Andrew Klavan, who wrote the novel on which Clint Eastwood’s True Crime was based, will write the screenplay for Gosnell, a TV movie about Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia “house of horrors” abortion doctor who was found guilty of murder in 2013. The movie was funded through an extremely successful Indiegogo campaign which raised more than its initial $2.1 million goal.
In the campaign, filmmakers Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney, and Magdalena Segieda argued that “Indiegogo allows us to bypass the Hollywood studios and the usual funding sources for movies. Hollywood never would fund a movie such as this.” The campaign received support...
In the campaign, filmmakers Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney, and Magdalena Segieda argued that “Indiegogo allows us to bypass the Hollywood studios and the usual funding sources for movies. Hollywood never would fund a movie such as this.” The campaign received support...
- 9/3/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW - Inside TV
True Crime novelist, screenwriter, and conservative commentator Andrew Klavan (One Missed Call, A Shock To The System, Haunting Melissa) has been hired to script the crowdfunded TV film project Gosnell, about Philadelphia abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell. The infamous doctor was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder for mercilessly killing babies of botched abortions who were born alive by driving a scissors into their necks and snipping their spinal cords. His practices are believed to have gone on for as many as forty years and Gosnell is currently serving a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole.
Klavan boards the project after the completion of an enormously successful Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, which raised $2,241,043 from 26,500 donors with the help of celeb backers like Kevin Sorbo. It became the most-funded campaign on the platform within its first three weeks. Husband and wife team Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney are producing Gosnell along with Magdalena Segieda.
Klavan boards the project after the completion of an enormously successful Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, which raised $2,241,043 from 26,500 donors with the help of celeb backers like Kevin Sorbo. It became the most-funded campaign on the platform within its first three weeks. Husband and wife team Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney are producing Gosnell along with Magdalena Segieda.
- 9/2/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
1. BitTorrent Bundle: "Tough Bond," the gritty and unsettling documentary about four youths in Kenya made its ITunes debut last week. Taking it up a notch, BitTorrent released a bundle complete with a song download, clips, extras and more. 2. Gosnell. Married filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney have pulled it off - their narrative film "Gosnell" broke the record for most funds raised for a film by a non-celebrity on Indiegogo at 2.1 million dollars. This makes it the third most successful film campaign in crowdfunding history, beating out Spike Lee's 2013 record of 1.4 million. The narrative centers on the story of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for first degree murder. The filmmakers' goal? "To do what Hollywood and mainstream media won't." 3. iTunes Indies. The list of top 10 indie movie buys and rentals got two new additions this week: see two Jesse Eisenbergs in "The Double" and a new group of.
- 5/12/2014
- by Paula Bernstein and Taylor Lindsay
- Indiewire
A TV movie about convicted killer and abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell will be made, the people behind the project said Friday after surpassing their goal of raising $2.1 million through a crowdfunding campaign that broke records at Indiegogo. The filmmakers, Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney and Magda Segieda, launched their effort on March 28 with the goal of raising more money at Indiegogo than any other entertainment project in that site's history. Gosnell ran an abortion clinic for decades in Philadelphia but was convicted of multiple murders a few years ago. A grand jury determined that he severed the spines
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- 5/9/2014
- by Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nick Searcy, better known as U.S. Marshal Art Mullen on the FX television show Justified, is asking fans to donate money to some filmmakers who are producing a TV movie he says Hollywood would prefer not be made. The movie is called Gosnell and is the true story of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who is serving life in prison for multiple murders. The funding for the movie will come by way of a $2.1 million IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign. If filmmakers Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney and Magdalena Segieda are successful, it will be the biggest campaign for a TV
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- 4/15/2014
- by Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Kevin Sorbo is co-star of the past two weekends’ box office pleaser God’s Not Dead, which has pulled in $24M to date on a $2M budget. Now he is putting his name behind an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to help launch the tele-production of Gosnell – the story of the Philadelphia doctor who ran the abortion clinic from hell and was convicted on three counts of first-degree murder — but not without taking a shot at the media and Hollywood. Feature documentarians Phelim McAleer and his wife Ann McElhinney turned to Sorbo and his wife, Sandra (known as Sam), to help raise $2.1M. ”Even the pro-choicers would look at this and say, ‘No, this isn’t right,’” Sorbo said. “This is something that my wife and I are behind because we believe in this project. It’s long overdue for this story to be told, and it wasn’t covered by...
- 4/3/2014
- by ANITA BUSCH
- Deadline TV
Doc Talk is a biweekly column devoted to documentary cinema, typically featuring an essay concentrated on a currently relevant topic for discussion followed by critic picks for new theatrical and home video releases. This week we look at the new film FrackNation. At the end of the surprisingly engaging new documentary FrackNation, a title card states that “this is their film,” meaning the “thousands of ordinary people from 26 countries” who contributed to its budget through the crowd-funding website Kickstarter. This isn’t to imply that it’s a collaborative work in a directorial sense (the actual directors are a trio: Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney and Magdalena Segieda), but there is an assertion of cooperative purpose and production...
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- 1/10/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Albany, N.Y. (AP) — Dairy farmers-turned-shale millionaires. Rural widows gypped by smooth-talking landmen. Revitalized communities. Exploding wells. Dreams realized and hopes dashed.
At the local level, the story of America's unquenchable thirst for fossil fuels is a very human one. Upstate New York journalist Tom Wilber's new book reads like a character-driven novel as it tells the stories of the winners and losers, industry leaders and regulators on the new frontier of shale gas.
As a reporter for the Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin, Wilber began chronicling the story of the 50,000-square-mile Marcellus Shale long before geologists ignited the gas rush with their 2008 announcement that it could be the biggest natural gas field in the United States.
His new book, "Under the Surface," to be released May 8 by Cornell University Press, builds on his work as a reporter and later as a full-time author.
Books and documentaries have a long history...
At the local level, the story of America's unquenchable thirst for fossil fuels is a very human one. Upstate New York journalist Tom Wilber's new book reads like a character-driven novel as it tells the stories of the winners and losers, industry leaders and regulators on the new frontier of shale gas.
As a reporter for the Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin, Wilber began chronicling the story of the 50,000-square-mile Marcellus Shale long before geologists ignited the gas rush with their 2008 announcement that it could be the biggest natural gas field in the United States.
His new book, "Under the Surface," to be released May 8 by Cornell University Press, builds on his work as a reporter and later as a full-time author.
Books and documentaries have a long history...
- 4/9/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Earlier this week, a contributor to the right-wing film and culture Web site Big Hollywood offered up the delightfully titled tale, "For $745 You Too Can Be Insulted By Famed Hollywood Screenwriting Teacher Robert McKee." Author Ann McElhinney proceeded to recount her time in McKee's celebrated (and, indeed, expensive) story seminar last October, time reportedly spent chafing under the instructor's prodigious use of profanity, social criticism, "Bush bashing" and other liberal bloviation. A torrent of conservative bile followed in the site's comments. Of course, anyone who's seen Adaptation, featuring Brian Cox as the legendary -- and legendarily irascible -- writing mentor, could have warned McElhinney of at least some pedagogical turbulence ahead. So Movieline asked McKee on Wednesday: What, if anything, went wrong here?...
- 1/13/2011
- Movieline
In March, "Avatar" director James Cameron challenged global warming skeptics to a public debate, stating: "I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads." He challenged Andrew Breitbart, Climate Depot's Marc Morano and filmmaker Ann McElhinney of "Not Evil Just Wrong." All three agreed to the debate, which was scheduled to take place at the conclusion of the Areday conference in Aspen on August 22nd. To arm himself with knowledge, Cameron said he would bring two scientists and the 90-minute debate would be streamed live on the internet for everyone to watch. He was also hoping that the event would attract lots of media coverage. He even wanted FoxNews there. But as soon as everything was organized, Cameron began changing the rules. First, he wanted to change his team. Then he wanted the format to be changed from a debate to a roundtable discussion.
- 8/25/2010
- WorstPreviews.com
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