Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to distribute “The Walk,” which tells the story of the court-ordered forced integration of the Boston School System in the 1970s.
The film, starring Justin Chatwin and Terrence Howard, will be released in theaters and digitally on June 10.
“The Walk” follows Bill Coughlin, a Boston Irish cop, who must contend with social pressure and bigotry in his neighborhood and within the police force after being assigned to protect Black students bused into the all-white South Boston High. The plot chronicles the political and social fallout following the court’s 1974 decision, which resulted in brutal violence and city-wide protests, as three stories collide during the fateful first day of school. Malcolm McDowell, Jeremy Piven, Katie Douglas, Lovie Simone and Anastasiya Mitrunen also star.
“The Walk” is directed by Daniel Adams (“The Lightkeepers”) under his Mooncusser Filmworks banner, who also co-wrote the script alongside prison...
The film, starring Justin Chatwin and Terrence Howard, will be released in theaters and digitally on June 10.
“The Walk” follows Bill Coughlin, a Boston Irish cop, who must contend with social pressure and bigotry in his neighborhood and within the police force after being assigned to protect Black students bused into the all-white South Boston High. The plot chronicles the political and social fallout following the court’s 1974 decision, which resulted in brutal violence and city-wide protests, as three stories collide during the fateful first day of school. Malcolm McDowell, Jeremy Piven, Katie Douglas, Lovie Simone and Anastasiya Mitrunen also star.
“The Walk” is directed by Daniel Adams (“The Lightkeepers”) under his Mooncusser Filmworks banner, who also co-wrote the script alongside prison...
- 3/8/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
The Makeup and Hairstylist Guild will be honoring Jon Favreau with their Distinguished Artisan Award at the 9th Annual Muahs Awards on Feb. 29.
“Jon Favreau’s list of creative, exotic, and memorable characters lives on in his plethora of films, television movies and series. Jon is the ultimate collaborator who has worked alongside many 706 artists to help create memorable characters of all kinds in a myriad of different roles. We are thrilled to present the Artisan award to Jon as he is highly respected by make-up artists and hair stylists worldwide,” said Julie Socash, President of IATSE Local 706.
Favreau is currently showrunner and executive producer of “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian,” which garnered 39 Emmy Award nominations, winning 14 Emmys as well as numerous nominations and awards; and “The Book of Boba Fett” for Disney+. Favreau, no stranger to the “Star Wars” galaxy, has played roles in both the “Star Wars: The Clone Wars...
“Jon Favreau’s list of creative, exotic, and memorable characters lives on in his plethora of films, television movies and series. Jon is the ultimate collaborator who has worked alongside many 706 artists to help create memorable characters of all kinds in a myriad of different roles. We are thrilled to present the Artisan award to Jon as he is highly respected by make-up artists and hair stylists worldwide,” said Julie Socash, President of IATSE Local 706.
Favreau is currently showrunner and executive producer of “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian,” which garnered 39 Emmy Award nominations, winning 14 Emmys as well as numerous nominations and awards; and “The Book of Boba Fett” for Disney+. Favreau, no stranger to the “Star Wars” galaxy, has played roles in both the “Star Wars: The Clone Wars...
- 1/31/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Project inspired by 1974 Boston busing riots.
Heading into AFM Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has announced that Mooncusser Filmworks has hired African American composer Robert ToTeras and brought on Captain Marvel composer Pinar Toprak as co-producer for its racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard and Jeremy Piven.
Daniel Adams directs the project inspired by the 1974 Boston busing riots that ensued after an attempt to desegregate use of public school buses. The story, believed to be the first US fim about the unrest, centres on a Boston Irish police officer Bill Coughlin (Chatwin), who causes a backlash led...
Heading into AFM Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has announced that Mooncusser Filmworks has hired African American composer Robert ToTeras and brought on Captain Marvel composer Pinar Toprak as co-producer for its racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard and Jeremy Piven.
Daniel Adams directs the project inspired by the 1974 Boston busing riots that ensued after an attempt to desegregate use of public school buses. The story, believed to be the first US fim about the unrest, centres on a Boston Irish police officer Bill Coughlin (Chatwin), who causes a backlash led...
- 10/15/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Jay Huguley has joined the cast of Daniel Adams’ The Walk.
He’ll appear in the period drama, opposite Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard, Malcolm McDowell and Jeremy Piven.
The film is set in 1974 and follows Bill Coughlin (Justin Chatwin), a Boston Irish cop who confronts fierce social pressure, after being assigned to protect Black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.
Huguley will play Riley, an old-school Irish cop who works as Coughlin’s partner in The Boston Police, and is resistant to school integration.
Adams penned the script for The Walk with George Powell. Pic’s producers are Hank Blumenthal, Michael Mailer and Paul W. Hazen. Alex Nazarenko is also on board as exec producer, with Cinema Management Group handling international sales at Cannes.
Huguley will be seen this fall in Michael Showalters’ The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
He’ll appear in the period drama, opposite Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard, Malcolm McDowell and Jeremy Piven.
The film is set in 1974 and follows Bill Coughlin (Justin Chatwin), a Boston Irish cop who confronts fierce social pressure, after being assigned to protect Black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.
Huguley will play Riley, an old-school Irish cop who works as Coughlin’s partner in The Boston Police, and is resistant to school integration.
Adams penned the script for The Walk with George Powell. Pic’s producers are Hank Blumenthal, Michael Mailer and Paul W. Hazen. Alex Nazarenko is also on board as exec producer, with Cinema Management Group handling international sales at Cannes.
Huguley will be seen this fall in Michael Showalters’ The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
- 7/12/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Production expected to wrap imminently on fact-based story.
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg) is in town handling international sales on racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard, Jeremy Piven, Lovie Simone, and Malcolm McDowell.
Production is expected to wrap imminently on the fact-based story based on a 1974 court-ordered programme designed to end segregation by busing Black students into white schools and vice-versa. The decision sparked protests that summer and the programme endured into the late 1980’s.
Chatwin, who starred in TV shows Another Life and Shameless, will play a Boston Irish police officer who encounters...
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg) is in town handling international sales on racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard, Jeremy Piven, Lovie Simone, and Malcolm McDowell.
Production is expected to wrap imminently on the fact-based story based on a 1974 court-ordered programme designed to end segregation by busing Black students into white schools and vice-versa. The decision sparked protests that summer and the programme endured into the late 1980’s.
Chatwin, who starred in TV shows Another Life and Shameless, will play a Boston Irish police officer who encounters...
- 7/9/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Production expected to wrap imminently on fact-based story.
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg) is in town handling international sales on racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard, Lovie Simone, Jeremy Piven, and Malcolm McDowell.
Production is expected to wrap imminently on the fact-based story based on a 1974 court-ordered programme designed to end segregation by busing Black students into white schools and vice-versa. The decision sparked protests that summer and the programme endured into the late 1980’s.
Chatwin, who starred in TV shows Another Life and Shameless, will play a Boston Irish police officer who encounters...
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg) is in town handling international sales on racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard, Lovie Simone, Jeremy Piven, and Malcolm McDowell.
Production is expected to wrap imminently on the fact-based story based on a 1974 court-ordered programme designed to end segregation by busing Black students into white schools and vice-versa. The decision sparked protests that summer and the programme endured into the late 1980’s.
Chatwin, who starred in TV shows Another Life and Shameless, will play a Boston Irish police officer who encounters...
- 7/9/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Production expected to wrap imminently on fact-based story.
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg) is in town handling international sales on racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard, Lovie Simone, Jeremy Piven, and Malcolm McDowell.
Production is expected to wrap imminently on the fact-based story based on a 1974 court-ordered programme designed to end segregation by busing Black students into white schools and vice-versa. The decision sparked protests that summer and the programme endured into the late 1980’s.
Chatwin, who starred in TV show Shameless, will play a Boston Irish police officer who encounters resistance from a...
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg) is in town handling international sales on racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard, Lovie Simone, Jeremy Piven, and Malcolm McDowell.
Production is expected to wrap imminently on the fact-based story based on a 1974 court-ordered programme designed to end segregation by busing Black students into white schools and vice-versa. The decision sparked protests that summer and the programme endured into the late 1980’s.
Chatwin, who starred in TV show Shameless, will play a Boston Irish police officer who encounters resistance from a...
- 7/8/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Ledge producer Michael Mailer has teamed with Hank Blumenthal to produce an inspired-by-true-events period drama, The Walk, with Daniel Adams attached to direct from a script he co-wrote with George Powell. The screenplay was originated by Powell, a former drug dealer whom Adams discovered while he was incarcerated. Upon his release, Powell turned to screenwriting and The Walk will mark his first produced script.
The story centers on Boston Irish cop Bill Coughlin as he is faced with his own suppressed racist attitude and fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High during the court-ordered forced integration of the Boston School System in 1974, which resulted in brutal violence and city-wide protests.
Mailer, Blumenthal and Adams are longtime collaborators having worked together on various films throughout the past 30 years starting with the Sandra Bullock starre,...
The story centers on Boston Irish cop Bill Coughlin as he is faced with his own suppressed racist attitude and fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High during the court-ordered forced integration of the Boston School System in 1974, which resulted in brutal violence and city-wide protests.
Mailer, Blumenthal and Adams are longtime collaborators having worked together on various films throughout the past 30 years starting with the Sandra Bullock starre,...
- 11/13/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
There are few things in this world that fascinate us more than the things that go bump in the night, and if you're of the same ilk, you may wanna pay attention to this next story. Are you ready to join "The Ghost Club"?
From the Press Release
With Halloween approaching, ghost hunters and ghost story fans will have an innovative new web destination called “The Ghost Club,” where they can document and share their own destinations or learn about how to start their own Ghost Club.
The innovative site is powered by Theatrics.com, LLC, the interactive media company behind recent projects like "Psych The S#cial Sector" (USA Network); "Welcome to Sanditon," the sequel to the hit web series "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries" (Pemberley Digital), and "Aurelia: Edge of Darkness" (from independent Lisa Walker England). Theatrics also powers Wikia’s Virtual Cosplay Contest, held in conjunction with Comic Con New York.
From the Press Release
With Halloween approaching, ghost hunters and ghost story fans will have an innovative new web destination called “The Ghost Club,” where they can document and share their own destinations or learn about how to start their own Ghost Club.
The innovative site is powered by Theatrics.com, LLC, the interactive media company behind recent projects like "Psych The S#cial Sector" (USA Network); "Welcome to Sanditon," the sequel to the hit web series "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries" (Pemberley Digital), and "Aurelia: Edge of Darkness" (from independent Lisa Walker England). Theatrics also powers Wikia’s Virtual Cosplay Contest, held in conjunction with Comic Con New York.
- 10/9/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Those damned meddling kids! They've come across more supernatural forces and left behind another batch of found footage. Sound a tad familiar? Of course it does! Let's just hope this one is a fun one!
Hank Blumenthal's The Ghost Club is the latest slice of cinéma vérité shivers coming our way, and we've got the trailer and the plot crunch below. Dig it!
Synopsis
The Ghost Club was founded in 1862 to investigate psychic phenomena and to prove the existence of ghosts. The Club's ultimate goal is to make contact with the beyond. For over 150 years the Club has investigated every reported haunting in the United Kingdom and the United States. They have never gathered a single scrap of proof.
Until today.
In 2012 The Ghost Club has been turned into a popular reality TV show. Each week the new Ghost Club--a dedicated team of paranormal investigators--follows in the footsteps of the Club's founders.
Hank Blumenthal's The Ghost Club is the latest slice of cinéma vérité shivers coming our way, and we've got the trailer and the plot crunch below. Dig it!
Synopsis
The Ghost Club was founded in 1862 to investigate psychic phenomena and to prove the existence of ghosts. The Club's ultimate goal is to make contact with the beyond. For over 150 years the Club has investigated every reported haunting in the United Kingdom and the United States. They have never gathered a single scrap of proof.
Until today.
In 2012 The Ghost Club has been turned into a popular reality TV show. Each week the new Ghost Club--a dedicated team of paranormal investigators--follows in the footsteps of the Club's founders.
- 2/2/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Michael Mailer Films is in the process of exploring The Ghost Club - which was founded in 1862 in London and has been conducting paranormal investigations ever since - across a wide range of mediums, including a feature film, and we have your first look.
The original Ghost Club (read more about it here) attracted high-profile members including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini.
The film, directed by Hank Blumenthal, finds William Forsythe in a story about a team of reality TV paranormal investigators who have yet to truly "make contact. They decide to try their luck at an abandoned mansion in the deep-south with a long history of hauntings. As the night unfolds, and the evidence begins to pile up , their skepticism turns to terror, and their initial goal of contact turns into the primal one of just making it out of this real haunted mansion alive.
Read more.
The original Ghost Club (read more about it here) attracted high-profile members including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini.
The film, directed by Hank Blumenthal, finds William Forsythe in a story about a team of reality TV paranormal investigators who have yet to truly "make contact. They decide to try their luck at an abandoned mansion in the deep-south with a long history of hauntings. As the night unfolds, and the evidence begins to pile up , their skepticism turns to terror, and their initial goal of contact turns into the primal one of just making it out of this real haunted mansion alive.
Read more.
- 2/2/2012
- by ryanrotten@shocktillyoudrop.com (Ryan Turek)
- shocktillyoudrop.com
What is a Producer's "Vision"? How does she keep it all together and manage to lead all the various pursuits to a common goal? Do different approaches assure different results? Does different content require a different process? Hank Blumenthal is old school NYC production. We've known each other a long time. He's done it all. Recently he went back to school and has been focusing on new media. He's a regular commenter on this blog; his comments lead me to ask him to take the lead at times, and today he offers us his first guest post. Ted asked me…...
- 5/31/2011
- Hope for Film
A sort of anti-"Rocky", Daniel Adams' indie feature tells the true story of Bruce "The Mouse" Strauss, a fighter famous for the number of times he lost. Indeed, it celebrates his commitment to losing, and the perversity of the angle is somehow refreshing in a society that celebrates winning at all costs.
Still, this ramshackle effort doesn't have nearly the charm it needs to overcome its lack of content, structure and pacing, although with John Savage's amusingly loose performance as Strauss, it comes close.
The Mouse was a journeyman fighter, the kind who can stay in the ring just long enough to make things interesting before going down and who kept fight cards suitably filled. He had about 300 fights during his 20-year career and spent much of his time dodging the attentions of the boxing authorities, often resorting to disguises and other tricks.
The film is an anecdotal and episodic account of his career, told in a loose comic fashion. Among its primary plot points are his teaching a prospective young boxer about the fine art of losing (he advises him not to train, it will only make things worse); his problems with his increasingly exasperated wife (Angelica Torn); his hitchhiking encounter with a trucker (Rip Torn) who turns out to be God ("I work in mysterious ways", he explains to Mouse, who is understandably perplexed when he loses a fight even with God in his corner); and his bout with a young contender, which turns out to nicely illustrate Mouse's philosophy of life.
As played with daffy charm by Savage, the Mouse is an engaging enough character, and the offbeat nature of the subject matter will no doubt make the film appealing to sports fans. (Cameos from several real-life boxers will help in this regard.) But the filmmakers have not really succeeded in their obvious goal of universalizing his story, and their attempt to make him a sort of glorified, comic anti-hero is not likely to connect with general audiences.
THE MOUSE
Strand Releasing
Director-screenwriter: Daniel Adams
Producers: Hank Blumenthal, Harris Tulchin,
John Savage
Co-producer: Matt Janes
Executive producers: Richard Segedin,
Charlie Irish, Jimmy Walter
Director of photography: Denise Brassard
Editor: Victoria Street
Music: Jonathan Edwards
Color/stereo
Cast:
Bruce "The Mouse" Strauss: John Savage
Mary Lou Strauss: Angelica Torn
Trucker (God): Rip Torn
Joe: Charles Bailey-Gates
Jamie Strauss: Irina Cashen
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Still, this ramshackle effort doesn't have nearly the charm it needs to overcome its lack of content, structure and pacing, although with John Savage's amusingly loose performance as Strauss, it comes close.
The Mouse was a journeyman fighter, the kind who can stay in the ring just long enough to make things interesting before going down and who kept fight cards suitably filled. He had about 300 fights during his 20-year career and spent much of his time dodging the attentions of the boxing authorities, often resorting to disguises and other tricks.
The film is an anecdotal and episodic account of his career, told in a loose comic fashion. Among its primary plot points are his teaching a prospective young boxer about the fine art of losing (he advises him not to train, it will only make things worse); his problems with his increasingly exasperated wife (Angelica Torn); his hitchhiking encounter with a trucker (Rip Torn) who turns out to be God ("I work in mysterious ways", he explains to Mouse, who is understandably perplexed when he loses a fight even with God in his corner); and his bout with a young contender, which turns out to nicely illustrate Mouse's philosophy of life.
As played with daffy charm by Savage, the Mouse is an engaging enough character, and the offbeat nature of the subject matter will no doubt make the film appealing to sports fans. (Cameos from several real-life boxers will help in this regard.) But the filmmakers have not really succeeded in their obvious goal of universalizing his story, and their attempt to make him a sort of glorified, comic anti-hero is not likely to connect with general audiences.
THE MOUSE
Strand Releasing
Director-screenwriter: Daniel Adams
Producers: Hank Blumenthal, Harris Tulchin,
John Savage
Co-producer: Matt Janes
Executive producers: Richard Segedin,
Charlie Irish, Jimmy Walter
Director of photography: Denise Brassard
Editor: Victoria Street
Music: Jonathan Edwards
Color/stereo
Cast:
Bruce "The Mouse" Strauss: John Savage
Mary Lou Strauss: Angelica Torn
Trucker (God): Rip Torn
Joe: Charles Bailey-Gates
Jamie Strauss: Irina Cashen
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 11/14/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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