Two producers of Starz’s forthcoming Outlander prequel are taking on a different long-running book series for their next TV project.
Story Mining & Supply Co., the production company founded by Jim Kohlberg, has acquired rights to Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor mystery thriller novels, about a half-Irish, half-Ojibwe sheriff turned private investigator in Minnesota. The company will adapt the books — there are 19 to date, with a 20th set to publish in August — for television and is currently meeting with writers. No outlet is attached yet.
Kohlberg and longtime partner Luke Parker Bowles, a former BAFTA East Coast chairman (and nephew of Britain’s queen consort), will executive produce the project along with Krueger.
“From the minute I cracked open Kent’s first book, in much the same way as I did with Outlander, it was very clear that this series needed to be made,...
Story Mining & Supply Co., the production company founded by Jim Kohlberg, has acquired rights to Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor mystery thriller novels, about a half-Irish, half-Ojibwe sheriff turned private investigator in Minnesota. The company will adapt the books — there are 19 to date, with a 20th set to publish in August — for television and is currently meeting with writers. No outlet is attached yet.
Kohlberg and longtime partner Luke Parker Bowles, a former BAFTA East Coast chairman (and nephew of Britain’s queen consort), will executive produce the project along with Krueger.
“From the minute I cracked open Kent’s first book, in much the same way as I did with Outlander, it was very clear that this series needed to be made,...
- 4/2/2024
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Since the dawn of cell phones, it’s been taboo to use them at the movies.
But for the first time that he can remember, Marcus Theatres president Gregory Marcus is encouraging moviegoers to keep their iPhones in hand and — gasp — even use them for Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” concert film, which premieres in theaters on Friday.
“We want you to take selfies and pretend like it’s a concert,” he says. Swift, too, has encouraged her fans to treat the big screen extravaganza like it’s another stop on her record-breaking, sold-out stadium tour. “Eras attire, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing encouraged,” she wrote on Instagram while announcing the theatrical release.
Employees at Marcus Theatres are ready for rowdy Swifties while prioritizing their safety during the three-hour screenings. “We hope it won’t get out of hand. This is new for us, too,” Marcus says. “I really hope...
But for the first time that he can remember, Marcus Theatres president Gregory Marcus is encouraging moviegoers to keep their iPhones in hand and — gasp — even use them for Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” concert film, which premieres in theaters on Friday.
“We want you to take selfies and pretend like it’s a concert,” he says. Swift, too, has encouraged her fans to treat the big screen extravaganza like it’s another stop on her record-breaking, sold-out stadium tour. “Eras attire, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing encouraged,” she wrote on Instagram while announcing the theatrical release.
Employees at Marcus Theatres are ready for rowdy Swifties while prioritizing their safety during the three-hour screenings. “We hope it won’t get out of hand. This is new for us, too,” Marcus says. “I really hope...
- 10/12/2023
- by Rebecca Rubin and Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
“I don’t want to be that person who lives in a town and says, ‘I used to remember when that was a movie theater,’ ” Arianna Bocco tells Deadline as the IFC Films president and New Jersey native formally joins Bradley Lab — a subsidiary of theater developer/manager Cinema Lab.
The group is planning to reopen The Bradley, a Monmouth, NJ, theater that dates from 1915 and a project Bocco brought them. “It’s one of the last one-room theaters in the state and the thought of it going by the wayside and becoming something else pained me,” she said.
The original vaudeville theater at Bradley Beach was first called The Palace before being renamed The Beach and then The Showroom. It will reopen late this year with three high-tech auditoriums showing studio films, independent releases, curated series and director Q&As. It will offer free screenings for families with special needs children,...
The group is planning to reopen The Bradley, a Monmouth, NJ, theater that dates from 1915 and a project Bocco brought them. “It’s one of the last one-room theaters in the state and the thought of it going by the wayside and becoming something else pained me,” she said.
The original vaudeville theater at Bradley Beach was first called The Palace before being renamed The Beach and then The Showroom. It will reopen late this year with three high-tech auditoriums showing studio films, independent releases, curated series and director Q&As. It will offer free screenings for families with special needs children,...
- 2/23/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Following his SAG nomination for actor in a drama series, Sterling K. Brown is in negotiations to star in Fox Searchlight’s biopic “The Fence,” sources tell Variety.
Peter Nicks is on board to direct. George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, who originally brought the book to HBO before it landed at Searchlight, teamed up to adapt the script.
Based on the book by award-winning Boston Globe journalist Dick Lehr (“Black Mass”), “The Fence” follows the true story of Michael Cox, an African-American undercover cop who is mistaken for a suspect and brutally beaten by his own force following one of the largest police chases in Boston history. As Cox seeks answers and justice for what happened, he finds himself on the other side of the “blue wall of silence” as the Boston Police Department aggressively covers it up.
Jim Kohlberg and Luke Parker Bowles of Story Mining & Supply Co....
Peter Nicks is on board to direct. George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, who originally brought the book to HBO before it landed at Searchlight, teamed up to adapt the script.
Based on the book by award-winning Boston Globe journalist Dick Lehr (“Black Mass”), “The Fence” follows the true story of Michael Cox, an African-American undercover cop who is mistaken for a suspect and brutally beaten by his own force following one of the largest police chases in Boston history. As Cox seeks answers and justice for what happened, he finds himself on the other side of the “blue wall of silence” as the Boston Police Department aggressively covers it up.
Jim Kohlberg and Luke Parker Bowles of Story Mining & Supply Co....
- 12/12/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has shaken up its boards in New York and Los Angeles with a raft of new appointments. IFC Films and Sundance Selects exec Arianna Bocco has been named Chair of the Board of BAFTA New York. Bocco, who is Executive Vice President, Acquisitions and Production at the AMC Networks labels, replaces Luke Parker Bowles, President of Production at Outlander co-producer Story Mining & Supply Co., who is stepping down to Vice…...
- 1/23/2018
- Deadline TV
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has shaken up its boards in New York and Los Angeles with a raft of new appointments. IFC Films and Sundance Selects exec Arianna Bocco has been named Chair of the Board of BAFTA New York. Bocco, who is Executive Vice President, Acquisitions and Production at the AMC Networks labels, replaces Luke Parker Bowles, President of Production at Outlander co-producer Story Mining & Supply Co., who is stepping down to Vice…...
- 1/23/2018
- Deadline
Arianna Bocco appointed Bafta New York board chair.
Bafta has unveiled several board appointments for its branch in New York.
Source: Bafta
Arianna Bocco has been elected to serve as chair of the board at Bafta New York after stepping up from the role of vice chair. Bocco is executive vice president, acquisitions and production, at IFC Films and Sundance Selects. She replaces Luke Parker Bowles, who, having served a two-year term, steps down to vice chair for a one-year period.
Also elected to Bafta New York’s board are Maria Ishak, vice president, north america sales at all3media International, and Melinda Matlin, rights administrator at NBCUniversal and vice chair of Bafta’s New York Screening Committee.
Bafta New York’s board:
Arianna Bocco (chair) Luke Parker Bowles (vice chair) Lyn Familant (secretary) Barry Dale Johnson Celine Rattray Dee Poku Doug Schwalbe Linda Kahn Lisa Honig Maria Ishak* Melinda Matlin*
*New board members in 2018...
Bafta has unveiled several board appointments for its branch in New York.
Source: Bafta
Arianna Bocco has been elected to serve as chair of the board at Bafta New York after stepping up from the role of vice chair. Bocco is executive vice president, acquisitions and production, at IFC Films and Sundance Selects. She replaces Luke Parker Bowles, who, having served a two-year term, steps down to vice chair for a one-year period.
Also elected to Bafta New York’s board are Maria Ishak, vice president, north america sales at all3media International, and Melinda Matlin, rights administrator at NBCUniversal and vice chair of Bafta’s New York Screening Committee.
Bafta New York’s board:
Arianna Bocco (chair) Luke Parker Bowles (vice chair) Lyn Familant (secretary) Barry Dale Johnson Celine Rattray Dee Poku Doug Schwalbe Linda Kahn Lisa Honig Maria Ishak* Melinda Matlin*
*New board members in 2018...
- 1/22/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Arianna Bocco appointed Bafta New York board chair.
Bafta has unveiled several board appointments for its branches in La and New York.
Source: Bafta
Arianna Bocco has been elected to serve as chair of the board at Bafta New York after stepping up from the role of vice chair. Bocco is executive vice president, acquisitions and production, at IFC Films and Sundance Selects. She replaces Luke Parker Bowles, who, having served a two-year term, steps down to vice chair for a one-year period.
Also elected to Bafta New York’s board are Maria Ishak, vice president, north america sales at all3media International, and Melinda Matlin, rights administrator at NBCUniversal and vice chair of Bafta’s New York Screening Committee.
In Los Angeles, Kathryn Busby succeeds Peter Morris as deputy chair of the board. Busby is senior vice president of development, Sony Pictures TV Networks.
Also elected to the Bafta La board are Sandro Monetti, journalist and media analyst...
Bafta has unveiled several board appointments for its branches in La and New York.
Source: Bafta
Arianna Bocco has been elected to serve as chair of the board at Bafta New York after stepping up from the role of vice chair. Bocco is executive vice president, acquisitions and production, at IFC Films and Sundance Selects. She replaces Luke Parker Bowles, who, having served a two-year term, steps down to vice chair for a one-year period.
Also elected to Bafta New York’s board are Maria Ishak, vice president, north america sales at all3media International, and Melinda Matlin, rights administrator at NBCUniversal and vice chair of Bafta’s New York Screening Committee.
In Los Angeles, Kathryn Busby succeeds Peter Morris as deputy chair of the board. Busby is senior vice president of development, Sony Pictures TV Networks.
Also elected to the Bafta La board are Sandro Monetti, journalist and media analyst...
- 1/22/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The British Academy on Monday unveiled the newly elected members to its boards in Los Angeles and New York.
Arianna Bocco, executive vp acquisitions and production for IFC Films and Sundance Selects, has been named chair of the board for BAFTA New York, taking over from Luke Parker Bowles, who steps down to the post of vice chair for one year.
Also elected to serve on the board of BAFTA New York for three years are Maria Ishak, vp North America sale at All3media International, and Melinda Matlin, rights administrator at NBCUniversal and vice chair of BAFTA New York's screening committee.
...
Arianna Bocco, executive vp acquisitions and production for IFC Films and Sundance Selects, has been named chair of the board for BAFTA New York, taking over from Luke Parker Bowles, who steps down to the post of vice chair for one year.
Also elected to serve on the board of BAFTA New York for three years are Maria Ishak, vp North America sale at All3media International, and Melinda Matlin, rights administrator at NBCUniversal and vice chair of BAFTA New York's screening committee.
...
- 1/22/2018
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Veteran cross-continental film exec Luke Parker Bowles has been elected Chairman of the Board of BAFTA New York, moving up from Vice Chairman. Currently Head of Production at Santa Monica-based Story Mining & Supply Co., he has worked on both sides of the pond during his career, including stints at Working Title Films, Open Road Integrated Media and Hart Sharp Entertainment. Also elected to three-year terms on the BAFTA New York board were Arianna Bocco, Svp Acquisitions…...
- 6/18/2015
- Deadline TV
Veteran cross-continental film exec Luke Parker Bowles has been elected Chairman of the Board of BAFTA New York, moving up from Vice Chairman. Currently Head of Production at Santa Monica-based Story Mining & Supply Co., he has worked on both sides of the pond during his career, including stints at Working Title Films, Open Road Integrated Media and Hart Sharp Entertainment. Also elected to three-year terms on the BAFTA New York board were Arianna Bocco, Svp Acquisitions…...
- 6/18/2015
- Deadline
Exclusive: Jim Kohlberg has tapped development and production veteran Luke Parker Bowles as Head of Production for Story Mining & Supply Co. (SMS), the Los Angeles-based shingle he established with Jeffrey Sharp last year.
Parker Bowles has experience on both sides of the pond in TV and film, most recently serving as Evp Production at Open Road Integrated Media. He also has done stints at Working Title, Hart Sharp Entertainment and ICM and currently is Vice Chair of BAFTA New York.
At SMS, Parker Bowles will shepherd a slate of more than feature projects including The Yellow Birds, Vicious and Angle Of Repose. SMS also is producing Starz series Outlander on the TV side and is developing a lineup of features for the Asian market including Pang Ho-cheung’s Polaroid Art Project, dance musical Stride and Lost In America with Ivanhoe Pictures. Parker Bowles will continue to develop and produce digital...
Parker Bowles has experience on both sides of the pond in TV and film, most recently serving as Evp Production at Open Road Integrated Media. He also has done stints at Working Title, Hart Sharp Entertainment and ICM and currently is Vice Chair of BAFTA New York.
At SMS, Parker Bowles will shepherd a slate of more than feature projects including The Yellow Birds, Vicious and Angle Of Repose. SMS also is producing Starz series Outlander on the TV side and is developing a lineup of features for the Asian market including Pang Ho-cheung’s Polaroid Art Project, dance musical Stride and Lost In America with Ivanhoe Pictures. Parker Bowles will continue to develop and produce digital...
- 12/9/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
The group’s recent electionn sees Open Road Integrated Media evp of production Luke Parker Bowles named vice-chairman.
Cineflix Productions president of production Charles Tremayne will continue as chairman.
Dee Poku, the co-founder and CEO of Wie Network and former Paramount and Focus Features marketing executive, was elected to serve a three-year stint on the board.
Incumbent board members BBC Worldwide Americas general counsel Vernon Chu, AMC/Sundance Channel Global vp of programming and scheduling Patrick Connolly, Talent Partners executive chairman Matthew Kearney and Cinedigm Entertainment Group president of Docurama and special acquisitions Susan Margolin won re-election.
Jeff Cotugno stays on as treasurer and Chu as Secretary. BAFTA New York’s new board term begins on July 14.
“Luke [pictured] has been an avid supporter of BAFTA New York and our mission since joining the board last year and is a valued member of the team,” said Tremayne.
“His commitment to promoting the work of British producers, directors and actors...
Cineflix Productions president of production Charles Tremayne will continue as chairman.
Dee Poku, the co-founder and CEO of Wie Network and former Paramount and Focus Features marketing executive, was elected to serve a three-year stint on the board.
Incumbent board members BBC Worldwide Americas general counsel Vernon Chu, AMC/Sundance Channel Global vp of programming and scheduling Patrick Connolly, Talent Partners executive chairman Matthew Kearney and Cinedigm Entertainment Group president of Docurama and special acquisitions Susan Margolin won re-election.
Jeff Cotugno stays on as treasurer and Chu as Secretary. BAFTA New York’s new board term begins on July 14.
“Luke [pictured] has been an avid supporter of BAFTA New York and our mission since joining the board last year and is a valued member of the team,” said Tremayne.
“His commitment to promoting the work of British producers, directors and actors...
- 6/11/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jeffrey Sharp, the indie producer who formed a film shingle at HarperCollins two years ago, is launching a digital publishing company with former HarperCollins topper Jane Friedman.
In the process, he is transitioning his development efforts from his Sharp Independent at HarperCollins banner to the new company, Open Road Integrated Media.
Open Road has made a first-look deal with Kensington Publishing, which specializes in commercial fare, particularly in areas like gay and African-American literature. Books from the company's front- and back list will be potential development targets for Sharp. Open Road also will have an informal development relationship with literary house Grove Atlantic, whose titles Open Road will distribute.
The entertainment efforts will fall under Open Road's digital entertainment division, which will be run by Luke Parker Bowles. Sharp said some of the entertainment properties will be developed as webisodes and in other digital media.
Most of the projects that...
In the process, he is transitioning his development efforts from his Sharp Independent at HarperCollins banner to the new company, Open Road Integrated Media.
Open Road has made a first-look deal with Kensington Publishing, which specializes in commercial fare, particularly in areas like gay and African-American literature. Books from the company's front- and back list will be potential development targets for Sharp. Open Road also will have an informal development relationship with literary house Grove Atlantic, whose titles Open Road will distribute.
The entertainment efforts will fall under Open Road's digital entertainment division, which will be run by Luke Parker Bowles. Sharp said some of the entertainment properties will be developed as webisodes and in other digital media.
Most of the projects that...
- 10/14/2009
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pool Party. The Sag Harbor event celebrating Audemars Piguet’s new timepiece. From PatrickMcMullan.com. While the July Fourth weekend may have been a washout, the Hamptons picked itself back up this weekend as the girls of Manhattan jumped on the Jitney to take advantage of some of the few clear days we’ve had this summer. While the likes of socialite Harley Viera Newton and designer Charlotte Ronson enjoyed the sun, heiress Amanda Hearst hosted a small party at the East Hampton Intermix store, where Harvey Keitel’s daughter Stella Keitel was spotted. The fun didn’t end at sunset. Per usual, the Hamptons faithful washed off the sand and changed out of their Malia Mills one-pieces to head out for the night. On Friday evening the Parrish Art Museum held their Midsummer Party in Southampton. Guests such as New York governor David Paterson, painter (and Hamptons mainstay) Ross Bleckner,...
- 7/13/2009
- Vanity Fair
In Evening, an all-star team of filmmakers takes on a minor-league story. The cast and crew here include multiple Oscar winners and nominees, a Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter, and a director, a much-honored cinematographer who collaborated with a Nobel Prize-winning author no less for his first film. Alas, the thing they all choose to labor over is a thin, overwrought tale of New England bluebloods wallowing in self-perpetuated angst and recriminations. At the end of the movie, everyone decides to get over it. Wow, that's a relief.
The film will gain traction with older women for all the mother-daughter interplay that pushes emotional buttons without ever saying anything significant. A cast of truly impressive actresses spanning the decades -- Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Eileen Atkins, Glenn Close as well as real-life mother-daughters Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer -- will undoubtedly draw a goodly share of the curious as well. Boxoffice for this Focus Feature release should still be modest.
The package is certainly appealing. Budapest-born director Lajos Koltai (the Oscar-nominated Hungarian feature Fateless) cuts between two visually appealing settings: a high-society wedding on an awesome seacliff home in Newport, R.I., and the final days of the maid of honor from the wedding, a half-century later, in a lovely art and memorabilia-filled Rhode Island residence.
It is in the latter setting that Ann Lord (Redgrave) is dying. She is (barely) comforted by two daughters, a happily situated mother and wife, Constance (Richardson), and her restive sister, Nina (Collette). The flashbacks to the weekend wedding of 50 years earlier -- where all the movie's action is -- take place in the dying woman's mind.
As these events, as fresh as if they were yesterday, churn over in her mind, what they tell her about life and the mistakes people make is meant to hugely impact Nina's current dilemma. Nina is in a shaky three-year-old relationship and, secretly pregnant, is uncertain what to do. But because the daughter can't see the mother's flashbacks or hallucinations, how this message gets across is a mystery.
In her memories, the young Ann (Danes) finds the bride-to-be, Lila Wittenborn (Gummer), in a state. Her engagement is a sham since her true love is longtime family friend and intimate Harris Arden (Patrick Wilson). Within moments, Ann herself falls under Harris' spell. He is destined to become the "man that got away" for both young women.
In her waning moments, it is her obsession with Harris that dominates her thoughts. Harris apparently is a sexual magnet: Before that long-ago weekend concludes, the bride's alcoholic brother and Ann's dear friend, Buddy (Hugh Dancy), makes a pass at her and at Harris!
For some reason, the whole movie and therefore the dying woman's memories focus on that wedding rather than subsequent loves, marriages and daughters. So when she looks back on a life of "waste and failure," you can't judge. What happened afterward in her life is what matters, not that brief fling and a tragic event that forever marred the wedding.
The whole thing is a stacked deck of cards that the director and his writers, Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham (The Hours), who adapted Minot's novel, deal with so selectively as to deny us knowledge of essential points about many of the relationships and motives.
Possibly too much has been removed from the source material. Occasional bits of magic realism indicate other means of attack in the novel: Ann's night nurse (Atkins), for example, turns into an angel of mercy/fairy godmother who knows Ann's whole past and hints at alternative views about the supposed waste and failure. We'd also like to know much more about the bride's curiously aloof parents (Barry Bostwick and Close).
Nevertheless, we must be grateful to any film with such glorious actresses still at the top of their game, including Streep, who turns up briefly as Lila the Elder.
Evening itself reps a master's course in how to make do on a limited budget, a fabulous cast and Rhode Island's generous tax incentives for filmmakers.
EVENING
Focus Features
A Hart Sharp Entertainment production
Credits:
Director: Lajos Koltai
Screenwriters: Susan Minot, Michael Cunningham
Based on the novel by: Susan Minot
Producer: Jeffrey Sharp
Executive producers: Jill Footlick, Michael Hogan, Robert Kessel, Susan Minot, Michael Cunningham
Director of photography: Gyula Pados
Production designer: Caroline Hanania
Co-producers: Luke Parker Bowles, Claire Taylor, Nina Wolarsky
Costume designer: Ann Roth, Michelle Matland
Editor: Allyson C. Johnson
Cast:
Ann Grant: Claire Danes
Nina Mars: Toni Collette
Ann Lord: Vanessa Redgrave
Harris Arden: Patrick Wilson
Budd Wittenborn: Hugh Dancy
Constance Haverford: Natasha Richardson
Lila Wittenborn: Mamie Gummer
Night Nurse: Eileen Atkins
Lila Ross: Meryl Streep
Mrs. Wittenborn: Glenn Close
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
The film will gain traction with older women for all the mother-daughter interplay that pushes emotional buttons without ever saying anything significant. A cast of truly impressive actresses spanning the decades -- Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Eileen Atkins, Glenn Close as well as real-life mother-daughters Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer -- will undoubtedly draw a goodly share of the curious as well. Boxoffice for this Focus Feature release should still be modest.
The package is certainly appealing. Budapest-born director Lajos Koltai (the Oscar-nominated Hungarian feature Fateless) cuts between two visually appealing settings: a high-society wedding on an awesome seacliff home in Newport, R.I., and the final days of the maid of honor from the wedding, a half-century later, in a lovely art and memorabilia-filled Rhode Island residence.
It is in the latter setting that Ann Lord (Redgrave) is dying. She is (barely) comforted by two daughters, a happily situated mother and wife, Constance (Richardson), and her restive sister, Nina (Collette). The flashbacks to the weekend wedding of 50 years earlier -- where all the movie's action is -- take place in the dying woman's mind.
As these events, as fresh as if they were yesterday, churn over in her mind, what they tell her about life and the mistakes people make is meant to hugely impact Nina's current dilemma. Nina is in a shaky three-year-old relationship and, secretly pregnant, is uncertain what to do. But because the daughter can't see the mother's flashbacks or hallucinations, how this message gets across is a mystery.
In her memories, the young Ann (Danes) finds the bride-to-be, Lila Wittenborn (Gummer), in a state. Her engagement is a sham since her true love is longtime family friend and intimate Harris Arden (Patrick Wilson). Within moments, Ann herself falls under Harris' spell. He is destined to become the "man that got away" for both young women.
In her waning moments, it is her obsession with Harris that dominates her thoughts. Harris apparently is a sexual magnet: Before that long-ago weekend concludes, the bride's alcoholic brother and Ann's dear friend, Buddy (Hugh Dancy), makes a pass at her and at Harris!
For some reason, the whole movie and therefore the dying woman's memories focus on that wedding rather than subsequent loves, marriages and daughters. So when she looks back on a life of "waste and failure," you can't judge. What happened afterward in her life is what matters, not that brief fling and a tragic event that forever marred the wedding.
The whole thing is a stacked deck of cards that the director and his writers, Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham (The Hours), who adapted Minot's novel, deal with so selectively as to deny us knowledge of essential points about many of the relationships and motives.
Possibly too much has been removed from the source material. Occasional bits of magic realism indicate other means of attack in the novel: Ann's night nurse (Atkins), for example, turns into an angel of mercy/fairy godmother who knows Ann's whole past and hints at alternative views about the supposed waste and failure. We'd also like to know much more about the bride's curiously aloof parents (Barry Bostwick and Close).
Nevertheless, we must be grateful to any film with such glorious actresses still at the top of their game, including Streep, who turns up briefly as Lila the Elder.
Evening itself reps a master's course in how to make do on a limited budget, a fabulous cast and Rhode Island's generous tax incentives for filmmakers.
EVENING
Focus Features
A Hart Sharp Entertainment production
Credits:
Director: Lajos Koltai
Screenwriters: Susan Minot, Michael Cunningham
Based on the novel by: Susan Minot
Producer: Jeffrey Sharp
Executive producers: Jill Footlick, Michael Hogan, Robert Kessel, Susan Minot, Michael Cunningham
Director of photography: Gyula Pados
Production designer: Caroline Hanania
Co-producers: Luke Parker Bowles, Claire Taylor, Nina Wolarsky
Costume designer: Ann Roth, Michelle Matland
Editor: Allyson C. Johnson
Cast:
Ann Grant: Claire Danes
Nina Mars: Toni Collette
Ann Lord: Vanessa Redgrave
Harris Arden: Patrick Wilson
Budd Wittenborn: Hugh Dancy
Constance Haverford: Natasha Richardson
Lila Wittenborn: Mamie Gummer
Night Nurse: Eileen Atkins
Lila Ross: Meryl Streep
Mrs. Wittenborn: Glenn Close
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 6/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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