Jake Sandvig (Easy A) has signed for the lead role in the TBS comedy pilot Living The Dream. He will play Connor Logan, a charismatic twentysomething who, along with his best friends, reinvigorates a town on the verge of losing its identity by acquiring and re-opening the local brewery. Sandvig, who toplined last year’s Syfy pilot High Moon, is repped by Innovative Artists and Main Title. Exclusive: Mark Hapka has landed the lead role in Parallels, a sci-fi series from Fox Digital Studio. He plays Ronan Carver, a street-smart underground Mma fighter who has been estranged from his family since he was 16 and suddenly finds himself forced to confront his sister and his past in an adventure through parallel universes. Jessica Rothe, Eric Jungmann, Constance Wu, Yorgo Constantine and Michael Monks also have joined the cast of the series from writer-director Christopher Leone. Laura Harkcom is producing. Steven Hein,...
- 1/21/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
The Palm Springs ShortFest has announced that highly-acclaimed writer/director Gus Van Sant will be presented with the ShortFest Spirit of Short Film Award as part of a special Directing Master Class presentation celebrating his work in film. A selection of his short films will be shown on Saturday, June 23rd at 2:30 p.m. with a discussion headed by Festival Director Darryl Macdonald. Van Sant, who earned Oscar nominations for "Good Will Hunting" and "Milk," was previously honored at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2009 when he received the Sonny Bono Visionary Award.
I personally salute the Palm Springs ShortFest. It is such a grassroots effort that honor the diversity and talent of many striving filmmakers. And most of the films shown move on to win Oscars such as "Freeheld" which won Best Documentary Short in 2008.
The Palm Springs ShortFest happens on June 19th to the 25th. For more details,...
I personally salute the Palm Springs ShortFest. It is such a grassroots effort that honor the diversity and talent of many striving filmmakers. And most of the films shown move on to win Oscars such as "Freeheld" which won Best Documentary Short in 2008.
The Palm Springs ShortFest happens on June 19th to the 25th. For more details,...
- 6/13/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Watch 2 new clips from Brotherhood starring Trevor Morgan, Jon Foster and Lou Taylor Pucci! The thriller opens February 18th and is helmed by Will Canon who co-writes alongside Doug Simon. Producing Brotherhood are Chris Pollack, Jason Croft, Steven Hein and Tim O'Hair. There's an "Initiation Has Begun" clip and a "Cop at the Door" clip. Adam Buckley finds himself in the middle of a convenience store robbery during his last night as a pledge for a college fraternity. When the initiation ritual goes horribly wrong and everything starts falling apart, Adam is forced to choose between his new brothers or his ethics....
- 2/9/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Watch 2 new clips from Brotherhood starring Trevor Morgan, Jon Foster and Lou Taylor Pucci! The thriller opens February 18th and is helmed by Will Canon who co-writes alongside Doug Simon. Producing Brotherhood are Chris Pollack, Jason Croft, Steven Hein and Tim O'Hair. There's an "Initiation Has Begun" clip and a "Cop at the Door" clip. Adam Buckley finds himself in the middle of a convenience store robbery during his last night as a pledge for a college fraternity. When the initiation ritual goes horribly wrong and everything starts falling apart, Adam is forced to choose between his new brothers or his ethics....
- 2/9/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Brotherhood ArtMuch like last year, several quality films are showing themselves at the American Film Market and this latest extracted shining nugget is called Brotherhood. Brotherhood is an action thriller from Cinema Management Group, which was completed this year. To show at the festival November 3rd, Brotherhood is a fraternity initiation gone very wrong. Robberies, shootings, and hostage takings all take place during the film's bloody runtime and this film has already won one award at the South-by-Southwest film festival (Best Narrative Feature). Give the film's trailer a shot below and pray for a wide release in Canada and other countries (Us already announced 2011).
The synopsis for Brotherhood is here:
"Adam Buckley finds himself having to rob a convenience store on the last night of pledging to a college fraternity. But when the initiation ritual goes horribly wrong and every subsequent move proved disastrous, Adam must take a stand to...
The synopsis for Brotherhood is here:
"Adam Buckley finds himself having to rob a convenience store on the last night of pledging to a college fraternity. But when the initiation ritual goes horribly wrong and every subsequent move proved disastrous, Adam must take a stand to...
- 10/26/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Foreign sales company Cinema Management Group has acquired all rights outside America for Will Canon’s college thriller Brotherhood, which premiered at SXSW Saturday night. The film began ten years ago as Canon's Nyu short film Roslyn. He co-wrote Brotherhood, about a frat initiation ritual gone wrong, with Doug Simon. Chris Pollack, Jason Croft, Steven Hein and Tim O’Hair produced with executive producers Jamie Patricof, Kevin Iwashina, Darryn Welch and Chris Ouwinga. Cmg acquired two titles at this year’s Sundance Film Festival: The Perfect Host, and Josh Fox’s doc Gasland, which won the doc Special Jury Prize.
- 3/14/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
This is another guest editorial on Tubefilter News, which serves as a complement to our last guest article, "Confessions of Indie Web Series Creators: Things They Wish They Knew." This time we have Steve Hein, a veteran web producer and the Vice-President of Digital and Short Form Content at 20th Century Fox Television. We convinced him to share some advice from his vantage point as an executive at one of the Big Six. 1. Don’t make cheaper television. Recognize that the web requires a different kind of storytelling. Making cheaper, shorter versions of things that look like TV is a recipe for disaster. Tackle interesting subjects in interesting ways. TV is already online. How is a cheaper shorter version more competitive or compelling? Related News:Web Series Writers: Mass. Studio Offering Up $10k For Script‘Fred’ Earns High 6-Figures And Other Lessons From Omma Video NY‘Showbizzle’ Recharges, Longer Episodes and...
- 8/5/2009
- by Guest Author
- Tubefilter.com
Stephen Kay has come aboard to direct Senator International's horror project Boogeyman for Ghost House Pictures, Senator's genre label headed by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. Production is due to begin in the spring in New Zealand. Screen Gems will distribute domestically. Mehdi Norowzian was attached to direct the project but is no longer on board. Boogeyman is described as a classic horror project about a young man traumatized by memories of terrible events in his childhood bedroom. Years later, he reluctantly returns home to face his fears. Raimi and Tapert will produce from a script by Eric Kripke, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White. Steve Hein and Gary Bryman are executive producing. Kay, repped by ICM, directed the MTV telefilm Wasted, starring Nick Stahl and Summer Phoenix, as well as Get Carter, starring Sylvester Stallone. He also wrote and directed the indie feature The Last Time I Committed Suicide. Senator International is fully financing and handling worldwide rights to all pictures produced under the Ghost House banner, with Senator executive vp motion pictures Nathan Kahane and creative executive Jim Miller overseeing the daily creative operations.
- 3/14/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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