Many an older film discovery will inspire revelations of “She’s in this?” — but none quite like the 1996 indie “Foxfire.” A cult classic beloved by queer audiences, “Foxfire” features early performances not only from Angelina Jolie, but singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis and queer icon and model Jenny Shimizu. It is also, famously (for those who care about these kinds of things), the project that introduced Jolie and Shimizu, who had a serious relationship throughout the late ’90s.
Based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, “Foxfire” follows five high school girls who take revenge on an abusive teacher, unwittingly forming a misfit crew of renegade feminists. They are radicalized by a hitchhiking firebrand who appears out of thin air, played by a young Jolie in motorcycle boots and an androgynous messy bob. Though she had done a few films prior, “Foxfire” established the magnetic bad girl type (and forever queer thirst...
Based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, “Foxfire” follows five high school girls who take revenge on an abusive teacher, unwittingly forming a misfit crew of renegade feminists. They are radicalized by a hitchhiking firebrand who appears out of thin air, played by a young Jolie in motorcycle boots and an androgynous messy bob. Though she had done a few films prior, “Foxfire” established the magnetic bad girl type (and forever queer thirst...
- 2/7/2023
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
It doesn't get better than the acclaimed Marcia Gay Harden and Halston Sage.
The Academy-Award-winning So Help Me Todd star is at the helm, along with Halston Sage of Prodigal Son fame, in an upcoming film, Daughter of the Bride, exploring a fun dynamic between a mother and daughter.
And TV Fanatic was fortunate enough to score an exclusive first look at this charming film that'll warm the cockles of your heart and make you laugh.
Everyone loves a good family comedy, and Daughter of the Bride delivers with amusing hijinks, a star-studded cast, and the chemistry between Harden and Sage at the very center of the movie.
Harden stars as Diane, a lively woman whose best friend in life just so happens to be her daughter, Kate (Sage).
The mother-daughter duo has navigated much of life together, with highs and lows, but handling everything with aplomb and relying on one another.
The Academy-Award-winning So Help Me Todd star is at the helm, along with Halston Sage of Prodigal Son fame, in an upcoming film, Daughter of the Bride, exploring a fun dynamic between a mother and daughter.
And TV Fanatic was fortunate enough to score an exclusive first look at this charming film that'll warm the cockles of your heart and make you laugh.
Everyone loves a good family comedy, and Daughter of the Bride delivers with amusing hijinks, a star-studded cast, and the chemistry between Harden and Sage at the very center of the movie.
Harden stars as Diane, a lively woman whose best friend in life just so happens to be her daughter, Kate (Sage).
The mother-daughter duo has navigated much of life together, with highs and lows, but handling everything with aplomb and relying on one another.
- 2/2/2023
- by Jasmine Blu
- TVfanatic
Exclusive: Cara Santana (Vida) has signed on to star alongside Marcia Gay Harden, Halston Sage, Andrew Richardson and Aidan Quinn in Annette Haywood-Carter’s indie comedy Daughter of the Bride (w/t) for MarVista Entertainment and Particular Crowd.
The film currently in production centers on Diane (Harden) and Kate (Sage) — mother and daughter and inseparable friends, whose lives are turned upside down when mom announces her engagement to a mystery man (Quinn) that she’s been dating for only a few weeks. In a series of comical events, Kate must come to terms with letting her mother be happy with someone else while she navigates her own love life and career aspirations. Kate subconsciously tries to sabotage the wedding plans, despite officiating the ceremony, and unexpectedly meets a mystery man (Richardson) of her own that seems too good to be true.
Karen Bloch Morse wrote the script. The film is...
The film currently in production centers on Diane (Harden) and Kate (Sage) — mother and daughter and inseparable friends, whose lives are turned upside down when mom announces her engagement to a mystery man (Quinn) that she’s been dating for only a few weeks. In a series of comical events, Kate must come to terms with letting her mother be happy with someone else while she navigates her own love life and career aspirations. Kate subconsciously tries to sabotage the wedding plans, despite officiating the ceremony, and unexpectedly meets a mystery man (Richardson) of her own that seems too good to be true.
Karen Bloch Morse wrote the script. The film is...
- 6/28/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Marcia Gay Harden (The Morning Show), Halston Sage (Paper Towns), Andrew Richardson (The Independent) and Aidan Quinn (Elementary) have signed on to star in Daughter of the Bride (w/t), an indie comedy from MarVista Entertainment and Particular Crowd, which has entered production
The film directed by Annette Haywood-Carter (Savannah) centers on Diane (Harden) and Kate (Sage) — mother and daughter and inseparable friends, whose lives are turned upside down when mom announces her engagement to a mystery man (Quinn) that she’s been dating for only a few weeks. In a series of comical events, Kate must come to terms with letting her mother be happy with someone else while she navigates her own love life and career aspirations. Kate subconsciously tries to sabotage the wedding plans, despite officiating the ceremony, and unexpectedly meets a mystery man (Richardson) of her own that seems too good to be true.
Karen Bloch Morse...
The film directed by Annette Haywood-Carter (Savannah) centers on Diane (Harden) and Kate (Sage) — mother and daughter and inseparable friends, whose lives are turned upside down when mom announces her engagement to a mystery man (Quinn) that she’s been dating for only a few weeks. In a series of comical events, Kate must come to terms with letting her mother be happy with someone else while she navigates her own love life and career aspirations. Kate subconsciously tries to sabotage the wedding plans, despite officiating the ceremony, and unexpectedly meets a mystery man (Richardson) of her own that seems too good to be true.
Karen Bloch Morse...
- 6/22/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Directors Guild of America announced its new Women’s Steering Committee Squad Mentorship Program along with its first class of mentees. In the program, 10 mid-career directors are each paired with filmmakers that are well established in the field.
The Wsc Squad will last for six months. Mentors will not only discuss craft and artistic opportunities with their mentees, but will also provide guidance on the unique challenges involved with navigating the film industry as women. A second round of the Wsc Squad will begin in Jan. 2022.
“We started this program because the need for mentorship and community never goes away, even when you are working at very high levels in the industry. Women-identifying directors deal with particular situations and it was our goal to forge a sort of sisterhood of mid-career directors,” said Amber Sealey, co-chair of the program. “We purposely paired them with mentors who can offer advice...
The Wsc Squad will last for six months. Mentors will not only discuss craft and artistic opportunities with their mentees, but will also provide guidance on the unique challenges involved with navigating the film industry as women. A second round of the Wsc Squad will begin in Jan. 2022.
“We started this program because the need for mentorship and community never goes away, even when you are working at very high levels in the industry. Women-identifying directors deal with particular situations and it was our goal to forge a sort of sisterhood of mid-career directors,” said Amber Sealey, co-chair of the program. “We purposely paired them with mentors who can offer advice...
- 8/4/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Kid Cudi and Dyan Cannon get roles, drug addiction drama “Dear Jack” gets a director and Trafalgar Releasing is handling the “Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies” this year.
Castings
Scott Mescudi , best known by his stage name Kid Cudi, has joined the cast of “Bill & Ted Face the Music.”
Mescudi joins previously announced cast including Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, William Sadler, Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine. Mescudi has a significant role, though details are being kept under wraps.
Reeves will again portray Ted “Theodore” Logan and Winter will reprise his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. The two previous films were 1989’s “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and 1991’s “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.”
Dean Parisot (“Galaxy Quest”) will direct from a script by original creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. Scott Kroopf (“Limitless”) will produce with Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce of Hammerstone Studios,...
Castings
Scott Mescudi , best known by his stage name Kid Cudi, has joined the cast of “Bill & Ted Face the Music.”
Mescudi joins previously announced cast including Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, William Sadler, Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine. Mescudi has a significant role, though details are being kept under wraps.
Reeves will again portray Ted “Theodore” Logan and Winter will reprise his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. The two previous films were 1989’s “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and 1991’s “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.”
Dean Parisot (“Galaxy Quest”) will direct from a script by original creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. Scott Kroopf (“Limitless”) will produce with Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce of Hammerstone Studios,...
- 6/13/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Take another look @ "Thor: The Dark World" actress Jaimie Alexander, aka 'Asgardian' warrior goddess 'Lady Sif', soon to guest-star on "Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.", in a revealing pictorial for "Maxim" magazine:
Alexander's first major film role was in the horror feature "Rest Stop" (2006) followed by "Hallowed Ground" (2007).
She then played the character 'Jessi' on the ABC Family series "Kyle Xy",followed by guest roles on "CSI: Miami" and "Bones".
Alexander was cast as 'Sif' in Marvel Studios' live-action feature "Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, released May 2011 and recently reprised the role in the sequel "Thor: The Dark World".
In 2013, Alexander appeared in the film "Savannah" directed by Annette Haywood-Carter, followed by work in Schwarzenegger's "The Last Stand".
Click the images to enlarge...
Alexander's first major film role was in the horror feature "Rest Stop" (2006) followed by "Hallowed Ground" (2007).
She then played the character 'Jessi' on the ABC Family series "Kyle Xy",followed by guest roles on "CSI: Miami" and "Bones".
Alexander was cast as 'Sif' in Marvel Studios' live-action feature "Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, released May 2011 and recently reprised the role in the sequel "Thor: The Dark World".
In 2013, Alexander appeared in the film "Savannah" directed by Annette Haywood-Carter, followed by work in Schwarzenegger's "The Last Stand".
Click the images to enlarge...
- 2/20/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
According to reports, ABC will feature Marvel Studios' female warrior goddess character 'Lady Sif', played by actress Jaimie Alexander in episode #15 of "Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.":
Alexander's first major film role was in the horror feature "Rest Stop" (2006) followed by "Hallowed Ground" (2007).
She then played the character 'Jessi' on the ABC Family series "Kyle Xy",followed by guest roles on "CSI: Miami" and "Bones".
Alexander was cast as 'Sif' in Marvel Studios' live-action feature "Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, released May 2011 and recently reprised the role in the sequel "Thor: The Dark World".
In 2013, Alexander appeared in the film "Savannah" directed by Annette Haywood-Carter, followed by work in Schwarzenegger's "The Last Stand".
Click the images to enlarge...
Alexander's first major film role was in the horror feature "Rest Stop" (2006) followed by "Hallowed Ground" (2007).
She then played the character 'Jessi' on the ABC Family series "Kyle Xy",followed by guest roles on "CSI: Miami" and "Bones".
Alexander was cast as 'Sif' in Marvel Studios' live-action feature "Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, released May 2011 and recently reprised the role in the sequel "Thor: The Dark World".
In 2013, Alexander appeared in the film "Savannah" directed by Annette Haywood-Carter, followed by work in Schwarzenegger's "The Last Stand".
Click the images to enlarge...
- 1/18/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Swedish screens are challenging the idea that two women talking to each other is diametrically opposed to film quality
Four independent Swedish cinemas now tell audiences if the films they screen pass the Bechdel test – which requires that a film (1) feature two named female characters who (2) talk to each other about (3) something other than men. Films that meet these criteria get a seal of approval, or an A rating.
The test owes its name to the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, whose 1985 Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip drew attention to how few films appeal to viewers who take pleasure in female "sociality" – forms of social bonding between women. Twenty-eight years later cinemas are turning Bechdel's black humour into policy in order to raise consciousness among audiences about gender imbalance. Indeed, their action has prompted huge national and international debate in recent weeks.
Film critics and scholars, however, have been quick...
Four independent Swedish cinemas now tell audiences if the films they screen pass the Bechdel test – which requires that a film (1) feature two named female characters who (2) talk to each other about (3) something other than men. Films that meet these criteria get a seal of approval, or an A rating.
The test owes its name to the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, whose 1985 Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip drew attention to how few films appeal to viewers who take pleasure in female "sociality" – forms of social bonding between women. Twenty-eight years later cinemas are turning Bechdel's black humour into policy in order to raise consciousness among audiences about gender imbalance. Indeed, their action has prompted huge national and international debate in recent weeks.
Film critics and scholars, however, have been quick...
- 11/27/2013
- by Anu Koivunen, Ingrid Ryberg, Laura Horak
- The Guardian - Film News
Sneak Peek more revealing images of "Thor: The Dark World" actress Jaimie Alexander, aka 'Asgardian' warrior goddess 'Sif' in a revealing spread for "Maxim" magazine:
Alexander's first major film role was in the horror feature "Rest Stop" (2006) followed by "Hallowed Ground" (2007).
She then played the character 'Jessi' on the ABC Family series "Kyle Xy",followed by guest roles on "CSI: Miami" and "Bones".
Alexander was cast as 'Sif' in Marvel Studios' live-action feature "Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, released May 2011 and recently reprised the role in the sequel "Thor: The Dark World".
In 2013, Alexander appeared in the film "Savannah" directed by Annette Haywood-Carter, followed by work in Schwarzenegger's "The Last Stand".
Click the images to enlarge...
Alexander's first major film role was in the horror feature "Rest Stop" (2006) followed by "Hallowed Ground" (2007).
She then played the character 'Jessi' on the ABC Family series "Kyle Xy",followed by guest roles on "CSI: Miami" and "Bones".
Alexander was cast as 'Sif' in Marvel Studios' live-action feature "Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, released May 2011 and recently reprised the role in the sequel "Thor: The Dark World".
In 2013, Alexander appeared in the film "Savannah" directed by Annette Haywood-Carter, followed by work in Schwarzenegger's "The Last Stand".
Click the images to enlarge...
- 11/11/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Long before he took on the gravitas of playing Jesus, actor Jim Caviezel was known for rarely cracking a smile. So his turn as a whimsical, hard-drinking duck hunter with a touch of the poet about him in "Savannah" would stand out if that was all it had to recommend it.
A Faulkneresque tale of the Old South turning new in the years just after World War I, "Savannah" has Caviezel playing a colorful, larger-than-life local in that sleepy Low Country Georgia port town.
One of the things that makes you "larger than life" is the way other people tell colorful stories about you. And Ward Allen has that going for him.
"Did I ever tell you about how Ward Allen beat up them Russians?"
That's a favorite of the old black man named Christmas (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Allen's best friend.
We meet him when Jack Cay (Bradley Whitford) shows up,...
A Faulkneresque tale of the Old South turning new in the years just after World War I, "Savannah" has Caviezel playing a colorful, larger-than-life local in that sleepy Low Country Georgia port town.
One of the things that makes you "larger than life" is the way other people tell colorful stories about you. And Ward Allen has that going for him.
"Did I ever tell you about how Ward Allen beat up them Russians?"
That's a favorite of the old black man named Christmas (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Allen's best friend.
We meet him when Jack Cay (Bradley Whitford) shows up,...
- 8/22/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Let's say you're a filmmaker, and you're given the opportunity to tell the true life story of two people: Ward Allen, an Oxford-educated Southerner, who defies expectations and makes a career as hunter, rabble-rouser and good ol' boy, and Christmas Moultrie, a man born into slavery, who becomes a free man and enters a business partnership with Ward. Whose life do you think would serve as the most interesting prism though which to tell a dramatic narrative? Whose life would offer the greatest perspective on the changing mores not just of the South but the nation as a whole? If you picked Ward Allen, then you must be co-writer and director Annette Haywood-Carter. "Savannah" does attempt to tell the story of the friendship of those two accomplished men, but does so in a manner that is so astonishingly tone deaf, confused and narrowly focused that it leaves you almost amazed...
- 8/21/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Fare is Fowl: Haywood-Carter’s Dire Return to Directing
Annette Haywood-Carter, perhaps best known for her 1996 directorial debut Foxfire, an adaption of a Joyce Carol Oates novel starring a nubile Angelina Jolie (which was remade in 2012 by Laurent Cantet), returns with her first directorial outing in thirteen years with Savannah, a based-on-a-true-story account of a 1920s hunter from the memoir Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter. Locally produced, the figure in question seems to be a well-known local legend in Savannah, Georgia. However, the headscratchingly vague title should give you the first indication that some beautifully photographed landscape shots are the only aspect of interest in this bewilderingly bland exercise about a highly energetic hunter indisposed to frequent bouts of drinking, best known for rejecting his inheritance to (sometimes illegally) hunt with his black best friend forever at his side.
Opening in 1954 Savannah, we meet the wizened Christmas Moultrie (Chiwetel Ejiofor...
Annette Haywood-Carter, perhaps best known for her 1996 directorial debut Foxfire, an adaption of a Joyce Carol Oates novel starring a nubile Angelina Jolie (which was remade in 2012 by Laurent Cantet), returns with her first directorial outing in thirteen years with Savannah, a based-on-a-true-story account of a 1920s hunter from the memoir Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter. Locally produced, the figure in question seems to be a well-known local legend in Savannah, Georgia. However, the headscratchingly vague title should give you the first indication that some beautifully photographed landscape shots are the only aspect of interest in this bewilderingly bland exercise about a highly energetic hunter indisposed to frequent bouts of drinking, best known for rejecting his inheritance to (sometimes illegally) hunt with his black best friend forever at his side.
Opening in 1954 Savannah, we meet the wizened Christmas Moultrie (Chiwetel Ejiofor...
- 8/21/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With all the momentum of dripping molasses, Savannah recounts the true-life story of Ward Allen (Jim Caviezel), a larger-than-life outdoorsman too big to be boxed in by early 20th-century societal boundaries. Rejecting his privileged plantation heritage to hunt ducks alongside freed slave sidekick Christmas (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Ward proves a Shakespeare-quoting wild man increasingly unfit for modern life. Annette Haywood-Carter's Hallmark Channel–ish film celebrates his rabble-rousing and fiercely independent streak with a suffocating earnestness. Drenched in dewy-eyed nostalgia, tinged with sorrow for the way changing tides made Ward an outcast, the story overflows with reverence but is drastically short on passion or suspense, and the framing device—in which an aged...
- 8/21/2013
- Village Voice
Bet you forgot about this movie didn't you? First announced back in 2011 and shot the same year, it seems we're going to get a double dose of Chiwetel Ejiofor playing a freed slave in 2013. Of course, he's set to lead the hugely anticipated "12 Years A Slave," but he's also got a co-starring role in the forthcoming indie "Savannah," and the first trailer has arrived to give you a peek at another tale dealing with America's slavery past. Just like in "12 Years A Slave," this is also based on a true story, telling the tale of a freed slave, Christmas Moultrie (Ejifor), who enters a business partnership in the early 1900s with Ward Allen (Jim Caviezel), which leads to complications in a South that is a bit slower to change with the times. Ward and Moultrie must essentially battle to keep running their business, while preserving their friendship and way of life along the Savannah River.
- 7/12/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Battle Of The Damned
Anchor Bay has snapped up United States, Australian and New Zealand rights to Christopher Hatton's futuristic tale "Battle Of The Damned" from Compound B. Dolph Lundgren stars in the story of survivors of a test facility meltdown who are hunted by infected hordes and malfunctioning robots.
Big Bad Wolves
Magnet Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado's Israeli thriller "Big Bad Wolves" from Xyz Films. The story centers on a series of brutal murders that puts the lives of three men on a collision course — the father of the latest victim, a vigilante police detective and the main suspect in the killings.
Breath of the Gods
Alive Mind Cinema has picked up North American rights to Jan Schmidt-Garre’s documentary "Breath Of The Gods" which charts the origins of yoga.
A Case of You
IFC Films has acquired...
Anchor Bay has snapped up United States, Australian and New Zealand rights to Christopher Hatton's futuristic tale "Battle Of The Damned" from Compound B. Dolph Lundgren stars in the story of survivors of a test facility meltdown who are hunted by infected hordes and malfunctioning robots.
Big Bad Wolves
Magnet Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado's Israeli thriller "Big Bad Wolves" from Xyz Films. The story centers on a series of brutal murders that puts the lives of three men on a collision course — the father of the latest victim, a vigilante police detective and the main suspect in the killings.
Breath of the Gods
Alive Mind Cinema has picked up North American rights to Jan Schmidt-Garre’s documentary "Breath Of The Gods" which charts the origins of yoga.
A Case of You
IFC Films has acquired...
- 5/17/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Though we got it once before as a 1992 Annette Haywood-Carter film starring a young Angelina Jolie and (before-she-was-famous) Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis, there's certainly room for improvement. And when you have the Palme d'Or-winning director behind "The Class," filmmaker Laurent Cantet, deciding to take on the classic Joyce Carol Oates novel "Foxfire: Confessions Of A Girl Gang," and bring it to the big screen, our interest is piqued. Forgoing big names, Cantet has gone with newcomers Claire Mazerolle, Kate Coseni and Madeleine Bisson, in the story that follows the five teenagers from a small town in New York State in the 1950s who, out of their distrust of society, form a secret group called Foxfire to avenge the brutal humiliations they have suffered at the hands of men. Here's the official synopsis: The latest film from Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet (Entre les murs) is a vivid adaptation of the celebrated.
- 7/31/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Sherlock star will join Chiwetel Ejiofor in true-life story of 19th-century New Yorker kidnapped to work on plantation
Benedict Cumberbatch is set to join the cast of Steve McQueen's latest project Twelve Years a Slave, according to Variety.
Cumberbatch will join Chiwetel Ejiofor in the British artist turned film-maker's true-life drama about a mixed-race 19th-century New Yorker who spent more than a decade on a Louisiana cotton plantation after being kidnapped by slavers. Cumberbatch is in line to play a plantation owner who buys Ejiofor's character and is won over by his engineering skills.
McQueen made a splash with his debut film, Hunger, about the Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands and reunited with the star of that movie, Michael Fassbender, on the critically acclaimed sex-addiction drama Shame last year. Sherlock star Cumberbatch was picked by Steven Spielberg for a key role in the first world war epic War Horse last year,...
Benedict Cumberbatch is set to join the cast of Steve McQueen's latest project Twelve Years a Slave, according to Variety.
Cumberbatch will join Chiwetel Ejiofor in the British artist turned film-maker's true-life drama about a mixed-race 19th-century New Yorker who spent more than a decade on a Louisiana cotton plantation after being kidnapped by slavers. Cumberbatch is in line to play a plantation owner who buys Ejiofor's character and is won over by his engineering skills.
McQueen made a splash with his debut film, Hunger, about the Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands and reunited with the star of that movie, Michael Fassbender, on the critically acclaimed sex-addiction drama Shame last year. Sherlock star Cumberbatch was picked by Steven Spielberg for a key role in the first world war epic War Horse last year,...
- 6/1/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
After the success of working with unknown youths in his Palme d'Or-winning "The Class," Laurent Cantet decided to go down the same path for his latest effort behind the camera, the teen-feminist rebellion tale "Foxfire," adapted once before as a 1992 Annette Haywood-Carter film starring a young Angelina Jolie and Jenny Lewis.
Memento now have a number of first look images of the leading gang in Cantet's adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' "Foxfire: Confessions Of A Girl Gang," which follows the five teenagers from a small town in New York State in the 1950s who, out of their distrust of society, form a secret group called Foxfire to avenge the brutal humiliations they have suffered at the hands of men.
Cantet has gone with newcomers Claire Mazerolle, Kate Coseni and Madeleine Bisson, who are anything but household names, as his leads. But in his hands, we're fascinated to see...
Memento now have a number of first look images of the leading gang in Cantet's adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' "Foxfire: Confessions Of A Girl Gang," which follows the five teenagers from a small town in New York State in the 1950s who, out of their distrust of society, form a secret group called Foxfire to avenge the brutal humiliations they have suffered at the hands of men.
Cantet has gone with newcomers Claire Mazerolle, Kate Coseni and Madeleine Bisson, who are anything but household names, as his leads. But in his hands, we're fascinated to see...
- 4/4/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
The 1996 film Foxfire was based on a novel by best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates. Though the film had no outright lesbian content, it was very much about the relationships between the young women, and their love for one another surpassed friendship, bringing them to a point of commitment secured by tattoos and general bad-assery. Bonded by their rebelling against a predatory teacher, they found one another to be a safe haven from the judgmental high school halls.
So whatever happened to those girls who ran with foxes?
Hedy Burress (Maddy, the photographer who hates her teacher)
Since Foxfire, Hedy has largely worked in television, notably in her roles as Joanie Moore on ER and as Laurie Cooper on Southland. She also does a lot of voiceover work for video games, including Final Fantasy and Terminator Salvation.
Angelina Jolie (Legs, the drifter with an attitude)
Besides being the world's overwhelming choice...
So whatever happened to those girls who ran with foxes?
Hedy Burress (Maddy, the photographer who hates her teacher)
Since Foxfire, Hedy has largely worked in television, notably in her roles as Joanie Moore on ER and as Laurie Cooper on Southland. She also does a lot of voiceover work for video games, including Final Fantasy and Terminator Salvation.
Angelina Jolie (Legs, the drifter with an attitude)
Besides being the world's overwhelming choice...
- 9/7/2011
- by Trish Bendix
- AfterEllen.com
British film-maker casts Chiwetel Ejiofor in true story of mixed-race man abducted and forced into bondage in Louisiana
British artist turned film-maker Steve McQueen has cast Chiwetel Ejiofor in the drama 12 Years a Slave, the true-life story of a mixed-race New Yorker who spent more than a decade on a Louisiana cotton plantation after being kidnapped, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Ejiofor will portray Solomon Northup, who in 1841 was lured to Washington (then a southern slave state) with the promise of a well-paid job playing his fiddle in a circus. Northup was then drugged and awoke to find himself in a slave pen – he was not rescued until 1853, after a man he befriended managed to get word to his family – and lived under a number of owners, suffering great hardship. Northup's wife, whom he had left behind in New York, had to go to court to free him.
Northup detailed his experiences in a book,...
British artist turned film-maker Steve McQueen has cast Chiwetel Ejiofor in the drama 12 Years a Slave, the true-life story of a mixed-race New Yorker who spent more than a decade on a Louisiana cotton plantation after being kidnapped, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Ejiofor will portray Solomon Northup, who in 1841 was lured to Washington (then a southern slave state) with the promise of a well-paid job playing his fiddle in a circus. Northup was then drugged and awoke to find himself in a slave pen – he was not rescued until 1853, after a man he befriended managed to get word to his family – and lived under a number of owners, suffering great hardship. Northup's wife, whom he had left behind in New York, had to go to court to free him.
Northup detailed his experiences in a book,...
- 8/17/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor will star in Savannah, a historical drama directed by Annette Haywood-Carter. Bradley Whitford, Jaimie Alexander, Jack McBrayer and Hal Holbrook co-star in the film. Caviezel will play Ward Allen, a real-life early 1900s aristocrat who starts an unexpected partnership with Christmas Moultrie (Ejiofor), a freed slave. Savannah starts filming in Feb. 14 in Savannah, Ga. Randall Miller and Jody Savin, producers of the excellent Bottle Shock, teaming again for the same duties, producing via their Unclaimed Freigh Productions...
- 2/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor will star in Savannah, a historical drama directed by Annette Haywood-Carter. Bradley Whitford, Jaimie Alexander, Jack McBrayer and Hal Holbrook co-star in the film. Caviezel will play Ward Allen, a real-life early 1900s aristocrat who starts an unexpected partnership with Christmas Moultrie (Ejiofor), a freed slave. Savannah starts filming in Feb. 14 in Savannah, Ga. Randall Miller and Jody Savin, producers of the excellent Bottle Shock, teaming again for the same duties, producing via their Unclaimed Freigh Productions...
- 2/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor will star in Savannah, a historical drama directed by Annette Haywood-Carter. Bradley Whitford, Jaimie Alexander, Jack McBrayer and Hal Holbrook co-star in the film. Caviezel will play Ward Allen, a real-life early 1900s aristocrat who starts an unexpected partnership with Christmas Moultrie (Ejiofor), a freed slave. Savannah starts filming in Feb. 14 in Savannah, Ga. Randall Miller and Jody Savin, producers of the excellent Bottle Shock, teaming again for the same duties, producing via their Unclaimed Freigh Productions...
- 2/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor have joined the cast of the upcoming Annette Haywood-Carter‘s historical drama Savannah.
Caviezel and Ejiofor join the cast that already includes Bradley Whitford, Jaimie Alexander, Jack McBrayer and Hal Holbrook.
Haywood-Carter is quite interesting choice for this kind of story, and you probably remember her work from Foxfire, where she directed Angelina Jolie, or The Foot Shooting Party with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Last year, Hayword-Carter explained that:
“It’s a story about this very eccentric, bigger-than-life hunter named Ward Allen and his friendship with a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie.
Ward Allen was a romantic naturalist, an aristocrat who turned his back on a life of material comfort to become a market hunter.
He and Christmas Moultrie became business partners, confidantes and life-long friends and together they tried to navigate the vicissitudes of social, industrial, environmental and personal change that threatened their way of life.
Caviezel and Ejiofor join the cast that already includes Bradley Whitford, Jaimie Alexander, Jack McBrayer and Hal Holbrook.
Haywood-Carter is quite interesting choice for this kind of story, and you probably remember her work from Foxfire, where she directed Angelina Jolie, or The Foot Shooting Party with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Last year, Hayword-Carter explained that:
“It’s a story about this very eccentric, bigger-than-life hunter named Ward Allen and his friendship with a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie.
Ward Allen was a romantic naturalist, an aristocrat who turned his back on a life of material comfort to become a market hunter.
He and Christmas Moultrie became business partners, confidantes and life-long friends and together they tried to navigate the vicissitudes of social, industrial, environmental and personal change that threatened their way of life.
- 2/1/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Warner Bros and CBS Films are teaming up to bring Stephen King's The Stand to the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter reports the studios will meet with writers and directors in the coming weeks in hopes of finding the right match for taking on one of the best-selling books of all time. The post-apocalyptic tale was previously adapted into a toned-down six-hour mini-series by ABC in 1994 and no doubt the upcoming attempt by Universal to bring King's The Dark Tower to the big and small screen had something to do with this decision. Any suggestions for who the helmer should be? John Carpenter comeback vehicle, perhaps?
Variety broke the news that Tyler Perry (aka Madea) will take over the role of detective Alex Cross in the next adaptation based on the series of James Patterson novels with Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, xXx) set to direct. This...
Variety broke the news that Tyler Perry (aka Madea) will take over the role of detective Alex Cross in the next adaptation based on the series of James Patterson novels with Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, xXx) set to direct. This...
- 2/1/2011
- by Kevin Blumeyer
- Rope of Silicon
* I've been saying for years that Chiwetel Ejiofor was going to be the next Denzel Washington. That hasn't quite happened yet, but he continues to tackle interesting projects. He, along with Jim Caviezel have joined the cast of Savannah, Annette Haywood-Carter's film about a friendship between a big game hunter and a freed slave. The last film I remember from Haywood-Carter was 1996's Foxfire,...
- 2/1/2011
- by Travis Hopson
- Punch Drunk Critics
Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor will star in writer/director Annette Haywood-Carter's historical drama Savannah , reports Variety . Bradley Whitford, Jaimie Alexander, Jack McBrayer and Hal Holbrook co-star. Savannah tells the true story of Ward Allen, a white aristocrat, and Christmas Moultrie, a freed slave, in the early 1900s. Ward Allen was a romantic naturalist in the vein of Thoreau, an aristocrat who turned his back on a life of material comfort to become a market hunter. He and Christmas Moultrie became business partners, confidantes and life-long friends and together they tried to navigate the vicissitudes of social, industrial, environmental and personal change that threatened their way of life. Filming is scheduled to start on February 14 in Savannah, Georgia.
- 2/1/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor are to team up on the big screen to tell the true story of an early 1900s tycoon who went into business with a freed slave. "The Passion of The Christ" star Caviezel will portray Ward Allen in the film, "Savannah", and Ejiofor his sidekick Christmas Moultrie.
Director Annette Haywood-Carter's historical film will also feature Bradley Whitford, Jack McBrayer and Hal Holbrook.
Haywood-Carter tells WENN, "Ward Allen was a romantic naturalist, an aristocrat who turned his back on a life of material comfort to become a market hunter. He and Christmas Moultrie became business partners, confidantes and life-long friends and together they tried to navigate the vicissitudes of social, industrial, environmental and personal change that threatened their way of life. This is an amazing cast, beyond my wildest imagination."...
Director Annette Haywood-Carter's historical film will also feature Bradley Whitford, Jack McBrayer and Hal Holbrook.
Haywood-Carter tells WENN, "Ward Allen was a romantic naturalist, an aristocrat who turned his back on a life of material comfort to become a market hunter. He and Christmas Moultrie became business partners, confidantes and life-long friends and together they tried to navigate the vicissitudes of social, industrial, environmental and personal change that threatened their way of life. This is an amazing cast, beyond my wildest imagination."...
- 2/1/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor are set to star in the historical drama “Savannah” reports Variety.
Written and directed by Annette Haywood-Carter (“Foxfire”), this is based on the true story of early 20th century aristocrat Ward Allen (Caviezel) who "develops an unexpected partnership with freed slave Christmas Moultrie (Ejiofor).”
Bradley Whitford ("The West Wing"), Jaimie Alexander (”Thor”), Jack McBrayer (”30 Rock”) and Hal Holbrook (”Into The Wild”) also star.
Randall Miller and Jody Savin ("Bottle Shock") will produce. Shooting kicks off next month on-location in Savannah, Georgia.
Written and directed by Annette Haywood-Carter (“Foxfire”), this is based on the true story of early 20th century aristocrat Ward Allen (Caviezel) who "develops an unexpected partnership with freed slave Christmas Moultrie (Ejiofor).”
Bradley Whitford ("The West Wing"), Jaimie Alexander (”Thor”), Jack McBrayer (”30 Rock”) and Hal Holbrook (”Into The Wild”) also star.
Randall Miller and Jody Savin ("Bottle Shock") will produce. Shooting kicks off next month on-location in Savannah, Georgia.
- 2/1/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
When your movie starts shooting in only two weeks, casting your leads now is kind of being late to the party. At least, this story coming from Variety leads me to believe that James Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor will not only be the leads in Annette Haywood-Carter’s historical drama Savannah, but have also just joined the cast.
Said cast includes Bradley Whitford, of West Wing fame, Jamie Alexander, Hal Holbrook and 30 Rock’s wonderful Jack McBrayer. The movie is based on the real life aristocrat Ward Allen (Caviezel), who in the early 1900’s formed a relationship with freed slave Christmas Moultrie (Ejiofor). Shooting starts on the romantic date of February 14th, in the town of Savannah (how appropriate), Georgia. The two leads are actors I have a great amount of respect for, so seeing them as the leads in a film together should be exciting.
Not much information could...
Said cast includes Bradley Whitford, of West Wing fame, Jamie Alexander, Hal Holbrook and 30 Rock’s wonderful Jack McBrayer. The movie is based on the real life aristocrat Ward Allen (Caviezel), who in the early 1900’s formed a relationship with freed slave Christmas Moultrie (Ejiofor). Shooting starts on the romantic date of February 14th, in the town of Savannah (how appropriate), Georgia. The two leads are actors I have a great amount of respect for, so seeing them as the leads in a film together should be exciting.
Not much information could...
- 2/1/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor are to team up on the big screen to tell the true story of an early 1900s tycoon who went into business with a freed slave.
The Passion of The Christ star Caviezel will portray Ward Allen in the film, Savannah, and Ejiofor his sidekick Christmas Moultrie.
Director Annette Haywood-Carter's historical film will also feature Bradley Whitford, Jack McBrayer and Hal Holbrook.
Haywood-Carter tells WENN, "Ward Allen was a romantic naturalist, an aristocrat who turned his back on a life of material comfort to become a market hunter.
"He and Christmas Moultrie became business partners, confidantes and life-long friends and together they tried to navigate the vicissitudes of social, industrial, environmental and personal change that threatened their way of life.
"This is an amazing cast, beyond my wildest imagination."...
The Passion of The Christ star Caviezel will portray Ward Allen in the film, Savannah, and Ejiofor his sidekick Christmas Moultrie.
Director Annette Haywood-Carter's historical film will also feature Bradley Whitford, Jack McBrayer and Hal Holbrook.
Haywood-Carter tells WENN, "Ward Allen was a romantic naturalist, an aristocrat who turned his back on a life of material comfort to become a market hunter.
"He and Christmas Moultrie became business partners, confidantes and life-long friends and together they tried to navigate the vicissitudes of social, industrial, environmental and personal change that threatened their way of life.
"This is an amazing cast, beyond my wildest imagination."...
- 2/1/2011
- WENN
Annette Haywood-Carter, a former script supervisor who jumped to directing (Foxfire, with a young Angelina Jolie, for instance), is preparing to shoot the period drama Savannah in the Georgia town of the same name, and has secured the final pieces of the film's cast. Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor have joined Bradley Whitford, Jaimie Alexander, Jack McBrayer and Hal Holbrook. Back in November, the director told [1] Savannah Magazine, It’s a story about this very eccentric, bigger-than-life hunter named Ward Allen and his friendship with a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie. This is the perfect movie for Savannah because it really showcases the city’s eccentric characters. Jim Caviezel will play Ward Allen, and Chiwetel Ejiofor will be Christmas Moultrie. The source of the story is reportedly John Eugene Cay, Jr's book Ducks, Dogs and Friends, which tells the story of Christmas Moultrie, the last slave born on the plantation...
- 2/1/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
It seems like ages since we saw Jim Caviezel on our screens – he was last spotted as a man who lands on Earth during Viking times and helps battle the alien invader that arrives with him in Outlander – but now he’s snagged the lead in historical drama Savannah.This one will see him fighting 100% fewer extraterrestrial nasties, but does see him paired up with the excellent Chiwetel Ejiofor for the tale of real-life 1900s aristocrat Ward Allen.Talking to a local Georgia website, writer/director Annette Haywood-Carter described the basics: “It’s a story about this very eccentric, bigger-than-life hunter named Ward Allen and his friendship with a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie. This is the perfect movie for Savannah because it really showcases the city’s eccentric characters.”Inspired by John Eugene Cay Jr’s book Duck, Dogs and Friends, the film will also feature Hal Holbrook, The West Wing’s Bradley Whitford,...
- 1/31/2011
- EmpireOnline
Well, here's a name we don't hear very often. Variety reports that Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor are set to star in a historical drama, "Savannah." Written and directed by Annette Haywood-Carter (best known for directing an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' "Foxfire" starring Angelina Jolie), the film tells the true story of "early 1900s aristocrat Ward Allen (Caviezel) who develops an unexpected partnership with freed slave Christmas Moultrie, played by Ejiofor." And pic has an interesting and somewhat random supporting cast lined up including hey-it's-that-guy actor Bradley Whitford, Jaimie Alexander ("Thor"), Jack McBrayer ("30 Rock") and Hal Holbrook ("Into…...
- 1/31/2011
- The Playlist
Chiwetel Ejiofor where art thou? It’s terrible that this guy doesn’t appear to be much in demand – nowhere as near as I think he should be. I’m basing this entirely on his IMDb page which shows that he has just 1 guaranteed upcoming film, currently in post-production. It’s one of those ensemble pieces.
Other than that, there’s nothing else listed that we could say is certain. We know about the Fela biopic which he was announced to be attached to several months ago, but little has been reported about that project since the initial announcement. The last piece of news released about it from Focus Features, the company behind it, suggests that it’s in development limbo, with no Eta on when it’ll actually go into production. Chiwetel may not even be attached anymore, for all we know.
Today brings news that he’s set...
Other than that, there’s nothing else listed that we could say is certain. We know about the Fela biopic which he was announced to be attached to several months ago, but little has been reported about that project since the initial announcement. The last piece of news released about it from Focus Features, the company behind it, suggests that it’s in development limbo, with no Eta on when it’ll actually go into production. Chiwetel may not even be attached anymore, for all we know.
Today brings news that he’s set...
- 1/31/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
English Language Debut For The 2008 Palme d'Or Winner "The Class" helmer Laurent Cantet will be making his English language debut with an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 1993 novel "Foxfire: Confessions Of A Girl Gang." It'll mark a resurgence in popularity for author Oates who has Andrew Dominik's gestating adaptation of her 2000 novel "Blonde"--a Pulitzer Prize-nominated fictional work based on the life of Marilyn Monroe--in the works as well as this after a 1985 Joyce Chopra adaptation of her short story "Smooth Talk" starring Laura Dern. Adapted for the screen once before by Annette Haywood-Carter in her 1996…...
- 11/7/2010
- The Playlist
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