Exclusive: Rising actors Lamar Johnson (The Hate U Give), Aaron Pierre (The Underground Railroad), Marsha Stephanie Blake (When They See Us) and Kiana Madeira (Fear Street Trilogy) have been set to star in feature drama Brother, which is filming in and around Toronto.
Written and directed by Clement Virgo (Greenleaf) and based on David Chariandy’s novel, Brother is set against Toronto’s early hip hop scene. The film charts the story of Francis and Michael, sons of Caribbean immigrants, who are maturing into young men during the sweltering summer of 1991. Escalating tensions set off a series of events that change the course of the brothers’ lives forever.
Producing are Virgo and Damon D’Oliveira of Conquering Lion Pictures, along with Aeschylus Poulos and Sonya Di Rienzo of Hawkeye Pictures.
The pic will be distributed in Canada by Elevation Pictures. Foreign sales will be handled by Bron Releasing. Filming will run...
Written and directed by Clement Virgo (Greenleaf) and based on David Chariandy’s novel, Brother is set against Toronto’s early hip hop scene. The film charts the story of Francis and Michael, sons of Caribbean immigrants, who are maturing into young men during the sweltering summer of 1991. Escalating tensions set off a series of events that change the course of the brothers’ lives forever.
Producing are Virgo and Damon D’Oliveira of Conquering Lion Pictures, along with Aeschylus Poulos and Sonya Di Rienzo of Hawkeye Pictures.
The pic will be distributed in Canada by Elevation Pictures. Foreign sales will be handled by Bron Releasing. Filming will run...
- 10/15/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Golden Globes winner Jacqueline Bisset (Dancing on the Edge) has joined the cast of Birds of Paradise from Amazon Studios and Anonymous Content. Sarah Adina Smith wrote and is directing the film, which is based on the novel, Bright Burning Stars, by A.K. Small. The pic, starring Kristine Froseth and Diana Silvers, is set at a prestigious ballet school in Paris, where the new girl (Silvers) befriends a grieving dance prodigy (Froseth) as the dancers compete for the school’s ultimate prize: to receive a contract to join the Parisian Opera’s ballet company. As the pressure mounts and the girls are pushed to their physical and emotional limits, their bond is tested and they’re forced to ask themselves just how far they are willing to go to win. Anonymous’ Trevor Adley and Dara Gordon and Everything is Everything’s Jonako Donley are producing the film, which is currently shooting in Budapest.
- 2/28/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Diana Silvers (“Booksmart”) and Kristine Froseth (“Sierra Burgess Is a Loser”) will star in the ballet drama “Birds of Paradise” by writer and director Sarah Adina Smith (“Buster’s Mal Heart”).
Amazon Studios and Anonymous Content have started principal photography on the feature, which is currently shooting in Budapest. Anonymous Content’s Trevor Adley and Dara Gordon are producing alongside Jonako Donley at Everything Is Everything.
“Birds of Paradise” is based on the novel “Bright Burning Stars” from A.K. Small, and is set in a prestigious ballet school in Paris, where a new girl (Silvers) befriends a grieving prodigy (Froseth). The dancers must compete for the school’s biggest prize, to receive a contract to join the Parisian Opera’s ballet company.
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“Sarah is a talented, visionary filmmaker who we’re...
Amazon Studios and Anonymous Content have started principal photography on the feature, which is currently shooting in Budapest. Anonymous Content’s Trevor Adley and Dara Gordon are producing alongside Jonako Donley at Everything Is Everything.
“Birds of Paradise” is based on the novel “Bright Burning Stars” from A.K. Small, and is set in a prestigious ballet school in Paris, where a new girl (Silvers) befriends a grieving prodigy (Froseth). The dancers must compete for the school’s biggest prize, to receive a contract to join the Parisian Opera’s ballet company.
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“Sarah is a talented, visionary filmmaker who we’re...
- 2/11/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
“Birds of Paradise,” a new drama from the director of the buzzy indie “Buster’s Mal Heart,” has been set at Amazon Studios with producer Anonymous Content.
Currently shooting in Budapest, the feature is directed by Sarah Adina Smith, who hails from Amazon’s streaming series “Hanna.” Smith also adapted the screenplay, from the A.K. Smalls novel “Bright Burning Stars.”
Actors Kristine Froseth and Diana Silvers star as two dancers at an elite Parisian ballet academy who connect in a time of stress and tragedy. Trevor Adley and Dara Gordon are producing for Anonymous, with Jonako Donley from Everything is Everything. Froseth and Silvers join the ranks of the dance academy in competing for a contract to join the company of the Opéra national de Paris, and find their bond and bodies tested in the race for the top spot.
“Sarah is a talented, visionary filmmaker who we’re so...
Currently shooting in Budapest, the feature is directed by Sarah Adina Smith, who hails from Amazon’s streaming series “Hanna.” Smith also adapted the screenplay, from the A.K. Smalls novel “Bright Burning Stars.”
Actors Kristine Froseth and Diana Silvers star as two dancers at an elite Parisian ballet academy who connect in a time of stress and tragedy. Trevor Adley and Dara Gordon are producing for Anonymous, with Jonako Donley from Everything is Everything. Froseth and Silvers join the ranks of the dance academy in competing for a contract to join the company of the Opéra national de Paris, and find their bond and bodies tested in the race for the top spot.
“Sarah is a talented, visionary filmmaker who we’re so...
- 2/11/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Travis Tope might be the hottest low-profile 22-year-old actor in Hollywood -- he's mulling offers to work with Mark Wahlberg, Chloe Moretz and Jason Reitman.
Travis Tope might be the hottest actor you’ve never heard of.
With just one film of note under his belt (The Town That Dreaded Sundown, MGM's 2014 horror title) the 22-year old is mulling three choice offers:
To appear alongside Mark Wahlberg in Paramount’s remake of The Gambler, being directed by Rupert Wyatt; To act as one of the teen stars in Jason Reitman’s adaptation of Chad Kultgen’s novel Men, Women and Children; And the lead, alongside Chloe Moretz, in November Criminals, being directed by Sacha Gervasi.
Indian Paintbrush is behind the latter two projects, and insiders say schedules are expected to be worked out. It's not clear right now whether Tope will take on The Gambler.
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Travis Tope might be the hottest actor you’ve never heard of.
With just one film of note under his belt (The Town That Dreaded Sundown, MGM's 2014 horror title) the 22-year old is mulling three choice offers:
To appear alongside Mark Wahlberg in Paramount’s remake of The Gambler, being directed by Rupert Wyatt; To act as one of the teen stars in Jason Reitman’s adaptation of Chad Kultgen’s novel Men, Women and Children; And the lead, alongside Chloe Moretz, in November Criminals, being directed by Sacha Gervasi.
Indian Paintbrush is behind the latter two projects, and insiders say schedules are expected to be worked out. It's not clear right now whether Tope will take on The Gambler.
Photos: The New A-List: 23 Salaries...
- 11/12/2013
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ellen Page (Juno, Inception) is set to make her directorial debut. Variety reports that she will step behind the camera for Miss Stevens, and that Anna Faris (Movie 43, The Dictator) is set to star. The screenplay was penned by Julia Hart, which tells the story of "a high school teacher (Faris) on a cross-country trip to a drama competition."
Page is going to be fairly busy this year. She can be seen in Woody Allen's To Rome with Love and Zal Batmanglij's The East. As we recently reported, she will reprise the role of Kitty Pryde in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Gary Gilbert and Jordan Horowitz of Gilbert Films are set to produce, and Doug Wald of Anonymous Content with Anonymous Content's Trevor Adley and Nicole Romano executive producing.
Page is a solid actress, and I would hope she has picked up...
- 2/8/2013
- by Jim Napier
- GeekTyrant
Ellen Page will make her directorial debut with a comedic high school drama titled Miss Stevens. Anna Faris is attached to star as the title character, a teacher whose life is in disarray who ends up chaperoning a group of high schoolers on a weekend trip to a state drama competition. While on the trip, she rediscovers her own self-worth via the humanity of her students. Julia Hart wrote the script. Producing the adult coming-of-age story are Gary Gilbert and Jordan Horowitz of Gilbert Films along with Doug Wald of Anonymous Content. Nicole Romano and Trevor Adley
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- 2/7/2013
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Breaking: After making her mark on features from Juno to Inception, Ellen Page will make her directing debut on Miss Stevens, and she’s got Anna Faris attached to play the title role. The film was written by Julia Hart (The Keeping Room) and will be produced by Gilbert Films (The Kids Are All Right) and Anonymous Content (Winter’s Bone). Gary Gilbert and Jordan Horowitz of Gilbert Films will produce with Doug Wald of Anonymous Content, and Nicole Romano and Trevor Adley of Anonymous Content will serve as Executive Producers. Faris will play a teacher whose life is in disarray when she chaperones a group of high schoolers on a weekend trip to a state drama competition. There, through the admiration and humanity of her students, she rediscovers her own self-worth. Page next stars in The East for Fox Searchlight, a film that premiered at Sundance. She begins production...
- 2/7/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Ellen Page will make her directorial debut on Miss Stevens which comes from the script by Julia Hart, and has Anna Faris starring in the film as a teacher who chaperones high school kids to a state drama competition, reports Variety. Gilbert Films' Gary Gilbert and Jordan Horowitz are producing togethet with Anonymous Content's Doug Wald while Trevor Adley and Nicole Romano are executive producing Page who impressed with her early role in David Slade's Hard Candy, moved on with her career-making Juno, and then followed that with Christopher Nolan's incredible Inception, starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
- 2/7/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Ellen Page will make her directorial debut on Miss Stevens which comes from the script by Julia Hart, and has Anna Faris starring in the film as a teacher who chaperones high school kids to a state drama competition, reports Variety. Gilbert Films' Gary Gilbert and Jordan Horowitz are producing togethet with Anonymous Content's Doug Wald while Trevor Adley and Nicole Romano are executive producing Page who impressed with her early role in David Slade's Hard Candy, moved on with her career-making Juno, and then followed that with Christopher Nolan's incredible Inception, starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
- 2/7/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
There is either a couple of football fans or Jerry Maguire/Moneyball with this year’s most liked unproduced screenplay. Close to 300 hundred film executives provided with the Black List creators a top ten of their favorite screenplays of the year and the consensus first overall pick (with 65 votes) comes from the recently featured in Variety (10 Screenwriters to Watch 2012) tandem of Rajiv Joseph & Scott Rothman and their drama which has nothing to do with enlisting in the armed forces. Draft Day – about the day in the life of a fictitious Buffalo Bills Gm appears to currently be in turnaround — which only means I expect to see this greenlight perhaps a little later than sooner – worth noting: top spot almost guarantees that the film will indeed go into production (2006, 2010 and 2011 are the exceptions.) Among the more alluring logline subjects we find on the list, I’d be keen on reading the...
- 12/18/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Harry Brown helmer Daniel Barber will begin lensing his sophomore feature early next year alongside a female-driven cast comprised of thesps Olivia Wilde, Hailee Steinfeld and Nicole Beharie. The weather the storm, gunpowder friendly The Keeping Room is a co-production set up with Gilbert Films’ Jordan Horowitz (The Kids Are All Right) and Matt Williams, David McFadzean, Judd Payne and Dete Meserve of Wind Dancer Films (Bernie). Anonymous Content’s Michael Sugar will exec. produce while Nicole Romano and Trevor Adley of will serve as co-producers. The project currently being pitched at the Afm is scheduled to begin principal photography in March in North Carolina.
Gist: Written by newbie scribe Julia Hart, this tells the story of three Southern women – two sisters and one African American slave – who, left without men in the dying days of the Civil War, are forced to defend their home from the onslaught of a...
Gist: Written by newbie scribe Julia Hart, this tells the story of three Southern women – two sisters and one African American slave – who, left without men in the dying days of the Civil War, are forced to defend their home from the onslaught of a...
- 10/31/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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