Independent Entertainment have boarded M. Cahill’s “Porcupine” and will launch international sales at the Cannes Marche.
Vertical Entertainment have the North American rights and have set a summer 2022 release for the film, which was written and directed by Cahill.
Featuring Jena Malone (Hunger Games franchise) and Robert Hunger-Bühler (“Vacuum”), “Porcupine” is based on a true story about “a woman’s longing to belong.”
In the offbeat feature, Malone plays Audrey, a woman who is estranged from her family and struggles to hold down a job, having been fired seven times in two years. Afflicted by the unspoken pandemic of loneliness, she finds solace in going down YouTube rabbit holes. One day that changes when she stumbles across a video about adult adoption and decides to try it out for herself.
Audrey soon gets herself adopted by a family as dysfunctional as she is but finds an unlikely companionship in...
Vertical Entertainment have the North American rights and have set a summer 2022 release for the film, which was written and directed by Cahill.
Featuring Jena Malone (Hunger Games franchise) and Robert Hunger-Bühler (“Vacuum”), “Porcupine” is based on a true story about “a woman’s longing to belong.”
In the offbeat feature, Malone plays Audrey, a woman who is estranged from her family and struggles to hold down a job, having been fired seven times in two years. Afflicted by the unspoken pandemic of loneliness, she finds solace in going down YouTube rabbit holes. One day that changes when she stumbles across a video about adult adoption and decides to try it out for herself.
Audrey soon gets herself adopted by a family as dysfunctional as she is but finds an unlikely companionship in...
- 5/10/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
New projects from ‘The Father’, ‘Born To Be Blue’ producers in Ontario Creates iff forum (exclusive)
Virtual meetings, panels and networking to take place September 12-13.
New projects from producers and production companies behind The Father, Born To Be Blue, Mustang and I’m No Longer Here are among the roster at the virtual 16th Ontario Creates International Financing Forum (iff) set to run from September 12-13.
The two-day co-financing and co-production market, which will run online due to the pandemic, serves international and Canadian producers developing mostly English-language projects and takes place in association with Toronto International Film Festival.
Sessions encompass one-on-one producer and executive meetings with 42 executives in attendance including new companies like Voltage Pictures,...
New projects from producers and production companies behind The Father, Born To Be Blue, Mustang and I’m No Longer Here are among the roster at the virtual 16th Ontario Creates International Financing Forum (iff) set to run from September 12-13.
The two-day co-financing and co-production market, which will run online due to the pandemic, serves international and Canadian producers developing mostly English-language projects and takes place in association with Toronto International Film Festival.
Sessions encompass one-on-one producer and executive meetings with 42 executives in attendance including new companies like Voltage Pictures,...
- 8/30/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
When IndieWire asked top casting directors to name the best-cast films of 2016, more than half wanted to write about “Moonlight.”
Considering the awards attention being lavished on the cast, and for Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris in particular, the uniformity of opinion wasn’t entirely unexpected. However, the peers of “Moonlight” casting director Yesi Ramirez also provided eye-opening insight into the significant obstacles of casting Barry Jenkins’ film.
Read More: Here Are the Best-Cast Films of 2016, According to Top Casting Directors
“Forget the Csa’s Artios Award – Yesi should get a Purple Heart,” remarked casting director Mark Bennett (“20th Century Women”).
It is a challenge to cast children, especially for the emotionally raw material found in the script that Jenkins adapted from Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play. It is a challenge to rely on local, non-acting performers. It is a challenge to find three actors to play each of the...
Considering the awards attention being lavished on the cast, and for Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris in particular, the uniformity of opinion wasn’t entirely unexpected. However, the peers of “Moonlight” casting director Yesi Ramirez also provided eye-opening insight into the significant obstacles of casting Barry Jenkins’ film.
Read More: Here Are the Best-Cast Films of 2016, According to Top Casting Directors
“Forget the Csa’s Artios Award – Yesi should get a Purple Heart,” remarked casting director Mark Bennett (“20th Century Women”).
It is a challenge to cast children, especially for the emotionally raw material found in the script that Jenkins adapted from Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play. It is a challenge to rely on local, non-acting performers. It is a challenge to find three actors to play each of the...
- 12/7/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Ashleigh Cummings as Dot in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.
Ashleigh Cummings is this year's winner of the Heath Ledger Scholarship, with Harley Bonner and Sara West named runners-up..
Ledger's Candy co-star Abbie Cornish, serving on the judging committee for the first time, said that "the quality of Ashleigh.s work to-date combined with her single-minded approach to fulfilling her acting potential made her the worthy recipient of this year.s award."
"We are all excited about the impact that winning this award will have on Ashleigh.s career and are eager to see the future work of runners up Harley and Sara..
At the ceremony in La, Cummings called Ledger "a powerful source of inspiration to me, so to receive this award is inordinately humbling. I'd like to sincerely thank AiF and the beautiful Ledger family for supporting young artists in our passionate endeavours to continue in Heath's wake."
Cummings...
Ashleigh Cummings is this year's winner of the Heath Ledger Scholarship, with Harley Bonner and Sara West named runners-up..
Ledger's Candy co-star Abbie Cornish, serving on the judging committee for the first time, said that "the quality of Ashleigh.s work to-date combined with her single-minded approach to fulfilling her acting potential made her the worthy recipient of this year.s award."
"We are all excited about the impact that winning this award will have on Ashleigh.s career and are eager to see the future work of runners up Harley and Sara..
At the ceremony in La, Cummings called Ledger "a powerful source of inspiration to me, so to receive this award is inordinately humbling. I'd like to sincerely thank AiF and the beautiful Ledger family for supporting young artists in our passionate endeavours to continue in Heath's wake."
Cummings...
- 6/2/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Film Independent top brass have announced the producers selected for the 14th annual Producing Lab.
The 2014 Producing Lab is supported by lead funder Time Warner Foundation with additional funding from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation and National Endowment For The Arts.
The 2014 Producing Lab filmmakers and projects are: 37, Mollye Asher; The Buried Life, Summer Shelton; Commerce, Steven Berger; Dara Ju (Better), Justin Begnaud; Lord Of Vinyl, Dennis Bartok, Joanna Colbert; Operator, Felipe Dieppa; Shale, Traci Carlson; and Slash, Brock Williams.
Film Independent also awarded the $30,000 eighth annual Sloan Producing Grant to Shelton for The Buried Life by Joan Schimke and Averie Storck.
The 2014 Producing Lab is supported by lead funder Time Warner Foundation with additional funding from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation and National Endowment For The Arts.
The 2014 Producing Lab filmmakers and projects are: 37, Mollye Asher; The Buried Life, Summer Shelton; Commerce, Steven Berger; Dara Ju (Better), Justin Begnaud; Lord Of Vinyl, Dennis Bartok, Joanna Colbert; Operator, Felipe Dieppa; Shale, Traci Carlson; and Slash, Brock Williams.
Film Independent also awarded the $30,000 eighth annual Sloan Producing Grant to Shelton for The Buried Life by Joan Schimke and Averie Storck.
- 10/28/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The “Zoolander” actor is set to star in the upcoming biopic of Chippendales founder Somen “Steve” Banerjee. Banerjee's colorful life, which ended in a prison cell in October 1994, has already been the subject of a TV movie. Now, Ben Stiller is set to star in “I Am Chippendales,” which tells the story of how Banerjee emigrated from India to Los Angeles and went from a gas station attendant to become the founder of the male dance troupe. The film will be cast by Joanna Colbert, Backstage has learned. Alan Ball is set to direct "Chippendales," which shoots in Atlanta.
- 4/22/2014
- backstage.com
When an actor is invited to a party celebrating casting directors, he or she RSVPs an emphatic yes. And so it was that the July 29 premiere party (at the HBO screening room and later at Manhattan’s Gramercy Park Hotel) for Tom Donahue’s documentary “Casting By”—premiering on HBO Aug. 5—was a particularly star-studded affair. As people chatted and flipped through the “Casting By” issue of Backstage, bold-faced names including Martin Scorsese, Parker Posey, Zach Grenier, Stephen Lang, and Dana Delany mingled with Donahue and casting directors Joanna Colbert, Amanda Mackey, Juliet Taylor, and Ellen Lewis. Following a screening of Donahue’s film—which included a discussion with Donahue, Taylor, and moderator Scott Foundas—much of the audience trooped over to the Gramercy Terrace for cocktails inspired by some of the movies discussed in the documentary. A favorite among the crowd was the Sting, a highbrow bloody mary made...
- 7/31/2013
- backstage.com
"Casting By," the new documentary by "Guest of Cindy Sherman" director Tom Donahue, has been acquired for TV by HBO. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival Monday and next screens at the New York Film Festival October 12. Produced by Kate Lacey, Donahue, Ilan Arboleda and Joanna Colbert, "Casting By" looks at the last fifty years in Hollywood by way of casting directors, profiling pioneers in the field like Marion Dougherty and Lynn Stalmaster, whose ability to spot screen potential helped shape the New Hollywood era with films such as “Midnight Cowboy,” “The Graduate,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “Bonnie and Clyde.” These casting directors helped steer cinema away from traditional conceptions of leading men and women, finding places for actors such as James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Bette Midler, Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman. ...
- 9/13/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Toronto, Sept. 13, 2012 – HBO Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. television rights to Tom Donahue’s feature documentary film Casting By, it was announced today. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday evening to an enthusiastic crowd and will next be screened at the New York Film Festival. Produced by Kate Lacey, Tom Donahue, Ilan Arboleda & Joanna Colbert, Casting By puts the spotlight on filmmaking’s unsung heroes – the casting director – and takes us on a fast-paced journey through the last half-century of Hollywood history from an entirely new perspective. Casting pioneers like Marion Dougherty and Lynn Stalmaster were iconoclasts whose exquisite taste and gut instincts helped change the old studio system and usher in the New Hollywood with movies like “Midnight Cowboy,” “The Graduate,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “Bonnie and Clyde.” Afforded the unprecedented freedom and power of the new medium of television,...
- 9/13/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline TV
Toronto, Sept. 13, 2012 – HBO Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. television rights to Tom Donahue’s feature documentary film Casting By, it was announced today. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday evening to an enthusiastic crowd and will next be screened at the New York Film Festival. Produced by Kate Lacey, Tom Donahue, Ilan Arboleda & Joanna Colbert, Casting By puts the spotlight on filmmaking’s unsung heroes – the casting director – and takes us on a fast-paced journey through the last half-century of Hollywood history from an entirely new perspective. Casting pioneers like Marion Dougherty and Lynn Stalmaster were iconoclasts whose exquisite taste and gut instincts helped change the old studio system and usher in the New Hollywood with movies like “Midnight Cowboy,” “The Graduate,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “Bonnie and Clyde.” Afforded the unprecedented freedom and power of the new medium of television,...
- 9/13/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
HBO Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. television rights to Tom Donahue.s feature documentary film Casting By, it was announced today. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday evening to an enthusiastic crowd and will next be screened at the New York Film Festival. From HBO Produced by Kate Lacey, Tom Donahue, Ilan Arboleda & Joanna Colbert, Casting By puts the spotlight on filmmaking.s unsung heroes . the casting director . and takes us on a fast-paced journey through the last half-century of Hollywood history from an entirely new perspective. Casting pioneers like Marion Dougherty and Lynn Stalmaster were iconoclasts whose exquisite taste and gut instincts helped change the old...
- 9/13/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Yesi Ramirez says she didn't know there were such things as casting directors until she started working down the hall from them. Her position as a contract administrator at Universal Studios was part of a larger department that also included casting personnel, so her office neighbors were CDs such as Avy Kaufman and Universal's senior vice president of casting, Joanna Colbert."Basically any opportunity I had to pick the brains of casting directors or their associates about being a casting director, I took advantage of," Ramirez says. Because of her time at Whittier Law School, her department mates themselves took advantage of her skills, asking her to write their deal memos or make offers to actors. When Colbert left Universal to strike out on her own as a CD, Ramirez followed to be her assistant."She's truly been my great mentor," Ramirez says of Colbert. "We still collaborate together to this day.
- 7/20/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
Director Miguel Arteta would like to be known as the man who gives voice to awkward dorks everywhere. "Dorkiness is my realm in which I live, so I celebrate dorkiness," the director of "Chuck & Buck" and "Star Maps" says proudly. It's been eight years since Arteta's last film, "The Good Girl," which was honored by the National Board of Review. He's spent a lot of that time helming for TV, but his newest feature, "Youth in Revolt," is worth the wait. Actor Michael Cera has never been better as Nick Twisp, a 16-year-old desperate to lose his virginity to the girl of his dreams. That might sound like the pithy premise of a "Road Trip"– or "American Pie"–type jock fest, but "Youth in Revolt" has the substance to back it up, thanks to C.D. Payne's original novel. Cera's character creates an alter ego reminiscent of Tyler Durden in...
- 1/13/2010
- backstage.com
Determined not to be outscreamed by the competition, the once-dominant house of horrors at Universal is back in business with killer doll Chucky, a king-size cult franchise dating back to 1988's "Child's Play".
Starring the sizzlingly vampish Jennifer Tilly and directed by Hong Kong veteran Ronny Yu ("Warriors of Virtue"), "Bride of Chucky" is bloody good fun, when one isn't repulsed by its brutality. Needless to say, standards have changed tremendously since the studio created the "Bride of Frankenstein".
In fact, James Whales' 1935 classic is directly referenced in the story of a possessed, homicidal doll brought back to life after barely surviving three previous films. In this post-"Scream" era of savvy teen chillers, "Bride of Chucky" is irreverent toward itself, with the characters aware of Chucky's previous exploits.
Opening with the throat-cutting of an unlucky pawn by very bad girl Tiffany (Tilly), "Bride of Chucky" is graphic and shocking, darkly humorous and kinkily sexual. From man-slayer Tiffany's habit of wearing lingerie as she performs demonic rituals to the preposterously funny lovemaking of Chucky and his new doll-bride later on, the scenario sticks with the twisted romance of two monsters who are most compatible when causing mayhem and suffering.
Tiffany, who was Chucky's girlfriend before he died and his evil spirit moved to a doll, pieces together the little demon rescued from a police warehouse. Tattooed, pierced weirdo Damien (Alexis Arquette) shows up in her trailer at the wrong time, and Tiffany makes the awakened-after-years Chucky (voice by Brad Dourif) jealous.
But after the little fiend has his fun, unamused Tiffany locks him up. Wanting Chucky to suffer because she has truly loved him all these years and he laughed at the idea of marriage, Tiffany has a vicious sense of humor and gets him a cutesy girl doll.
It's Tiffany's turn next as Chucky escapes and she dies horribly when a TV monitor showing "Bride of Frankenstein" is dropped into the tub while she's bathing. Tilly in the flesh goes out with a memorable scream and is reborn as the voice of Tiffany the doll. Of course, it's not a marriage made in heaven, with Tiffany retaining a soft spot for true romance and Chucky treating her badly.
The regular humans of the story are not nearly as entertaining, with attractive duo Katherine Heigl and Nick Stabile playing young lovers who end up with the dolls on a wild ride to Niagara Falls and New Jersey. Also making the trip is the local police chief (John Ritter), albeit as a corpse with about 20 nails in his head. Meanwhile, trying to help out his fugitive friends, who are being blamed for Chucky and Tiffany's trail of corpses, David Gordon Michael Woolvett) is pulverized into spaghetti and meatballs by a big-rig truck.
BRIDE OF CHUCKY
Universal Pictures
A David Kirschner production
Director: Ronny Yu
Screenwriter: Don Mancini
Producers: David Kirschner, Grace Gilroy
Executive producers: Don Mancini, Corey Sienega
Director of photography: Peter Pau
Production designer: Alicia Keywan
Editors: David Wu, Randolph K. Bricker
Puppet effects: Kevin Yagher
Music: Graeme Revell
Costume designer: Lynne MacKay
Casting: Joanna Colbert, Ross Clydesdale
Color/stereo
Cast:
Tiffany: Jennifer Tilly
Chucky: Brad Dourif
Jade: Katherine Heigl
Jesse: Nick Stabile
Damien: Alexis Arquette
David: Gordon Michael Woolvett
Warren: John Ritter
Running time -- 89 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Starring the sizzlingly vampish Jennifer Tilly and directed by Hong Kong veteran Ronny Yu ("Warriors of Virtue"), "Bride of Chucky" is bloody good fun, when one isn't repulsed by its brutality. Needless to say, standards have changed tremendously since the studio created the "Bride of Frankenstein".
In fact, James Whales' 1935 classic is directly referenced in the story of a possessed, homicidal doll brought back to life after barely surviving three previous films. In this post-"Scream" era of savvy teen chillers, "Bride of Chucky" is irreverent toward itself, with the characters aware of Chucky's previous exploits.
Opening with the throat-cutting of an unlucky pawn by very bad girl Tiffany (Tilly), "Bride of Chucky" is graphic and shocking, darkly humorous and kinkily sexual. From man-slayer Tiffany's habit of wearing lingerie as she performs demonic rituals to the preposterously funny lovemaking of Chucky and his new doll-bride later on, the scenario sticks with the twisted romance of two monsters who are most compatible when causing mayhem and suffering.
Tiffany, who was Chucky's girlfriend before he died and his evil spirit moved to a doll, pieces together the little demon rescued from a police warehouse. Tattooed, pierced weirdo Damien (Alexis Arquette) shows up in her trailer at the wrong time, and Tiffany makes the awakened-after-years Chucky (voice by Brad Dourif) jealous.
But after the little fiend has his fun, unamused Tiffany locks him up. Wanting Chucky to suffer because she has truly loved him all these years and he laughed at the idea of marriage, Tiffany has a vicious sense of humor and gets him a cutesy girl doll.
It's Tiffany's turn next as Chucky escapes and she dies horribly when a TV monitor showing "Bride of Frankenstein" is dropped into the tub while she's bathing. Tilly in the flesh goes out with a memorable scream and is reborn as the voice of Tiffany the doll. Of course, it's not a marriage made in heaven, with Tiffany retaining a soft spot for true romance and Chucky treating her badly.
The regular humans of the story are not nearly as entertaining, with attractive duo Katherine Heigl and Nick Stabile playing young lovers who end up with the dolls on a wild ride to Niagara Falls and New Jersey. Also making the trip is the local police chief (John Ritter), albeit as a corpse with about 20 nails in his head. Meanwhile, trying to help out his fugitive friends, who are being blamed for Chucky and Tiffany's trail of corpses, David Gordon Michael Woolvett) is pulverized into spaghetti and meatballs by a big-rig truck.
BRIDE OF CHUCKY
Universal Pictures
A David Kirschner production
Director: Ronny Yu
Screenwriter: Don Mancini
Producers: David Kirschner, Grace Gilroy
Executive producers: Don Mancini, Corey Sienega
Director of photography: Peter Pau
Production designer: Alicia Keywan
Editors: David Wu, Randolph K. Bricker
Puppet effects: Kevin Yagher
Music: Graeme Revell
Costume designer: Lynne MacKay
Casting: Joanna Colbert, Ross Clydesdale
Color/stereo
Cast:
Tiffany: Jennifer Tilly
Chucky: Brad Dourif
Jade: Katherine Heigl
Jesse: Nick Stabile
Damien: Alexis Arquette
David: Gordon Michael Woolvett
Warren: John Ritter
Running time -- 89 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/19/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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