Song accepted the award at London’s Picturehouse Central cinema.
Celine Song’s Past Lives has won the 2023 Sundance Film Festival: London audience award, bringing the 10th edition of the UK event to a close at the Picturehouse Central cinema.
It is the latest international prize for Song’s debut feature, which launched in the Premieres section at the US Sundance event in January, and topped the Screen jury grid when in competition at the Berlinale.
Studiocanal will release Past Lives in UK cinemas from September 8; A24, which also produced the film, released it in the US last month.
Past Lives...
Celine Song’s Past Lives has won the 2023 Sundance Film Festival: London audience award, bringing the 10th edition of the UK event to a close at the Picturehouse Central cinema.
It is the latest international prize for Song’s debut feature, which launched in the Premieres section at the US Sundance event in January, and topped the Screen jury grid when in competition at the Berlinale.
Studiocanal will release Past Lives in UK cinemas from September 8; A24, which also produced the film, released it in the US last month.
Past Lives...
- 7/9/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival concluded its 47th iteration on Saturday, June 24, with a screening of Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music, directed by Oscar-winning duo Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet). The documentary feature about the titular performer’s singular spectacle was preceded by the Festival’s annual Award Ceremony, which reaffirmed the dynamic future of queer cinema.
This year, the 11-day Festival ran from June 14–24, 2023, with events held in theaters across San Francisco, including the historic Castro Theatre, located in the heart of the city’s LGBTQ+ cultural district, and the Roxie Theater, Frameline’s longest-running partner theater. Frameline47 also returned to Oakland this year, featuring the Festival’s first-ever Oakland Opening Night (Jac Cron’s Chestnut) and Centerpiece (Hannah Pearl Utt’s Cora Bora) films, both of which screened at The New Parkway Theater. With a full slate of upwards of 90 in-person screenings and programs,...
This year, the 11-day Festival ran from June 14–24, 2023, with events held in theaters across San Francisco, including the historic Castro Theatre, located in the heart of the city’s LGBTQ+ cultural district, and the Roxie Theater, Frameline’s longest-running partner theater. Frameline47 also returned to Oakland this year, featuring the Festival’s first-ever Oakland Opening Night (Jac Cron’s Chestnut) and Centerpiece (Hannah Pearl Utt’s Cora Bora) films, both of which screened at The New Parkway Theater. With a full slate of upwards of 90 in-person screenings and programs,...
- 6/29/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Frameline’s 2023 festival lineup includes Pixar’s new film Elemental, the Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott-starring Bottoms, a screening of Chasing Amy and its new reflective doc, Chasing Chasing Amy, and the Billy Porter and Luke Evans-led Our Son.
The 47th edition of the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival runs June 14-24 and will feature 90 screenings of features and shorts across 11 days before offering a virtual encore between June 24 and July 2. That includes 12 world, 16 North American and nine U.S. premieres, with the opening night film Fairyland, Andrew Durham’s adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s memoir, set to feature an in-person appearance from producer Sofia Coppola.
“There is nothing like seeing a great film at the cinema — sharing an experience in the same moment as friends and strangers alike,” James Woolley, executive director of Frameline, said in a statement. “Despite the challenges that have reshaped moviegoing, we...
The 47th edition of the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival runs June 14-24 and will feature 90 screenings of features and shorts across 11 days before offering a virtual encore between June 24 and July 2. That includes 12 world, 16 North American and nine U.S. premieres, with the opening night film Fairyland, Andrew Durham’s adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s memoir, set to feature an in-person appearance from producer Sofia Coppola.
“There is nothing like seeing a great film at the cinema — sharing an experience in the same moment as friends and strangers alike,” James Woolley, executive director of Frameline, said in a statement. “Despite the challenges that have reshaped moviegoing, we...
- 5/22/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Frameline announced the full program for the 47th annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
Running June 14-24, with a streaming encore to follow from June 24-July 2, Frameline47 returns with nearly 90 film screenings, including 12 world, 16 North American, and 9 U.S. premieres. In celebration of the Festival’s 47th iteration, Frameline will host 47 screenings at the Castro Theatre, which equates to an average of four screenings per day throughout the 11-day event.
This announcement comes on the heels of Frameline’s recent unveiling of three marquee presentations: the Opening Night film, Andrew Durham’s FairyLand, which will feature an in-person appearance from producer Sofia Coppola; the Oakland Centerpiece, Hannah Pearl Utt’s Cora Bora, featuring Hacks star Megan Stalter; and the Pride Kickoff film, Jordan Danger’s God Save the Queens, featuring drag icon Alaska, who will perform during the afterparty at Oasis.
The 47th iteration is set to be Northern...
Running June 14-24, with a streaming encore to follow from June 24-July 2, Frameline47 returns with nearly 90 film screenings, including 12 world, 16 North American, and 9 U.S. premieres. In celebration of the Festival’s 47th iteration, Frameline will host 47 screenings at the Castro Theatre, which equates to an average of four screenings per day throughout the 11-day event.
This announcement comes on the heels of Frameline’s recent unveiling of three marquee presentations: the Opening Night film, Andrew Durham’s FairyLand, which will feature an in-person appearance from producer Sofia Coppola; the Oakland Centerpiece, Hannah Pearl Utt’s Cora Bora, featuring Hacks star Megan Stalter; and the Pride Kickoff film, Jordan Danger’s God Save the Queens, featuring drag icon Alaska, who will perform during the afterparty at Oasis.
The 47th iteration is set to be Northern...
- 5/19/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Frameline has announced the full program for the 47th annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameline47). Running June 14 through 24, with a streaming encore to follow from June 24 through July 2, Frameline47 returns with nearly 90 film screenings, including 12 world, 16 North American, and 9 U.S. premieres.
Frameline will host 47 screenings at the historic Castro Theatre and other venues throughout the Bay Area. This announcement comes on the heels of Frameline’s recent unveiling of three marquee presentations: the Opening Night film, Andrew Durham’s Sundance favorite “Fairyland,” which will feature an in-person appearance from producer Sofia Coppola; the Oakland Centerpiece, Hannah Pearl Utt’s “Cora Bora,” featuring “Hacks” scene-stealer Megan Stalter; and the Pride Kickoff film, Jordan Danger’s “God Save the Queens,” featuring RuPaul drag icon Alaska, who will perform during the afterparty at Oasis.
This year’s iteration is set to be Northern California’s largest film festival in 2023, according to Frameline.
Frameline will host 47 screenings at the historic Castro Theatre and other venues throughout the Bay Area. This announcement comes on the heels of Frameline’s recent unveiling of three marquee presentations: the Opening Night film, Andrew Durham’s Sundance favorite “Fairyland,” which will feature an in-person appearance from producer Sofia Coppola; the Oakland Centerpiece, Hannah Pearl Utt’s “Cora Bora,” featuring “Hacks” scene-stealer Megan Stalter; and the Pride Kickoff film, Jordan Danger’s “God Save the Queens,” featuring RuPaul drag icon Alaska, who will perform during the afterparty at Oasis.
This year’s iteration is set to be Northern California’s largest film festival in 2023, according to Frameline.
- 5/18/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Twelve world premieres and 16 US premieres are among nearly 90 screening titles.
The 47th annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, also known as Frameline47, has unveiled the line-up for its June 14-24 run.
The programme of nearly 90 films includes 12 world premieres, 16 North American premieres and nine US premieres, which will screen at the historic Castro Theatre and a number other venues around San Francisco and Oakland.
Organised by media arts non-profit Frameline, the festival will have a virtual follow-up from June 24 to July 2 for US streaming audiences.
Among the festival’s world premieres will be Jac Cron’s Chestnut, from...
The 47th annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, also known as Frameline47, has unveiled the line-up for its June 14-24 run.
The programme of nearly 90 films includes 12 world premieres, 16 North American premieres and nine US premieres, which will screen at the historic Castro Theatre and a number other venues around San Francisco and Oakland.
Organised by media arts non-profit Frameline, the festival will have a virtual follow-up from June 24 to July 2 for US streaming audiences.
Among the festival’s world premieres will be Jac Cron’s Chestnut, from...
- 5/18/2023
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Prettybird has announced A.V. Rockwell signed with the commercial and music video representation company. Rockwell’s feature film debut, “A Thousand and One,” won the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Sundance film festival. Prior to her feature film, Rockwell directed for television, and her award-winning short film “Feathers” was released by Searchlight Pictures and is now available to stream on the Criterion Channel.
Rockwell joins Prettybird’s award-winning roster of filmmakers, including “Everything Everywhere All At Once” Academy Award-winning duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (also known as “The Daniels”), Janicza Bravo (“Zola”) and comedy duo Tim & Eric.
“I am so excited to have A.V. join the roster. I have been following her work for years and have always been in awe of her ability to tell stories rooted in truth with intensity and intimacy – in both her written and visual language. She is a...
Rockwell joins Prettybird’s award-winning roster of filmmakers, including “Everything Everywhere All At Once” Academy Award-winning duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (also known as “The Daniels”), Janicza Bravo (“Zola”) and comedy duo Tim & Eric.
“I am so excited to have A.V. join the roster. I have been following her work for years and have always been in awe of her ability to tell stories rooted in truth with intensity and intimacy – in both her written and visual language. She is a...
- 5/17/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay, Sophia Scorziello and Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
New York’s NewFest has announced the full lineup for their third annual NewFest Pride Summer Film Series. The event kicks off LGBTQ+ Pride Month from June 1-5 in New York, and will feature a mix of exclusive in-person premieres/panels, virtual screenings, and social events. The announcement came today from NewFest’s Executive Director David Hatkoff and Director of Programming Nick McCarthy.
“The LGBTQ+ community is once again under attack, making it all the more essential that NewFest continue to loudly and proudly amplify queer voices,” said NewFest Executive Director David Hatkoff. “We can’t wait to kick off Pride month by bringing the community together for bold new films, necessary conversations, and celebratory social gatherings. Think you can silence us? Ha. Think again.”
“From family dramas to documentaries to absurdist comedies, this year’s line-up includes an expanse of highly anticipated films that capture the varied ways our...
“The LGBTQ+ community is once again under attack, making it all the more essential that NewFest continue to loudly and proudly amplify queer voices,” said NewFest Executive Director David Hatkoff. “We can’t wait to kick off Pride month by bringing the community together for bold new films, necessary conversations, and celebratory social gatherings. Think you can silence us? Ha. Think again.”
“From family dramas to documentaries to absurdist comedies, this year’s line-up includes an expanse of highly anticipated films that capture the varied ways our...
- 5/9/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Picturehouse and the non-profit Sundance Institute have announced the lineup of feature fiction and documentary films, a specially curated programme of UK-produced short
films and a Gregg Araki retrospective for the 10th edition of Sundance Film Festival: London 2023, taking place from 6 to 9 July at Picturehouse Central.
The Festival will present 11 feature films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort in January, specially curated for London by the Sundance Institute programming team in collaboration with Picturehouse. The festival will close on 9 July with the UK premiere of You Hurt My Feelings, from acclaimed filmmaker Nicole Holofcener. The Brooklyn-set comedy-drama stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies (The Crown) as a couple whose marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears his honest
reaction to her latest book.
The Festival previously announced that it will open on 6 July with the UK premiere of Scrapper,...
films and a Gregg Araki retrospective for the 10th edition of Sundance Film Festival: London 2023, taking place from 6 to 9 July at Picturehouse Central.
The Festival will present 11 feature films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort in January, specially curated for London by the Sundance Institute programming team in collaboration with Picturehouse. The festival will close on 9 July with the UK premiere of You Hurt My Feelings, from acclaimed filmmaker Nicole Holofcener. The Brooklyn-set comedy-drama stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies (The Crown) as a couple whose marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears his honest
reaction to her latest book.
The Festival previously announced that it will open on 6 July with the UK premiere of Scrapper,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Frameline Film Festival will open with a screening of the Sofia Coppola-produced movie “Fairyland.” The 11-day, LGBTQ-focused festival will return to San Francisco and Oakland from June 14-24.
“Fairyland” will be followed by the festival’s Oakland Centerpiece event, which will screen “Cora Bora” on June 15. Its Pride Kickoff screening will be of “God Save the Queens” on June 22.
Produced by Sofia Coppola and directed by Andrew Durham, “Fairyland” is an adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s memoir of the same name. Throughout Durham’s directorial debut, audiences learn about the early days of gay liberation in San Francisco. Scoot McNairy portrays Alysia’s father, Steve, as he tries to balance fatherhood with exploring his sexuality. “Fairyland” will open the festival at the Castro Theater on June 14.
“’Fairyland’ is the perfect film to open Frameline47 as it’s a film anchored in the rich, gay history of San Francisco, and...
“Fairyland” will be followed by the festival’s Oakland Centerpiece event, which will screen “Cora Bora” on June 15. Its Pride Kickoff screening will be of “God Save the Queens” on June 22.
Produced by Sofia Coppola and directed by Andrew Durham, “Fairyland” is an adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s memoir of the same name. Throughout Durham’s directorial debut, audiences learn about the early days of gay liberation in San Francisco. Scoot McNairy portrays Alysia’s father, Steve, as he tries to balance fatherhood with exploring his sexuality. “Fairyland” will open the festival at the Castro Theater on June 14.
“’Fairyland’ is the perfect film to open Frameline47 as it’s a film anchored in the rich, gay history of San Francisco, and...
- 5/4/2023
- by Charna Flam and Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Producer Greg Lauritano has today announced the launch of Adrenaline, a new below-the-line and alternative media management company that will rep clients for film, television, commercials, music videos and alternative media.
Greg Lauritano on set of Borrego with star Lucy Hale in Spain
The company, based out of New York and Los Angeles, will be a separate entity from Lauritano’s Brooklyn-based production banner Black Magic, which launched last summer. In addition to U.S. cinematographers, production designers, hair and make-up designers, line producers, composers, editors, costume designers, casting directors and alternative clients across various media and the physical art world, Adrenaline will represent clients overseas who are seeking opportunities in the United States.
“As a filmmaker who regularly works on set, I have an intimate understanding of the actual day-to-day work our clients do. We feel that unique perspective is instrumental,” said Lauritano in a statement to Deadline.
Greg Lauritano on set of Borrego with star Lucy Hale in Spain
The company, based out of New York and Los Angeles, will be a separate entity from Lauritano’s Brooklyn-based production banner Black Magic, which launched last summer. In addition to U.S. cinematographers, production designers, hair and make-up designers, line producers, composers, editors, costume designers, casting directors and alternative clients across various media and the physical art world, Adrenaline will represent clients overseas who are seeking opportunities in the United States.
“As a filmmaker who regularly works on set, I have an intimate understanding of the actual day-to-day work our clients do. We feel that unique perspective is instrumental,” said Lauritano in a statement to Deadline.
- 5/3/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Nicole Holofcener’s ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ will close this year’s festival.
Sundance Film Festival: London has revealed further titles in the line-up for its upcoming 10th edition (July 6-9), with Nicole Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings named as the closing night film, and a retrospective on pioneer of queer cinema, Gregg Araki.
The festival will present 11 feature films that premiered at the US edition of Sundance in January, and takes place at London’s Picturehouse Central.
Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings is a Brooklyn-set comedy drama, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies as a couple whose...
Sundance Film Festival: London has revealed further titles in the line-up for its upcoming 10th edition (July 6-9), with Nicole Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings named as the closing night film, and a retrospective on pioneer of queer cinema, Gregg Araki.
The festival will present 11 feature films that premiered at the US edition of Sundance in January, and takes place at London’s Picturehouse Central.
Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings is a Brooklyn-set comedy drama, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies as a couple whose...
- 5/3/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The Sundance Film Festival: London 2023 will close with the U.K. premiere of Nicole Holofcener’s “You Hurt My Feelings.”
The comedy-drama is set in Brooklyn and stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies as a couple whose marriage is thrown into turmoil when she overhears his honest reaction to her latest book.
As previously announced, the festival will open with the U.K. premiere of “Scrapper,” written and directed by Londoner Charlotte Regan, starring Harris Dickinson and newcomers Lola Campbell and Alin Uzun. It follows Georgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, who lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Suddenly, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.
Curated by Picturehouse and the Sundance Institute, the 10th edition of the festival is set to take place from July 6-9 July at Picturehouse Central and will showcase 11 feature films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City,...
The comedy-drama is set in Brooklyn and stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies as a couple whose marriage is thrown into turmoil when she overhears his honest reaction to her latest book.
As previously announced, the festival will open with the U.K. premiere of “Scrapper,” written and directed by Londoner Charlotte Regan, starring Harris Dickinson and newcomers Lola Campbell and Alin Uzun. It follows Georgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, who lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Suddenly, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.
Curated by Picturehouse and the Sundance Institute, the 10th edition of the festival is set to take place from July 6-9 July at Picturehouse Central and will showcase 11 feature films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City,...
- 5/3/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
We learned back in March that Charlotte Regan's Scrapper would serve as the kick-off film for this year's Sundance Film Festival: London. The full programme has now been announced, including the fact that Nicole Holofcener's You Hurt My Feelings will close out the festival on 9 July.
Holofcener's latest stars regular collaborator Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Beth, a writer whose marriage is put to the test when she overhears her husband Don's (Tobias Menzies) honest opinion of her new book.
Among the other films screening during the event attendees can expect to see Ira Sachs' Passages starring Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos and
Franz Rogowski, Andrew Durham’s Fairyland and Celine Song's Past Lives.
Besides that, there is a curated selection of short films and special screenings of Gregg Araki's films, with Araki in attendance for Q&As.
Sundance Film Festival: London Ticket Passes are on sale now, with priority...
Holofcener's latest stars regular collaborator Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Beth, a writer whose marriage is put to the test when she overhears her husband Don's (Tobias Menzies) honest opinion of her new book.
Among the other films screening during the event attendees can expect to see Ira Sachs' Passages starring Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos and
Franz Rogowski, Andrew Durham’s Fairyland and Celine Song's Past Lives.
Besides that, there is a curated selection of short films and special screenings of Gregg Araki's films, with Araki in attendance for Q&As.
Sundance Film Festival: London Ticket Passes are on sale now, with priority...
- 5/2/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
The European Film Market kicks off Feb. 16 with a wide assortment of films from sellers around the world. Below is a healthy selection of what’s on offer for buyers.
The Adults
Director: Alex Winter
Key cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Josh Gad, Anthony Carrigan
Synopsis: A sister and brother, Megan and Nathan are barely hanging on and their lives are completely upended when they discover a dead body, long buried in their parent’s basement, sending them down a rabbit hole of crime and murder.
Producers: Alex Winter, Scott Kroopf, Russell Hollander
Sales: Rocket Science (international); CAA Media Finance (domestic)
The Astronaut
Director: Jess Varley
Key cast: Emma Roberts, Laurence Fishburne
Producers: Brad Fuller, Eric B. Fleischman, Cameron Fuller
Synopsis: When astronaut Sam Walker (Roberts) returns from her first space mission, she’s found miraculously alive in a punctured capsule floating deep off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. General...
The Adults
Director: Alex Winter
Key cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Josh Gad, Anthony Carrigan
Synopsis: A sister and brother, Megan and Nathan are barely hanging on and their lives are completely upended when they discover a dead body, long buried in their parent’s basement, sending them down a rabbit hole of crime and murder.
Producers: Alex Winter, Scott Kroopf, Russell Hollander
Sales: Rocket Science (international); CAA Media Finance (domestic)
The Astronaut
Director: Jess Varley
Key cast: Emma Roberts, Laurence Fishburne
Producers: Brad Fuller, Eric B. Fleischman, Cameron Fuller
Synopsis: When astronaut Sam Walker (Roberts) returns from her first space mission, she’s found miraculously alive in a punctured capsule floating deep off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. General...
- 2/13/2023
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival once again returned to Park City, Utah in-person, but it also had an online program that hosted the majority of its film slate. However, some titles, such as Celine Song’s Past Lives and John Carney’s Flora and Son, only played for in-person attendants. Showbiz Cheat Sheet only covered Sundance remotely for 2023, but here are the 10 films we saw that stood above the rest.
L-r: ‘Passages,’ ‘Rye Lane,’ ‘Shayda,’ and ‘A Thousand and One’ | Mubi, Searchlight Pictures, Courtesy of Sundance Institute, Courtesy of Sundance Institute 10. ‘Fairyland’ L-r: Cody Fern as Eddie Body, Scoot McNairy as Steve Abbott, and Nessa Dougherty as Younger Alysia Abbott | Courtesy of Sundance Institute
Fairyland marks the directorial feature debut for Andrew Durham, which follows a young girl who moves to 1970s San Francisco with her gay dad after her mom’s death. It’s based on a marvelous novel of the same name.
L-r: ‘Passages,’ ‘Rye Lane,’ ‘Shayda,’ and ‘A Thousand and One’ | Mubi, Searchlight Pictures, Courtesy of Sundance Institute, Courtesy of Sundance Institute 10. ‘Fairyland’ L-r: Cody Fern as Eddie Body, Scoot McNairy as Steve Abbott, and Nessa Dougherty as Younger Alysia Abbott | Courtesy of Sundance Institute
Fairyland marks the directorial feature debut for Andrew Durham, which follows a young girl who moves to 1970s San Francisco with her gay dad after her mom’s death. It’s based on a marvelous novel of the same name.
- 1/31/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”
It’s not every day that an action movie stars an 80-year- old. But leave it to octogenarian Harrison Ford to return as Indiana Jones in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” the fifth installment of the iconic franchise.
While moviegoers may be surprised to see Ford return four decades after making the first film, the actor has long felt he’d be back. “I always wanted to do it,” he told me at the premiere of his Apple TV+ comedy series “Shrinking.” “I wanted to do the rest of the story to see the end of his career.”
But even Ford has his limits. He insists he’s hung up Indy’s fedora and bullwhip for good: “It’s the last time for me.”
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Speaking of franchises, are we getting closer to seeing another “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie? Super-producer...
It’s not every day that an action movie stars an 80-year- old. But leave it to octogenarian Harrison Ford to return as Indiana Jones in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” the fifth installment of the iconic franchise.
While moviegoers may be surprised to see Ford return four decades after making the first film, the actor has long felt he’d be back. “I always wanted to do it,” he told me at the premiere of his Apple TV+ comedy series “Shrinking.” “I wanted to do the rest of the story to see the end of his career.”
But even Ford has his limits. He insists he’s hung up Indy’s fedora and bullwhip for good: “It’s the last time for me.”
…
Speaking of franchises, are we getting closer to seeing another “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie? Super-producer...
- 1/31/2023
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
“The World Just Sounded Different 50 Years Ago”: Editors Peter Hagan and Lawrence Klein on Fairyland
Based on Alysia Abbott’s memoir of the same name, Fairyland chronicles Alysia’s (Emilia Jones’s) coming of age in the ’70s and ’80s. After her mother dies, her father moves to San Francisco with the then-5-year-old Alysia and begins openly dating men. The film follows Alysia’s ever-evolving relationship with her father as she relocates to New York for college, travels to France for a study abroad program and eventually returns home to San Francisco. Co-editors Peter Hagan and Lawrence Klein discuss how they worked together to cut Andrew Durham’s debut feature. See all responses to our annual Sundance editor interviews here. Filmmaker: […]
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- 1/29/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
“The World Just Sounded Different 50 Years Ago”: Editors Peter Hagan and Lawrence Klein on Fairyland
Based on Alysia Abbott’s memoir of the same name, Fairyland chronicles Alysia’s (Emilia Jones’s) coming of age in the ’70s and ’80s. After her mother dies, her father moves to San Francisco with the then-5-year-old Alysia and begins openly dating men. The film follows Alysia’s ever-evolving relationship with her father as she relocates to New York for college, travels to France for a study abroad program and eventually returns home to San Francisco. Co-editors Peter Hagan and Lawrence Klein discuss how they worked together to cut Andrew Durham’s debut feature. See all responses to our annual Sundance editor interviews here. Filmmaker: […]
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- 1/29/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Based on Alysia Abbott’s 2013 memoir of the same name, Andrew Durham’s feature debut Fairyland chronicles Alysia’s (Emilia Jones) coming of age after the death of her mother. More specifically, Fairyland explores the complicated relationship between Alysia and her father Steve (Scoot McNairy), who relocates with her to San Francisco in the ’70s and begins to openly date men and adopt a distinctly bohemian lifestyle. Dp Greta Zozula tells Filmmaker about the various aesthetic choices made to capture this touching true story. See all responses to our annual Sundance cinematographer interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being […]
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- 1/28/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Based on Alysia Abbott’s 2013 memoir of the same name, Andrew Durham’s feature debut Fairyland chronicles Alysia’s (Emilia Jones) coming of age after the death of her mother. More specifically, Fairyland explores the complicated relationship between Alysia and her father Steve (Scoot McNairy), who relocates with her to San Francisco in the ’70s and begins to openly date men and adopt a distinctly bohemian lifestyle. Dp Greta Zozula tells Filmmaker about the various aesthetic choices made to capture this touching true story. See all responses to our annual Sundance cinematographer interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being […]
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- 1/28/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Plot: After his wife dies tragically, Steve (Scoot McNairy) uproots his young daughter, Alysia, and moves to San Francisco, where he begins to explore his repressed homosexuality amid the growing gay rights movement of the 70s. Years later, in the 80s, as the AIDS crisis decimates the community, a now-grown Alysia (Emilia Jones) returns home to care for his dying father.
Review: Fairyland was one of the most ambitious movies to play this year’s Sundance Film Festival. While it’s a well-acted adaptation of the memoir by Alysia Abbott, it was the movie that made me notice how much the indie scene has changed. A decade or so ago, a star-driven historical drama based on a best-selling book would have gotten a healthy budget and perhaps backing from a mini-major such as Searchlight or Focus. In the new, micro-budget era, first-time director Andrew Durham has had to craft a...
Review: Fairyland was one of the most ambitious movies to play this year’s Sundance Film Festival. While it’s a well-acted adaptation of the memoir by Alysia Abbott, it was the movie that made me notice how much the indie scene has changed. A decade or so ago, a star-driven historical drama based on a best-selling book would have gotten a healthy budget and perhaps backing from a mini-major such as Searchlight or Focus. In the new, micro-budget era, first-time director Andrew Durham has had to craft a...
- 1/28/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Every production faces unexpected obstructions that require creative solutions and conceptual rethinking. What was an unforeseen obstacle, crisis, or simply unpredictable event you had to respond to, and how did this event impact or cause you to rethink your film? I think one of our biggest obstacles was time. We had a very tight budget and could only afford 23 shooting days. When I found out how few hours our child actor—Nessa Dougherty, who plays young Alysia—could work each day, I had to completely rethink how to shoot the movie. With […]
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- 1/27/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Every production faces unexpected obstructions that require creative solutions and conceptual rethinking. What was an unforeseen obstacle, crisis, or simply unpredictable event you had to respond to, and how did this event impact or cause you to rethink your film? I think one of our biggest obstacles was time. We had a very tight budget and could only afford 23 shooting days. When I found out how few hours our child actor—Nessa Dougherty, who plays young Alysia—could work each day, I had to completely rethink how to shoot the movie. With […]
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The post “One of Our Biggest Obstacles Was Time” | Andrew Durham, Fairyland first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/27/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Told from the perspective of a young girl raised by her single gay father to be a woman who is “strong and tolerant and not afraid of this world,” Fairyland reveals the intensely personal nature of its origins in Alysia Abbott’s 2013 memoir at every step of the characters’ complicated evolution together. Like that sometimes strained relationship, this debut feature from photographer Andrew Durham often feels stuck, but eventually reaches its destination with clear-eyed compassion and an emotionally powerful reconciliation. Those qualities are captured with enormous sensitivity in the lead performances of Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy.
With a producing team led by Sofia Coppola for American Zoetrope, this is a bittersweet drama about unconventional parenting and alternative families that will resonate loudest with LGBTQ audiences. But its surge of final-act feeling will speak to any audience that has ever experienced the startling reckoning that comes with grief.
The film...
With a producing team led by Sofia Coppola for American Zoetrope, this is a bittersweet drama about unconventional parenting and alternative families that will resonate loudest with LGBTQ audiences. But its surge of final-act feeling will speak to any audience that has ever experienced the startling reckoning that comes with grief.
The film...
- 1/27/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Andrew Durham makes his directorial feature debut at the Sundance Film Festival with an adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s remarkably intimate memoir, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, shortening the title to just Fairyland. The story spans from her childhood to adulthood, capturing a longitudinal look into her relationship with her father in a city that became home. Fairyland is emotionally moving, but Durham’s screenplay trips a bit on bringing the source material to the silver screen.
‘Fairyland’ follows a father and daughter chasing a new life in San Francisco L-r: Cody Fern as Eddie Body, Scoot McNairy as Steve Abbott, and Nessa Dougherty as Younger Alysia Abbott | Courtesy of Sundance Institute
Alysia suddenly loses her mother in a tragic car accident. Her father, Steve (Scoot McNairy), sees an opportunity for a new start with his daughter, moving to San Francisco in the 1970s. There, he develops his skills...
‘Fairyland’ follows a father and daughter chasing a new life in San Francisco L-r: Cody Fern as Eddie Body, Scoot McNairy as Steve Abbott, and Nessa Dougherty as Younger Alysia Abbott | Courtesy of Sundance Institute
Alysia suddenly loses her mother in a tragic car accident. Her father, Steve (Scoot McNairy), sees an opportunity for a new start with his daughter, moving to San Francisco in the 1970s. There, he develops his skills...
- 1/26/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
“These kind of stories have sustained us for 25 years.”
IndieWire’s Eric Kohn set the tone at the First-Time Filmmakers Cocktail Party, presented by Canada Goose at Sundance on January 22. The original stories and perspectives from directors making their feature debuts powers IndieWire and the film industry, and IndieWire couldn’t be happier to celebrate them.
There’s something electric about new filmmakers meeting each other for the first time. At the three-hour event, hosted at the Canada Goose Basecamp on Main Street in Park City, “Aum: The Cult at the End of the World” co-director Chiaki Yanigimoto talked with “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” filmmaker Anna Hints, while Sing J. Lee arrived with the cast of his stirring film “The Accidental Getaway Driver.” Narrative filmmakers exchanged tips with documentarians, and everyone celebrated cinema.
Among the other attendees were Lin Alluna, Thembi L. Banks, Razelle Benally, Ben Braun, Jacqueline Castel, Mstyslav Chernov,...
IndieWire’s Eric Kohn set the tone at the First-Time Filmmakers Cocktail Party, presented by Canada Goose at Sundance on January 22. The original stories and perspectives from directors making their feature debuts powers IndieWire and the film industry, and IndieWire couldn’t be happier to celebrate them.
There’s something electric about new filmmakers meeting each other for the first time. At the three-hour event, hosted at the Canada Goose Basecamp on Main Street in Park City, “Aum: The Cult at the End of the World” co-director Chiaki Yanigimoto talked with “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” filmmaker Anna Hints, while Sing J. Lee arrived with the cast of his stirring film “The Accidental Getaway Driver.” Narrative filmmakers exchanged tips with documentarians, and everyone celebrated cinema.
Among the other attendees were Lin Alluna, Thembi L. Banks, Razelle Benally, Ben Braun, Jacqueline Castel, Mstyslav Chernov,...
- 1/24/2023
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Andrew Durham’s Fairyland features Scoot McNairy as Steve Abbott, a single father who takes his daughter Alysia to San Francisco in the early 1970s after the death of his wife in a car accident. Adapted from a memoir of the same name by the real-life Alysia Abbott, Durham’s debut feature explores nearly two decades of this father-daughter relationship. About halfway through the film, Alysia jumps in age, going from a precocious, carefree child (Nessa Dougherty) to an edgy, isolated teenager (Emilia Jones). Steve, possibly as open as a father can be, is bisexual, and his fate becomes intertwined with the AIDS crisis; the film’s ending never seems to be in doubt.
Durham consistently places the camera from new perspectives. A photographer by trade, she decides to shoot early scenes from the view of a young Alysia, looking up at the wide-eyed world around her: a queer community...
Durham consistently places the camera from new perspectives. A photographer by trade, she decides to shoot early scenes from the view of a young Alysia, looking up at the wide-eyed world around her: a queer community...
- 1/24/2023
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
Worldwide offers in on Beyond Utopia, The Eternal Memory.
Heading into Monday evening Apple and Amazon were understood to be in hot pursuit of Sundance crowd-pleaser Flora And Son as bidding reached the high teens to low twenties range, according to sources.
John Carney’s story of a single mother who tries to get her broken family back together is shaping up to be one of the biggest Sundance deals on record. It stars Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Orén Kinlan and Jack Reynor and debuted in Premieres. WME Independent, Fifth Season and FilmNation represent sales.
Following Netflix...
Heading into Monday evening Apple and Amazon were understood to be in hot pursuit of Sundance crowd-pleaser Flora And Son as bidding reached the high teens to low twenties range, according to sources.
John Carney’s story of a single mother who tries to get her broken family back together is shaping up to be one of the biggest Sundance deals on record. It stars Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Orén Kinlan and Jack Reynor and debuted in Premieres. WME Independent, Fifth Season and FilmNation represent sales.
Following Netflix...
- 1/24/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Worldwide offers in on Beyond Utopia, The Eternal Memory.
Heading into Monday evening Apple and Amazon were understood to be in hot pursuit of Sundance crowd-pleaser Flora And Son with bidding well into eight figures.
John Carney’s story of a single mother who tries to get her broken family back together stars Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Orén Kinlan and Jack Reynor and debuted in Premieres. WME Independent, Fifth Season and FilmNation represent sales.
Following Netflix’s 20m worldwide buy on Chloe Domont’s US Dramatic Competition entry Fair Play and Searchlight Pictures’ swoop on global rights to crowd-pleaser Theater Camp,...
Heading into Monday evening Apple and Amazon were understood to be in hot pursuit of Sundance crowd-pleaser Flora And Son with bidding well into eight figures.
John Carney’s story of a single mother who tries to get her broken family back together stars Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Orén Kinlan and Jack Reynor and debuted in Premieres. WME Independent, Fifth Season and FilmNation represent sales.
Following Netflix’s 20m worldwide buy on Chloe Domont’s US Dramatic Competition entry Fair Play and Searchlight Pictures’ swoop on global rights to crowd-pleaser Theater Camp,...
- 1/24/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Market shows encouraging signs of life over opening weekend.
Updated: Apple and Amazon are understood to be chasing John Carney’s Flora And Son which sources expected to close overnight, while bidding on Fairyland has reportedly reached high seven figures as buyers have responded robustly to Sundance titles over opening weekend.
Flora And Son premiered at The Ray Theatre on Sunday afternoon and centres on a single mother who gets her ne’er-do-well son a guitar with unexpected results.
Theatrical buyers are also understood to be pursuing the title. WME Independent, Fifth Season and FilmNation handle sales on the latest musical drama from Carney.
Updated: Apple and Amazon are understood to be chasing John Carney’s Flora And Son which sources expected to close overnight, while bidding on Fairyland has reportedly reached high seven figures as buyers have responded robustly to Sundance titles over opening weekend.
Flora And Son premiered at The Ray Theatre on Sunday afternoon and centres on a single mother who gets her ne’er-do-well son a guitar with unexpected results.
Theatrical buyers are also understood to be pursuing the title. WME Independent, Fifth Season and FilmNation handle sales on the latest musical drama from Carney.
- 1/23/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Sunday’s anticipated premieres include Drift, Flora And Son.
Heading into Sunday at Sundance studios and streamers were continuing to bid on Chloe Domont’s finance world psychological thriller Fair Play in what sources say could result in an eight-figure deal by the time a winner emerges.
The US Dramatic Competition entry has been the talk of the acquisitions scene since it premiered on Friday and MRC and T-Street have been taking their time mulling offers on the acclaimed feature directing debut that stars Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor as a newly engaged couple at a hedge fund.
After three...
Heading into Sunday at Sundance studios and streamers were continuing to bid on Chloe Domont’s finance world psychological thriller Fair Play in what sources say could result in an eight-figure deal by the time a winner emerges.
The US Dramatic Competition entry has been the talk of the acquisitions scene since it premiered on Friday and MRC and T-Street have been taking their time mulling offers on the acclaimed feature directing debut that stars Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor as a newly engaged couple at a hedge fund.
After three...
- 1/22/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Stories about the gay heyday of 1970s San Francisco — and the cruel chaser of the AIDS crisis the following decade — often hang on the notion of chosen family within the queer community: the bonds formed when blood ties are severed by prejudice. Studies of biological family, and parenthood especially, in that context are more unusual, which is what makes Alysia Abbott’s book “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father” so moving. An account of her upbringing by a gay single father amid the LGBTQ liberation movement, and her subsequent nursing of him through AIDS, it balances an eager child’s-eye acceptance of counterculture living with an older woman’s melancholy over things unsaid or misspoken. In “Fairyland,” Andrew Durham adapts her story with warmth and sensitivity, though those perspectives are more fluently bridged on the page than on the screen.
A photographer making his feature-length debut as writer-director, Durham initially...
A photographer making his feature-length debut as writer-director, Durham initially...
- 1/21/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Scoot McNairy is going to break your heart in Andrew Durham’s debut feature “Fairyland,” produced by Sofia Coppola and adapted from Alysia Abbott’s “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father.” McNairy stars as Steve Abbott, a writer and widower who packs up his battered red Volkswagen bug and moves his young daughter Alysia (Nessa Dougherty) to San Francisco in the 1970s after the tragic death of his wife in a car accident.
In San Francisco, Steve can pursue his writing career and a queer lifestyle, all while providing Alysia with a free-wheeling, bohemian and highly independent childhood, one that is creative, honest and lived without shame, in a setting that’s more glam-rock than Summer of Love. However, like most kids and young adults, it will take years for Alysia to come to terms with the unique benefits of growing up in such an unconventional manner.
Durham takes care...
In San Francisco, Steve can pursue his writing career and a queer lifestyle, all while providing Alysia with a free-wheeling, bohemian and highly independent childhood, one that is creative, honest and lived without shame, in a setting that’s more glam-rock than Summer of Love. However, like most kids and young adults, it will take years for Alysia to come to terms with the unique benefits of growing up in such an unconventional manner.
Durham takes care...
- 1/21/2023
- by Katie Walsh
- The Wrap
Emilia Jones earned a lot of attention as the star of 2021’s big Sundance winner and eventual Best Picture Oscar winner Coda, and the praise should be continuing this year as she not only stars in Cat People but also Fairyland, which had its world premiere in Park City on Friday.
Sofia Coppola serves as lead producer for this American Zoetrope production of Andrew Durham’s feature film writing and directing debut, and it is a memorable one that is unlikely to leave a dry eye in the house. It had me in quiet tears by the end of this film adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s moving 2013 memoir of growing up in San Francisco with her widowed father just as gay pride was taking hold and the AIDS epidemic was on the horizon. This is not a sweeping panorama of what happened there in the 1970s and ’80s, but rather...
Sofia Coppola serves as lead producer for this American Zoetrope production of Andrew Durham’s feature film writing and directing debut, and it is a memorable one that is unlikely to leave a dry eye in the house. It had me in quiet tears by the end of this film adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s moving 2013 memoir of growing up in San Francisco with her widowed father just as gay pride was taking hold and the AIDS epidemic was on the horizon. This is not a sweeping panorama of what happened there in the 1970s and ’80s, but rather...
- 1/21/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Saturday premieres include William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth follow-up Eileen.
Multiple offers from studios and streamers are understood to have come in for Chloe Domont’s Sundance finance thriller Fair Play following the world premiere on Friday.
The film about a promotion at a New York hedge fund that pushes two newly engaged employees to the edge stars Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor and screens again in US Dramatic Competition today (January 21) to public and P&i.
Fair Play hails from the partnership between MRC and Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Street to support emerging directors, and Star Thrower Entertainment.
Multiple offers from studios and streamers are understood to have come in for Chloe Domont’s Sundance finance thriller Fair Play following the world premiere on Friday.
The film about a promotion at a New York hedge fund that pushes two newly engaged employees to the edge stars Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor and screens again in US Dramatic Competition today (January 21) to public and P&i.
Fair Play hails from the partnership between MRC and Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Street to support emerging directors, and Star Thrower Entertainment.
- 1/21/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Adam Lambert made headlines recently for slamming a casting rumor that “The White Lotus” star Theo James was circling the role of George Michael in a biopic about the pop music icon. Not so fast. Speaking at the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance, Lambert said he was mostly being sarcastic and that it would be “ridiculous” to claim that gay characters can only be played by gay actors.
“My actual comment was a straight actor playing a gay icon. I by no means think that gay characters can only be played by gay actors,” Lambert said. “That would be ridiculous. Case in point: Scoot’s brilliant performance in this film.”
Lambert is at Sundance with the drama “Fairyland,” starring Scoot McNairy as a bohemian father living in 1970s San Francisco. McNairy plays a gay man in the film, and Lambert says his performance is proof that gay characters...
“My actual comment was a straight actor playing a gay icon. I by no means think that gay characters can only be played by gay actors,” Lambert said. “That would be ridiculous. Case in point: Scoot’s brilliant performance in this film.”
Lambert is at Sundance with the drama “Fairyland,” starring Scoot McNairy as a bohemian father living in 1970s San Francisco. McNairy plays a gay man in the film, and Lambert says his performance is proof that gay characters...
- 1/20/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
When Andrew Durham was searching for financing for “Fairyland,” his film adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s memoir about growing up in San Francisco with her gay single father and the impact that the AIDS crisis had on the community of LGBTQ Bohemians who populated her world, he received a shocking rejection.
“In a meeting, somebody told me verbatim that AIDS is passé,” Durham remembers. “I had to keep reminding people that stories about AIDS have been told, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t keep talking about that time and offering different perspectives.”
After years of struggle to bring the movie to life, “Fairyland” will have its premiere on Friday at the Sundance Film Festival with a cast that includes Scoot McNairy, Geena Davis and “Coda” breakout Emilia Jones. And the finished film does exactly what Durham said it would — tell the story of those plague years not...
“In a meeting, somebody told me verbatim that AIDS is passé,” Durham remembers. “I had to keep reminding people that stories about AIDS have been told, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t keep talking about that time and offering different perspectives.”
After years of struggle to bring the movie to life, “Fairyland” will have its premiere on Friday at the Sundance Film Festival with a cast that includes Scoot McNairy, Geena Davis and “Coda” breakout Emilia Jones. And the finished film does exactly what Durham said it would — tell the story of those plague years not...
- 1/20/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Acquisition titles spark early interest from Park City buyers.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights from CNN Films to Sundance selection Little Richard: I Am Everything in a deal that is understood to have closed on site in Park City as buyer interest begins to heat up on other available titles.
Lisa Cortés’ US Documentary Competition section entry premiered on Thursday opening night and explores the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll and the key role played by Richard Penniman.
Magnolia plans to release the film in April in the US and Magnolia head of international sales Lorna Lee...
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights from CNN Films to Sundance selection Little Richard: I Am Everything in a deal that is understood to have closed on site in Park City as buyer interest begins to heat up on other available titles.
Lisa Cortés’ US Documentary Competition section entry premiered on Thursday opening night and explores the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll and the key role played by Richard Penniman.
Magnolia plans to release the film in April in the US and Magnolia head of international sales Lorna Lee...
- 1/20/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Fair Play delivers strong world premiere heading into weekend.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights from CNN Films to Sundance selection Little Richard: I Am Everything in a deal that is understood to have closed on site in Park City as buyer interest begins to heat up on other available titles.
Lisa Cortés’ US Documentary Competition section entry premiered on Thursday opening night and explores the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll and the key role played by Richard Penniman.
Magnolia plans to release the film in April in the US and Magnolia head of international sales Lorna Lee...
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights from CNN Films to Sundance selection Little Richard: I Am Everything in a deal that is understood to have closed on site in Park City as buyer interest begins to heat up on other available titles.
Lisa Cortés’ US Documentary Competition section entry premiered on Thursday opening night and explores the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll and the key role played by Richard Penniman.
Magnolia plans to release the film in April in the US and Magnolia head of international sales Lorna Lee...
- 1/20/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Acquisition titles spark early interest from Park City buyers.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights from CNN Films to Sundance selection Little Richard: I Am Everything in a deal that is understood to have closed on site in Park City as buyer interest begins to heat up on other available titles.
Lisa Cortés’ US Documentary Competition section entry premiered on Thursday opening night and explores the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll and the key role played by Richard Penniman.
Magnolia plans to release the film in April in the US and Magnolia head of international sales Lorna Lee...
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights from CNN Films to Sundance selection Little Richard: I Am Everything in a deal that is understood to have closed on site in Park City as buyer interest begins to heat up on other available titles.
Lisa Cortés’ US Documentary Competition section entry premiered on Thursday opening night and explores the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll and the key role played by Richard Penniman.
Magnolia plans to release the film in April in the US and Magnolia head of international sales Lorna Lee...
- 1/20/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
It’s been three years since Hollywood touched down in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival, with the 2023 fest offering a hybrid format of both in-person and online attendance after two years of purely digital incarnations. While the virtual festivals still produced major sales — 2021’s Coda being the most noteworthy — the overall market has lagged, with dealmaking continuing into the months after the close of the festival and mid-range deals becoming scarcer. Sellers are particularly excited for the return of in-person premieres, hoping that this will mean a return to urgency, if not a return to all-night bidding wars.
Here are this year’s titles that are sure to entice buyers, whether they are sitting in the Eccles or on their couch at home.
Aum: The Cult at the End of the World
Directors Ben Braun, Chiaki Yanagimoto
Buzz The doc, which could satisfy a streamer’s true crime or nonfiction thriller needs,...
Here are this year’s titles that are sure to entice buyers, whether they are sitting in the Eccles or on their couch at home.
Aum: The Cult at the End of the World
Directors Ben Braun, Chiaki Yanagimoto
Buzz The doc, which could satisfy a streamer’s true crime or nonfiction thriller needs,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Maria Bakalova (Bodies Bodies Bodies) has joined the casts of Andrew Durham’s feature directorial debut Fairyland for American Zoetrope, and Jerry Seinfeld’s first film Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story for Netflix. Details as to the roles she’ll be playing in the features have not been disclosed, though we hear she’ll only be making a cameo in the latter.
Fairyland is a father-daughter coming-of-age story that Durham adapted from Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father. The book originally published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2012 is set against San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene of the 1970s and ’80s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic — a crisis that would ultimately claim the life of Abbott’s father, the widowed poet and gay activist, Steve Abbott. Bakalova joins an ensemble led by Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy, which also includes Geena Davis, Cody Fern,...
Fairyland is a father-daughter coming-of-age story that Durham adapted from Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father. The book originally published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2012 is set against San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene of the 1970s and ’80s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic — a crisis that would ultimately claim the life of Abbott’s father, the widowed poet and gay activist, Steve Abbott. Bakalova joins an ensemble led by Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy, which also includes Geena Davis, Cody Fern,...
- 8/11/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Greg Lauritano (Big Gold Brick) today announced the launch of his Brooklyn-based production company, Black Magic, at the same time offering details as to its upcoming slate.
Lauritano is an indie producer who was behind Brian Petsos’ directorial debut, Big Gold Brick, starring Andy Garcia, Emory Cohen, Megan Fox, Lucy Hale and Oscar Isaac, which was released via Samuel Goldwyn Films and Arclight Films earlier this year.
The producer’s new company is developing projects including stage and film adaptations of Englund’s book The Way It’s Never Been Done Before, in which he reminisces on his friendship with Marlon Brando. Black Magic has also optioned Kelly Gardiner’s Goddess—a gender-bending novel about a swashbuckling female opera singer and fencer in France, which is to be adapted into a limited series with Vera Bulder and Clara McGregor’s Deux Dames Entertainment.
“After almost a decade in the industry,...
Lauritano is an indie producer who was behind Brian Petsos’ directorial debut, Big Gold Brick, starring Andy Garcia, Emory Cohen, Megan Fox, Lucy Hale and Oscar Isaac, which was released via Samuel Goldwyn Films and Arclight Films earlier this year.
The producer’s new company is developing projects including stage and film adaptations of Englund’s book The Way It’s Never Been Done Before, in which he reminisces on his friendship with Marlon Brando. Black Magic has also optioned Kelly Gardiner’s Goddess—a gender-bending novel about a swashbuckling female opera singer and fencer in France, which is to be adapted into a limited series with Vera Bulder and Clara McGregor’s Deux Dames Entertainment.
“After almost a decade in the industry,...
- 6/28/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Coda star Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy have nabbed lead roles in producer Sofia Coppola’s Fairyland adaptation for American Zoetrope, with director Andrew Durham having just wrapped production on his debut feature.
Coppola and American Zoetrope acquired the screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, a coming-of-age account of Abbott growing up with her single father — widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott — amid the AIDS epidemic in 1970s and 1980s San Francisco.
Geena Davis, Adam Lambert, Cody Fern, Bella Murphy and newcomer Nessa Dougherty round out the cast for the movie adaptation. Veteran fashion and commercial photographer Durham penned the feature, which he directed and produced along with Coppola, Megan Carlson, Siena Oberman, Greg Lauritano and Laure Sudreau.
Nicole Shipley, Michael Musante, Laure Sudreau, Alysia Abbott, Jeff Sobrato, Jesse Ozeri, Sasha Shapiro, Anton Lessine, Gale Harold,...
Coda star Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy have nabbed lead roles in producer Sofia Coppola’s Fairyland adaptation for American Zoetrope, with director Andrew Durham having just wrapped production on his debut feature.
Coppola and American Zoetrope acquired the screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, a coming-of-age account of Abbott growing up with her single father — widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott — amid the AIDS epidemic in 1970s and 1980s San Francisco.
Geena Davis, Adam Lambert, Cody Fern, Bella Murphy and newcomer Nessa Dougherty round out the cast for the movie adaptation. Veteran fashion and commercial photographer Durham penned the feature, which he directed and produced along with Coppola, Megan Carlson, Siena Oberman, Greg Lauritano and Laure Sudreau.
Nicole Shipley, Michael Musante, Laure Sudreau, Alysia Abbott, Jeff Sobrato, Jesse Ozeri, Sasha Shapiro, Anton Lessine, Gale Harold,...
- 6/6/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The San Francisco Film Society (Sffs) and Kenneth Rainin Foundation (Krf) have selected 14 finallists for the latest round of Sffs / Krf Filmmaking Grants.
Organisers said at least $300,000 will be awarded to one or more narrative feature projects at various stages of production.
Winners of the fall 2014 Sffs / Krf Grants will be announced in late November.
Sffs / Krf Filmmaking Grants are awarded twice annually to narrative films that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community.
The finallists are:
Absence – Cherien Dabis (pictured);
Dark Forest – Elena Greenlee;
Everything Else (Todo Lo Demás) – Natalia Almada;
Fairyland – Andrew Durham;
Five Nights in Maine – Maris Curran, Carly Hugo;
The Future – Fabio Mollo;
God Bless the Child – Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Robert Thomas, Laura Heberton;
Mediterranea – Jonas Carpignano;
The Messenger – Marilia Hughes, Cláudio Marques;
Morris From America – Chad Hartigan, Sara Murphy;
Radio Dreams – Babak Jalali, Marjaneh Moghimi;
Skunk – Annie Silverstein;
Songs My Brother Taught Me – Chloe Zaho; and...
Organisers said at least $300,000 will be awarded to one or more narrative feature projects at various stages of production.
Winners of the fall 2014 Sffs / Krf Grants will be announced in late November.
Sffs / Krf Filmmaking Grants are awarded twice annually to narrative films that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community.
The finallists are:
Absence – Cherien Dabis (pictured);
Dark Forest – Elena Greenlee;
Everything Else (Todo Lo Demás) – Natalia Almada;
Fairyland – Andrew Durham;
Five Nights in Maine – Maris Curran, Carly Hugo;
The Future – Fabio Mollo;
God Bless the Child – Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Robert Thomas, Laura Heberton;
Mediterranea – Jonas Carpignano;
The Messenger – Marilia Hughes, Cláudio Marques;
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- 9/24/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The most memorable aspect of Sofia Coppola.s Lost in Translation for me is that Bob and Charlotte don.t wear their feelings on their sleeves, allowing audiences to wonder about the other aspects of their lives long after the film is complete. Coppola will be working with another pair of complex characters for her next project, an adaptation of Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father from author Alysia Abbott. The book.s rights were obtained from W.W. Norton & Company by production company American Zoetrope, founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. It.s interesting that the press release doesn.t mention Coppola directing the film, but that she.ll be writing the script with Andrew Durham, a photographer and frequent collaborator with Coppola. She.ll be producing it with her screenwriter brother Roman, who directed the 2012 comedy A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III. Considering...
- 12/18/2013
- cinemablend.com
The Sigma Protocol
Julie Bush has hired to pen the new draft for the film adaptation of Robert Ludlum's last novel "The Sigma Protocol" for Universal. Numerous scribes such as Irwin Winkler and Matt Holloway have penned previous drafts.
The story follows the son of a Holocaust survivor who gets entangled in an international conspiracy by industrialists and financiers to take advantage of wartime technology that reverses aging. [Source: Deadline
Fairyland
American Zoetrope has acquired the film rights to Alysia Abbott's critically acclaimed memoir, "Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father" which Sofia and Roman Coppola will produce. Sofia Coppola and Andrew Durham will co-write the screenplay.
The coming-of-age story is set against the backdrop of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that would later claim the life of Abbott's father, the widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott. [Source: 42West]
Suspect
Fox 2000 has...
Julie Bush has hired to pen the new draft for the film adaptation of Robert Ludlum's last novel "The Sigma Protocol" for Universal. Numerous scribes such as Irwin Winkler and Matt Holloway have penned previous drafts.
The story follows the son of a Holocaust survivor who gets entangled in an international conspiracy by industrialists and financiers to take advantage of wartime technology that reverses aging. [Source: Deadline
Fairyland
American Zoetrope has acquired the film rights to Alysia Abbott's critically acclaimed memoir, "Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father" which Sofia and Roman Coppola will produce. Sofia Coppola and Andrew Durham will co-write the screenplay.
The coming-of-age story is set against the backdrop of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that would later claim the life of Abbott's father, the widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott. [Source: 42West]
Suspect
Fox 2000 has...
- 12/17/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Sofia Coppola is working on an adaptation of Alysia Abbott's Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father.
The Bling Ring filmmaker will write the screenplay with frequent collaborator Andrew Durham.
She will also produce alongside brother Roman Coppola.
American Zoetrope has acquired the rights to the tale set against the backdrop of '70s and '80s San Francisco and the effect of the AIDS epidemic.
One of the victims of the disease was Abbott's own father, a widowed poet and gay activist.
"I love the book Fairyland - it's a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad, both growing up together in 1970s San Francisco. I think it will make an engaging and touching movie on a subject I've never seen before," said Sofia.
Abbott added: "I'm delighted that Sofia Coppola and Zoetrope are going to create the film version of Fairyland.
"Sofia's understanding of...
The Bling Ring filmmaker will write the screenplay with frequent collaborator Andrew Durham.
She will also produce alongside brother Roman Coppola.
American Zoetrope has acquired the rights to the tale set against the backdrop of '70s and '80s San Francisco and the effect of the AIDS epidemic.
One of the victims of the disease was Abbott's own father, a widowed poet and gay activist.
"I love the book Fairyland - it's a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad, both growing up together in 1970s San Francisco. I think it will make an engaging and touching movie on a subject I've never seen before," said Sofia.
Abbott added: "I'm delighted that Sofia Coppola and Zoetrope are going to create the film version of Fairyland.
"Sofia's understanding of...
- 12/17/2013
- Digital Spy
While Sofia Coppola hasn’t been officially announced as its director yet, she may have found a new future project with word that family company American Zoetrope has nabbed the rights to Alysia Abbott’s book Fairyland: A Memoir Of My Father. Coppola and Andrew Durham are aboard to co-write the script, with Sofia’s brother Roman on to co-produce.Abbott’s tome is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of San Francisco in the 1970s and ‘80s, which touches on the rise of the AIDS epidemic. The writer’s father, gay activist Steve Abbott, would campaign for equal rights before his death from the condition in later years.“I love the book Fairyland,” said Sofia Coppola. “It’s a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad, both growing up together in 1970’s San Francisco. I think it will make an engaging and touching movie...
- 12/17/2013
- EmpireOnline
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