The 2023 American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Honors is set to recognize Kerry Washington, Courtney B. Vance, Charles D. King and Janelle Monáe with special honors during the annual award ceremony saluting excellence in the motion picture and television industry.
Washington, an Emmy winner and SAG and Golden Globe-nominated actor, director and producer, will be presented with the Excellence in the Arts Award (Female), while two-time Emmy winner Vance will accept the award for Excellence in the Arts (Male). MacRo founder and CEO King will be presented the Industry Leadership Award, while eight-time Grammy-nominated artist, producer and actor Monáe receives the Renaissance Award. Kasi Lemmons’ 1997 drama “Eve’s Bayou” will be honored with the Classic Cinema Award.
The fifth ABFF Honors will take place on Sunday, March 5, hosted by Emmy-nominated writer, actor and comedian Deon Cole. The intimate, non-televised dinner and award ceremony is executive produced by Nicole and Jeff Friday (under...
Washington, an Emmy winner and SAG and Golden Globe-nominated actor, director and producer, will be presented with the Excellence in the Arts Award (Female), while two-time Emmy winner Vance will accept the award for Excellence in the Arts (Male). MacRo founder and CEO King will be presented the Industry Leadership Award, while eight-time Grammy-nominated artist, producer and actor Monáe receives the Renaissance Award. Kasi Lemmons’ 1997 drama “Eve’s Bayou” will be honored with the Classic Cinema Award.
The fifth ABFF Honors will take place on Sunday, March 5, hosted by Emmy-nominated writer, actor and comedian Deon Cole. The intimate, non-televised dinner and award ceremony is executive produced by Nicole and Jeff Friday (under...
- 2/13/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
As the film-business-crowds move through meetings designed to meet all sorts of movie-related objectives in this vast mix of people, and the movie-going public lines up for films in the Competition, Out-of-Competition, Panorama, Forum and Retrospectives; and families attend the Generation series, some for kindergarteners and others for preteens and some for those 14 and up, and as the constant exchange of ideas continues, there is lots of buzz, mostly positive about the Hungarian Competition film “On Body and Soul”.“On Body and Soul” by Ildikó Enyedi
Buzz continues the next day both pro and con about Oren Moverman’s Competition film, “The Dinner” which is definitely a must-see for each to decide on one’s own response to it. As Scott Roxborough in The Hollywood Reporter says, it “looks like just the political dish the times demand.” Produced by Caldecot Chubb, the script was originally to be written by Moverman for Cate Blanchett to direct.
Buzz continues the next day both pro and con about Oren Moverman’s Competition film, “The Dinner” which is definitely a must-see for each to decide on one’s own response to it. As Scott Roxborough in The Hollywood Reporter says, it “looks like just the political dish the times demand.” Produced by Caldecot Chubb, the script was originally to be written by Moverman for Cate Blanchett to direct.
- 2/28/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Writer/director Oren Moverman, who penned the screenplay for the acclaimed "Love & Mercy" and helmed Gere to rave reviews in "Time Out of Mind," isn't spending the first few months of 2016 recuperating from his busy year: his next turn behind the camera, "The Dinner," starts shooting in New York on January 21. Read More: "'Time Out of Mind' Writer/Director Oren Moverman Doesn't Suffer Fools" Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall and Chloë Sevigny have signed on to star in the film, which Moverman—nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for 2010's "The Messenger"—adapted from Herman Koch's bestselling novel. (Read a synopsis of the film below.) Cotty Chubb, Lawrence Inglee, Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev are the producers of the film, which is a Code Red, ChubbCo and Blackbird production. Code Red is fully financing and Protagonist Pictures is handling international...
- 1/18/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Protagonist will introduce to buyers to the Oren Moverman-directed film at Efm next month.
Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall and Chloë Sevigny are to star in The Dinner, a film based on the bestselling novel by Herman Koch, which will start shooting in New York on Jan 21.
Oren Moverman, whose last film Time Out Of Mind also starred Gere, has adapted the novel and will direct.
Cotty Chubb, Lawrence Inglee, Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev are the producers of the film, which is a Code Red, ChubbCo and Blackbird production. Code Red is fully financing and Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales and will introduce the title to buyers at the European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin next month.
Executive producers are Leonid Lebedev, Angel Lopez, Olga Segura and Eva Daniels.
The Dinner begins as Paul and Claire Lohman (Coogan, Linney) get ready for a dinner with Paul’s politician brother Stan (Gere...
Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall and Chloë Sevigny are to star in The Dinner, a film based on the bestselling novel by Herman Koch, which will start shooting in New York on Jan 21.
Oren Moverman, whose last film Time Out Of Mind also starred Gere, has adapted the novel and will direct.
Cotty Chubb, Lawrence Inglee, Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev are the producers of the film, which is a Code Red, ChubbCo and Blackbird production. Code Red is fully financing and Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales and will introduce the title to buyers at the European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin next month.
Executive producers are Leonid Lebedev, Angel Lopez, Olga Segura and Eva Daniels.
The Dinner begins as Paul and Claire Lohman (Coogan, Linney) get ready for a dinner with Paul’s politician brother Stan (Gere...
- 1/18/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Rebecca Hall and Chloë Sevigny have joined the cast of Oren Moverman’s The Dinner, alongside the previously announced Richard Gere, Steve Coogan and Laura Linney. The film, based on the worldwide bestselling novel by Herman Koch, will start shooting in New York on January 21. Moverman, whose last film Time Out Of Mind also starred Gere, has adapted the novel and will direct. Cotty Chubb, Lawrence Inglee, Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev are the producers of the film, which…...
- 1/18/2016
- Deadline
Laura Linney is in negotiations to star in writer-director Oren Moverman‘s adaptation of Herman Koch’s novel “The Dinner,” TheWrap has learned. The book is set in Amsterdam, where two couples meet at a fancy restaurant for dinner. Each couple has a 15-year-old son, and the two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, civility and friendship disintegrate, and each couple proves just how far they’re prepared to go to protect the ones they love. Cotty Chubb is producing through his.
- 12/16/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Ivano de Matteo’s Italian film to receive promotional support from Europa Cinemas.
Italian film The Dinner (i Nostri Ragazzi), directed by Ivano de Matteo has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European Film in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival (Aug 27 - Sept 6). The jury comprised four exhibitors from the network.
The Dinner will now benefit from promotional support from Europa Cinemas and better exhibition due to a financial incentive for network cinemas to include it in their programme schedule.
The drama, about a family dinner going horribly wrong, is inspired by Herman Koch’s worldwide bestselling novel of the same name, which was previously adapted as a Dutch-language film by Menno Meyjes and is also slated for an adaptation starring Cate Blanchett.
The jury said: “Ivano de Matteo’s film is a confident, beautifully written and extremely well constructed drama. It manages to articulate many powerful themes – alienation between children and their...
Italian film The Dinner (i Nostri Ragazzi), directed by Ivano de Matteo has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European Film in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival (Aug 27 - Sept 6). The jury comprised four exhibitors from the network.
The Dinner will now benefit from promotional support from Europa Cinemas and better exhibition due to a financial incentive for network cinemas to include it in their programme schedule.
The drama, about a family dinner going horribly wrong, is inspired by Herman Koch’s worldwide bestselling novel of the same name, which was previously adapted as a Dutch-language film by Menno Meyjes and is also slated for an adaptation starring Cate Blanchett.
The jury said: “Ivano de Matteo’s film is a confident, beautifully written and extremely well constructed drama. It manages to articulate many powerful themes – alienation between children and their...
- 9/5/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
On Monday September 9th, The Creative Coalition held their annual Gala for the Spotlight Initiate Awards during the Toronto International Film Festival. Created in 2008, the Spotlight Initiative has served to support independent films that utilize the medium not only as an outlet for artistic expression but simultaneously as a relevant tool to create awareness and inspire society.
This year the honorees were Hill Harper, star and executive producer of Tommy Oliver's Tiff entry 1982, and star of "Covert Affairs", For Colored Girls, "CSI: NY" and Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films (Jobs, Side Effects, End of Watch), a co-venture between Regal Theaters and AMC (now owned by Chinese mogul Wang Jianlin, the wealthiest man in China, chairman of Dalian Wanda Group Corp., who just announced plans to create the world's largest movie studio in his home country).
Tom and Robin Bronk CEO of The Creative Coalition both attended Penn State University. And speaking of education, Robin made a point of reiterating the Creative Coalition's stand on public education, stating that the public schools are failing terribly in arts education and that the education of every child is a basic human right.
Robin Bronk also said, “We are pleased and quite proud to be honoring Hill Harper, star of CSI:ny and Executive Producer and star of Tommy Oliver's new film 1982, and Tom Ortenberg who is now CEO of Open Road, two individuals who – throughout their respective careers – have used their influential platforms within the entertainment industry to serve the common good.”
We had a great time catching up with old friends as well: Cotty Chubb whose next film The Dinner with Cate Blanchett was just announced and makes us all quite happy for him. Carol Polakoff was with Cotty and we made our usual promise to catch up with each other in L.A. We did catch up with Mark Urman of Paladin whose pick-up Metro Manila is U.K.’s Foreign-Language Oscar Entry.
We also spoke of his merger with 108 Media which is doing well. Sharing the dinner table with him and us were Susan Margolin, co-President of Cinedigm as well as old friends Paul Cohen, producer Bruce Weiss and Denise Kasell who has left the Coolidge Theater in Boston to return to her home in New York. Also spotted were Mark Amin who reminded me of those old days when video was king and he started the long-gone Trimark.Now head of Sobini Films, he has many projects happening.
The Creative Coalition is so gracious in hosting great events in Toronto, Sundance and having a weekly 5 minute session with President Obama. Based in New York City, the non-profit and non-partisan organization was founded in 1989 by important figures in the arts and entertainments fields. The group advocates for the importance of creative works to influence change in crucial social issues. For more information click Here.
This year the honorees were Hill Harper, star and executive producer of Tommy Oliver's Tiff entry 1982, and star of "Covert Affairs", For Colored Girls, "CSI: NY" and Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films (Jobs, Side Effects, End of Watch), a co-venture between Regal Theaters and AMC (now owned by Chinese mogul Wang Jianlin, the wealthiest man in China, chairman of Dalian Wanda Group Corp., who just announced plans to create the world's largest movie studio in his home country).
Tom and Robin Bronk CEO of The Creative Coalition both attended Penn State University. And speaking of education, Robin made a point of reiterating the Creative Coalition's stand on public education, stating that the public schools are failing terribly in arts education and that the education of every child is a basic human right.
Robin Bronk also said, “We are pleased and quite proud to be honoring Hill Harper, star of CSI:ny and Executive Producer and star of Tommy Oliver's new film 1982, and Tom Ortenberg who is now CEO of Open Road, two individuals who – throughout their respective careers – have used their influential platforms within the entertainment industry to serve the common good.”
We had a great time catching up with old friends as well: Cotty Chubb whose next film The Dinner with Cate Blanchett was just announced and makes us all quite happy for him. Carol Polakoff was with Cotty and we made our usual promise to catch up with each other in L.A. We did catch up with Mark Urman of Paladin whose pick-up Metro Manila is U.K.’s Foreign-Language Oscar Entry.
We also spoke of his merger with 108 Media which is doing well. Sharing the dinner table with him and us were Susan Margolin, co-President of Cinedigm as well as old friends Paul Cohen, producer Bruce Weiss and Denise Kasell who has left the Coolidge Theater in Boston to return to her home in New York. Also spotted were Mark Amin who reminded me of those old days when video was king and he started the long-gone Trimark.Now head of Sobini Films, he has many projects happening.
The Creative Coalition is so gracious in hosting great events in Toronto, Sundance and having a weekly 5 minute session with President Obama. Based in New York City, the non-profit and non-partisan organization was founded in 1989 by important figures in the arts and entertainments fields. The group advocates for the importance of creative works to influence change in crucial social issues. For more information click Here.
- 9/26/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Washington, Sep 20: Cate Blanchett will be making her directorial debut with the adaptation of the Herman Koch's psychological thriller novel 'The Dinner.'
According to reports, screenwriter Oren Moverman is adapting the psychological thriller which explores just how far some parents might go to protect their children, Deadline reported.
Cotty Chubb will be producing the movie through his ChubbCo banner.
The thriller film will be executive produced by Eva Maria Daniels and Olga Segura.
However, it is unclear if the 44-year-old actress will star in the film.
First published in Amsterdam in.
According to reports, screenwriter Oren Moverman is adapting the psychological thriller which explores just how far some parents might go to protect their children, Deadline reported.
Cotty Chubb will be producing the movie through his ChubbCo banner.
The thriller film will be executive produced by Eva Maria Daniels and Olga Segura.
However, it is unclear if the 44-year-old actress will star in the film.
First published in Amsterdam in.
- 9/20/2013
- by Amith Ostwal
- RealBollywood.com
Cate Blanchett is set to direct The Dinner, an independently-produced American thriller based on a Herman Koch novel.
Oren Moverman is writing the screenplay adapted from the novel, which revolves around two brothers and their wives as they dine at a classy restaurant.
In the novel, one brother, Serge, is running for Prime Minister. His brother Paul loathes him. As the night progresses secrets spill out, including a terrible crime committed by Paul.s son.
The news was broken by Deadline.com, which said it.s not clear if Blanchett will play one of the wives. Moverman.s screenwriting credits include Todd Haynes. I.m Not There (which starred Blanchett) and The Messenger and Rampart, which he also directed.
The producer is Cotty Chubb, who produced a Dutch-language feature based on Koch.s novel, directed by Menno Meyjes, which opens in the Netherlands in November.
Moverman tells If his film...
Oren Moverman is writing the screenplay adapted from the novel, which revolves around two brothers and their wives as they dine at a classy restaurant.
In the novel, one brother, Serge, is running for Prime Minister. His brother Paul loathes him. As the night progresses secrets spill out, including a terrible crime committed by Paul.s son.
The news was broken by Deadline.com, which said it.s not clear if Blanchett will play one of the wives. Moverman.s screenwriting credits include Todd Haynes. I.m Not There (which starred Blanchett) and The Messenger and Rampart, which he also directed.
The producer is Cotty Chubb, who produced a Dutch-language feature based on Koch.s novel, directed by Menno Meyjes, which opens in the Netherlands in November.
Moverman tells If his film...
- 9/19/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Cate Blanchett will step behind the camera for her directorial debut with the film adaptation of Herman Koch’s novel The Dinner, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The Blue Jasmine actress is attached to helm the dark thriller, which is being produced by Cotty Chubb through his ChubbCo shingle. Executive producers are Eva Maria Daniels and Olga Segura. Photos: 'Blue Jasmine' Premiere: Cate Blanchett, Peter Sarsgaard Hit the Red Carpet in L.A. Koch's novel is a dark tale about two families who are struggling to make a tough decision regarding their teenage sons -- with the whole story unfolding over one
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- 9/19/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If Woody Allen can do it, perhaps so can Cate Blanchett as well. With an acting that has spanned over two decades, and working for such greats as Scorsese, Jarmusch, Wes Andreson, Iñárritu, Haynes, Fincher and Malick, Blanchett will get to yell the words “action” and “cut” for the book to film adaptation of The Dinner. The talented filmmaker Oren Moverman is adapting the project. ChubbCo’s Cotty Chubb (Gregor Jordan’s Unthinkable) is producing and Eva Maria Daniels (What Maisie Knew) and Olga Segura will be exec producing.
Gist: Based on the novel by Herman Koch, Deadline are tagging this as a psychological thriller which explores just how far some parents might go to protect their children.
Worth Noting: Blanchett is currently wearing the producers hat as exec. producer on the television series, “Cancer Vixen“.
Do We Care?: Sort of a reteaming with Moverman who gave the actress...
Gist: Based on the novel by Herman Koch, Deadline are tagging this as a psychological thriller which explores just how far some parents might go to protect their children.
Worth Noting: Blanchett is currently wearing the producers hat as exec. producer on the television series, “Cancer Vixen“.
Do We Care?: Sort of a reteaming with Moverman who gave the actress...
- 9/19/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Cate Blanchett plans to make her directorial debut with the psychological thriller “The Dinner,” an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap. Oren Moverman (“The Messenger”) will adapt Herman Koch’s bestselling 2009 novel, which concerns the lengths some parents will go to protect their children. Also Read: Cate Blanchett in Negotiations for Evil Stepmother in Disney’s Cinderella Film (Exclusive) Cotty Chubb will produce under his ChubbCo banner, while Eva Maria Daniels and Olga Segura will executive produce. Blanchett has not yet decided if she’ll star in the film, according to an individual with knowledge of the director’s plans for the adaptation.
- 9/19/2013
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Cate Blanchett will make her feature directorial debut on a film adaptation of Herman Koch's 2009 psychological thriller novel "The Dinner".
Oren Moverman ("The Messenger") is adapting the script in this story of just how far parents will go to protect their children.
Cotty Chubb is producing. It is unclear at present if Blanchett will also star in the film.
Source: Deadline...
Oren Moverman ("The Messenger") is adapting the script in this story of just how far parents will go to protect their children.
Cotty Chubb is producing. It is unclear at present if Blanchett will also star in the film.
Source: Deadline...
- 9/19/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: After 20 years of great performances in front of the camera, Cate Blanchett is set to make her feature directorial debut on an adaptation of the Herman Koch novel The Dinner. The Messenger scribe Oren Moverman is adapting the psychological thriller which explores just how far some parents might go to protect their children. Cotty Chubb is producing through his ChubbCo banner. The film will be exec produced by Eva Maria Daniels and Olga Segura. It is unclear at the moment if Blanchett will star in the film. Blanchett, who once again is in the thick of the upcoming Oscar race for her performance in the Woody Allen-directed Blue Jasmine, has been honing her directing chops on the stage. She spent the last five years as co-artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company alongside her husband, playwright Andrew Upton. She directed playwright David Harrower’s Blackbird and Joan Didion...
- 9/19/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
The Dinner marks Cate Blanchett's directorial debut and is being scripted by The Messenger's Oren Moverman, based on Herman Koch's novel. According to Variety, Cotty Chubb will produce with his ChubbCo company while Olga Segua and Eva Maria Daniels are serving as executive producers on the film. Blanchett can be seen in the critically-acclaimed Blue Jasmine from director Woody Allen. She's up next in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug which opens this December as well as George Clooney's The Monuments Men. She's also in Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups which is in post-production phase. That film opens next year, and includes Christian Bale, Joel Kinnaman, Natalie Portman and Teresa Palmer.
- 9/19/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The problem with the top festivals is that no matter what you are doing, you feel you should be doing something else. Whether to stay home and write or be out seeing films or partying/ networking, sometimes you feel like you're missing out of the really important things. And I lost my hat! If any readers find my white Russian fox hat that I bought in a Berlin flea market, please return it to me! Yesterday I missed the inauguration brunch Acme PR hosted in conjunction with the film Citizen Koch about Mayor Koch because I was trying to send out photos from my camera to my new MacBook Pro to my blog! I also missed Occupy Wall Street. But the truth of that is I am no longer in the mood for issue docs. Inequality For All satisfied my need for understanding that issue, God Loves Uganda repelled me, though one of the volunteers I was talking to was so incensed at the film's message of homophobia that I realized its value. I am going to write more on the docs in the coming days, but now just for fun, I'm going to do a survey of how many deal with personal subjects and how many with social issues. I did find a great parking lot for $5, but it was so far away that I was unable to see the films Big Sur (sold out) and C.O.G., but I did catch the buzz film Fruitvale about the New Years Eve shooting of Oscar, a 22 year old Bay Area resident. Starring the superb Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer and Melonie Diaz and directed by Ryan Coogler, it captured the family life so beautifully, Oscar was so sympathetic, so human, so young that at its end, I was totally depressed by the gun violence done in this film and in so many incidents over this past year. Another film about guns, Valentine Road by Sasha Alpert is getting very good buzz as well. Seeing Fruitvale because it was a buzz film and was so easy to enter with my press pass meant missing out of Gideon's Army which I really wanted to see but did not realize a ticket had been reserved for me and so I missed out on seeing it. Gideon's Army follows three young public defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to the breaking point. I wanted to share it with my Pd friends in L.A. And the issue of justice and idealism would have taken me out of the depression over Fruitvale where the security guard who shot Oscar twice got off after serving 18 months in prison. Since this doc is an HBO doc, I might not get another chance to see it. At 4:00pm in Sundance (and Berlin, Cannes and Afm), the cocktail hour begins and we put aside watching films and switch to networking, catching up with news, meeting new people, etc. and so I went off to parties: The Louisiana Film Festival , Ifp, Film Independent and Indiewire, Kofic (the Korean film organization) and "The Party" of Sundance hosted by John Sloss and Cinetic were all on the calendar. Starting at the Riverhorse on Main, the Film Independent / Indiewire party was so exciting that I missed the Ifp party up the street. At the Find/ Indiewire party, I got to catch up with so many people including Bob and Jeannie Berney who will be opening their new company Picturehouse (2) with a Metallica film in 3D which sounds like a perfect Bob Berney film. I met Adam Donaghey, a partner of Aviation Cinemas who had been at the Arthouse Convergence. His theater is where they arrested up Lee Harvey Oswald and was originally the flag ship theater created by Howard Hughes as part of the Rko Theaters chain. They also have started the Oak Cliff Film Festival which is a festival of festivals, much like Toronto was in its early days before becoming the showcase and discovery festival it is today. We spoke of a new sort of festival scam that filmmakers need to heed, called Awards Festivals. You can buy an award so you can show your film to be a winner of a festival where it never even needs to screen! Withoutabox even lists these festivals without warning. Adam wishes Withoutabox would curate chosen festivals a bit more. I agree because uneducated filmmakers often tend to think that quantity not quality of film festivals their films show at makes the look better than it might be. For uneducated audiences who might then watch the film, disappointment may result. For the trade, it gives the film a tawdry look.
Michele Satter, Founding Director, Feature Film Program of the Sundance Institute and Paul Federbush, International Director of the Feature Film Program invited me to tomorrow's Mahinda Global Filmmaking Awards Reception which awards $10,000 to 4 filmmakers with projects which give voice to issues needing to be heard. Again I have to miss something if I go there…Narco Cultura plays at 6:30pm, the Awards ceremony starts at 6pm, And I have been invited to my host's dinner party. I hope I can catch Narco Cultura (Isa: K5) on Cinando! The winners are Sarthak Dasgupta,The Music Teacher from India; Jonas Carpignano, A Chjana from Italy-us; Aly Muritiba, The Man Who Killed My Dead Beloved from Brazil; and Vendela Vida & Eva Weber, Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name UK-Germany-us. See more here
Rick Allen, Founder and CEO of Snagfilms (the owner of Indiewire) and I spoke of their ever-growing developments and I was startled and very happy to hear him praise my blog. Stefanie Sharis, COO and Andrew Mer, VP Content Partnerships of Snagfilms and I spoke of our plans in Berlin and Cannes.
Louisiana International Film Festival and Mentorship Program party where, for the second time during this festival, I caught a fantastic musical performance. The first was at the New York Film Lounge. This one was a "love riot" performance by jazz pianist extraordinaire, actor and educator Jonathan Batiste . Both the groups are represented by N.Y. Attorney Stephen Beers . I was with Ula again, and Indiewire's James Israel, doing the party circuit. I hope Ula will bring this fine New Orleans jazz pianist Jon Batiste to The American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. He had the room rocking with a sax, drums and -- was that a tuba? -- backing him up. I have filmed both groups and hope I can upload them for your enjoyment! The Louisiana Film Festival will be held in April and includes a mentorship program. It is being organized by our friends Jeff Dowd and Dan Ireland. Dan is now working on his next feature which sounds great with a cast of great actors. I want to go to this new festival to celebrate my birthday especially since my parents met in New Orleans as university students there, married and moved to L.A. where I was born, so it means a lot to me. Coincidently, when I mentioned this to the Executive Director and filmmaker Chesley Heymsfield, telling her my father was in med school at Lsu, she told me her father was Chancellor of the Lsu Medical School. In addition I am thinking that perhaps we can join forces with their Mentorship Program with The Literacy Project, which I began 4 years ago at El Centro del Pueblo in Echo Park. Their Mentorship Program, from what I understood, is headed by a Nobel Prize Winning Scientist. I may have heard wrong however, because the noise at this party was horrendous and the speech given was too long for sustained silence. Ula, James and I proceeded to the Korean party was a different group of folks gathering of the trade. While there I could do some matchmaking, one of my favorite pastimes, introducing Ula to Kiril of the Moscow Film Festival, seeing Clay Epstein, party organizers Henry Eshelmann and Mark Rabinowitz, being introduced by Ula and Kiral to the Busan International Film Festival/ Asian Film Market's Steering Committee Deputy Director (who is responsible for international marketing of the market, Chanil Jeon, who then introduced me to the programmer for North American films, Dosin Pak whose email is "Program [At] biff.kr" for all you North American filmmakers looking to break into Asia. I have written about Busan several times because I think South Korea's development and support of filmmaking, film education and film financing through its pre-sales market is a model other countries would be wise to follow. I would personally love to create an educational initiative there about cross-cultural competence. During one Cannes Festival, I spoke to their education director about that. So perhaps, with a little more time, I will be able to speak of how to actualize this idea. From the Korean party we went (Early) to John Sloss's Cinetic party, The Hot Ticket party for me. I know I'll see old friends there and meet new and not only interesting but important people in the business, and sure 'nuff, I did. I also know that if you come late to this party you are liable to spend a long time shivering in the cold waiting to be admitted. There was Anne Thompson holding court, Christine Vachon holding court and I am sure many others. I got some good face time with Cotty Chubb who has 3 films nearing completion, and Carol (whose last name I have forgotten regrettably without her card to jolt my memory) whom I last saw in Paris many years ago and has now returned to filmmaking. She in turn introduced me to the L.A. Based Rio Film Commissioner who works with the Rio-based Steve Solet. We gathered with old friends Tom Davia (of Shoreline) and Rodrigo Bellot whose film he wrote, We Are What We Are (Isa: Memento), just sold to eOne for U.S. for a low 6 figures. Eone already has Canada and U.K. That's enough for now. See you tomorrow!!
Michele Satter, Founding Director, Feature Film Program of the Sundance Institute and Paul Federbush, International Director of the Feature Film Program invited me to tomorrow's Mahinda Global Filmmaking Awards Reception which awards $10,000 to 4 filmmakers with projects which give voice to issues needing to be heard. Again I have to miss something if I go there…Narco Cultura plays at 6:30pm, the Awards ceremony starts at 6pm, And I have been invited to my host's dinner party. I hope I can catch Narco Cultura (Isa: K5) on Cinando! The winners are Sarthak Dasgupta,The Music Teacher from India; Jonas Carpignano, A Chjana from Italy-us; Aly Muritiba, The Man Who Killed My Dead Beloved from Brazil; and Vendela Vida & Eva Weber, Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name UK-Germany-us. See more here
Rick Allen, Founder and CEO of Snagfilms (the owner of Indiewire) and I spoke of their ever-growing developments and I was startled and very happy to hear him praise my blog. Stefanie Sharis, COO and Andrew Mer, VP Content Partnerships of Snagfilms and I spoke of our plans in Berlin and Cannes.
Louisiana International Film Festival and Mentorship Program party where, for the second time during this festival, I caught a fantastic musical performance. The first was at the New York Film Lounge. This one was a "love riot" performance by jazz pianist extraordinaire, actor and educator Jonathan Batiste . Both the groups are represented by N.Y. Attorney Stephen Beers . I was with Ula again, and Indiewire's James Israel, doing the party circuit. I hope Ula will bring this fine New Orleans jazz pianist Jon Batiste to The American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. He had the room rocking with a sax, drums and -- was that a tuba? -- backing him up. I have filmed both groups and hope I can upload them for your enjoyment! The Louisiana Film Festival will be held in April and includes a mentorship program. It is being organized by our friends Jeff Dowd and Dan Ireland. Dan is now working on his next feature which sounds great with a cast of great actors. I want to go to this new festival to celebrate my birthday especially since my parents met in New Orleans as university students there, married and moved to L.A. where I was born, so it means a lot to me. Coincidently, when I mentioned this to the Executive Director and filmmaker Chesley Heymsfield, telling her my father was in med school at Lsu, she told me her father was Chancellor of the Lsu Medical School. In addition I am thinking that perhaps we can join forces with their Mentorship Program with The Literacy Project, which I began 4 years ago at El Centro del Pueblo in Echo Park. Their Mentorship Program, from what I understood, is headed by a Nobel Prize Winning Scientist. I may have heard wrong however, because the noise at this party was horrendous and the speech given was too long for sustained silence. Ula, James and I proceeded to the Korean party was a different group of folks gathering of the trade. While there I could do some matchmaking, one of my favorite pastimes, introducing Ula to Kiril of the Moscow Film Festival, seeing Clay Epstein, party organizers Henry Eshelmann and Mark Rabinowitz, being introduced by Ula and Kiral to the Busan International Film Festival/ Asian Film Market's Steering Committee Deputy Director (who is responsible for international marketing of the market, Chanil Jeon, who then introduced me to the programmer for North American films, Dosin Pak whose email is "Program [At] biff.kr" for all you North American filmmakers looking to break into Asia. I have written about Busan several times because I think South Korea's development and support of filmmaking, film education and film financing through its pre-sales market is a model other countries would be wise to follow. I would personally love to create an educational initiative there about cross-cultural competence. During one Cannes Festival, I spoke to their education director about that. So perhaps, with a little more time, I will be able to speak of how to actualize this idea. From the Korean party we went (Early) to John Sloss's Cinetic party, The Hot Ticket party for me. I know I'll see old friends there and meet new and not only interesting but important people in the business, and sure 'nuff, I did. I also know that if you come late to this party you are liable to spend a long time shivering in the cold waiting to be admitted. There was Anne Thompson holding court, Christine Vachon holding court and I am sure many others. I got some good face time with Cotty Chubb who has 3 films nearing completion, and Carol (whose last name I have forgotten regrettably without her card to jolt my memory) whom I last saw in Paris many years ago and has now returned to filmmaking. She in turn introduced me to the L.A. Based Rio Film Commissioner who works with the Rio-based Steve Solet. We gathered with old friends Tom Davia (of Shoreline) and Rodrigo Bellot whose film he wrote, We Are What We Are (Isa: Memento), just sold to eOne for U.S. for a low 6 figures. Eone already has Canada and U.K. That's enough for now. See you tomorrow!!
- 1/24/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Breaking… Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley and CSI: NY’s Hill Harper have signed on for Parts Per Billion. Teresa Palmer and Alexis Bledel have also joined the Brian Horiuchi-directed and -written drama, which follows three separate couples as they deal with an event that threatens to destroy their relationships. Frank Langella, Gena Rowlands, Rosario Dawson and Josh Hartnett star. The recently created Aka/Bow Street Films is producing; Dawson is executive producing with Joe Jenckes, Cotty Chubb, Arianne Fraser and D. Todd Shepherd and George Waud. Molly Hassell, Jennifer Levine, Michael Benaroya and David Dickson are producing. Parts Per Billion is shooting in Detroit until the end of the year. Harper is repped by Innovative Artists and Luber Roklin Entertainment. Badgley, who stars in Greetings From Tim Buckley, out next year, is repped by CAA and Anonymous Content.
- 12/12/2012
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Aka/Bow Street Films announced today that Penn Badgley ( Greetings From Tim Buckley ), Teresa Palmer ( I Am Number Four ), Alexis Bledel (.Gilmore Girls.) and Hill Harper (.CSI: New York.) have joined the ensemble cast for writer/director Brian Horiuchi.s Parts Per Billion . The film is currently scheduled to shoot through Christmas in Detroit. Parts Per Billion also stars Frank Langella ( Robot and Frank ), Gena Rowlands ( Yellow ), Rosario Dawson ( Sin City ) and Josh Hartnett ( Black Hawk Down ), with Molly Hassell ( Edmond ), Jennifer Levine ( Delirious ), Michael Benaroya ( Lawless ) and David Dickson producing. Joe Jenckes ( Margin Call ) will be executive producing with Dawson, Cotty Chubb, Arianne Fraser and Miscellaneous Entertainment.s D. Todd Shepherd and George...
- 12/12/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Abigail Breslin continues to make the move toward more adult roles. Variety reports that she is set to lead Beth Schacter's indie comedy A Virgin Mary. Earlier we reported that Breslin was to lead the adult-themed true crime pic The Class Project. Mary was written by Schacter (Normal Adolescent Behavior), and it's described as "a coming-of-age story in the tradition of Sixteen Candles."
Breslin (15) will star "as a teen who vows to have sex with her best male friend if they're still virgins by the time they turn 18." Carter Jenkins (Valentine's Day) will star opposite Breslin, while Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee) will play her best friend. Daryl Sabara will also star in the film. The project is being produced by Black Sheep Entertainment partners Jordana Mollick and Brendan Bragg along with Steakhaus Prods. Cotty Chubb (Appaloosa) is serving as exec producer on the film that is slated...
Breslin (15) will star "as a teen who vows to have sex with her best male friend if they're still virgins by the time they turn 18." Carter Jenkins (Valentine's Day) will star opposite Breslin, while Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee) will play her best friend. Daryl Sabara will also star in the film. The project is being produced by Black Sheep Entertainment partners Jordana Mollick and Brendan Bragg along with Steakhaus Prods. Cotty Chubb (Appaloosa) is serving as exec producer on the film that is slated...
- 9/6/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Ryan Kavanaugh via La TimesI read an interesting article over at IndieWire recently. In it indie producer Cotty Chubb (Appaloosa, Eve's Bayou, Mallrats) suggests Relativity Media chief Ryan Kavanaugh should start bankrolling smaller films to bring back younger viewers. Then give those films to theater chains for free while keeping all the ancillary money from DVDs, video on demand and domestic and international television rights.
His reasoning is that if these films are made they will have lower ticket prices than regular films and that producers will find a new crop of filmmakers who will give voice to the young people who are currently avoiding movies, or, as Chubb said in the article: "The studios, for the most part, don't make actual movies for [young adults] anymore, movies like Say Anything or Fight Club. For every Superbad there's a hundred enormous branded spectacles, notwithstanding the deliciously nutty Black Swan or the passionate The Fighter (which,...
His reasoning is that if these films are made they will have lower ticket prices than regular films and that producers will find a new crop of filmmakers who will give voice to the young people who are currently avoiding movies, or, as Chubb said in the article: "The studios, for the most part, don't make actual movies for [young adults] anymore, movies like Say Anything or Fight Club. For every Superbad there's a hundred enormous branded spectacles, notwithstanding the deliciously nutty Black Swan or the passionate The Fighter (which,...
- 1/12/2011
- by Bill Cody
- Rope of Silicon
Indie producer Cotty Chubb has a modest proposal for Relativity chief Ryan Kavanaugh that could save the movies. (Chubb wants the studios to be involved, which may be part of the problem.) The movie business is being strangled. For a professionally produced picture to succeed, it must be released theatrically. But not every movie is fit for 3,000 screens or appropriate only to educated adults, the twin poles of distribution today. And there is almost no middle ground. Everybody knows the independent movie business has been squashed. But the studios aren’t doing so well either, when you look closely at long-term prospects. Their audience is slowly drifting away. • Movie tickets sold have declined about 3% this year, and have been absolutely flat over the ...
- 12/23/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
We’ve mentioned this film before and even had a DVD giveaway for the Samuel L. Jackson/Carrie Anne Moss/Michael Sheen suspense thriller Unthinkable which went straight to DVD on Sony Home Video and Netflix this week. But the film has become the hottest film that no one seems to have heard of. According to the L.A. Times, the film is No. 4 in terms of IMDb searches with a user rating of 7.3 A lot of people want to find out more about it (especially since a copy of the film leaked out on the internet) and I’ve read some excellent reviews for it on a few DVD review websites.
So if the buzz is so strong why didn’t it get a theatrical release? It would have been a perfect late winter/early spring release to beat the blahs. According to producer Cotty Chubb (who produced Kasi Lemmons...
So if the buzz is so strong why didn’t it get a theatrical release? It would have been a perfect late winter/early spring release to beat the blahs. According to producer Cotty Chubb (who produced Kasi Lemmons...
- 6/15/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
New York -- Brandon Routh, Gil Bellows, Martin Donovan and Carrie-Anne Moss are doing the "Unthinkable."
The quartet will join Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Sheen in the suspense thriller produced, financed and distributed by Senator U.S.
Routh and Bellows play members of an FBI anti-terrorism team run by Agent Brody (Moss). With the help of a black-ops agent (Jackson), they're assigned by an FBI director (Donovan) to interrogate an American Muslim man (Sheen) claiming to have nuclear bombs planted in three U.S. cities.
Gregor Jordan's "Unthinkable" will be one of the first high-profile projects from the new distributor run by Marco Weber, who recently left Germany-based Senator Entertainment. Weber and Caldecot Chubb are producing, with principal photography to begin Oct. 20 in Los Angeles. Kimmel International is handling worldwide sales.
The quartet will join Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Sheen in the suspense thriller produced, financed and distributed by Senator U.S.
Routh and Bellows play members of an FBI anti-terrorism team run by Agent Brody (Moss). With the help of a black-ops agent (Jackson), they're assigned by an FBI director (Donovan) to interrogate an American Muslim man (Sheen) claiming to have nuclear bombs planted in three U.S. cities.
Gregor Jordan's "Unthinkable" will be one of the first high-profile projects from the new distributor run by Marco Weber, who recently left Germany-based Senator Entertainment. Weber and Caldecot Chubb are producing, with principal photography to begin Oct. 20 in Los Angeles. Kimmel International is handling worldwide sales.
- 10/6/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Check out red carpet photos from La premiere of New Line Cinema's "Appaloosa" including Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger and more! The preem took place at the Academy Theater / Beverly Hills, CA. on September 18th. The film makes its expansion this weekend into 800+ venues. Also in the cast are Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall, Lance Henriksen, Mike Watson, Rex Linn, Tom Bower, Boyd Kestner, Gabriel Marantz. Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen ("Eastern Promises"), four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris ("Pollock"), Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger ("Cold Mountain") and Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons ("Reversal of Fortune") star in the Western "Appaloosa," adapted from the Robert B. Parker novel. All images copyright© Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos Set in 1882 in the Old West territory of New Mexico, "Appaloosa" revolves around city marshal Virgil Cole (Harris) and his deputy and partner Everett Hitch (Mortensen), who have made their reputation as peacekeepers in the...
- 9/26/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Samuel L. Jackson is set to star and Gregor Jordon is slated to direct Unthinkable, a suspense thriller to be produced and financed by Senator Entertainment.
In the story, penned by Peter Woodward with revisions by Orin Moverman, a major threat is posed to the U.S. when the locations of three nuclear devices are shrouded in secrecy by a single terrorist. With only two days before they are deployed, a black-ops interrogator (Jackson) and a female FBI agent have to decide how far they will go to find the weapons.
Senator president Marco Weber and Caldecot Chubb are producing. Principal photography is scheduled to begin Sept. 2 in Michigan.
Worldwide sales will be handled by Kimmel International.
Unthinkable is the second collaboration between Jordan and Weber, who recently completed production on The Informers.
Jackson, repped by ICM and Anonymous Content, will be seen later this year in Lionsgate's The Spirit.
In the story, penned by Peter Woodward with revisions by Orin Moverman, a major threat is posed to the U.S. when the locations of three nuclear devices are shrouded in secrecy by a single terrorist. With only two days before they are deployed, a black-ops interrogator (Jackson) and a female FBI agent have to decide how far they will go to find the weapons.
Senator president Marco Weber and Caldecot Chubb are producing. Principal photography is scheduled to begin Sept. 2 in Michigan.
Worldwide sales will be handled by Kimmel International.
Unthinkable is the second collaboration between Jordan and Weber, who recently completed production on The Informers.
Jackson, repped by ICM and Anonymous Content, will be seen later this year in Lionsgate's The Spirit.
- A switch of hands in the director's chair as occured for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment's project co-written by Peter Woodward and Oren Moverman. David Slade who got tons of favorable attention for Hard Candy and got slammed for 30 Days of Night - will be handling Unthinkable a thriller that delves into psychological manipulation centering on the interrogation of a man who knows the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the U.S. Currently in preproduction and in the casting phase, THR reports a summer start is being eyed and that Caldecot Chubb and Patriot Pictures' Michael Mendelsohn are also producing. Tarsem (who'll have his long-awaited The Fall in theaters sometime in March) was formerly attached to direct the project - but has since movied onto Warner Bros. The Unforgettable....
- 2/8/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
HBO has greenlighted Brooklyn, an HBO Films original movie about the interactions among the diverse group of visitors and workers at a struggling Brooklyn diner during a single day. Jim McKay (Our Song) wrote the script, inspired by personal experiences submitted by viewers via e-mail, and will direct. The film's ensemble cast includes Reg E. Cathey (HBO's Oz), Iris Little-Thomas (HBO's Boycott) and up-and-comers Bridget Barkan, Ron Butler, Jordan Gelber (Riding in Cars With Boys), Billoah Greene (Levity), Stephen Henderson and poets muMs (Oz) and Sydnee Stewart. Brooklyn native Nelson George, Sean Daniel and Caldecot Chubb are executive producing Brooklyn, with Effie T. Brown producing. Filming has begun, with an aim for a 2004 premiere.
- 4/25/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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