his sorry life in front of two cops -- with Thomas Jane's hot-tempered detective playing bad cop to Freeman's good gendarme -- is nonexistent in the script.
Henry's story changes often during the long night. And much of the hedging and dissembling can be traced to his rocky marriage to the exquisite and very young Chantal (Monica Bellucci). The evasions and other scraps of circumstantial evidence all point to Henry's guilt. Again, one doesn't need clairvoyance to see this as a sure sign of his innocence.
This is a fussy film, full of jump cuts, speeded-up action, overheated theatrics, fantastic plot twists and awkward flashbacks that bizarrely place Henry and his interrogators at the scene of the crimes.
Perhaps Hopkins hoped such techniques would distract from his improbable narrative. Or perhaps he felt this was a way to further hype the confrontation between cop and suspect. Who knows? One can be clairvoyant without being psychic.
UNDER SUSPICION
Revelations Entertainment and TC1 International
Director:Stephen Hopkins
Producers:Lori McCreary, Anne Marie Gillen, Stephen Hopkins
Screenwriters:Tom Provost, W. Peter Iliff
Based on the film "Garde a vue" written by: Claude Miller, Jean Herman, Michel Audiard
Executive producers: Morgan
Freeman, Gene Hackman, Maurice Leblond, Ross Grayson Bell
Director of photography: Peter Levy
Production designer: Cecilia Montiel
Editor: John Smith
Costume designer: Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
Music: BT
Cast:
Henry Hearst: Gene Hackman
Captain Victor Benezet: Morgan Freeman
Chantal Hearst: Monica Bellucci
Felix Owens: Thomas Jane
Running Time -- 111 minutes...
Their admirers will certainly turn out in the early days of any theatrical release. But word will soon get around so only modest returns can be expected.
That Hackman and Freeman served as executive producers again underscores the old truism that actors are not always the best judges of what material is best for them. A French film, Claude Miller's "Garde a vue", apparently caught the eye of Hackman, who talked Freeman into doing a remake for Freeman's company, Revelations Entertainment.
But what was implied in the French film is overt in this American version. For director Stephen Hopkins hits every dramatic point with sledgehammer intensity. Clearly, the word "subtle" was never uttered on his set.
The film's setup has police Capt. Victor Benezet (Freeman) asking his old friend Henry Hearst (Hackman), one of Puerto Rico's most prominent lawyers, to drop by the station "for 10 minutes" to clear up a detail or two in a case under investigation. One doesn't need clairvoyance to suspect that 10 minutes will stretch to several hours.
Writers Tom Provost and W. Peter Iliff then throw in this additional melodramatic device: Henry has to be across the town square in half an hour to deliver a speech at a gala benefit -- attended by the captain's boss, no less.
Even more implausible, though, is the very idea that any lawyer would remain two minutes in a police station once he realizes he's being grilled as a suspect in the rape and murder of two young girls.
Whatever compels Henry Hearst to delve into every unsavory aspect of his sorry life in front of two cops -- with Thomas Jane's hot-tempered detective playing bad cop to Freeman's good gendarme -- is nonexistent in the script.
Henry's story changes often during the long night. And much of the hedging and dissembling can be traced to his rocky marriage to the exquisite and very young Chantal (Monica Bellucci). The evasions and other scraps of circumstantial evidence all point to Henry's guilt. Again, one doesn't need clairvoyance to see this as a sure sign of his innocence.
This is a fussy film, full of jump cuts, speeded-up action, overheated theatrics, fantastic plot twists and awkward flashbacks that bizarrely place Henry and his interrogators at the scene of the crimes.
Perhaps Hopkins hoped such techniques would distract from his improbable narrative. Or perhaps he felt this was a way to further hype the confrontation between cop and suspect. Who knows? One can be clairvoyant without being psychic.
UNDER SUSPICION
Revelations Entertainment and TC1 International
Director:Stephen Hopkins
Producers:Lori McCreary, Anne Marie Gillen, Stephen Hopkins
Screenwriters:Tom Provost, W. Peter Iliff
Based on the film "Garde a vue" written by: Claude Miller, Jean Herman, Michel Audiard
Executive producers: Morgan
Freeman, Gene Hackman, Maurice Leblond, Ross Grayson Bell
Director of photography: Peter Levy
Production designer: Cecilia Montiel
Editor: John Smith
Costume designer: Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
Music: BT
Cast:
Henry Hearst: Gene Hackman
Captain Victor Benezet: Morgan Freeman
Chantal Hearst: Monica Bellucci
Felix Owens: Thomas Jane
Running Time -- 111 minutes...
- 5/15/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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