Exclusive: Film Mode Entertainment has locked a series of deals on Blue Light, the latest feature from American filmmaker Andy Fickman.
Sales for Blue Light include Germany (Lighthouse Home Entertainment), Malaysia (Feather Entertainment), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Philippines (Pioneer Films), United Kingdom (101 Films), India (VR Films and Studios), Middle East (Eagle Films Middle East), and Poland (Media4Fun).
Blue Light is based on a series of true and terrifying unexplained events. The film follows a group of friends on a road trip who soon realize something terrifying and unworldly is threatening their lives. The ensemble cast features Bella DeLong, Amber Janea (Lifetime’s A Predator Returns), Daryl Tofa (Two-Bit in The Outsiders on Broadway), Ana Zambrana (La Traición en la Amistad), Crystal Lake Evans (Starz’s Hightown...
Sales for Blue Light include Germany (Lighthouse Home Entertainment), Malaysia (Feather Entertainment), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Philippines (Pioneer Films), United Kingdom (101 Films), India (VR Films and Studios), Middle East (Eagle Films Middle East), and Poland (Media4Fun).
Blue Light is based on a series of true and terrifying unexplained events. The film follows a group of friends on a road trip who soon realize something terrifying and unworldly is threatening their lives. The ensemble cast features Bella DeLong, Amber Janea (Lifetime’s A Predator Returns), Daryl Tofa (Two-Bit in The Outsiders on Broadway), Ana Zambrana (La Traición en la Amistad), Crystal Lake Evans (Starz’s Hightown...
- 2/17/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: After world premiering at the 2023 Tribeca Festival, the custody battle drama Our Son, starring Billy Porter (Pose), Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast), and newcomer Christopher Woodley, has set release plans with Vertical. Directed by Bill Oliver, from his script written with Peter Nickowitz, the indie is set to hit select theaters December 8th.
Other titles opening that day include Searchlight’s Poor Things starring Emma Stone, Studio Ghibli/Gkids’ The Boy and the Heron, Kino Lorber’s thriller La Syndicaliste, Outsider Pictures doc Elis and Tom, Janus Films’ doc Anselm, and Republic Pictures’ The End We Start From.
Also starring Andrew Rannells (A Simple Favor), Robin Weigert (Deadwood), Kate Burton (Grey’s Anatomy), and Phylicia Rashad (Creed III), Our Son depicts the next step in the zeitgeist of Lgbtqia+ equality: the right to divorce. Married for 13 years, aspiring artist Gabriel (Porter) and his ambitious partner Nicky (Evans) appear to...
Other titles opening that day include Searchlight’s Poor Things starring Emma Stone, Studio Ghibli/Gkids’ The Boy and the Heron, Kino Lorber’s thriller La Syndicaliste, Outsider Pictures doc Elis and Tom, Janus Films’ doc Anselm, and Republic Pictures’ The End We Start From.
Also starring Andrew Rannells (A Simple Favor), Robin Weigert (Deadwood), Kate Burton (Grey’s Anatomy), and Phylicia Rashad (Creed III), Our Son depicts the next step in the zeitgeist of Lgbtqia+ equality: the right to divorce. Married for 13 years, aspiring artist Gabriel (Porter) and his ambitious partner Nicky (Evans) appear to...
- 11/15/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Bella DeLong (“The Winchesters”) and Amber Janea (“A Predator Returns”) have been cast in Andy Fickman’s upcoming horror feature “Blue Light.”
Daryl Tofa (“Two-Bit”), Ana Zambrana (“La Traición en la Amistad”), Crystal Lake Evans (“Hightown”), Jarrett Brown (“Colin in Black and White”), John Bucy (“Frasier”) and Finley Rose Slater (“Playing with Fire”) round out the cast.
“Race to Witch Mountain” helmer Fickman directs the film, which “follows a group of friends on a road trip who soon realize something terrifying and unworldly is threatening their lives.” It is apparently based on “true and and terrifying unexplained events.”
The feature, which is set to premiere at AFM, has already sold to Germany (Lighthouse Home Entertainment), India (VR Films and Studios), the Middle East (Eagle Films Middle East) and Poland (Media4Fun). Film Mode Entertainment are repping global rights.
Fickman produces alongside Todd Slater, Grant Slater, Betsy Sullenger, Scott Prisand, Katie Leary and Michael Speyer.
Daryl Tofa (“Two-Bit”), Ana Zambrana (“La Traición en la Amistad”), Crystal Lake Evans (“Hightown”), Jarrett Brown (“Colin in Black and White”), John Bucy (“Frasier”) and Finley Rose Slater (“Playing with Fire”) round out the cast.
“Race to Witch Mountain” helmer Fickman directs the film, which “follows a group of friends on a road trip who soon realize something terrifying and unworldly is threatening their lives.” It is apparently based on “true and and terrifying unexplained events.”
The feature, which is set to premiere at AFM, has already sold to Germany (Lighthouse Home Entertainment), India (VR Films and Studios), the Middle East (Eagle Films Middle East) and Poland (Media4Fun). Film Mode Entertainment are repping global rights.
Fickman produces alongside Todd Slater, Grant Slater, Betsy Sullenger, Scott Prisand, Katie Leary and Michael Speyer.
- 10/31/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Fickman produces with Todd Slater, Grant Slater, Betsy Sullenger, Scott Prisand, Katie Leary, Michael Speyer.
Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment has kicked off sales in Canes on the horror film Blue Light directed by Andy Fickman, whose films include Race To Witch Mountain and Parental Guidance.
Fickman produces with Todd Slater, Grant Slater, Betsy Sullenger, Scott Prisand, Katie Leary, and Michael Speyer the story about friends on a road trip who are assailed by a terrifying and unworldly threat. The film is in post.
“We’re excited to be a part of an array of amazing new films that...
Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment has kicked off sales in Canes on the horror film Blue Light directed by Andy Fickman, whose films include Race To Witch Mountain and Parental Guidance.
Fickman produces with Todd Slater, Grant Slater, Betsy Sullenger, Scott Prisand, Katie Leary, and Michael Speyer the story about friends on a road trip who are assailed by a terrifying and unworldly threat. The film is in post.
“We’re excited to be a part of an array of amazing new films that...
- 5/17/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Cinedigm has acquired North American rights to the coming-of-age thriller What Breaks the Ice, with plans to release the film in select theaters, on demand & digital this fall.
The first feature from writer/director Rebecca Eskreis is set during the tumultuous summer of 1998. As the sociopolitical landscape is turned on its head, two girls from different worlds form an unlikely friendship in the sweltering summer heat. Their fun and carefree days quickly turn cold as they find themselves at the center of a murder that rocks a nostalgic East Coast summer getaway.
Madelyn Cline and Sofia Hublitz (Ozark) star, alongside Lukas Gage, Catherine Curtin (Homeland), Aimee Mullins (Stranger Things), Shakira Barrera (Glow) and Joel Allen (The Purge).
Eskreis produced the project with Michael Cuomo, Dustin Duke Dlouhy, Michael W. Gray, Courtney Jones and Katie Leary. She developed it under...
The first feature from writer/director Rebecca Eskreis is set during the tumultuous summer of 1998. As the sociopolitical landscape is turned on its head, two girls from different worlds form an unlikely friendship in the sweltering summer heat. Their fun and carefree days quickly turn cold as they find themselves at the center of a murder that rocks a nostalgic East Coast summer getaway.
Madelyn Cline and Sofia Hublitz (Ozark) star, alongside Lukas Gage, Catherine Curtin (Homeland), Aimee Mullins (Stranger Things), Shakira Barrera (Glow) and Joel Allen (The Purge).
Eskreis produced the project with Michael Cuomo, Dustin Duke Dlouhy, Michael W. Gray, Courtney Jones and Katie Leary. She developed it under...
- 7/27/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Jake Manley will star opposite Bella Thorne in “Southland,” Variety has learned.
The film centers on a diner employee named Arielle who dreams of a better life outside of her small Florida town. After falling for a young parolee named Dean, she convinces him to return to his criminal ways. With the goal of becoming famous, Arielle and Dean start to promote their law-breaking exploits on social media. Things escalate into robbery, cop chases and murder.
Manley currently appears on the Netflix horror series “The Order” and is part of the ensemble cast of Roland Emmerich’s upcoming World War II epic “Midway.” Later this month, he can be seen in the family film “A Dog’s Journey” with Dennis Quaid and Josh Gad.
The movie is written and directed by Joshua Caldwell. Colin Bates and Michael Jefferson of Lucidity Entertainment are producing alongside Thor Bradwell and Scott Levenson. Garrett Clayton,...
The film centers on a diner employee named Arielle who dreams of a better life outside of her small Florida town. After falling for a young parolee named Dean, she convinces him to return to his criminal ways. With the goal of becoming famous, Arielle and Dean start to promote their law-breaking exploits on social media. Things escalate into robbery, cop chases and murder.
Manley currently appears on the Netflix horror series “The Order” and is part of the ensemble cast of Roland Emmerich’s upcoming World War II epic “Midway.” Later this month, he can be seen in the family film “A Dog’s Journey” with Dennis Quaid and Josh Gad.
The movie is written and directed by Joshua Caldwell. Colin Bates and Michael Jefferson of Lucidity Entertainment are producing alongside Thor Bradwell and Scott Levenson. Garrett Clayton,...
- 5/10/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Cleopatra Entertainment has secured the U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to The Pretenders, an indie drama directed by James Franco. The drama, written by Josh Boone, stars Jack Kilmer (The Nice Guys), Jane Levy (Don’t Breathe), Shameik Moore (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse), Tyler Alvarez (American Vandal), Brian Cox (X2: X-Men United), Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow), Juno Temple (Maleficent), as well as Franco.
Cleopatra will release the pic in theaters this summer before its VOD roll-out mid to late summer, and a home entertainment release for the fall
The plot follows French New Wave-obsessed film student, Terry, who finds his muse in mysterious and beguiling actress, Catherine. Both Terry and his best friend, Phil, fall under the spell of this beautiful woman. But they soon realize that the more time they spend with her, the more enigmatic she becomes. After years of sex, betrayal, and collateral damage,...
Cleopatra will release the pic in theaters this summer before its VOD roll-out mid to late summer, and a home entertainment release for the fall
The plot follows French New Wave-obsessed film student, Terry, who finds his muse in mysterious and beguiling actress, Catherine. Both Terry and his best friend, Phil, fall under the spell of this beautiful woman. But they soon realize that the more time they spend with her, the more enigmatic she becomes. After years of sex, betrayal, and collateral damage,...
- 3/25/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Assassination Nation and Famous In Love star Bella Thorne is set to star in writer-director Joshua Caldwell’s (Layover) crime feature Southland, about two young lovers who rob their way across the southland, posting their exploits to social media, and gaining fame and followers as a result.
Colin Bates (Maggie) and Michael Jefferson (Keys To The City) of Lucidity Entertainment are producing alongside Thor Bradwell (Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy) and Scott Levenson (King Cobra). Garrett Clayton, Katie Leary, Bennett Litwin and Adam Litwin will serve as executive producers. Highland Film Group will handle world sales, which commence in Berlin this week. Additional casting is underway.
The story follows Arielle (Thorne) who works in a diner in a small Florida town. When she falls for a recently paroled young criminal she drags him back into a life of danger, learning that posting their criminal exploits on social media is an easy way to viral fame.
Colin Bates (Maggie) and Michael Jefferson (Keys To The City) of Lucidity Entertainment are producing alongside Thor Bradwell (Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy) and Scott Levenson (King Cobra). Garrett Clayton, Katie Leary, Bennett Litwin and Adam Litwin will serve as executive producers. Highland Film Group will handle world sales, which commence in Berlin this week. Additional casting is underway.
The story follows Arielle (Thorne) who works in a diner in a small Florida town. When she falls for a recently paroled young criminal she drags him back into a life of danger, learning that posting their criminal exploits on social media is an easy way to viral fame.
- 2/5/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, “Till the Whistle Blows” starts development, “All These Small Moments” is acquired, and End Cue invests in Greencard Pictures.
Development
Winter State Entertainment is producing high school football drama “Till the Whistle Blows” with plans to start shooting next year in Idaho Falls, Id.
The movie follows the story of 1967 high school football coach Vernon Ravsten, who saw his Idaho Falls team go undefeated as he battled cancer during his final season, and is based on the novel “A Promise Kept” written in 2000 by brothers Bruce K. Couch and Robert M. Couch, who both played for Ravsten.
“Till the Whistle Blows” is produced by Patrick Werksma, Mark Smith, and Winter State’s Hamid and Camille Torabpour, with the screenplay adapted by Hamid Torabpour, Werksma, and Smith. Chris Brewster will direct “Till the Whistle Blows.”
Brewster is also directing the zombie action-thriller “Outbreak Z” for Winter State.
Development
Winter State Entertainment is producing high school football drama “Till the Whistle Blows” with plans to start shooting next year in Idaho Falls, Id.
The movie follows the story of 1967 high school football coach Vernon Ravsten, who saw his Idaho Falls team go undefeated as he battled cancer during his final season, and is based on the novel “A Promise Kept” written in 2000 by brothers Bruce K. Couch and Robert M. Couch, who both played for Ravsten.
“Till the Whistle Blows” is produced by Patrick Werksma, Mark Smith, and Winter State’s Hamid and Camille Torabpour, with the screenplay adapted by Hamid Torabpour, Werksma, and Smith. Chris Brewster will direct “Till the Whistle Blows.”
Brewster is also directing the zombie action-thriller “Outbreak Z” for Winter State.
- 10/19/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Orion Classics has acquired North American and Latin American rights to All These Small Moments, Melissa Miller Costanzo’s feature directing debut that premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. A January 17 theatrical release has been set, followed by a digital bow the next day.
The coming-of-age drama penned by Miller Costanzo centers on a teenage boy (Brendan Meyer) who becomes infatuated with a woman (Girls‘ Jemima Kirke) he sees on the bus, further complicating his already tumultuous adolescence. Molly Ringwald, Brian d’Arcy James, Sam McCarthy and Harley Quinn Smith also star.
All These Small Moments was produced by Lauren Avinoam and Jed Mellick of Jemstone Productions (formerly Moving Pictures Artists) along with Vineyard Point Productions’ Katie Leary. Executive producers include Vineyard Point’s Bob Leary and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.
The coming-of-age drama penned by Miller Costanzo centers on a teenage boy (Brendan Meyer) who becomes infatuated with a woman (Girls‘ Jemima Kirke) he sees on the bus, further complicating his already tumultuous adolescence. Molly Ringwald, Brian d’Arcy James, Sam McCarthy and Harley Quinn Smith also star.
All These Small Moments was produced by Lauren Avinoam and Jed Mellick of Jemstone Productions (formerly Moving Pictures Artists) along with Vineyard Point Productions’ Katie Leary. Executive producers include Vineyard Point’s Bob Leary and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.
- 10/18/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Orion Classics has acquired the North American and Latin American rights to Melissa Miller Costanzo’s drama “All These Small Moments,” the distributor announced Thursday.
The drama stars Molly Ringwald, Brian d’Arcy James, Brendan Meyer, Sam McCarthy, Harley Quinn Smith and Jemima Kirke. “All These Small Moments” is Miller Costanzo’s directorial debut, and she also wrote the screenplay for the film, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
Orion Classics will release “All These Small Moments” on January 17 and on VOD and Digital HD on January 18.
In the film, a teenage boy’s infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his teenage years.
“As a stalwart supporter of some of the most memorable films in our collective lexicon, and a champion for thought provoking, character driven films,...
The drama stars Molly Ringwald, Brian d’Arcy James, Brendan Meyer, Sam McCarthy, Harley Quinn Smith and Jemima Kirke. “All These Small Moments” is Miller Costanzo’s directorial debut, and she also wrote the screenplay for the film, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
Orion Classics will release “All These Small Moments” on January 17 and on VOD and Digital HD on January 18.
In the film, a teenage boy’s infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his teenage years.
“As a stalwart supporter of some of the most memorable films in our collective lexicon, and a champion for thought provoking, character driven films,...
- 10/18/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Coming-of-age drama premiered at Tribeca Film Festival.
Orion Classics has acquired North American and Latin American rights to Melissa Miller Costanzo’s drama All These Small Moments starring Molly Ringwald and Brian d’Arcy James.
Brendan Meyer, Sam McCarthy, Harley Quinn Smith and Jemima Kirke round out the key cast on the film about a teenage boy’s infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus.
Costanzo made his feature directorial debut and wrote the screenplay. The film premiered at Tribeca and most recently screened at Mill Valley Film Festival.
Orion Classics will release All These Small Moments theatrically...
Orion Classics has acquired North American and Latin American rights to Melissa Miller Costanzo’s drama All These Small Moments starring Molly Ringwald and Brian d’Arcy James.
Brendan Meyer, Sam McCarthy, Harley Quinn Smith and Jemima Kirke round out the key cast on the film about a teenage boy’s infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus.
Costanzo made his feature directorial debut and wrote the screenplay. The film premiered at Tribeca and most recently screened at Mill Valley Film Festival.
Orion Classics will release All These Small Moments theatrically...
- 10/18/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Coming-of-age thriller stars Sofia Hublitz from Ozark, Madelyn Cline of Stranger Things, Boy Erased.
Saboteur Media will handle worldwide sales rights to Afm-bound What Breaks The Ice, a thriller mentored by Richard Linklater that features rising stars from hit shows like Ozark, Glow, and Stranger Things.
The coming-of-age thriller centres on two 15-year-old girls whose summer takes an unexpected turn when they become accidental accomplices in a fatal crime.
Sofia Hublitz (Ozark), Madelyn Cline, Joel Allen (Never Goin’ Back), Shakira Barrera (Glow), Erik Jensen (Messengers), Catherine Curtin and Aimee Mullins (Stranger Things) star.
Rebecca Eskreis makes her feature directorial debut,...
Saboteur Media will handle worldwide sales rights to Afm-bound What Breaks The Ice, a thriller mentored by Richard Linklater that features rising stars from hit shows like Ozark, Glow, and Stranger Things.
The coming-of-age thriller centres on two 15-year-old girls whose summer takes an unexpected turn when they become accidental accomplices in a fatal crime.
Sofia Hublitz (Ozark), Madelyn Cline, Joel Allen (Never Goin’ Back), Shakira Barrera (Glow), Erik Jensen (Messengers), Catherine Curtin and Aimee Mullins (Stranger Things) star.
Rebecca Eskreis makes her feature directorial debut,...
- 10/18/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Comedy currently shooting in Brooklyn.
Molly Ringwald and Brian d’Arcy James have joined Brendan Meyer, Jemima Kirke, Harley Quinn Smith and Sam McCarthy on Melissa B. Miller-Costanzo’s debut feature.
Ringwald and d’Arcy James star in All These Small Moments as parents of a teenage boy who develops a crush on a woman he sees on a bus.
Moving Pictures Artists’ Lauren Avinoam and Jed Mellick are producing the comedy with Vineyard Point Productions’ Katie Leary.
All These Small Moments is currently shooting in Brooklyn and will debut in 2018. UTA Independent Film Group represents Us rights.
Miller-Costanzo is an art department veteran whose credits include Indignation, The Fighter, Precious and The Extra Man.
Ringwald most recently appeared in King Cobra and The CW’s Riverdale and rose to prominence in classic 1980s teen films like Pretty In Pink, The Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles.
d’Arcy starred in Spotlight and the Netflix original series 13 Reasons...
Molly Ringwald and Brian d’Arcy James have joined Brendan Meyer, Jemima Kirke, Harley Quinn Smith and Sam McCarthy on Melissa B. Miller-Costanzo’s debut feature.
Ringwald and d’Arcy James star in All These Small Moments as parents of a teenage boy who develops a crush on a woman he sees on a bus.
Moving Pictures Artists’ Lauren Avinoam and Jed Mellick are producing the comedy with Vineyard Point Productions’ Katie Leary.
All These Small Moments is currently shooting in Brooklyn and will debut in 2018. UTA Independent Film Group represents Us rights.
Miller-Costanzo is an art department veteran whose credits include Indignation, The Fighter, Precious and The Extra Man.
Ringwald most recently appeared in King Cobra and The CW’s Riverdale and rose to prominence in classic 1980s teen films like Pretty In Pink, The Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles.
d’Arcy starred in Spotlight and the Netflix original series 13 Reasons...
- 4/12/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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