Could acoustic lightening strike twice? 2006 was a mythical, magical year for John Carney when Once took the Sundance Film Festival and film world by storm. With buffer items Zonad (2009) and The Rafters (2012) only whetting our appetite for another Carney gem, 2013’s surprise box office indie hit Begin Again (with Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine) sort of got us back in the saddle. We now come full circle back to another micro film with potentially lots of heart. Considered a cousin to Once, Carney enlists U2’s Bono and The Edge for the this when Irish eyes are smiling coming-of-ager romance. Currently in the midst of a certain restructuring, the Weinsteins picked up Sing Street in at the Cannes Film Fest in 2014 and it was kept off the 2015 slate. Could this semi-biographical tale be tuned up as a crowd-pleasing Park City item?
Gist: This tells the story of 14-year-old Cosmo,...
Gist: This tells the story of 14-year-old Cosmo,...
- 11/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Paramount Pictures just acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the female comedy from The Hangover writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and starring Leslie Mann (The Other Woman, Knocked Up). The project is the first big package from Bill Block’s Block Entertainment and Raj Brinder Singh's Merced Capital and Kevin Frakes' PalmStar Media Capital. Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr broke the story last week that the comedy had been packaged and was going out to studios. Lucas and…...
- 5/8/2015
- Deadline
Paramount Pictures has snapped up the U.S. distribution rights to a new, untitled comedy that is being written for Leslie Mann by The Hangover writing team of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Lucas and Moore will also direct the film from their original screenplay, which Block Entertainment and Merced Media are producing alongside Judd Apatow. Paramount is targeting an April 15, 2016 release for the film, with shooting scheduled to begin this summer in New York. Merced Media is fully financing the female-centric project with Block Entertainment’s Bill Block and Merced’s Raj Brinder Singh serving as producers. Block
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- 5/8/2015
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The studio has swooped on Us rights to the untitled Lucas & Moore Project in a timely move for international rights holder Bill Block on the eve of Cannes.
Paramount has set an April 15, 2016, release date as Jon Lucas and Scott Moore prepare to start shooting in New York this summer with Leslie Mann in the lead.
Bill Block of sales agent Block Entertainment and Merced Media, the $500m fund Block launched late last year with Merced Capital’s Raj Brinder Singh and PalmStar Media Capital’s Kevin Frakes, produces alongside Singh, Mann’s husband Judd Apatow and his Apatow Productions associate Josh Church.
Lucas and Moore will direct from their original screenplay and their writing credits include The Hangover and 21 & Over.
Block Entertainment partner John Friedberg serves as executive producer.
Paramount has set an April 15, 2016, release date as Jon Lucas and Scott Moore prepare to start shooting in New York this summer with Leslie Mann in the lead.
Bill Block of sales agent Block Entertainment and Merced Media, the $500m fund Block launched late last year with Merced Capital’s Raj Brinder Singh and PalmStar Media Capital’s Kevin Frakes, produces alongside Singh, Mann’s husband Judd Apatow and his Apatow Productions associate Josh Church.
Lucas and Moore will direct from their original screenplay and their writing credits include The Hangover and 21 & Over.
Block Entertainment partner John Friedberg serves as executive producer.
- 5/8/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Merced Media has put its second sales title into the market and brought on Good Universe to handle pre-sales on comedy The True Memoirs Of An International Assassin.
Kevin James will play a mild-mannered accountant who is mistaken for a killer and becomes embroiled in an assassination plot in Belize after his novel about a hitman is published as a true story.
Jeff Wadlow directs from a Black List screenplay by Jeff Morris.
PalmStar Media and Global Film Group will produce the project, set to begin production in September. Merced Media and PalmStar will finance. Wme Global represents Us rights.
Todd Garner and Merced Media principal and PalmStar Media CEO Kevin Frakes produce with Raja Collins and Justin Begnaud of Global Film Group and Raj Brinder Singh of Merced Media.
Hey Eddie’s Jeff Sussman and PalmStar Media’s Mark Fasano and Buddy Patrick are executive producers.
Merced Media, the $500m fund launched late last year by...
Kevin James will play a mild-mannered accountant who is mistaken for a killer and becomes embroiled in an assassination plot in Belize after his novel about a hitman is published as a true story.
Jeff Wadlow directs from a Black List screenplay by Jeff Morris.
PalmStar Media and Global Film Group will produce the project, set to begin production in September. Merced Media and PalmStar will finance. Wme Global represents Us rights.
Todd Garner and Merced Media principal and PalmStar Media CEO Kevin Frakes produce with Raja Collins and Justin Begnaud of Global Film Group and Raj Brinder Singh of Merced Media.
Hey Eddie’s Jeff Sussman and PalmStar Media’s Mark Fasano and Buddy Patrick are executive producers.
Merced Media, the $500m fund launched late last year by...
- 5/6/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Merced Media and Block Entertainment announced the untitled female comedy to be produce by Judd Apatow that Bill Block will introduce to buyers on the Croisette.
Leslie Mann will star for Jon Lucas and Scott Moore directing from their original screenplay.
Block Entertainment and Merced Media are producing alongside Apatow and Josh Church for Apatow Productions. Principal photography begins this summer in New York.
Merced Media is fully financing the project with Block and Merced’s Raj Brinder Singh serving as individual producers. Block Entertainment partner John Friedberg will serve as executive producer.
“Lucas and Moore have written a funny and heartfelt script about women and the challenges of motherhood,” said Mann. “I am thrilled to be working with them on this film, and to collaborate for the first time with Block Entertainment and Merced Media.”
Block added: “When we read Lucas and Moore’s script we knew it was a hit and a global female comedy...
Leslie Mann will star for Jon Lucas and Scott Moore directing from their original screenplay.
Block Entertainment and Merced Media are producing alongside Apatow and Josh Church for Apatow Productions. Principal photography begins this summer in New York.
Merced Media is fully financing the project with Block and Merced’s Raj Brinder Singh serving as individual producers. Block Entertainment partner John Friedberg will serve as executive producer.
“Lucas and Moore have written a funny and heartfelt script about women and the challenges of motherhood,” said Mann. “I am thrilled to be working with them on this film, and to collaborate for the first time with Block Entertainment and Merced Media.”
Block added: “When we read Lucas and Moore’s script we knew it was a hit and a global female comedy...
- 4/30/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Bill Block has readied his first big package since forming Block Entertainment with Raj Brinder Singh’s Merced Capital and Kevin Frakes’ PalmStar Media Capital. They are going out to studios today with a package that has Leslie Mann set to anchor an untitled R-rated female-driven comedy that was written and will be directed by The Hangover scribes Jon Lucas & Scott Moore. Pic is being produced by Apatow Productions’ Judd Apatow and Josh Church, alongside Block…...
- 4/30/2015
- Deadline
The ambitious distributor is understood to be in the final stages of exclusive talks for Us rights to Pierce Brosnan starrer How To Make Love Like An Englishman.
The Solution Entertainment Group handles international sales to the story of a hedonistic Cambridge professor who meets his match. Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba also star.
Tom Vaughan directed from a screenplay by Matthew Newman. Saban brokered the deal with CAA on behalf of the film-makers.
Merced Media Partners, PalmStar Media Capital and Envision Entertainment financed the film.
Southpaw Entertainment’s Richard B Lewis and Irish DreamTime’s Beau St Clair produced alongside PalmStar Media Capital’s Kevin Frakes and Raj Brinder Singh, Remington Chase, Grant Cramer and Simon Orange.
Brosnan serves as executive producer with Michael R Williams and The Solution’s Myles Nestel and Lisa Wilson, as well as Matthew Newman, Stephan Martiroysan, Stuart Brown and Mike Sullivan.
“How To Make Love Like An Englishman boasts a brilliant...
The Solution Entertainment Group handles international sales to the story of a hedonistic Cambridge professor who meets his match. Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba also star.
Tom Vaughan directed from a screenplay by Matthew Newman. Saban brokered the deal with CAA on behalf of the film-makers.
Merced Media Partners, PalmStar Media Capital and Envision Entertainment financed the film.
Southpaw Entertainment’s Richard B Lewis and Irish DreamTime’s Beau St Clair produced alongside PalmStar Media Capital’s Kevin Frakes and Raj Brinder Singh, Remington Chase, Grant Cramer and Simon Orange.
Brosnan serves as executive producer with Michael R Williams and The Solution’s Myles Nestel and Lisa Wilson, as well as Matthew Newman, Stephan Martiroysan, Stuart Brown and Mike Sullivan.
“How To Make Love Like An Englishman boasts a brilliant...
- 12/15/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Ben Affleck is currently playing The Batman, but his next gig sees him in a role that's potentially far more prone to paper cuts - he's up for the lead in "The Accountant" at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Affleck is in talks to star in the action thriller which Gavin O'Connor is the favorite to direct (no official offer has yet been made). Bill Dubuque ("The Judge") penned the script about a mild-mannered accountant who moonlights as an assassin.
Stuck for several years in development, the project was at one time considered for a directorial vehicle for Mel Gibson. At another time Will Smith was attached to star.
Affleck is expected to take on the role before he directs and stars in "Live by Night" which begins filming in July next year. Kevin Scott Frakes, Lynette Howell, Raj Brinder Singh and Mark Williams are producing.
Source: Variety...
Affleck is in talks to star in the action thriller which Gavin O'Connor is the favorite to direct (no official offer has yet been made). Bill Dubuque ("The Judge") penned the script about a mild-mannered accountant who moonlights as an assassin.
Stuck for several years in development, the project was at one time considered for a directorial vehicle for Mel Gibson. At another time Will Smith was attached to star.
Affleck is expected to take on the role before he directs and stars in "Live by Night" which begins filming in July next year. Kevin Scott Frakes, Lynette Howell, Raj Brinder Singh and Mark Williams are producing.
Source: Variety...
- 10/2/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: FilmNation, coming off a strong Cannes market, is close to selling out John Carney’s upcoming Sing Street, featuring music from U2’s Bono and The Edge.
Rights to Sing Street have gone for the UK (Lionsgate UK), Australia and New Zealand (Roadshow Films), France (Tfi), Germany (StudioCanal Germany), Japan (Gaga), Italy (Bim), Spain (Vertigo) and Scandinavia (Svensk).
Further deals closed in Canada (Elevation Pictures), Taiwan (Filmware International), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Singapore (Shaw Renters), Switzerland (Elite Film), Turkey (Aqua Group), Greece and Cyprus (Spentzos Film / Seven Films) and Israel (Lev Cinemas).
FilmNation CEO Glen Basner and his team also licensed rights for South Korea (Bloomage), Indonesia (Pt Amero Mitra), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), Iceland (Sam Films) and pan-Asian TV (HBO Pacific Partners).
Production is set to begin this summer on the semi-autobiographical tale of a 14-year-old Dublin boy who forms a band to cope with his troubled life and eventually runs off to London with his...
Rights to Sing Street have gone for the UK (Lionsgate UK), Australia and New Zealand (Roadshow Films), France (Tfi), Germany (StudioCanal Germany), Japan (Gaga), Italy (Bim), Spain (Vertigo) and Scandinavia (Svensk).
Further deals closed in Canada (Elevation Pictures), Taiwan (Filmware International), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Singapore (Shaw Renters), Switzerland (Elite Film), Turkey (Aqua Group), Greece and Cyprus (Spentzos Film / Seven Films) and Israel (Lev Cinemas).
FilmNation CEO Glen Basner and his team also licensed rights for South Korea (Bloomage), Indonesia (Pt Amero Mitra), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), Iceland (Sam Films) and pan-Asian TV (HBO Pacific Partners).
Production is set to begin this summer on the semi-autobiographical tale of a 14-year-old Dublin boy who forms a band to cope with his troubled life and eventually runs off to London with his...
- 5/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: FilmNation, coming off a spectacular Cannes market, has closed multiple territories on John Carney’s upcoming Sing Street.
Rights have gone for the UK (Lionsgate UK), Australia and New Zealand (Roadshow Films), France (Tfi), Germany (StudioCanal Germany), Japan (Gaga), Italy (Bim), Spain (Vertigo) and Scandinavia (Svensk).
Further deals closed in Canada (Elevation Pictures), Taiwan (Filmware International), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Singapore (Shaw Renters), Switzerland (Elite Film), Turkey (Aqua Group), Greece and Cyprus (Spentzos Film / Seven Films) and Israel (Lev Cinemas).
Basner and his team also licensed rights for South Korea (Bloomage), Indonesia (Pt Amero Mitra), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), Iceland (Sam Films) and pan-Asian TV (HBO Pacific Partners).
Production is set to begin this summer on the semi-autobiographical tale of a 14-year-old Dublin boy who forms a band to cope with his troubled life and eventually runs off to London with his 15-year-old girlfriend and aspiring model.
U2’s Bono and The Edge will be involved...
Rights have gone for the UK (Lionsgate UK), Australia and New Zealand (Roadshow Films), France (Tfi), Germany (StudioCanal Germany), Japan (Gaga), Italy (Bim), Spain (Vertigo) and Scandinavia (Svensk).
Further deals closed in Canada (Elevation Pictures), Taiwan (Filmware International), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Singapore (Shaw Renters), Switzerland (Elite Film), Turkey (Aqua Group), Greece and Cyprus (Spentzos Film / Seven Films) and Israel (Lev Cinemas).
Basner and his team also licensed rights for South Korea (Bloomage), Indonesia (Pt Amero Mitra), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), Iceland (Sam Films) and pan-Asian TV (HBO Pacific Partners).
Production is set to begin this summer on the semi-autobiographical tale of a 14-year-old Dublin boy who forms a band to cope with his troubled life and eventually runs off to London with his 15-year-old girlfriend and aspiring model.
U2’s Bono and The Edge will be involved...
- 5/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Four-time Emmy-nominated Connie Britton ("Nashville," "Friday Night Lights," "Spin City," "24," "The West Wing") will appear as Victoria Lasseter in Lionsgate.s action comedy film American Ultra . The film started production earlier this month. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh ( Project X ) and written by Max Landis ( Chronicle and the upcoming Frankenstein ), American Ultra stars Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman and Walton Goggins. A PalmStar/Likely Story/Circle of Confusion production, the film is produced by Anthony Bregman ( Begin Again , Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ), Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh, David Alpert ("The Walking Dead") and Britton...
- 5/1/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Production is set to begin today in New Orleans on the Lionsgate action comedy film American Ultra. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh (Project X) and written by Max Landis (Chronicle), the film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman and Walton Goggins.
American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike (Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
A PalmStar/Likely Story/Circle of Confusion production, the film is produced by Anthony Bregman, Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh, David Alpert and Britton Rizzio,...
American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike (Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
A PalmStar/Likely Story/Circle of Confusion production, the film is produced by Anthony Bregman, Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh, David Alpert and Britton Rizzio,...
- 4/15/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Production has begun in New Orleans on Lionsgate’s action comedy starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart and Bill Pullman. FilmNation handles international sales.
American Ultratells of a wayward stoner living the small-town life with his girlfriend when the youngster learns he is a sleeper agent with a do-or-die mission to survive.
Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo and Walton Goggins round out the key cast. Nima Nourizadeh directs from a screenplay by Max Landis.
Anthony Bregman, David Alpert, Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh and Britton Rizzio produce and the executive producer is Ray Angelic.
American Ultra is a PalmStar/Likely Story/Circle Of Confusion production.
American Ultratells of a wayward stoner living the small-town life with his girlfriend when the youngster learns he is a sleeper agent with a do-or-die mission to survive.
Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo and Walton Goggins round out the key cast. Nima Nourizadeh directs from a screenplay by Max Landis.
Anthony Bregman, David Alpert, Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh and Britton Rizzio produce and the executive producer is Ray Angelic.
American Ultra is a PalmStar/Likely Story/Circle Of Confusion production.
- 4/14/2014
- ScreenDaily
Production has begun in New Orleans on Lionsgate’s action comedy starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart and Bill Pullman. FilmNation handles international sales.
American Ultratells of a wayward stoner living the small-town life with his girlfriend when the youngster learns he is a sleeper agent with a do-or-die mission to survive.
Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo and Walton Goggins round out the key cast. Nima Nourizadeh directs from a screenplay by Max Landis.
Anthony Bregman, David Alpert, Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh and Britton Rizzio produce and the executive producer is Ray Angelic.
American Ultra is a PalmStar/Likely Story/Circle Of Confusion production.
American Ultratells of a wayward stoner living the small-town life with his girlfriend when the youngster learns he is a sleeper agent with a do-or-die mission to survive.
Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo and Walton Goggins round out the key cast. Nima Nourizadeh directs from a screenplay by Max Landis.
Anthony Bregman, David Alpert, Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh and Britton Rizzio produce and the executive producer is Ray Angelic.
American Ultra is a PalmStar/Likely Story/Circle Of Confusion production.
- 4/14/2014
- ScreenDaily
Today Lionsgate announced that production has begun on a new film that isn't based on some young adult novel! Cameras are now rolling on American Ultra and the studios have issued a press release announcing new additions to the cast and details on the plot. Come inside to check out the press release!
Production is set to begin today in New Orleans on the Lionsgate (NYSE: Lgf) action comedy film “American Ultra.” Directed by Nima Nourizadeh (“Project X”) and written by Max Landis (“Chronicle” and the upcoming “Frankenstein”), the film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman and Walton Goggins. A PalmStar/Likely Story/Circle of Confusion production, the film is produced by Anthony Bregman (“Begin Again” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh, David Alpert (“The Walking Dead”) and Britton Rizzio, with Ray Angelic as executive producer. Jason Constantine,...
Production is set to begin today in New Orleans on the Lionsgate (NYSE: Lgf) action comedy film “American Ultra.” Directed by Nima Nourizadeh (“Project X”) and written by Max Landis (“Chronicle” and the upcoming “Frankenstein”), the film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman and Walton Goggins. A PalmStar/Likely Story/Circle of Confusion production, the film is produced by Anthony Bregman (“Begin Again” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh, David Alpert (“The Walking Dead”) and Britton Rizzio, with Ray Angelic as executive producer. Jason Constantine,...
- 4/14/2014
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
Production is getting under way in New Orleans on the Lionsgate action comedy “American Ultra” starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh (“Project X”) and written by Max Landis (“Chronicle”), the story revolves around a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner (Eisenberg) whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend (Stewart) is suddenly turned upside down when he discovers that he has a secret past as a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, he is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive. The cast also includes Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman and Walton Goggins. A PalmStar/Likely Story/Circle of Confusion production, the film is produced by Anthony Bregman (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh, David Alpert (“The Walking Dead”) and Britton Rizzio, with Ray Angelic as executive producer.
- 4/14/2014
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Uma Thurman is set to join the previously-attached Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart for American Ultra , says a story today at The Hollywood Reporter . Project X helmer Nima Nourizadeh is attached to direct. American Ultra , scripted by Chronicle scribe Max Landis, follows Mike, a young stoner who, alongside his girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart) becomes targeted by a top secret government operation. Thurman will one of those behind the operation, which has created secret "sleeper warriors." Set to begin production next month, American Ultra is produced by Likely Story's Anthony Bregman and by Circle of Confusion's David Alpert and Britton Rizzio. PalmStar Media Capital's Kevin Frakes and Merced Media Partners' Raj Brinder Singh are serving as executive...
- 3/6/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Exclusive: The appetite for scripts and partially finished films is soaring. Lionsgate is tying up a deal today to pay $7 million to pre-buy U.S. distribution rights to American Ultra, the action comedy that begins shooting in New Orleans in five weeks with Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart starring for Project X director Nima Nourizadeh. In the script by Chronicle writer Max Landis, Eisenberg plays a stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend (Stewart) is upended when his past catches up with him, putting him the crosshairs of a government operation bent on wiping him out. It’s a co-production between A Likely Story and Circle Of Confusion, with Anthony Bregman, David Alpert and Britton Rizzio producing, and Kevin Scott Frakes of Palmstar Media Capital and Raj Brinder Singh of Merced Media Partners exec producing. The buzz on this one has been building since Berlin, and I thought a deal might be made there.
- 3/2/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
U2 are going back to the movies. Bono and The Edge will be involved in the soundtrack for the upcoming film "Sing Street" from "Once" writer-director John Carney. The semi-autobiographical film centers on a 14-year-old Dubliner named "Cosmo," who escapes his troubled home life and school bullies by starting a band, and eventually runs away to London with his aspiring model girlfriend. There, the duo will try to turn their dreams of success become a reality. Bono and the Edge have long been friends with Carney. Carney and Anthony Bregman will co-produce in partnership with Kevin Frakes and Raj Brinder Singh in the U.S.,...
- 2/6/2014
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
After the stampede at Toronto to land domestic rights to John Carney‘s Can A Song Save Your Life?, here’s a Berlin title worth paying attention to. FilmNation Entertainment has been selected to sell international rights to Carney’s next film, which will begin production this summer in Dublin. Called Sing Street, the pic is autobiographical in tone, and Carney’s fellow Irishman pals U2′s Bono and The Edge will take part in the film’s music and in the film itself. The latter might mean some screen time, and it is a safe bet to say that after Can A Song Save Your Life?, that Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine will have a movie career if he wants one. Pic is a co-production with Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Carney’s Distressed Films, in partnership with PalmStar’s Kevin Frakes and Merced Media Partners’ Raj Brinder Singh in the U.
- 2/6/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: FilmNation has bulked up its red-hot Efm slate with international rights to Sing Street, the latest project from John Carney.
In what promises to be a heady brew, Carney’s long-time friends Bono and The Edge of U2 will compose original music. The pair are in talks to be involved in the film in another, as yet unspecified capacity.
Carney is currently working on the screenplay to the semi-autobiographical Sing Street, which will be a co-production with Anthony Bregman of Likely Story in partnership with Kevin Frakes of PalmStar and Raj Brinder Singh for Merced Media Partners in the Us and Paul Trijbits and Christian Grass for FilmWave out of the UK. Carney will also produce through his Distressed Films.
The 1980s-set story is scheduled to shoot this summer in Dublin and centres on Cosmo, a 14-year-old Dubliner dealing with the stress of his parent’s marriage, a drop-out brother and bullies at a new school...
In what promises to be a heady brew, Carney’s long-time friends Bono and The Edge of U2 will compose original music. The pair are in talks to be involved in the film in another, as yet unspecified capacity.
Carney is currently working on the screenplay to the semi-autobiographical Sing Street, which will be a co-production with Anthony Bregman of Likely Story in partnership with Kevin Frakes of PalmStar and Raj Brinder Singh for Merced Media Partners in the Us and Paul Trijbits and Christian Grass for FilmWave out of the UK. Carney will also produce through his Distressed Films.
The 1980s-set story is scheduled to shoot this summer in Dublin and centres on Cosmo, a 14-year-old Dubliner dealing with the stress of his parent’s marriage, a drop-out brother and bullies at a new school...
- 2/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams are set to star in Philip Seymour Hoffman’s sophomore feature “Ezekiel Moss,” an individual familiar with the project. Keith Bunin wrote the Depression-era script, which follows a young boy living in a small town. He becomes friends with a mysterious drifter (Gyllenhaal) who appears to be able to communicate with the dead. Adams will play the boy’s widowed mother. Also Read: Jake Gyllenhaal in Talks to Star in Former Eminem Boxing Movie ‘Southpaw’ (Exclusive) Producers include Anthony Bregman of A Likely Story, Cathy Schulman of Mandalay Vision, Kevin Frakes of PalmStar Media Capital and Raj Brinder Singh of.
- 2/1/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Exclusive: The latest hot property to drop into the Berlin market will star Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, both of whom have drawn heat during awards season.
Philip Seymour Hoffman will direct the Prohibition Era story from a screenplay by Keith Bunin.
Ezekiel Moss centres on a mysterious man who visits a widow and her son in a religiously conservative community and appears to possess the ability to communicate with the dead.
Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman, PalmStar Media Capital’s Kevin Frakes, Merced Media Partners’ Raj Brinder Singh and Cathy Schulman of Mandalay Vision are producing.
Singh recently collaborated with Exclusive Media on Rush, on which he served as co-executive producer.
Adams recently earned an Oscar nomination for her lead role in American Hustle, while Gyllenhaal has drawn wide acclaim for his performance opposite Hugh Jackman in Prisoners.
Philip Seymour Hoffman will direct the Prohibition Era story from a screenplay by Keith Bunin.
Ezekiel Moss centres on a mysterious man who visits a widow and her son in a religiously conservative community and appears to possess the ability to communicate with the dead.
Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman, PalmStar Media Capital’s Kevin Frakes, Merced Media Partners’ Raj Brinder Singh and Cathy Schulman of Mandalay Vision are producing.
Singh recently collaborated with Exclusive Media on Rush, on which he served as co-executive producer.
Adams recently earned an Oscar nomination for her lead role in American Hustle, while Gyllenhaal has drawn wide acclaim for his performance opposite Hugh Jackman in Prisoners.
- 2/1/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams have signed on to star in the Philip Seymour Hoffman-directed Prohibition era drama "Ezekiel Moss".
Keith Bunin penned the story of a widow (Adams) who supports her spirited son by running a boarding house in a small and highly religious town. She soon falls for a mysterious drifter (Gyllenhaal) who can physically inhabit the spirits of the dead.
Anthony Bregman, Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh and Cathy Schulman will produce.
Source: Variety...
Keith Bunin penned the story of a widow (Adams) who supports her spirited son by running a boarding house in a small and highly religious town. She soon falls for a mysterious drifter (Gyllenhaal) who can physically inhabit the spirits of the dead.
Anthony Bregman, Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh and Cathy Schulman will produce.
Source: Variety...
- 1/31/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Lynn Shelton's Laggies starring Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz and Sam Rockwell, has been picked up for N. American distribution by A24. The film scripted by Andrea Seigel follows a woman struggling to mature who lies to her fiancé about going on a retreat and instead, spends time hanging out with friends. Also in the cast are Kaitlyn Dever, Gretchen Mol, Ellie Kemper, Mark Webber and Tiya Sircar. Craig Chapman, Kevin Scott Frakes, Alix Madigan, Myles Nestel, Rosalie Swedlin and Raj Brinder Singh produce.
- 1/20/2014
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Kate Beckinsale (Contraband, Underworld) is in negotiations to star in the thriller The Disappointments Room, to be directed by D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) , from an original screenplay by Wentworth Miller (Stoker).
Hoping to repair their failing marriage, Dana (Beckinsale) and Dave move, with their son Jeremy, into a dilapidated country manor near an aging Eastern seaboard town. In the course of renovating their new home, Dana discovers a small locked door in the corner of the attic that hadn’t appeared in the house’s blueprints. The ghost of a young girl appears and beckons her to open the door. But the spirits of those who protect the room’s terrifying secret return to make sure that the room remains closed forever.
The film will begin shooting on February 3, 2014 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The announcement was made today by producers, Geyer Kosinski of Media Talent Group and Mark Damon...
Hoping to repair their failing marriage, Dana (Beckinsale) and Dave move, with their son Jeremy, into a dilapidated country manor near an aging Eastern seaboard town. In the course of renovating their new home, Dana discovers a small locked door in the corner of the attic that hadn’t appeared in the house’s blueprints. The ghost of a young girl appears and beckons her to open the door. But the spirits of those who protect the room’s terrifying secret return to make sure that the room remains closed forever.
The film will begin shooting on February 3, 2014 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The announcement was made today by producers, Geyer Kosinski of Media Talent Group and Mark Damon...
- 11/1/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Katherine Heigl, Tom Wilkinson, Linda Emond and Grace Gummer will star in Jenny’S Wedding, written and to be directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue (Beaches).
The film is set to start shooting on October 28.
Jenny’S Wedding revolves around Jenny (Heigl) who causes a massive sea-change in the lives of her closely knit, highly conventional family when she finally decides to marry. A pretty and engaging woman, everyone is baffled by Jenny’s lack of a love-life, and her parents (Wilkinson, Emond) particularly have been anxious for her to settle down, but when the announcement comes that she is finally going to wed, her choice of partner tears the family apart. In order to reconnect, everyone including Jenny, must reinvent themselves.
The announcement was made today by producers Donoghue, Gail Levin and Mm Productions’ Michelle Manning.
Mary Agnes Donoghue’s writing credits include The Buddy System, starring Richard Dreyfus and Susan Sarandon,...
The film is set to start shooting on October 28.
Jenny’S Wedding revolves around Jenny (Heigl) who causes a massive sea-change in the lives of her closely knit, highly conventional family when she finally decides to marry. A pretty and engaging woman, everyone is baffled by Jenny’s lack of a love-life, and her parents (Wilkinson, Emond) particularly have been anxious for her to settle down, but when the announcement comes that she is finally going to wed, her choice of partner tears the family apart. In order to reconnect, everyone including Jenny, must reinvent themselves.
The announcement was made today by producers Donoghue, Gail Levin and Mm Productions’ Michelle Manning.
Mary Agnes Donoghue’s writing credits include The Buddy System, starring Richard Dreyfus and Susan Sarandon,...
- 10/24/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: Salma Hayek is joining Pierce Brosnan and Jessica Alba in How To Make Love Like An Englishman, the sexually charged romantic comedy that Tom Vaughan will direct. In the Matthew Newman-scripted indie comedy, Brosnan plays a Cambridge University prof who finds a woman who is his ideal match (Hayek), forcing him to reevaluate his life of hedonistic excess. This comes after he impregnates her grad student stepsister (Alba). The film’s produced by Richard B. Lewis, Beau St. Clair and Kevin Frakes and is a co-production between Palmstar Media Capital, Southpaw Entertainment, Irish Dreamtime and Envision. Brosnan will be exec producer with Raj Brinder Singh, Lisa Wilson, Myles Nestel and Remington Chase. The film is being funded by Merced Media Partners and Palmstar, with CAA handling U.S. distribution and The Solution Entertainment Group handling offshore sales. Hayek is repped by CAA and Management 360.
- 10/7/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Southpaw Entertainment’s Richard B. Lewis, Irish Dreamtime’s Beau St. Clair and Envision Entertainment’s Grant Cramer announced today that they’ve joined forces to produce the sexually charged and sophisticated romantic comedy How To Make Love Like An Englishman. To be directed by Tom Vaughan (What Happens In Vegas, Starter For Ten), the film stars Pierce Brosnan (The Thomas Crown Affair), Jessica Alba (Sin City) and Oscar nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), and was written by Brit Matthew Newman.
In the film Pierce Brosnan stars as a Cambridge University professor who meets his match in Kristin Scott Thomas, and is forced to re-evaluate his life of hedonistic excess after he manages to get Jessica Alba, her graduate student stepsister, pregnant.
Set for an early September shoot, the film is being fully financed by Envision and Merced Media Partners, and will be Executive Produced by Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase of Envision,...
In the film Pierce Brosnan stars as a Cambridge University professor who meets his match in Kristin Scott Thomas, and is forced to re-evaluate his life of hedonistic excess after he manages to get Jessica Alba, her graduate student stepsister, pregnant.
Set for an early September shoot, the film is being fully financed by Envision and Merced Media Partners, and will be Executive Produced by Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase of Envision,...
- 5/9/2013
- by Philip Sticco
- LRMonline.com
Pierce Brosnan, Jessica Alba and Kristin Scott Thomas will star in the Tom Vaughan-helmed sexually charged romantic comedy How To Make Love Like An Englishman, the Matthew Newman-scripted film that is backed by Southpaw Entertainment’s Richard B. Lewis, Irish Dreamtime’s Beau St. Clair and Envision Entertainment’s Grant Cramer. Solution Entertainment will sell the film in Cannes. Brosnan plays a Cambridge University professor who is forced to reexamine his hedonistic lifestyle after meeting a great gal (Thomas). Things get complicated when he impregnates her grad student stepsister (Alba). Pic will shoot in September, financed by Envision and Merced Media Partners, and will be Executive Produced by Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase of Envision, Raj Brinder Singh and Kevin Scott Frakes of Merced Media Partners, Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel of The Solution, and Jon Amiel. CAA represents the U.S. distribution rights.
- 5/8/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Southpaw Entertainment’s Richard B. Lewis, Irish Dreamtime’s Beau St. Clair and Envision Entertainment’s Grant Cramer announced today that they’ve joined forces to produce the sophisticated romantic comedy How To Make Love Like An Englishman. To be directed by Tom Vaughan (What Happens In Vegas, Starter For Ten), the film stars Pierce Brosnan (The Thomas Crown Affair), Jessica Alba (Sin City) and Oscar nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), and was written by Brit Matthew Newman.
The Solution Entertainment Group’s Lisa Wilson has come on board to handle international rights for the picture and will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. In the film Pierce Brosnan stars as a Cambridge University professor who meets his match in Kristin Scott Thomas, and is forced to re-evaluate his life of hedonistic excess after he manages to get Jessica Alba, her graduate student stepsister,...
The Solution Entertainment Group’s Lisa Wilson has come on board to handle international rights for the picture and will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. In the film Pierce Brosnan stars as a Cambridge University professor who meets his match in Kristin Scott Thomas, and is forced to re-evaluate his life of hedonistic excess after he manages to get Jessica Alba, her graduate student stepsister,...
- 5/8/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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