Emilio Estevez On Long Trip To Recapture ‘The Way’ Rights, Fathom Re-Release & Plans For Another One
Exclusive: After a two-year journey to gain back the rights to The Way, Emilio Estevez has arranged with Fathom Events to re-release the film nationwide on May 16 on about 800 screens or more. The effort has led to not only a chance to dust off a 12-year old film, but also to start progress on a sequel.
The film was scripted and directed by Estevez, partly inspired by the Jack Hitt book Off The Road: A Modern Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route Into Spain. The film starred Estevez’s dad, Martin Sheen, and the director played the small role of a man who died while making the pilgrimage called El Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James. This is where the Apostle James was buried. His dad takes over the effort, his son’s ashes in tow, and is about the people he meets along...
The film was scripted and directed by Estevez, partly inspired by the Jack Hitt book Off The Road: A Modern Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route Into Spain. The film starred Estevez’s dad, Martin Sheen, and the director played the small role of a man who died while making the pilgrimage called El Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James. This is where the Apostle James was buried. His dad takes over the effort, his son’s ashes in tow, and is about the people he meets along...
- 3/29/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The director-star pairing from Prisoners and The Enemy are to adapt a Jo Nesbo thriller for Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories and Bold Films.
Villeneuve will develop The Son alongside Nine Stories’ Gyllenhaal and producing partner Riva Marker as well as Bold backer Michel Litvak.
Bold’s Gary Michael Walters will serve as executive producer alongside Norwegian genre writer phenomenon Nesbo and Niclas Salomonsson.
The Son centres on Sonny Lofthus, a promising wrestler as a youngster who fell into a downward spiral after the apparent suicide of his police office father.
In prison for 12 years, Lofthus breaks out when he hears the truth behind his father’s death and sets out to bring those responsible to justice.
Nine Stories has a first-look and overhead deal with Bold Films and recently completed principal photography on its debut feature, David Gordon Green’s Stronger. Gyllenhaal plays Boston man Jeff Bauman, whose iconic photo from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing captured the hearts...
Villeneuve will develop The Son alongside Nine Stories’ Gyllenhaal and producing partner Riva Marker as well as Bold backer Michel Litvak.
Bold’s Gary Michael Walters will serve as executive producer alongside Norwegian genre writer phenomenon Nesbo and Niclas Salomonsson.
The Son centres on Sonny Lofthus, a promising wrestler as a youngster who fell into a downward spiral after the apparent suicide of his police office father.
In prison for 12 years, Lofthus breaks out when he hears the truth behind his father’s death and sets out to bring those responsible to justice.
Nine Stories has a first-look and overhead deal with Bold Films and recently completed principal photography on its debut feature, David Gordon Green’s Stronger. Gyllenhaal plays Boston man Jeff Bauman, whose iconic photo from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing captured the hearts...
- 5/26/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to worthwhile titles currently available on Netflix Instant Watch. This week we offer alternatives to The Avengers, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel & First Position.
Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye and the Hulk join forces as the Avengers to face an evil unlike the earth has ever seen before. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and Jeremy Renner co-star; Joss Whedon directs.
How about giving some lesser-known superheroes their due:
Confessions of a Superhero (2007) This quirky and compelling documentary follows four dreamers whose passion to become professional actors has landed them all on Hollywood Boulevard costumed as Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and the Incredible Hulk. Matt Ogens directs.
Big Man Japan (2007) This Japanese mockumentary explores the downside to being a superhero. Daisato is a middle-aged, second-rate superhero who not...
Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye and the Hulk join forces as the Avengers to face an evil unlike the earth has ever seen before. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and Jeremy Renner co-star; Joss Whedon directs.
How about giving some lesser-known superheroes their due:
Confessions of a Superhero (2007) This quirky and compelling documentary follows four dreamers whose passion to become professional actors has landed them all on Hollywood Boulevard costumed as Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and the Incredible Hulk. Matt Ogens directs.
Big Man Japan (2007) This Japanese mockumentary explores the downside to being a superhero. Daisato is a middle-aged, second-rate superhero who not...
- 5/3/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Chicago – In our latest pilgrimage edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: DVD, we have 5 DVDs up for grabs for the home entertainment release of “The Way” from writer and director Emilio Estevez starring his father Martin Sheen!
“The Way” also stars Yorick van Wageningen, Deborah Kara Unger, Tchéky Karyo, James Nesbitt, Spencer Garrett, Ángela Molina, Matt Clark, Carlos Leal, Simón Andreu, David Alexanian, Antonio Gil, Nacho Estévez and Eusebio Lázaro from writer and director Emilio Estevez based on the novel by Jack Hitt. Here’s information about this DVD release:
Audio commentary by director Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen and producer David Alexanian. Never-before-seen clips on location filming in Spain. Behind-the-scenes footage from “The Way” bus tour across America in the fall of 2011.
The film will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on Feb. 21, 2012. To win your free “The Way” DVD courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question in this Web-based submission form.
“The Way” also stars Yorick van Wageningen, Deborah Kara Unger, Tchéky Karyo, James Nesbitt, Spencer Garrett, Ángela Molina, Matt Clark, Carlos Leal, Simón Andreu, David Alexanian, Antonio Gil, Nacho Estévez and Eusebio Lázaro from writer and director Emilio Estevez based on the novel by Jack Hitt. Here’s information about this DVD release:
Audio commentary by director Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen and producer David Alexanian. Never-before-seen clips on location filming in Spain. Behind-the-scenes footage from “The Way” bus tour across America in the fall of 2011.
The film will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on Feb. 21, 2012. To win your free “The Way” DVD courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question in this Web-based submission form.
- 2/13/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
I walked into the Elgin Theatre a year and a half ago for the Toronto International Film Festival’s screening of Emilio Estevez‘s The Way without knowing exactly what I was in for. I loved his Bobby a few years earlier, but after reading the glossy sheet of information pertaining to the film handed out to all in attendance I knew this was going to be a completely different beast.
Spiritual, personal, and a testament between father and son, this new work is an inspirational journey of finding oneself at a time you wouldn’t think possible. In the face of tragedy, one man breaks from the bubble he has spent decades building in order to say goodbye. In the process, however, he discovers the memories of and fervor for life his son possessed was in fact welcoming him home in a foreign land of second chances and absolute clarity.
Spiritual, personal, and a testament between father and son, this new work is an inspirational journey of finding oneself at a time you wouldn’t think possible. In the face of tragedy, one man breaks from the bubble he has spent decades building in order to say goodbye. In the process, however, he discovers the memories of and fervor for life his son possessed was in fact welcoming him home in a foreign land of second chances and absolute clarity.
- 2/6/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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