Exclusive: Artists First has signed actor Brandon Micheal Hall for management.
Hall is perhaps best known for his breakout role opposite Alia Shawkat in the acclaimed TBS/HBO Max series Search Party, created by Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charlies Rogers and Michael Showalter, which ran for five seasons.
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During the course of that dark comedy’s run, he also led the Humanitas Prize-winning CBS drama God Friended Me from EP Greg Berlanti, as well as ABC’s half-hour comedy The Mayor exec produced by Jeremy Bronson, Daveed Diggs and Jamie Tarses.
Hall is a graduate of Juilliard, the British American Drama Academy, and the South Carolina Governor School of the Arts and Humanities,...
Hall is perhaps best known for his breakout role opposite Alia Shawkat in the acclaimed TBS/HBO Max series Search Party, created by Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charlies Rogers and Michael Showalter, which ran for five seasons.
Related Story ‘Perry Mason’ And ‘Halo’ Director Jessica Lowrey Signs With Range Media Partners Related Story Sugar Ray Leonard Signs With Artists First Related Story Behind The Scenes Of Zach Cregger's Extraordinary 'Weapons' Auction & Its Aftermath: The Dish
During the course of that dark comedy’s run, he also led the Humanitas Prize-winning CBS drama God Friended Me from EP Greg Berlanti, as well as ABC’s half-hour comedy The Mayor exec produced by Jeremy Bronson, Daveed Diggs and Jamie Tarses.
Hall is a graduate of Juilliard, the British American Drama Academy, and the South Carolina Governor School of the Arts and Humanities,...
- 2/15/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Director / Producer / Showrunner Greg Yaitanes discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Innerspace (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, The Atomo-Vision Of Joe Dante At The American Cinematheque
The Ipcress File (1965) – Howard Rodman’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
On The Border (1998)
Hard Justice (1995)
Rorschach (1993)
Hard Target (1993)
Hard Boiled (1992)
Risky Business (1983)
Assault Platoon (1990)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Star Wars (1977)
All That Jazz (1979) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Star 80 (1983)
Lenny (1974) – Robert Weide’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing
The Pope Of Greenwich Village (1984)
Southern Comfort (1981)
The Trial (1962) – Joe Dante’s trailer commentary
How To Train Your Dragon (2010)
Babylon (2022)
Hitman’s Run (1999)
Birdy (1984)
The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988)
The Paper House (1986)
A History Of Violence (2005)
The Passion Of The Christ (2004)
Hail Mary (1985)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Double Tap (1997)
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Die Hard (1988)
Heat (1995)
Manhunter (1986) – Josh Olson’s...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Innerspace (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, The Atomo-Vision Of Joe Dante At The American Cinematheque
The Ipcress File (1965) – Howard Rodman’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
On The Border (1998)
Hard Justice (1995)
Rorschach (1993)
Hard Target (1993)
Hard Boiled (1992)
Risky Business (1983)
Assault Platoon (1990)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Star Wars (1977)
All That Jazz (1979) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
Star 80 (1983)
Lenny (1974) – Robert Weide’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing
The Pope Of Greenwich Village (1984)
Southern Comfort (1981)
The Trial (1962) – Joe Dante’s trailer commentary
How To Train Your Dragon (2010)
Babylon (2022)
Hitman’s Run (1999)
Birdy (1984)
The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988)
The Paper House (1986)
A History Of Violence (2005)
The Passion Of The Christ (2004)
Hail Mary (1985)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Double Tap (1997)
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Die Hard (1988)
Heat (1995)
Manhunter (1986) – Josh Olson’s...
- 1/31/2023
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Exclusive: Jimmi Simpson (Pachinko) and Clancy Brown (Dexter: New Blood) have boarded Audrey’s Children — the biopic that Ami Canaan Mann (Texas Killing Fields) is directing for Amasia Entertainment (Wild Mountain Thyme) and Resonate Entertainment (Sitting in Bars with Cake) — with Brandon Micheal Hall (Search Party), Julianna Layne (Prodigal Son), Ben Chase (The Thing About Pam) and Evelyn Giovine (The Crowded Room) also signing on for roles.
The film currently in production in Philadelphia tells the story of Dr. Audrey Evans (Natalie Dormer), the revolutionary pediatric oncologist best known as the co-founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities — the world-famous organization that provides housing and support to millions of families in 62 countries around the world. Pic’s set in 1969 and follows her as she bursts onto the scene as the Chief of Pediatric Oncology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, when the survival rate for children with cancer was less than 10. In...
The film currently in production in Philadelphia tells the story of Dr. Audrey Evans (Natalie Dormer), the revolutionary pediatric oncologist best known as the co-founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities — the world-famous organization that provides housing and support to millions of families in 62 countries around the world. Pic’s set in 1969 and follows her as she bursts onto the scene as the Chief of Pediatric Oncology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, when the survival rate for children with cancer was less than 10. In...
- 9/12/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Naomie Harris (Moonlight) and Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) have been tapped to lead the psychological thriller The Wasp, which BAFTA winner and two-time nominee Guillem Morales (Inside No. 9) is directing for XYZ Films.
The film based on Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play of the same name, which ran in 2015 at London’s Hampstead Theatre, follows Heather (Harris) and Carla (Dormer), who agree to meet after having not spoken in years. Over tea, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition that will change their lives forever.
Malcolm adapted the screenplay for the film, slated to enter production in Bath, UK in November. Nate Bolotin and Maxime Cottray will produce for XYZ Films, along with James Harris and Leonora Darby of Tea Shop Productions, Sean Sorensen of Royal Viking Entertainment, and Matthew B. Schmidt of Paradise City Films. XYZ is financing, in association with Ipr.Vc, and handling worldwide sales at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.
The film based on Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play of the same name, which ran in 2015 at London’s Hampstead Theatre, follows Heather (Harris) and Carla (Dormer), who agree to meet after having not spoken in years. Over tea, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition that will change their lives forever.
Malcolm adapted the screenplay for the film, slated to enter production in Bath, UK in November. Nate Bolotin and Maxime Cottray will produce for XYZ Films, along with James Harris and Leonora Darby of Tea Shop Productions, Sean Sorensen of Royal Viking Entertainment, and Matthew B. Schmidt of Paradise City Films. XYZ is financing, in association with Ipr.Vc, and handling worldwide sales at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.
- 9/1/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) has signed on to star as Dr. Audrey Evans in Audrey’s Children—the biopic on the healthcare hero, which Ami Canaan Mann is directing for Amasia Entertainment (Wild Mountain Thyme) and Resonate Entertainment (Sitting in Bars with Cake).
Evans is the revolutionary pediatric oncologist best known as the co-founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities—the world-famous organization that provides housing and support to millions of families in 62 countries around the world. The film set in 1970 will follow her as she is recruited to run the Oncology Department at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. During a time when 90 of patients were dying of cancer, Dr. Evans sought out to become a pioneer in the clinical study and treatment of childhood cancers. She is often described as rebellious and unconventional, having broken all the rules and risked her career to overhaul treatments and provide housing...
Evans is the revolutionary pediatric oncologist best known as the co-founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities—the world-famous organization that provides housing and support to millions of families in 62 countries around the world. The film set in 1970 will follow her as she is recruited to run the Oncology Department at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. During a time when 90 of patients were dying of cancer, Dr. Evans sought out to become a pioneer in the clinical study and treatment of childhood cancers. She is often described as rebellious and unconventional, having broken all the rules and risked her career to overhaul treatments and provide housing...
- 7/14/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ami Canaan Mann (Texas Killing Fields) is gearing up to direct the biopic Audrey’s Children for Amasia Entertainment (Wild Mountain Thyme) and Resonate Entertainment (Sitting in Bars with Cake).
The film will tell the story of Dr. Audrey Evans, the revolutionary pediatric oncologist best known as the co-founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities—the world-famous organization that provides housing and support to millions of families in 62 countries around the world. A rebel with a cause, Evans burst onto the scene at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1970, discovering groundbreaking treatment methods for pediatric cancer. She then put her own career on the line, in a bid to administer her new methods to dire patients, and to provide housing for out-of-town families seeking care, going to extreme lengths to save her children.
Julia Fisher Farbman (Modern Hero) wrote the screenplay, which was based on years of research and conversations with Evans,...
The film will tell the story of Dr. Audrey Evans, the revolutionary pediatric oncologist best known as the co-founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities—the world-famous organization that provides housing and support to millions of families in 62 countries around the world. A rebel with a cause, Evans burst onto the scene at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1970, discovering groundbreaking treatment methods for pediatric cancer. She then put her own career on the line, in a bid to administer her new methods to dire patients, and to provide housing for out-of-town families seeking care, going to extreme lengths to save her children.
Julia Fisher Farbman (Modern Hero) wrote the screenplay, which was based on years of research and conversations with Evans,...
- 5/4/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s TV News Roundup, Netflix released the first trailer for the third season of “Ozark” and the premiere weekend of “Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan” broke ratings records on Nickelodeon.
Casting
Mike Vogel, Adam Demos and Margaret Odette have joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix dramedy series “Sex/Life.” Vogel will play the husband of series protagonist Billie (Sarah Shahi); Demos will play the music mogul heartbreak that Billie hasn’t gotten over; Odette will play Billie’s best friend who accompanies her on the dating scene of Manhattan. Additionally, an entirely female directing team will helm the series, including Patricia Rozema, Jessika Borsiczky, Samira Radsi and Sheree Folkson. “Sex/Life” is executive produced by showrunner and writer Stacy Rukeyser, as well as Jordan Hawley and Borsiczky.
Netflix has announced new series regulars for its upcoming spy thriller “In from the Cold.” Ivanna Sakhno will play a young Russian...
Casting
Mike Vogel, Adam Demos and Margaret Odette have joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix dramedy series “Sex/Life.” Vogel will play the husband of series protagonist Billie (Sarah Shahi); Demos will play the music mogul heartbreak that Billie hasn’t gotten over; Odette will play Billie’s best friend who accompanies her on the dating scene of Manhattan. Additionally, an entirely female directing team will helm the series, including Patricia Rozema, Jessika Borsiczky, Samira Radsi and Sheree Folkson. “Sex/Life” is executive produced by showrunner and writer Stacy Rukeyser, as well as Jordan Hawley and Borsiczky.
Netflix has announced new series regulars for its upcoming spy thriller “In from the Cold.” Ivanna Sakhno will play a young Russian...
- 3/6/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has rounded out series regulars for the forthcoming female-driven spy thriller series In From The Cold with Ivana Sakhno, Cillian O’Sullivan, Lydia Fleming, Charles Brice and Alyona Khmelnitskaya.
The five actors join previously announced Margarita Levieva who is set to lead the eight-episode series written and executive produced by Adam Glass (Supernatural). In From the Cold follows an American single mom (Levieva) whose life is turned upside down while on a European vacation when the CIA forces her to confront her long-buried past as a Russian spy who was also the product of a highly classified Kgb experiment granting her special abilities. After a mysterious string of manic and murderous incidents suggests someone with her exact abilities is targeting innocent people, Jenny is forced out of hiding to stop this villain or risk losing the family and new life she has built.
Production of the female-driven spy series is...
The five actors join previously announced Margarita Levieva who is set to lead the eight-episode series written and executive produced by Adam Glass (Supernatural). In From the Cold follows an American single mom (Levieva) whose life is turned upside down while on a European vacation when the CIA forces her to confront her long-buried past as a Russian spy who was also the product of a highly classified Kgb experiment granting her special abilities. After a mysterious string of manic and murderous incidents suggests someone with her exact abilities is targeting innocent people, Jenny is forced out of hiding to stop this villain or risk losing the family and new life she has built.
Production of the female-driven spy series is...
- 3/5/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
From VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for November 2018, including "Child's Play", "Siren", "The Terror" and a whole lot more:
Feature Film
Antlers
Local Production Company: Antlers Productions Inc.
Director: Scott Cooper
Producer: Guillermo del Toro, David S. Goyer, J. Miles Dale
Oct 01/18 - Nov 20/18
"Child's Play" (aka "The Kaslan Project")
Local Production Company: Kaslan Productions Canada Ltd.
Director: Lars Klevberg
Sep 17/18 - Nov 08/18
TV Pilot
Surveillance
Local Production Company: Surveillance Productions Inc.
Director: Patricia Riggen
Producer: Kathy Gilroy
Nov 27/18 - Dec 14/18
TV Series
A Million Little Things - Season 1
Local Production Company: Stage 49 Ltd
Director: Nina Corrado, Chris Koch
Producer: Michael Lohmann
Jul 24/18 - Dec 12/18
Arrow - Season 7
Local Production Company: Beckmark Production Services Inc.
Director: James Bamford, Andi Armaganian
Producer: Todd Pittson
Jul 06/18 - Apr 18/19
Charmed - Season 1
Local Production Company: First Cut Productions Inc.
Director: Brad Siberling, Vanessa Parise
Aug 13/18 - Dec 21/18
Chilling Adventures...
Feature Film
Antlers
Local Production Company: Antlers Productions Inc.
Director: Scott Cooper
Producer: Guillermo del Toro, David S. Goyer, J. Miles Dale
Oct 01/18 - Nov 20/18
"Child's Play" (aka "The Kaslan Project")
Local Production Company: Kaslan Productions Canada Ltd.
Director: Lars Klevberg
Sep 17/18 - Nov 08/18
TV Pilot
Surveillance
Local Production Company: Surveillance Productions Inc.
Director: Patricia Riggen
Producer: Kathy Gilroy
Nov 27/18 - Dec 14/18
TV Series
A Million Little Things - Season 1
Local Production Company: Stage 49 Ltd
Director: Nina Corrado, Chris Koch
Producer: Michael Lohmann
Jul 24/18 - Dec 12/18
Arrow - Season 7
Local Production Company: Beckmark Production Services Inc.
Director: James Bamford, Andi Armaganian
Producer: Todd Pittson
Jul 06/18 - Apr 18/19
Charmed - Season 1
Local Production Company: First Cut Productions Inc.
Director: Brad Siberling, Vanessa Parise
Aug 13/18 - Dec 21/18
Chilling Adventures...
- 10/25/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
This weekend at the PGA’s Produced By: New York — the very same conference where Anthony Bourdain criticized longtime Harvey Weinstein collaborator Quentin Tarantino for his “life of complicity and shame and compromise” — women’s-rights champion Jessica Chastain called her former self “complicit” in another Hollywood epidemic: systematically denying women equal pay, screen time, and ownership of their work.
Seated alongside fellow actress-producer Sarah Jessica Parker, their producing partners Alison Benson and Kelly Carmichael, and PGA president Lori McCreary, the two-time Oscar nominee explained that she founded Freckle Films in February 2016 “because I was realizing that being part of the industry meant that I was a part of the problem.” She added that “we don’t acknowledge the fact that we’re complicit in our inaction — and that goes across many areas.”
Even if she didn’t explicitly mention them, Chastain had Weinstein’s alleged victims on her mind. Following...
Seated alongside fellow actress-producer Sarah Jessica Parker, their producing partners Alison Benson and Kelly Carmichael, and PGA president Lori McCreary, the two-time Oscar nominee explained that she founded Freckle Films in February 2016 “because I was realizing that being part of the industry meant that I was a part of the problem.” She added that “we don’t acknowledge the fact that we’re complicit in our inaction — and that goes across many areas.”
Even if she didn’t explicitly mention them, Chastain had Weinstein’s alleged victims on her mind. Following...
- 10/30/2017
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Festival also launches new Vr strand.
The full jury line-ups for the 2017 Venice Film Festival (August 30-September 9) have been announced.
Baby Driver director Edgar Wright, actress Rebecca Hall and Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi, who won a Berlin Golden Bear this year for On Body and Soul have joined the main competition jury presided over by Annette Bening.
They are joined by Mexican director Michel Franco, French actress Anna Mouglalis, Australian film critic David Stratton, Italian actress Jasmine Trinca and Hong Kong director, producer and screenwriter Yonfan.
Director John Landis will head the international jury for a new Venice Virtual Reality (Vr) section. The other Jury members are French screenwriter and director Celine Sciamma and actor/director Ricky Tognazzi.
The Vr jury will award prizes for best Vr film, grand Vr jury prize and best Vr creativity award. A restored version of Landis’ Into the Night will also be screened at Venice this year.
Italian director...
The full jury line-ups for the 2017 Venice Film Festival (August 30-September 9) have been announced.
Baby Driver director Edgar Wright, actress Rebecca Hall and Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi, who won a Berlin Golden Bear this year for On Body and Soul have joined the main competition jury presided over by Annette Bening.
They are joined by Mexican director Michel Franco, French actress Anna Mouglalis, Australian film critic David Stratton, Italian actress Jasmine Trinca and Hong Kong director, producer and screenwriter Yonfan.
Director John Landis will head the international jury for a new Venice Virtual Reality (Vr) section. The other Jury members are French screenwriter and director Celine Sciamma and actor/director Ricky Tognazzi.
The Vr jury will award prizes for best Vr film, grand Vr jury prize and best Vr creativity award. A restored version of Landis’ Into the Night will also be screened at Venice this year.
Italian director...
- 7/24/2017
- ScreenDaily
Thanks to VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for December 2016, including "Ollie", "The Mountain Between Us", "Altered Carbon" and a whole lot more:
Beautiful Voice
Feature
Local Production Company: Beautiful Voice Pictures Inc.
Director: Chuck Russell
Exec. Producer(s): John Curtis
Producer: Alexandra Julson
Nov 02/16 - Dec 01/16
Ollie
Feature
Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions Ltd.
Director: Shane Black
Exec. Producer(s): John Davis, Bill Bannerman
Oct 17/16 - Feb 08/17
Parallel
Feature
Local Production Company: Para Productions BC Inc.
Director: Isaac Ezban
Exec. Producer(s): John Zaozirny, Aaron Gilbert, Garrick Dion
Producer: Aaron Gilbert
Nov 10/16 - Dec 05/16
The Mountain Between Us
Feature
Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions Ltd.
Director: Hany Abu Assad
Producer: Becki Trujillo
Dec 01/16 - Feb 17/17
Altered Carbon ~ Season 1
TV Series
Local Production Company: Altered Carbon Productions I Inc.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik, Nicholas Hurran
Exec. Producer(s): Laeta Kalogridis, Steve Blackman,...
Beautiful Voice
Feature
Local Production Company: Beautiful Voice Pictures Inc.
Director: Chuck Russell
Exec. Producer(s): John Curtis
Producer: Alexandra Julson
Nov 02/16 - Dec 01/16
Ollie
Feature
Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions Ltd.
Director: Shane Black
Exec. Producer(s): John Davis, Bill Bannerman
Oct 17/16 - Feb 08/17
Parallel
Feature
Local Production Company: Para Productions BC Inc.
Director: Isaac Ezban
Exec. Producer(s): John Zaozirny, Aaron Gilbert, Garrick Dion
Producer: Aaron Gilbert
Nov 10/16 - Dec 05/16
The Mountain Between Us
Feature
Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions Ltd.
Director: Hany Abu Assad
Producer: Becki Trujillo
Dec 01/16 - Feb 17/17
Altered Carbon ~ Season 1
TV Series
Local Production Company: Altered Carbon Productions I Inc.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik, Nicholas Hurran
Exec. Producer(s): Laeta Kalogridis, Steve Blackman,...
- 12/4/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
A romance of a gentle, bittersweet, grownup variety that doesn’t pretend that every connection has to be a grand, sweeping, happily-ever-after thing. I’m “biast” (pro): love Ben Barnes…
I’m “biast” (con): …but haven’t been a fan of Katherine Heigl
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Ryan (Ben Barnes: Seventh Son) is a modern-day traveling hobo-slash-musician. (It might sound unlikely, but it works for him… and for the film.) Jackie (Katherine Heigl: New Year’s Eve) is a former country-music star going through a rough divorce. They do not fall in love. Or, well, maybe they do, a little bit, but that isn’t the point of the beautifully sketched friendship-plus that develops between them after a chance meeting throws them together in a way they both almost walk away from. The point is how they help each other find new...
I’m “biast” (con): …but haven’t been a fan of Katherine Heigl
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Ryan (Ben Barnes: Seventh Son) is a modern-day traveling hobo-slash-musician. (It might sound unlikely, but it works for him… and for the film.) Jackie (Katherine Heigl: New Year’s Eve) is a former country-music star going through a rough divorce. They do not fall in love. Or, well, maybe they do, a little bit, but that isn’t the point of the beautifully sketched friendship-plus that develops between them after a chance meeting throws them together in a way they both almost walk away from. The point is how they help each other find new...
- 7/3/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
This is a reprint of our review from the 2014 Venice Film Festival. Perhaps stung by the middling-to-poor reviews for her last film “Texas Killing Fields,” director Ami Canaan Mann (daughter of Michael) returns to screens under cover of absolute directorial anonymity with “Jackie & Ryan,” a movie hamstrung in its attempts to be a “Crazy Heart” or even a “Country Strong”-ish vehicle for Katherine Heigl by being more bland than a mashed potato dinner. It’s a strangely old-fashioned film, yielding a big enough crop of corn to revive the entire Midwestern economy, putting forth a dubiously romanticized view of the philosophical beauty of the train-hopping lifestyle. And while Ben Barnes does the film's decent music great justice with his surprisingly lovely singing voice, that’s really the only authentic feeling thing therein. “Jackie & Ryan" is supposedly all about learning how to git where ya gotta go, but none of...
- 7/1/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Ballad of the Sad Doublet: Mann’s Warm, Simplistic Tale of Lonely Hearts
Recalling an era of simple, but warmly rendered studio features fitted specifically for their romantic lead properties, Ami Canaan Mann’s sophomore film Jackie & Ryan is indeed as plain as its aseptic title would indicate. A portrait of Middle American woes that could have easily been set in the Depression era, Mann’s straight laced storytelling makes for a surprisingly pleasant venture, even as top lined by a pair of dubious leads. But as warmly rendered as the film happens to be, it’s doubtful whether anything will remain very memorable once the credits roll.
Modern day drifter Ryan (Ben Barnes) is an aspiring folk singer, hopping around the country by train, the happy-go-lucky sort who seems to be engaged with life exactly as he wants to be. He stops off in Ogden, Utah, and while performing one day,...
Recalling an era of simple, but warmly rendered studio features fitted specifically for their romantic lead properties, Ami Canaan Mann’s sophomore film Jackie & Ryan is indeed as plain as its aseptic title would indicate. A portrait of Middle American woes that could have easily been set in the Depression era, Mann’s straight laced storytelling makes for a surprisingly pleasant venture, even as top lined by a pair of dubious leads. But as warmly rendered as the film happens to be, it’s doubtful whether anything will remain very memorable once the credits roll.
Modern day drifter Ryan (Ben Barnes) is an aspiring folk singer, hopping around the country by train, the happy-go-lucky sort who seems to be engaged with life exactly as he wants to be. He stops off in Ogden, Utah, and while performing one day,...
- 7/1/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Read More: 20th Stony Brook Film Festival Welcomes 'Best of Enemies,' 'Wildlike' and More Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes star as musically-inclined lovers in the new trailer for Ami Canaan Mann's "Jackie & Ben." The film marks the duo's first feature together since playing brother and sister in 2013's ensemble rom-com, "The Big Wedding." "Jackie & Ryan" stars Heigl as Jackie Laurel, a former singer seeking independence from her marriage. Barnes plays Ryan Brenner, a traveling musician trying to find the courage to write music of his own. After an unexpected car accident brings the two together in Ogden, Utah, they turn to each other during their hardships. When Jackie's estranged husband threatens to take custody of their daughter and Ryan's musician mentor dies in a train accident, the two connect through music and form a relationship that might change their lives. The film also stars Clea DuVall and Cheryl Lee.
- 6/10/2015
- by Kaeli Van Cott
- Indiewire
Sometimes all you need to survive life's hurdles are a hunky guy who plays by his own rules and a little country music. That seems to be the basic outlay of "Jackie & Ryan," the latest film from Ami Canaan Mann. Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes lead the movie which follows Jackie, a former singer whose marriage is falling apart, who finds hope in drifter/musician Ryan. Jackie is trying to extricate herself from her husband, who wants her to move to Manhattan and threatens to take sole custody of their child, while Ryan has to find his musical voice, an effort made even more difficult when his mentor dies. This one hardly charmed our critic in Venice, who called it "low on stakes, light on originality, and limp in execution." Read More: Katherine Heigl Schedules Sex In Clip From 'Home Sweet Hell,' Plus First 9 Minutes Of The Film...
- 6/5/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
★★☆☆☆Returning to the Venice Lido in the Orizzonti sidebar after her mildly gripping thriller Texas Killing Fields premièred here back in 2011, Ami Canaan Mann's Jackie & Ryan (2014) is a fleetingly entertaining romantic drama set in the world of street music. Former Prince Caspian Ben Barnes plays Ryan, a postmodern train-hopping troubadour, whose Athena poster boy looks and guitar plucking skills intrigue ex-pop country singer Jackie (rom-com regular Katherine Heigl). She first sees him busking with a buddy on the street and asks if he ever plays his own material. He shrugs her off, but later when Jackie is lightly knocked down by a car while texting, Ryan escorts her back to her mother's house in the Utah wastes.
- 9/7/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Perhaps stung by the middling-to-poor reviews for her last film “Texas Killing Fields,” director Ami Canaan Mann (daughter of Michael) returns to screens under cover of absolute directorial anonymity with “Jackie & Ryan,” a movie hamstrung in its attempts to be a “Crazy Heart” or even “Country Strong”-ish vehicle for Katherine Heigl by being more bland than a mashed potato dinner. It’s a strangely old-fashioned film, yielding a big enough crop of corn to revive the entire Midwestern economy, putting forth a dubiously romanticized view of the philosophical beauty of the train-hopping lifestyle. And while Ben Barnes does the film's decent music great justice with his surprisingly lovely singing voice, that’s really the only authentic feeling thing therein. “Jackie & Ryan" is supposedly all about learning how to git where ya gotta go, but none of the characters start or end in particularly interesting places, and the journey is...
- 9/3/2014
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Venice — Director Ami Canaan Mann's country music romance "Jackie & Ryan" is a film that raises many questions. The first is: Christ, is that dirt on his hands or some singularly ill-advised finger tattoos? Yep, those are definitely finger tattoos. And not very good finger tattoos. But let's try not to be personally offensive or get too hung up on some really, really bad finger tattoos. The hands defaced by the finger tattoos (did I mention the finger tattoos? They're just awful) belong to Ben Barnes' country singer Ryan, whom we meet as he brews his morning pot of coffee on a goods train heading in the general direction of Ogden, Utah. These hands are soon revealed to be instrumental to turning the engine of the plot, such as it is - these hands play guitar, fix roofs and politely caress Katherine Heigl's single mom Jackie. A rollin'...
- 9/1/2014
- by Catherine Bray
- Hitfix
Since she is the daughter of iconic filmmaker Michael Mann, it seems surprising that director Ami Canaan Mann’s first screenplay would focus on a modern-day train-jumper musician who sneaks onto freight cars, armed with guitar and Sterno to cook and make coffee as he heads from city to city to busk on the streets and stay true to a century-old music and lifestyle.
That is the subject of Jackie & Ryan, a collision between the singer (Ben Barnes) and a married woman and former singer (Katherine Heigl) who is nearly broke after fleeing with her daughter from a loveless marriage in New York to go home to Portland with her litigious husband in hot pursuit.
This is Mann’s third film as a director, the most recent being the gritty thriller Texas Killing Fields. From the Coppolas on down, there have been enough cross-generational director success stories to make you...
That is the subject of Jackie & Ryan, a collision between the singer (Ben Barnes) and a married woman and former singer (Katherine Heigl) who is nearly broke after fleeing with her daughter from a loveless marriage in New York to go home to Portland with her litigious husband in hot pursuit.
This is Mann’s third film as a director, the most recent being the gritty thriller Texas Killing Fields. From the Coppolas on down, there have been enough cross-generational director success stories to make you...
- 8/31/2014
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
After bringing her police procedural Texas Killing Fields to Venice competition three years ago, writer-director Ami Canaan Mann returns in the Horizons section with a small, beautifully modulated work about recession-strapped America and the power of a fortuitous meeting to alter the course of two musicians’ lives for the better. The sunny, soap-and-water characters and thoroughly upbeat message may not be the stuff great films are made of, but in Jackie & Ryan the modesty of the story, the simple story-telling and honest emotions all come together in a satisfying whole. As a bonus, rollicking
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- 8/30/2014
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This morning in Rome, Biennale president Paolo Baratta and Venice Film Festival chief Alberto Barbera unveiled the lineup for the 71st Venice Film Festival, which features some extraordinarily exciting titles and intriguingly under-the-radar picks.
Twenty films will be competing in the main competition, 19 of which are world premieres with one international premiere out of the lot. Out of all the titles at Venice this year, Birdman, which stars Michael Keaton and features a star-studded cast including Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone and Naomi Watts, is undoubtedly the title with the most chance of gaining Oscar attention this year after making the rounds on the festival circuit (it’s heading to the Toronto International Film Festival next).
Also anticipated are Manglehorn, a collaboration between Prince Avalanche helmer David Gordon Green and Al Pacino, and Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill, with Ethan Hawke, Bruce Greenwood, January Jones and Zoe Kravitz.
Twenty films will be competing in the main competition, 19 of which are world premieres with one international premiere out of the lot. Out of all the titles at Venice this year, Birdman, which stars Michael Keaton and features a star-studded cast including Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone and Naomi Watts, is undoubtedly the title with the most chance of gaining Oscar attention this year after making the rounds on the festival circuit (it’s heading to the Toronto International Film Festival next).
Also anticipated are Manglehorn, a collaboration between Prince Avalanche helmer David Gordon Green and Al Pacino, and Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill, with Ethan Hawke, Bruce Greenwood, January Jones and Zoe Kravitz.
- 7/24/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
The 71st Venice Film Festival announced its lineup this morning, highlighted by films from American directors, including David Gordon Green, Barry Levinson, Peter Bogdanovich, Lisa Cholodenko, Andrew Niccol, and James Franco. As had been previously announced, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, starring Michael Keaton and many others, will be the opening film when the festival begins on Aug. 27.
Click below for the entire list of 55 films playing in Venice.
Competition
The Cut, directed by Fatih Akin
Starring Tahar Rahim, Akin Gazi, Simon Abkarian, George Georgiou
A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, directed by Roy Andersson
Starring Holger Andersson,...
Click below for the entire list of 55 films playing in Venice.
Competition
The Cut, directed by Fatih Akin
Starring Tahar Rahim, Akin Gazi, Simon Abkarian, George Georgiou
A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, directed by Roy Andersson
Starring Holger Andersson,...
- 7/24/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
This morning came the announcement of the 2014 Venice Film Festival lineup and we already knew Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman would serve as the opening night film and for the most part a lot of the more recognizable entries are those we already discussed as part of the Toronto Film Festival lineup. This includes Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes, David Gordon Green's Manglehorn starring Al Pacino, Abel Ferrera's Pasolini, Barry Levinson's The Humbling and Andrew Niccol's The Good Kill. There are, however, some titles worthy of note such as the latest film from The Act of Killing director Joshua Oppenheimer, The Lord of Silence, Fatih Akin's The Cut, She's Funny that Way from Peter Bogdanovich, Lisa Cholodenko's Olive Kitteredge and a new film from James Franco in The Sound and the Fury based on Faulkner's novel. Joe Dante shows up with a new horror-comedy in Burying the Ex,...
- 7/24/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section (aka Orizzonti) is logically comparable to Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. As well as including about a dozen shorts in the programme (Ramin Bahrani is among those listed with an eight minuter called Life You Up), this year’s pack of seventeen unquestionably highlighted by the presence of Moshen Makhmalbaf’s The President, also includes the much anticipated sophomore film by Duane Hopkins’ youth portrait Bypass (see pic above – youth portrait), the Safdie Bros.’ Heaven Knows What – a docu-fiction hybrid starring Caleb Landry Jone and newcomer Arielle Holmes, the latest from frenzied pace working Hong Sangsoo (Hill Of Freedom) and a new item from actress Katherine Heigl (who knows this might actually be good) starring in Ami Canaan Mann’s Your Right Mind, about a modern day train hopper fighting to be a successful musician and a single mom battling to maintain custody...
- 7/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence among competition titles.Scroll down for full lists
The line-up for the 71st Venice Film Festival (Aug 27-Sept 6) has been revealed this morning by Biennale president Paolo Baratta and film festival director Alberto Barbera at Rome’s St. Regis Grand Hotel.
Early standouts include Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini, which centres on the final days of the Italian filmmaker and his death in 1975; David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino as a locksmith in a small town who never got over the love of his life; and The Look Of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer’s highly anticipated follow-up to his award-winning documentary, The Act of Killing.
As previously announced, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, starring Michael Keaton, will open the festival on August 27 and is among the 20-strong competition titles, of which all...
The line-up for the 71st Venice Film Festival (Aug 27-Sept 6) has been revealed this morning by Biennale president Paolo Baratta and film festival director Alberto Barbera at Rome’s St. Regis Grand Hotel.
Early standouts include Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini, which centres on the final days of the Italian filmmaker and his death in 1975; David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino as a locksmith in a small town who never got over the love of his life; and The Look Of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer’s highly anticipated follow-up to his award-winning documentary, The Act of Killing.
As previously announced, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, starring Michael Keaton, will open the festival on August 27 and is among the 20-strong competition titles, of which all...
- 7/24/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Films by David Gordon Green, Andrew Niccol and Abel Ferrara will bring world premieres to the Lido di Venezia this year, as the Venice Film Festival has announced its selections for the 71st edition of the oldest such event in the world. Green's "Manglehorn" with Al Pacino, Niccol's "Good Kill" with Ethan Hawke and Ferrara's "Pasolini" with Willem Dafoe promise to bring a fair share of star power to the event, while actors such as Viggo Mortensen, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver feature in films sprinkled throughout the Competition. "The Act of Killing" director Joshua Oppenheimer will also continue his look at the Indonesian genocide with a new documentary, "The Look of Silence." Playing out of competition are films by Barry Levinson ("The Humbling," also starring Pacino), James Franco ("The Sound and the Fury") and Lisa Cholodenko ("Olive Kitteridge"), while Focus Features will bring the new Laika film, "The Boxtrolls,...
- 7/24/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Here’s your first photo of Katherine Heigl as ‘Jacki’ in Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind, currently in post-production. The film also stars Ben Barnes and is written by Mann.
Ryan (Barnes) is a modern-day traveling folk singer with only a backpack and banjo to his name. Ryan puts his dreams of becoming a successful musician on hold when he meets Jackie, (Heigl) a former country singer fighting for custody of her daughter. Together, with their passion for music, and soon, each other, they form an unlikely relationship.
Rounding out the cast alongside Heigl and Barnes are supporting cast members Clea DuVall (Argo), Sheryl Lee (Winter’S Bone), Emily Alyn Lind (J. Edgar), and Academy Award Winning musician/actor Ryan Bingham
Molly Hassell is producing with Ami Canaan Mann and John Jencks. Emmy award nominee Jon Avnet (Black Swan), Rodrigo Garcia (‘In Treatment’), Highland Film Group...
Ryan (Barnes) is a modern-day traveling folk singer with only a backpack and banjo to his name. Ryan puts his dreams of becoming a successful musician on hold when he meets Jackie, (Heigl) a former country singer fighting for custody of her daughter. Together, with their passion for music, and soon, each other, they form an unlikely relationship.
Rounding out the cast alongside Heigl and Barnes are supporting cast members Clea DuVall (Argo), Sheryl Lee (Winter’S Bone), Emily Alyn Lind (J. Edgar), and Academy Award Winning musician/actor Ryan Bingham
Molly Hassell is producing with Ami Canaan Mann and John Jencks. Emmy award nominee Jon Avnet (Black Swan), Rodrigo Garcia (‘In Treatment’), Highland Film Group...
- 5/21/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Katherine Heigl is taking a break from big budget romantic comedies to sing a song of sadness and romance in the upcoming indie drama "Your Right Mind," directed by Ami Canaan Mann ("Texas Killing Fields," TV's "Friday Night Lights"). The first still from the film has been released. Take a look at the top of the story. "Mind" centers on Ryan (Ben Barnes, the "Chronicles of Narnia" films), a touring folk singer who puts his burgeoning career on hold when he meets and forms a bond with a struggling country singer named Jackie (Heigl), who is locked in a dramatic custody battle over her daughter. "Mind" also stars Clea DuVall ("Argo"), Sheryl Lee ("Winter's Bone"), Emily Alyn Lind ("J. Edgar"), and musician/actor Ryan Bingham Molly Hassell is producing with Ami Canaan Mann and John Jencks. Jon Avnet ("Black Swan"), Rodrigo Garcia ("In Treatment"), Highland Film Group's Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier,...
- 5/20/2014
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
Katherine Heigl has been through a lot in the past few years, what with leaving a hit TV show and falling off our most valuable stars list. Now that her comeback is in full swing, you can bet that the onetime rom-com queen will do her best to make sure this renaissance sticks. So, if you don't find yourself drawn to her portrayal of an Olivia Pope-style Hbic on NBC's State of Affairs, then perhaps you'll like her as a one-time country singer fighting for custody of her daughter in the new Ami Canaan Mann film Your Right Mind. (The look suits her, as you can see.) The movie won't be out until next year, so there's still plenty of time for you to forgive Heigl. She's really sorry, okay?...
- 5/18/2014
- by Delia Paunescu
- Vulture
First project to receive backing will be Ami Canaan Mann’s Your Right Mind, starring Katherine Heigl [pictured] and Ben Barnes.
UK-based film production outfit The Electric Shadow Company has launched a $4.5m fund to invest in films in the $3-15m budget range.
Electric Shadow Fund (Esf) aims to invest in 3-5 films in the next year with investments of $150,000 to $750,000.
The first project to receive backing will be Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind, starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes, which is currently shooting in Utah.
Esf will focus on productions based outside the UK, offering senior debt finance.
The fund is headed up by Esf head John Jencks with Jay Taylor and Alexa Seligman of The Electric Shadow Company.
The company is at the Efm with a slate of five projects including a comedy adaptation of Stephen Fry’s The Hippopotamus and Media-funded period film Beeswing.
UK-based film production outfit The Electric Shadow Company has launched a $4.5m fund to invest in films in the $3-15m budget range.
Electric Shadow Fund (Esf) aims to invest in 3-5 films in the next year with investments of $150,000 to $750,000.
The first project to receive backing will be Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind, starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes, which is currently shooting in Utah.
Esf will focus on productions based outside the UK, offering senior debt finance.
The fund is headed up by Esf head John Jencks with Jay Taylor and Alexa Seligman of The Electric Shadow Company.
The company is at the Efm with a slate of five projects including a comedy adaptation of Stephen Fry’s The Hippopotamus and Media-funded period film Beeswing.
- 2/11/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Fledgling production, acquisitions and distribution company Main Street Films has promoted Sophie Nicolaou to vp of marketing and communications.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
- 2/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Fledgling production, acquisitions and distribution company Main Street Films has promoted Sophie Nicolaou to vp of marketing and communications.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Nicolaou is promoted from communications director and will oversee marketing and communications for the ambitious company’s feature slate.
The pipeline includes action-comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba, Sophie Turner and Samuel L Jackson and Ami Canaan Mann’s contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
On the distribution side Nicolaou will oversee marketing and communications strategies for John Doe: Vigilante, college comedy Bank$tas; recent Slamdance pick-up La Bare; and Barely Lethal.
“We are entering a period of significant growth and having a bold marketing and publicity team lead by Sophie is a great asset to the company,” said Main Street Films president Harrison Kordestani.
Nicolaou previously served as vp of marketing and communications at Untitled Idea and was a director of international publicity at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
- 2/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Man on Carrion Road
Ian McShane has joined Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego's "The Man On Carrion Road" for Atlas Independent. Filming begins in April.
McShane plays an aging retired sheriff of a small border town with violent tendencies. Patrick Wilson also stars in the Nils Lyew-scripted film. [Source: Screen]
Prima
Vera Farmiga ("Bates Moel") has joined the relationship comedy "Prima". Evan Greenberg helms the film which begins shooting in March.
The story follows a young girl who gets accepted to an elite and snobbish dance academy. [Source: Screen]
Lunatics
Steve Carell is attached to the film adaptation of SNL's Alan Zweibel and humorist Dave Barry's novel "Lunatics". The pair have also penned the script adaptation.
Jack Black is being talked about for the other lead in a comedy about two suburban dads, one of whom runs a pet store called The Wine Shop. [Source: Showbiz 411]
Your Right Mind
Clea DuVall, Sheryl Lee, Emily Alyn Lind...
Ian McShane has joined Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego's "The Man On Carrion Road" for Atlas Independent. Filming begins in April.
McShane plays an aging retired sheriff of a small border town with violent tendencies. Patrick Wilson also stars in the Nils Lyew-scripted film. [Source: Screen]
Prima
Vera Farmiga ("Bates Moel") has joined the relationship comedy "Prima". Evan Greenberg helms the film which begins shooting in March.
The story follows a young girl who gets accepted to an elite and snobbish dance academy. [Source: Screen]
Lunatics
Steve Carell is attached to the film adaptation of SNL's Alan Zweibel and humorist Dave Barry's novel "Lunatics". The pair have also penned the script adaptation.
Jack Black is being talked about for the other lead in a comedy about two suburban dads, one of whom runs a pet store called The Wine Shop. [Source: Showbiz 411]
Your Right Mind
Clea DuVall, Sheryl Lee, Emily Alyn Lind...
- 2/7/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Russell Brand, Sasha Pieterse (Pretty Little Liars), and Austin Abrams (The InBetweeners) are reportedly in talks to star in Vernon God Little for director Werner Herzog (The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans). Based on Dbc Pierre’s Booker Prize-winning novel, the story is a dark, satirical portrait of a Texas town in the aftermath of a school shooting told from the point of view of its 15-year-old protagonist. [The Wrap]
• Jay Baruchel (This Is the End) is set to star in and produce an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Ten O’Clock People. Fright Night’s Tom Holland...
• Jay Baruchel (This Is the End) is set to star in and produce an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Ten O’Clock People. Fright Night’s Tom Holland...
- 2/7/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Berlin starts today, and as such, there is an eruption of casting news, so let's get to it. Most excitingly, Justin Kurzel's "Macbeth" starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard has kicked off its seven-week shoot. The rest of the cast has also been revealed, and it's a good one, with ScreenDaily reporting that Paddy Considine, David Thewlis, Sean Harris, Jack Reynor ("What Richard Did") and Elizabeth Debicki ("The Great Gatsby") are all on board for this new take on one of the Bard's most famous works. No release date yet but The Weinstein Company have the rights and we presume this will be planned for a 2015 release. Michael Mann's daughter, Ami Canaan Mann, is gearing up her third feature film, "Your Right Mind." Katherine Heigl will star in the film that follows Ryan, a modern-day traveling folk singer with only a backpack and banjo to his name. Ryan...
- 2/6/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Berlin -- Clea DuVall, Sheryl Lee, Emily Alyn Lind and musician/actor Ryan Bingham have joined Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes in the romance film Your Right Mind. Ami Canaan Mann (Texas Killing Fields) wrote and will direct the film, which is currently shooting in Utah. Highland Film Group (Hfg) is shopping the film to buyers at Efm in Berlin. Story: Berlin: Bruce Willis Sci-Fi Action Pic 'Vice' to Be Shopped to Buyers Molly Hassell is producing with Mann and John Jencks. Jon Avnet, Rodrigo Garcia, Hfg's Arianne Fraser while Delphine Perrier and Main Street Films’ Craig Chang are serving as
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- 2/6/2014
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Highland Film Group also announces further cast for romance Your Right Mind.
Two Highland Film Group (Hfg) sales titles have cast up, with Vera Farmiga [pictured] joining relationship comedy Prima and new additions on the Katherine Heigl-Ben Barnes romance Your Right Mind.
Evan Greenberg is set to direct The Allegiance Theater and MediaBiz International’s Prima in March based on his screenplay about a young girl who gets accepted to a snobby dance academy.
The Allegiance Theater’s Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine produce with Karine Martin through Mediamax. Renn Hawkey and The Allegiance Theater’s Tim Crane are executive producers.
Meanwhile Clea DuVall, Sheryl Lee, Emily Alyn Lind and Ryan Bingham have joined the romance Your Right Mind, currently shooting in Utah.
Ami Canaan Mann directs from her screenplay about an itinerant folk singer who falls for a former country singer fighting for custody of her daughter.
Molly Hassell produces with Mann and John Jencks. [link...
Two Highland Film Group (Hfg) sales titles have cast up, with Vera Farmiga [pictured] joining relationship comedy Prima and new additions on the Katherine Heigl-Ben Barnes romance Your Right Mind.
Evan Greenberg is set to direct The Allegiance Theater and MediaBiz International’s Prima in March based on his screenplay about a young girl who gets accepted to a snobby dance academy.
The Allegiance Theater’s Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine produce with Karine Martin through Mediamax. Renn Hawkey and The Allegiance Theater’s Tim Crane are executive producers.
Meanwhile Clea DuVall, Sheryl Lee, Emily Alyn Lind and Ryan Bingham have joined the romance Your Right Mind, currently shooting in Utah.
Ami Canaan Mann directs from her screenplay about an itinerant folk singer who falls for a former country singer fighting for custody of her daughter.
Molly Hassell produces with Mann and John Jencks. [link...
- 2/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Clea DuVall ( Argo , pictured), Sheryl Lee ( Winter's Bone ), Emily Alyn Lind ( J. Edgar ), and Academy Award Winning musician/actor Ryan Bingham have joined the cast of the contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring, Katherine Heigl ( Knocked Up ) and Ben Barnes ( The Chronicles of Narnia ). Ami Canaan Mann ( Texas Killing Fields ) is directing her script with principal photography currently underway in Utah. Molly Hassell is producing with Ami Canaan Mann and John Jencks. Jon Avnet ( Black Swan ), Rodrigo Garcia ("In Treatment"), Highland Film Group's (Hfg) Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier, and Main Street Films' Craig Chang are serving as executive producers. Hfg represents the worldwide rights and will continue to shop it to buyers at Efm in Berlin. Your...
- 2/6/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Exclusive: Highland Film Group has closed key territories at Afm on the contemporary romance Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
Rights have gone to France (Metropolitan Film Export), Latin America (Swen), Scandinavia (Mis. Label), Middle East (Falcon), Hong Kong (New Smart International Creation Ltd), South Africa (MNet) and China (Hgc).
Deals also closed in India, Turkey, Greece and Malaysia (Tanweer), Israel (Five Stars), Poland (Monolith), Bulgaria (Multivision Plus Ltd), former Yogoslavia (Blitz Film), Hungary (Rtl Klub), Slovakia (TV Joj) and the Philippines (Pioneer Films).
Your Right Mind centres on a train hopper who falls for a single mother struggling to hold on to her daughter.
Ami Canaan Mann will direct from her screenplay and production is set to begin in the first quarter of 2014.
Molly Hassell and Todd Labarowski of Dreambridge Capital produce, while Jon Avnet, Rodrigo Garcia and Highland’s Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier serve as executive producers. CAA represents...
Rights have gone to France (Metropolitan Film Export), Latin America (Swen), Scandinavia (Mis. Label), Middle East (Falcon), Hong Kong (New Smart International Creation Ltd), South Africa (MNet) and China (Hgc).
Deals also closed in India, Turkey, Greece and Malaysia (Tanweer), Israel (Five Stars), Poland (Monolith), Bulgaria (Multivision Plus Ltd), former Yogoslavia (Blitz Film), Hungary (Rtl Klub), Slovakia (TV Joj) and the Philippines (Pioneer Films).
Your Right Mind centres on a train hopper who falls for a single mother struggling to hold on to her daughter.
Ami Canaan Mann will direct from her screenplay and production is set to begin in the first quarter of 2014.
Molly Hassell and Todd Labarowski of Dreambridge Capital produce, while Jon Avnet, Rodrigo Garcia and Highland’s Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier serve as executive producers. CAA represents...
- 11/13/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Highland Film Group has picked up worldwide sales on Your Right Mind starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes and will introduce to buyers here.
The contemporary romance is set to begin shooting in the first quarter of 2014 and is being directed by Ami Canaan Mann.
Your Right Mind centres on a modern-day train hopper who falls for a single mother struggling to hold on to her daughter. Mann wrote the screenplay.
Molly Hassell and Todd Labarowski of Dreambridge Capital produce. Jon Avnet, Rodrigo Garcia and Highland’s Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier serve as executive producers.
Highland Film Group’s sales roster includes the Latino box office phenomenon Instructions Not Included, as well as Pulling Strings and the teen action comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Samuel L Jackson and Jessica Alba.
The contemporary romance is set to begin shooting in the first quarter of 2014 and is being directed by Ami Canaan Mann.
Your Right Mind centres on a modern-day train hopper who falls for a single mother struggling to hold on to her daughter. Mann wrote the screenplay.
Molly Hassell and Todd Labarowski of Dreambridge Capital produce. Jon Avnet, Rodrigo Garcia and Highland’s Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier serve as executive producers.
Highland Film Group’s sales roster includes the Latino box office phenomenon Instructions Not Included, as well as Pulling Strings and the teen action comedy Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld, Samuel L Jackson and Jessica Alba.
- 11/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Ryan Lambie Aug 21, 2017
21 years on, Heat is still an important, influential film. We look at how Michael Mann's research made for a powerful crime drama...
"This is based on observations. This is based on people I have met, people I've known, people I've sat with and talked to. Thieves, cops, killers. It's not derived from other cinema, it's based on research." Michael Mann
Cool, measured, melancholy and stylish, Michael Mann's Heat was a box office hit in 1995, and 18 years on, its impact can still be felt. A story about two weary men on either side of the law - one a cop married to his profession, the other a career criminal with no intention of going straight - Heat is also a movie about Los Angeles, in all its sparkly opulence and grimy malaise. Other directors have attempted to bottle some of Heat's atmosphere and move it to another city,...
21 years on, Heat is still an important, influential film. We look at how Michael Mann's research made for a powerful crime drama...
"This is based on observations. This is based on people I have met, people I've known, people I've sat with and talked to. Thieves, cops, killers. It's not derived from other cinema, it's based on research." Michael Mann
Cool, measured, melancholy and stylish, Michael Mann's Heat was a box office hit in 1995, and 18 years on, its impact can still be felt. A story about two weary men on either side of the law - one a cop married to his profession, the other a career criminal with no intention of going straight - Heat is also a movie about Los Angeles, in all its sparkly opulence and grimy malaise. Other directors have attempted to bottle some of Heat's atmosphere and move it to another city,...
- 5/7/2013
- Den of Geek
Feature Ryan Lambie 8 May 2013 - 06:50
Eighteen years on, Heat is still an important, influential film. We look at how Michael Mann's research made for a powerful crime drama...
"This is based on observations. This is based on people I have met, people I've known, people I've sat with and talked to. Thieves, cops, killers. It's not derived from other cinema, it's based on research." Michael Mann
Cool, measured, melancholy and stylish, Michael Mann's Heat was a box office hit in 1995, and 18 years on, its impact can still be felt. A story about two weary men on either side of the law - one a cop married to his profession, the other a career criminal with no intention of going straight - Heat is also a movie about Los Angeles, in all its sparkly opulence and grimy malaise. Other directors have attempted to bottle some of Heat's...
Eighteen years on, Heat is still an important, influential film. We look at how Michael Mann's research made for a powerful crime drama...
"This is based on observations. This is based on people I have met, people I've known, people I've sat with and talked to. Thieves, cops, killers. It's not derived from other cinema, it's based on research." Michael Mann
Cool, measured, melancholy and stylish, Michael Mann's Heat was a box office hit in 1995, and 18 years on, its impact can still be felt. A story about two weary men on either side of the law - one a cop married to his profession, the other a career criminal with no intention of going straight - Heat is also a movie about Los Angeles, in all its sparkly opulence and grimy malaise. Other directors have attempted to bottle some of Heat's...
- 5/7/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
American director, screenwriter and producer Michael Mann will preside over the international Jury of the competition of the 69th Venice International Film Festival, the first one directed by Alberto Barbera, taking place from August 29 until September 8, 2012.
Born in Chicago in 1943, Mann is one of the most influential and representative figures in contemporary American film. After having written, produced and directed a few television series, he made his debut in film directing in 1981 with Thief, which was followed by the big success as an executive producer of the cult TV series Miami Vice (1984). His characteristic post-modern style comes out in all its complexity in Manhunter (1986), a film which marks the first appearance on our screens of the character of Hannibal Lecter, the cannibal psychologist.
His name is particularly associated with city thrillers such as Heat (1995), which saw Al Pacino and Robert De Niro starring together for the first time, Collateral (2004, out...
Born in Chicago in 1943, Mann is one of the most influential and representative figures in contemporary American film. After having written, produced and directed a few television series, he made his debut in film directing in 1981 with Thief, which was followed by the big success as an executive producer of the cult TV series Miami Vice (1984). His characteristic post-modern style comes out in all its complexity in Manhunter (1986), a film which marks the first appearance on our screens of the character of Hannibal Lecter, the cannibal psychologist.
His name is particularly associated with city thrillers such as Heat (1995), which saw Al Pacino and Robert De Niro starring together for the first time, Collateral (2004, out...
- 6/1/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Jessica Chastain Jessica Chastain attended the Governors Ball following the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony held at Hollywood & Highland on Sunday, February 26. Chastain won numerous Best Supporting Actress critics' prizes this awards season, but lost the Oscar to Octavia Spencer. (Photo: Darren Decker / ©A.M.P.A.S.) Both Chastain and Spencer were in the running for Tate Taylor's socially conscious drama The Help. Their competitors were Janet McTeer for Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs, Melissa McCarthy for Paul Feig's 2011 summer sleeper hit Bridesmaids, and Bérénice Bejo for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist. Jessica Chastain kept herself busy in 2011. In addition to The Help, she could be spotted in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn; John Madden's The Debt, with Sam Worthington and Helen Mirren; Ami Canaan Mann's Texas Killing Fields, with Worthington and Jeffrey Dean Morgan; Jeff Nichols' Take Shelter,...
- 3/1/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
- 2/26/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
The Movie Pool takes a walk through the Texas Killing Fields Blu-ray!
The Set-up
Two homocide detectives (Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan) search for an elusive killer who dumps his victims in a remote South Texas marsh. Based on a true story.
Directed by: Ami Canaan Mann
The Delivery
I can't imagine what it is like to be Ami Mann, filmmaker and daughter of celebrated director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider). As the director of Texas Killing Fields, she no doubt has a mountain of expectations put upon her work. Ms. Mann should rest easy, though, because Texas Killing Fields is not only a fairly good film, she has proven herself to be a decent director in her own right.
The film, based on a true story that happened several years ago in Texas City, Texas, is not as flashy or as stylized as a Michael Mann film, but Ms.
The Set-up
Two homocide detectives (Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan) search for an elusive killer who dumps his victims in a remote South Texas marsh. Based on a true story.
Directed by: Ami Canaan Mann
The Delivery
I can't imagine what it is like to be Ami Mann, filmmaker and daughter of celebrated director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider). As the director of Texas Killing Fields, she no doubt has a mountain of expectations put upon her work. Ms. Mann should rest easy, though, because Texas Killing Fields is not only a fairly good film, she has proven herself to be a decent director in her own right.
The film, based on a true story that happened several years ago in Texas City, Texas, is not as flashy or as stylized as a Michael Mann film, but Ms.
- 2/10/2012
- by medina.victor@sbcglobal.net (Victor Medina)
- Cinelinx
This week on DVD/Blu-ray: "Drive," arguably the best action film of the year; Ami Canaan Mann's scorching debut "Texas Killing Fields"; the late Anthony Minghella's most beloved film; the Jamie Foxx-approved documentary "Thunder Soul;" and four Italian crime classics from master Fernando Di Leo. 1. Critic’s Pick: “Drive” (DVD and Blu-ray) Sure, “The Tree of Life” was the big winner at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, but the film that got the pulses of the jury racing was “Drive,” Nicolas Winding Refn’s steely cool homage to the best action flicks of the ‘80s. He beat three of the most celebrated living auteurs (Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodovar and Lars von Trier) to walk away with the festival’s directing prize. And for good reason. Upon catching the film on La Croisette, Eric Kohn wrote, “Combing a memorably gritty Ryan Gosling performance with the breakneck tempo...
- 1/31/2012
- Indiewire
The haunting thriller Texas Killing Fields has arrived on DVD and Blu-ray from Anchor Bay Films and M&C.s giving away three copies of the Blu-ray edition of the film! Directed by Ami Canaan Mann, produced by Michael Mann and Michael Jaffe, and based on the real life, headline-making series of unsolved murders, Texas Killing Fields is the story of two detectives and one desperate race to catch a killer. The release also contains audio commentary with Director Ami Canaan Mann and Writer Donald F. Ferrarone. Inspired by true events, this tense thriller follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington, Avatar, The Debt) a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh...
- 1/31/2012
- by Patrick Luce
- Monsters and Critics
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