“Burn Your Maps” is one of those movies that’s glib and facile and threadbare all the way through, then the ending sort of gets to you (you’d have to be made of pretty stern stuff if it didn’t), so you think back over what you’ve seen — and it’s still a crock. The writer-director, Jordan Roberts, seems drawn like a magnet to overly manipulative feel-good genres. This is another of those dramas about a couple who have lost a young child, and it’s ripping them apart, but watching them go through the motions of a healing that won’t take, the audience feels just about as removed from their pain as they are.
I’m not suggesting that this is an invalid subject for a movie, only that it’s not one you want to see treated with on-the-nose therapeutic shallowness. When we first meet...
I’m not suggesting that this is an invalid subject for a movie, only that it’s not one you want to see treated with on-the-nose therapeutic shallowness. When we first meet...
- 6/21/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Sam Worthington gets cast in “Dreamland,” Jacob Tremblay’s “Burn Your Maps” gets distribution and Lynn Shelton’s “Sword of Trust” will open the Seattle Film Festival.
Castings
Sam Worthington, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi and “Game of Thrones” star Indira Varma are joining Nicholas Jarecki‘s opioid crisis thriller “Dreamland.”
Previously announced cast includes Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, and Lily Rose Depp. The film is in production in Montreal.
Worthington plays a pharmaceutical scientist and Mescudi portrays an Fda investigator delving deep into prescription safety. Varma plays a university administrator in the crosshairs of an emotional investigation.
Acquisition
Vertical Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “Burn Your Maps,” starring Jacob Tremblay, Vera Farmiga and Virginia Madsen.
The theatrical release is planned for the second quarter, with Warner Bros. handling international distribution. Tremblay plays an eccentric 8-year-old...
Castings
Sam Worthington, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi and “Game of Thrones” star Indira Varma are joining Nicholas Jarecki‘s opioid crisis thriller “Dreamland.”
Previously announced cast includes Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, and Lily Rose Depp. The film is in production in Montreal.
Worthington plays a pharmaceutical scientist and Mescudi portrays an Fda investigator delving deep into prescription safety. Varma plays a university administrator in the crosshairs of an emotional investigation.
Acquisition
Vertical Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “Burn Your Maps,” starring Jacob Tremblay, Vera Farmiga and Virginia Madsen.
The theatrical release is planned for the second quarter, with Warner Bros. handling international distribution. Tremblay plays an eccentric 8-year-old...
- 4/4/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Vertical Entertainment has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to “Burn Your Maps,” an adventure drama starring Jacob Tremblay, Vera Farmiga and Virginia Madsen, the company announced Wednesday.
Vertical Entertainment is planning a Q2 theatrical release for the film, and Warner Bros. Pictures will handle international distribution.
Jordan Roberts, who wrote the screenplay for Disney’s “Big Hero 6,” wrote and directed “Burn Your Maps,” which made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016.
Also Read: Seth Rogen Says Jacob Tremblay Can't Watch the 'Good Boys' Red Band Trailer (Video)
The story involves a family in emotional turmoil who is taken by surprise when an eccentric eight-year-old boy, Wes, (Tremblay) has an existential epiphany: he believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder.
“‘Burn Your Maps’ is a funny, heartwarming, and deeply human portrait of a family navigating hardship,” Rich Goldberg, co-President of Vertical Entertainment said in a statement.
Vertical Entertainment is planning a Q2 theatrical release for the film, and Warner Bros. Pictures will handle international distribution.
Jordan Roberts, who wrote the screenplay for Disney’s “Big Hero 6,” wrote and directed “Burn Your Maps,” which made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016.
Also Read: Seth Rogen Says Jacob Tremblay Can't Watch the 'Good Boys' Red Band Trailer (Video)
The story involves a family in emotional turmoil who is taken by surprise when an eccentric eight-year-old boy, Wes, (Tremblay) has an existential epiphany: he believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder.
“‘Burn Your Maps’ is a funny, heartwarming, and deeply human portrait of a family navigating hardship,” Rich Goldberg, co-President of Vertical Entertainment said in a statement.
- 4/3/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Big Hero 6 writer Jordan Roberts wrote, directed adventure story.
Vertical Entertainment has acquired Us rights to the adventure Burn Your Maps starring Jacob Tremblay, Vera Farmiga and Virginia Madsen. Warner Bros handles international distribution.
Vertical plans a theatrical release for the second quarter of the year on the story about a troubled family taken aback when the eight-year-old boy has an epiphany and believes he is a Mongolian goat herder.
Big Hero 6 writer Jordan Roberts directed from a screenplay he wrote based on the short story by Robyn Joy Leff.
Cinelou Films, Big Wheel Entertainment and Defender Films...
Vertical Entertainment has acquired Us rights to the adventure Burn Your Maps starring Jacob Tremblay, Vera Farmiga and Virginia Madsen. Warner Bros handles international distribution.
Vertical plans a theatrical release for the second quarter of the year on the story about a troubled family taken aback when the eight-year-old boy has an epiphany and believes he is a Mongolian goat herder.
Big Hero 6 writer Jordan Roberts directed from a screenplay he wrote based on the short story by Robyn Joy Leff.
Cinelou Films, Big Wheel Entertainment and Defender Films...
- 4/3/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Many films deal with the aftermath of a family death by becoming about how their characters live with the pain — it changing them into different people. Some distinctly show them living despite it instead. Rather than depict Connor (Marton Csokas) and Alise (Vera Farmiga) as the death of their baby girl just ten months prior consumes them, Jordan Roberts’ Burn Your Maps portrays their desire to move on after their transformations are complete. They’re searching for a future they hope exists but cannot yet see. They’ve dealt with grief already (at least they’re frustrated enough to believe they have), so now it’s time to embrace the life that remains. While their son Wes (Jacob Tremblay) readies for what this entails, we’re still uncertain if they are too.
But don’t think this story is one steeped in heavy drama from start to finish without room to breathe.
But don’t think this story is one steeped in heavy drama from start to finish without room to breathe.
- 9/10/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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