Exclusive: After serving as the distributor for Participant and River Road’s Academy Award-nominated 2008 documentary Food, Inc., Magnolia Pictures has taken U.S. rights to the sequel, with Dogwoof coming aboard to rep international sales. An urgent continuation of the original film’s story, the doc is slated to premiere in the spring.
In the sequel, which world premiered at Telluride, directors Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh look at food in the U.S. The film reveals how corporate consolidation has gone unchecked by our government, leaving us with a highly efficient yet shockingly vulnerable food system dedicated only towards increasing profits. Seeking solutions, it introduces innovative farmers, food producers, workers’ rights activists, and prominent legislators such as U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester, who are facing these...
In the sequel, which world premiered at Telluride, directors Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh look at food in the U.S. The film reveals how corporate consolidation has gone unchecked by our government, leaving us with a highly efficient yet shockingly vulnerable food system dedicated only towards increasing profits. Seeking solutions, it introduces innovative farmers, food producers, workers’ rights activists, and prominent legislators such as U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester, who are facing these...
- 11/9/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Participant has announced that it is producing Food, Inc. 2 — a sequel to its Academy Award-nominated documentary Food, Inc., to be released later this year.
The original film directed by Robert Kenner offered an unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry — spotlighting the harm this system has inflicted on animals, as well as its consumers and laborers. Robert Kenner directed from a script written with Elise Pearlstein and Kim Roberts. Kenner also produced alongside Pearlstein, with Bill Pohlad, Robin Schorr, Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann serving as exec producers.
Food, Inc. was released by Magnolia Pictures in 2009 after world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, going on to claim not only an Academy Award nom for Best Documentary, Features, but a Cinema Eye Honors Award, a Gotham Award, a News & Documentary Emmy Award and numerous other accolades, as well.
Specifics as to Food, Inc. 2‘s focus are under wraps,...
The original film directed by Robert Kenner offered an unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry — spotlighting the harm this system has inflicted on animals, as well as its consumers and laborers. Robert Kenner directed from a script written with Elise Pearlstein and Kim Roberts. Kenner also produced alongside Pearlstein, with Bill Pohlad, Robin Schorr, Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann serving as exec producers.
Food, Inc. was released by Magnolia Pictures in 2009 after world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, going on to claim not only an Academy Award nom for Best Documentary, Features, but a Cinema Eye Honors Award, a Gotham Award, a News & Documentary Emmy Award and numerous other accolades, as well.
Specifics as to Food, Inc. 2‘s focus are under wraps,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Plus: Drone adds cast for Myriad; Distribber in grant programme; and more…
Work from Oscar Isaac, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Hudson, Neil Labute, Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Kristen Wiig are among the line-up at the 22nd year, Palm Springs International ShortFest.
The festival will run from June 21-27 and show 327 films including 46 world premieres.
Festival director Helen du Toit said: “After a 31% jump in submissions this year, our programing team, led by the sharp-minded and quick-witted Penelope Bartlett, is exhausted but exhilarated. Our audiences will see a broader international representation of stories than ever before.” For further details click here.
The UCLA School Of Theater, Film And Television and Eros International have launched the Eros International Graduate Scholarship Fund – three full-ride graduate scholarships for UCLA Tft’s Master of Fine Arts programmes in directing, producing and screenwriting “to give voice to the unique perspective of Indian women.” Recipients will commence in autumn 2017.Mary McCormack and Joel David Moore...
Work from Oscar Isaac, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Hudson, Neil Labute, Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Kristen Wiig are among the line-up at the 22nd year, Palm Springs International ShortFest.
The festival will run from June 21-27 and show 327 films including 46 world premieres.
Festival director Helen du Toit said: “After a 31% jump in submissions this year, our programing team, led by the sharp-minded and quick-witted Penelope Bartlett, is exhausted but exhilarated. Our audiences will see a broader international representation of stories than ever before.” For further details click here.
The UCLA School Of Theater, Film And Television and Eros International have launched the Eros International Graduate Scholarship Fund – three full-ride graduate scholarships for UCLA Tft’s Master of Fine Arts programmes in directing, producing and screenwriting “to give voice to the unique perspective of Indian women.” Recipients will commence in autumn 2017.Mary McCormack and Joel David Moore...
- 6/5/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Tracy Morgan is in talks to join Ed Helms and Amanda Seyfried in comedy The Clapper. Dito Montiel, who worked with Morgan in 2011's The Son of No One, wrote and will direct the film that follows a professional clapper for infomercials who gets plucked by a late-night talk show host to be on his TV show. Robin Schorr, Steve Ponce and Montiel will produce, along with Helms and Mike Falbo, who will produce under their Pacific Electric banner. Alex Lebovici and Michael Bien will act as executive producers. Following a long recovery from an automobile accident, the Saturday Night
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- 4/7/2016
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Comedy set to star Ed Helms and Amanda Seyfried.
Fortitude International has jumped on board new comedy package The Clapper to star Ed Helms and Amanda Seyfried and is in talks with international buyers at the Efm.
The film marks Dito Montiel’s follow-up to the crime thriller Man Down and is based on his novel of the same name about a paid infomercial audience member whose life becomes complicated after he gets his 15 minutes of fame.
Robin Schorr produces The Clapper with Helms and his Pacific Electric partner Mike Falbo, and Montiel, who famously broke out with his 2006 Sundance special jury prize-winner A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints.
Wme and UTA Independent Film Group represent North American rights to the project.
“This hilarious script from Dito Montiel could not have found a better Eddie Krumble than in Ed Helms,” said Fortitude International partner Nadine de Barros.
“This love story between Helms and Amanda Seyfried is a perfect...
Fortitude International has jumped on board new comedy package The Clapper to star Ed Helms and Amanda Seyfried and is in talks with international buyers at the Efm.
The film marks Dito Montiel’s follow-up to the crime thriller Man Down and is based on his novel of the same name about a paid infomercial audience member whose life becomes complicated after he gets his 15 minutes of fame.
Robin Schorr produces The Clapper with Helms and his Pacific Electric partner Mike Falbo, and Montiel, who famously broke out with his 2006 Sundance special jury prize-winner A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints.
Wme and UTA Independent Film Group represent North American rights to the project.
“This hilarious script from Dito Montiel could not have found a better Eddie Krumble than in Ed Helms,” said Fortitude International partner Nadine de Barros.
“This love story between Helms and Amanda Seyfried is a perfect...
- 2/12/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
43rd Annie Awards
Pixar's "Inside Out" took the top honor of Best Animated Feature at 43rd Annie Awards on Saturday night, taking ten trophies in all including nods for the director, writers and actress Phyllis Smith.
"Boy and the World" took Best Independent Animated Feature, while "He Named Me Malala" scored a Best Animated Special Production and "World of Tomorrow" won Best Animated Short Subject. Other awards went to titles like "Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas," "The Good Dinosaur" and the game "Evolve". [Source: Variety]
Conquest
Paramount has acquired the rights to the Leonardo DiCaprio-led "Conquest" with Davis Entertainment producing. Plot details are under wraps. "The Revenant" co-writer Mark. L. Smith penned the script and John Davis will produce. [Source: The Wrap]
Dunkirk
"Interstellar" cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema will reunite with Christopher Nolan for the latter's World War II action thriller "Dunkirk". Production is slated to begin in May and will use a combination of...
Pixar's "Inside Out" took the top honor of Best Animated Feature at 43rd Annie Awards on Saturday night, taking ten trophies in all including nods for the director, writers and actress Phyllis Smith.
"Boy and the World" took Best Independent Animated Feature, while "He Named Me Malala" scored a Best Animated Special Production and "World of Tomorrow" won Best Animated Short Subject. Other awards went to titles like "Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas," "The Good Dinosaur" and the game "Evolve". [Source: Variety]
Conquest
Paramount has acquired the rights to the Leonardo DiCaprio-led "Conquest" with Davis Entertainment producing. Plot details are under wraps. "The Revenant" co-writer Mark. L. Smith penned the script and John Davis will produce. [Source: The Wrap]
Dunkirk
"Interstellar" cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema will reunite with Christopher Nolan for the latter's World War II action thriller "Dunkirk". Production is slated to begin in May and will use a combination of...
- 2/7/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
An upcoming spy comedy has added a veteran actor. Morgan Freeman is joining Cold Warriors from Millennium Entertainment. According to Deadline, Raja Gosnell (Scooby-Doo) is set to direct the film about a retired CIA agent who enlists the help of his stepson to complete some unfinished cold war era business. Robin Schorr is responsible for […]
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- 11/18/2015
- by Jeff Bricker
- FilmReview.com
It’s so often the case that, as an actor or actress begins to enter the twilight years of their career, they’ll start cherry-picking projects that fit their style as they slowly wind down their respective creative output. But if anything, at 78 years young, Morgan Freeman’s workrate continues unabated. Not only has the acting veteran wrapped up work on the likes of London Has Fallen, Ben-Hur and Going In Style, but he’s also involved in David Gleeson’s adaptation Down To A Sunless Sea, currently incubating in pre-production.
Now, Deadline is reporting that Freeman has joined Cold Warriors, Raja Gosnell’s (Scooby-Doo, The Smurfs) Cold War action-comedy that will see him play a retired CIA agent who comes out of his exile in order to take care of some unfinished business.
In development under Millennium Entertainment – the same production house that’s putting the final touches to...
Now, Deadline is reporting that Freeman has joined Cold Warriors, Raja Gosnell’s (Scooby-Doo, The Smurfs) Cold War action-comedy that will see him play a retired CIA agent who comes out of his exile in order to take care of some unfinished business.
In development under Millennium Entertainment – the same production house that’s putting the final touches to...
- 11/12/2015
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
This month's release of IFC Midnight's found-footage horror movie “Inner Demons” (pictured above) marked Robin Schorr‘s maiden voyage into the potentially lucrative world of microbudget filmmaking. As her equity finance and production company Schorr Pictures continues to develop studio-sized projects as well as several TV series, Schorr is taking her destiny into her own hands by moving into the microbudget space, which has yielded lucrative returns for a handful of producers including Jason Blum of “Paranormal Activity” fame. “We have a development fund that allows us to autonomously invest in IP. We've found great material for studio features and series,...
- 10/30/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
At the Los Angeles Film Festival last summer, producer Robin Schorr screened indie midnight horror flick "Inner Demons" for audiences and buyers, crossing her fingers that she would land a good distribution deal for the found footage movie. The movie's set-up: we're looking at footage of a recovering teen heroin addict and her family from the TV series “Step Inside Recovery," the sort of reality show that "Inner Demons" director Seth Grossman once produced. Those around her assume her symptoms are those of withdrawal, but one cameraman believes that she may be possessed. IFC Midnight scooped up the film and released it day and date on October 3 in theaters and on VOD. (Here's the Nyt review.) In today's changing distribution landscape, Schorr was relieved to be able to reach audiences in theaters as well as multiple platforms. "We all know for so many movies theatrical is not an...
- 10/7/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Reality television shows can take a wrong turn into horror especially when a demonic possession is involved.
From former reality TV producer Seth Grossman, “Inner Demons” follows an intervention-style reality show crew trying to film a sixteen-year-old girl fighting a drug addiction. However, she was suffering from something even more destructive—a demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her—with symptoms between the disturbing and scary intersection of insanity, addiction and true possession.
The film stars Lara Vosburgh and Morgan McClellan.
Latino-Review was granted an exclusive interview with Grossman to discuss the production of this horror film. We talked about the young actress, the worlds of addiction and demonic possession and even relating the behaviors of hyenas to demons.
“Inner Demons” is playing in select theaters and available on VOD today.
Read the full interview below.
Latino-Review: Tell me on how you were approached for...
From former reality TV producer Seth Grossman, “Inner Demons” follows an intervention-style reality show crew trying to film a sixteen-year-old girl fighting a drug addiction. However, she was suffering from something even more destructive—a demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her—with symptoms between the disturbing and scary intersection of insanity, addiction and true possession.
The film stars Lara Vosburgh and Morgan McClellan.
Latino-Review was granted an exclusive interview with Grossman to discuss the production of this horror film. We talked about the young actress, the worlds of addiction and demonic possession and even relating the behaviors of hyenas to demons.
“Inner Demons” is playing in select theaters and available on VOD today.
Read the full interview below.
Latino-Review: Tell me on how you were approached for...
- 10/3/2014
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes the fan film Spawn: The Recall, a trailer for Charlotte’s Song and Inner Demons, premiere details for Nightmare Code, and much more:
Spawn: The Recall Released: “Spawn: The Recall is the story of a former witch and her son, who try to live a normal life away from the darkness. While they’re shopping in a supermarket, the child suddenly disappears. She starts looking for him, freaked out knowing evil forces are still lurking. A security guard comes to her help but while they are checking on the surveillance cameras, something happens. She can sense it, they are here…
A film by Michael Paris. Starring: Johanna Genet (The Witch), Tom Maurice (Michael), Gregory Paris (Spawn), and J3.0 (voice). Music by James Bks Edjouma.”
For more information on this project,...
Spawn: The Recall Released: “Spawn: The Recall is the story of a former witch and her son, who try to live a normal life away from the darkness. While they’re shopping in a supermarket, the child suddenly disappears. She starts looking for him, freaked out knowing evil forces are still lurking. A security guard comes to her help but while they are checking on the surveillance cameras, something happens. She can sense it, they are here…
A film by Michael Paris. Starring: Johanna Genet (The Witch), Tom Maurice (Michael), Gregory Paris (Spawn), and J3.0 (voice). Music by James Bks Edjouma.”
For more information on this project,...
- 9/28/2014
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Genre label IFC Midnight has acquired U.S. rights to Inner Demons, a possession tale about an Intervention-style reality TV crew filming a 16-year-old (Lara Vosburgh) fighting addiction who actually might be possessed by a demon. Director Seth Grossman has some expertise in the area; he was a producer on A&E’s popular series Intervention. Morgan McClellan, Colleen McGrann, Kate Whitney and Brian Flaherty also star in the pic scripted by Glenn Gers and produced by Robin Schorr, which premiered at the La Film Festival in June. Arianna Bocco and Sean Berney negotiated the deal for Sundance Selects/IFC Films with Josh Braun […]...
- 7/29/2014
- Deadline
IFC Midnight is acquiring U.S. rights to Schorr Pictures’ “Inner Demons,” which premiered last month at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the distributor announced Tuesday. Robin Schorr produced the movie, which Seth Grossman directed from a script by Glenn Gers. Also read: ‘Exorcist’ Star Linda Blair to Host Premiere of ‘Inner Demons’ at La Film Festival (Exclusive) There were four companies bidding on “Inner Demons” including several major distributors, but it was IFC Midnight that came away with it. The company will give the film a limited theatrical release this October in conjunction with a VOD release timed to the Halloween holiday,...
- 7/29/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Seth Grossman directed Schorr Pictures’ horror film about an intervention-style reality TV show.
Lara Vosburgh, Morgan McClellan, Colleen McGrann, Kate Whitney and Brian Flaherty star and Robin Schorr produced.
Inner Demons centres on a reality show film crew covering a young girl who appears to be fighting addiction but may in fact be battling something far darker.
The film premiered at the La Film Festival and is based on the screenplay by Glenn Gers.
IFC Midnight brokered the deal with Submarine and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler and Feldman on behalf of the filmmakers.
Lara Vosburgh, Morgan McClellan, Colleen McGrann, Kate Whitney and Brian Flaherty star and Robin Schorr produced.
Inner Demons centres on a reality show film crew covering a young girl who appears to be fighting addiction but may in fact be battling something far darker.
The film premiered at the La Film Festival and is based on the screenplay by Glenn Gers.
IFC Midnight brokered the deal with Submarine and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler and Feldman on behalf of the filmmakers.
- 7/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
“The Exorcist” star Linda Blair will serve as the special host for the world premiere of Seth Grossman's horror movie “Inner Demons,” which debuts at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Friday, June 13 at 10 p.m. Robin Schorr produced the movie, which was executive produced by Dan Seligmann and Chris Ferguson executive produced. Also read: Aaron Eckhart to Play Exorcist in Jason Blum-Produced Horror Movie ‘Incarnate’ When the teenage daughter of a religious family transforms from A-student into heroin addict, her parents agree to allow a reality TV crew to stage an intervention and tape her recovery. What they don't know is.
- 6/4/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Latido Films has acquired international rights at Ventana Sur to Colombian director Felipe Cano Ibañez’s upcoming debut La Semila Del Silencio (The Seed Of Silence).
The $750,000 Chapinero Films project is scheduled to shoot in January in Bogota.
Camilo de la Cruz wrote the screenplay about a detective who attempts to unravel a mystery surrounding the death of a human rights attorney.
Netflix will premiere Greg Whiteley’s Mitt Romney documentary Mitt exclusively on January 24 2014 following its world premiere in Sundance in the Documentary Premieres section. The Netflix original documentary offers a behind-the-scenes look at the former presidential candidate and will be available to stream in all territories where Netflix is available: the Us, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Latin America, Scandinavia and the Netherlands.Dada Films/required viewing will release The Pretty One theatrically in the Us on February 7 2014 in New York and Los Angeles followed by expansion. Zoe Kazan, Jake Johnson, [link...
The $750,000 Chapinero Films project is scheduled to shoot in January in Bogota.
Camilo de la Cruz wrote the screenplay about a detective who attempts to unravel a mystery surrounding the death of a human rights attorney.
Netflix will premiere Greg Whiteley’s Mitt Romney documentary Mitt exclusively on January 24 2014 following its world premiere in Sundance in the Documentary Premieres section. The Netflix original documentary offers a behind-the-scenes look at the former presidential candidate and will be available to stream in all territories where Netflix is available: the Us, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Latin America, Scandinavia and the Netherlands.Dada Films/required viewing will release The Pretty One theatrically in the Us on February 7 2014 in New York and Los Angeles followed by expansion. Zoe Kazan, Jake Johnson, [link...
- 12/9/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
After premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, "The Pretty One" has been acquired by Dada films. Zoe Kazan ("Ruby Sparks," "The F Word") stars alongside Jake Johnson ("New Girl," "Drinking Buddies") in this heartfelt comedy that explores loss and awakening through Kazan's duel role as identical twins Laurel and Audrey. After the loss of her sister Audrey, Laurel must decide between continuing her life pretending to be Audrey or revealing herself as a fraud to her neighbor and love interest (Jake Johnson). "We are excited to be working with filmmakers Jenee Lamarque and Steven Berger and veteran producer Robin Schorr on the charming and heartfelt comedy "'The Pretty One,'" said Dada Films heads Mj Peckos and Steven Raphael. "We are confident that audiences will be as enamored by the film as we were when we saw it at the Tribeca Film Festival." The film will open on February...
- 12/9/2013
- by James Hiler
- Indiewire
Less than two months after its launch, Skydance Television today announced one new hire and a pair of promotions. Carolyn Harris joins the company as VP, while Bill Bost and Sasha Garron have been upped to Manager of Development and Coordinator, respectively. Harris comes to Skydance from Robin Schorr’s Schorr Pictures, where she was VP Television. Before that she was an agent at Wme. Bost had been executive assistant to Skydance Productions chief David Ellison. Garron was executive assistant to Marcy Ross at Fox and followed her boss to Skydance TV when Ross was named president of the division in May. All three report to Ross. “Marcy has assembled an amazing team of executives to build Skydance Television into a friendly home for all creators,” Ellison said in a statement. “Expanding our television department is an exciting step towards building Skydance into the multifaceted virtual studio that I have always envisioned.
- 6/24/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Jenee Lamarque (profile pic above) got her first taste of Park City this past January with with her short film, Spoonful. She might be back one year to the date with we her Black List (2011) feature film debut – which falls into the Sundance archetype (smart and quirky screenplay, indie star pairing, previous and very recent Sundance experience). Starring Zoe Kazan, Jake Johnson and Ron Livingston, production on The Pretty One began in June in Los Angeles, so this should technically be ready for a January fest debut.
Gist: This is about an awkward but loveable young woman who is mistaken for her dead “perfect” identical twin, and seizes the chance to masquerade as her sister. But when she falls in love with her twin’s eccentric next door neighbor, she finds herself wanting to live her own imperfect life, and have the truth come out. The film’s being financed by private equity.
Gist: This is about an awkward but loveable young woman who is mistaken for her dead “perfect” identical twin, and seizes the chance to masquerade as her sister. But when she falls in love with her twin’s eccentric next door neighbor, she finds herself wanting to live her own imperfect life, and have the truth come out. The film’s being financed by private equity.
- 11/21/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers
Kristen Schaal ("30 Rock," "The Daily Show") will voice an orangutan in the upcoming sequel "Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers" at Sony Pictures Animation. Anna Faris, Bill Hader and Andy Samberg are expected to reprise their characters.
The story has Flint Lockwood and his friends returning to Swallow Falls when it is discovered that sentient food beasts have overrun the island. [Source: Heat Vision]
Jobs
Eddie Hassell ("The Kids Are All Right") will play an Apple employee in the Ashton Kutcher-led Steve Jobs biopic "Jobs."
Hassell will play Chris Espinoza, employee No. 8 at Apple and who joined at the age of 14 in 1976 when the company was still housed in Jobs' parents' garage. [Source: THR]
Girls
Patrick Wilson has scored a key guest-starring role in the second season of HBO's comedy "Girls".
Wilson will play Joshua, a fortysomething doctor who lives next door to where Hannah works and...
Kristen Schaal ("30 Rock," "The Daily Show") will voice an orangutan in the upcoming sequel "Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers" at Sony Pictures Animation. Anna Faris, Bill Hader and Andy Samberg are expected to reprise their characters.
The story has Flint Lockwood and his friends returning to Swallow Falls when it is discovered that sentient food beasts have overrun the island. [Source: Heat Vision]
Jobs
Eddie Hassell ("The Kids Are All Right") will play an Apple employee in the Ashton Kutcher-led Steve Jobs biopic "Jobs."
Hassell will play Chris Espinoza, employee No. 8 at Apple and who joined at the age of 14 in 1976 when the company was still housed in Jobs' parents' garage. [Source: THR]
Girls
Patrick Wilson has scored a key guest-starring role in the second season of HBO's comedy "Girls".
Wilson will play Joshua, a fortysomething doctor who lives next door to where Hannah works and...
- 6/23/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and with June being a major production month we’ve got a slew of projects that we feel are worth signaling out. Music appears to be a common narrative theme surrounding several items – we find it infused in Once‘s John Carney’s U.S. production debut – a 10 million dollar production about a dejected music business executive forms a bond with a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan. Scarlett Johansson was formerly attached to Can a Song Save Your Life?, now Knightley appears to be on board. Rock documentary filmmaker Stephen Kijak (Stones in Exile) is looking to make his second fictional feature based on the true story of a The Smiths fans who lost his bearings when the group announced its break-up. Shoplifters of the World...
- 6/5/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: A June 1 start date has been set in Los Angeles for The Pretty One, with Zoe Kazan and Jake Johnson starring in a script that made the 2011 Black List and was a finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship and Zoetrope screenplay contest. Jenee Lamarque wrote the script and makes her directorial debut. Pic is an offbeat comedy about an awkward but loveable young woman who is mistaken for her dead “perfect” identical twin, and seizes the chance to masquerade as her sister. But when she falls in love with her twin’s eccentric next door neighbor, she finds herself wanting to live her own imperfect life, and have the truth come out. The film’s being financed by private equity. Kazan’s starring in the Neil Labute-scripted Some Girls and the Joss Whedon-scripted In Your Eyes, and she scripted He Loves Me, which Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris are directing.
- 3/30/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
According to Variety, Robin Schorr‘s Rcr Pictures has just optioned the feature film rights to Dennis Tafoya‘s crime novel, The Wolves of Fairmount Park. Marc Maurino has been hired to write the script, which follows “the drive-by shooting of two suburban teens, one of whom is the son of a police officer, outside of a Philadelphia drug den. The search for gunmen strains the community to its breaking point.”
Schorr is set to produce, with Dan Seligmann joining him. Tafoya‘s novel was published in 2010, which was welcomed to strongly positive reviews. In an effort to keep his book only in print, Tafoya refused to sell the film rights to his novel until, ultimately, the Rcr producers won him over. With book-to-film adaptations being so common and sometimes not very good, I can see the Tafoya‘s reservations about the adaptation.
Maurino is just hitting Hollywood, as he...
Schorr is set to produce, with Dan Seligmann joining him. Tafoya‘s novel was published in 2010, which was welcomed to strongly positive reviews. In an effort to keep his book only in print, Tafoya refused to sell the film rights to his novel until, ultimately, the Rcr producers won him over. With book-to-film adaptations being so common and sometimes not very good, I can see the Tafoya‘s reservations about the adaptation.
Maurino is just hitting Hollywood, as he...
- 2/23/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Rcr has optioned feature film rights to the Dennis Tafoya crime novel "The Wolves of Fairmount Park" reports Variety.
After a drive-by shooting outside a drug den in Philadelphia kills two suburban teens, one a cop's son, the massive manhunt for the killers strains the community to breaking point. The action follows the perspective of four different people on various sides of the case.
Marc Maurino will adapt the screenplay. Jarrod Murray, Robin Schorr and Dan Seligmann will produce.
Meanwhile, Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to Andrew Pyper's upcoming novel "Demonologist" reports Deadline.
The story follows a literary professor on a trip to Italy when a demonic spirit appears to kill his daughter. He then goes on a dark journey in hopes of getting her back.
ImageMovers partners Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey will produce.
After a drive-by shooting outside a drug den in Philadelphia kills two suburban teens, one a cop's son, the massive manhunt for the killers strains the community to breaking point. The action follows the perspective of four different people on various sides of the case.
Marc Maurino will adapt the screenplay. Jarrod Murray, Robin Schorr and Dan Seligmann will produce.
Meanwhile, Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to Andrew Pyper's upcoming novel "Demonologist" reports Deadline.
The story follows a literary professor on a trip to Italy when a demonic spirit appears to kill his daughter. He then goes on a dark journey in hopes of getting her back.
ImageMovers partners Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey will produce.
- 2/23/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Peter Tolan is heading back to the firehouse. In a competitive situation, ABC has landed Angela’s Bachelors, a singe-camera comedy written by the Rescue Me co-creator, which will be set at a Boston firehouse. I hear that the project, from Sony Pictures TV where Tolan is under an overall deal, has received a put pilot commitment and a premium license fee. Based on Brian O’Reilly’s book Angelina’s Bachelors: A Novel With Food, the TV adaptation, titled Angela’s Bachelors, centers on well-educated and proper top chef Angela Bracken who, following a very public embarrassment at her new restaurant in New York City, moves to Boston to start over. After a fire in her apartment, she winds up working as the cook for the men in a local firehouse, elevating the tastes and lives of the rough and tumble crew as they knock her down a...
- 10/15/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
CBS Films has acquired feature film rights to Tamara Ireland Stone's debut novel Time Between Us and set Robin Schorr to produce through her Rcr Pictures banner.Young adult tome follows a teenage boy who was born with the gift and the curse of being a time-traveler. After making a disastrous mistake, he's forced to travel from 2012 to 1995, where he falls in love with a 16-year-old girl from Illinois who's never had the freedom to go anywhere. While he can take her anywhere in the world at the speed of thought, the two opposites must conquer obstacles of reality and ...
- 9/2/2011
- BusinessofCinema
Shawn Levy is officially set to helm Fox's Frankenstein film, one of the half-dozen other projects based on the classic monster tale. Earlier we reported Levy (Real Steel) was in consideration to direct a script penned by Max Landis (Chronicle). The studio was considering a number of high-profile directors, including Paul Greengrass and David Yates. The project is said to be a revisionist sci-fi take on Mary Shelley's story, and will focus on themes of friendship and redemption.
Production dates have not been set for any of the Hollywood's numerous Frankensteins. Haley Joel Osment is set to star in Wake the Dead, a modern-day horror take based on Steven Niles' graphic novels. It was thought that this project to be directed by Jay Russell would be the first film to go into production. Fox has put this project as a priority and now with Levy's hiring this project coud...
Production dates have not been set for any of the Hollywood's numerous Frankensteins. Haley Joel Osment is set to star in Wake the Dead, a modern-day horror take based on Steven Niles' graphic novels. It was thought that this project to be directed by Jay Russell would be the first film to go into production. Fox has put this project as a priority and now with Levy's hiring this project coud...
- 9/1/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
24 Frames reports that Mark Wahlberg and a much recently trimmed down Jonah Hill have become attached to Good Time Gang, an original buddy cop action/comedy that is promised to be a ‘new spin on the Lethal Weapon franchise’.
The new take, it’s said, is to have a bigger emphasis on action over laughs. The story;
“follows two party-happy mercenaries who decide to take on a more serious case involving a terrorist, only to find their mission complicated when they discover one of them is related to the target.”
The film has been scripted by Max Landis (yes, the son of the legendary American Werewolf in London director John Landis) and is set up at the indie outfit Rcr Pictures, financed by world poker champion Chris Ferguson. Robin Schorr (Food Inc) will produce.
Buddy action/cop territory is no stranger a genre to either Wahlberg or Hill, especially recently...
The new take, it’s said, is to have a bigger emphasis on action over laughs. The story;
“follows two party-happy mercenaries who decide to take on a more serious case involving a terrorist, only to find their mission complicated when they discover one of them is related to the target.”
The film has been scripted by Max Landis (yes, the son of the legendary American Werewolf in London director John Landis) and is set up at the indie outfit Rcr Pictures, financed by world poker champion Chris Ferguson. Robin Schorr (Food Inc) will produce.
Buddy action/cop territory is no stranger a genre to either Wahlberg or Hill, especially recently...
- 7/8/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Discovery Channel and Steven Spielberg are at work on an animated miniseries called Future Earth, which will depict what life will look like in 25, 50, and 100 years. Will there be hover bikes?! [Variety] Diane Lane is set to star in Cinema Verite, HBO's upcoming film which looks behind-the-scenes of the groundbreaking 1970s documentary An American Family. Lane is playing Pat Loud, the matriarch of the family who asked her husband on air for a divorce. She must have discovered all his Ed Hardy wear. [THR] Comic-Con might remain in San Diego after all: Though talks began of moving the convention to a different...
- 4/9/2010
- by Kate Ward
- EW.com - PopWatch
Exclusive: World champion poker player Chris Ferguson is putting his chips on the table to back, Rcr Pictures, a new film/TV venture. The company will be run by producer and former River Road Entertainment executive Robin Schorr, who said she has raised the funding for overhead and a five-year revolving development fund to generate properties she'll package and then set up with distributors. The lead investors are Ferguson and his business partner, Ray Bitar. Schorr confirmed that the first project set up is a contemporary remake of Nevada Smith, the 1966 Western that starred Steve McQueen as a wronged man hellbent [...]...
- 4/9/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline Hollywood
While I've yet to see the doc myself (I reference Claire Denis' White Material when I think of what the film might hold narratively), when the Cinema Eye Honor Noms were released I was surprised to see that, despite the positive buzz, Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's Mugabe and the White African only manage to grab one nomination. Clearly the film is a favorite for the 2009 edition of the Ida Awards - it picked up three nominations in the Feature Documentary, ABCNews VideoSource Award an the Pare Lorentz Award categories. - While I've yet to see the doc myself (I reference Claire Denis' White Material when I think of what the film might hold narratively), when the Cinema Eye Honor Noms were released I was surprised to see that, despite the positive buzz, Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's Mugabe and the White African only manage to grab one nomination.
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- Mitch Horwits has been hired as president of indie production/financing outfit River Road Entertainment.
Horwits will report to River Road founder and CEO Bill Pohlad, whose company produced Focus Features' top grosser Brokeback Mountain and Picturehouse's A Prairie Home Companion. Working from Los Angeles, the former Spelling Films president will oversee day-to-day management while developing business and partnerships with studios and distributors.
River Road's core execs -- Robin Schorr, Frank Hildebrand and Deborah Zipser -- will now report to Horwits. Pohlad will continue to provide the overall strategic and creative direction for the company.
Horwits began his six-year stint at Spelling in 1993, helping it grow from a sales company handling one film a year to a full-service production and distribution company handling six films a year. Features developed under his tenure include Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects, Frank Oz's In and Out, the Wachowskis' Bound, Sidney Lumet's Night Falls on Manhattan, Richard Attenborough's Shadowlands and Robert Altman's Short Cuts.
The exec joined Constantin Film in 2000 as a producer and president supervising all English-language productions, including the Resident Evil franchise.
Horwits will report to River Road founder and CEO Bill Pohlad, whose company produced Focus Features' top grosser Brokeback Mountain and Picturehouse's A Prairie Home Companion. Working from Los Angeles, the former Spelling Films president will oversee day-to-day management while developing business and partnerships with studios and distributors.
River Road's core execs -- Robin Schorr, Frank Hildebrand and Deborah Zipser -- will now report to Horwits. Pohlad will continue to provide the overall strategic and creative direction for the company.
Horwits began his six-year stint at Spelling in 1993, helping it grow from a sales company handling one film a year to a full-service production and distribution company handling six films a year. Features developed under his tenure include Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects, Frank Oz's In and Out, the Wachowskis' Bound, Sidney Lumet's Night Falls on Manhattan, Richard Attenborough's Shadowlands and Robert Altman's Short Cuts.
The exec joined Constantin Film in 2000 as a producer and president supervising all English-language productions, including the Resident Evil franchise.
- 9/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
River Road Entertainment, riding high on the success of Brokeback Mountain and A Prairie Home Companion, is expanding its Los Angeles office with three key executive hires. The company, based in Minneapolis and Los Angeles, has appointed former Sobini Films president of production Robin Schorr as head of creative production, veteran producer and executive Frank Hildebrand as head of physical production and former Film Finance Corporation Australia investment manager Deborah Zipser as head of business affairs. The company also announced the appointment of Teodora Kerkeniakova as director of production and development. "We had a vision for River Road to not only make great films but also to build an environment that supports and nurtures distinctive and challenging films and filmmakers," company topper Bill Pohlad said. "Hopefully with films like 'Brokeback Mountain' and 'A Prairie Home Companion' we have started to deliver on the first part of that vision. Now, with the addition of this remarkably talented team, we're set to deliver on the rest."...
- 10/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nick Nolte is joining the cast of Peaceful Warrior, the adaptation of Dan Millman's Way of the Peaceful Warrior. The project begins filming this week in Los Angeles for Sobini Films and Blockbuster subsidiary DEJ Prods. with Inferno Distribution retaining international rights. Victor Salva, whose credits include the Jeepers Creepers movies, is directing the film from a screenplay by Kevin Bernhardt, Anthony DiPietro and Bob Dolman. Sobini's Mark Amin, Robin Schorr and Cami Winikoff are producing the film along with David Welch.
- 3/14/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Saved! writer-director Brian Dannelly has boarded Sobini Films' romantic comedy The Guided Man. Described as a modern Cyrano story, Guided Man is a romantic comedy about an introverted guy who comes to rely on a new service that allows someone to see, hear, feel and speak through him in order to give him confidence around women. The project is based on a 1952 story by L. Sprague De Camp and was adapted for the big screen by Steve Adams (Envy). Dannelly will further develop the script with his writing partner Michael Urban. The filmmakers are eyeing an early 2005 start. Sobini topper Mark Amin will produce along with Sobini president of production Robin Schorr and company president Cami Winikoff. Curtis Burch, who originally developed it and brought the script to Schorr, also will serve as a producer along with Kathleen Haase.
- 7/28/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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