William Wages’ upcoming film “The Neon Highway,” produced by Stratton Leopold and presented by Mountain Movies, will be theatrically released on March 15, following a Nashville premiere on March 13.
“The Neon Highway” stars Beau Bridges as a country music artist whose star is fading. Other cast members include Rob Mayes, Sandra Lee-Oian Thomas, Sam Hennings, T.J. Power, Brett Gentile, and Ezekiel Bridges. Country artist Pam Tillis plays herself and Curb recording artist Lee Brice plays Lamont Johnson.
The script is co-written by Wages and Phillip Bellury. The film’s description reads, “Twenty years ago, Wayne (Mayes), an aspiring singer/songwriter, was a heartbeat away from making it in Nashville when a car accident derailed his ambitions. Now working a 9-5 job and struggling to support his family, Wayne has a fateful encounter with waning country music great Claude Allen (Bridges) who reignites Claude’s musical dreams.”
The summary continues, “Together they...
“The Neon Highway” stars Beau Bridges as a country music artist whose star is fading. Other cast members include Rob Mayes, Sandra Lee-Oian Thomas, Sam Hennings, T.J. Power, Brett Gentile, and Ezekiel Bridges. Country artist Pam Tillis plays herself and Curb recording artist Lee Brice plays Lamont Johnson.
The script is co-written by Wages and Phillip Bellury. The film’s description reads, “Twenty years ago, Wayne (Mayes), an aspiring singer/songwriter, was a heartbeat away from making it in Nashville when a car accident derailed his ambitions. Now working a 9-5 job and struggling to support his family, Wayne has a fateful encounter with waning country music great Claude Allen (Bridges) who reignites Claude’s musical dreams.”
The summary continues, “Together they...
- 2/5/2024
- by Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Veteran producer Stratton Leopold (Mission: Impossible III) and filmmaker Dax Phelan (The Other Side of the Wind) have teamed up to produce a new currently untitled limited series based on an infamous 19th-century prison escape known affectionately as The Catalpa Expedition.
Set in Ireland, the United States, and Australia during the 1860s and 1870s, the series will be based on the real-life plan members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood — a 19th-century republican group — made to free six political prisoners from a British penal colony in Western Australia while aboard the whaleship, The Catalpa. The writer, poet, and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly was among the political prisoners sent to a British penal colony in Australia.
The Whaling Ship, Catalpa.
Phelan will write the pilot episode and produce alongside Leopold and Eric M. Klein. Terence E. Groves (Jasmine), who first brought the idea to Leopold, will serve as executive producer along...
Set in Ireland, the United States, and Australia during the 1860s and 1870s, the series will be based on the real-life plan members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood — a 19th-century republican group — made to free six political prisoners from a British penal colony in Western Australia while aboard the whaleship, The Catalpa. The writer, poet, and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly was among the political prisoners sent to a British penal colony in Australia.
The Whaling Ship, Catalpa.
Phelan will write the pilot episode and produce alongside Leopold and Eric M. Klein. Terence E. Groves (Jasmine), who first brought the idea to Leopold, will serve as executive producer along...
- 3/20/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Writer, producer, and director whose credits include “The Other Side Of The Wind”and “Jasmine” will helm the Hitchcockian thriller Kirkwood, to be filmed in St. Louis during the fall and winter of 2019. Read the 2015 Wamg interview with Dax Here
Los Angeles-based writer/producer/director Dax Phelan (“The Other Side of the Wind”) will return home to St. Louis to direct his sophomore feature film, “Kirkwood,” this fall and winter. The film is a Hitchcockian suspense thriller about former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. But, when the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must take extreme measures to keep their secret safe. Phelan...
Los Angeles-based writer/producer/director Dax Phelan (“The Other Side of the Wind”) will return home to St. Louis to direct his sophomore feature film, “Kirkwood,” this fall and winter. The film is a Hitchcockian suspense thriller about former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. But, when the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must take extreme measures to keep their secret safe. Phelan...
- 7/24/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: The Other Side Of The Wind co-producer Dax Phelan is gearing up to direct his second feature, Kirkwood.
Phelan, whose 2015 debut Jasmine played at festivals including Hong Kong, Palm Springs and Stockholm, is aiming to shoot the film in St Louis this fall and winter. Casting is currently under way.
The suspense thriller follows former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. When the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must go to extreme lenghts to keep their secret safe.
Phelan wrote the story with his father, Joe Phelan, a former City of St. Louis policeman. He will produce with Stratton Leopold, an executive producer on Mission: Impossible III,...
Phelan, whose 2015 debut Jasmine played at festivals including Hong Kong, Palm Springs and Stockholm, is aiming to shoot the film in St Louis this fall and winter. Casting is currently under way.
The suspense thriller follows former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. When the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must go to extreme lenghts to keep their secret safe.
Phelan wrote the story with his father, Joe Phelan, a former City of St. Louis policeman. He will produce with Stratton Leopold, an executive producer on Mission: Impossible III,...
- 7/24/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Edge of Normal
Bold Films has picked up Matt Venne's film script adaptation of Carla Norton's 2013 novel "The Edge of Normal". Michel Litvak, Matthew Rhodes, Andrew Deane and Lisa Zambri will produce.
The story follows a woman who escaped captivity from a sadistic sexual predator when she was a teenager. Ten years later, she remains haunted by her memories as she struggles to pull her life together and is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a clever psychopath who seems to know her every move. [Source: Variety]
The Fixer
Fubar Films has optioned "House Of Cards" writer Bill Kennedy's thriller script "The Fixer" at Rumble Entertainment. Filming aims to begin later this year.
Set in the gritty intersection of the Los Angeles nightlife and organized crime, the plot follows a mob fixer who retires to repair his broken personal life but is soon drawn into the criminal underworld...
Bold Films has picked up Matt Venne's film script adaptation of Carla Norton's 2013 novel "The Edge of Normal". Michel Litvak, Matthew Rhodes, Andrew Deane and Lisa Zambri will produce.
The story follows a woman who escaped captivity from a sadistic sexual predator when she was a teenager. Ten years later, she remains haunted by her memories as she struggles to pull her life together and is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a clever psychopath who seems to know her every move. [Source: Variety]
The Fixer
Fubar Films has optioned "House Of Cards" writer Bill Kennedy's thriller script "The Fixer" at Rumble Entertainment. Filming aims to begin later this year.
Set in the gritty intersection of the Los Angeles nightlife and organized crime, the plot follows a mob fixer who retires to repair his broken personal life but is soon drawn into the criminal underworld...
- 7/17/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Grief. The loss of a loved can do lots of psychological damage to a person and Dax Phelan's new film Jasmine is primed to explore just how bad things can get. Read on for the initial details and first set of stills.
From the Press Release
Shanghai Street Films is pleased to announce Jasmine, the new psychological thriller starring Byron Mann (The Man With The Iron Fists), Jason Tobin (The Fast And The Furious), Hong Kong Oscar-Winner Eugenia Yuan (Memoirs Of A Geisha and starring in the upcoming Revenge Of The Green Dragons – daughter of critically-acclaimed actress Pei-Pei Cheng), Grace Huang (Cold War) and Sarah Lian has just entered the final stages of post production in anticipation of its world premiere as early as this Spring. The movie was filmed in Hong Kong.
Jasmine is a gripping and chilling psychological thriller about a man, Leonard To (Tobin), still struggling...
From the Press Release
Shanghai Street Films is pleased to announce Jasmine, the new psychological thriller starring Byron Mann (The Man With The Iron Fists), Jason Tobin (The Fast And The Furious), Hong Kong Oscar-Winner Eugenia Yuan (Memoirs Of A Geisha and starring in the upcoming Revenge Of The Green Dragons – daughter of critically-acclaimed actress Pei-Pei Cheng), Grace Huang (Cold War) and Sarah Lian has just entered the final stages of post production in anticipation of its world premiere as early as this Spring. The movie was filmed in Hong Kong.
Jasmine is a gripping and chilling psychological thriller about a man, Leonard To (Tobin), still struggling...
- 3/25/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
It had to be a shocking moment for film-goers at the Savannah Film Festival. Universal chief Ron Meyer showed up for a Q&A and, rather than use evasive language to hide any fault, he called them as he saw them, describing movies like The Wolfman, Land of the Lost and Babe 2 as “crap.”
But, as frank as Meyer’s mea culpa to film-goers was, Movie Line’s detailed account reveals a man asking for forgiveness from his audience without making any changes to earn such salvation.
It’s easy to attack Meyer’s decision to call the above-mentioned movies “crap.” After all, the three underperformed at the box office (and how else would a studio head view a film, other than by the receipts)). Yet, Meyer’s statements are not so simple. He describes box office dud Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as “…actually kind of a good movie,...
But, as frank as Meyer’s mea culpa to film-goers was, Movie Line’s detailed account reveals a man asking for forgiveness from his audience without making any changes to earn such salvation.
It’s easy to attack Meyer’s decision to call the above-mentioned movies “crap.” After all, the three underperformed at the box office (and how else would a studio head view a film, other than by the receipts)). Yet, Meyer’s statements are not so simple. He describes box office dud Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as “…actually kind of a good movie,...
- 11/15/2011
- by Chris McMillan
- Planet Fury
Ron Meyer is a straight shooter. The president and COO of Universal Studios told an audience yesterday at the Savannah Film Festival that “we make a lot of sh—y movies,” according to Movieline. “Every one of them breaks my heart.” Two of the sh—iest? Babe 2 and The Wolfman. Other recent disappointments? Cowboys & Aliens (“All those little creatures bouncing around were crappy. I think it was a mediocre movie, and we all did a mediocre job with it”) and Land of the Lost (“Just crap. I mean, there was no excuse for it. The best intentions all went wrong...
- 11/3/2011
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Apparently all the “i’s” have been dotted and the “t’s” crossed, because Marvel has finally made the casting of Chris Evans as Captain America official today. Via IconvsIcon, here’s the Marvel press release: Marvel Studios has officially confirmed that Chris Evans will star as Captain America in the studio’s highly anticipated movie The First Avenger: Captain America directed by Joe Johnston from a script penned by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige will produce The First Avenger: Captain America. Alan Fine, Stan Lee, David Maisel, Stratton Leopold and Louis D’Esposito will executive produce. The film will be released in the Us on July 22, 2011 and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The First Avenger: Captain America will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America.
- 4/3/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Marvel Studios made it official today - Chris Evans will indeed play Captain America in The First Avenger: Captain America . The full press release: Marvel Studios has officially confirmed that Chris Evans will star as Captain America in the studio's highly anticipated movie The First Avenger: Captain America directed by Joe Johnston from a script penned by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige will produce The First Avenger: Captain America. Alan Fine, Stan Lee, David Maisel, Stratton Leopold and Louis D'Esposito will executive produce. The film will be released in the Us on July 22, 2011 and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The First Avenger: Captain America will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers...
- 4/2/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Marvel Studios made it official today - Chris Evans will indeed play Captain America in The First Avenger: Captain America . The full press release: Marvel Studios has officially confirmed that Chris Evans will star as Captain America in the studio's highly anticipated movie The First Avenger: Captain America directed by Joe Johnston from a script penned by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige will produce The First Avenger: Captain America. Alan Fine, Stan Lee, David Maisel, Stratton Leopold and Louis D'Esposito will executive produce. The film will be released in the Us on July 22, 2011 and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The First Avenger: Captain America will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers...
- 4/2/2010
- Superherohype
Opens
Thursday, Dec. 25
"Paycheck" is a nifty science-fiction twist on the old amnesia plot where a guy spends most of a movie trying to remember what he did and why everyone is after him. Only in this case, the character played by Ben Affleck isn't trying to remember the past but the future.
Working from a story by Philip K. Dick -- aren't the best science-fiction movies usually based on stories by Dick? -- writer Dean Georgaris and director John Woo propel a viewer through shoot-outs, chases and suspense sequences that break enough new ground to feel fresh. There are moments when you know you're watching a John Woo film but many more where he seems to want to flex new muscles without drifting too far from the action genre. The moral issues that are central to Dick's science fiction are touched upon only briefly, yet they do reverberate through the film. While opening against stiff competition at Christmas, Paramount and DreamWorks nevertheless should find yuletide cheer in this "Paycheck".
Affleck plays scientific genius Michael Jennings, a "reverse engineer" who can take a piece of high-tech equipment, disassemble it so he sees how it ticks, then improve and reassemble the device into a more advanced piece of equipment in a few weeks. He is also a scientific whore, agreeing to perform his reverse engineering for a conglomerate run by his old buddy, billionaire entrepreneur Jimmy Rethrick (Aaron Eckhart), in exchange for a whopping paycheck and -- this is the kicker -- his willingness to allow his quirky pal Shorty (Paul Giamatti) to erase his memory of those work weeks so he cannot disclose company secrets to anyone else.
Jimmy's latest project for Michael breaks the pattern. Not only does the job require three years -- a lot of one's life to give up -- but when he finishes and all memory is erased, Michael is mystified to discover that he agreed to forfeit his $90 million paycheck in exchange for an envelope filled with random objects. What's more, both the FBI and Jimmy's thugs are hunting for him.
When two of these seemingly innocent objects allow Michael to miraculously escape FBI custody, he quickly realizes that each of the objects not only provides a clue to his erased past but is vital to his survival -- worth more, in other words, than $90 million. The movie gradually lets the viewer in on Jimmy's dirty little secret: In the past three years, Michael perfected a lens powerful enough to see past the curvature of time into the future. So everything that happens to Michael he has already foreseen using his own super lens and has taken the precaution to supply himself with everyday objects that will allow him to change that future.
Now for readers who hate Logic Nazis, who delight in pointing out fatal plot holes in movies, this is fair warning: One enormous plot hole is about to be revealed, so you might want to skip to the next paragraph. Once Michael changes his fate and escapes the FBI and his foretold destiny, he is in a new future where he cannot possibly have foreseen anything that happens to him. The rest of the movie cannot be the future he saw with his super lens but a new series of events that directly result from his altering the future.
Fortunately, while caught up in the gripping tension of Michael's race against time to destroy his own machine and to recall his life with Rachel (Uma Thurman), the woman he has loved for the past three years but cannot remember, you don't think about plot holes. The payoffs from each of these everyday objects -- a matchbook, a coin, a crossword puzzle -- are fun. And when both Jimmy and the FBI realize what's going on and scheme how best to thwart a man who has seen the future but cannot remember, these strategies keep the movie intriguing down to the last moment.
Affleck gives his scientific genius enough of a blue-collar attitude to make the character believable. Although underutilized until the picture is almost half-over, Thurman gives Rachel a determined strength of character. But after the gymnastics of "Kill Bill", her fans can only see this outing as a comedown.
Woo and his crew make good use of Vancouver, where they stage a chase through heavy traffic with Affleck and Thurman on a motorcycle and another down in a subway tunnel with a train is about to wipe out the hero. Jeffrey L. Kimball's cool, crisp photography seamlessly integrates the visual effects and stunts into a very real-looking environment. Similarly, William Sandell's futuristic sets don't unduly call attention to themselves as is often the case with science-fiction movies.
PAYCHECK
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures
Credits:
Director: John Woo
Screenwriter: Dean Georgaris
Based on a story by: Philip K. Dick
Producers: John Davis, Michael Hackett, John Woo, Terence Chang
Executive producers: Stratton Leopold, David Solomon
Director of photography: Jeffrey L. Kimball
Production designer: William Sandell
Music: John Powell
Co-producers: Caroline Macaulay, Arthur Anderson
Costume designer: Erica Edell Phillips
Editors: Kevin Stitt, Christopher Rouse
Cast:
Jennings: Ben Affleck
Rethrick: Aaron Eckhart
Rachel: Uma Thurman
Shorty: Paul Giamatti
Wolf: Colm Feore
Agent Dodge: Joe Morton
Agent Klein Michael C. Hall
Running time -- 119 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Thursday, Dec. 25
"Paycheck" is a nifty science-fiction twist on the old amnesia plot where a guy spends most of a movie trying to remember what he did and why everyone is after him. Only in this case, the character played by Ben Affleck isn't trying to remember the past but the future.
Working from a story by Philip K. Dick -- aren't the best science-fiction movies usually based on stories by Dick? -- writer Dean Georgaris and director John Woo propel a viewer through shoot-outs, chases and suspense sequences that break enough new ground to feel fresh. There are moments when you know you're watching a John Woo film but many more where he seems to want to flex new muscles without drifting too far from the action genre. The moral issues that are central to Dick's science fiction are touched upon only briefly, yet they do reverberate through the film. While opening against stiff competition at Christmas, Paramount and DreamWorks nevertheless should find yuletide cheer in this "Paycheck".
Affleck plays scientific genius Michael Jennings, a "reverse engineer" who can take a piece of high-tech equipment, disassemble it so he sees how it ticks, then improve and reassemble the device into a more advanced piece of equipment in a few weeks. He is also a scientific whore, agreeing to perform his reverse engineering for a conglomerate run by his old buddy, billionaire entrepreneur Jimmy Rethrick (Aaron Eckhart), in exchange for a whopping paycheck and -- this is the kicker -- his willingness to allow his quirky pal Shorty (Paul Giamatti) to erase his memory of those work weeks so he cannot disclose company secrets to anyone else.
Jimmy's latest project for Michael breaks the pattern. Not only does the job require three years -- a lot of one's life to give up -- but when he finishes and all memory is erased, Michael is mystified to discover that he agreed to forfeit his $90 million paycheck in exchange for an envelope filled with random objects. What's more, both the FBI and Jimmy's thugs are hunting for him.
When two of these seemingly innocent objects allow Michael to miraculously escape FBI custody, he quickly realizes that each of the objects not only provides a clue to his erased past but is vital to his survival -- worth more, in other words, than $90 million. The movie gradually lets the viewer in on Jimmy's dirty little secret: In the past three years, Michael perfected a lens powerful enough to see past the curvature of time into the future. So everything that happens to Michael he has already foreseen using his own super lens and has taken the precaution to supply himself with everyday objects that will allow him to change that future.
Now for readers who hate Logic Nazis, who delight in pointing out fatal plot holes in movies, this is fair warning: One enormous plot hole is about to be revealed, so you might want to skip to the next paragraph. Once Michael changes his fate and escapes the FBI and his foretold destiny, he is in a new future where he cannot possibly have foreseen anything that happens to him. The rest of the movie cannot be the future he saw with his super lens but a new series of events that directly result from his altering the future.
Fortunately, while caught up in the gripping tension of Michael's race against time to destroy his own machine and to recall his life with Rachel (Uma Thurman), the woman he has loved for the past three years but cannot remember, you don't think about plot holes. The payoffs from each of these everyday objects -- a matchbook, a coin, a crossword puzzle -- are fun. And when both Jimmy and the FBI realize what's going on and scheme how best to thwart a man who has seen the future but cannot remember, these strategies keep the movie intriguing down to the last moment.
Affleck gives his scientific genius enough of a blue-collar attitude to make the character believable. Although underutilized until the picture is almost half-over, Thurman gives Rachel a determined strength of character. But after the gymnastics of "Kill Bill", her fans can only see this outing as a comedown.
Woo and his crew make good use of Vancouver, where they stage a chase through heavy traffic with Affleck and Thurman on a motorcycle and another down in a subway tunnel with a train is about to wipe out the hero. Jeffrey L. Kimball's cool, crisp photography seamlessly integrates the visual effects and stunts into a very real-looking environment. Similarly, William Sandell's futuristic sets don't unduly call attention to themselves as is often the case with science-fiction movies.
PAYCHECK
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures
Credits:
Director: John Woo
Screenwriter: Dean Georgaris
Based on a story by: Philip K. Dick
Producers: John Davis, Michael Hackett, John Woo, Terence Chang
Executive producers: Stratton Leopold, David Solomon
Director of photography: Jeffrey L. Kimball
Production designer: William Sandell
Music: John Powell
Co-producers: Caroline Macaulay, Arthur Anderson
Costume designer: Erica Edell Phillips
Editors: Kevin Stitt, Christopher Rouse
Cast:
Jennings: Ben Affleck
Rethrick: Aaron Eckhart
Rachel: Uma Thurman
Shorty: Paul Giamatti
Wolf: Colm Feore
Agent Dodge: Joe Morton
Agent Klein Michael C. Hall
Running time -- 119 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 1/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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