XYZ Films has acquired U.S. rights to the classic Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title “The World is Yours” directed by Romain Gavras from StudioCanal and to the TIFF hit film “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” directed by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins. The hyper-stylized films are the first titles in a new XYZ initiative to introduce audiences to classic festival hits that cater to cinema fans.
“The World is Yours” premiered at Cannes in 2018 and stars Karim Leklou, Isabelle Adjani, Vincent Cassel and Oulaya Amamra and was co-written by Gavras, Karim Boukercha and Noe Debre. In the film, a mid-level drug dealer (Leklou) dreams of having a new life, but his mother (Adjani) has gambled away his savings. He must take one last job in Spain, but his entourage gets involved: his mother, his ex-con friend, his crush, and possibly The Illuminati.
Meanwhile, “We Gotta Get Out of This Place...
“The World is Yours” premiered at Cannes in 2018 and stars Karim Leklou, Isabelle Adjani, Vincent Cassel and Oulaya Amamra and was co-written by Gavras, Karim Boukercha and Noe Debre. In the film, a mid-level drug dealer (Leklou) dreams of having a new life, but his mother (Adjani) has gambled away his savings. He must take one last job in Spain, but his entourage gets involved: his mother, his ex-con friend, his crush, and possibly The Illuminati.
Meanwhile, “We Gotta Get Out of This Place...
- 5/22/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Jeremy Allen White is one of the most talented and charming actors working in the film and TV industry. The American actor started his acting career with a small role in the 2006 drama film Beautiful Ohio. Since then he has been a part of some of the most brilliant movies and TV shows ever including the smash hit comedy drama series Shameless. So, if you love Allen White’s performances here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Jeremy Allen White that should be on your watchlist.
Rob the Mob Credit – Millennium Entertainment
Synopsis: An enthralling and high-octane crime-thriller, Rob the Mob stars Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Ray Romano and Andy Garcia. Based on a true story, it chronicles two lovers whose daring heists of Mafia social clubs in New York result in a discovery that forever changed the face of organized crime in America. Now the feds, family members,...
Rob the Mob Credit – Millennium Entertainment
Synopsis: An enthralling and high-octane crime-thriller, Rob the Mob stars Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Ray Romano and Andy Garcia. Based on a true story, it chronicles two lovers whose daring heists of Mafia social clubs in New York result in a discovery that forever changed the face of organized crime in America. Now the feds, family members,...
- 9/4/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Jay Martin’s directorial debut also stars Luke Mitchell, Leven Rambin and Kris Kristofferson
Starz Digital Media has acquired all North American rights to Jay Martin’s crime thriller “7 Minutes” and will release the film theatrically and on VOD this summer.
“7 Minutes,” which premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October, marks the directorial debut of Martin, a veteran music video director who also wrote the screenplay.
Also Read: ‘Avengers’ Star Clark Gregg’s Comedy ‘Trust Me’ Acquired by Starz Digital Media
The film stars Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Leven Rambin (“The Hunger Games”), Kris Kristofferson and Zane Holtz, and...
Starz Digital Media has acquired all North American rights to Jay Martin’s crime thriller “7 Minutes” and will release the film theatrically and on VOD this summer.
“7 Minutes,” which premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October, marks the directorial debut of Martin, a veteran music video director who also wrote the screenplay.
Also Read: ‘Avengers’ Star Clark Gregg’s Comedy ‘Trust Me’ Acquired by Starz Digital Media
The film stars Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Leven Rambin (“The Hunger Games”), Kris Kristofferson and Zane Holtz, and...
- 1/22/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Bad Turn Worse is the new emotional crime thriller and the stunning directorial debut of Simon and Zeke Hawkins.
The film is currently available in select theaters nationwide and VOD platforms including iTunes.
After a weekend of partying with stolen money, three Texas teens (Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, and Mackenzie Davis) find themselves indebted to a sociopathic criminal named Giff (Mark Pellegrino in a breakout performance).
To pay their debt, Giff forces the teens to steal from his boss, a money-laundering gangster named Big Red (William Devane). Things go from bad to worse when betrayal, distrust, and corruption complicate an already dangerous plan.
Wamg has got an exclusive clip featuring a commentary from Zeke and Simon Hawkins. The two discuss the opening scene in the film starring Mackenzie Davis and Jeremy Allen White. The clip will be featured in ‘iTunes Extras” starting December 5th, but you can see it here first!
The film is currently available in select theaters nationwide and VOD platforms including iTunes.
After a weekend of partying with stolen money, three Texas teens (Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, and Mackenzie Davis) find themselves indebted to a sociopathic criminal named Giff (Mark Pellegrino in a breakout performance).
To pay their debt, Giff forces the teens to steal from his boss, a money-laundering gangster named Big Red (William Devane). Things go from bad to worse when betrayal, distrust, and corruption complicate an already dangerous plan.
Wamg has got an exclusive clip featuring a commentary from Zeke and Simon Hawkins. The two discuss the opening scene in the film starring Mackenzie Davis and Jeremy Allen White. The clip will be featured in ‘iTunes Extras” starting December 5th, but you can see it here first!
- 12/2/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The feature debut from directorial siblings Simon and Zeke Hawkins is a tense and earthy film noir that wears its pulp influences proudly on its sleeve as it weaves a tale of love, betrayal and escape through the underbelly of the barren Texas wilderness. From its opening moments, Bad Turn Worse (formerly titled We Gotta Get Out Of This Place) - the first feature from the New York City-born Hawkins brothers - declares its love for hard-boiled crime writer Jim Thompson (the man responsible for such noir classics as The Getaway and After Dark, My Sweet). A young couple hanging out in a diner momentarily discuss the correct vernacular for traditional southern cooking, before turning their attentions to the merits of the acclaimed pulp fiction...
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- 11/13/2014
- Screen Anarchy
In movies, small towns are too often populated with inbred, murderous hillbillies, but there’s nevertheless a wealth of interesting, seldom-explored and considerably more believable stories to tell about them. “Bad Turn Worse” offers audiences little that they haven’t seen in one form or another — small-town kids, dreams of escape and the interference of local criminals — but in the hands of screenwriter Dutch Southern and directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins, its familiar components come together in a unique way. A crime thriller rich with emotional resonance, “Bad Turn Worse” offers the kind of clean, elegant storytelling whose emotional impact eclipses the cosmetic horrors of its counterparts while announcing the arrival of considerable new filmmaking talents. Jeremy Allen White (“Afterschool”) plays Bobby, a recent high school graduate who is set to head off to the same college as his best friend B.J.’s (Logan Huffman) girlfriend Sue (Mackenzie Davis). B.
- 11/12/2014
- by Todd Gilchrist
- The Playlist
From the opening robbery in a hard-land gas station, Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins's Bad Turn Worse floors it straight into the past — it plays like one of the best of those chatty, reflexive, standoffs-and-monologues crime indies every young dude in L.A. whipped up after Tarantino hit. Deep into the third act, one character actually says, "Now you're bluffing"; another, after announcing a betrayal meant to upend our understanding of what's been going on, executes a little bow. (That one's also tasked with proving the film's un-pc bona fides, saying, "No reason you'd kill someone who exists, right? Just fucking Mexicans!") After blowing thousands of (stolen) bucks on one dumb casino weekend, three Texas teens find themselves entangled with nowheresville mur...
- 11/12/2014
- Village Voice
It was over a year ago when a movie called "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" impressed us at Fantastic Fest, leading our critic Todd Gilchrist to declare in his review that it "offers the kind of clean, elegant storytelling whose emotional impact eclipses the cosmetic horrors of its counterparts while announcing the arrival of considerable new filmmaking talents." It's taken a little while, but the movie has now circled back onto our radar with a shorter, punchier title — "Bad Turn Worse" — and today we have an exclusive clip that we hope spurs you to check this one out. From directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins, and starring Jeremy Allen White, Mackenzie Davis, Logan Huffman, Mark Pellegrino and William Devane, the story follow three teens in debt to a local gangster. Looking to square the balance sheet, the teens agree to rip off the gangster's boss, and as you might surmise from the title,...
- 11/11/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Whenever anyone mentions Bad Turn Worse in the future, I’ll fondly think back on one of my new favorite heist explanation scenes, so cleverly orchestrated by brothers Simon and Zeke Hawkins. Blending the frantic nature of a first-person-shooter with cheeky criminal comedy, three juvenile robbers run though their illegal blueprints in real time, imagining exactly how the break-in should go down. While that might sound a bit oversimplified, the Hawkins brothers inject a little fun by having the two characters on camera react to any hiccups in the plan mid-scene, interrupting a hold-up with hypothetical questions only to direct their attention back towards elderly hostages after bickering about small details. The sequence is flashy, exciting, clever and memorable, striking a unique high note – a note that’s sorely missed throughout the film’s more generic existence.
The Hawkins brothers bring a certain freshness to their filmmaking, and Bad Turn Worse...
The Hawkins brothers bring a certain freshness to their filmmaking, and Bad Turn Worse...
- 11/10/2014
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Lost co-star Mark Pellegrino stars in this very dark looking thriller called Bad Turn Worse, in which he plays a very bad dude. We have the first trailer for the movie to share with you, and it seems like one of those crazy off-beat films that I would enjoy watching. Here's the synopsis:
After a weekend of partying with stolen money, three Texas teens (Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, and Mackenzie Davis) find themselves indebted to a sociopathic criminal named Giff (Mark Pellegrino in a breakout performance). To pay their debt, Giff forces the teens to steal from his boss, a money-laundering gangster named Big Red (William Devane). Things go from bad to worse when betrayal, distrust, and corruption complicate an already dangerous plan. This stylish and emotional crime thriller is the stunning directorial debut of Simon and Zeke Hawkins. An official selection of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
The...
After a weekend of partying with stolen money, three Texas teens (Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, and Mackenzie Davis) find themselves indebted to a sociopathic criminal named Giff (Mark Pellegrino in a breakout performance). To pay their debt, Giff forces the teens to steal from his boss, a money-laundering gangster named Big Red (William Devane). Things go from bad to worse when betrayal, distrust, and corruption complicate an already dangerous plan. This stylish and emotional crime thriller is the stunning directorial debut of Simon and Zeke Hawkins. An official selection of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
The...
- 10/19/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
A selection of the 2013 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival - back when it was known as We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - Zeke and Simon Hawkins' indie thriller Bad Turn Worse hits limited theatrical release, VOD and iTunes on November 14th and there's a new trailer out there to entice you.Here's how Toronto described it:Tipping its hat from the start to the classic novels of pulp crime master Jim Thompson, We Gotta Get Out of This Place is a tight nouveau noir by first-time feature directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins. The Hawkins brothers have crafted a tense thriller in their story of three teens, on the verge of escaping a dead-end existence in their cotton-mill town, who get sucked into...
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- 10/10/2014
- Screen Anarchy
"Sounds like game time to me." Just last week, we exclusively debuted the teaser poster for the Texas crime thriller Bad Turn Worse, the film formerly known as We Gotta Get Out of This Place, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. Now the film is finally getting released next month in limited theaters and on VOD, and the first trailer has arrived. This looks really cool, like a contemporary western, and the praise for a villainous turn from Mark Pellegrino sounds like that alone will make the film worth seeing. Mackenzie Davis and Jeremy Allen White also star in the film. Watch the trailer! Here's the first trailer for Simon Hawkins & Zeke Hawkins' Bad Turn Worse, originally from Apple: After a weekend of partying with stolen money, three Texas teens (Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis) find themselves indebted to a sociopathic criminal...
- 10/8/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Sometime a film's buzz has a curious, firework-esque lifespan: there's a lot of dazzle and noise at first, and then a quick dissipation into the ether. This seemed to happen to 2013 Fantastic Film Fest hit "We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place." Met with heaps of praise out of that genre festival, we've barely heard about the movie a word since. But that's about to change as it's roaring back to life. Our Fantastic Fest review (quotes from which are featured on the poster and trailer for the film) says the thriller "offers the kind of clean, elegant storytelling whose emotional impact eclipses the cosmetic horrors of its counterparts while announcing the arrival of considerable new filmmaking talents." Now retitled "Bad Turn Worse," a new poster and trailer for the film has arrived. Directed by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins, the picture is a Texas-set crime thriller, and the official...
- 10/8/2014
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Teenagers become involved in a web of deceit, crime and danger in “Bad Turn Worse,” a presentation by Starz Digital. The film, originally known as “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” will be available on all major VOD outlets including Amazon Instant Video, Vudu, iTunes, Xbox Video ad cable providers Nov. 14. It will also open in Us and Canadian theaters on the same day. “Bad Turn Worse,” the directorial debut by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins, stars Jeremy Allen White (“Shameless”, “Afterschool”), Mark Pellegrino (“The Big Lebowski,” “Supernatural”), Mackenzie Davis (“What If,” “Halt and Catch Fire”), Logan Huffman (“Refuge,” “V”) and William Devane (“The Dark Knight Rises,” “24” [ Read More ]
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- 10/6/2014
- by monique
- ShockYa
The Brothers Hawkins have arrived on the scene with a loud bang that could be seen as an ode to a favourite weapon of choice in the crime genre. Now as their feature directorial debut, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, makes its way into UK cinemas, HeyUGuys had the opportunity to lightly interrogate the filmmaking duo, as they shared with us their thoughts on the creative process and the first film in their directorial canon.
Why a career in filmmaking? Was there that one inspirational moment?
Zeke Hawkins: We grew up at the movies. Whilst our parents were trying to deal with having two boys, we would go to the cinema four times a week throughout our childhood. So we have always loved movies. In terms of a seminal moment, I remember when I was eighteen and I first saw Steven Soderbegh’s Out of Sight. It...
Why a career in filmmaking? Was there that one inspirational moment?
Zeke Hawkins: We grew up at the movies. Whilst our parents were trying to deal with having two boys, we would go to the cinema four times a week throughout our childhood. So we have always loved movies. In terms of a seminal moment, I remember when I was eighteen and I first saw Steven Soderbegh’s Out of Sight. It...
- 8/14/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★☆☆☆Having one of your lead characters nonchalantly reference Jim Thompson, surely the master of twisted, sweaty Southern noir fiction, means you're already setting yourself up for a potential fall awfully quickly. This, unfortunately, is precisely what sibling directing duo Simon and Zeke Hawkins do with We Gotta Get Out of This Place (2013), a largely groanworthy independent offering which is severely lacking in the pulpy charms it so desperately tries to emulate. The brothers have certainly done their homework, knuckling down to watch the early works of John Dahl and the Coen brothers, but the resulting film looks more like an overly self-conscious and lifeless facsimile rather than a work of breezy homage.
- 8/13/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Highlights include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Abel Ferrara’s controversial Dsk feature Welcome To New York.
The full line-up of the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been revealed this morning by artistic director Chris Fujiwara at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
This year’s festival, which runs from June 18-29, will comprise 156 features from 47 countries, including 11 world premieres, eight international premieres, seven European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
New titles announced today include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final performances that was first shown at Sundance in January.
Straight from its lively premiere in Cannes is Abel Ferrara’s controversial title Welcome To New York, inspired by the case of former Imf managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, starring Gérard Depardieu, which will receive its UK premiere at Eiff.
Other new titles added to the line-up include [link=nm...
The full line-up of the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been revealed this morning by artistic director Chris Fujiwara at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
This year’s festival, which runs from June 18-29, will comprise 156 features from 47 countries, including 11 world premieres, eight international premieres, seven European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
New titles announced today include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final performances that was first shown at Sundance in January.
Straight from its lively premiere in Cannes is Abel Ferrara’s controversial title Welcome To New York, inspired by the case of former Imf managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, starring Gérard Depardieu, which will receive its UK premiere at Eiff.
Other new titles added to the line-up include [link=nm...
- 5/28/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK distributor also secures Big Sur, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Almost Human, Enter Nowhere and The Battery.
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
- 12/12/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK distributor also secures Big Sur, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Almost Human, Enter Nowhere and The Battery.
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
- 12/12/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK distributor also secures Big Sur, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Almost Human, Enter Nowhere and The Battery.
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
UK distributor Metrodome has concluded deals on Afm acquisitions including Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel and Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer.
Chomet’s live action debut, which premiered at Toronto and recently opened in Paris, stars Guillaume Gouix (Midnight in Paris, 22 Bullets) as a sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash musical fantasies.
Based on James Franco’s first book of short stories, Palo Alto is Gia Coppola’s directorial debut charting the tangled lives of teenagers living in the eponymous Californian city.
Also new to the slate are Michael Polish’s (Twin Falls in Idaho) Sundance premiere Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel of the same name about the writer’s brief sojourns and romances at a cabin on the Californian coast. Kate Bosworth, [link...
- 12/12/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
AFI Fest announced the winners for the audience and jury awards on Wednesday. The Rocket, Australia's foreign film Oscar submission; The Selfish Giant, made in the UK; We Gotta Get Out of This Place, an American indie film directed by Zeke Hawkins and Simon Hawkins; and B for Boy, a Nigerian film, received Audience Awards. Grand Jury Awards were presented to Butter Lamp in the Live Action Short category, and The Places Where We Lived in the Animated Short category. Special Jury Award winners were Balcony and Syndromeda. Some of the award-winning films will screen again Wednesday at the
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- 11/14/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Visit SydneysBuzz Reports for the complete Fall 2013 Rights Roundup Report.
With an entire new line-up of films Lighting Entertainment is present at Afm this week. The Santa Monica-based company dedicated to the worldwide distribution and licensing of independent content with a focus on quality theatrical films, has 10 new features in the market. Among them there are comedies, several thrillers, and heartfelt dramas.
Here is Lighting Entertainment's Afm line-up
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
Director: Zeke Hawkins, Simon Hawkins
Cast: Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, Mackenzie Davis
With his best pal Bobby and his girlfriend Sue getting ready to leave town for college, troublemaker B.J. steals money from his boss, Giff, so he can treat his friends to a wild weekend of partying. Unfortunately, the stolen money belonged to a dangerous gangster known as Big Red. The three teens are forced to rob a local money-laundering front to settle their debt and buy their freedom. They are driven into a world of organized crime to fight for their lives. Deception and insecurities among the three friends increase the tension leading to the heist, making it uncertain who will come out on top — or even alive.
Freezer
Director: Mikael Salomon
Cast: Dylan McDermott, Peter Facinelli, Yuliya Snigir
Robert (Dylan McDermott), an average guy with an average life, is tested beyond human endurance when he awakens to find himself locked in an industrial freezer by Russian thugs. The gangsters threaten his life unless he returns the $8 million dollars he stole from them. The only problem is, Robert has no idea what they are talking about. Searching his surroundings, he discovers Sam (Peter Facinelli) under a pile of boxes in the corner, beaten and battered.
As both men fight for their lives before freezing to death, the truth about their situation slowly reveals itself…
The Reckoning
Director: John V. Soto
Cast: Luke Hemsworth, Jonathan Lapaglia, Viva Bianca
A detective discovers a mysterious video while investigating the roadside execution-style murder of his partner. The footage, shot by two teenagers, reveals murky details behind the death of their sibling in an unsolved hit and run case. The teens have since gone missing, and as the detective retraces their journey to find them, he quickly uncovers a bloody trail of murder...that leads all the way back to him!
Healing
Director: Craig Monahan
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Robert Taylor, Anthony Hayes, Jane Menelaus
After 16 years in prison, Viktor Khadem (Don Hany) is a man who has almost given up on life.
For his final 18 months, he is sentenced to Won Wron, a low-security, rural prison where Senior Officer Matt Perry (Hugo Weaving) has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men by giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured raptors – beautiful, proud eagles, falcons and owls. Against all odds, Matt takes on Viktor as his number one test case, introducing him to Yasmine, the majestic Wedge-tailed Eagle with a 2 metre wingspan. If these two can tame each other, anything is possible. Healing is a powerful, moving story of redemption, the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit – in the most unlikely place, for the most unique men, through the most unusual catalyst.
Inspired by a true story, Healing is a new Australian feature film written and directed by Craig Monahan, the multi-award winning director of The Interview (selected for Montreal, Seattle, Flanders and 30 other international Festivals); and Winner of Best Film - Australian Film Institute Awards
The Wonders
Director: Avi Nesher
Cast: Adir Miller, Yuval Scharf, Yehuda Levi, introducing Ori Hizkiah
This story focuses on Arnav, a graffiti artist and bartender living in Jerusalem. Always wearing a mask, he paints at night, and yearns for the day that his beloved ex-girlfriend Vax will return to him. But when Arnav sees a mysterious stranger forced into an abandoned apartment one night by three bearded men, he becomes involved with a hard-boiled investigator, a gorgeous mystery woman, and the conflicted mysterious captive himself. The captive, Shmaya Knafo, leads a cult of fanatically devoted followers who believe he can see into the future. Knafo may possess supernatural powers, or he might be just a clever con man. As dark, incriminating secrets come to light, Arnav is drawn into a world where lines blur between fact and fiction, and reality and imagination. When loyalties shift, Arnav finds his life turning stranger than his art. His attraction to Knafo’s mystery might be the artist’s way of reaching nirvana...or prove to be a fatal attraction.
Gus
Director: Jessie McCormack
Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Radha Mitchell, Jon Dore, Michael Weston, Mimi Kennedy
Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) longs to start a family with her husband Peter but is unable to conceive. Her best friend Andie (Michelle Monaghan), single and adrift, gets pregnant from a one-night stand and offers to give Lizzie the baby. Reluctantly, Peter agrees to be the child's father, and before he knows it Andie has moved into the guest room for the duration of her pregnancy. When Peter also invites his ne'er-do-well brother to the house, chaos ensues, testing the limits of friendship, family and a marriage. "Gus" depicts the deeply human struggles of these four people, taking a funny and poignant look at the ways we try to plan ahead when life has something else in mind.
Cavemen
Director: Herschel Faber
Cast: Skylar Astin, Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray, Dayo Okeniyi, Alexis Knapp, Kenny Wormald
Fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships, La playboy Dean realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess, Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time - which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles! After a few hilariously bad first dates and some awful advice from his over-sexed guy friends, Dean begins to realize that the true love he has been seeking may be much closer to home. But when he is forced to make a decision between the girl he knows is perfect for him and the seductive party-girl of his fantasies, will Dean finally grow up…or will he just continue the party?
Storm Rider
Director: Craig Clyde
Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Kristy Swanson, C Thomas Howell, Danielle Chuchran
After her father loses his fortune and family home, a privileged teenage equestrian is forced to give up her beloved championship horse and is sent to live in the country with her reclusive uncle. She struggles to adjust to life on the secluded ranch without any friends, her horse, or her Dad, who has been sent off to prison. But after she meets the nice boy from the neighboring ranch, and is gifted a young horse , Stormy, she soon settles into her new life and realizes that this is perhaps where she was meant to be all along. A heartfelt family drama about second chances, finding happiness, and making the impossible possible.
Dead Drop
Director: R. Ellis Frazier
Cast: Luke Goss, Cole Hauser, Nestor Carbonell
After being shot by his best friend, pushed out of a plane, and miraculously surviving a dead-drop from 5,000 feet, Michael awakens to a living nightmare. His memory is limited, and psychotic tendencies have begun to creep in. Defying the orders of his CIA handlers, Michael re-inserts himself into the dangerous Mexican smuggling ring where he was operating deep under cover. He snakes his way through the underbelly of Northern Mexico, hunting for Santiago, the cartel boss who Michael believes threw him out of the plane and who is also holding his girlfriend hostage.
American Idiots
Director: Robert Taleghany
Cast: Jeffrey T. Schoettlin, Sean Muramatsu, Caroline D’Amore, Madeline Merritt
After losing the girl of his dreams to another man, Wyatt and his posse pack their suitcases and head out on the craziest, screwball road trip to Las Vegas to win her back. With less than twenty-seven hours to break up her wedding, they must make it before it is too late without falling apart at the seams and living up to their names... American Idiots!
With an entire new line-up of films Lighting Entertainment is present at Afm this week. The Santa Monica-based company dedicated to the worldwide distribution and licensing of independent content with a focus on quality theatrical films, has 10 new features in the market. Among them there are comedies, several thrillers, and heartfelt dramas.
Here is Lighting Entertainment's Afm line-up
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
Director: Zeke Hawkins, Simon Hawkins
Cast: Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, Mackenzie Davis
With his best pal Bobby and his girlfriend Sue getting ready to leave town for college, troublemaker B.J. steals money from his boss, Giff, so he can treat his friends to a wild weekend of partying. Unfortunately, the stolen money belonged to a dangerous gangster known as Big Red. The three teens are forced to rob a local money-laundering front to settle their debt and buy their freedom. They are driven into a world of organized crime to fight for their lives. Deception and insecurities among the three friends increase the tension leading to the heist, making it uncertain who will come out on top — or even alive.
Freezer
Director: Mikael Salomon
Cast: Dylan McDermott, Peter Facinelli, Yuliya Snigir
Robert (Dylan McDermott), an average guy with an average life, is tested beyond human endurance when he awakens to find himself locked in an industrial freezer by Russian thugs. The gangsters threaten his life unless he returns the $8 million dollars he stole from them. The only problem is, Robert has no idea what they are talking about. Searching his surroundings, he discovers Sam (Peter Facinelli) under a pile of boxes in the corner, beaten and battered.
As both men fight for their lives before freezing to death, the truth about their situation slowly reveals itself…
The Reckoning
Director: John V. Soto
Cast: Luke Hemsworth, Jonathan Lapaglia, Viva Bianca
A detective discovers a mysterious video while investigating the roadside execution-style murder of his partner. The footage, shot by two teenagers, reveals murky details behind the death of their sibling in an unsolved hit and run case. The teens have since gone missing, and as the detective retraces their journey to find them, he quickly uncovers a bloody trail of murder...that leads all the way back to him!
Healing
Director: Craig Monahan
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Don Hany, Xavier Samuel, Robert Taylor, Anthony Hayes, Jane Menelaus
After 16 years in prison, Viktor Khadem (Don Hany) is a man who has almost given up on life.
For his final 18 months, he is sentenced to Won Wron, a low-security, rural prison where Senior Officer Matt Perry (Hugo Weaving) has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men by giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured raptors – beautiful, proud eagles, falcons and owls. Against all odds, Matt takes on Viktor as his number one test case, introducing him to Yasmine, the majestic Wedge-tailed Eagle with a 2 metre wingspan. If these two can tame each other, anything is possible. Healing is a powerful, moving story of redemption, the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit – in the most unlikely place, for the most unique men, through the most unusual catalyst.
Inspired by a true story, Healing is a new Australian feature film written and directed by Craig Monahan, the multi-award winning director of The Interview (selected for Montreal, Seattle, Flanders and 30 other international Festivals); and Winner of Best Film - Australian Film Institute Awards
The Wonders
Director: Avi Nesher
Cast: Adir Miller, Yuval Scharf, Yehuda Levi, introducing Ori Hizkiah
This story focuses on Arnav, a graffiti artist and bartender living in Jerusalem. Always wearing a mask, he paints at night, and yearns for the day that his beloved ex-girlfriend Vax will return to him. But when Arnav sees a mysterious stranger forced into an abandoned apartment one night by three bearded men, he becomes involved with a hard-boiled investigator, a gorgeous mystery woman, and the conflicted mysterious captive himself. The captive, Shmaya Knafo, leads a cult of fanatically devoted followers who believe he can see into the future. Knafo may possess supernatural powers, or he might be just a clever con man. As dark, incriminating secrets come to light, Arnav is drawn into a world where lines blur between fact and fiction, and reality and imagination. When loyalties shift, Arnav finds his life turning stranger than his art. His attraction to Knafo’s mystery might be the artist’s way of reaching nirvana...or prove to be a fatal attraction.
Gus
Director: Jessie McCormack
Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Radha Mitchell, Jon Dore, Michael Weston, Mimi Kennedy
Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) longs to start a family with her husband Peter but is unable to conceive. Her best friend Andie (Michelle Monaghan), single and adrift, gets pregnant from a one-night stand and offers to give Lizzie the baby. Reluctantly, Peter agrees to be the child's father, and before he knows it Andie has moved into the guest room for the duration of her pregnancy. When Peter also invites his ne'er-do-well brother to the house, chaos ensues, testing the limits of friendship, family and a marriage. "Gus" depicts the deeply human struggles of these four people, taking a funny and poignant look at the ways we try to plan ahead when life has something else in mind.
Cavemen
Director: Herschel Faber
Cast: Skylar Astin, Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray, Dayo Okeniyi, Alexis Knapp, Kenny Wormald
Fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships, La playboy Dean realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess, Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time - which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles! After a few hilariously bad first dates and some awful advice from his over-sexed guy friends, Dean begins to realize that the true love he has been seeking may be much closer to home. But when he is forced to make a decision between the girl he knows is perfect for him and the seductive party-girl of his fantasies, will Dean finally grow up…or will he just continue the party?
Storm Rider
Director: Craig Clyde
Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Kristy Swanson, C Thomas Howell, Danielle Chuchran
After her father loses his fortune and family home, a privileged teenage equestrian is forced to give up her beloved championship horse and is sent to live in the country with her reclusive uncle. She struggles to adjust to life on the secluded ranch without any friends, her horse, or her Dad, who has been sent off to prison. But after she meets the nice boy from the neighboring ranch, and is gifted a young horse , Stormy, she soon settles into her new life and realizes that this is perhaps where she was meant to be all along. A heartfelt family drama about second chances, finding happiness, and making the impossible possible.
Dead Drop
Director: R. Ellis Frazier
Cast: Luke Goss, Cole Hauser, Nestor Carbonell
After being shot by his best friend, pushed out of a plane, and miraculously surviving a dead-drop from 5,000 feet, Michael awakens to a living nightmare. His memory is limited, and psychotic tendencies have begun to creep in. Defying the orders of his CIA handlers, Michael re-inserts himself into the dangerous Mexican smuggling ring where he was operating deep under cover. He snakes his way through the underbelly of Northern Mexico, hunting for Santiago, the cartel boss who Michael believes threw him out of the plane and who is also holding his girlfriend hostage.
American Idiots
Director: Robert Taleghany
Cast: Jeffrey T. Schoettlin, Sean Muramatsu, Caroline D’Amore, Madeline Merritt
After losing the girl of his dreams to another man, Wyatt and his posse pack their suitcases and head out on the craziest, screwball road trip to Las Vegas to win her back. With less than twenty-seven hours to break up her wedding, they must make it before it is too late without falling apart at the seams and living up to their names... American Idiots!
- 11/13/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
William Devane Respects The Text
By
Alex Simon
Few actors ruled the big and small screen with such vigor during the 1970s as William Devane. Using his classically handsome Irish features to embody parts best described as “Ivy League menace,” Devane hasn’t stopped working since making his film debut in 1967. McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Missiles of October, Marathon Man, Family Plot, Rolling Thunder, Yanks and Testament are just a few of the classic titles to which Devane brought his unique brand of charisma. The ‘80s saw him dominating the airwaves on the primetime soap Knots Landing as the nefarious Gregory Sumner, with dozens more memorable turns to follow.
Devane lends his gravitas to the new indie thriller We Gotta Get Out of This Place, a nifty neo-noir about a group of Texas teens (Mackenzie Davis, Logan Huffman, Jeremy Allen White) from a dead-end town who find themselves over their...
By
Alex Simon
Few actors ruled the big and small screen with such vigor during the 1970s as William Devane. Using his classically handsome Irish features to embody parts best described as “Ivy League menace,” Devane hasn’t stopped working since making his film debut in 1967. McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Missiles of October, Marathon Man, Family Plot, Rolling Thunder, Yanks and Testament are just a few of the classic titles to which Devane brought his unique brand of charisma. The ‘80s saw him dominating the airwaves on the primetime soap Knots Landing as the nefarious Gregory Sumner, with dozens more memorable turns to follow.
Devane lends his gravitas to the new indie thriller We Gotta Get Out of This Place, a nifty neo-noir about a group of Texas teens (Mackenzie Davis, Logan Huffman, Jeremy Allen White) from a dead-end town who find themselves over their...
- 11/10/2013
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Exclusive: Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales rights for Afm to Zeke and Simon Hawkins’ Toronto and Fantastic Fest entry We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine Entertainment holds all Us rights to the thriller set in South Texas cotton country based on Dutch Southern’s screenplay.
Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis play best friends who unwittingly rob a gangster at the behest of a sociopathic cotton farmer. Mark Pellegrino and William Devane round out the key cast.
Rough and Tumble Films’ Justin Duprie and Brian Udovich produced We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine’s Josh Braun negotiated the deal with Lightning acquisition and sales consultant Richard S Guardian and Lightning evp and general manager Ken DuBow.
“The film is a total sleeper,” said Guardian and DuBow, who saw the film in Toronto and will screen it for buyers at Afm. “The craftsmanship and power of it just blows us away...
Submarine Entertainment holds all Us rights to the thriller set in South Texas cotton country based on Dutch Southern’s screenplay.
Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis play best friends who unwittingly rob a gangster at the behest of a sociopathic cotton farmer. Mark Pellegrino and William Devane round out the key cast.
Rough and Tumble Films’ Justin Duprie and Brian Udovich produced We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine’s Josh Braun negotiated the deal with Lightning acquisition and sales consultant Richard S Guardian and Lightning evp and general manager Ken DuBow.
“The film is a total sleeper,” said Guardian and DuBow, who saw the film in Toronto and will screen it for buyers at Afm. “The craftsmanship and power of it just blows us away...
- 10/28/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales rights for Afm to Zeke and Simon Hawkins’ Toronto and Fantastic Fest entry We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine Entertainment holds all Us rights to the thriller set in South Texas cotton country based on Dutch Southern’s screenplay.
Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis play best friends who unwittingly rob a gangster at the behest of a sociopathic cotton farmer. Mark Pellegrino and William Devane round out the key cast.
Rough and Tumble Films’ Justin Duprie and Brian Udovich produced We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine’s Josh Braun negotiated the deal with Lightning acquisition and sales consultant Richard S Guardian and Lightning evp and general manager Ken DuBow.
“The film is a total sleeper,” said Guardian and DuBow, who saw the film in Toronto and will screen it for buyers at Afm. “The craftsmanship and power of it just blows us away...
Submarine Entertainment holds all Us rights to the thriller set in South Texas cotton country based on Dutch Southern’s screenplay.
Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman and Mackenzie Davis play best friends who unwittingly rob a gangster at the behest of a sociopathic cotton farmer. Mark Pellegrino and William Devane round out the key cast.
Rough and Tumble Films’ Justin Duprie and Brian Udovich produced We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.
Submarine’s Josh Braun negotiated the deal with Lightning acquisition and sales consultant Richard S Guardian and Lightning evp and general manager Ken DuBow.
“The film is a total sleeper,” said Guardian and DuBow, who saw the film in Toronto and will screen it for buyers at Afm. “The craftsmanship and power of it just blows us away...
- 10/28/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
AFI Fest 2013 presented by Audi, a program of the American Film Institute, today announced the remaining sections and films that will screen in the festival’s World Cinema, American Independents, Breakthrough, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Presentations programs. AFI Fest, which redefines Hollywood today as a place where icons and emerging artists bring audiences together to experience global cinema in the movie capital of the world, will take place November 7 through 14 at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, the American Independents section features work by U.S. filmmakers, Breakthrough highlights work discovered only through the blind submission process, Midnight’s selections tend toward the macabre and Cinema’s Legacy highlights restorations and classic films.
This year’s program includes the return of several filmmakers to AFI Fest...
World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, the American Independents section features work by U.S. filmmakers, Breakthrough highlights work discovered only through the blind submission process, Midnight’s selections tend toward the macabre and Cinema’s Legacy highlights restorations and classic films.
This year’s program includes the return of several filmmakers to AFI Fest...
- 10/22/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Festival top brass have announced the outstanding World Cinema, American Independents, Breakthrough, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Presentations programmes.
The AFI Fest is scheduled to run from November 7-14 in Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
The complete programme includes 119 films (83 features, 36 shorts), representing 43 countries. Twenty-seven films are directed or co-directed by women as are 10 documentaries.
For the fifth consecutive year, AFI Fest will offer free tickets to all screenings, however only the Cinepass Express will provide priority entry to all regular screenings. For the complete programme visit the official site.
World Cinema SelectionsBaby Blues Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)Bethlehem Yuval Adler (Israel)Borgman Alex van Warmerdam (Neth-Bel-Den)Child’s Pose Călin Peter Netzer (Romania)Closed Curtain Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi (Iran)The Congress Ari Folman (Isr-Ger-Pol-Lux)An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-France-Slovenia)Exhibition Joanna Hogg (UK)Gabrielle Louise Archambault (Canada...
The AFI Fest is scheduled to run from November 7-14 in Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
The complete programme includes 119 films (83 features, 36 shorts), representing 43 countries. Twenty-seven films are directed or co-directed by women as are 10 documentaries.
For the fifth consecutive year, AFI Fest will offer free tickets to all screenings, however only the Cinepass Express will provide priority entry to all regular screenings. For the complete programme visit the official site.
World Cinema SelectionsBaby Blues Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)Bethlehem Yuval Adler (Israel)Borgman Alex van Warmerdam (Neth-Bel-Den)Child’s Pose Călin Peter Netzer (Romania)Closed Curtain Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi (Iran)The Congress Ari Folman (Isr-Ger-Pol-Lux)An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-France-Slovenia)Exhibition Joanna Hogg (UK)Gabrielle Louise Archambault (Canada...
- 10/22/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
At this point festivals like London and AFI Fest all start to resemble one another as they score a world premiere or two ("Saving Mr. Banks" and "Out of the Furnace" respectively) and lay out the usual smorgasbord of awards contenders. But Hollywood's AFI Fest (November 7-14) is adding films to its World Cinema, American Independents, Breakthrough, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Presentations selections. This year’s program includes the return of several filmmakers to AFI Fest including Jafar Panahi ("Closed Curtains"); Kim Ki-duk ("Moebius"); Hong Sang-soo ("Our Sunhi") and Xavier Dolan ("Tom at the Farm"). The AFI selection favors 14 films from 54 AFI alumni, including "Breathe In" from writer-director Drake Doremus; "La Jaula de Oro" by writer-director Diego Quemada-Diez; "We've Got to Get Out of this Place" from producer Brian Udovich and director Zeke Hawkins; and "Machsom" by director Bayard Outerbridge. The complete AFI Fest 2013 program includes...
- 10/22/2013
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Generally Fantastic Fest programming is heavily centered around films from around the world, so it was great to see Texas production We Gotta Get Out of This Place on the slate of premieres at this year's festival. Directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins (seen above) may be La filmmakers, but this thrilling drama set in the rural outskirts of Corpus Christi is firmly rooted in Texas.
Producer Justin X. Duprie is from the small town of Taft, Texas, where primary production of the film took place. Duprie had described his hometown to writer Dutch Southern, who was inspired to write the screenplay for We Gotta Get Out of This Place.
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Producer Justin X. Duprie is from the small town of Taft, Texas, where primary production of the film took place. Duprie had described his hometown to writer Dutch Southern, who was inspired to write the screenplay for We Gotta Get Out of This Place.
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- 10/2/2013
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
In movies, small towns are too often populated with inbred, murderous hillbillies, but there’s nevertheless a wealth of interesting, seldom-explored and considerably more believable stories to tell about them. “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place” offers audiences little that they haven’t seen in one form or another—small town kids, dreams of escape and the interference of local criminals—but in the hands of screenwriter Dutch Southern and directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins, its familiar components come together in a unique way. A crime thriller rich with emotional resonance, “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place” offers the kind of clean, elegant storytelling whose emotional impact eclipses the cosmetic horrors of its counterparts while announcing the arrival of considerable new filmmaking talents.Jeremy Allen White (“Afterschool”) plays Bobby, a recent high school graduate who is set to head off to the same college as his best friend B.
- 9/24/2013
- by Todd Gilchrist
- The Playlist
The feature debut from directorial siblings Simon and Zeke Hawkins is a tense and earthy film noir that wears its pulp influences proudly on its sleeve as it weaves a tale of love, betrayal and escape through the underbelly of the barren Texas wilderness.From its opening moments, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - the first feature from the New York City-born Hawkins brothers - declares its love for hard-boiled crime writer Jim Thompson (the man responsible for such noir classics as The Getaway and After Dark, My Sweet). A young couple hanging out in a diner momentarily discuss the correct vernacular for traditional southern cooking, before turning their attentions to the merits of the acclaimed pulp fiction author himself.While they may appear to...
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- 9/12/2013
- Screen Anarchy
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Written by Dutch Southern
Directed by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins
USA, 2013
The crime thriller is not an easy genre to tackle. The cinematic landscape is littered with movies that were unable to illustrate stakes worth caring about, characters worth emotionally investing in, or stories worth following. Good additions to the genre, however, are always fascinating to watch, as they show a side of things that very few people see otherwise, and put people in situations that reveal a lot about them. One of the movies premiering at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival is We Gotta Get Out of This Place, the feature film debut of directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins, and it stands as a worthy addition to the genre, adding its own flavour to stand out from the others while still paying attention to the story.
A major highlight are the performances.
Written by Dutch Southern
Directed by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins
USA, 2013
The crime thriller is not an easy genre to tackle. The cinematic landscape is littered with movies that were unable to illustrate stakes worth caring about, characters worth emotionally investing in, or stories worth following. Good additions to the genre, however, are always fascinating to watch, as they show a side of things that very few people see otherwise, and put people in situations that reveal a lot about them. One of the movies premiering at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival is We Gotta Get Out of This Place, the feature film debut of directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins, and it stands as a worthy addition to the genre, adding its own flavour to stand out from the others while still paying attention to the story.
A major highlight are the performances.
- 9/9/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Last night Simon and Zeke Hawkins premiered their debut feature at the Toronto International Film Festival. With nods to the legendary pulp crime novelist Jim Thompson, We Gotta Get Out of This Place is a tense nouveau noir that follows three Texan teens who fall into debt with the wrong people.
We Gotta Get Out of This Place stars veteran character actor Mark Pellegrino ("Supernatural," "Lost," "Being Human") and Mackenzie Davis, who is also in town this week with stars Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan for the premiere of the The F Word. Before the premiere of We Gotta Get Out of This Place on Saturday night, we were able to speak to the Hawkins brothers about Texas gangsters and guns.
We Gotta Get Out of This Place stars veteran character actor Mark Pellegrino ("Supernatural," "Lost," "Being Human") and Mackenzie Davis, who is also in town this week with stars Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan for the premiere of the The F Word. Before the premiere of We Gotta Get Out of This Place on Saturday night, we were able to speak to the Hawkins brothers about Texas gangsters and guns.
- 9/9/2013
- by Sasha James
- Cineplex
First-time feature directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins are in Toronto this week with their feature debut We Gotta Get Out of This Place. The Texas-set thriller centers on three teens (Mackenzie Davis, Jeremy Allen White and Logan Huffman) who must embark on a dangerous journey that will test their trust and friendship and take them across the line from carefree adolescence into the harsh reality of adulthood. Not too long ago we posted the stunning hand drawn poster for the film, and now the first clip as landed online, which you can watch below. Enjoy!
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The post Tiff: Watch the first clip from ‘We Gotta Get Out of This Place’ appeared first on Sound On Sight.
- 9/8/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Watch a clip from We Gotta Get Outta This Place, starring Mackenzie Davis, William Devane, Juliana Lynn Edwards, Jon Gries, Logan Huffman, Mark Pellegrino and Jeremy Allen White. The crime drama directed by Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins from the screenplay by Dutch Southern, is an Official Selection at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. With only a few weeks left until his two best friends leave for college, Billy Joe (Logan Huffman) robs his cotton farmer boss, Giff (Mark Pellegrino), in order to pay for one last blow out weekend in Corpus Christi, Texas. Upon returning, the teens are confronted by the unfortunate and brutal consequences...
- 9/6/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
With only weeks left before Fantastic Fest gets underway in Austin, the final wave of films has been announced. Check out the goodies below, and visit FantasticFest.com for the complete schedule and to get your tickets.
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (USA, 2006)
Special Screening
Director - Jonathon Levine, 98 min
All the boys love Mandy Lane and all the girls want to be her. There's at least one person, though, that wants Mandy and her friends dead.
Chanthaly (Lao People's Democratic Republic, 2013)
North American Premiere
Director - Mattie Do, 98 min
A sickly young woman experiences visions of her dead mother. Is the apparition simply a side effect of her daily medication, or her mother actually reaching out to her from beyond the grave?
Confession Of Murder (Korea, 2012)
U.S. Premiere
Director - Jeong Byeong-Gil, 119 min
After the statute of limitations expires on a series of high profile murders, a...
- 9/6/2013
- by Alyse Wax
- FEARnet
In 2 weeks, you will be seeing tons of content from one of the best genre film festivals in North America, Fantastic Fest. Held in Austin, TX, Fantastic Fest is a orgasmic wave of sci-fi, horror, crime and foreign film. We have been lucky enough to be attending since 2010 and this year, I plan on giving you the most coverage I can. There will be daily video recorded and published on the site in addition to interviews and reviews. Today, the final wave and closing night film was announced. Every year, Fantastic Fest tends to have side events/parties that tie into the Opening & Closing Night films and given the content, I can’t wait to see what they come up with. The closing night film is the North American Premiere of Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem.
Without further ado, here is the official press release with a full list of films that were added.
Without further ado, here is the official press release with a full list of films that were added.
- 9/5/2013
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Fantastic Fest has sent out a press release announcing their closing night film and the final wave of programming that includes All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, We Are What We Are, Rigor Mortis, and more:
Austin, TX-Thursday, September 5, 2013- Fantastic Fest is excited to announce its final wave of film programming, including Terry Gilliam’s unique dystopian vision of the future, The Zero Theorem, as the closing night film on September 26th. The ninth edition of Fantastic Fest, will take place September 19 – 26 at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline in Austin, Texas. See below for descriptions of twenty-five new World, North American & Us premiere films at this year’s festival.
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (USA, 2006)
Special Screening
Director – Jonathon Levine, 98 min
All the boys love Mandy Lane and all the girls want to be her. There’s at least one person, though, that wants Mandy and her friends dead.
Chanthaly (Lao People’s Democratic Republic,...
Austin, TX-Thursday, September 5, 2013- Fantastic Fest is excited to announce its final wave of film programming, including Terry Gilliam’s unique dystopian vision of the future, The Zero Theorem, as the closing night film on September 26th. The ninth edition of Fantastic Fest, will take place September 19 – 26 at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline in Austin, Texas. See below for descriptions of twenty-five new World, North American & Us premiere films at this year’s festival.
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (USA, 2006)
Special Screening
Director – Jonathon Levine, 98 min
All the boys love Mandy Lane and all the girls want to be her. There’s at least one person, though, that wants Mandy and her friends dead.
Chanthaly (Lao People’s Democratic Republic,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
One of the movies making its debut at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival is the debut feature from siblings Simon and Zeke Hawkins. The brothers, who have directed numerous shorts individually and together, are working from a script by newcomer Dutch Southern, and are working with a cast that includes William Devane, Jon Gries, and Mark Pellegrino alongside leads Mackenzie Davis, Jeremy Allen White, and Logan Huffman. Ahead of the film’s world premiere at the festival, the first poster has been released, and can be seen below.
The post Tiff 2013: See the first hand-drawn poster for ‘We Gotta Get Out of This Place’ appeared first on Sound On Sight.
The post Tiff 2013: See the first hand-drawn poster for ‘We Gotta Get Out of This Place’ appeared first on Sound On Sight.
- 8/28/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Every once in a while, a film will choose to take the path less traveled and use unique poster art that eschews Photoshop and goes for aesthetic beauty instead. Here we have the Tiff promo poster for Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins' We Gotta Get Out of This Place, a twisted Texas-set crime drama about three teens (Mackenzie Davis, Jeremy Allen White and Logan Huffman) hoping to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in their cotton-mill town. The poster features hand-painted artwork by Eisner Award winning artist Sean Phillips that's just gorgeous. This film is now on our festival radar thanks to this art. Here's the first promo poster for We Gotta Get Out of This Place debuted by Indiewire just in time for Tiff: From Tiff: Tipping its hat from the start to the classic novels of pulp crime master Jim Thompson, We Gotta...
- 8/27/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
First-time feature directors Simon and Zeke Hawkins will be in Toronto next month with their brutal, twisty debut "We Gotta Get Out of This Place." Indiewire has the exclusive first look at the film's gorgeous hand painted poster, made by Eisner Award winning artist Sean Phillips. The Texas-set thriller centers on three teens (Mackenzie Davis, Jeremy Allen White and Logan Huffman) hoping to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in their cotton-mill town, before getting sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime, when one of them steals from the wrong man. The film premieres September 7th at the festival. Check out the poster below.
- 8/27/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
The 38th Toronto International Film Festival has released an incredible guest list of celebrated talent from around the globe. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Catherine Breillat, Nicole Garcia, Pawel Pawlikowski, Bertrand Tavernier, Steve McQueen, Godfrey Reggio, Denis Villeneuve, Bill Condon, Jean-Marc Vallée, John Wells, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Ayoade, Atom Egoyan, Matthew Weiner, John Carney, Jason Reitman, Jason Bateman, Yorgos Servetas, Liza Johnson, Megan Griffiths, Fernando Eimbcke, Alexey Uchitel, Johnny Ma, Biyi Bandele, Rashid Masharawi, Paul Haggis, Ron Howard, Eli Roth, Álex de la Iglesia, Bruce McDonald, Jennifer Baichwal, John Ridley, and Justin Chadwick.
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers and artists are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Ahmad Abdalla, Hany Abu-Assad, Yuval Adler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Alexandre Aja, Bruce Alcock, Gianni Amelio, Thanos Anastopoulos, Madeline Anderson, Nimród Antal, Louise Archambault,...
The Festival also welcomes thousands of producers and other industry professionals bringing films to us.
The following filmmakers and artists are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival:
Ahmad Abdalla, Hany Abu-Assad, Yuval Adler, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Alexandre Aja, Bruce Alcock, Gianni Amelio, Thanos Anastopoulos, Madeline Anderson, Nimród Antal, Louise Archambault,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The Vanguard section of the Toronto International Film Festival has been a showcase for bold and unconventional cinema. Many festivalgoers look forward to this section for its selection of movies, leading to an anticipation of what would make the bill this time around. The Festival committee announced the slate for the Vanguard programme yesterday, a bill that includes:
- Horns, by Alexandre Aja, starring Daniel Radcliffe as an individual blamed for murder who finds horns sprouting from his head one morning, making its world premiere.
- Proxy, by Zack Parker, following the trials of a woman who joins a support group following an attack, making its world premiere.
- The Sacrament, by Ti West, starring Joe Swanberg and Amy Seimetz, making its North American premiere.
- Soul, by Chung Mong-Hong, about a wandering soul and the relationship it develops with the person whose body it temporarily stays in, making its international premiere.
- Horns, by Alexandre Aja, starring Daniel Radcliffe as an individual blamed for murder who finds horns sprouting from his head one morning, making its world premiere.
- Proxy, by Zack Parker, following the trials of a woman who joins a support group following an attack, making its world premiere.
- The Sacrament, by Ti West, starring Joe Swanberg and Amy Seimetz, making its North American premiere.
- Soul, by Chung Mong-Hong, about a wandering soul and the relationship it develops with the person whose body it temporarily stays in, making its international premiere.
- 7/31/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, one of many Special Presentations at this year's Tiff.
The Toronto International Film Festival has begun to announce its lineup for its 2013 edition, beginning with Gala and Special Presentations. To browse the festival's programming on their web site, visit here.
Gala Presentations
American Dreams in China (Peter Chan, China)
The Art of the Steal (Jonothan Sobol, Canada)
August: Osage County (John Wells, USA)
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo, Korea)
The Fifth Estate (Bill Condon, USA)
The Grand Seduction (Don McKellar, Canada)
Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas, USA)
Life of Crime (Daniel Schechter, USA)
The Love Punch (Joel Hopkins, France)
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, India/France/Germany)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Justin Chadwick, South Africa)
Parkland (Peter Landesman, USA)
The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky, Australia/UK)
The Right Kind of Wrong (Jeremiah Chechik, Canada)
Rush (Ron Howard, UK/Germany)
Shuddh Desi Romance (Maneesh Sharma, India...
The Toronto International Film Festival has begun to announce its lineup for its 2013 edition, beginning with Gala and Special Presentations. To browse the festival's programming on their web site, visit here.
Gala Presentations
American Dreams in China (Peter Chan, China)
The Art of the Steal (Jonothan Sobol, Canada)
August: Osage County (John Wells, USA)
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo, Korea)
The Fifth Estate (Bill Condon, USA)
The Grand Seduction (Don McKellar, Canada)
Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas, USA)
Life of Crime (Daniel Schechter, USA)
The Love Punch (Joel Hopkins, France)
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, India/France/Germany)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Justin Chadwick, South Africa)
Parkland (Peter Landesman, USA)
The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky, Australia/UK)
The Right Kind of Wrong (Jeremiah Chechik, Canada)
Rush (Ron Howard, UK/Germany)
Shuddh Desi Romance (Maneesh Sharma, India...
- 7/31/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Outclassing Venice this year in terms of quantity (and we’ll soon see in perhaps quality), 2013′s Toronto International Film Festival’s Vanguard section sees programmer Colin Geddes happily working with a flood of film items that could have easily have been featured in the Midnight Madness section. Alongside world premieres for Simon & Zeke Hawkins’ We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Zack Parker’s Proxy, Juan Cavestany’s People In Places and Yeon Sang-ho’s The Fake, the fest lassoed notable premium offerings in the likes of Alexandre Aja’s Horns, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani’s sophomore pic The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears and (also skipping the Lido) and Brillante Mendoza’s Sapi.
Ti West’s The Sacrament will benefit from the Lido-t.O exposure, while from Cannes, we find Jeremy Saulnier’s brilliant, award-winning Blue Ruin and Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman both receive their...
Ti West’s The Sacrament will benefit from the Lido-t.O exposure, while from Cannes, we find Jeremy Saulnier’s brilliant, award-winning Blue Ruin and Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman both receive their...
- 7/30/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Tiff’s Midnight Madness selection is usually where we find all of the horror films, but the Vanguard selection features Ti West’s latest film, The Sacrament, and Alexandre Aja’s Horns, starring Daniel Radcliffe:
“Toronto — The Toronto International Film Festival® Vanguard programme takes audiences on a sensory rollercoaster ride with boundary-pushing international works that are bold and bodacious. Curated by international programmer Colin Geddes, this lineup brings the best in genre and arthouse together for a cinematic odyssey that eludes conventional definition.
“From revenge and ruin to sex, drugs and taxation, this programme challenges audiences to go places that noaudience has gone before,” said Geddes. “Where Midnight Madness opens up audiences to a world of fear and fantasy, Vanguard plunges them into a confrontational and unnerving one that sometimes comes a bit too close to reality for comfort.”
The Vanguard roster features a provocative partnership between Ti West (The House of the Devil,...
“Toronto — The Toronto International Film Festival® Vanguard programme takes audiences on a sensory rollercoaster ride with boundary-pushing international works that are bold and bodacious. Curated by international programmer Colin Geddes, this lineup brings the best in genre and arthouse together for a cinematic odyssey that eludes conventional definition.
“From revenge and ruin to sex, drugs and taxation, this programme challenges audiences to go places that noaudience has gone before,” said Geddes. “Where Midnight Madness opens up audiences to a world of fear and fantasy, Vanguard plunges them into a confrontational and unnerving one that sometimes comes a bit too close to reality for comfort.”
The Vanguard roster features a provocative partnership between Ti West (The House of the Devil,...
- 7/30/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The 2013 Toronto Film Festival selection grew quite a bit today as the organizers announced the Midnight Madness, Documentary, Vanguard, City to City and Cinematheque selections for this year's festival. Among the title announced there aren't exactly a ton of names that pop off the paper immediately. The Midnight Madness selection will open with Lucky McKee's All Cheerleaders Die in which a young girl who practices the dark arts turns on her best friend after she joins the cheer squad. However, I assume most attention will be on Eli Roth's The Green Inferno, a film in which a group of humanitarians go to the Amazon to help a native tribe only to have the tribe kidnap them and later learn their cannibalistic heritage is very much intact. The Documentary selection includes plenty of familiar faces such as Marcel Ophuls, Claude Lanzmann and Errol Morris and Frank Pavich will be bringing Jodorowsky's Dune,...
- 7/30/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
New work from Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman will screen in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Tiff Docs strand, while City To City spotlights Athens and Alex Aja’s Horns is among the Vanguard offerings.
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
- 7/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
New work from Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman will screen in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Tiff Docs strand, while City To City spotlights Athens and Alex Aja’s Horns is among the Vanguard offerings.
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
- 7/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Tribeca Film has obtained the Us and Canadian distribution rights to the upcoming comedy ‘Turkey Bowl.’ The movie, which premiered to acclaim at this year’s South By Southwest festival in March, is the directorial debut of Kyle Smith. ‘Turkey Bowl’ follows Jon, played by Jon Schmidt, as 10 of his friends gather in Los Angeles to play the Turkey Bowl. The winning team of the football competition wins a beloved turkey. Friendships are tested as jealousy arises. The film also stars Kerry Bishe, Tom Di Menna, Zeke Hawkins and Zoe Perry. The comedy, which was produced by Smith and Stephen Paratore, will be released in late June. Smith has said...
- 5/10/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
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