Joel Kim Booster is set as a lead opposite Maya Rudolph in Apple’s half-hour comedy series from Emmy winners Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard. Mj Rodriguez also stars.
Created and written by Yang and Hubbard, the series follows Molly (Rudolph), a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but $87 billion.
Booster will play Nicholas, Molly’s loyal assistant.
Yang and Hubbard executive produce alongside Rudolph through her production company, Animal Pictures, with the company’s Natasha Lyonne and Danielle Renfrew Behrens also executive producing. Additionally, Dave Becky executive produces. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, will serve as the studio.
Booster, who starred as Jun Ho in NBC comedy series Sunnyside, most recently served as consulting producer and voiced the character Charles Lu on Netflix’s animated series Big Mouth. His other recent TV and film credits incude Curb Your Enthusiasm,...
Created and written by Yang and Hubbard, the series follows Molly (Rudolph), a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but $87 billion.
Booster will play Nicholas, Molly’s loyal assistant.
Yang and Hubbard executive produce alongside Rudolph through her production company, Animal Pictures, with the company’s Natasha Lyonne and Danielle Renfrew Behrens also executive producing. Additionally, Dave Becky executive produces. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, will serve as the studio.
Booster, who starred as Jun Ho in NBC comedy series Sunnyside, most recently served as consulting producer and voiced the character Charles Lu on Netflix’s animated series Big Mouth. His other recent TV and film credits incude Curb Your Enthusiasm,...
- 7/1/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon Studios’ strongest platform opener to date, “Suspiria,” leads the continued strong and diverse specialized fall 2018, with “Mid90s” and other recent films finding wider interest. Oddly, the fall box office is not entirely dominated by conventional awards titles–although more are still to come.
The weekend prior to Halloween is often avoided by studios, which opened up opportunities for specialized titles to command more screens than normal. Both “The Hate U Give” (20th Century Fox) and “Mid90s” (A24) placed among the Top Ten this weekend. That exposure helps give them a better chance to find continued interest. “Hate” is especially powerful as it grows a wider audience as it expands.
Opening
Suspiria (Amazon) – Metacritic: 68; Festivals include: Venice 2018
$179,806 in 2 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $89,903
Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino’s reinvention of Dario Argento’s horror classic scored the best per screen average for the year at two New York/Los Angeles theaters.
The weekend prior to Halloween is often avoided by studios, which opened up opportunities for specialized titles to command more screens than normal. Both “The Hate U Give” (20th Century Fox) and “Mid90s” (A24) placed among the Top Ten this weekend. That exposure helps give them a better chance to find continued interest. “Hate” is especially powerful as it grows a wider audience as it expands.
Opening
Suspiria (Amazon) – Metacritic: 68; Festivals include: Venice 2018
$179,806 in 2 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $89,903
Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino’s reinvention of Dario Argento’s horror classic scored the best per screen average for the year at two New York/Los Angeles theaters.
- 10/28/2018
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Both an arthouse model of an old-school Lifetime movie and an unexpectedly tender take on A-list social-issue melodramas, Maryam Keshavarz’s Viper Club starts with Susan Sarandon’s frazzled, desperate mother looking directly into the camera. Or rather, “a” camera — one being held by folks out of frame, coaching her on how to properly address terrorists. She’s filming a ransom video to the men who have her grown son. He’s a war videographer, documenting the ongoing civil war in Syria; he’s also been taken hostage. So she...
- 10/26/2018
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
This coming weekend's main attraction is Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, which depicts the nightmarish events that occur at a dance academy in 1970s Berlin.
Other movies, such as war drama Indivisible and action flick Hunter Killer, will also hit theaters Friday. The latter features Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman in the leading roles.
Susan Sarandon plays a nurse whose son is captured overseas in Maryam Keshavarz's sophomore project, Viper Club, and Rowan Atkinson reprises his titular role in Johnny English Strikes Again, the third film in the series. Both are set for a Friday release.
Read below to see what critics for ...
Other movies, such as war drama Indivisible and action flick Hunter Killer, will also hit theaters Friday. The latter features Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman in the leading roles.
Susan Sarandon plays a nurse whose son is captured overseas in Maryam Keshavarz's sophomore project, Viper Club, and Rowan Atkinson reprises his titular role in Johnny English Strikes Again, the third film in the series. Both are set for a Friday release.
Read below to see what critics for ...
- 10/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
October 2018 is still running at a record pace. As of October 24, the month was pacing +49% higher than last year, not to mention +7.8% ahead of 2014, the largest October on record, though that's about to change by the end of this weekend. That said, it won't be the weekend's new releases doing the heavy lifting, but the weekend's holdovers, starting with last weekend's chart-topping horror hit Halloween. The weekend's new wide releases will mostly debut in the low-to-mid single digit millions with Lionsgate's Hunter Killer expected to top the week's crop of new releases. Looking to repeat at #1 is Universal's release of Blumhouse and Miramax's Halloween, which delivered a smashing $76.2 million opening last weekend, the second largest October opening ever. When it comes to its sophomore session we looked at other R-rated horror hits such as It, The Conjuring, Paranormal Activity 3 and The Nun, which dropped, on average, -57.45% in their second weekends.
- 10/25/2018
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
Prepare to break out the handkerchiefs several times during writer-director Yen Tan’s “1985,” a deeply emotional tearjerker and family story set in a year when an HIV diagnosis was effectively a death sentence. This is a realistic, discreet, yet exploratory film that earns its tears honestly and scrupulously.
Gay, closeted, and HIV-positive Adrian comes home to Texas for Christmas for what he knows will probably be the last time. Tan’s camera keeps a polite and empathetic distance from Adrian and his parents Dale (Michael Chiklis) and Eileen (Virginia Madsen), both of whom are very religious, and his little brother Andrew.
The set-up of this story admittedly doesn’t sound too promising, and the very grainy black-and-white cinematography might be a problem for some viewers, but “1985” is a film that is full of virtues, not least the acting talent of its cast, who are all expert at conveying a lot...
Gay, closeted, and HIV-positive Adrian comes home to Texas for Christmas for what he knows will probably be the last time. Tan’s camera keeps a polite and empathetic distance from Adrian and his parents Dale (Michael Chiklis) and Eileen (Virginia Madsen), both of whom are very religious, and his little brother Andrew.
The set-up of this story admittedly doesn’t sound too promising, and the very grainy black-and-white cinematography might be a problem for some viewers, but “1985” is a film that is full of virtues, not least the acting talent of its cast, who are all expert at conveying a lot...
- 10/24/2018
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
“Burning” is so beautifully shot that it commands and rewards your attention the full length of its languid two-and-a-half hour running time. And thank God for that, because the film gives that attention a solid workout all the way until the film’s startling final moments.
Always shifting gears the moment you think you’ve figured everything out, Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s slow burn tale of alienation and obsession is something like an art-house equivalent of fine wine: It can seem disappointingly closed off at first, but the more time you give it to breathe, the longer you can turn it over and let it air out in your mind, the greater the rewards will be.
As such, the film has been granted a real gift with its Wednesday evening premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Jury members will have three more days to ruminate and reflect...
Always shifting gears the moment you think you’ve figured everything out, Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s slow burn tale of alienation and obsession is something like an art-house equivalent of fine wine: It can seem disappointingly closed off at first, but the more time you give it to breathe, the longer you can turn it over and let it air out in your mind, the greater the rewards will be.
As such, the film has been granted a real gift with its Wednesday evening premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Jury members will have three more days to ruminate and reflect...
- 10/24/2018
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
The poster and trailer for “Viper Club” makes it look like a hard-driving thriller about a mother (Susan Sarandon) doing anything she can to free her journalist son from terrorists in Syria. That’s understandable from a marketing standpoint, but “Viper Club” is actually a low-key, elegantly structured drama about the price you need to pay in order to save people’s lives or ease their suffering.
Director Maryam Keshavarz (“Circumstance”), along with co-writer Jonathan Mastro, begins her film with a title that dedicates it to conflict journalists and human aid workers in war zones, and that same earnestness has gone into the film itself, which takes it time to set up Sarandon’s lead character, Helen, who works as an emergency-room nurse.
When the film begins, Helen’s son Andy has been missing for two and a half months. She is meeting with the FBI and trying to go...
Director Maryam Keshavarz (“Circumstance”), along with co-writer Jonathan Mastro, begins her film with a title that dedicates it to conflict journalists and human aid workers in war zones, and that same earnestness has gone into the film itself, which takes it time to set up Sarandon’s lead character, Helen, who works as an emergency-room nurse.
When the film begins, Helen’s son Andy has been missing for two and a half months. She is meeting with the FBI and trying to go...
- 10/24/2018
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
With a staggering, $77.5 million debut, Universal and Blumhouse's Halloween topped the weekend with the second largest October opening weekend of all-time. The horror film headlined a massive weekend overall weekend, that saw the top twelve combine for over $160 million, making this the second largest October weekend ever. As already mentioned, Halloween's $77.5 million three-day debut was the second largest October opening weekend of all-time, coming less than $3 million shy of the record set by Venom earlier this month. That said, Halloween did deliver the largest October opening day of all-time, topping Venom's $32.5 million. The film's opening is also the second largest ever for an R-rated horror, topping the $53.8 million opening for The Nun a month ago and behind It's $123.4 million debut last September. The film, which carries a tiny, $10 million production budget, features Jamie Lee Curtis in her iconic role of Laurie Strode and beyond landing well with critics in advance of release,...
- 10/21/2018
- by Brad Brevet
- Box Office Mojo
Viper Club Trailer Maryam Keshavarz‘s Viper Club (2018) movie trailer stars Susan Sarandon, Matt Bomer, Sheila Vand, Edie Falco, and Lola Kirke. Viper Club‘s plot synopsis: “ER nurse Helen Sterling (Susan Sarandon) struggles to free her grown son, a journalist captured by terrorists in the Middle East. After hitting walls with the FBI and State agencies, [...]
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- 9/12/2018
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
An empathetic turn by Susan Sarandon as an anxious mother whose journalist son is being held hostage by overseas extremists is enough to hold together “Viper Club.” But it’s not quite enough to render this subject as compelling as it should be; the intimacy of the protagonist’s viewpoint also results in an isolated and monotonously apolitical look at a narrow civilian aspect of turbulent global politics.
YouTube Originals and Roadside Attractions plans a U.S. theatrical release on Oct. 26, and an awards campaign for the star could stir some interest. Yet this earnest drama, a second narrative feature for director/co-scribe Maryam Keshavarz (following 2011’s Iran-set “Circumstance”) feels like it would be most at home on the small screen.
Helen Sterling (Susan Sarandon) is a longtime ER nurse at an upstate New York hospital. She’s such a pro that she can handle her everyday duties and even...
YouTube Originals and Roadside Attractions plans a U.S. theatrical release on Oct. 26, and an awards campaign for the star could stir some interest. Yet this earnest drama, a second narrative feature for director/co-scribe Maryam Keshavarz (following 2011’s Iran-set “Circumstance”) feels like it would be most at home on the small screen.
Helen Sterling (Susan Sarandon) is a longtime ER nurse at an upstate New York hospital. She’s such a pro that she can handle her everyday duties and even...
- 9/12/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
YouTube may be trailing behind Netflix when it comes to scripted content, but it’s just getting started. Following the success of Cobra Kai, it’s getting into the original movie game. And it’s got Oscar winner Susan Sarandon headlining its first feature film, Viper Club. Sarandon stars as ER nurse Helen, who tries to gather support for her journalist son […]
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- 9/11/2018
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
"Do you think I'm afraid of a jail sentence?" Roadside Attractions has unveiled the first official trailer for Maryam Keshavarz's new film Viper Club, which is premiering at the Toronto Film Festival this week. Viper Club is about a mother who becomes desperate and impatient as she struggles to figure out how to get help to free her journalist son after he is captured by terrorists in the Middle East. The film is entirely from her perspective, showing how hard it is to get the government to care, until she discovers a group of people who may just have a way to help. Susan Sarandon stars, along with Matt Bomer, Damian Young, Lola Kirke, Edie Falco, Julian Morris, Sheila Vand, Colby Minifie, plus Adepero Oduye. This looks quite good, an intriguing alternative perspective with a few strong performances leading the way. See below. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Maryam Keshavarz's Viper Club,...
- 9/10/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
When you’re the biggest streaming website in the world, you’re not going to sit back idly and let the likes of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon steal all your thunder. So it shouldn’t be too much of a shock that YouTube is hitting the world of major motion pictures with its latest Original film, “Viper Club.” And unlike previous outings, the streaming site isn’t relying on its homegrown star power for this film.
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- 9/10/2018
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Can Susan Sarandon, Matt Bomer, and Edie Falco do what the U.S. Government cannot? Ok, that answer seems obvious, given the trio’s long-running history of humanitarian acts, but the real question posed in “Viper Club” is whether or not their characters can rescue a kidnapped reporter after American officials say there’s nothing to be done.
Iranian-American filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz’s upcoming drama is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, co-written by Keshavarz and Jonathan Mastro, and co-starring Lola Kirke, Julian Morris, Sheila Vand, and Adepero Oduye.
In “Viper Club, Helen (Sarandon) is an E.R. nurse whose son is kidnapped while reporting overseas. Given no assistance by her government — or reason to believe in them — the single mother embarks on a personal crusade to save him. Soon, she learns of an informal network of international journalists, Middle Eastern operatves, and well-meaning members of the 1 percent...
Iranian-American filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz’s upcoming drama is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, co-written by Keshavarz and Jonathan Mastro, and co-starring Lola Kirke, Julian Morris, Sheila Vand, and Adepero Oduye.
In “Viper Club, Helen (Sarandon) is an E.R. nurse whose son is kidnapped while reporting overseas. Given no assistance by her government — or reason to believe in them — the single mother embarks on a personal crusade to save him. Soon, she learns of an informal network of international journalists, Middle Eastern operatves, and well-meaning members of the 1 percent...
- 9/10/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
In today’s film news roundup, Henry Cavill’s “Nomis” will close the L.A. Film Festival, “The True Don Quixote” will premiere in New Orleans and BAFTA La honors Cate Blanchett.
Film Festivals
The L.A. Film Festival has selected the thriller “Nomis,” starring Henry Cavill, Ben Kingsley and Alexandra Daddario, as its closing night film on Sept. 28 at the ArcLight Hollywood Cinerama Dome.
The showing will be the world premiere for “Nomis,” which follows American police trapping an online predator, only to realize the depth of his crimes goes far beyond anything they had anticipated. The film also stars Stanley Tucci, Minka Kelly and Nathan Fillion.
“As a festival that has always championed new voices, it is only fitting to be closing this year with the work of a first-time writer-director,” said Jennifer Cochis, La Film Festival director. “In ‘Nomis,’ David Raymond created a thrilling film made all...
Film Festivals
The L.A. Film Festival has selected the thriller “Nomis,” starring Henry Cavill, Ben Kingsley and Alexandra Daddario, as its closing night film on Sept. 28 at the ArcLight Hollywood Cinerama Dome.
The showing will be the world premiere for “Nomis,” which follows American police trapping an online predator, only to realize the depth of his crimes goes far beyond anything they had anticipated. The film also stars Stanley Tucci, Minka Kelly and Nathan Fillion.
“As a festival that has always championed new voices, it is only fitting to be closing this year with the work of a first-time writer-director,” said Jennifer Cochis, La Film Festival director. “In ‘Nomis,’ David Raymond created a thrilling film made all...
- 9/7/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Roadside Attractions has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the Vietnam War drama “The Last Full Measure.”
The big attraction here is a starry cast that includes Sebastian Stan in a non-Avengers role, and “War Horse’s” Jeremy Irvine. They’re supported by a horde of Oscar winners and nominees that includes Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Peter Fonda, Diane Ladd and Amy Madigan. The company plans to release the film theatrically in early 2019.
Todd Robinson (“Phantom”) directs the film, which tells the true story of William Pitsenbarger (played by Irvine), an Air Force medic who saved over 60 men in one of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam. Instead of getting helicoptered out of the combat zone, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to try to save more of his fellow soldiers. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger’s comrade in arms (Hurt) and father (Plummer) team up with an investigator...
The big attraction here is a starry cast that includes Sebastian Stan in a non-Avengers role, and “War Horse’s” Jeremy Irvine. They’re supported by a horde of Oscar winners and nominees that includes Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Peter Fonda, Diane Ladd and Amy Madigan. The company plans to release the film theatrically in early 2019.
Todd Robinson (“Phantom”) directs the film, which tells the true story of William Pitsenbarger (played by Irvine), an Air Force medic who saved over 60 men in one of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam. Instead of getting helicoptered out of the combat zone, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to try to save more of his fellow soldiers. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger’s comrade in arms (Hurt) and father (Plummer) team up with an investigator...
- 9/6/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
YouTube Premium to air drama in 2019 after theatrical release.
YouTube has partnered with Roadside Attractions on the theatrical release of Susan Sarandon drama Viper Club, which receives its world premiere in Toronto next month.
Iranian-American Maryam Keshavarz directed the film, which also stars Matt Bomer, Lola Kirke, Adepero Oduye, Sheila Vand and Edie Falco.
Viper Club will open theatrically on October 26 and will be made available on YouTube Premium in 2019.
The story centres on a veteran ER nurse who discovers a clandestine community of journalists, philanthropists and advocates who might be able to help her free her war correspondent son...
YouTube has partnered with Roadside Attractions on the theatrical release of Susan Sarandon drama Viper Club, which receives its world premiere in Toronto next month.
Iranian-American Maryam Keshavarz directed the film, which also stars Matt Bomer, Lola Kirke, Adepero Oduye, Sheila Vand and Edie Falco.
Viper Club will open theatrically on October 26 and will be made available on YouTube Premium in 2019.
The story centres on a veteran ER nurse who discovers a clandestine community of journalists, philanthropists and advocates who might be able to help her free her war correspondent son...
- 8/15/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
YouTube and Roadside Attractions will partner up to theatrically release “Viper Club” starring Susan Sarandon, Matt Bomer, Edie Falco and Lola Kirke.
“Viper Club” will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be released in theaters on Oct. 26, as well as being available on YouTube Premium next year.
The theatrical partnership is a left turn — and a traditional one — for the service, as only a year ago they were prepared to disrupt the release window with a splashy $3.5 million Sundance acquisition, TheWrap previously reported.
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YouTube Red bought Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken,” with the intent to stream the film exclusively on their service for 6 months, then split profits down the middle with Spurlock for Svod and international deals. Plans were scrapped after Spurlock posted a complicated account of a...
“Viper Club” will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be released in theaters on Oct. 26, as well as being available on YouTube Premium next year.
The theatrical partnership is a left turn — and a traditional one — for the service, as only a year ago they were prepared to disrupt the release window with a splashy $3.5 million Sundance acquisition, TheWrap previously reported.
Also Read: Susan Sarandon Among 575 Arrested in Washington DC at Protest of Trump Immigration Policy
YouTube Red bought Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken,” with the intent to stream the film exclusively on their service for 6 months, then split profits down the middle with Spurlock for Svod and international deals. Plans were scrapped after Spurlock posted a complicated account of a...
- 8/15/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
YouTube is to launch Susan Sarandon-fronted thriller Viper Club theatrically after partnering with Roadside Attractions.
The Google-owned company has struck a deal with the Manchester By The Sea and Winter’s Bone distributor to launch Maryam Keshavarz’s drama in theaters on October 26 ahead of its debut on its YouTube Premium service in 2019.
The move marks a slight shift in strategy for YouTube, which has previously focused on launching titles online. While, for instance, it booked short runs for the Barbara Kopple doc This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous that it picked up, it had previously dismissed full theatrical runs for acquisitions.
Written by Iranian-American filmmaker Keshavarz and Jonathan Mastro, Viper Club, which has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, stars Sarandon alongside Matt Bomer (Normal Heart), Lola Kirke (Gone Girl), Adepero Oduye (The Big Short), Sheila Vand (Argo) and Edie Falco (The Sopranos).
The film,...
The Google-owned company has struck a deal with the Manchester By The Sea and Winter’s Bone distributor to launch Maryam Keshavarz’s drama in theaters on October 26 ahead of its debut on its YouTube Premium service in 2019.
The move marks a slight shift in strategy for YouTube, which has previously focused on launching titles online. While, for instance, it booked short runs for the Barbara Kopple doc This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous that it picked up, it had previously dismissed full theatrical runs for acquisitions.
Written by Iranian-American filmmaker Keshavarz and Jonathan Mastro, Viper Club, which has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, stars Sarandon alongside Matt Bomer (Normal Heart), Lola Kirke (Gone Girl), Adepero Oduye (The Big Short), Sheila Vand (Argo) and Edie Falco (The Sopranos).
The film,...
- 8/15/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
YouTube inked a pact with Roadside Attractions to release “Viper Club,” Maryam Keshavarz’s drama starring Susan Sarandon, in U.S. theaters this fall — as Google sets its sights on a potential Oscar or Golden Globes win.
The film will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival (which runs Sept. 6-18) and will be released in theaters on Oct. 26, 2018. “Viper Club” will become available on YouTube Premium, the $9.99 subscription service, in 2019.
It’s the first YouTube original film to get a theatrical release. Roadside hasn’t set specific rollout plans for “Viper Club” (only in the U.S.) but the film will be positioned to take advantage of the awards-season corridor.
The film was previously called “Vulture Club” and the name was changed to “Viper Club” in the last few weeks. Asked why the title changed, a YouTube rep said only that the former was a working title.
Co-written by Keshavarz and Jonathan Mastro,...
The film will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival (which runs Sept. 6-18) and will be released in theaters on Oct. 26, 2018. “Viper Club” will become available on YouTube Premium, the $9.99 subscription service, in 2019.
It’s the first YouTube original film to get a theatrical release. Roadside hasn’t set specific rollout plans for “Viper Club” (only in the U.S.) but the film will be positioned to take advantage of the awards-season corridor.
The film was previously called “Vulture Club” and the name was changed to “Viper Club” in the last few weeks. Asked why the title changed, a YouTube rep said only that the former was a working title.
Co-written by Keshavarz and Jonathan Mastro,...
- 8/15/2018
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
YouTube and Roadside Attractions are partnering for the release of Susan Sarandon-starrer Viper Club.
Maryam Keshavarz directed the drama that follows Helen (Sarandon), a veteran emergency room nurse secretly struggling to free her grown son, a foreign war correspondent, from capture by a terrorist group. After running into roadblocks with government agencies, she discovers a clandestine community of journalists, philanthropists and advocates who might be able to help her.
The movie, which will premiere at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, also stars Matt Bomer, Lola Kirke and Edie Falco. Keshavarz co-wrote the feature with Jonathan Mastro. Anna Gerb, Neal Dodson,...
Maryam Keshavarz directed the drama that follows Helen (Sarandon), a veteran emergency room nurse secretly struggling to free her grown son, a foreign war correspondent, from capture by a terrorist group. After running into roadblocks with government agencies, she discovers a clandestine community of journalists, philanthropists and advocates who might be able to help her.
The movie, which will premiere at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, also stars Matt Bomer, Lola Kirke and Edie Falco. Keshavarz co-wrote the feature with Jonathan Mastro. Anna Gerb, Neal Dodson,...
- 8/15/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its second batch of titles premiering in its Gala and Special Presentations programs next month, including four new Gala titles and a whopping 22 new Special Presentations, plus their star-studded Masters and Contemporary World Cinema sections.
Joining previously announced titles like “A Star Is Born,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “High Life,” and “Widows,” are a number of other major awards season titles, including Jonah Hill’s directorial debut “Mid90s,” Joel Edgerton’s “Boy Erased,” Jeremy Saulnier’s “Hold the Dark,” Paul Greengrass’ fact-based “22 July,” and Naomi Kawase’s English-language debut “Vision.”
The festival also announced this morning that that event will open with David Mackenzie’s “Outlaw King” and close with Justin Kelly’s “Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy.”
“We’re rounding out the lineup of Galas and Special Presentations with some of the most exciting films of the year,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of Tiff,...
Joining previously announced titles like “A Star Is Born,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “High Life,” and “Widows,” are a number of other major awards season titles, including Jonah Hill’s directorial debut “Mid90s,” Joel Edgerton’s “Boy Erased,” Jeremy Saulnier’s “Hold the Dark,” Paul Greengrass’ fact-based “22 July,” and Naomi Kawase’s English-language debut “Vision.”
The festival also announced this morning that that event will open with David Mackenzie’s “Outlaw King” and close with Justin Kelly’s “Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy.”
“We’re rounding out the lineup of Galas and Special Presentations with some of the most exciting films of the year,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of Tiff,...
- 8/14/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Toronto International Film Festival has added a lineup of directors that range from Paul Greengrass to Jonah Hill and includes a large contingent of celebrated international auteurs.
The more than 100 additions to the Toronto lineup include Greengrass’ “22 July,” about 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway; Hill’s feature directorial debut, “Mid90s,” with Katherine Waterston and Lucas Hedges in a story of a Southern California teen who discovers skateboarding; “Green Book,” from “There’s Something About Mary” and “Dumb and Dumber” director Peter Farrelly; and Joel Edgerton’s “Boy Erased,” a coming-of-age drama written and directed by Edgerton and starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges as a teen who is put in a gay conversion program.
The new films span five different sections of the festival: Galas, Special Presentations, Masters, Contemporary World Cinema and Wavelengths.
Also Read: 'Beautiful Boy,' 'A Star Is Born' Highlight Toronto Film...
The more than 100 additions to the Toronto lineup include Greengrass’ “22 July,” about 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway; Hill’s feature directorial debut, “Mid90s,” with Katherine Waterston and Lucas Hedges in a story of a Southern California teen who discovers skateboarding; “Green Book,” from “There’s Something About Mary” and “Dumb and Dumber” director Peter Farrelly; and Joel Edgerton’s “Boy Erased,” a coming-of-age drama written and directed by Edgerton and starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges as a teen who is put in a gay conversion program.
The new films span five different sections of the festival: Galas, Special Presentations, Masters, Contemporary World Cinema and Wavelengths.
Also Read: 'Beautiful Boy,' 'A Star Is Born' Highlight Toronto Film...
- 8/14/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
When YouTube’s Susanne Daniels first heard the pitch for “Cobra Kai,” she wasn’t thinking “game changer” for YouTube Red, the company’s subscription programming service. “Maybe I should have been,” she said. “But I was just thinking, ‘amazing, incredible pitch.’ The stars don’t always align in a pitch and you don’t get to check off all the boxes when you hear a pitch. But in this pitch, you just did. They just came in with everything that you could want.”
But “Cobra Kai” could indeed be the breakthrough for YouTube Red in what has already been a transformative year for the platform. YouTube Red launched in October 2015 as an ad-free service to watch YouTube videos, as well as a home for exclusive, premium content starring many of YouTube’s top creators and personalities, like Lily Singh, MatPat, DanTDM and PewDiePie (whom the company later distanced itself...
But “Cobra Kai” could indeed be the breakthrough for YouTube Red in what has already been a transformative year for the platform. YouTube Red launched in October 2015 as an ad-free service to watch YouTube videos, as well as a home for exclusive, premium content starring many of YouTube’s top creators and personalities, like Lily Singh, MatPat, DanTDM and PewDiePie (whom the company later distanced itself...
- 4/30/2018
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
YouTube is wanting audiences to take its premium service seriously, and it looks like they're making the jump to theaters to further legitimize YouTube Red. Engadget reports YouTube is bringing its newest Susan Sarandon-led film Vulture Club to theaters, although details beyond that have yet to be released by the video website.
In the film, which is in post-production, Sarandon plays an ER nurse whose son is kidnapped by terrorists and ultimately abandoned by the government. Sarandon's character finds help in the most "unlikely of places," so I'm guessing someone does step in to save her son.
I'm not sure anything will really make me take YouTube Red seriously, much less subscribe, but it is interesting to see them snagging such a high profile talent to make a theater run. Perhaps a year down the road I'll be eating my words and we'll all have YouTube Red?...
In the film, which is in post-production, Sarandon plays an ER nurse whose son is kidnapped by terrorists and ultimately abandoned by the government. Sarandon's character finds help in the most "unlikely of places," so I'm guessing someone does step in to save her son.
I'm not sure anything will really make me take YouTube Red seriously, much less subscribe, but it is interesting to see them snagging such a high profile talent to make a theater run. Perhaps a year down the road I'll be eating my words and we'll all have YouTube Red?...
- 3/22/2018
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
YouTube Red is taking a tentative step toward becoming more like Amazon Studios with the announcement of an in-house production that it says will see a theatrical release.
Directed by Iranian-American writer-director Maryam Keshavarz (“Circumstance”), “Vulture Club” stars Susan Sarandon as an ER nurse whose co-workers have no idea that her journalist son has been taken hostage by terrorists. The film also stars Julian Morris (“Pretty Little Liars”), Edie Falco, and Matt Bomer. Producers are J.C. Chandor, Anna Gerb, and Neal Dodson.
While YouTube Red announced that principal photography is complete, details on how it plans to release it in theaters are slim.
“We don’t have any news to report on a theatrical partner at this stage, a YouTube Red representative said. “Perhaps later once we identify a partner.”
This would represent a significant strategy shift for the streaming service. Last year, YouTube Red booked its own one-week runs...
Directed by Iranian-American writer-director Maryam Keshavarz (“Circumstance”), “Vulture Club” stars Susan Sarandon as an ER nurse whose co-workers have no idea that her journalist son has been taken hostage by terrorists. The film also stars Julian Morris (“Pretty Little Liars”), Edie Falco, and Matt Bomer. Producers are J.C. Chandor, Anna Gerb, and Neal Dodson.
While YouTube Red announced that principal photography is complete, details on how it plans to release it in theaters are slim.
“We don’t have any news to report on a theatrical partner at this stage, a YouTube Red representative said. “Perhaps later once we identify a partner.”
This would represent a significant strategy shift for the streaming service. Last year, YouTube Red booked its own one-week runs...
- 3/21/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
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