Marc Rothemund’s drama has attracted more than 1.4 million admissions in Germany.
Munich-based Global Screen has picked up international sales rights to Constantin Film’s box-office hit This Crazy Heart (Dieses Bescheuerte Herz), which has been seen by more than 1.4 million German cinema-goers since its release on December 21.
Source: Jürgen Olczyk
This Crazy Heart
Based on the bestseller written by Lars Amend together with Daniel Meyer, who suffers from heart disease, Marc Rothemund’s film follows 30-something rich kid Lenny (played by top German box-office draw Elyas M’Barek) who is given the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old heart patient David (newcomer Philip Noah Schwarz in his big screen acting debut) and breaks all the rules to fulfil his young friend’s every wish.
Produced by Constantin Film’s Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben, this film is the first title from Germany’s leading producer-distributor to be handled by Global Screen and will have its market premiere at the...
Munich-based Global Screen has picked up international sales rights to Constantin Film’s box-office hit This Crazy Heart (Dieses Bescheuerte Herz), which has been seen by more than 1.4 million German cinema-goers since its release on December 21.
Source: Jürgen Olczyk
This Crazy Heart
Based on the bestseller written by Lars Amend together with Daniel Meyer, who suffers from heart disease, Marc Rothemund’s film follows 30-something rich kid Lenny (played by top German box-office draw Elyas M’Barek) who is given the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old heart patient David (newcomer Philip Noah Schwarz in his big screen acting debut) and breaks all the rules to fulfil his young friend’s every wish.
Produced by Constantin Film’s Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben, this film is the first title from Germany’s leading producer-distributor to be handled by Global Screen and will have its market premiere at the...
- 1/15/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Here’s the only plausible explanation for “Pottersville,” a nearly unwatchable — but inexplicably star-studded — new Christmas comedy which is making a brief pitstop in select theaters before spending the rest of eternity in the storage room of your local Walmart: A veteran producer at the Hallmark Channel was at the end of his rope (for the purposes of this hypothetical scenario, let’s pretend said producer was “Pottersville” director Seth Henrikson, whose sparse IMDb credits leave plenty to the imagination). Frustrated by a career spent churning out festive — and weirdly horny — shlock like “A Very Merry Mix-Up,” “Matchmaker Santa” (featuring Lacey Chabert), and “A Boyfriend for Christmas” (the story of an infatuated girl who wastes her 20s waiting for Santa Claus to come down her chimney), he finally broke.
Some scholars argue that it was the 2007 Melissa Joan Hart / Mario Lopez vehicle “Holiday in Handcuffs” that pushed him over the...
Some scholars argue that it was the 2007 Melissa Joan Hart / Mario Lopez vehicle “Holiday in Handcuffs” that pushed him over the...
- 11/10/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
An amiable misfire that (for better or worse) isn't quite as nutty as it sounds, Seth Henrikson's Pottersville pairs Yuletide cheer with the deviance of the Furry scene and an out-of-control hoax involving an ersatz Bigfoot. The feature debut for both Henrikson and screenwriter Daniel Meyer, it has attracted a top-shelf cast that presumably saw something in the source material that didn't quite come through in execution. Topliners including Michael Shannon and Christina Hendricks will likely be good for some clicks once the pic segues into streaming platforms.
Hendricks' performance here is one of several cues that we're watching the...
Hendricks' performance here is one of several cues that we're watching the...
- 11/10/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A heavy serving of period melodrama, John Patrick Kelley's "The Locusts" is an oppressive tale of temptation and redemption in rural Kansas.
Bordering perilously on camp, the material -- about a mysterious Young Buck (Vince Vaughn) who wanders onto the cattle ranch of an insatiable widow (Kate Capshaw) -- could have benefited from a lighter, less purposeful directorial touch.
As it is, with a determined, languorous pace that feels all of its 124-minute running time and then some, "Locusts" won't be drawing any swarms at the boxoffice. The sound of crickets is probably a more apt situation.
Drifting into the early 1960s farming town with the nonchalant bravado of a guy who's seen "Giant" too many times, Clay Hewitt (Vaughn), quickly raises the ire of the local bully (Daniel Meyer), not to mention the eyebrows of his intrigued girlfriend, the free-spirited Kitty (Ashley Judd).
With a mysterious past and few prospects, Clay manages to secure lodging and work at the feed ranch owned by the predatory Mrs. Potts (Capshaw), a boozy manipulator who's a sucker for a sweaty T-shirt.
In between warding off her persistent advances, Clay cottons to Mrs. Potts' neglected, emotionally traumatized son, Flyboy (Jeremy Davies), who has been in something of a semi-catatonic trance since the suicide of his father years earlier.
The two form a fast friendship, enabling Flyboy to partially emerge from his crippling shell while Clay latches on to a little nurturing purpose in his own aimless existence.
Fresh from "The Lost World" and "Swingers", Vaughn plays it all with a pout and a swagger; Capshaw seldom strays from a gin-soaked weariness. Only Davies ("Spanking the Monkey") manages to create something more three-dimensionally affecting as the emotionally damaged Flyboy, bringing to mind a young, pre-"Psycho" Anthony Perkins. Judd, too, given a much smaller role, generates a spirited spark as the supportive Kitty.
As a writer, Kelley is unafraid to pour on all the intrigue in generous, incest-tinged dollops, but he then attempts to balance the dirt with equal servings of heart-tugging poignance.
It's a daunting equation that never adds up.
As a director, it's clear Kelley has seen Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven" more than once, judging by the attention he pays to measured pacing and sun-kissed vistas.
Kelley is ably assisted in that end by director of photography Phedon Papamichael's vivid outdoor photography and Sherman Williams' artful, peeled-paint production design, not to mention the unhurried editing
THE LOCUSTS
MGM
Orion Pictures presents
A Brad Krevoy & Steve Stabler production
A film by John Patrick Kelley
Director-screenwriter John Patrick Kelley
Producers Brad Krevoy,
Steve Stabler,
Bradley Thomas
Director of photography Phedon Papamichael
Production designer Sherman Williams
Editors Kathryn Himoff,
Erica Flaum
Executive producers Adam Duritz,
Beth Holden,
Charles B. Wessler,
Cynthia Guidry
Costume designer Gail McMullen
Music Carter Burwell
Music supervisor Happy Walters
Color/stereo
Cast:
Mrs. Potts Kate Capshaw
Flyboy Jeremy Davies
Clay Hewitt Vince Vaughn
Kitty Ashley Judd
Earl Paul Rudd
Joel Daniel Meyer
Patsy Jessica Capshaw
Running time - 124 minutes
MPAA Rating: R...
Bordering perilously on camp, the material -- about a mysterious Young Buck (Vince Vaughn) who wanders onto the cattle ranch of an insatiable widow (Kate Capshaw) -- could have benefited from a lighter, less purposeful directorial touch.
As it is, with a determined, languorous pace that feels all of its 124-minute running time and then some, "Locusts" won't be drawing any swarms at the boxoffice. The sound of crickets is probably a more apt situation.
Drifting into the early 1960s farming town with the nonchalant bravado of a guy who's seen "Giant" too many times, Clay Hewitt (Vaughn), quickly raises the ire of the local bully (Daniel Meyer), not to mention the eyebrows of his intrigued girlfriend, the free-spirited Kitty (Ashley Judd).
With a mysterious past and few prospects, Clay manages to secure lodging and work at the feed ranch owned by the predatory Mrs. Potts (Capshaw), a boozy manipulator who's a sucker for a sweaty T-shirt.
In between warding off her persistent advances, Clay cottons to Mrs. Potts' neglected, emotionally traumatized son, Flyboy (Jeremy Davies), who has been in something of a semi-catatonic trance since the suicide of his father years earlier.
The two form a fast friendship, enabling Flyboy to partially emerge from his crippling shell while Clay latches on to a little nurturing purpose in his own aimless existence.
Fresh from "The Lost World" and "Swingers", Vaughn plays it all with a pout and a swagger; Capshaw seldom strays from a gin-soaked weariness. Only Davies ("Spanking the Monkey") manages to create something more three-dimensionally affecting as the emotionally damaged Flyboy, bringing to mind a young, pre-"Psycho" Anthony Perkins. Judd, too, given a much smaller role, generates a spirited spark as the supportive Kitty.
As a writer, Kelley is unafraid to pour on all the intrigue in generous, incest-tinged dollops, but he then attempts to balance the dirt with equal servings of heart-tugging poignance.
It's a daunting equation that never adds up.
As a director, it's clear Kelley has seen Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven" more than once, judging by the attention he pays to measured pacing and sun-kissed vistas.
Kelley is ably assisted in that end by director of photography Phedon Papamichael's vivid outdoor photography and Sherman Williams' artful, peeled-paint production design, not to mention the unhurried editing
THE LOCUSTS
MGM
Orion Pictures presents
A Brad Krevoy & Steve Stabler production
A film by John Patrick Kelley
Director-screenwriter John Patrick Kelley
Producers Brad Krevoy,
Steve Stabler,
Bradley Thomas
Director of photography Phedon Papamichael
Production designer Sherman Williams
Editors Kathryn Himoff,
Erica Flaum
Executive producers Adam Duritz,
Beth Holden,
Charles B. Wessler,
Cynthia Guidry
Costume designer Gail McMullen
Music Carter Burwell
Music supervisor Happy Walters
Color/stereo
Cast:
Mrs. Potts Kate Capshaw
Flyboy Jeremy Davies
Clay Hewitt Vince Vaughn
Kitty Ashley Judd
Earl Paul Rudd
Joel Daniel Meyer
Patsy Jessica Capshaw
Running time - 124 minutes
MPAA Rating: R...
- 10/3/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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