Steve Antin ("Burlesque") is set to direct the comedy "The Girlfriend" for Gold Circle.
Eric Schade penned the script which centers on a successful career woman who discovers her "perfect" husband is having an affair with a woman who is her complete opposite.
Upon learning that the mistress is looking for a roommate, the wife decides to move in with her enemy, sabotage the affair and win her husband back.
Paul Brooks and Lisa Tornell will produce.
Source: THR...
Eric Schade penned the script which centers on a successful career woman who discovers her "perfect" husband is having an affair with a woman who is her complete opposite.
Upon learning that the mistress is looking for a roommate, the wife decides to move in with her enemy, sabotage the affair and win her husband back.
Paul Brooks and Lisa Tornell will produce.
Source: THR...
- 5/9/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Burlesque director Steve Antin has signed on to helm Gold Circle's comedy The Girlfriend , says a story at The Hollywood Reporter . He'll direct from a script by Eric Schade. The female-driven comedy follows a woman who, after learning that her husband is cheating on her, realizes that she can move in with the other woman, posing as an unknowing roommate, to get her revenge. Antin launched his career as an actor, playing Troy in The Goonies . Burlesque was his first feature project as a director and starred Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Cam Gigandet, Julianne Hough, Kristen Bell and Stanley Tucci. Released in 2010, it grossed close to $90 million worldwide. The Girlfriend will be produced by Paul Brooks and Lisa Tornell with Scott Niemeyer executive producing.
- 5/8/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Having successfully tapped into his serious side in such dramatic fare as "Ali" and "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story," Jamie Foxx finds his funny bone is firmly intact in the effervescent, urban-flavored romantic comedy "Breakin' all the Rules".
While the picture itself doesn't exactly go breakin' any rules as far as genre-patented plotting goes, Foxx and an appealing ensemble (including Gabrielle Union, Morris Chestnut, Peter MacNicol and Jennifer Esposito), plus a nice, light touch with the material by writer-director Daniel Taplitz, make for a generally pleasant diversion.
The Screen Gems release should handily reach its female-skewing target and prove to be a reliable home video performer down the post-theatrical road.
Foxx channels early Eddie Murphy as Quincy Watson, an editor for Spoil Magazine who's having a particularly bad day.
First, his boss (MacNicol) enlists him to fire 15% of the staff; then his fiancee (Bianca Lawson), unceremoniously dumps him at their engagement party.
Unable to pink slip his fellow workers, Quincy adds himself to the list of the dismissed and promptly descends into a major funk, only to emerge with a best seller on his hands when he converts some of his research on employee termination into "Spoil's Break-Up Handbook".
Offering valuable insights into the finer art of busting apart, like "Change your outgoing message to the automatic voice message so your ex won't be able to call just to hear your voice," the manual suddenly makes Quincy a sought-after expert on the subject.
Among those seeking his assistance is his cousin Evan (Chestnut), a card-carrying player who mistakenly senses that his current girlfriend, Nicky (Union), is going to break up with him and wants to beat her to the punch. Quincy obliges, only to unwittingly fall into a tricky love triangle.
Script-wise, things don't really evolve too much beyond that point, but filmmaker Taplitz ("Commandments", HBO's "Gunplay") has an amusing way with words, and Foxx and his castmates are equally skilled at making them their own.
Production values are bright and budget conscious, highlighted by a stylish score by jazz musician Marcus Miller and a too-brief concert performance by Heather Headley.
Breakin' All The Rules
Screen Gems Screen Gems presents A Lisa Tornell production
A film by Daniel Taplitz
Credits: Director-screenwriter: Daniel Taplitz
Producer: Lisa Tornell
Executive producer: Paddy Cullen
Director of photography: David Hennings
Production designer: Jerry Fleming
Editor: Robert Frazen
Costume designer: Isis Mussenden
Music: Marcus Miller
Cast:
Quincy Watson: Jamie Foxx
Nicky Callas: Gabrielle Union
Evan Fields: Morris Chestnut
Philip Gascon: Peter MacNicol
Rita Monroe: Jennifer Esposito
Helen Sharp: Bianca Watson
Running time -- 85 minutes
MPAA rating PG-13...
While the picture itself doesn't exactly go breakin' any rules as far as genre-patented plotting goes, Foxx and an appealing ensemble (including Gabrielle Union, Morris Chestnut, Peter MacNicol and Jennifer Esposito), plus a nice, light touch with the material by writer-director Daniel Taplitz, make for a generally pleasant diversion.
The Screen Gems release should handily reach its female-skewing target and prove to be a reliable home video performer down the post-theatrical road.
Foxx channels early Eddie Murphy as Quincy Watson, an editor for Spoil Magazine who's having a particularly bad day.
First, his boss (MacNicol) enlists him to fire 15% of the staff; then his fiancee (Bianca Lawson), unceremoniously dumps him at their engagement party.
Unable to pink slip his fellow workers, Quincy adds himself to the list of the dismissed and promptly descends into a major funk, only to emerge with a best seller on his hands when he converts some of his research on employee termination into "Spoil's Break-Up Handbook".
Offering valuable insights into the finer art of busting apart, like "Change your outgoing message to the automatic voice message so your ex won't be able to call just to hear your voice," the manual suddenly makes Quincy a sought-after expert on the subject.
Among those seeking his assistance is his cousin Evan (Chestnut), a card-carrying player who mistakenly senses that his current girlfriend, Nicky (Union), is going to break up with him and wants to beat her to the punch. Quincy obliges, only to unwittingly fall into a tricky love triangle.
Script-wise, things don't really evolve too much beyond that point, but filmmaker Taplitz ("Commandments", HBO's "Gunplay") has an amusing way with words, and Foxx and his castmates are equally skilled at making them their own.
Production values are bright and budget conscious, highlighted by a stylish score by jazz musician Marcus Miller and a too-brief concert performance by Heather Headley.
Breakin' All The Rules
Screen Gems Screen Gems presents A Lisa Tornell production
A film by Daniel Taplitz
Credits: Director-screenwriter: Daniel Taplitz
Producer: Lisa Tornell
Executive producer: Paddy Cullen
Director of photography: David Hennings
Production designer: Jerry Fleming
Editor: Robert Frazen
Costume designer: Isis Mussenden
Music: Marcus Miller
Cast:
Quincy Watson: Jamie Foxx
Nicky Callas: Gabrielle Union
Evan Fields: Morris Chestnut
Philip Gascon: Peter MacNicol
Rita Monroe: Jennifer Esposito
Helen Sharp: Bianca Watson
Running time -- 85 minutes
MPAA rating PG-13...
Having successfully tapped into his serious side in such dramatic fare as "Ali" and "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story," Jamie Foxx finds his funny bone is firmly intact in the effervescent, urban-flavored romantic comedy "Breakin' all the Rules".
While the picture itself doesn't exactly go breakin' any rules as far as genre-patented plotting goes, Foxx and an appealing ensemble (including Gabrielle Union, Morris Chestnut, Peter MacNicol and Jennifer Esposito), plus a nice, light touch with the material by writer-director Daniel Taplitz, make for a generally pleasant diversion.
The Screen Gems release should handily reach its female-skewing target and prove to be a reliable home video performer down the post-theatrical road.
Foxx channels early Eddie Murphy as Quincy Watson, an editor for Spoil Magazine who's having a particularly bad day.
First, his boss (MacNicol) enlists him to fire 15% of the staff; then his fiancee (Bianca Lawson), unceremoniously dumps him at their engagement party.
Unable to pink slip his fellow workers, Quincy adds himself to the list of the dismissed and promptly descends into a major funk, only to emerge with a best seller on his hands when he converts some of his research on employee termination into "Spoil's Break-Up Handbook".
Offering valuable insights into the finer art of busting apart, like "Change your outgoing message to the automatic voice message so your ex won't be able to call just to hear your voice," the manual suddenly makes Quincy a sought-after expert on the subject.
Among those seeking his assistance is his cousin Evan (Chestnut), a card-carrying player who mistakenly senses that his current girlfriend, Nicky (Union), is going to break up with him and wants to beat her to the punch. Quincy obliges, only to unwittingly fall into a tricky love triangle.
Script-wise, things don't really evolve too much beyond that point, but filmmaker Taplitz ("Commandments", HBO's "Gunplay") has an amusing way with words, and Foxx and his castmates are equally skilled at making them their own.
Production values are bright and budget conscious, highlighted by a stylish score by jazz musician Marcus Miller and a too-brief concert performance by Heather Headley.
Breakin' All The Rules
Screen Gems Screen Gems presents A Lisa Tornell production
A film by Daniel Taplitz
Credits: Director-screenwriter: Daniel Taplitz
Producer: Lisa Tornell
Executive producer: Paddy Cullen
Director of photography: David Hennings
Production designer: Jerry Fleming
Editor: Robert Frazen
Costume designer: Isis Mussenden
Music: Marcus Miller
Cast:
Quincy Watson: Jamie Foxx
Nicky Callas: Gabrielle Union
Evan Fields: Morris Chestnut
Philip Gascon: Peter MacNicol
Rita Monroe: Jennifer Esposito
Helen Sharp: Bianca Watson
Running time -- 85 minutes
MPAA rating PG-13...
While the picture itself doesn't exactly go breakin' any rules as far as genre-patented plotting goes, Foxx and an appealing ensemble (including Gabrielle Union, Morris Chestnut, Peter MacNicol and Jennifer Esposito), plus a nice, light touch with the material by writer-director Daniel Taplitz, make for a generally pleasant diversion.
The Screen Gems release should handily reach its female-skewing target and prove to be a reliable home video performer down the post-theatrical road.
Foxx channels early Eddie Murphy as Quincy Watson, an editor for Spoil Magazine who's having a particularly bad day.
First, his boss (MacNicol) enlists him to fire 15% of the staff; then his fiancee (Bianca Lawson), unceremoniously dumps him at their engagement party.
Unable to pink slip his fellow workers, Quincy adds himself to the list of the dismissed and promptly descends into a major funk, only to emerge with a best seller on his hands when he converts some of his research on employee termination into "Spoil's Break-Up Handbook".
Offering valuable insights into the finer art of busting apart, like "Change your outgoing message to the automatic voice message so your ex won't be able to call just to hear your voice," the manual suddenly makes Quincy a sought-after expert on the subject.
Among those seeking his assistance is his cousin Evan (Chestnut), a card-carrying player who mistakenly senses that his current girlfriend, Nicky (Union), is going to break up with him and wants to beat her to the punch. Quincy obliges, only to unwittingly fall into a tricky love triangle.
Script-wise, things don't really evolve too much beyond that point, but filmmaker Taplitz ("Commandments", HBO's "Gunplay") has an amusing way with words, and Foxx and his castmates are equally skilled at making them their own.
Production values are bright and budget conscious, highlighted by a stylish score by jazz musician Marcus Miller and a too-brief concert performance by Heather Headley.
Breakin' All The Rules
Screen Gems Screen Gems presents A Lisa Tornell production
A film by Daniel Taplitz
Credits: Director-screenwriter: Daniel Taplitz
Producer: Lisa Tornell
Executive producer: Paddy Cullen
Director of photography: David Hennings
Production designer: Jerry Fleming
Editor: Robert Frazen
Costume designer: Isis Mussenden
Music: Marcus Miller
Cast:
Quincy Watson: Jamie Foxx
Nicky Callas: Gabrielle Union
Evan Fields: Morris Chestnut
Philip Gascon: Peter MacNicol
Rita Monroe: Jennifer Esposito
Helen Sharp: Bianca Watson
Running time -- 85 minutes
MPAA rating PG-13...
- 5/14/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jamie Foxx is set to star in Screen Gems' comedy The Break Up Handbook for writer-director Daniel Taplitz and producer Lisa Tornell. The project is scheduled to go into production in December in Los Angeles. Handbook is a farcical comedy about a man (Foxx) who, after being unceremoniously dumped by his fiancee, pens a how-to book on breaking up and becomes a best-selling author on the subject. Not wanting his male friends to suffer the same fate, he gives them advice on dumping their mates, and a comedy of errors ensues. Screen Gems senior vp production Stacy Kolker Cramer is overseeing the project for the studio. Foxx, repped by CAA and manager Jaime King, most recently appeared in Columbia Pictures' Ali and just wrapped production on RKO Pictures' crime drama Shade. Taplitz, repped by Original Artists Agency, wrote and directed the feature Commandments, starring Aidan Quinn and Courteney Cox. His recent writing credits include the telefilm Little Richard and miniseries Black River.
- 10/31/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Intended as a satire of and homage to the kind of movies he used to watch growing up in the San Fernando Valley, Darren Stein's "Jawbreaker" is sorry proof that imitation is not necessarily the sincerest form of flattery.
This "Clueless"/"Heathers"/"Carrie"/"Grease"/"Rock 'n' Roll High School" wannabe, which played at the Sundance Film Festival, is a lazy cut-and-paste job that squanders a talented cast, not to mention the big screen debut of the Donna's, a quartet of teenage rockers that have rightfully been dubbed the female Ramones.
Attempting to catch the current wave of high school pictures, the Columbia TriStar release still might generate some initial interest from those expecting something else -- like a horror movie -- before washing up on the home video shore.
Courtney Shayne (Rose McGowan), Julie Freeman (Rebecca Gayheart) and Marcie Fox (Julie Benz) are members of a bad girl clique who have a crisis situation on their well-manicured hands when a prank goes horribly wrong, leaving girlfriend Liz Purr (Charlotte Roldan) asphyxiated in the trunk of a car with a jawbreaker lodged prominently in her esophagus.
To make matters worse, their cover-up plans have been overheard by school wallflower Fern Mayo (Judy Greer) who threatens to alert the authorities. That is, until the truly diabolical Courtney makes Fern an offer she can't refuse -- in exchange for her silence, she'll be given a complete bad girl makeover.
But the rechristened "Vylette" turns out to be a very quick study, and soon threatens Courtney's "most popular" status.
Newcomer Stein, whose talent for writing female characters is pretty much limited to having them call each other "bitch" (or worse), has spewed out a crassly uninspired script that is neither as clever nor as funny as it apparently thinks it is.
Limited by their lines, leads McGowan, Gayheart, Benz and, particularly the transformed Greer nevertheless have fun being nasty.
In a nod to his influences, Stein recruited Carol Kane ("When a Stranger Calls"), Jeff Conaway ("Grease"), William Katt ("Carrie") and P.J. Soles ("Rock 'n' Roll High School") to play an assortment of clued-out adults.
His technical skills in the directing department are somewhat better, although the persistent MTV-esque style ultimately comes across more as imitative than fresh. There's some nice energetic work from director of photography Amy Vincent ("Eve's Bayou") and some bright flourishes from costume designer Vikki Brinkkord ("Clueless"); the Donna's provide a spunky presence on the soundtrack as well as in a performance during the picture's pivotal prom night sequence.
Their brand of no-nonsense, nonposturing, straight-ahead rock 'n' roll lends "Jawbreaker" an element of street credibility it really doesn't deserve.
JAWBREAKER
Sony Pictures Releasing
Columbia TriStar
Director-screenwriter: Darren Stein
Producers: Stacy Kramer, Lisa Tornell
Director of photography: Amy Vincent
Production designer: Jerry Fleming
Editor: Troy Takaki
Costume designer: Vikki Brinkkord
Music: Stephen Endelman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Courtney Shayne: Rose McGowan
Julie Freeman: Rebecca Gayheart
Marcie Fox: Julie Benz
Fern Mayo/Vylette: Judy Greer
Zach Tartak: Chad Christ
Liz Purr: Charlotte Roldan
Detective Vera Cruz: Pam Grier
Miss Sherwood: Carol Kane
Running time -- 85 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
This "Clueless"/"Heathers"/"Carrie"/"Grease"/"Rock 'n' Roll High School" wannabe, which played at the Sundance Film Festival, is a lazy cut-and-paste job that squanders a talented cast, not to mention the big screen debut of the Donna's, a quartet of teenage rockers that have rightfully been dubbed the female Ramones.
Attempting to catch the current wave of high school pictures, the Columbia TriStar release still might generate some initial interest from those expecting something else -- like a horror movie -- before washing up on the home video shore.
Courtney Shayne (Rose McGowan), Julie Freeman (Rebecca Gayheart) and Marcie Fox (Julie Benz) are members of a bad girl clique who have a crisis situation on their well-manicured hands when a prank goes horribly wrong, leaving girlfriend Liz Purr (Charlotte Roldan) asphyxiated in the trunk of a car with a jawbreaker lodged prominently in her esophagus.
To make matters worse, their cover-up plans have been overheard by school wallflower Fern Mayo (Judy Greer) who threatens to alert the authorities. That is, until the truly diabolical Courtney makes Fern an offer she can't refuse -- in exchange for her silence, she'll be given a complete bad girl makeover.
But the rechristened "Vylette" turns out to be a very quick study, and soon threatens Courtney's "most popular" status.
Newcomer Stein, whose talent for writing female characters is pretty much limited to having them call each other "bitch" (or worse), has spewed out a crassly uninspired script that is neither as clever nor as funny as it apparently thinks it is.
Limited by their lines, leads McGowan, Gayheart, Benz and, particularly the transformed Greer nevertheless have fun being nasty.
In a nod to his influences, Stein recruited Carol Kane ("When a Stranger Calls"), Jeff Conaway ("Grease"), William Katt ("Carrie") and P.J. Soles ("Rock 'n' Roll High School") to play an assortment of clued-out adults.
His technical skills in the directing department are somewhat better, although the persistent MTV-esque style ultimately comes across more as imitative than fresh. There's some nice energetic work from director of photography Amy Vincent ("Eve's Bayou") and some bright flourishes from costume designer Vikki Brinkkord ("Clueless"); the Donna's provide a spunky presence on the soundtrack as well as in a performance during the picture's pivotal prom night sequence.
Their brand of no-nonsense, nonposturing, straight-ahead rock 'n' roll lends "Jawbreaker" an element of street credibility it really doesn't deserve.
JAWBREAKER
Sony Pictures Releasing
Columbia TriStar
Director-screenwriter: Darren Stein
Producers: Stacy Kramer, Lisa Tornell
Director of photography: Amy Vincent
Production designer: Jerry Fleming
Editor: Troy Takaki
Costume designer: Vikki Brinkkord
Music: Stephen Endelman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Courtney Shayne: Rose McGowan
Julie Freeman: Rebecca Gayheart
Marcie Fox: Julie Benz
Fern Mayo/Vylette: Judy Greer
Zach Tartak: Chad Christ
Liz Purr: Charlotte Roldan
Detective Vera Cruz: Pam Grier
Miss Sherwood: Carol Kane
Running time -- 85 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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