Following a nearly ten-year journey, Can You Ever Forgive Me? hits theaters this weekend via Fox Searchlight. Starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant, and based on the true story of celebrity biographer Lee Israel, the film will have a platform start this weekend en route to several hundred runs.
The feature is one of several Specialty titles heading into release with name casts and possible awards hopes. Paul Dano makes his directorial debut with Wildlife, which he co-wrote. The film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, opens via IFC Films after playing recent festivals.
Bleecker Street is opening What They Had with Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster and Blythe Danner. Launching in several locations, the film is the first-time directorial by actor Elizabeth Chomko. And on the doc side, Menemsha Films is giving a New York launch for Austria’s Foreign Language contender, The Waldheim Waltz.
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The feature is one of several Specialty titles heading into release with name casts and possible awards hopes. Paul Dano makes his directorial debut with Wildlife, which he co-wrote. The film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, opens via IFC Films after playing recent festivals.
Bleecker Street is opening What They Had with Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster and Blythe Danner. Launching in several locations, the film is the first-time directorial by actor Elizabeth Chomko. And on the doc side, Menemsha Films is giving a New York launch for Austria’s Foreign Language contender, The Waldheim Waltz.
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- 10/19/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident) to direct thriller.
Liam Neeson will star in Charlie Johnson In The Flames, a thriller that Michael London will produce via his Groundswell Productions and Sierra/Affinity will introduce in Cannes next week.
Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident) will direct from Justin Haythe’s adaptation of the Michael Ignatieff novel, and Jawal Nga and Edward Saxon are producing with London.
Charlie Johnson In The Flames centres on a BBC war correspondent in the Congo who becomes embroiled in murder, corruption, and violence after he sets out to investigate the death of an innocent woman.
Liam Neeson will star in Charlie Johnson In The Flames, a thriller that Michael London will produce via his Groundswell Productions and Sierra/Affinity will introduce in Cannes next week.
Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident) will direct from Justin Haythe’s adaptation of the Michael Ignatieff novel, and Jawal Nga and Edward Saxon are producing with London.
Charlie Johnson In The Flames centres on a BBC war correspondent in the Congo who becomes embroiled in murder, corruption, and violence after he sets out to investigate the death of an innocent woman.
- 5/3/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Another hot Cannes package: Liam Neeson, starring in Charlie Johnson in the Flames. Tarik Saleh will direct an adaptation of the Michael Ignatieff thriller novel. Script is by Justin Haythe. Michael London is producing through Groundswell Productions, along with Jawal Nga and Edward Saxon. 30West is financing. Sierra/Affinity will broker international sales and CAA and 30 West will broker U.S. rights. CAA Media Finance arranged the pic’s funding.
Neeson will play the title character, a peerless BBC war correspondent covering civil unrest in the Congo. When the death of an innocent woman shakes him to his core, he risks everything to expose the truth, only to find himself embroiled in a network of murder, corruption, and violence that forces him to question his humanity.
Neeson has as strong a global track record as anyone with a film in the Cannes market, including the Taken trilogy and most recently The Commuter.
Neeson will play the title character, a peerless BBC war correspondent covering civil unrest in the Congo. When the death of an innocent woman shakes him to his core, he risks everything to expose the truth, only to find himself embroiled in a network of murder, corruption, and violence that forces him to question his humanity.
Neeson has as strong a global track record as anyone with a film in the Cannes market, including the Taken trilogy and most recently The Commuter.
- 5/3/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Project directed by The Diary Of A Teenage Girl helmer Marielle Heller.
Fox Searchlight has begun principal photography in New York on Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant (both pictured), Jane Curtin, Dolly Wells, Anna Deavere Smith and Jennifer Westfeldt.
Marielle Heller directs from a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the novel of the same name by Lee Israel.
Archer Gray president of production Anne Carey, Archer Gray founder Amy Nauiokas and David Yarnell produce and Pamela Hirsch, Jawal Nga and Bob Balaban serve as executive producers.
The film recounts the life of celebrity biographer Israel who turns to deception when she is no longer in style.
The Latin America Training Center will host a three-day entertainment, business and legal affairs programme in Miami from March 29-April 1. The event will cover copyright in the age of digital music, intellectual property, virtual reality, production, distribution...
Fox Searchlight has begun principal photography in New York on Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant (both pictured), Jane Curtin, Dolly Wells, Anna Deavere Smith and Jennifer Westfeldt.
Marielle Heller directs from a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the novel of the same name by Lee Israel.
Archer Gray president of production Anne Carey, Archer Gray founder Amy Nauiokas and David Yarnell produce and Pamela Hirsch, Jawal Nga and Bob Balaban serve as executive producers.
The film recounts the life of celebrity biographer Israel who turns to deception when she is no longer in style.
The Latin America Training Center will host a three-day entertainment, business and legal affairs programme in Miami from March 29-April 1. The event will cover copyright in the age of digital music, intellectual property, virtual reality, production, distribution...
- 1/30/2017
- ScreenDaily
Fox Searchlight has begun principal photography in New York on Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy (pictured in Spy), Richard E Grant, Jane Curtin, Dolly Wells, Anna Deavere Smith and Jennifer Westfeldt.
Marielle Heller directs from a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the novel of the same name by Lee Israel.
Archer Gray president of production Anne Carey, Archer Gray founder Amy Nauiokas and David Yarnell produce and Pamela Hirsch, Jawal Nga and Bob Balaban serve as executive producers.
The film recounts the life of celebrity biographer Israel who turns to deception when she is no longer in style.
The Latin America Training Center will host a three-day entertainment, business and legal affairs programme in Miami from March 29-April 1. The event will cover copyright in the age of digital music, intellectual property, virtual reality, production, distribution and licensing of new media content in Latin America, among other topics...
Marielle Heller directs from a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the novel of the same name by Lee Israel.
Archer Gray president of production Anne Carey, Archer Gray founder Amy Nauiokas and David Yarnell produce and Pamela Hirsch, Jawal Nga and Bob Balaban serve as executive producers.
The film recounts the life of celebrity biographer Israel who turns to deception when she is no longer in style.
The Latin America Training Center will host a three-day entertainment, business and legal affairs programme in Miami from March 29-April 1. The event will cover copyright in the age of digital music, intellectual property, virtual reality, production, distribution and licensing of new media content in Latin America, among other topics...
- 1/30/2017
- ScreenDaily
Hello guys and gals! It’s your good friend Melissa again, with another tasty movie snack. This time its the new trailer and poster for “Howl”, starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg. The official press release states:
Opening in New York and San Francisco on September 24th, 2010 and
in Los Angeles on October 1st, 2010.
Directed by: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman
Starring: James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Bob Balaban, Alessandro Nivola, Treat Williams,
Mary-Louise Parker and Jeff Daniels
Starring James Franco in a career-defining performance as Allen Ginsberg, Howl is the story of how the young poet.s seminal work broke down societal barriers in the face of an infamous public obscenity trial. In his famously confessional style, Ginsberg . poet, counter-culture icon, and chronicler of the Beat Generation . recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to Howl, the most timeless work of his career.
Opening in New York and San Francisco on September 24th, 2010 and
in Los Angeles on October 1st, 2010.
Directed by: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman
Starring: James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Bob Balaban, Alessandro Nivola, Treat Williams,
Mary-Louise Parker and Jeff Daniels
Starring James Franco in a career-defining performance as Allen Ginsberg, Howl is the story of how the young poet.s seminal work broke down societal barriers in the face of an infamous public obscenity trial. In his famously confessional style, Ginsberg . poet, counter-culture icon, and chronicler of the Beat Generation . recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to Howl, the most timeless work of his career.
- 7/15/2010
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
New York -- Tiny Dancer Films is looking to make strange and beautiful music with best-selling cult author/illustrator Daniel Pinkwater, as Jawal Nga's New York-based banner has optioned the Random House fantasy novel "Lizard Music."
Nga ("Married Life") will produce the irreverent tale of Victor, a boy left home alone by his vacationing parents who discovers a group of lizard musicians on late-night television. With the help of a man with a dancing hen under his hat, Victor travels to Thunderbolt City to find the mysterious creatures.
The 1974 young-adult novel is one of more than 100 titles in print from Pinkwater, a frequent contributor to NPR's "All Things Considered" and the subject of two biographies. A favorite among a generation of fans, "Lizard" is published by Random House imprint Dell Yearling.
In addition to the Rachel McAdams-toplined "Married Life," Nga is executive producing Overture's "Last Chance Harvey," starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.
Nga ("Married Life") will produce the irreverent tale of Victor, a boy left home alone by his vacationing parents who discovers a group of lizard musicians on late-night television. With the help of a man with a dancing hen under his hat, Victor travels to Thunderbolt City to find the mysterious creatures.
The 1974 young-adult novel is one of more than 100 titles in print from Pinkwater, a frequent contributor to NPR's "All Things Considered" and the subject of two biographies. A favorite among a generation of fans, "Lizard" is published by Random House imprint Dell Yearling.
In addition to the Rachel McAdams-toplined "Married Life," Nga is executive producing Overture's "Last Chance Harvey," starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.
- 10/24/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- #69. Married Life Director: Ira SachsWriters: Oren Moverman (I'm Not There) and Sachs Producers: Steve Golin (Babel), Jawal Nga (Forty Shades of Blue), Sidney Kimmel (Lars and the Real Girl) and Sachs Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics The Gist: Based on British pulp mystery John Bingham novel "Five Roundabouts to Heaven," this is set in San Francisco in 1949. It's the story of a middle-aged man who is married, and who falls in love with another woman, but he's such a gentle figure, so he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much, so it's better to kill her. Fact: Sachs is the filmmaker behind the Sundance film festival Grand Jury Prize-winning Forty Shades of Blue. See It: Quartet of actors are absolutely great: makes for adult fair for those who like the witty and sultriness-like mysteries and humor a la Hitchcock. Release Date/Status?: March 7th release.
- 1/29/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- Kathy Baker, James Brolin, Eileen Atkins, Richard Schiff and Liane Balaban have joined Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson in Overture Films' romantic drama Last Chance Harvey.
Baker plays the ex-wife of Hoffman, a down-on-his-luck New York jingle writer with a tough boss (Schiff). He becomes romantically involved with a lonely bureaucrat (Thompson) with an overbearing mother (Atkins) on a trip to London.
Brolin plays the new husband of Baker's character, and Balaban plays the daughter who brings all of them together at a British wedding.
Harvey, to be financed and distributed in the U.S. by Overture, begins principal photography Monday in and around London. Tim Perell and Nicola Usborne will produce, and Jawal Nga will executive produce. Robert Kessel, Overture's executive vp production and acquisitions, will oversee production.
Baker plays the ex-wife of Hoffman, a down-on-his-luck New York jingle writer with a tough boss (Schiff). He becomes romantically involved with a lonely bureaucrat (Thompson) with an overbearing mother (Atkins) on a trip to London.
Brolin plays the new husband of Baker's character, and Balaban plays the daughter who brings all of them together at a British wedding.
Harvey, to be financed and distributed in the U.S. by Overture, begins principal photography Monday in and around London. Tim Perell and Nicola Usborne will produce, and Jawal Nga will executive produce. Robert Kessel, Overture's executive vp production and acquisitions, will oversee production.
- 10/1/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American rights to Ira Sachs' Toronto International Film Festival entry Married Life.
The post-World War II drama from Sidney Kimme Entertainment and Firm Films follows a meek man (Chris Cooper) who falls for a beautiful, younger woman (Rachel McAdams). His main obstacles are his good friend (Pierce Brosnan) with an equally strong attraction to her and his controlling wife (Patricia Clarkson), whom he'd like to spare the agony of divorce by poisoning her.
Married is an official selection of this month's New York Film Festival. The film received mixed reaction from an initial buyers' screening this summer. But its final cut debuted to a warmer response in Toronto. The deal closed late Sunday, toward festival's end.
Sachs (The Delta) and Oren Moverman (I'm Not There) adapted their screenplay from John Bingham's novel Five Roundabouts to Heaven. Sidney Kimmel, Jawal Nga, Steve Golin and Sachs produced the project. William Horberg, David Nicksay, Geoff Stier, Adam Shulman, Matt Littin, Alix Madigan-Yorkin and Bruce Toll served as executive producers.
The post-World War II drama from Sidney Kimme Entertainment and Firm Films follows a meek man (Chris Cooper) who falls for a beautiful, younger woman (Rachel McAdams). His main obstacles are his good friend (Pierce Brosnan) with an equally strong attraction to her and his controlling wife (Patricia Clarkson), whom he'd like to spare the agony of divorce by poisoning her.
Married is an official selection of this month's New York Film Festival. The film received mixed reaction from an initial buyers' screening this summer. But its final cut debuted to a warmer response in Toronto. The deal closed late Sunday, toward festival's end.
Sachs (The Delta) and Oren Moverman (I'm Not There) adapted their screenplay from John Bingham's novel Five Roundabouts to Heaven. Sidney Kimmel, Jawal Nga, Steve Golin and Sachs produced the project. William Horberg, David Nicksay, Geoff Stier, Adam Shulman, Matt Littin, Alix Madigan-Yorkin and Bruce Toll served as executive producers.
- 9/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Sony Pictures Classics has picked up domestic rights to Ira Sachs' Toronto International Film Festival entry "Married Life".
The post-World War II drama from Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Firm Films follows a meek man (Chris Cooper) who falls for a beautiful, younger woman (Rachel McAdams). His main obstacles are his good friend (Pierce Brosnan) with an equally strong attraction to her and his controlling wife (Patricia Clarkson), whom he'd like to spare the agony of divorce by poisoning her.
"Married" is an official selection of this month's New York Film Festival. The film received mixed reaction from an initial buyers' screening this summer. But its final cut debuted to a warmer response in Toronto. The deal closed late Sunday, toward festival's end.
Sachs ("The Delta") and Oren Moverman ("I'm Not There") adapted their screenplay from John Bingham's novel "Five Roundabouts to Heaven". Sidney Kimmel, Jawal Nga, Steve Golin and Sachs produced the project. William Horberg, David Nicksay, Geoff Stier, Adam Shulman, Matt Littin, Alix Madigan-Yorkin and Bruce Toll served as executive producers.
The post-World War II drama from Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Firm Films follows a meek man (Chris Cooper) who falls for a beautiful, younger woman (Rachel McAdams). His main obstacles are his good friend (Pierce Brosnan) with an equally strong attraction to her and his controlling wife (Patricia Clarkson), whom he'd like to spare the agony of divorce by poisoning her.
"Married" is an official selection of this month's New York Film Festival. The film received mixed reaction from an initial buyers' screening this summer. But its final cut debuted to a warmer response in Toronto. The deal closed late Sunday, toward festival's end.
Sachs ("The Delta") and Oren Moverman ("I'm Not There") adapted their screenplay from John Bingham's novel "Five Roundabouts to Heaven". Sidney Kimmel, Jawal Nga, Steve Golin and Sachs produced the project. William Horberg, David Nicksay, Geoff Stier, Adam Shulman, Matt Littin, Alix Madigan-Yorkin and Bruce Toll served as executive producers.
- 9/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- This is for those who enjoyed their same sequence non-pairing pairing in Stranger Than Fiction, veteran actors Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are getting one of those rare opportunities to play romantic leads while very much past the middle age point. Variety reports that the pair will star in Overture Films' newest project set to start in London in September and produced by Tim Perell and Nicola Usborne with Jawal Nga exec producing. Last Chance Harvey will be Joel Hopkins. Written by Hopkins and Usborne, this is about a man down on his luck finds an unlikely female companion while in London attending his daughter's wedding.I’ve yet to hear about this particular Brit filmmaker, but Hopkins won a BAFTA award for most promising newcomer five years ago for their work on Jump Tomorrow (2001). ...
- 6/6/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
PARK CITY -- Black soul from Mississippi and white hillbilly music from Tennessee met up and married around Memphis and, essentially, rock 'n' roll was born. Centering on one of the good-ol'-boy icons of this musical magic, Forty Shades of Blue is a drab, minor-key melodrama that seems millions of miles from the barbecue 'n' blues world of Beale Street and the musical greatness that sprang from that Sun Records region.
A weepy slide guitar would be the proper instrument to ring forth this film's sad commercial prospects.
In as saucy an environs as Memphis you'd expect some odd mixings: Screenwriters Michael Rohatyn and Ira Sachs ladle up a weathered music legend, Alan (Rip Torn) living in kitschy splendor with a young Russian beauty (Dina Korzun) whom he's snapped up on a tour. She's in the stereotypical Russian mold, icy cold and a problem drinker. Big legend Alan doesn't notice much outside his own orbit, including his California-based son (Darren Burrows) who slouches homeward for the old man's coronation at some music wingding. Depressed foreign beauty, wayward old coot and resentful son -- you know the dance patterns of this old song already.
Filmmaker Ira Sachs' smart but sore scenario is crammed with somber story chords and predictable character refrains. While the Memphis backdrop spices things up, Forty Shades of Blue is plodding and predictable. The only scenes with any fiber are set around too much drinking, indicative of the film's slim characterizations. The players deliver with those handicaps. Rip Torn is a fine dusty/crusty mix of hoot and holler but none of the other players are able to enliven their flat parts.
Under Sachs' strummy hand, technical contributions are also wrong notes, including composer Dickon Hinchliffe's baleful sounds and cinematographer Julian Whatley's pan-'n'-scan compositions.
Forty Shades of Blue
Credits:
Producers: Margot Bridger, Ira Sachs, Mary Bing, Jawal Nga, Donald Rosenfeld
Director: Ira Sachs
Screenwriters: Michael Rohatyn, Ira Sachs
Executive producers: Geoff Stier, Diane Von Furstenberg
Director of photography: Julian Whatley
Editor: Alfonso Goncalves
Production designer: Teresa Mastropierro
Costume designer: Eric Daman
Music: Dickon Hinchliffe
Music supervisor: Susan Jacobs
Sound mixer: Dominick Tavella
Casting: Avy Kaufman, Jordan Beswick
Cast:
Alan: Rip Torn
Michael: Darren Burrows
Shel: Jerry Chipman
Tom Skolnick: Stuart Greer
Sam James: Andrew Henderson
Karin: Charly Kayle
Laura: Dina Korzun
Gina: Mary Jean McAdams
April James: Emily McKenna
Celia: Jenny O'Hara
Betty: Joanne Pankow
Gary: Forrest Pruett
Lonni: Paprika Steen
Barry: John Boyd West
Duigan: Red West
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 107 minutes...
A weepy slide guitar would be the proper instrument to ring forth this film's sad commercial prospects.
In as saucy an environs as Memphis you'd expect some odd mixings: Screenwriters Michael Rohatyn and Ira Sachs ladle up a weathered music legend, Alan (Rip Torn) living in kitschy splendor with a young Russian beauty (Dina Korzun) whom he's snapped up on a tour. She's in the stereotypical Russian mold, icy cold and a problem drinker. Big legend Alan doesn't notice much outside his own orbit, including his California-based son (Darren Burrows) who slouches homeward for the old man's coronation at some music wingding. Depressed foreign beauty, wayward old coot and resentful son -- you know the dance patterns of this old song already.
Filmmaker Ira Sachs' smart but sore scenario is crammed with somber story chords and predictable character refrains. While the Memphis backdrop spices things up, Forty Shades of Blue is plodding and predictable. The only scenes with any fiber are set around too much drinking, indicative of the film's slim characterizations. The players deliver with those handicaps. Rip Torn is a fine dusty/crusty mix of hoot and holler but none of the other players are able to enliven their flat parts.
Under Sachs' strummy hand, technical contributions are also wrong notes, including composer Dickon Hinchliffe's baleful sounds and cinematographer Julian Whatley's pan-'n'-scan compositions.
Forty Shades of Blue
Credits:
Producers: Margot Bridger, Ira Sachs, Mary Bing, Jawal Nga, Donald Rosenfeld
Director: Ira Sachs
Screenwriters: Michael Rohatyn, Ira Sachs
Executive producers: Geoff Stier, Diane Von Furstenberg
Director of photography: Julian Whatley
Editor: Alfonso Goncalves
Production designer: Teresa Mastropierro
Costume designer: Eric Daman
Music: Dickon Hinchliffe
Music supervisor: Susan Jacobs
Sound mixer: Dominick Tavella
Casting: Avy Kaufman, Jordan Beswick
Cast:
Alan: Rip Torn
Michael: Darren Burrows
Shel: Jerry Chipman
Tom Skolnick: Stuart Greer
Sam James: Andrew Henderson
Karin: Charly Kayle
Laura: Dina Korzun
Gina: Mary Jean McAdams
April James: Emily McKenna
Celia: Jenny O'Hara
Betty: Joanne Pankow
Gary: Forrest Pruett
Lonni: Paprika Steen
Barry: John Boyd West
Duigan: Red West
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 107 minutes...
- 1/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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