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Gay Drama ‘Do You Take This Man’ Picked Up by Breaking Glass (Exclusive)
12 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the gay marriage drama “Do You Take This Man,” starring Anthony Rapp, Alyson Hannigan, and Jonathan Bennett.
Joshua Tunick directed from his own script. He’s also producing with publicist-turned-producer Eric Kops and Dave Perkal. Breaking Glass is planning a July limited theatrical followed by a VOD/DVD release.
The story follows an intimate group of friends and family gathering at the home of two gay men — portrayed by Rapp and Bennett — to celebrate their nuptials. When the wedding hits a snag, the group helps the grooms to see that all marriages have their challenges.
Variety first reported on the project in 2015 as shooting was starting in Los Angeles, when the film was titled “Modern Love.” Thomas Dekker, Mackenzie Astin, Alona Tal, Hutchi Hancock, Marla Sokoloff, Lee Garlington and Sam Anderson also star.
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- Dave McNary
Morgan Spurlock’s Next Documentary Targets Brain Matters
15 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Super Size Me helmer Morgan Spurlock has set his next documentary feature. Spurlock — whose Warrior Poets produced the No Man's Land that premieres tonight at Tribeca — will next direct what he’s calling the Untitled Human Intelligence Project. Spurlock will focus on the ever increasing innovations in brain technology that are bringing closer sci-fi concepts from the elimination of depression without a pill to the ability to instantly learn a foreign language… »
Monument Releasing Picks Up SXSW Favorite ‘Flesh And Blood’
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Exclusive: Monument Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to Mark Webber's latest film Flesh and Blood, the indie that premiered at SXSW this year to critical acclaim. The company will release the film theatrically this fall. It marks Webber's fourth feature film as director. "Flesh and Blood is a film that is very close to my heart, and it takes a special crew who thinks outside of the box and is attuned to the ever-changing distribution landscape to… »
Gaumont Boards Paul McCartney’s Animated Film ‘High In The Clouds’
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Exclusive: Paul McCartney's long-in-the-works animated film High In The Clouds will have to wait a little longer. The project, which has been in development since 2009, has been optioned by Gaumont, the French company with offices in Beverly Hills. The new deal marks the first animated feature project for Gaumont in the U.S. The film, which features eight or nine original songs by the former Beatle, had been in the works under the umbrella of Rgh Entertainment, a… »
Jeremy Holm, Chloe Levine to Star in Thriller ‘The Ranger’
13 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Jeremy Holm, Chloe Levine, and Amanda Grace Benitez will star in Jenn Wexler’s independent thriller “The Ranger,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Wexler was the lead producer on Ana Asensio’s drama “Most Beautiful Island,” which won the SXSW narrative competition last month.
Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix and Andrew van den Houten’s Hood River Entertainment are the production companies. Wexler produces along with Andrew van den Houten and Ashleigh Snead for Hood River Entertainment, and Larry Fessenden and Heather Buckley produce for Glass Eye Pix.
“The Ranger,” which has started shooting in New York, is written by Wexler and Giaco Furino. It follows a group of teen punks who get in trouble with the cops. The kids escape to the woods to hide out, where they come up against the local authority, an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind, hell-bent on preserving the serenity of his forest. »
- Dave McNary
‘3 Generations’ R Rating Is ‘Dangerous’ for Transgender Community, GLAAD President Says
16 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
In a guest column, GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis says the “MPAA should be sharing transgender stories like ‘3 Generations,’ not restricting.”
An R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America stands for “Restricted, Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian.” A film receiving this rating “may include hard language, or tough violence, or nudity within sensual scenes, or drug abuse or other elements.” This rating system helps gives moviegoers an idea about a film’s content and its suitability for themselves and their families.
These ratings provide important data, and as a parent with two young children, I’m always cognizant of MPAA ratings when considering what I want to watch with my family. Many parents wouldn’t entertain the idea of letting teens or kids watch an R-rated film, which is why as a mother and the president and CEO of GLAAD, I am urging the »
- Sarah Kate Ellis
The Orchard Nabs Joachim Trier’s Supernatural Thriller ‘Thelma’ (Exclusive)
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The Orchard has acquired all North American rights to Joachim Trier’s supernatural thriller “Thelma,” Variety has learned.
It marks the Norwegian auteur’s second collaboration with the indie label. The Orchard also distributed 2015’s “Louder Than Bombs,” an acclaimed family drama with Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne, and Isabelle Huppert.
“Thelma” follows a young woman with terrifying powers. It was co-written by Trier and Eskil Vogt, and stars Eili Harboe, Okay Kaya, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, and Henrik Rafaelsen. The producer is Thomas Robsahm and the executive producers are Trier, Vogt, and Sigve Endresen of Motlys. The co-producers are Le Pacte (France), Snowglobe and Copenhagen Film Fund (Denmark), and Film i Väst, Filmpool Nord and B-Reel (Sweden).
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The movie is financed with support from the Norwegian Film Institute, the Danish Film Institute, the Swedish Film Institute, Nordic Film & TV Fund, Eurimages, »
- Brent Lang and Elsa Keslassy
Zoey Deutch Is A Force Of Nature In Max Winkler’s Unpredictable Dark Comedy ‘Flower’ [Tribeca Review]
3 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
A charming and blissful look at the joys and pains of a bravado-flecked reckless youth, director Max Winkler’s “Flower” is an earnest coming-of-age pic mixing cheeky sass will full-bodied teenage angst and beaming vitality. And it’s also an untamed dark comedy that veers off to unexpected places that reveal disturbing edges.
If there’s a movie that can pull off the cool insouciance of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Clueless” and Diablo Cody, and successfully mix it with the seemingly incongruous realist sensibilities of “Fish Tank” or the films of Andrea Arnold in general, “Flower” is it.
Continue reading Zoey Deutch Is A Force Of Nature In Max Winkler’s Unpredictable Dark Comedy ‘Flower’ [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist. »
- Rodrigo Perez
‘Gilbert’ Is The Sweet, Scattered Documentary About Gilbert Gottfried That You Never Knew You Wanted — Tribeca 2017 Review
4 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
You probably recognize Gilbert Gottfried’s name (after all, he’s the most famous Gilbert who’s ever lived), and you definitely recognize his voice, but other than his career-defining performance as Iago in “Aladdin,” how much of his work can you remember off the top of your head?
Mileage will vary, of course, but even Gottfried devotees could agree that the guy’s persona has outsized his resumé. That’s not to knock his stand-up comedy or his appearances in the likes of “Beverly Hills Cop II” and “Saved By the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas,” but rather to say that he’s become an ambient part of our culture, less of a celebrity than the human embodiment of a modern court jester. He’s not a man, but a squint and an aggressive whine; he’s the joke you shouldn’t tell in public, the furniture at a Friar’s Club roast. »
- David Ehrlich
Review: ‘Super Dark Times’ Is An Unnerving Cross Between ‘Stand By Me’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ — Tribeca 2017
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The ominous prologue of Kevin Phillips’ “Super Dark Times” arrives like a shiver, and that chill lingers until the bitter end, continuing to sink into your skin even as the rest of the film begins to melt into the atmosphere. A slow-burn high school thriller that’s like a tortured cross between “Stand By Me” and “Donnie Darko” (with a bit of Dostoyevskian madness thrown in there for good measure, Phillips’ feature-length debut begins by welcoming us to a grey Hudson Valley town that’s lost in the barren phantom zone between fall and winter.
The place looks practically post-apocalyptic, the shattered window of a classroom evoking “Children of Men.” But it’s not the end of the world, just a petrified buck who’s gotten himself into a spot of trouble. Some cops stand over the animal as it lies dying on the floor between the desks, the men »
- David Ehrlich
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