Aaron Janus, an executive producer of the sleeper hit, A Quiet Place, has joined Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group as Senior Vice President of Production, while Meredith Wieck has been promoted to Vice President of Production. Both will report to Erin Westerman, the President of Production.
Prior to joining Lionsgate, Janus served as Head of Development at Platinum Dunes, working with filmmakers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form. The company produced the John Krasinski-helmed the post-apocalyptic suspense thriller A Quiet Place, which made over $340 million at the worldwide box office and spun a forthcoming sequel. Janus was also the Director of Film Production and Development at Twentieth Century Fox where he was involved with such films as Deadpool, The Wolverine, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Janus began his film executive career as the VP of Development at Scott Rudin Productions where he worked on films including The Social Network,...
Prior to joining Lionsgate, Janus served as Head of Development at Platinum Dunes, working with filmmakers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form. The company produced the John Krasinski-helmed the post-apocalyptic suspense thriller A Quiet Place, which made over $340 million at the worldwide box office and spun a forthcoming sequel. Janus was also the Director of Film Production and Development at Twentieth Century Fox where he was involved with such films as Deadpool, The Wolverine, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Janus began his film executive career as the VP of Development at Scott Rudin Productions where he worked on films including The Social Network,...
- 9/18/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sophie Brooks is set to direct an adaptation of the Catherine Isaac bestseller You Me Everything for Lionsgate. Robert Nelson Jacobs, Oscar nominated for Chocolat, has written the script. Temple Hill is producing.
Pic is set in the French countryside during an idyllic summer vacation. Jess and her ten-year-old son William set off to spend the summer in the sunlit hills of the Dordogne where Jess’ ex-boyfriend and William’s father, Adam, runs a beautiful hotel in a restored castle. Adam and William don’t know of each other’s existence so Jess will have to find a way to reunite them but she has a secret of her own that she can’t let anyone discover, especially her son.
Brooks is an English-born filmmaker who graduated from NYU Tisch and made her feature debut on the Tribeca-Fest-winning The Boy Downstairs, starring Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear. It was released by FilmRise.
Pic is set in the French countryside during an idyllic summer vacation. Jess and her ten-year-old son William set off to spend the summer in the sunlit hills of the Dordogne where Jess’ ex-boyfriend and William’s father, Adam, runs a beautiful hotel in a restored castle. Adam and William don’t know of each other’s existence so Jess will have to find a way to reunite them but she has a secret of her own that she can’t let anyone discover, especially her son.
Brooks is an English-born filmmaker who graduated from NYU Tisch and made her feature debut on the Tribeca-Fest-winning The Boy Downstairs, starring Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear. It was released by FilmRise.
- 12/5/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Sophie Brooks’s debut film makes up for some flimsy characterisation by wearing its heart on its sleeve
Starring Zosia Mamet as Diana, a shopgirl and aspiring author, this feature debut by writer-director Sophie Brooks will no doubt be compared to Lena Dunham’s TV series Girls (in which Mamet also featured). In fact, it has more in common with the films of Nicole Holofcener, whose Walking and Talking seems like a reference point.
Having moved back to New York after three years in London, Diana lands an unrealistically dreamy sublet in a tasteful Brooklyn brownstone, only to find that her ex-boyfriend, Ben (Noah Baumbach regular Matthew Shear), is – as the film’s title warns – the boy who lives downstairs. Cutting between flashbacks of their relationship as it buds, blossoms and eventually wilts, and their present-day awkwardness, it offers a valuable insight into how young women can be just as bumbling,...
Starring Zosia Mamet as Diana, a shopgirl and aspiring author, this feature debut by writer-director Sophie Brooks will no doubt be compared to Lena Dunham’s TV series Girls (in which Mamet also featured). In fact, it has more in common with the films of Nicole Holofcener, whose Walking and Talking seems like a reference point.
Having moved back to New York after three years in London, Diana lands an unrealistically dreamy sublet in a tasteful Brooklyn brownstone, only to find that her ex-boyfriend, Ben (Noah Baumbach regular Matthew Shear), is – as the film’s title warns – the boy who lives downstairs. Cutting between flashbacks of their relationship as it buds, blossoms and eventually wilts, and their present-day awkwardness, it offers a valuable insight into how young women can be just as bumbling,...
- 6/10/2018
- by Simran Hans
- The Guardian - Film News
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Bryce Dallas Howard costars as a dinosaur expert tasked with rescuing the animals from their island. Also costarring Daniella Pineda, Geraldine Chaplin, and Isabella Sermon. (male writers and director)
my review | find cinemas
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The Boy Downstairs
Zosia Mamet stars as a New Yorker who discovers that her ex lives in the building she just moved into, prompting her to reconsider their breakup. Written and directed by Sophie Brooks.
my review | find cinemas
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Bryce Dallas Howard costars as a dinosaur expert tasked with rescuing the animals from their island. Also costarring Daniella Pineda, Geraldine Chaplin, and Isabella Sermon. (male writers and director)
my review | find cinemas
limited
The Boy Downstairs
Zosia Mamet stars as a New Yorker who discovers that her ex lives in the building she just moved into, prompting her to reconsider their breakup. Written and directed by Sophie Brooks.
my review | find cinemas
Please let me know if I’ve missed any movies directed by, written by, or about women.
Please help me continue this work with your financial support. A recurring contribution or a one-time donation, even only $1, is a great help, and tells me that my work here is valued. Thank you. Links here for PayPal, Patreon, and other methods of donating.
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- 6/8/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The story of a young woman who discovers her ex is living in the same apartment block proves just how cinematic conversation can be
Sophie Brooks’s lo-fi comedy The Boy Downstairs is idealistic, romantic and anticlimactic. There is a slightness to this that is both virtue and vice: it wears its generic form and antecedents lightly, unconcerned with looking derivative or cheesy. We even get a grievingly bittersweet end-of-relationship montage of happiest moments, in the manner of Annie Hall, used in numberless romcoms since then and indeed in reality TV shows for the outgoing contestant. It also features a writer who works on a MacBook with an air of mild Carrie Bradshaw-type vexation, actually closing up the laptop when she needs to think about what she has just written.
This is a snack of a movie, rather than a meal, or maybe a casual brunch, which the characters are...
Sophie Brooks’s lo-fi comedy The Boy Downstairs is idealistic, romantic and anticlimactic. There is a slightness to this that is both virtue and vice: it wears its generic form and antecedents lightly, unconcerned with looking derivative or cheesy. We even get a grievingly bittersweet end-of-relationship montage of happiest moments, in the manner of Annie Hall, used in numberless romcoms since then and indeed in reality TV shows for the outgoing contestant. It also features a writer who works on a MacBook with an air of mild Carrie Bradshaw-type vexation, actually closing up the laptop when she needs to think about what she has just written.
This is a snack of a movie, rather than a meal, or maybe a casual brunch, which the characters are...
- 6/7/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Starring Zosia Mamet (Girls) and directed by Sophie Brooks in her first feature film outing, The Boy Downstairs is an interesting, if a little dull, Woody Allen-esque indie rom-com which tries its best to be quirky and fresh, but sadly ends up feeling a little predictable and contrived. Constructed around two parallel narratives, one in the present and the other one in the past, the film does its best to charter the high and lows of a romance between two young bright New Yorkers, but is sadly let down by its inability to present anything new or out of the ordinary despite a solid cast and a rather promising set up.
Diana (Zosia Mamet) moves back to New York after a few years studying in Europe and soon finds the perfect Brooklyn apartment where she hopes to make a fresh start and finally begin writing the novel she’s...
Diana (Zosia Mamet) moves back to New York after a few years studying in Europe and soon finds the perfect Brooklyn apartment where she hopes to make a fresh start and finally begin writing the novel she’s...
- 6/5/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We are delighted to give our audience an exclusive first look at the UK poster for Altitude’s The Boy Downstairs.
Written and directed by newcomer Sophie Brooks, The Boy Downstairs stars one of film and television’s most promising young talents Zosia Mamet, whose most notable credit is HBO’s multi Award Winning show, Girls. Alongside Mamet is Matthew Shear, who is a favourite of renowned director Noah Baumbach having featured in Mistress America, While We’re Young and The Meyerowitz Stories. We will also see Shear later this year in the highly anticipated television series The Alienist.
Also in trailers – Gabrielle Union goes into fight mode to save her children in trailer for Breaking In
The film is released June 8th.
The Boy Downstairs Official Synopsis
The Boy Downstairs tells the story of Diana (Zosia Mamet), who moves back to New York City after a few years in...
Written and directed by newcomer Sophie Brooks, The Boy Downstairs stars one of film and television’s most promising young talents Zosia Mamet, whose most notable credit is HBO’s multi Award Winning show, Girls. Alongside Mamet is Matthew Shear, who is a favourite of renowned director Noah Baumbach having featured in Mistress America, While We’re Young and The Meyerowitz Stories. We will also see Shear later this year in the highly anticipated television series The Alienist.
Also in trailers – Gabrielle Union goes into fight mode to save her children in trailer for Breaking In
The film is released June 8th.
The Boy Downstairs Official Synopsis
The Boy Downstairs tells the story of Diana (Zosia Mamet), who moves back to New York City after a few years in...
- 4/16/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
MaryAnn’s quick take… An appealing high concept that could have gone in many wildly different directions, all emotionally charged, instead wallows in a wan, bloodless banality of “chill.” I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for movies about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
Writer-director Sophie Brooks makes her feature debut with The Boy Downstairs, and alas, it is a wan, bloodless take on 20something fumblings with romance and adulthood. When Diana (Zosia Mamet: The Kids Are All Right) moves back to New York after a couple of years abroad, she accidentally rents an apartment in the same building where her ex, Ben (Matthew Shear: Mistress America), now lives, a fact she does not discover until after, it seems, contracts have been signed and she has moved in.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
Writer-director Sophie Brooks makes her feature debut with The Boy Downstairs, and alas, it is a wan, bloodless take on 20something fumblings with romance and adulthood. When Diana (Zosia Mamet: The Kids Are All Right) moves back to New York after a couple of years abroad, she accidentally rents an apartment in the same building where her ex, Ben (Matthew Shear: Mistress America), now lives, a fact she does not discover until after, it seems, contracts have been signed and she has moved in.
- 2/22/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Sophie Brooks on the visual cues in The Boy Downstairs, starring Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear: "Ben wears glasses in the past and not in the present. And Diana has extensions, has longer hair in the past than in the present." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Sophie Brooks, writer/director of The Boy Downstairs, speaks about how she sees a first date, confusing social agreements, and the importance of food in building a relationship with family and friends. Improv from Matthew Shear, sweater girl Zosia Mamet, the performances of Arliss Howard, Sarah Ramos and Fabrizio Brienza, flashbacks and visual cues, dry cleaners, and filming in Prospect Park, Brooklyn round out the final chapter of our Valentine's Day conversation.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Diana and Ben's first date takes place in Prospect Park with the Boathouse in the background. They don't have rowboats there.
Diana (Zosia Mamet) with Gabby (Diana Irvine)
Sophie Brooks: Correct.
Sophie Brooks, writer/director of The Boy Downstairs, speaks about how she sees a first date, confusing social agreements, and the importance of food in building a relationship with family and friends. Improv from Matthew Shear, sweater girl Zosia Mamet, the performances of Arliss Howard, Sarah Ramos and Fabrizio Brienza, flashbacks and visual cues, dry cleaners, and filming in Prospect Park, Brooklyn round out the final chapter of our Valentine's Day conversation.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Diana and Ben's first date takes place in Prospect Park with the Boathouse in the background. They don't have rowboats there.
Diana (Zosia Mamet) with Gabby (Diana Irvine)
Sophie Brooks: Correct.
- 2/19/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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Black Panther [my review]
Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, and Florence Kasumba costar in this comic-book action fantasy as powerful support for a male hero. (male writers and director)
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The Boy Downstairs [my review]
Zosia Mamet stars as a New Yorker who discovers that her ex lives in the building she just moved into, prompting her to reconsider their breakup. Written and directed by Sophie Brooks.
The Party [my review]
Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, and Cherry Jones costar in an ensemble black comedy about a friendly get-together that goes sour. Written and directed by Sally Potter.
Western [IMDb]
Valeska Grisebach writes and directs this German drama about (male) construction workers.
Double Lover (L’amant double) [IMDb]
Marine Vacth stars as a Parisian woman who falls in love with her therapist in this erotic thriller. (male writer-director)
The Scent of Rain & Lightning [IMDb] pictured
Maika Monroe stars as a woman...
Black Panther [my review]
Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, and Florence Kasumba costar in this comic-book action fantasy as powerful support for a male hero. (male writers and director)
limited
The Boy Downstairs [my review]
Zosia Mamet stars as a New Yorker who discovers that her ex lives in the building she just moved into, prompting her to reconsider their breakup. Written and directed by Sophie Brooks.
The Party [my review]
Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, and Cherry Jones costar in an ensemble black comedy about a friendly get-together that goes sour. Written and directed by Sally Potter.
Western [IMDb]
Valeska Grisebach writes and directs this German drama about (male) construction workers.
Double Lover (L’amant double) [IMDb]
Marine Vacth stars as a Parisian woman who falls in love with her therapist in this erotic thriller. (male writer-director)
The Scent of Rain & Lightning [IMDb] pictured
Maika Monroe stars as a woman...
- 2/16/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The Boy Downstairs director Sophie Brooks on writing the script: "I always wanted a strong kind of female friendship." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Sophie Brooks's The Boy Downstairs stars Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear with a remarkable supporting cast, including Diana Irvine, Sarah Ramos, Deirdre O'Connell, Arliss Howard, Jeff Ward, David Wohl, Sabina Friedman-Seitz, and a memorable appearance by Fabrizio Brienza as the lemon-difficult waiter.
Working with costume designer Keri Langerman (Mona Fastvold's The Sleepwalker, starring The Childhood Of A Leader director Brady Corbet and Jim Strouse's People Places Things), Reese Witherspoon's Tracy Flick in Alexander Payne's Election, a Halloween party with Marie Antoinette and Steve Jobs, finding the right name for the film, developing the screenplay, and how to make an actor "feel more vulnerable" came up in my conversation inside the offices of Falco Ink. with writer/director Sophie Brooks on Valentine's Day which fell on Ash Wednesday this year.
Sophie Brooks's The Boy Downstairs stars Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear with a remarkable supporting cast, including Diana Irvine, Sarah Ramos, Deirdre O'Connell, Arliss Howard, Jeff Ward, David Wohl, Sabina Friedman-Seitz, and a memorable appearance by Fabrizio Brienza as the lemon-difficult waiter.
Working with costume designer Keri Langerman (Mona Fastvold's The Sleepwalker, starring The Childhood Of A Leader director Brady Corbet and Jim Strouse's People Places Things), Reese Witherspoon's Tracy Flick in Alexander Payne's Election, a Halloween party with Marie Antoinette and Steve Jobs, finding the right name for the film, developing the screenplay, and how to make an actor "feel more vulnerable" came up in my conversation inside the offices of Falco Ink. with writer/director Sophie Brooks on Valentine's Day which fell on Ash Wednesday this year.
- 2/16/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Boy Downstairs director Sophie Brooks on writing the script: "I always wanted a strong kind of female friendship." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Sophie Brooks's The Boy Downstairs stars Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear with a remarkable supporting cast, including Diana Irvine, Sarah Ramos, Deirdre O'Connell, Arliss Howard, Jeff Ward, David Wohl, Sabina Friedman-Seitz, and a memorable appearance by Fabrizio Brienza as the lemon-difficult waiter.
Working with costume designer Keri Langerman (Mona Fastvold's The Sleepwalker, starring The Childhood Of A Leader director Brady Corbet and Jim Strouse's People Places Things), Reese Witherspoon's Tracy Flick in Alexander Payne's Election, a Halloween party with Marie Antoinette and Steve Jobs, finding the right name for the film, developing the screenplay, and how to make an actor "feel more vulnerable" came up in my conversation inside the offices of Falco Ink. with writer/director Sophie Brooks on Valentine's Day which fell on Ash Wednesday this year.
Sophie Brooks's The Boy Downstairs stars Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear with a remarkable supporting cast, including Diana Irvine, Sarah Ramos, Deirdre O'Connell, Arliss Howard, Jeff Ward, David Wohl, Sabina Friedman-Seitz, and a memorable appearance by Fabrizio Brienza as the lemon-difficult waiter.
Working with costume designer Keri Langerman (Mona Fastvold's The Sleepwalker, starring The Childhood Of A Leader director Brady Corbet and Jim Strouse's People Places Things), Reese Witherspoon's Tracy Flick in Alexander Payne's Election, a Halloween party with Marie Antoinette and Steve Jobs, finding the right name for the film, developing the screenplay, and how to make an actor "feel more vulnerable" came up in my conversation inside the offices of Falco Ink. with writer/director Sophie Brooks on Valentine's Day which fell on Ash Wednesday this year.
- 2/16/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The brand new trailer and poster for Sophie Brooks’ directorial debut, The Boy Downstairs is here. The feature stars Zosia Mamet, Matthew Shear, Sarah Ramos, Deidre O’Connell and Diana Irvine.
Diana (Zosia Mamet) moves back to New York City after a few years abroad and finds the perfect Brooklyn apartment for a fresh start. Yet on the first night in her new home, she discovers that her ex-boyfriend Ben (Matthew Shear) lives in the apartment below hers. After an awkward reunion, Diana proclaims her intentions for a genuine friendship. But as old wounds are opened, both Diana and Ben are forced to confront the true nature of their feelings.
Sophie Brooks
“First love changes it all. Expectations are unparalleled and the thought of staying with that person forever can seem equally exciting and terrifying. The stories I most like to tell are personal and simple ones that look at...
Diana (Zosia Mamet) moves back to New York City after a few years abroad and finds the perfect Brooklyn apartment for a fresh start. Yet on the first night in her new home, she discovers that her ex-boyfriend Ben (Matthew Shear) lives in the apartment below hers. After an awkward reunion, Diana proclaims her intentions for a genuine friendship. But as old wounds are opened, both Diana and Ben are forced to confront the true nature of their feelings.
Sophie Brooks
“First love changes it all. Expectations are unparalleled and the thought of staying with that person forever can seem equally exciting and terrifying. The stories I most like to tell are personal and simple ones that look at...
- 1/16/2018
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"He's probably still in love with you..." FilmRise has debuted a trailer for a charming romantic drama film titled The Boy Downstairs, from newcomer Sophie Brooks. The film played at the Tribeca and London Film Festivals, and will hit limited theaters starting February. Zosia Mamet (from "Girls", Wiener-Dog, Kate Can't Swim) stars as a woman who moves back to New York City and finds the perfect apartment to live in. However, she discovers her ex-boyfriend happens to be living in the apartment downstairs, and deals with her feelings for him while trying to figure out how to be successful in her own way. The cast includes Matthew Shear as the "boy", as well as Sarah Ramos, Deirdre O'Connell, and Diana Irvine. I saw this in London and it's charming, very quirky, but not that memorable or original in its story, but still good. Here's the first official trailer for Sophie Brooks' The Boy Downstairs,...
- 1/15/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
- 11/12/2017
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
- 6/16/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
FilmRise has acquired North American distribution rights to The Boy Downstairs, writer-director Sophie Brooks' debut feature that stars Zosia Mamet and had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. An early 2018 theatrical release is planned for the pic, which centers on Diana (Mamet), an aspiring writer who returns to New York City after a few years living in London and finds what seems to be the perfect Brooklyn apartment to start fresh. On the first night though…...
- 6/14/2017
- Deadline
Altitude Film Sales has boarded international sales rights for Tribeca hit The Boy Downstairs, starring Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear, and will be shopping the project to buyers in Cannes this month. The company's distribution arm, Altitude Film Distribution, has taken UK rights to the title. UTA is repping North American rights. Project marks the feature debut from writer-director Sophie Brooks and is produced by Cliffbrook Films' Dan Clifton (The Belko Experiment)…...
- 5/8/2017
- Deadline
Altitude has taken international sales and U.K. distribution on the Tribeca title.
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK distribution rights to The Boy Downstairs, starring Girls actress Zosia Mamet.
Altitude Film Sales will also present the title - which played at Tribeca - to international buyers at Cannes.
The film co-stars Matthew Shear and is helmed by first-time writer-director Sophie Brooks.
The Boy Downstairs is produced by Cliffbrook Films’ Dan Clifton (The Belko Experiment), David Brooks (Atm) and Motion Picture Capital (Hampstead, Sense8), with executive producer Paul Brooks (Pitch Perfect).
The UK distribution deal was struck by Altitude’s co-ceo Andy Mayson with Motion Picture Capital, the major financier of the film.
In the film Mamet plays a woman who moves back to New York City after a few years in London and finds what seems to be the perfect Brooklyn apartment. However, on the first night in her new home she discovers her ex-boyfriend Ben, played...
Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK distribution rights to The Boy Downstairs, starring Girls actress Zosia Mamet.
Altitude Film Sales will also present the title - which played at Tribeca - to international buyers at Cannes.
The film co-stars Matthew Shear and is helmed by first-time writer-director Sophie Brooks.
The Boy Downstairs is produced by Cliffbrook Films’ Dan Clifton (The Belko Experiment), David Brooks (Atm) and Motion Picture Capital (Hampstead, Sense8), with executive producer Paul Brooks (Pitch Perfect).
The UK distribution deal was struck by Altitude’s co-ceo Andy Mayson with Motion Picture Capital, the major financier of the film.
In the film Mamet plays a woman who moves back to New York City after a few years in London and finds what seems to be the perfect Brooklyn apartment. However, on the first night in her new home she discovers her ex-boyfriend Ben, played...
- 5/8/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
One of the more high-class problems is struggling to break free of an iconic role that made you a star in the first place. Such is the challenge facing Zosia Mamet, whom most people know only as the high-strung Shoshanna on HBO’s “Girls.” If Shoshanna was the Miranda of her day (as many have said when comparing “Girls” to its predecessor, “Sex and the City”), Mamet has the best chance of the “Girls” crew to have a lasting career. Tony winner Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda, lands plum film roles such as Emily Dickinson in Terence Davies’ “A Quiet Passion,” and is currently starring on Broadway opposite Laura Linney in the revival of Lillian Hellman’s “Little Foxes.” However, if Mamet aspires to such heights, she must choose better projects than “The Boy Downstairs.”
The debut feature from writer/director Sophie Brooks, “The Boy Downstairs” grinds a smart concept...
The debut feature from writer/director Sophie Brooks, “The Boy Downstairs” grinds a smart concept...
- 4/30/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Starting at the point where a traditional romantic comedy would be setting its sights on the finish line, Sophie Brooks' The Boy Downstairs offers a woman who, having loved a man and broken up with him, is unsettled to learn years later that she's his new neighbor. A low-key but appealing post-Girls vehicle for Zosia Mamet, the pic may have an unlikely story (in real-world love affairs, this kind of second chance rarely ends happily), but benefits from unusually authentic performances. While it doesn't necessarily prove Mamet's potential for carrying a larger film — the ordinariness of this character doesn't...
- 4/26/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There’s more than one love story at play in Sophie Brooks’ “The Boy Downstairs,” which follows a young New Yorker who returns to the city after two years away, only to discover that her wonderful new home just so happens to be located right above an apartment inhabited by her broken-hearted ex. Behind the camera, the first-time feature filmmaker fell head over (friendship, professional, creative) heels with her star, Zosia Mamet. For Mamet, who is now carving out the next stage of her career after the end of her name-making role in HBO’s “Girls,” the feeling was mutual.
Brooks used her own life as inspiration for the film – after being felled by a nasty bout of appendicitis, she dreamed up a story where a character is ill and can only be cared for by an ex – which she eventually expanded out into what would become “The Boy Downstairs.
Brooks used her own life as inspiration for the film – after being felled by a nasty bout of appendicitis, she dreamed up a story where a character is ill and can only be cared for by an ex – which she eventually expanded out into what would become “The Boy Downstairs.
- 4/25/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
A week after Girls' series finale, Zosia Mamet is on the big screen playing a very different single woman in the New York-set rom-com The Boy Downstairs, which has its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday night (April 23).
The movie, written and directed by Sophie Brooks in her feature debut, follows Mamet's Diana, a young writer, returning to New York after spending a couple of years in London. She lands a great apartment, only to discover that her downstairs neighbor is Ben (Matthew Shear), her ex-boyfriend whom she broke up with when she left the city.
Through...
The movie, written and directed by Sophie Brooks in her feature debut, follows Mamet's Diana, a young writer, returning to New York after spending a couple of years in London. She lands a great apartment, only to discover that her downstairs neighbor is Ben (Matthew Shear), her ex-boyfriend whom she broke up with when she left the city.
Through...
- 4/23/2017
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Now in its sixteenth year, New York City’s own Tribeca Film Festival kicks off every spring with a wide variety of programming on offer, from an ever-expanding Vr installation to an enviable television lineup, but the bread and butter of the annual festival is still in its film slate. This year’s festival offers up plenty of returning favorites with new projects, alongside fresh faces itching to break out. From insightful documentaries to fanciful features, with a heavy dose of Gotham-centric films (hey, it is Tribeca after all), there’s plenty to dive into here, so we’ve culled the schedule for a few surefire hits.
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 20 – 30. Check out some of our must-see picks below.
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This year’s Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 20 – 30. Check out some of our must-see picks below.
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- 4/17/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing. This November, we’ve got a fivesome of projects that we feel are worth signaling out, but before we put the focus on those, the previous month was a rather fruitful one for mostly indiewood film productions. Films that we’ll be seeing in 2016 and which are for the most part still filming include: Mark Williams‘ workplace drama The Headhunter’s Calling (with Alison Brie, Gretchen Mol, Gerard Butler, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina), Philippe Falardeau‘s bio boxing drama The Bleeder (with Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Elisabeth Moss), Taron Lexton’s coming-of-ager In Search of Fellini (with Ksenia Solo, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Maria Bello), Kevin Tent‘s Black List scripted rom-com (with Domhnall Gleeson, Christina Applegate, Thomas Haden Church, Nina Dobrev), Sophie Brooks‘ NYC set Euro-fizzled comedy,...
- 11/2/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Zosia Mamet (Girls) and Deirdre O’Connell (The Affair) have been set to star in The Boy Downstairs, a comedy from Cliffbrook Films. The pic, which kicked off principal photography this week in New York, is written and being directed by Sophie Brooks. Mamet stars as a woman who moves back to New York City after a failed experiment of life in Europe and inadvertently moves into her ex-boyfriend's apartment building, quickly reopening old wounds. Matthew…...
- 10/21/2015
- Deadline
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