Penchant Entertainment has announced that Joe Lynch has come onboard to direct the horror film Taste. Written by David Cohen, the project will be produced by Cohen, and Penchant partners Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson and Matthew Porter. Taste has qualified for the California tax credit and will shoot in Los Angeles later this summer. When …
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- 6/7/2017
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
Filmmaker Joe Lynch recently enjoyed a well-received world premiere of his new movie Mayhem (read Heather's review here) at the SXSW Film Festival, and true to form, the Holliston co-star is showing no signs of slowing down, as he's now set to direct the horror film Taste from a screenplay by David Cohen, the screenwriter behind 2012's No One Lives.
Deadline reports the news of Lynch taking the directing reins on Taste, which will be produced by Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson and Matthew Porter of Penchant Entertainment, with Cohen on board to produce as well.
Filming on Taste is slated to start in Los Angeles this summer with a food-centric (and potentially cannibalistic) plot (via Deadline):
"When a young chef-on-the-rise is invited to cook for a revered master’s private supper club, what at first seems like a career-launching opportunity soon turns deadly with the discovery that she and...
Deadline reports the news of Lynch taking the directing reins on Taste, which will be produced by Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson and Matthew Porter of Penchant Entertainment, with Cohen on board to produce as well.
Filming on Taste is slated to start in Los Angeles this summer with a food-centric (and potentially cannibalistic) plot (via Deadline):
"When a young chef-on-the-rise is invited to cook for a revered master’s private supper club, what at first seems like a career-launching opportunity soon turns deadly with the discovery that she and...
- 6/2/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Joe Lynch, whose directing credits include Knights Of Badassdom, Salma Hayek’s Everly and most recently the SXSW Midnighters thriller Mayhem starring Steven Yuen, has landed his next gig. He has been tapped to direct Taste, a horror pic penned by David Cohen. Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson and Matthew Porter of newbie production outfit Penchant Entertainment will produce with Cohen, whose writing credits include the Luke Evans-starrer No One Lives and the Black List…...
- 6/1/2017
- Deadline
Up-and-coming production house Penchant Entertainment has picked up the film and TV rights to Hostage to the Devil, the influential exorcism account by Father Malachi Martin.
Penchant principals Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson and Matthew Porter hope to simultaneously adapt different elements from the book into big-screen and small-screen projects. The trio will act as producers on the multiple adaptations.
Martin was a former Jesuit priest who became frequent critic and commentator of the Catholic Church while also becoming an expert in the field of exorcism. He is sometimes cited as an inspiration for William Blatty’s famed novel, The Exorcist, a...
Penchant principals Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson and Matthew Porter hope to simultaneously adapt different elements from the book into big-screen and small-screen projects. The trio will act as producers on the multiple adaptations.
Martin was a former Jesuit priest who became frequent critic and commentator of the Catholic Church while also becoming an expert in the field of exorcism. He is sometimes cited as an inspiration for William Blatty’s famed novel, The Exorcist, a...
- 4/10/2017
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Initial slate includes The Scrawl and The Mean Tide.
Film and television executives and producers Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson (pictured top) and Matthew Porter announced their full-service feature and television development and production company on Tuesday.
La-based Penchant Entertainment has a mandate to produce two to three features per year for multiple platforms and two to four scripted TV projects for network and non-traditional outlets.
Penchant’s first scripted project is The Scrawl, written by Oscar-nominated writer of The Arrival Eric Heisserer and WGA award-winner Zach Craley (Heroes Reborn).
The Scrawl is a one-hour drama that explores what happens when collective negativity gives birth to an actual monster. Penchant developed the supernatural thriller and serve as executive producers along with Cj Entertainment, whose South Korean film Killer Toon inspired the series.
The feature slate will kick off with The Mean Tide, a dramatic thriller written by Liska Ostojic and Justin Partridge from a screenplay by Mark DeGaetani...
Film and television executives and producers Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson (pictured top) and Matthew Porter announced their full-service feature and television development and production company on Tuesday.
La-based Penchant Entertainment has a mandate to produce two to three features per year for multiple platforms and two to four scripted TV projects for network and non-traditional outlets.
Penchant’s first scripted project is The Scrawl, written by Oscar-nominated writer of The Arrival Eric Heisserer and WGA award-winner Zach Craley (Heroes Reborn).
The Scrawl is a one-hour drama that explores what happens when collective negativity gives birth to an actual monster. Penchant developed the supernatural thriller and serve as executive producers along with Cj Entertainment, whose South Korean film Killer Toon inspired the series.
The feature slate will kick off with The Mean Tide, a dramatic thriller written by Liska Ostojic and Justin Partridge from a screenplay by Mark DeGaetani...
- 2/21/2017
- ScreenDaily
Film and TV production and finance veterans Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson and Matthew Porter have launched Penchant Entertainment. The plan is to produce 2-3 feature films per year for multiple platforms, and 2-4 scripted TV projects for network and non-traditional outlets. The first TV project on the slate is The Scrawl, a one-hour drama series being executive produced by Oscar-nominated Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer. Penned by Heroes Reborn writer Zach Craley, the…...
- 2/21/2017
- Deadline
Film and TV production and finance veterans Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson and Matthew Porter have launched Penchant Entertainment. The plan is to produce 2-3 feature films per year for multiple platforms, and 2-4 scripted TV projects for network and non-traditional outlets. The first TV project on the slate is The Scrawl, a one-hour drama series being executive produced by Oscar-nominated Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer. Penned by Heroes Reborn writer Zach Craley, the…...
- 2/21/2017
- Deadline TV
Neil Marshall ("The Descent", "Centurion") is set to direct the food-themed horror thriller "Underground" for Ozla Pictures reports Deadline. David Cohen penned the story of an ambitious young chef who ventures into the terrifying underbelly of extreme cuisine served up in gourmet underground supper clubs. For those unfamiliar, these clubs serve outlandish cuisine prepared by a gourmet chef, usually food that's legal in other countries but not approved by food drug authorities in respective countries. Cohen, Taka Ichise, Jeremy Platt and Erin Eggers will produce....
- 8/30/2010
- www.ohmygore.com/
Neil Marshall ("The Descent", "Centurion") is set to direct the food-themed horror thriller "Underground" for Ozla Pictures reports Deadline. David Cohen penned the story of an ambitious young chef who ventures into the terrifying underbelly of extreme cuisine served up in gourmet underground supper clubs. For those unfamiliar, these clubs serve outlandish cuisine prepared by a gourmet chef, usually food that's legal in other countries but not approved by food drug authorities in respective countries. Cohen, Taka Ichise, Jeremy Platt and Erin Eggers will produce....
- 8/30/2010
- www.ohmygore.com/
Neil Marshall ("The Descent," "Centurion") is set to direct the food-themed horror thriller "Underground" for Ozla Pictures reports Deadline.
David Cohen penned the story of an ambitious young chef who ventures into the terrifying underbelly of extreme cuisine served up in gourmet underground supper clubs.
For those unfamiliar, these clubs serve outlandish cuisine prepared by a gourmet chef, usually food that's legal in other countries but not approved by food & drug authorities in respective countries. Cohen, Taka Ichise, Jeremy Platt and Erin Eggers will produce.
David Cohen penned the story of an ambitious young chef who ventures into the terrifying underbelly of extreme cuisine served up in gourmet underground supper clubs.
For those unfamiliar, these clubs serve outlandish cuisine prepared by a gourmet chef, usually food that's legal in other countries but not approved by food & drug authorities in respective countries. Cohen, Taka Ichise, Jeremy Platt and Erin Eggers will produce.
- 8/29/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
With Centurion (review here) starting its limited theatrical run today, the timing is perfect for the first word to leak out about what's next for director Neil Marshall. Feeling hungry? How about taking a trip Underground with Marshall into the terrifying underbelly of extreme cuisine?
Details are scarce at this time, but according to Deadline New York Marshall is set to direct Underground, a David Cohen-scripted horror thriller set in the world of gourmet underground supper clubs. Of course the word "cannibalism" came up in Deadline's story, but all that's been said so far by the producers, who include Taka Ichise and Erin Eggers of Ozla Pictures along with Cohen and Jeremy Platt, is that the protagonist is an ambitious young chef who ventures into the aforementioned "extreme cuisine".
We'll do some digging of our own as to what Neil plans to serve up next to his fans so...
Details are scarce at this time, but according to Deadline New York Marshall is set to direct Underground, a David Cohen-scripted horror thriller set in the world of gourmet underground supper clubs. Of course the word "cannibalism" came up in Deadline's story, but all that's been said so far by the producers, who include Taka Ichise and Erin Eggers of Ozla Pictures along with Cohen and Jeremy Platt, is that the protagonist is an ambitious young chef who ventures into the aforementioned "extreme cuisine".
We'll do some digging of our own as to what Neil plans to serve up next to his fans so...
- 8/27/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Neil Marshall has taken on werewolves, the post-apocalypse, spelunking with monsters, and now that “Centurion”, his latest film, is available for public consumption, Roman history. Now it appears that he is going to do battle with the twisted underground world of gourmet supper clubs in “Underground”, a horror thriller written by David Cohen. The protagonist is an ambitious young chef who ventures into the terrifying underbelly of extreme cuisine. The film’s produced by Taka Ichise and Erin Eggers of Ozla Pictures, along with Cohen and Jeremy Platt. I didn’t know there was such a thing as extreme cuisine, or even underground supper clubs, but Marshall didn’t wuss out on the post-apocalyptic cannibalism in “Doomsday”, so whatever they’re eating will probably be pretty twisted.
- 8/27/2010
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
Currently promoting Centurion, which receives it theatrical release in the U.S today, Neil Marshall isn't wasting much time "cooking" up his next project. Titled Underground, no this is not a remake of Emir Kusturica's 1995 film, this is based on a David Cohen script that would probably make chef Anthony Bourdain feel queasy. To be produced by Ozla Pictures' Taka Ichise and Erin Eggers (Shutter), along with Cohen and Jeremy Platt, set in the world of gourmet underground supper clubs, this sees an ambitious young chef who ventures into the terrifying underbelly of extreme cuisine. Don't know about you guys, but I'm sensing a little of Géla Babluani's 13 Tzameti mixed in with Jeunet's Delicatessen.
- 8/27/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Neil Marshall, whose period action film Centurion opens today, has been set to direct Underground, a David Cohen-scripted horror thriller set in the world of gourmet underground supper clubs. Now, considering the cannibalism that Marshall featured in his post-apocalyptic film Doomsday, who knows what he's putting on the menu? I asked the producers for clarity and was told the protagonist is an ambitious young chef who ventures into the terrifying underbelly of extreme cuisine. The film's produced by Taka Ichise and Erin Eggers of Ozla Pictures, along with Cohen and Jeremy Platt. Icm, which reps Marshall and Cohen and just signed Ozla Pictures, is packaging the film. Marshall's managed by Principato Young, Cohen by Generate.
- 8/27/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal will direct the thriller 'Death of a Hostess'. We're rather fond of him around these parts having spoken fondly of his films like Deliver us From Evil and The Substitute.
Project was inspired by a Time magazine article by Evan Alan Wright and focuses on a young woman who enters the dangerous underbelly of Japanese nightclubs in order to find her missing sister.
Bornedal wrote and directed last year's Danish thriller "Deliver Us From Evil." He helmed the original "Nightwatch" in 1994 and the English language remake, starring Nick Nolte, Ewan McGregor and Patricia Arquette.
James D. Stern's Endgame Entertainment, Taka Ichise's Ozla Pictures and Aram Tertzakian's Xyz Films will produce the picuture. Endgame's Doug Hansen, Ozla's Erin Eggers, and Xyz's Nate Bolotin and Nick Spicer are exec producing. Ozla's Ben Shiffrin will co-produce.
Project was inspired by a Time magazine article by Evan Alan Wright and focuses on a young woman who enters the dangerous underbelly of Japanese nightclubs in order to find her missing sister.
Bornedal wrote and directed last year's Danish thriller "Deliver Us From Evil." He helmed the original "Nightwatch" in 1994 and the English language remake, starring Nick Nolte, Ewan McGregor and Patricia Arquette.
James D. Stern's Endgame Entertainment, Taka Ichise's Ozla Pictures and Aram Tertzakian's Xyz Films will produce the picuture. Endgame's Doug Hansen, Ozla's Erin Eggers, and Xyz's Nate Bolotin and Nick Spicer are exec producing. Ozla's Ben Shiffrin will co-produce.
- 3/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Two of Japan's top moviemakers are teaming up for a horror project at 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises.
Hideo Nakata ("The Ring 2") is attached to direct "Inhuman", which pairs him with "The Grudge" producer Taka Ichise, who is producing alongside Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee and Doug Davison.
Regency bought Eric Heisserer's horror pitch "Inhuman", which is loosely based on a Japanese murder case and was brought to Heisserer by Orion Prout, who is associate producing alongside Jennifer Fukasawa from Hideon Prods.
Sanford Panitch, who acquired the pitch, is overseeing for Regency. Vertigo's Gabriel Mason, who is executive producing, will shepherd the project for the shingle, and Erin Eggers is overseeing for Ichise's Ozla Pictures banner.
Fox's Peter Kang is shepherding for the studio.
Nakata and Ichise, two giants of J-horror, paired up on the Japanese-language "Ringu" series, which spawned two English-language hits starring Naomi Watts. The duo also wrote the screenplay to Japan's "Honogurai mizu no soko kara", which was remade into the Jennifer Connolly starrer "Dark Water".
Nakata is repped by UTA and attorney Carlos Goodman.
Hideo Nakata ("The Ring 2") is attached to direct "Inhuman", which pairs him with "The Grudge" producer Taka Ichise, who is producing alongside Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee and Doug Davison.
Regency bought Eric Heisserer's horror pitch "Inhuman", which is loosely based on a Japanese murder case and was brought to Heisserer by Orion Prout, who is associate producing alongside Jennifer Fukasawa from Hideon Prods.
Sanford Panitch, who acquired the pitch, is overseeing for Regency. Vertigo's Gabriel Mason, who is executive producing, will shepherd the project for the shingle, and Erin Eggers is overseeing for Ichise's Ozla Pictures banner.
Fox's Peter Kang is shepherding for the studio.
Nakata and Ichise, two giants of J-horror, paired up on the Japanese-language "Ringu" series, which spawned two English-language hits starring Naomi Watts. The duo also wrote the screenplay to Japan's "Honogurai mizu no soko kara", which was remade into the Jennifer Connolly starrer "Dark Water".
Nakata is repped by UTA and attorney Carlos Goodman.
RomaCinemaFest
ROME -- Lasse Hallstrom's The Hoax, based on an autobiographical book by Clifford Irving, starts off jauntily but gradually moves into darker emotional and political territory.
The story about a writer (Richard Gere), who fakes an authorized biography of Howard Hughes only to be manipulated by the reclusive genius, is entertaining and piquant. The film does possess some of the bittersweet qualities that usually mark Hallstrom's films, but it's generally a tougher, more incisive work that ranks as one of his best.
The Hoax, which played out of competition at the first edition of the RomaCinemaFest, opens in Italy this month to capitalize on the fest's publicity. The film certainly has enough appeal to cross over to a wider audience in the domestic market where Miramax is releasing it. Gere's portrayal of the dishonest anti-hero is engaging, and the story of corruption, deception and political manipulation has a contemporary ring to it.
The story is set in 1972 and based on fact. Clifford Irving is a writer who is so obsessed with becoming famous, he decides to fabricate an insider's biography of legendary recluse Hughes. This initially seems like an impossible task, but it gets easier when he steals a tell-all manuscript from an addled one-time associate of Hughes.
With his co-writer, played by a fraught Alfred Molina, Irving talks up the story into a million dollar book deal. Hughes finds out about the book and instead of stopping it, he lets it go ahead on the strange condition that it include some dirt about Richard Nixon accepting bribes from Hughes. Irving's plan unravels when it transpires that he's been manipulated by Hughes into giving Nixon a hefty slap on the wrist for not playing ball with his business requests.
The story is very well plotted and contains many historical references. But it's actually the characterization that makes it engaging. Gere portrays Irving as a natural born liar. It's interesting to watch him spin a web of deceit that ultimately only traps himself as Gere funnels his usual onscreen charm into a seamy and duplicitous character. At the same time, he manages to be playful and energetic. The result is a classic anti-hero -- someone who we are interested in even though we don't sympathize with him.
To compensate for Irving's failings, Molina -- as his worried researcher and co-writer -- acts as the films moral compass. He's drawn toward honesty in the same way that Gere's Irving is drawn to corruption. And he gets all the funny lines.
Interior scenes have a '70s corporate look, and the office milieu recalls All the President's Men. Cinematography by Hallstrom regular Oliver Stapleton uses diffused lighting, and the color is a bit washed out as with films from that era. Early scenes are jaunty and play like Catch Me If You Can, but as the film progresses it takes on the paranoid atmosphere of '70s conspiracy dramas. In spite of these references, Hallstrom keeps attitudes contemporary, so it never feels like a period piece. As with Good Night, and Good Luck, real newsreel footage of events and TV broadcasts is used, in which the reclusive Hughes, of course, never appears.
Although The Hoax makes no direct comparisons to today's national affairs, it can't help but fit the mood of the times. The story of government coverups, businessmen buying political influence in the White House and an overall mood of deceit and deception make it a surprisingly relevant film.
The HOAX
Miramax Films
Mutual Film Co./Stratus Film Co./City Entertainment/Yari Film Group
Credits:
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Screenwriter: William Wheeler
Based on the book by: Clifford Irving
Producers: Mark Gordon, Leslie Holleran, Joshua D. Maurer, Betsy Beers, Bob Yari
Executive producers: Anthony Katagas, Gary Levinsohn
Director of photography: Oliver Stapleton
Production designer: Mark Ricker
Music: Carter Burwell
Co-producers: Erin Eggers, Suzanne Patmore Gibbs
Costume designer: Davi Robinson
Editor: Andrew Mondshein
Cast:
Clifford Irving: Richard Gere
David Susskind: Alfred Molina
Edith Irving: Marcia Gay Harden
Andrea Tate: Hope Davis
Nina Van Pallandt: Julie Delpy
Noah Dietrich: Eli Wallach
Shelton Fisher: Stanley Tucci
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
ROME -- Lasse Hallstrom's The Hoax, based on an autobiographical book by Clifford Irving, starts off jauntily but gradually moves into darker emotional and political territory.
The story about a writer (Richard Gere), who fakes an authorized biography of Howard Hughes only to be manipulated by the reclusive genius, is entertaining and piquant. The film does possess some of the bittersweet qualities that usually mark Hallstrom's films, but it's generally a tougher, more incisive work that ranks as one of his best.
The Hoax, which played out of competition at the first edition of the RomaCinemaFest, opens in Italy this month to capitalize on the fest's publicity. The film certainly has enough appeal to cross over to a wider audience in the domestic market where Miramax is releasing it. Gere's portrayal of the dishonest anti-hero is engaging, and the story of corruption, deception and political manipulation has a contemporary ring to it.
The story is set in 1972 and based on fact. Clifford Irving is a writer who is so obsessed with becoming famous, he decides to fabricate an insider's biography of legendary recluse Hughes. This initially seems like an impossible task, but it gets easier when he steals a tell-all manuscript from an addled one-time associate of Hughes.
With his co-writer, played by a fraught Alfred Molina, Irving talks up the story into a million dollar book deal. Hughes finds out about the book and instead of stopping it, he lets it go ahead on the strange condition that it include some dirt about Richard Nixon accepting bribes from Hughes. Irving's plan unravels when it transpires that he's been manipulated by Hughes into giving Nixon a hefty slap on the wrist for not playing ball with his business requests.
The story is very well plotted and contains many historical references. But it's actually the characterization that makes it engaging. Gere portrays Irving as a natural born liar. It's interesting to watch him spin a web of deceit that ultimately only traps himself as Gere funnels his usual onscreen charm into a seamy and duplicitous character. At the same time, he manages to be playful and energetic. The result is a classic anti-hero -- someone who we are interested in even though we don't sympathize with him.
To compensate for Irving's failings, Molina -- as his worried researcher and co-writer -- acts as the films moral compass. He's drawn toward honesty in the same way that Gere's Irving is drawn to corruption. And he gets all the funny lines.
Interior scenes have a '70s corporate look, and the office milieu recalls All the President's Men. Cinematography by Hallstrom regular Oliver Stapleton uses diffused lighting, and the color is a bit washed out as with films from that era. Early scenes are jaunty and play like Catch Me If You Can, but as the film progresses it takes on the paranoid atmosphere of '70s conspiracy dramas. In spite of these references, Hallstrom keeps attitudes contemporary, so it never feels like a period piece. As with Good Night, and Good Luck, real newsreel footage of events and TV broadcasts is used, in which the reclusive Hughes, of course, never appears.
Although The Hoax makes no direct comparisons to today's national affairs, it can't help but fit the mood of the times. The story of government coverups, businessmen buying political influence in the White House and an overall mood of deceit and deception make it a surprisingly relevant film.
The HOAX
Miramax Films
Mutual Film Co./Stratus Film Co./City Entertainment/Yari Film Group
Credits:
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Screenwriter: William Wheeler
Based on the book by: Clifford Irving
Producers: Mark Gordon, Leslie Holleran, Joshua D. Maurer, Betsy Beers, Bob Yari
Executive producers: Anthony Katagas, Gary Levinsohn
Director of photography: Oliver Stapleton
Production designer: Mark Ricker
Music: Carter Burwell
Co-producers: Erin Eggers, Suzanne Patmore Gibbs
Costume designer: Davi Robinson
Editor: Andrew Mondshein
Cast:
Clifford Irving: Richard Gere
David Susskind: Alfred Molina
Edith Irving: Marcia Gay Harden
Andrea Tate: Hope Davis
Nina Van Pallandt: Julie Delpy
Noah Dietrich: Eli Wallach
Shelton Fisher: Stanley Tucci
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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