A teenage boy becomes a sidekick for outlaw Robbie in this interesting 1930s-set action drama
A lonely kid in a 1930s Texas dustbowl town dreams of adventure. Then it all comes to life when a fugitive bank robber, badly wounded, shows up and hides out in the family barn. But this film switches the gender assumptions: the criminal is a woman, Allison Wells, played by the movie’s producer-star Margot Robbie, and her teenage protector is a boy: Eugene Evans, played by Finn Cole – and soon they’re hatching plans together, lovestruck Eugene having been assured by the wide-eyed Allison that the much-publicised death of an innocent bystanderarising from her last robbery was due to crossfire from the police.
This is an interesting twist on the Bonnie and Clyde template from screenwriting newcomer Nicolaas Zwart and director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, who was an award-winner at Sundance last year with his debut feature As You Are.
A lonely kid in a 1930s Texas dustbowl town dreams of adventure. Then it all comes to life when a fugitive bank robber, badly wounded, shows up and hides out in the family barn. But this film switches the gender assumptions: the criminal is a woman, Allison Wells, played by the movie’s producer-star Margot Robbie, and her teenage protector is a boy: Eugene Evans, played by Finn Cole – and soon they’re hatching plans together, lovestruck Eugene having been assured by the wide-eyed Allison that the much-publicised death of an innocent bystanderarising from her last robbery was due to crossfire from the police.
This is an interesting twist on the Bonnie and Clyde template from screenwriting newcomer Nicolaas Zwart and director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, who was an award-winner at Sundance last year with his debut feature As You Are.
- 12/10/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Eugene’s (Finn Cole) father used to say about their Bismarck home, “This place is cursed.” It didn’t matter that it’s where he and his wife Olivia (Kerry Condon) settled with a bunch of other families. He simply never thought any good could come from trying to make a life there. So he left. Olivia and Eugene stayed. Dust storms swept through the land destroying crops, farms, and hope. And the banks arrived with foreclosure after foreclosure. Olivia Baker eventually became Olivia Evans, her new husband George (Travis Fimmel) became a deputy sheriff, and along came little Phoebe (Darby Camp) as they still struggled to survive. That’s all before a dangerous outlaw entered the frame with a $10,000 bounty that everyone saw as solution.
Could Allison Wells (Margot Robbie) be the person to change their lives? Could her capture inject enough money into their community to hold the...
Could Allison Wells (Margot Robbie) be the person to change their lives? Could her capture inject enough money into their community to hold the...
- 11/10/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Dreamland Trailer — Miles Joris-Peyrafitte‘s Dreamland (2019) movie trailer has been released by Paramount Pictures and stars Margot Robbie, Finn Cole, Travis Fimmel, Garrett Hedlund, Kerry Condon, Darby Camp, Lola Kirke, Jacob Browne, Bruce McIntosh, Joe Berryman, Tim D. Janis, Hans Christopher, and Krista Bradley. Crew Nicolaas Zwart wrote the screenplay [...]
Continue reading: Dreamland (2019) Movie Trailer: Margot Robbie is a Wanted Fugitive that Finn Cole Hides out of Affection...
Continue reading: Dreamland (2019) Movie Trailer: Margot Robbie is a Wanted Fugitive that Finn Cole Hides out of Affection...
- 10/24/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
'Dreamland' trailer has been released and it features Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie as a fugitive bank robber.
Paramount Movies has dropped the official trailer for director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s upcoming thriller drama film 'Dreamland'.
The film revolves around the love story of a bank robber Allison Wells (Robbie) and a Texan local named Eugene Evans (Finn Cole).
Set amidst America’s struggle during the Great Depression, 'Dreamland' follows Evans a young man from Texas who dreams of escaping his small town. His normal life takes a turn when he encounters Robbie’s character, wounded and on the run. Torn between claiming the bounty for her capture and his growing attraction for her, Eugene starts to fall for the seductive criminal, and the duo starts a tragic love affair. And now, Eugene has to make a tough decision that will forever affect the lives...
Paramount Movies has dropped the official trailer for director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s upcoming thriller drama film 'Dreamland'.
The film revolves around the love story of a bank robber Allison Wells (Robbie) and a Texan local named Eugene Evans (Finn Cole).
Set amidst America’s struggle during the Great Depression, 'Dreamland' follows Evans a young man from Texas who dreams of escaping his small town. His normal life takes a turn when he encounters Robbie’s character, wounded and on the run. Torn between claiming the bounty for her capture and his growing attraction for her, Eugene starts to fall for the seductive criminal, and the duo starts a tragic love affair. And now, Eugene has to make a tough decision that will forever affect the lives...
- 10/23/2020
- by Omkar Padte
- GlamSham
Exclusive: Paramount Pictures has acquired the home entertainment and TV licensing rights to three Romulus Entertainment features films: Dreamland starring Margot Robbie, the Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell boxing movie Jungleland, and the Amber Heard-Jonathan Majors-Terrence Howard LA crime pic Gully.
All three movies will be released in select theaters by Vertical Entertainment in conjunction with their release on home entertainment platforms.
“We are delighted to bring these exceptional films to audiences around the world through a combination of home entertainment platforms and television licensing,” said Dan Cohen, President, ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group. “With top-notch casts and creative talent, these films offer gripping stories that will appeal to a wide array of viewers.”
“It’s an honor for our films to stand alongside the rich tradition of cinema that Paramount has put forth for over a century,” said Brad Feinstein, CEO of Romulus Entertainment. “These three...
All three movies will be released in select theaters by Vertical Entertainment in conjunction with their release on home entertainment platforms.
“We are delighted to bring these exceptional films to audiences around the world through a combination of home entertainment platforms and television licensing,” said Dan Cohen, President, ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group. “With top-notch casts and creative talent, these films offer gripping stories that will appeal to a wide array of viewers.”
“It’s an honor for our films to stand alongside the rich tradition of cinema that Paramount has put forth for over a century,” said Brad Feinstein, CEO of Romulus Entertainment. “These three...
- 9/8/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The dust in “Dreamland” is so thick, it makes your eyeballs itch. Clouds of the stuff billow up from dirt roads with every car that passes, swarming dark and angry as a massive bee horde when the winds pick up. And when the air is still, it smudges the cheeks of the film’s characters — poor, small-town Texas farmers with faces as desiccated as their fields — rendering them haunted, like the Depression-era sharecroppers Walker Evans photographed in “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.” Dreams, it seems, are all these opportunity-strapped Americans have going for them: dreams nourished by pulp crime magazines and, maybe, by the movies, although it’s doubtful this bedraggled settlement can support a cinema.
From its opening lines of narration, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s revisionist outlaw saga endeavors to set the record straight about one Eugene Evans, a naïve Texas teen who ran off with on-the-law beauty Allison...
From its opening lines of narration, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s revisionist outlaw saga endeavors to set the record straight about one Eugene Evans, a naïve Texas teen who ran off with on-the-law beauty Allison...
- 5/13/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
A Depression-era coming-of-age story that’s told with all the born-to-run romance of a Bruce Springsteen anthem, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s “Dreamland” is a film as mythic and familiar as the Dust Bowl itself. It’s an arresting fable fueled by the restlessness that American kids have always regarded as a birthright, and a penniless runaway of a movie that’s almost too beautiful to care that it’s racing towards a dead end. You’ve seen this story a thousand times before, but Joris-Peyrafitte’s expressive direction and Margot Robbie’s sheer force of will are enough to endow the movie’s best moments with the same hope-and-a-prayer immediacy that its heroes take with them as they speed towards the southern border.
Beginning with fatalistic narration (from an unseen Lola Kirke) that immediately locates the film in a long tradition of neo-Western legends, “Dreamland” channels everything from “Days of Heaven...
Beginning with fatalistic narration (from an unseen Lola Kirke) that immediately locates the film in a long tradition of neo-Western legends, “Dreamland” channels everything from “Days of Heaven...
- 5/3/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Despite high-profile projects crowding her filmography of late, Margot Robbie still is finding time to return to the indie filmmaking world, not only starring in but also as one of the producers of Dreamland, which has its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday night. It is something her star power and industry clout will help a lot in getting a distribution deal after its NYC debut.
With Robbie attached, buyers obviously are interested in checking it out, and they should be. Dreamland is a smart, complex and entertaining period piece set in the Texas Dust Bowl of the 1930s in which Robbie plays a bank robber with a bounty on her head who is on the run from the law after a holdup gets very violent. Into her life comes Eugene (Finn Cole), a young man who sets out to capture the fugitive and collect the money,...
With Robbie attached, buyers obviously are interested in checking it out, and they should be. Dreamland is a smart, complex and entertaining period piece set in the Texas Dust Bowl of the 1930s in which Robbie plays a bank robber with a bounty on her head who is on the run from the law after a holdup gets very violent. Into her life comes Eugene (Finn Cole), a young man who sets out to capture the fugitive and collect the money,...
- 4/27/2019
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte could make it 2-for-2 in Park City with his sophomore feature film, Dreamland. Winner of a Special Jury Prize in 2016 when he presented As You Are, Joris-Peyrafitte moves into a thriller that was on the 2015 Black List. This romance and violence dish went into production in October of 2017, with Margot Robbie starring and producing. Travis Fimmel, Garrett Hedlund, Kerry Condon, Finn Cole, and Darby Camp fill out the cast.
Gist: Written by Nicolaas Zwart, Dreamland is set in the 1930s, amid the devastation of the Dust Bowl. The story follows a 15-year-old boy on his quest to capture a fugitive bank robber and collect the bounty on her head, all with the goal of saving his family farm from foreclosure.…...
Gist: Written by Nicolaas Zwart, Dreamland is set in the 1930s, amid the devastation of the Dust Bowl. The story follows a 15-year-old boy on his quest to capture a fugitive bank robber and collect the bounty on her head, all with the goal of saving his family farm from foreclosure.…...
- 11/20/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
With dozens of castings announced and new projects coming down the pipeline each week across television, film, and theater, it can be near-impossible to keep up. Backstage is here to help. Every Friday, we’re rounding up the week's industry news you shouldn’t miss, so you can be sure you're firmly in the know! Margot Robbie to produce—and star in—“Dreamland.”Robbie will pull double duty on the upcoming feature from screenwriter Nicolaas Zwart. The film will depict a teen whose family’s farm is on the brink of foreclosure and who decides to go after a known fugitive and bank robber (Robbie) to collect her bounty. Additional casting is to-be-announced. Elizabeth McGovern will return to Broadway.The “Downton Abbey” actor will star in the first revival of J.B. Priestly’s “Time and the Conways,” beginning previews Sept. 14 at Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre. The play follows the...
- 5/12/2017
- backstage.com
Suicide Squad star Margot Robbie is set to star in an upcoming period thriller called Dreamland. She is also set to executive produce the film, which tells a story set in the 1930s, amid the devastation of the Dust Bowl.
According to THR, the movie follows "a 15-year-old boy on his quest to capture a fugitive bank robber and collect the bounty on her head, all with the goal of saving his family farm from foreclosure. Against all odds, he beats out the FBI and the local police to find her, only to discover that she's far more than what the authorities claim her to be." Robbie will be playing the bank robber.
Sounds like a great story! The movie will be directed by indie filmmaker Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, who directed the Sundance Film As You Are. The script for the film comes from Nicolaas Zwart and it was on the 2015 Black List of best-unproduced screenplays.
According to THR, the movie follows "a 15-year-old boy on his quest to capture a fugitive bank robber and collect the bounty on her head, all with the goal of saving his family farm from foreclosure. Against all odds, he beats out the FBI and the local police to find her, only to discover that she's far more than what the authorities claim her to be." Robbie will be playing the bank robber.
Sounds like a great story! The movie will be directed by indie filmmaker Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, who directed the Sundance Film As You Are. The script for the film comes from Nicolaas Zwart and it was on the 2015 Black List of best-unproduced screenplays.
- 5/11/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Margot Robbie will star in and produce Dreamland, a thriller Miles Joris-Peyrafitte will direct from script by Nicolaas Zwart. She produces with Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara of Lucky Chap Entertainment and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Rian Cahill of Automatik. Brad Feinstein of Romulus Entertainment is producing and financing. Sierra/Affinity will handle foreign sales at Cannes and CAA/Wme are co-repping domestic sales. With his family's farm on the precipice of…...
- 5/10/2017
- Deadline
Margot Robbie is in Dreamland.
Ever since the actress blew the socks off Martin Scorsese and the moviegoing masses in 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street, the Aussie has starred in a number of Hollywood tentpoles, most notably The Legend of Tarzan and Suicide Squad, where Robbie slipped into the role of Gotham’s wicked villainess, Harley Quinn. And though David Ayer’s anti-hero pic bombed with critics, a box office haul of $745 million has been enough to warrant talk of not only a sequel, but a female-fronted spinoff in the form of Gotham City Sirens.
The latter is reportedly eyeing a theatrical release in 2019, when Ayer will once again be directing Margot Robbie from behind the lens, but The Hollywood Reporter today brings word of another project to add to the actress’ bustling slate. Its name? Dreamland, a taut thriller set during the height of The Dust Bowl (Aka...
Ever since the actress blew the socks off Martin Scorsese and the moviegoing masses in 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street, the Aussie has starred in a number of Hollywood tentpoles, most notably The Legend of Tarzan and Suicide Squad, where Robbie slipped into the role of Gotham’s wicked villainess, Harley Quinn. And though David Ayer’s anti-hero pic bombed with critics, a box office haul of $745 million has been enough to warrant talk of not only a sequel, but a female-fronted spinoff in the form of Gotham City Sirens.
The latter is reportedly eyeing a theatrical release in 2019, when Ayer will once again be directing Margot Robbie from behind the lens, but The Hollywood Reporter today brings word of another project to add to the actress’ bustling slate. Its name? Dreamland, a taut thriller set during the height of The Dust Bowl (Aka...
- 5/10/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Margot Robbie is set to star in Dreamland, a thriller that will be directed by Sundance winner Miles Joris-Peyrafitte.
Robbie will also produce with her partners at Lucky Chap Entertainment, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, as well as Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Rian Cahill of Automatik.
Brad Feinstein of Romulus Entertainment is producing and financing Dreamland, which Sierra/Affinity will introduce at this year’s Cannes Film Market. CAA and Wme are co-repping domestic sales.
Written by Nicolaas Zwart and on the 2015 Black List, Dreamland is set in the 1930s, amid the devastation of the Dust Bowl. The story follows a 15-year-old...
Robbie will also produce with her partners at Lucky Chap Entertainment, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, as well as Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Rian Cahill of Automatik.
Brad Feinstein of Romulus Entertainment is producing and financing Dreamland, which Sierra/Affinity will introduce at this year’s Cannes Film Market. CAA and Wme are co-repping domestic sales.
Written by Nicolaas Zwart and on the 2015 Black List, Dreamland is set in the 1930s, amid the devastation of the Dust Bowl. The story follows a 15-year-old...
- 5/10/2017
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in on projects to potentially anticipate, but first, to kickstart Hollywood on bringing them to screen. Last year’s chart-topper Catherine the Great is still waiting to be produced and today we have this year’s editiong
Topping the 2015 edition, we have Isaac Adamson‘s Bubbles, which tells the story of Michael Jackson through the strange perspective of his adopted baby chimp. Also included is the Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, which Jake Gyllenhaal was circling, and Miss Sloane, which has Jessica Chastain attached. So, as an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a looked at the full, detailing list below, along with the number of votes each earned.
Bubbles by Isaac Adamson 44
A baby chimp...
Topping the 2015 edition, we have Isaac Adamson‘s Bubbles, which tells the story of Michael Jackson through the strange perspective of his adopted baby chimp. Also included is the Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, which Jake Gyllenhaal was circling, and Miss Sloane, which has Jessica Chastain attached. So, as an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a looked at the full, detailing list below, along with the number of votes each earned.
Bubbles by Isaac Adamson 44
A baby chimp...
- 12/15/2015
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
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