Exclusive: As the entertainment industry grapples with how AI will impact the business, production outfit End Cue has launched an in-house AI powered workflow platform to the wider global filmmaking industry, designed to help producers, streamers and studios help streamline their script coverage, scheduling and budgeting processes.
Dubbed RivetAI, the suite of tools analyzes potential projects and helps reduce the time producers spend on planning and producing content as well as streamlining script coverage for projects. It’s a platform that the company is now offering to the wider global production community after having used it in house on a number of its projects, most recently the Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor romance title The History of Sound, which is currently shooting in Italy.
“We’ve been interested in how AI was being harnessed across the last few years and it was more the streamlining processes that we felt this could help us in directly,...
Dubbed RivetAI, the suite of tools analyzes potential projects and helps reduce the time producers spend on planning and producing content as well as streamlining script coverage for projects. It’s a platform that the company is now offering to the wider global production community after having used it in house on a number of its projects, most recently the Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor romance title The History of Sound, which is currently shooting in Italy.
“We’ve been interested in how AI was being harnessed across the last few years and it was more the streamlining processes that we felt this could help us in directly,...
- 4/25/2024
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Max Barbakow, the director of the 2020 Sundance comedy darling “Palm Springs,” has found his next film and will direct the comedy “Disaster Wedding” for Warner Bros., an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” director Jon Watts is also producing “Disaster Wedding” alongside End Cue’s Andrew Kortschak.
Dave Holstein is rewriting the script for the film from an original draft by Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer. Plot details are being kept under wraps, though it’s worth noting that Barbakow’s “Palm Springs” was also about a disastrous wedding that resulted in its two stars becoming trapped in a “Groundhog Day” style continuous time loop repeating the same day over and over.
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“Palm Springs” was directed by Barbakow and based on his own story, and the film starred Andy Samberg,...
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” director Jon Watts is also producing “Disaster Wedding” alongside End Cue’s Andrew Kortschak.
Dave Holstein is rewriting the script for the film from an original draft by Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer. Plot details are being kept under wraps, though it’s worth noting that Barbakow’s “Palm Springs” was also about a disastrous wedding that resulted in its two stars becoming trapped in a “Groundhog Day” style continuous time loop repeating the same day over and over.
Also Read:
Robert De Niro to Play Dual Roles in Barry Levinson Mafia Drama ‘Wise Guys’ at Warner Bros.
“Palm Springs” was directed by Barbakow and based on his own story, and the film starred Andy Samberg,...
- 8/17/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Following the success of his breakout comedy Palm Springs, director Max Barbakow looks to have found his next big studio film as he has boarded the Warner Bros. comedy Disaster Wedding. Dave Holstein is currently rewriting the script with the first draft by Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer. Spider-Man director Jon Watts is producing along with Andrew Kortschak, who will produce through his End Cue banner. Jesse Ehrman and Chrystal Lee are overseeing for the studio.
Plot details are being kept under wraps outside of the film being set at a wedding that goes off the rails pretty fast.
Barbakow has been in high demand around town following the success of Palm Springs, which became one of the big winners of the pandemic, coming out when everyone was looking for a much needed laugh. The film is one of the streamers biggest feature films to date and put Barbakow...
Plot details are being kept under wraps outside of the film being set at a wedding that goes off the rails pretty fast.
Barbakow has been in high demand around town following the success of Palm Springs, which became one of the big winners of the pandemic, coming out when everyone was looking for a much needed laugh. The film is one of the streamers biggest feature films to date and put Barbakow...
- 8/17/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
The Crown Emmy winner Josh O’Connor and Normal People star Paul Mescal have been set to star in The History of Sound, a World War I love story adapted from Ben Shattuck’s Pushcart Prize-winning short story. Oliver Hermanus is aboard to direct the pic, which hails from Cop Car producer End Cue. Production is set to begin in summer 2022 in the U.S. and on location in the UK and Italy.
CAA Media Finance is handling U.S. sales and Embankment will rep international at the upcoming American Film Market.
The short story revolved around two young men, Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), who, during World War I set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen. In this snatched, short-lived moment in their young lives, and while discovering the epic sweep of the U.S., both men are deeply changed.
End...
CAA Media Finance is handling U.S. sales and Embankment will rep international at the upcoming American Film Market.
The short story revolved around two young men, Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), who, during World War I set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen. In this snatched, short-lived moment in their young lives, and while discovering the epic sweep of the U.S., both men are deeply changed.
End...
- 10/29/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Crown” star and recent Emmy winner Josh O’Connor and “Normal People” BAFTA winner Paul Mescal will star in gay romance “The History of Sound,” an Oliver Hermanus-directed adaptation of an award-winning short story.
Produced by End Cue, the story follows two young men, Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), who, during the WW1 period, set out to record the lives, voices and music of their countrymen. An official description of the pic reads: “In this snatched, short-lived moment in their young lives, and while discovering the epic sweep of the U.S., both men are deeply changed.”
“The History of Sound” is based on the eponymous Pushcart Prize-winning story by American author Ben Shattuck, which is available to read online in literary journal The Common. CAA Media Finance will handle U.S. sales while Embankment will introduce the project to international buyers ahead of next week’s virtual American Film Market.
Produced by End Cue, the story follows two young men, Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), who, during the WW1 period, set out to record the lives, voices and music of their countrymen. An official description of the pic reads: “In this snatched, short-lived moment in their young lives, and while discovering the epic sweep of the U.S., both men are deeply changed.”
“The History of Sound” is based on the eponymous Pushcart Prize-winning story by American author Ben Shattuck, which is available to read online in literary journal The Common. CAA Media Finance will handle U.S. sales while Embankment will introduce the project to international buyers ahead of next week’s virtual American Film Market.
- 10/29/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Embankment launching international sales at AFM.
Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal will lead The History Of Sound, the new feature from South African director Oliver Hermanus, which will shoot in summer 2022.
Production will run predominantly in the US, plus on location in the UK and Italy.
UK-based sales firm Embankment is launching international sales at next week’s virtual American Film Market, with CAA Media Finance representing US rights.
Set during the First World War period in the US, the love story follows Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), two young men who set out to record the lives, voices and music of their countrymen.
Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal will lead The History Of Sound, the new feature from South African director Oliver Hermanus, which will shoot in summer 2022.
Production will run predominantly in the US, plus on location in the UK and Italy.
UK-based sales firm Embankment is launching international sales at next week’s virtual American Film Market, with CAA Media Finance representing US rights.
Set during the First World War period in the US, the love story follows Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), two young men who set out to record the lives, voices and music of their countrymen.
- 10/29/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“I’m afraid of other men. They intimidate me. I want to be what intimidates me,” Jesse Eisenberg’s Casey says when asked about why he decides to sign up for karate classes. The line is from the newly released first look at Bleecker Street’s The Art of Self-Defense, a dark comedy written and directed by Riley Stearns. Starring Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola and Imogen Poots, the pic premieres Sunday at SXSW in Austin.
It follows timid bookkeeper Casey who, after he’s attacked on the street at night by a roving motorcycle gang, joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei (Nivola), and hardcore brown belt Anna (Poots), Casey gains a newfound sense of confidence for the first time in his life. But when he attends Sensei’s mysterious night classes, he discovers a sinister world of fraternity,...
It follows timid bookkeeper Casey who, after he’s attacked on the street at night by a roving motorcycle gang, joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei (Nivola), and hardcore brown belt Anna (Poots), Casey gains a newfound sense of confidence for the first time in his life. But when he attends Sensei’s mysterious night classes, he discovers a sinister world of fraternity,...
- 3/8/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Mystify: Michael Hutchence’
Richard Lowenstein’s feature documentary on Michael Hutchence will have its world premiere at the 18th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 24 to May 5.
Produced by Lowenstein, Maya Gnyp and John Battsek for Ghost Pictures and Passion Pictures, Mystify: Michael Hutchence will screen in the documentary competition for best documentary feature, cinematography and editing.
Co-funded by Screen Australia, the film is described as an intimate look at the life of the Inxs lead singer through his many loves and demons, featuring Kylie Minogue and Helena Christensen.
Madman Entertainment is the Australian distributor and Dogwoof is handling international sales. The ABC and BBC pre-bought the film.
Lowenstein tells If the doc features live music from Inxs and Max Q, Hutchence’s only completed solo album which was a collaboration with Ollie Olsen, remixed for Atmos, plus archival footage which had been in his attic,...
Richard Lowenstein’s feature documentary on Michael Hutchence will have its world premiere at the 18th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 24 to May 5.
Produced by Lowenstein, Maya Gnyp and John Battsek for Ghost Pictures and Passion Pictures, Mystify: Michael Hutchence will screen in the documentary competition for best documentary feature, cinematography and editing.
Co-funded by Screen Australia, the film is described as an intimate look at the life of the Inxs lead singer through his many loves and demons, featuring Kylie Minogue and Helena Christensen.
Madman Entertainment is the Australian distributor and Dogwoof is handling international sales. The ABC and BBC pre-bought the film.
Lowenstein tells If the doc features live music from Inxs and Max Q, Hutchence’s only completed solo album which was a collaboration with Ollie Olsen, remixed for Atmos, plus archival footage which had been in his attic,...
- 3/5/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The Tribeca Film Festival has set its full feature slate for 2019, selecting 103 titles including world premieres of films by Jared Leto, Christoph Waltz, and Margot Robbie.
The 18th edition of the festival, which runs from April 24 to May 5, will include documentaries from Antoine Fuqua, Werner Herzog, and Abel Ferrara, and music-focused docs highlighting the lead singer of band Inxs (“Mystify: Michael Hutchence”), Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman (“The Quiet One”), and musician Linda Ronstadt (“Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice”) with Sheryl Crow performing after the premiere.
Leto’s “A Day in the Life of America” is a crowd-sourced documentary featuring footage from all 50 states on July 4, 2017. Waltz is making his directorial debut with the crime drama “Georgetown,” starring himself, Annette Bening, and Vanessa Redgrave. Robbie stars in and produces “Dreamland,” a Depression-era drama set in the Oklahoma dustbowl.
Other notable titles include “Mad Men” producer Semi Chellas making...
The 18th edition of the festival, which runs from April 24 to May 5, will include documentaries from Antoine Fuqua, Werner Herzog, and Abel Ferrara, and music-focused docs highlighting the lead singer of band Inxs (“Mystify: Michael Hutchence”), Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman (“The Quiet One”), and musician Linda Ronstadt (“Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice”) with Sheryl Crow performing after the premiere.
Leto’s “A Day in the Life of America” is a crowd-sourced documentary featuring footage from all 50 states on July 4, 2017. Waltz is making his directorial debut with the crime drama “Georgetown,” starring himself, Annette Bening, and Vanessa Redgrave. Robbie stars in and produces “Dreamland,” a Depression-era drama set in the Oklahoma dustbowl.
Other notable titles include “Mad Men” producer Semi Chellas making...
- 3/5/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, “Till the Whistle Blows” starts development, “All These Small Moments” is acquired, and End Cue invests in Greencard Pictures.
Development
Winter State Entertainment is producing high school football drama “Till the Whistle Blows” with plans to start shooting next year in Idaho Falls, Id.
The movie follows the story of 1967 high school football coach Vernon Ravsten, who saw his Idaho Falls team go undefeated as he battled cancer during his final season, and is based on the novel “A Promise Kept” written in 2000 by brothers Bruce K. Couch and Robert M. Couch, who both played for Ravsten.
“Till the Whistle Blows” is produced by Patrick Werksma, Mark Smith, and Winter State’s Hamid and Camille Torabpour, with the screenplay adapted by Hamid Torabpour, Werksma, and Smith. Chris Brewster will direct “Till the Whistle Blows.”
Brewster is also directing the zombie action-thriller “Outbreak Z” for Winter State.
Development
Winter State Entertainment is producing high school football drama “Till the Whistle Blows” with plans to start shooting next year in Idaho Falls, Id.
The movie follows the story of 1967 high school football coach Vernon Ravsten, who saw his Idaho Falls team go undefeated as he battled cancer during his final season, and is based on the novel “A Promise Kept” written in 2000 by brothers Bruce K. Couch and Robert M. Couch, who both played for Ravsten.
“Till the Whistle Blows” is produced by Patrick Werksma, Mark Smith, and Winter State’s Hamid and Camille Torabpour, with the screenplay adapted by Hamid Torabpour, Werksma, and Smith. Chris Brewster will direct “Till the Whistle Blows.”
Brewster is also directing the zombie action-thriller “Outbreak Z” for Winter State.
- 10/19/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Jonathan auf der Heide to direct serial killer.
Myriad Pictures’ genre label Scoundrel Media will launch worldwide pre-sales in Toronto next week on thriller The Girl Beneath starring Australia’s Rachael Taylor.
Scoundrel Media has also boarded international sales for Toronto on The Clovehitch Killer starring Dylan McDermott, Charlie Plummer and Samantha Mathis.
Jonathan auf der Heide will direct The Girl Beneath from a screenplay by Sarah Smith and Ian John Ridley about a police officer’s race to save the life of a serial killer abductee. The woman calls the police for help, but has no idea where she is.
Myriad Pictures’ genre label Scoundrel Media will launch worldwide pre-sales in Toronto next week on thriller The Girl Beneath starring Australia’s Rachael Taylor.
Scoundrel Media has also boarded international sales for Toronto on The Clovehitch Killer starring Dylan McDermott, Charlie Plummer and Samantha Mathis.
Jonathan auf der Heide will direct The Girl Beneath from a screenplay by Sarah Smith and Ian John Ridley about a police officer’s race to save the life of a serial killer abductee. The woman calls the police for help, but has no idea where she is.
- 8/29/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: SVoD players are frontrunners to ink worldwide deal for Taika Waititi project.
Buyers are circling a full-finance deal for animation Bubbles, from Hunt For The Wilder People director Taika Waititi.
Online giant Netflix is the front-runner for the movie but Amazon is also in play.
Should it make, the splashy multi-million dollar pact, in negotiation with CAA, would be the biggest to come out of the Cannes market so far this year.
Rocket Science handles international sales on the project, which is currently in early stages.
Waititi is due to co-direct the stop-motion feature, a coming-of-age story about Michael Jackson’s celebrity pet chimpanzee, with Mark Gustafon, who served as animation director on Fantastic Mr Fox.
Andrew Kortschak and Walter Kortschak of End Cue are producing with Dan Harmon’s Starburns Industries, the animators behind 2016 best animation feature Oscar nominee Anomalisa.
The project is based on Isaac Adamson’s screenplay that topped the 2015 Black List and...
Buyers are circling a full-finance deal for animation Bubbles, from Hunt For The Wilder People director Taika Waititi.
Online giant Netflix is the front-runner for the movie but Amazon is also in play.
Should it make, the splashy multi-million dollar pact, in negotiation with CAA, would be the biggest to come out of the Cannes market so far this year.
Rocket Science handles international sales on the project, which is currently in early stages.
Waititi is due to co-direct the stop-motion feature, a coming-of-age story about Michael Jackson’s celebrity pet chimpanzee, with Mark Gustafon, who served as animation director on Fantastic Mr Fox.
Andrew Kortschak and Walter Kortschak of End Cue are producing with Dan Harmon’s Starburns Industries, the animators behind 2016 best animation feature Oscar nominee Anomalisa.
The project is based on Isaac Adamson’s screenplay that topped the 2015 Black List and...
- 5/17/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Author: Zehra Phelan
The Thor: Ragnarok and Hunt for the Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi will be teaming up with Emmy-winning director Mark Gustafson to co-direct an Anomalisa inspired animation of the infamous chimp that became best buddies with The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Bubbles.
You read that right, Bubbles is getting his own film. The chimp was adopted by Jackson back in 1988 and didn’t leave his side for a number of years, not until 2003 when the chimp became an aggressive adult like all normal chimpanzee’s and could no longer be controlled. However, Waititi has stated that this is in no way a biopic on the monkey’s life.
“It’s an idea that fascinates me and one I want to develop further,” said Waititi. “Most people know I’m a huge Michael Jackson fan, so the main thing for me is to make sure it’s respectful of him and his legacy.
The Thor: Ragnarok and Hunt for the Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi will be teaming up with Emmy-winning director Mark Gustafson to co-direct an Anomalisa inspired animation of the infamous chimp that became best buddies with The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Bubbles.
You read that right, Bubbles is getting his own film. The chimp was adopted by Jackson back in 1988 and didn’t leave his side for a number of years, not until 2003 when the chimp became an aggressive adult like all normal chimpanzee’s and could no longer be controlled. However, Waititi has stated that this is in no way a biopic on the monkey’s life.
“It’s an idea that fascinates me and one I want to develop further,” said Waititi. “Most people know I’m a huge Michael Jackson fan, so the main thing for me is to make sure it’s respectful of him and his legacy.
- 4/21/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The story of Michael Jackson’s famous pet chimpanzee will come to the big screen in a stop-motion film titled “Bubbles.” According to Deadline, Taika Waititi and Mark Gustafson will co-direct Isaac Adamson’s Black List script, which will “be told in the vein of Starburns-produced ‘Anomalisa.’”
“It’s an idea that fascinates me and one I want to develop further,” Waititi expressed. “Most people know I’m a huge Michael Jackson fan, so the main thing for me is to make sure it’s respectful of him and his legacy. I’m not interested in making a biopic; I want to focus on telling a story that blends fact and fantasy, about an animal trying to make sense of the world.”
The “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” helmer added that the film is not about the King of Pop, because that’s “not a story for me to tell — or...
“It’s an idea that fascinates me and one I want to develop further,” Waititi expressed. “Most people know I’m a huge Michael Jackson fan, so the main thing for me is to make sure it’s respectful of him and his legacy. I’m not interested in making a biopic; I want to focus on telling a story that blends fact and fantasy, about an animal trying to make sense of the world.”
The “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” helmer added that the film is not about the King of Pop, because that’s “not a story for me to tell — or...
- 2/11/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
“Thor: Ragnarok” director Taika Waititi has signed on to direct “Bubbles,” a stop-motion animated film about Michael Jackson’s pet chimpanzee, alongside Mark Gustafson, TheWrap has learned. Isaac Adamson wrote the script, which topped the 2015 Black List. Andrew Kortschak and Walter Kortschak of End Cue will produce the movie with Dan Harmon’s Starburns Industries. Adamson and Lee Stobby will serve as executive producers. Rocket Science is handling international sales for the title, while CAA is handling the U.S. rights. New Zealand-born Waititi was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film for 2004’s “Two Cars, One Night.
- 2/10/2017
- by Matt Pressberg
- The Wrap
Taika Waititi has signed on to direct Isaac Adamson's Black List-topping script Bubbles, about Michael Jackson's famous pet chimpanzee, alongside co-director Mark Gustafson. Andrew Kortschak and Walter Kortschak of End Cue will produce the stop-motion animated feature with Dan Harmon's Starburns Industries, alongside exec producers Adamson and Lee Stobby. Rocket Science is handling international sales for the title and shopping to buyers at the European Film Market in…...
- 2/10/2017
- Deadline
Hunt For The Wilderpeople director boards stop-motion feature; Rocket Science is handling sales.
In perhaps the most startlingly original high-level package of this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin, Rocket Science has announced that Taika Waititi will direct the stop-motion feature Bubbles, a coming-of-age story about Michael Jackson’s celebrity pet chimpanzee.
Waititi, the hotshot New Zealand director behind Hunt For The Wilderpeople, TV’s The Inbetweeners and upcoming Marvel Studios tentpole Thor: Ragnarok, will work alongside co-director Mark Gustafon, who served as animation director on Fantastic Mr Fox.
Andrew Kortschak and Walter Kortschak of End Cue are producing with Dan Harmon’s Starburns Industries, the animators behind 2016 best animation feature Oscar nominee Anomalisa.
Rocket Science has soft-launched Bubbles to international buyers in Berlin ahead of a major push in Cannes. CAA represents Us rights.
The project is based on Isaac Adamson’s screenplay that topped the 2015 Black List and recounts the life of the...
In perhaps the most startlingly original high-level package of this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin, Rocket Science has announced that Taika Waititi will direct the stop-motion feature Bubbles, a coming-of-age story about Michael Jackson’s celebrity pet chimpanzee.
Waititi, the hotshot New Zealand director behind Hunt For The Wilderpeople, TV’s The Inbetweeners and upcoming Marvel Studios tentpole Thor: Ragnarok, will work alongside co-director Mark Gustafon, who served as animation director on Fantastic Mr Fox.
Andrew Kortschak and Walter Kortschak of End Cue are producing with Dan Harmon’s Starburns Industries, the animators behind 2016 best animation feature Oscar nominee Anomalisa.
Rocket Science has soft-launched Bubbles to international buyers in Berlin ahead of a major push in Cannes. CAA represents Us rights.
The project is based on Isaac Adamson’s screenplay that topped the 2015 Black List and recounts the life of the...
- 2/10/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Riding the crest of a wave following the critical success of Anomalisa, Community creator Dan Harman is poised to remain in the realm of stop-motion animation for his follow-up project, according to Deadline, this time replacing David Thewlis’ introvert with Michael Jackson‘s pet chimp Bubbles.
Producing on behalf of his Starburns Industries production company, Harman has struck a deal with Andrew Kortschak’s End Cue to secure rights to the script. It’s no slouch, either; penned by Isaac Adamson, the screenplay for the proposed biopic landed on Hollywood’s infamous Black List in 2015, indicating that at the very least, Harman has a solid foundation upon which to build a production.
Shedding light on the King of Pop, Adamson’s Michael Jackson biopic differs from its peers in the sense that it won’t tell the story through the lens of Jermaine Jackson, nor will the embryonic pitch document...
Producing on behalf of his Starburns Industries production company, Harman has struck a deal with Andrew Kortschak’s End Cue to secure rights to the script. It’s no slouch, either; penned by Isaac Adamson, the screenplay for the proposed biopic landed on Hollywood’s infamous Black List in 2015, indicating that at the very least, Harman has a solid foundation upon which to build a production.
Shedding light on the King of Pop, Adamson’s Michael Jackson biopic differs from its peers in the sense that it won’t tell the story through the lens of Jermaine Jackson, nor will the embryonic pitch document...
- 3/21/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Michael Jackson’s beloved chimp, Bubbles, will be the subject of a stop motion animated feature film that tells their story from the ape’s perspective, TheWrap has learned. The film is based on Isaac Adamson’s script, which appeared on 2015’s The Black List and was acquired by Andrew Kortschak and End Cue. Dan Harmon and his Starburns Industries production company are producing the film. “Community” veteran Harmon also executive produced “Anomalisa,” the Oscar-nominated stop motion animated feature film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson. Also Read: Sony to Buy Out Michael Jackson Estate's Stake in Sony/Atv...
- 3/18/2016
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Bubbles, Isaac Adamson’s script about Michael Jackson told from his chimp Bubble's perspective, has been acquired by Andrew Kortschak's End Cue and Dan Harmon's Starburns Industries. The film will be made using stop-motion animation, in the vein of the Oscar-nominated film Anomalisa, directed by Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman. Adamson’s original spec script topped the 2015 Black List. Bubbles was a frequent companion to the iconic singer in the 1980s, even joining Jackson on the Bad World Tour in Japan. As for the plot, the Black List description of the script said: "A baby chimp is adopted by
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- 3/18/2016
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: The Black List-topping Isaac Adamson script Bubbles, about Michael Jackson’s famed Chimpanzee companion, has been acquired to be turned into a stop-motion animated feature in the spirit of Anomalisa. The acquisition was made by Andrew Kortschak and End Cue, and Dan Harmon and his Starburns Industries production company will produce the film. Harmon exec produced Anomalisa, which was nominated for the Best Animated Film Oscar after it created a stir at the last…...
- 3/18/2016
- Deadline
Last year's Black List of best unproduced screenplays was easily topped by "Bubbles," Isaac Adamson's script which essentially served as a pseudo-Michael Jackson biopic as seen through the eyes of his famed chimpanzee companion Bubbles.
Many were wondering how in the hell this would get made into a film, now comes word of a rather perfect way of tackling the material as plans are to do it as a stop-motion animated feature in the vein of Charlie Kaufman's "Anomalisa".
Dan Harmon, the "Rick and Morty" and "Community" creator, executive produced "Anomalisa" and is set to produce this alongside Andrew Kortschak through their respective production companies.
Bubbles was adopted by Jackson from an Austin, Texas research facility and given residence at the Neverland Ranch in 1983. He was Jackson’s constant companion until he became overaggressive and was moved to a monkey sanctuary in Florida.
Source: Deadline...
Many were wondering how in the hell this would get made into a film, now comes word of a rather perfect way of tackling the material as plans are to do it as a stop-motion animated feature in the vein of Charlie Kaufman's "Anomalisa".
Dan Harmon, the "Rick and Morty" and "Community" creator, executive produced "Anomalisa" and is set to produce this alongside Andrew Kortschak through their respective production companies.
Bubbles was adopted by Jackson from an Austin, Texas research facility and given residence at the Neverland Ranch in 1983. He was Jackson’s constant companion until he became overaggressive and was moved to a monkey sanctuary in Florida.
Source: Deadline...
- 3/18/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Todd Haynes is in the running for best director and both Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are in contention for best female lead alongside Room’s Brie Larson as Carol earned six 2016 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations in Los Angeles on Tuesday.Scroll down for full list of nominations
Close behind were Spotlight and Beasts Of No Nation on five apiece, followed by indie darling Tangerine and Anomalisa on four each.
Not even a glitch that saw the list of nominees temporarily appear on the Film Independent website prior to the official announcement could spoil what turned out by and large to be a recognition of independent film in its myriad forms.
Besides the more predictable contenders like Carol, Spotlight and Room, there was plenty of love for Tangerine, shot on an iPhone, and Beasts Of No Nation from Netflix, whose day-and-date release (and what that portends) infuriated large swathes of the exhibition sector but has clearly...
Close behind were Spotlight and Beasts Of No Nation on five apiece, followed by indie darling Tangerine and Anomalisa on four each.
Not even a glitch that saw the list of nominees temporarily appear on the Film Independent website prior to the official announcement could spoil what turned out by and large to be a recognition of independent film in its myriad forms.
Besides the more predictable contenders like Carol, Spotlight and Room, there was plenty of love for Tangerine, shot on an iPhone, and Beasts Of No Nation from Netflix, whose day-and-date release (and what that portends) infuriated large swathes of the exhibition sector but has clearly...
- 11/24/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Todd Haynes is in the running for best director and both Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are in contention for best female lead alongside Room’s Brie Larson as Carol earned six 2016 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Close behind were Spotlight and Beasts Of No Nation on five apiece, followed by indie darling Tangerine and Anomalisa on four each.
Not even a glitch that saw the list of nominees temporarily appear on the Film Independent website prior to the official announcement could spoil what turned out by and large to be a recognition of independent film in its myriad forms.
Besides the more predictable contenders like Carol, Spotlight and Room, there was plenty of love for Tangerine, shot on an iPhone, and Beasts Of No Nation from Netflix, whose day-and-date release (and what that portends) infuriated large swathes of the exhibition sector but has clearly impressed critics.
Magnolia Pictures earned...
Close behind were Spotlight and Beasts Of No Nation on five apiece, followed by indie darling Tangerine and Anomalisa on four each.
Not even a glitch that saw the list of nominees temporarily appear on the Film Independent website prior to the official announcement could spoil what turned out by and large to be a recognition of independent film in its myriad forms.
Besides the more predictable contenders like Carol, Spotlight and Room, there was plenty of love for Tangerine, shot on an iPhone, and Beasts Of No Nation from Netflix, whose day-and-date release (and what that portends) infuriated large swathes of the exhibition sector but has clearly impressed critics.
Magnolia Pictures earned...
- 11/24/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the La Film Festival and Film Independent at Lacma, announced nominations for the 2016 Spirit Awards this morning. Film Independent President Josh Welsh presided over the press conference held at W Hollywood, with actors John Boyega and Elizabeth Olsen presenting the nominations.
Nominees for Best Feature included Anomalisa, Beasts of No Nation, Carol, Spotlight and Tangerine.
“This year’s nominees are a testament to the strength, vitality and diversity of independent, artist-driven filmmaking,” said Film Independent President Josh Welsh. “It’s an astonishingly strong group of films and performances this year and we look forward to celebrating them all at the Spirit Awards.”
Spotlight was selected to receive the Robert Altman Award, which is bestowed upon one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast. The Altman Award was created in 2008 in honor of legendary director Robert Altman...
Nominees for Best Feature included Anomalisa, Beasts of No Nation, Carol, Spotlight and Tangerine.
“This year’s nominees are a testament to the strength, vitality and diversity of independent, artist-driven filmmaking,” said Film Independent President Josh Welsh. “It’s an astonishingly strong group of films and performances this year and we look forward to celebrating them all at the Spirit Awards.”
Spotlight was selected to receive the Robert Altman Award, which is bestowed upon one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast. The Altman Award was created in 2008 in honor of legendary director Robert Altman...
- 11/24/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Spanish horror film Para Elisa (For Elisa) will arrive on DVD and VOD on September 1st. But, the DVD-palooza doesn't stop there. Also in this round-up: Honeyspider and Cop Car DVD release details and Howl-o-Scream 2015 details.
Para Elisa: Press Release: "A job at a magnificent house owned by a famous musician seems too good to be true – and it is – in the tension-filled horror film Para Elisa. The acclaimed new Spanish film comes to DVD and VOD on September 1, 2015, from Dark Sky Films.
Desperate for some post-graduation cash, party girl Ana (Ona Casamiquela, Eva) answers a babysitting ad. She arrives for an interview at the elegant home of Diamantina (Luisa Gavasa, Flesh Memories), a former child prodigy pianist who is now an eccentric old woman who collects antique toys and dolls. Ana is disturbed by Diamantina’s odd behavior and horrified to discover that her child, Elisa (Ana Turpin,...
Para Elisa: Press Release: "A job at a magnificent house owned by a famous musician seems too good to be true – and it is – in the tension-filled horror film Para Elisa. The acclaimed new Spanish film comes to DVD and VOD on September 1, 2015, from Dark Sky Films.
Desperate for some post-graduation cash, party girl Ana (Ona Casamiquela, Eva) answers a babysitting ad. She arrives for an interview at the elegant home of Diamantina (Luisa Gavasa, Flesh Memories), a former child prodigy pianist who is now an eccentric old woman who collects antique toys and dolls. Ana is disturbed by Diamantina’s odd behavior and horrified to discover that her child, Elisa (Ana Turpin,...
- 8/14/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
A corrupt small-town sheriff is on the hunt for two runaway kids who took his car on a joy ride in Cop Car, an unnervingly funny thriller now available on Digital HD and On Demand, and debuting on Blu-ray and DVD on September 29, 2015, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
Starring Golden Globe-winner Kevin Bacon (Footloose, Mystic River) and directed by Jon Watts (the upcoming Untitled Spiderman Reboot), Cop Car is “A midnight movie blast!” according to Russ Fischer of Slashfilm.
When a pair of 10-year-olds find an abandoned cop car in a field and take it for a joyride, it seems like they could kill themselves at any moment. But things only get worse when the small-town sheriff goes looking for his missing car—and the illicit cargo he left in the trunk—and the kids find themselves at the center of a deadly game of cat and mouse they don’t understand.
Starring Golden Globe-winner Kevin Bacon (Footloose, Mystic River) and directed by Jon Watts (the upcoming Untitled Spiderman Reboot), Cop Car is “A midnight movie blast!” according to Russ Fischer of Slashfilm.
When a pair of 10-year-olds find an abandoned cop car in a field and take it for a joyride, it seems like they could kill themselves at any moment. But things only get worse when the small-town sheriff goes looking for his missing car—and the illicit cargo he left in the trunk—and the kids find themselves at the center of a deadly game of cat and mouse they don’t understand.
- 8/10/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Focus Features boutique arm Focus World has acquired Us and UK rights to director Jon Watts' Sundance premiere "Cop Car," starring Kevin Bacon, James Freedson-Jackson, Hays Wellford, Shea Whigham and Camryn Manheim. Produced by Cody Ryder, Alicia Van Couvering, Sam Bisbee, Andrew Kortschak and Jon Watts, this cat-and-mouse turns on a "a harrowing crash course full of mayhem as a pair of 10-year-old boys attempt to navigate the back roads behind the wheel of a seemingly abandoned police car that they have no clue how to operate," per the official synopsis. Things go from bad to worse when a small-town sheriff sets his sights on getting the car back—at any cost. Reviews have been solid. The Guardian praises Kevin Bacon's performance especially: "Bacon, sporting a creepy moustache, is great, and both boys give strong, naturalistic performances." Focus World is planning a simultaneous theatrical and VOD release of...
- 1/29/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Focus Features’ alternative distribution initiative Focus World has acquired U.S. and U.K. rights to Jon Watts’ thriller “Cop Car,” which stars Kevin Bacon as a corrupt sheriff whose vehicle is stolen by two 10-year-old boys.
Focus World is planning a simultaneous theatrical and VOD release of the film but has not yet set a date. In the UK, the film will be distributed via Uphe Content Group.
James Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford play the young protagonists behind the wheel, and the film co-stars Shea Whigham and Camryn Manheim.
Also Read: Kevin Bacon Makes Epic ‘Footloose’ Entrance on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon...
Focus World is planning a simultaneous theatrical and VOD release of the film but has not yet set a date. In the UK, the film will be distributed via Uphe Content Group.
James Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford play the young protagonists behind the wheel, and the film co-stars Shea Whigham and Camryn Manheim.
Also Read: Kevin Bacon Makes Epic ‘Footloose’ Entrance on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon...
- 1/28/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Mediterranea
Director: Jonas Carpignano // Writer: Jonas Carpignano
Formerly going by A Chjàna, the same title as the short film (see pic above) on which this is based on, Mediterranea has all the earmarks of a being a sizzler of a title that trail-blazes. A filmmaker who is known internationally, Jonas Carpignano saw A Chjàna win the Controcampo Italiano Award for Best Short at the Venice Film Festival and parallel to working on the feature, earlier this year, he won the Discovery award in Cannes Critics’ Week for A Ciambra. With a bevy if support from producers and fund/labs support alike, this received coin and support from the 2012 Creative Producing Summit, 2012 June Screenwriters Lab, 2012 Directors Lab, 2012 Sffs Grant, 2013 Berlinale Talent Campus, 2013 Sffs/Krf Grant Recipient, and 2013 Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award. Equipped with what we believe is a set of non-professional actors, we’re expecting a pulsating, detonating and...
Director: Jonas Carpignano // Writer: Jonas Carpignano
Formerly going by A Chjàna, the same title as the short film (see pic above) on which this is based on, Mediterranea has all the earmarks of a being a sizzler of a title that trail-blazes. A filmmaker who is known internationally, Jonas Carpignano saw A Chjàna win the Controcampo Italiano Award for Best Short at the Venice Film Festival and parallel to working on the feature, earlier this year, he won the Discovery award in Cannes Critics’ Week for A Ciambra. With a bevy if support from producers and fund/labs support alike, this received coin and support from the 2012 Creative Producing Summit, 2012 June Screenwriters Lab, 2012 Directors Lab, 2012 Sffs Grant, 2013 Berlinale Talent Campus, 2013 Sffs/Krf Grant Recipient, and 2013 Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award. Equipped with what we believe is a set of non-professional actors, we’re expecting a pulsating, detonating and...
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: The 3D printing movement behind the computerized creation of everything from human organs to weapons is the subject of Netflix original documentary Print The Legend, which Netflix will release in theaters and via streaming this month. Co-directors Luiz Lopez and J. Clay Tweel and producer Seth Gordon (King of Kong, Horrible Bosses, The Identity Thief) nabbed a SXSW Special Jury Recognition Award for Editing & Storytelling this year for Print The Legend, which examines the visionaries spearheading the 21st century manufacturing movement, from start-ups like MakerBot and Formlabs to industry big leaguers Stratasys and 3D Systems. It also profiles controversial figures like Cody Wilson, the tech anarchist who was named “one of the most dangerous people in the world” when he released plans for 3D printing guns online last year.
Print The Legend is produced by Steven Klein and Chad Troutwine. Executive producers are Walter Kortschak and Mary Rohlich, and Andrew Kortschak is co-producer.
Print The Legend is produced by Steven Klein and Chad Troutwine. Executive producers are Walter Kortschak and Mary Rohlich, and Andrew Kortschak is co-producer.
- 9/11/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Exclusive: Indie film financier-producer Audax has closed a deal for Moonfall, a spec script by David Weil. Audax had company for a film that centers on an FBI agent who travels to a moon colony to investigate its very first death. This marks the third feature film deal for Weil. Warner Bros just bought his “script-ment: for a seven-film franchise based on The Arabian Nights. Weil, who developed that story with his brother Matt Smolinsky, is in preproduction on his 2013 Black List script Half Heard In The Stillness. Anonymous Content bought his first pilot script, Consent.
Related: Warner Bros, 3 Arts Set Script-Ment For 7-Film Arabian Nights Franchise
Audax is run by Andrew and Walter Kortschak, whose films include Cop Car, the Jon Watts-directed pic that stars Kevin Bacon, and the critically acclaimed documentary Print The Legend, which Netflix acquired.
“Moonfall marks new territory for Audax and interested us from...
Related: Warner Bros, 3 Arts Set Script-Ment For 7-Film Arabian Nights Franchise
Audax is run by Andrew and Walter Kortschak, whose films include Cop Car, the Jon Watts-directed pic that stars Kevin Bacon, and the critically acclaimed documentary Print The Legend, which Netflix acquired.
“Moonfall marks new territory for Audax and interested us from...
- 8/20/2014
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
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