Chris Smith’s “Devo” will open the ninth edition of Chicago’s Doc10 documentary film festival on May 2.
The film, which premiered at Sundance 2024, charts the life of the art-movement-turned-band Devo from Akron, Ohio, through archival footage of the band and candid sit-down interviews with band members. Smith follows the band on their journey from Dadaist, Kent State radicals to unlikely icons of 1980s MTV. Currently celebrating their 50 years of De-Evolution Tour, Devo band members will join Doc10 in a live, virtual Q&a moderated by Wxrt’s Marty Lennartz.
Doc10, a four-day fest running May 2-5, features a selection of 10 documentaries making their Chicago premieres along with a package of 10 prestigious documentary shorts. The fest is hosted by Chicago Media Project, a company that has generated more than $8.5 million in funding for documentary projects. Cmp has directly supported over 150 films including “Icarus,” “Crip Camp” and most recently “Gaucho, Gaucho,...
The film, which premiered at Sundance 2024, charts the life of the art-movement-turned-band Devo from Akron, Ohio, through archival footage of the band and candid sit-down interviews with band members. Smith follows the band on their journey from Dadaist, Kent State radicals to unlikely icons of 1980s MTV. Currently celebrating their 50 years of De-Evolution Tour, Devo band members will join Doc10 in a live, virtual Q&a moderated by Wxrt’s Marty Lennartz.
Doc10, a four-day fest running May 2-5, features a selection of 10 documentaries making their Chicago premieres along with a package of 10 prestigious documentary shorts. The fest is hosted by Chicago Media Project, a company that has generated more than $8.5 million in funding for documentary projects. Cmp has directly supported over 150 films including “Icarus,” “Crip Camp” and most recently “Gaucho, Gaucho,...
- 4/3/2024
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has confirmed its acquisition of Daughters, winner of Sundance’s Festival Favorite and Audience Award: US Documentary awards.
‘Daughters’: Sundance Review
Angela Patton and Natalie Rae co-directed the film, which follows four young girls as they prepare for a Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers as part of a prison fatherhood programme in Washington, D.C.
Lisa Mazzotta, Rae, Justin Benoliel, Mindy Goldberg, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, Laura Choi Raycroft, and James Cunningham served as producers. Kerry Washington Patton, and Joel Edgerton are among the executive producers.
This marks the third Netflix buy out of Sundance after...
‘Daughters’: Sundance Review
Angela Patton and Natalie Rae co-directed the film, which follows four young girls as they prepare for a Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers as part of a prison fatherhood programme in Washington, D.C.
Lisa Mazzotta, Rae, Justin Benoliel, Mindy Goldberg, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, Laura Choi Raycroft, and James Cunningham served as producers. Kerry Washington Patton, and Joel Edgerton are among the executive producers.
This marks the third Netflix buy out of Sundance after...
- 1/31/2024
- ScreenDaily
Natalie Rae and Angela Patton’s “Daughters,” an acclaimed documentary about a program that allows young girls to participate in a special dance with their incarcerated fathers, is finalizing a sale to Netflix. If the deal closes, it is expected to be in the seven-figure range. It was a competitive situation with at least three companies circling the picture.
“Daughters” premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award in Documentary Competition and was named overall Festival Favorite. The film took eight years to produce.
In a rave review in Variety, Lisa Kennedy praised “Daughters,” writing that the film adds “depth and dimension to stories of incarceration.” Kennedy added: “The film is rife with visually lyrical moments that connect viewers with the young ones’ sorrows, fears, insights and hopes. In the hands of the directors, cinematographer Michael Cambio Fernandez and editors Troy Lewis and Adelina Bichis,...
“Daughters” premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award in Documentary Competition and was named overall Festival Favorite. The film took eight years to produce.
In a rave review in Variety, Lisa Kennedy praised “Daughters,” writing that the film adds “depth and dimension to stories of incarceration.” Kennedy added: “The film is rife with visually lyrical moments that connect viewers with the young ones’ sorrows, fears, insights and hopes. In the hands of the directors, cinematographer Michael Cambio Fernandez and editors Troy Lewis and Adelina Bichis,...
- 1/30/2024
- by Brent Lang and Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival winners are in, with films like “In the Summers,” “Didi,” and “Daughters” dominating across the categories. “In the Summers” filmmaker Alessandra Lacorazza, whose film centers on a fractured family in New Mexico, also won the Directing prize in U.S. Dramatic.
On Friday, January 26, the winners of juried prizes were shared out of the competition sections, including the U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, World Cinema Documentary Competition, and the Next lineup.
The 2024 Sundance jury consisted of 16 filmmakers and artists across all sections, with the U.S. Dramatic Competition jury made up of “Winter’s Bone” director/co-writer Debra Granik, “Shortcomings” screenwriter Adrian Tomine, and “Master of None” producer Lena Waithe.
“Navalny” producer Shane Boris, “The Disappearance of Shere Hite” director Nicole Newnham, and “The Sentence” director Rudy Valdez serve on the U.S. Documentary Competition jury, with “The Babadook” director Jennifer Kent,...
On Friday, January 26, the winners of juried prizes were shared out of the competition sections, including the U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, World Cinema Documentary Competition, and the Next lineup.
The 2024 Sundance jury consisted of 16 filmmakers and artists across all sections, with the U.S. Dramatic Competition jury made up of “Winter’s Bone” director/co-writer Debra Granik, “Shortcomings” screenwriter Adrian Tomine, and “Master of None” producer Lena Waithe.
“Navalny” producer Shane Boris, “The Disappearance of Shere Hite” director Nicole Newnham, and “The Sentence” director Rudy Valdez serve on the U.S. Documentary Competition jury, with “The Babadook” director Jennifer Kent,...
- 1/26/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson and Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
By Monday afternoon, the buzz hit Main Street: the Seinfelds have arrived at the Sundance Film Festival.
The superstar comedian accompanied his wife, Jessica Seinfeld, to Park City for the world premiere of her Sundance documentary Daughters, held just after noon Monday at the Ray Theatre. And what an event it proved to be. “Daughters received multiple standing ovations at our sold-out premiere today,” Jessica shared on Instagram Stories along with a video showing a packed crowd on its feet. The film marks the entrepreneur, author and philanthropist’s first feature film.
Daughters, directed by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, focuses a lens on four young girls — Aubrey, Santana, Raziah and Ja’Ana — as they prep for a special daddy-daughter dance with their incarcerated fathers as part of a unique program in a Washington D.C. jail. Per Sundance literature, Daughters is a result of an eight-year doc journey for its filmmakers.
The superstar comedian accompanied his wife, Jessica Seinfeld, to Park City for the world premiere of her Sundance documentary Daughters, held just after noon Monday at the Ray Theatre. And what an event it proved to be. “Daughters received multiple standing ovations at our sold-out premiere today,” Jessica shared on Instagram Stories along with a video showing a packed crowd on its feet. The film marks the entrepreneur, author and philanthropist’s first feature film.
Daughters, directed by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, focuses a lens on four young girls — Aubrey, Santana, Raziah and Ja’Ana — as they prep for a special daddy-daughter dance with their incarcerated fathers as part of a unique program in a Washington D.C. jail. Per Sundance literature, Daughters is a result of an eight-year doc journey for its filmmakers.
- 1/23/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Actress Kerry Washington is boarding the Sundance documentary Daughters as an executive producer, joining a roster of EPs that includes fellow actor Joel Edgerton, and author-philanthropist Jessica Seinfeld, wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
The film directed by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae focuses on four young girls as they prepare “for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.” Daughters premieres in U.S. Documentary Competition on Monday.
‘Daughters’
“A moving lesson in empathy and forgiveness, Daughters is a result of an eight-year documentary journey that filmmaker Natalie Rae and Angela Patton, an activist advocating for ‘at-promise’ girls, embarked upon,” notes the Sundance program. “As Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana get ready for the special event, they speak candidly about their hopes, dreams, and disappointments. There is an innate wisdom and honesty to what...
The film directed by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae focuses on four young girls as they prepare “for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.” Daughters premieres in U.S. Documentary Competition on Monday.
‘Daughters’
“A moving lesson in empathy and forgiveness, Daughters is a result of an eight-year documentary journey that filmmaker Natalie Rae and Angela Patton, an activist advocating for ‘at-promise’ girls, embarked upon,” notes the Sundance program. “As Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana get ready for the special event, they speak candidly about their hopes, dreams, and disappointments. There is an innate wisdom and honesty to what...
- 1/19/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: La-based Spotlight Pictures heads to Berlin with two new titles on its sales roster.
"Chloe & Theo" Trailer from Spotlight Pictures on Vimeo.
Chloe & Theo stars Dakota Johnson, who heads to Berlin for the February 11 international premiere of the highly anticipated erotic adaptation and Berlinale Special Gala Fifty Shades Of Grey.
Miro Sorvino and Theo Ikummaq also star in Chloe & Theo, which boasts Richard Branson as executive producer and centres on a homeless girl in New York who befriends an Inuit from the Arctic on a mission to convince the leaders of the industrialised world to act on climate change. Ezna Sands directed.
Goodbye To All That from director Angus MacLachlan stars Paul Schneider, Heather Graham, Melanie Lynskey, Anna Camp and Ashley Hinshaw.
Mindy Goldberg and Anne Carey produced the comedy about a hapless man who re-enters the dating pool after his wife suddenly asks for a divorce.
Schneider was named best actor when the film premiered...
"Chloe & Theo" Trailer from Spotlight Pictures on Vimeo.
Chloe & Theo stars Dakota Johnson, who heads to Berlin for the February 11 international premiere of the highly anticipated erotic adaptation and Berlinale Special Gala Fifty Shades Of Grey.
Miro Sorvino and Theo Ikummaq also star in Chloe & Theo, which boasts Richard Branson as executive producer and centres on a homeless girl in New York who befriends an Inuit from the Arctic on a mission to convince the leaders of the industrialised world to act on climate change. Ezna Sands directed.
Goodbye To All That from director Angus MacLachlan stars Paul Schneider, Heather Graham, Melanie Lynskey, Anna Camp and Ashley Hinshaw.
Mindy Goldberg and Anne Carey produced the comedy about a hapless man who re-enters the dating pool after his wife suddenly asks for a divorce.
Schneider was named best actor when the film premiered...
- 2/1/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films has acquired North American rights to writer/director Angus MacLachlan’s Goodbye to All That, starring Paul Schneider and Anna Camp, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where Schneider was named best actor. Michael Chernus, Heather Graham, Ashley Hinshaw, Heather Lawless, Melanie Lynskey, Audrey Scott, Amy Sedaris and Celia Weston also appear in the film, which looks at marriage, fatherhood and life in the Internet age. The film was produced by Mindy Goldberg and Anne Carey and executive produced by Mark Clein, Ethan Leder and MacLachlan. Read more IFC Renews Marc Maron Comedy for Third Season IFC is planning
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- 9/30/2014
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The distributor has acquired North American rights to Angus MacLachlan’s Tribeca ensemble drama starring Paul Schneider, Heather Graham, Melanie Lynskey and Amy Sedaris.
MacLachlan write the screenplay about a suburban man and father whose marriage falls apart and is thrust into the world of dating.
Schneider won the best actor in a narrative feature award at Tribeca.
Anna Camp, Audrey Scott, Michael Chernus, Ashley Hinshaw, Heather Lawless and Celia Weston also star.
Mindy Goldberg produced with Anne Carey and Mark Clein, Ethan Leder and MacLachlan served as executive producers.
IFC negotiated the deal with ICM Partners on behalf of the filmmakers and has set a December day-and-date release.
MacLachlan write the screenplay about a suburban man and father whose marriage falls apart and is thrust into the world of dating.
Schneider won the best actor in a narrative feature award at Tribeca.
Anna Camp, Audrey Scott, Michael Chernus, Ashley Hinshaw, Heather Lawless and Celia Weston also star.
Mindy Goldberg produced with Anne Carey and Mark Clein, Ethan Leder and MacLachlan served as executive producers.
IFC negotiated the deal with ICM Partners on behalf of the filmmakers and has set a December day-and-date release.
- 9/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Oscilloscope Laboratories has scooped up North American rights to director Jeff Preiss' jazz biopic-of-sorts "Low Down," starring John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Glenn Close and Peter Dinklage. In this winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Best Cinematography award, Hawkes plays modern American jazz pianist Joe Albany. "Low Down" unfolds through the eyes of his daughter Amy-Joe, played by Elle Fanning, as she watches her father succumb to heroin addiction amid the emerging jazz scene of the '60s and '70s. Notably, Amy-Jo Albany (also an Ep) cowrote the screenplay with Topper Lilien. "Low Down" was produced by Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa of Bona Fide Productions, and Mindy Goldberg of Epoch Films. The film is heading to New York's BAMcinemafest in New York in June. Reviews are split, but comparisons have been drawn to "Requiem for a Dream" as a harrowing portrayal of addiction. The cast, alone, should make this a must-see.
- 5/7/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
While 2013 gave us Inside Llewyn Davis, 2014 will give us Low Down. I’m thinking that photographer/ethnographic documentarian/commercials and video director Jeff Preiss’ debut film will be something of an event. Taking the shape of a biographic tale not surprisingly related to American music scene, the drama should be ready for show – as it was filmed in March of this year. Lena Headey, Taryn Manning, Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning, Burn Gorman, Caleb Landry Jones, Glenn Close, Tim Daly and John Hawkes who’ll take center stage once again.
Gist: Written by Topper Lilien and Amy Albany (based on Amy Albany’s memoir), this is a look at the life of pianist Joe Albany from the perspective of his young daughter, as she watches him contend with his drug addiction during the 1960s and ’70s jazz scene.
Production Co./Producers: Bona Fide Productions’ Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa (Nebraska), Epoch Films’ Mindy Goldberg (Junebug)
Prediction: U.
Gist: Written by Topper Lilien and Amy Albany (based on Amy Albany’s memoir), this is a look at the life of pianist Joe Albany from the perspective of his young daughter, as she watches him contend with his drug addiction during the 1960s and ’70s jazz scene.
Production Co./Producers: Bona Fide Productions’ Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa (Nebraska), Epoch Films’ Mindy Goldberg (Junebug)
Prediction: U.
- 11/20/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Technically part of the extended Sundance family when Junebug landed there in 2005, scribe Angus MacLachlan moved from screenwriting to full fledged filmmaker in 2012 when filming commenced on Goodbye to All That. The North Carolina shot flick began filming in October 2012, is loaded with talent behind the camera in Production Designer Chad Keith (Take Shelter) and Cinematographer Corey Walter (Meek’s Cutoff) and the producing pair of Park City vets Anne Carey and Mindy Goldberg, while in front of the camera we got a mixed bag featuring Paul Schneider and a slew of women players in Melanie Lynskey, Heather Lawless, Heather Graham, Amy Sedaris, Anna Camp, Ashley Hinshaw and Celia Weston.
Gist: A recently divorced dad named Otto (Paul Schneider) who starts a new life with his daughter.
Production Co./Producers: Archer Gray’s Anne Carey (Adventureland), Epoch Films’ Mindy Goldberg (Gigantic)
Prediction: If there is enough space this year, this could crack the U.
Gist: A recently divorced dad named Otto (Paul Schneider) who starts a new life with his daughter.
Production Co./Producers: Archer Gray’s Anne Carey (Adventureland), Epoch Films’ Mindy Goldberg (Gigantic)
Prediction: If there is enough space this year, this could crack the U.
- 11/19/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Heather Graham, Amy Sedaris, Melanie Lynskey, Paul Schneider, Heather Lawless, Anna Camp, Ashley Hinshaw and Celia Weston have all joined the cast of "Goodbye to All That" at Epoch Films says Variety.
The story explores what happens to a man unexpectedly divorced by his wife and forced to adapt to a new life. This includes balancing the well-being of his daughter with his newly-complicated sex life.
"Junebug" scribe Angus MacLachlan penned the screenplay and is attached to make his directorial debut. Mindy Goldberg and Anne Carey will produce, while shooting kicks off in North Carolina in mid-October.
The story explores what happens to a man unexpectedly divorced by his wife and forced to adapt to a new life. This includes balancing the well-being of his daughter with his newly-complicated sex life.
"Junebug" scribe Angus MacLachlan penned the screenplay and is attached to make his directorial debut. Mindy Goldberg and Anne Carey will produce, while shooting kicks off in North Carolina in mid-October.
- 10/5/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Epoch Films has set a mid-October production start for Goodbye To All That, with Junebug scribe Angus MacLachlan making his directing debut on his script. The film stars Paul Schneider, Melanie Lynskey, Heather Lawless, Heather Graham, Amy Sedaris, Anna Camp, Ashley Hinshaw and Celia Weston and focuses on what happens to a man after he is unexpectedly divorced by his wife and forced to create a new life with his daughter in tow. It shoots in North Carolina. Epoch’s Mindy Goldberg and Anne Carey are producing and Mark Clein and Ethan Leder of Rc Pictures are executive producing. They all worked with MacLachlan on Junebug.
- 10/5/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Boyd Holbrook who starred as Kevin Costner's son in Hatfields & McCoys, has joined the Little Accidents drama. Variety reports that Sara Colangelo who made the 2010 short of the same name which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Fest, will script as well as direct the feature film version. Epoch Films' Mindy Goldberg produces the film alongside Anne Carey (Adventureland) with a story set in a small U.S. mining town which suffers from a tragic mining accident, leaving 12 men dead. The story focuses on the tragedy and redemption, interweaving the lives of three people. Holbrook plays a lone survivor, the others are a mourning mother and a fourteen-year-old boy who has his own secrets.
- 10/4/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Boyd Holbrook who starred as Kevin Costner's son in Hatfields & McCoys, has joined the Little Accidents drama. Variety reports that Sara Colangelo who made the 2010 short of the same name which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Fest, will script as well as direct the feature film version. Epoch Films' Mindy Goldberg produces the film alongside Anne Carey (Adventureland) with a story set in a small U.S. mining town which suffers from a tragic mining accident, leaving 12 men dead. The story focuses on the tragedy and redemption, interweaving the lives of three people. Holbrook plays a lone survivor, the others are a mourning mother and a fourteen-year-old boy who has his own secrets.
- 10/4/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Los Angeles, California (X17online) - Oscar winner and cookbook author Gwyneth Paltrow is in negotiations to star in the indie flick Blood, Bones & Butter, based on Gabrielle Hamilton’s 2011 foodie memoir. Hamilton is owner and chef of New York's Prune restaurant, and the book chronicles her unconventional background as well as "her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Blood, Bones & Butter is described as being similar to Julie & Julia, the 2009 hit which starred Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as blogger Julie Powell, who set out to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. Rodrigo Teixeira, Anne Carey and Mindy Goldberg will produce the film, which is currently out to writers to adapt.
- 7/19/2012
- x17online.com
Gwyneth Paltrow is set to star in an adaptation of Blood, Bones & Butter. Written by restaurant owner and chef Gabrielle Hamilton, the 2011 memoir follows her unconventional childhood and her journey into cookery as a profession. Paltrow is in talks to star as Hamilton, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film's producers include Anne Carey (Adventureland) and Mindy Goldberg (Junebug). (more)...
- 7/19/2012
- by By Emma Dibdin
- Digital Spy
Mark Ruffalo is set to play jazz pianist Joe Albany in a new movie. The 'Kids Are Alright' actor will executive produce and star in independent film 'Low Down', which follows the musician's life and relationship with his 11-year-old daughter Amy. The film will be told from Amy's point of view as she witnesses her father's rise to success and subsequent descent into heroin addiction, though a young actress has not yet been chosen for the role. Amy - whose father died in 1988 aged 63 - has written the script with Topper Lilien, based on her memoir of the same name. Jeff Preiss will make his feature film directorial debut on the project, with Albert Berget and Rob Yerxa serving as producers alongside Mindy Goldberg. Production is scheduled to begin on the movie later this year, although there is no release date yet. Mark can next be seen in 'Sympathy for Delicious',...
- 3/14/2011
- by Zoé Berger
- Bloginity
Anne Carey, who started independent production shingle This Is That with Ted Hope, Anthony Bregman and Diana Victor, has entered into a "strategic partnership" with Epoch Films. The goal is to significantly expand Epoch's film and TV operations, per founding partner Mindy Goldberg. Carey will oversee Epoch's roster of directors and grow the company's development slate, and will tap Epoch's development fund to expand the company's slate. Epoch produced Junebug and Gigantic and is developing Low Down for a late 2011 stars, produced by Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa. Carey's producing credits include The American, Adventureland and The Savages. She continues on the projects she was developing, including the Lynn Shelton-directed Then We Came To The End, which Hope is also producing. UTA repped Carey.
- 3/1/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The trailer for Gigantic which stars Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel and writtern and directed by first-timer Matt Aselton has just debuted at Apple after having a rather quiet debut at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. However, judging by a trio of reviews I snagged off the Internet it doesn't appear like all is lost as only one review appears to be primarily negative while the other two may best be described as passive with a certain audience in mind. The film centers on a mattress salesman named Brian Weathersby (Dano) who finds his plan to adopt a Chinese baby augmented by the arrival of a young woman, Happy (Deschanel), who comes into his workplace, falls asleep on one of the beds, and starts to affect his life upon waking up. Also starring in the film are John Goodman, Ed Asner, Jane Alexander and Ian Roberts. Here are...
- 2/27/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
First Independent Pictures has picked up domestic rights to "Gigantic," Matt Aselton's comedy which stars Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Ed Asner and Jane Alexander. Dano executive produces and plays Brian who wants to adopt an Asian baby and ends up falling for Deschanel's character Happy. Asner plays Brian's dope smoking pal and Goodman his domineering father.The film premiered at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. The deal was closed after the film screened this past weekend at the American Film Market. Mindy Goldberg of Epoch Films and Killer Films' Christine Vachon produced whilst Scott Ferguson, Jeff Preiss, Jerry Soloman and John Wells executive produced with Dano.
- 11/11/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
One of the few good films of the recent Toronto Film Festival Gigantic has been picked up by L.A based distributors, First Independent Pictures and the film is set to for release in Spring 2009 according to Variety.
The film was directed and co written by first time feature filmmaker Matt Aselton and Adam Nagata was his writing partner and executive producer by lead actor Paul Dano. Paul had fallen in love with the script and wanted to help out and star in the film. The main producers are Christine Vachon and Mindy Goldberg.
Gigantic centers around a mattress store employee who has a strange obsession with adopting an Asian baby, but complicates this plan when he falls for an odd girl played by Zoey Deschanel who inadvertently becomes...
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The film was directed and co written by first time feature filmmaker Matt Aselton and Adam Nagata was his writing partner and executive producer by lead actor Paul Dano. Paul had fallen in love with the script and wanted to help out and star in the film. The main producers are Christine Vachon and Mindy Goldberg.
Gigantic centers around a mattress store employee who has a strange obsession with adopting an Asian baby, but complicates this plan when he falls for an odd girl played by Zoey Deschanel who inadvertently becomes...
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- 11/11/2008
- by John
- ReelSuave.com
NEW YORK -- John Goodman, Ed Asner and Jane Alexander are joining Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel in the indie romantic comedy Gigantic.
Dano will play Brian, a depressed mattress salesman whose quest to adopt a Chinese baby is sidetracked when he falls for Happy (Deschanel).
Asner will play Brian's pot-smoking, gangsta rap-loving father, and Alexander is set as his long-suffering mother. Goodman will play Happy's brilliant, domineering dad.
Mindy Goldberg of Epoch Films and Christine Vachon of Killer Films are producing the project, which begins shooting today in New York. Dano is executive producing.
Director Matt Aselton co-wrote the script with Adam Nagata. Harrison Kordestani and Marina Martins of Lexicon/Machine Made are financing and Cinetic Media is repping domestic sales.
Goodman is repped by Gersh. Asner is repped by Michael Greene and manager Perry Zimel. Alexander is repped by WMA.
Dano will play Brian, a depressed mattress salesman whose quest to adopt a Chinese baby is sidetracked when he falls for Happy (Deschanel).
Asner will play Brian's pot-smoking, gangsta rap-loving father, and Alexander is set as his long-suffering mother. Goodman will play Happy's brilliant, domineering dad.
Mindy Goldberg of Epoch Films and Christine Vachon of Killer Films are producing the project, which begins shooting today in New York. Dano is executive producing.
Director Matt Aselton co-wrote the script with Adam Nagata. Harrison Kordestani and Marina Martins of Lexicon/Machine Made are financing and Cinetic Media is repping domestic sales.
Goodman is repped by Gersh. Asner is repped by Michael Greene and manager Perry Zimel. Alexander is repped by WMA.
Paul Dano, coming off his featured role in There Will Be Blood, will star in and executive produce Gigantic, an offbeat romantic comedy being helmed by first-time director Matt Aselton. Zooey Deschanel will also star in the indie feature.
Killer Films' Christine Vachon and Charles Pugliese are producing, as is Mindy Goldberg of Epoch Films.
Written by Aselton and Adam Nagata, the script revolves around a mattress salesman and a young woman he meets at his store.
Production is tentatively set for early March in New York. Machine Made Media is financing.
After Gigantic, Dano will segue to the indie feature The Good Heart, which reunites him with Brian Cox; the two starred in Michael Cuesta's L.I.E. Shooting on Heart is scheduled for New York and Iceland at the end of April. Heart revolves around an abrasive barman (Cox) and a young homeless man (Dano) who becomes his protege.
Dano caught the industry's attention with his work in Little Miss Sunshine, which he followed up with the characters of Paul and Eli Sunday in Blood. He is repped by Gersh and Industry Entertainment.
Killer Films' Christine Vachon and Charles Pugliese are producing, as is Mindy Goldberg of Epoch Films.
Written by Aselton and Adam Nagata, the script revolves around a mattress salesman and a young woman he meets at his store.
Production is tentatively set for early March in New York. Machine Made Media is financing.
After Gigantic, Dano will segue to the indie feature The Good Heart, which reunites him with Brian Cox; the two starred in Michael Cuesta's L.I.E. Shooting on Heart is scheduled for New York and Iceland at the end of April. Heart revolves around an abrasive barman (Cox) and a young homeless man (Dano) who becomes his protege.
Dano caught the industry's attention with his work in Little Miss Sunshine, which he followed up with the characters of Paul and Eli Sunday in Blood. He is repped by Gersh and Industry Entertainment.
- 2/27/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARK CITY -- Members of the chattering class (and there are a few here at Sundance) might reference this Southern set charmer as being filmed in the Mayberry area of North Carolina, where Andy and Barney lived. That's true, but as this fine film shows, upscale yuppie referencing is often a tad shallow, especially when understanding such regions as the South. A lilting family story, "Junebug" will be savored by viewers who appreciate the rhythms, pauses and family ties of a part of the country that does not pay attention to the "wisdom" or mores of the New York Times crowd.
Most people don't notice the junebug either, unless they are plastered against the grill of their car. Aptly, this smart and simple story uses that early summer swarmer as a fitting symbol for the presence of things that are not readily seen or understood and surely never appreciated.
In simple story terms, "Junebug" centers on an alien invasion: A pair of upscale married Chicagoans venture down South because Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz) has "discovered" a painter that she wishes to represent. It's fortuitous because her new husband, George (Alessandro Nivola), grew up just down the road a piece from the eccentric artist. So the newlyweds decide to kill two birds with one stone and visit George's family.
Madeleine has been raised as a diplomat's daughter and smugly loves "folk art" and the "Old South". It doesn't take long for George's family -- Mom, Dad and his twentysomething brother and sister-in-law who still live at home -- to appreciate that she is a "slicker." In a series of amusing scenes, Madeleine cultivates the eccentric artist (whom the locals admire as just another colorful coot) all the while jabbering away on her cell to the cultural elite. Not surprisingly, she ruffles a few feathers and gets her own wings clipped.
Yet "Junebug" is not merely a sitcom of cultural clash. Screenwriter Angus Maclachlan has delicately etched a compelling portrait of a way of life whose decencies and simplicities are often dismissed as being "unsophisticated." In like spirit, director Phil Morrison has succinctly depicted the richness of seemingly open green spaces, the genuineness of small-town suburban community. It's sometimes said that Southerners rejoice in their eccentrics and put them out on the porch for full display, rather than push them in the closet. Indeed, the filmmakers have given us a nicely filled porch.
The acting is graceful and rich, beginning with Amy Adams as a good-hearted chatterbox who is pregnant and living with her deadbeat husband's parents (Celia Weston, Scott Wilson). Davidtz hits all the right false notes as the condescending culture vulture. As her newly acquired husband, Nivola is outstanding as a young man who has left his old world and now struggles with new equilibrium, while Ben McKenzie is aptly sullen as the resentful "other" son.
Technical contributions are succinct and solid, reflective of the filmmaking talent in the Raleigh-Durham area.
Junebug
Epoch Films
Credits: Producers: Mindy Goldberg, Mike S. Ryan
Director: Phil Morrison
Screenwriter: Angus Maclachlan
Executive producers: Mark P. Clein, Ethan D. Leder, Daniel Rappaport, Dany Wolf
Director of photography: Peter Donahue
Production designer: David Doernberg
Editor: Joe Klotz
Costume designer: Danielle Kays
Music: Yo La Tengo
Casting: Mark Bennett
Cast:
Ashley: Embeth Davidtz
Johnny: Ben McKenzie
George: Alessandro Nivola
Peg: Celia Weston
Eugene: Scott Wilson
David Wark: Frank Hoyt Taylor
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 102 minutes...
Most people don't notice the junebug either, unless they are plastered against the grill of their car. Aptly, this smart and simple story uses that early summer swarmer as a fitting symbol for the presence of things that are not readily seen or understood and surely never appreciated.
In simple story terms, "Junebug" centers on an alien invasion: A pair of upscale married Chicagoans venture down South because Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz) has "discovered" a painter that she wishes to represent. It's fortuitous because her new husband, George (Alessandro Nivola), grew up just down the road a piece from the eccentric artist. So the newlyweds decide to kill two birds with one stone and visit George's family.
Madeleine has been raised as a diplomat's daughter and smugly loves "folk art" and the "Old South". It doesn't take long for George's family -- Mom, Dad and his twentysomething brother and sister-in-law who still live at home -- to appreciate that she is a "slicker." In a series of amusing scenes, Madeleine cultivates the eccentric artist (whom the locals admire as just another colorful coot) all the while jabbering away on her cell to the cultural elite. Not surprisingly, she ruffles a few feathers and gets her own wings clipped.
Yet "Junebug" is not merely a sitcom of cultural clash. Screenwriter Angus Maclachlan has delicately etched a compelling portrait of a way of life whose decencies and simplicities are often dismissed as being "unsophisticated." In like spirit, director Phil Morrison has succinctly depicted the richness of seemingly open green spaces, the genuineness of small-town suburban community. It's sometimes said that Southerners rejoice in their eccentrics and put them out on the porch for full display, rather than push them in the closet. Indeed, the filmmakers have given us a nicely filled porch.
The acting is graceful and rich, beginning with Amy Adams as a good-hearted chatterbox who is pregnant and living with her deadbeat husband's parents (Celia Weston, Scott Wilson). Davidtz hits all the right false notes as the condescending culture vulture. As her newly acquired husband, Nivola is outstanding as a young man who has left his old world and now struggles with new equilibrium, while Ben McKenzie is aptly sullen as the resentful "other" son.
Technical contributions are succinct and solid, reflective of the filmmaking talent in the Raleigh-Durham area.
Junebug
Epoch Films
Credits: Producers: Mindy Goldberg, Mike S. Ryan
Director: Phil Morrison
Screenwriter: Angus Maclachlan
Executive producers: Mark P. Clein, Ethan D. Leder, Daniel Rappaport, Dany Wolf
Director of photography: Peter Donahue
Production designer: David Doernberg
Editor: Joe Klotz
Costume designer: Danielle Kays
Music: Yo La Tengo
Casting: Mark Bennett
Cast:
Ashley: Embeth Davidtz
Johnny: Ben McKenzie
George: Alessandro Nivola
Peg: Celia Weston
Eugene: Scott Wilson
David Wark: Frank Hoyt Taylor
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 102 minutes...
- 1/28/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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