"They're in their heads, I'm in mine." Freestyle Digital Media has released an official trailer for a hometown indie dramedy film titled Out and About, from filmmaker Peter Callahan. This premiered at a few regional festivals last year, including the Albuquerque, Fort Lauderdale, and Ojai Films Festivals, with a VOD release set for May this summer. The film takes us right inside the mind of a middle-aged man as he tries to come to terms with his life over the course of an afternoon walk through his old hometown. The film's director Peter Callahan also stars as Jeff in this contemplative film about a search for meaning, following as he wrestles with aging, success and failure in America, and his ultimate place in the world. The cast includes Maggie Lacey, Tom Nelis, Bridget White, Matthew Boston, and Daniel Stewart Sherman. At first glance it reminds me of My Dinner with Andrew,...
- 5/1/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Cesd’s NYTheatrical Department has hired longtime agent Danielle De Lawder as Vice President.
De Lawder moves to Cesd after 21 years at A3 Artists Agency and its predecessor Abrams Artists Agency, where she worked her way up from assistant to, most recently, partner in the Talent division.
The majority of her clients have followed her to Cesd including Chaske Spencer, Ethan Slater (Wicked, Tony nom SpongeBob), Will Chase, Patti Murin, Guy Lockard, Annie Golden (Into The Woods, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Ivory Aquino, Nikiya Mathis, Stephen Rider, Rodney Hicks, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Wass Stevens, Lenny Venito, Maria Grabriela Gonzales (Fantasy Island) and Royce Johnson.
“Danielle...
De Lawder moves to Cesd after 21 years at A3 Artists Agency and its predecessor Abrams Artists Agency, where she worked her way up from assistant to, most recently, partner in the Talent division.
The majority of her clients have followed her to Cesd including Chaske Spencer, Ethan Slater (Wicked, Tony nom SpongeBob), Will Chase, Patti Murin, Guy Lockard, Annie Golden (Into The Woods, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Ivory Aquino, Nikiya Mathis, Stephen Rider, Rodney Hicks, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Wass Stevens, Lenny Venito, Maria Grabriela Gonzales (Fantasy Island) and Royce Johnson.
“Danielle...
- 1/25/2023
- by Denise Petski and Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: On the heels of its 20th anniversary, Thruline Entertainment has announced two key promotions. Sam Sazant has been elevated to Los Angeles-based manager with an emphasis on talent, and Rebecca Mazouz has been named as a literary coordinator at the management-production company.
Since joining the company in early 2021, Mazouz has worked under managers Jeff Ciabattari and Danny Sherman. A Los Angeles native, Mazouz is fluent in Spanish and has worked with Thruline clients and international production companies to adapt foreign language content for the U.S. marketplace. She started her career assisting EPs on season two of The L Word: Generation Q for Showtime, and worked at Untitled Entertainment and Clique Media Group.
Sazant’s promotion formally took place during the pandemic. Sazant joined Thruline in 2018, working on the desks of founding partner Jb Roberts and manager Christina Diamantas. Since then, she has built a diverse roster of talent working in film,...
Since joining the company in early 2021, Mazouz has worked under managers Jeff Ciabattari and Danny Sherman. A Los Angeles native, Mazouz is fluent in Spanish and has worked with Thruline clients and international production companies to adapt foreign language content for the U.S. marketplace. She started her career assisting EPs on season two of The L Word: Generation Q for Showtime, and worked at Untitled Entertainment and Clique Media Group.
Sazant’s promotion formally took place during the pandemic. Sazant joined Thruline in 2018, working on the desks of founding partner Jb Roberts and manager Christina Diamantas. Since then, she has built a diverse roster of talent working in film,...
- 11/18/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Emmy winner Bradley Whitford has signed on for a key recurring role in Parish (fka The Driver), AMC’s remake of the British drama series that is set to launch next year on AMC and AMC+. Production is currently underway in New Orleans.
The U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst and Sunu Gonera and showrunner Theo Travers. It stars Esposito as Gracián “Gray” Parish, a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer a New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
Whitford plays Anton, the charming and intelligent face of industrial business in Louisiana who covertly heads a criminal organization. His dispute with a Zimbabwean human trafficking ring puts him at direct odds with Esposito’s Gracián Parish.
Previously announced cast also includes Zachary Momoh as The Horse, Paula Malcomson as Ros, Skeet Ulrich as Colin,...
The U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst and Sunu Gonera and showrunner Theo Travers. It stars Esposito as Gracián “Gray” Parish, a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer a New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
Whitford plays Anton, the charming and intelligent face of industrial business in Louisiana who covertly heads a criminal organization. His dispute with a Zimbabwean human trafficking ring puts him at direct odds with Esposito’s Gracián Parish.
Previously announced cast also includes Zachary Momoh as The Horse, Paula Malcomson as Ros, Skeet Ulrich as Colin,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid’s Tale) is set for a key recurring role opposite Giancarlo Esposito and Skeet Ulrich in The Driver, AMC’s remake of the British drama series that is set to launch next year on AMC and AMC+.
The U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst and Sunu Gonera and showrunner Theo Travers. It stars Esposito as Vince, a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer the New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster “The Horse” (Zackary Momoh), a man notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
Brugel will recur as Sister Anne. Unlike any nun we’ve ever seen before – she’s tatted up. While her appearance is different, she is completely devoted to God and her Order. Her past with Vince (Esposito) is mysterious and she continues to be his confidant when life gets tough.
Paula Malcomson and Bonnie Mbuli also star.
The U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst and Sunu Gonera and showrunner Theo Travers. It stars Esposito as Vince, a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer the New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster “The Horse” (Zackary Momoh), a man notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
Brugel will recur as Sister Anne. Unlike any nun we’ve ever seen before – she’s tatted up. While her appearance is different, she is completely devoted to God and her Order. Her past with Vince (Esposito) is mysterious and she continues to be his confidant when life gets tough.
Paula Malcomson and Bonnie Mbuli also star.
- 9/14/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Skeet Ulrich is set as a lead opposite Giancarlo Esposito in The Driver, AMC’s remake of the British drama series that is set to launch next year on AMC and AMC+.
The U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst and Sunu Gonera and showrunner Theo Travers. It stars Esposito as Vince, a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer the New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster “The Horse” (Zackary Momoh), a man notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
Ulrich will play Colin, an old acquaintance of Vince (Esposito). It’s a version of the character played by Ian Hart in the original series.
Paula Malcomson and Bonnie Mbuli also star.
Esposito, Gonera, Brocklehurst, David Morrissey, who played Vince in the original, and Travers executive produce alongside Josh Kesselman and Danny Sherman from Thruline and A+E Studios’ Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson.
The U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst and Sunu Gonera and showrunner Theo Travers. It stars Esposito as Vince, a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer the New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster “The Horse” (Zackary Momoh), a man notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
Ulrich will play Colin, an old acquaintance of Vince (Esposito). It’s a version of the character played by Ian Hart in the original series.
Paula Malcomson and Bonnie Mbuli also star.
Esposito, Gonera, Brocklehurst, David Morrissey, who played Vince in the original, and Travers executive produce alongside Josh Kesselman and Danny Sherman from Thruline and A+E Studios’ Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson.
- 8/2/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Bonnie Mbuli (Invictus) has been cast as a series regular opposite Giancarlo Esposito and Paula Malcomson in The Driver, AMC’s remake of the British drama series that is set to launch next year on AMC and AMC+.
The U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst and Sunu Gonera and showrunner Theo Travers. It stars Esposito as Vince, a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer the New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster “The Horse” (Zackary Momoh), a man notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
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Mbuli will play Shamiso Tongai, the Horse’s smart older sister. She’s wary of strangers and protective of her family’s operation, which she’s intricately involved in with a voice that becomes more powerful as the story progresses.
Esposito, Gonera, Brocklehurst, David Morrissey and Travers will executive produce...
The U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst and Sunu Gonera and showrunner Theo Travers. It stars Esposito as Vince, a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer the New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster “The Horse” (Zackary Momoh), a man notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
2022 AMC Pilot & Series Orders
Mbuli will play Shamiso Tongai, the Horse’s smart older sister. She’s wary of strangers and protective of her family’s operation, which she’s intricately involved in with a voice that becomes more powerful as the story progresses.
Esposito, Gonera, Brocklehurst, David Morrissey and Travers will executive produce...
- 8/1/2022
- by Sofia Behzadi
- Deadline Film + TV
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AMC’s upcoming remake of British drama The Driver has bulked out its cast with three new additions, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Actor and filmmaker Ivan Mbakop, who starred in Netflix’s Red Notice and played Detective Caudle in Marvel’s Hawkeye mini-series, has joined the six-part series, alongside Arica Himmel, who played a teenage Rainbow Johnson in ABC’s Black-ish prequel spin-off Mixed-ish and has just wrapped shooting a lead role in Disney+ rom-com feature Prom Pact, and youngster Dax Rey, who starred alongside Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes in Netflix limited series True Story and Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris in Apple TV+ feature Swan Song.
The three join Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), Zackary Momoh (Doctor Sleep, Harriet) and Paula Malcomson (Redemption).
Set to launch on AMC and AMC+ and due to go into production in August,...
AMC’s upcoming remake of British drama The Driver has bulked out its cast with three new additions, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Actor and filmmaker Ivan Mbakop, who starred in Netflix’s Red Notice and played Detective Caudle in Marvel’s Hawkeye mini-series, has joined the six-part series, alongside Arica Himmel, who played a teenage Rainbow Johnson in ABC’s Black-ish prequel spin-off Mixed-ish and has just wrapped shooting a lead role in Disney+ rom-com feature Prom Pact, and youngster Dax Rey, who starred alongside Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes in Netflix limited series True Story and Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris in Apple TV+ feature Swan Song.
The three join Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), Zackary Momoh (Doctor Sleep, Harriet) and Paula Malcomson (Redemption).
Set to launch on AMC and AMC+ and due to go into production in August,...
- 7/29/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Doctor Sleep, Harriet and The Nevers star Zackary Momoh is set to take a ride in AMC’s remake of British drama The Driver, joining the series in a lead role, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Set to launch on AMC and AMC+ and due to go into production in August, the six-part U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst (Safe, Come Home) and Sunu Gonera (Snowfall, Class of ’09), with Theo Travers (Billions, House of Lies) set as showrunner.
The drama stars Giancarlo Esposito as a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffeur a New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster, played by Momoh, and a man notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at U.S. southern ports. Paula Malcomson (Redemption) has also been cast as a series regular.
The three-part 2014 BBC original, created by Brocklehurst with Jim Poyser and...
Doctor Sleep, Harriet and The Nevers star Zackary Momoh is set to take a ride in AMC’s remake of British drama The Driver, joining the series in a lead role, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Set to launch on AMC and AMC+ and due to go into production in August, the six-part U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst (Safe, Come Home) and Sunu Gonera (Snowfall, Class of ’09), with Theo Travers (Billions, House of Lies) set as showrunner.
The drama stars Giancarlo Esposito as a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffeur a New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster, played by Momoh, and a man notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at U.S. southern ports. Paula Malcomson (Redemption) has also been cast as a series regular.
The three-part 2014 BBC original, created by Brocklehurst with Jim Poyser and...
- 7/18/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Paula Malcomson (Redemption) is set as a series regular opposite Giancarlo Esposito in The Driver, AMC’s remake of the British drama series.
The U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst and Sunu Gonera and showrunner Theo Travers. It stars Esposito as a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer a New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
Malcomson will play Ros.
The 2014 British series similarly followed star David Morrissey as cabbie whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to be the driver for a criminal gang.
The AMC series was created by Brocklehurst, who created the original with Jim Poyser, and Sunu Gonera, who has directed FX’s Snowfall and Class of ’09. Gonera will direct the pilot episode, while Billions and House of Lies writer Travers will serve as showrunner.
Esposito,...
The U.S. series comes from creators Danny Brocklehurst and Sunu Gonera and showrunner Theo Travers. It stars Esposito as a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer a New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
Malcomson will play Ros.
The 2014 British series similarly followed star David Morrissey as cabbie whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to be the driver for a criminal gang.
The AMC series was created by Brocklehurst, who created the original with Jim Poyser, and Sunu Gonera, who has directed FX’s Snowfall and Class of ’09. Gonera will direct the pilot episode, while Billions and House of Lies writer Travers will serve as showrunner.
Esposito,...
- 6/23/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
La Jolla Playhouse's Fly is currently playing through March 29 in the Mandell Weiss Theatre The cast features Storm Lever PlayhouseBroadway productions of Summer The Donna Summer Musical as 'Wendy' and Lincoln Clauss Bat Out of Hell as 'Peter Pan.' They are joined by Eric Anderson as 'Hook,' Victor E. Chan as 'Boris,' Audrey Cymone as 'SlightlyJane,' Jeremy Davis as 'Noodler,' Nick Eibler as 'Nibs,' Collin Jeffery at 'Curly,' Nehal Joshi as 'Smee,' Liisi Lafontaine as 'Crocodile,' Isabelle McCalla as 'Tink,' Sean Pope as 'Twins,' David Price as 'Skylights,' Daniel Quadrino as 'Toodles,' Daniel Stewart Sherman as 'Max,' along with ensemble members Hettie Barnhill, Dayna Jarae Dantzler, Victoria Fiore, Shonica Gooden, Amara Granderson, Masumi Iwai, Emily Grace Kersey, Kamille Upshaw and Naomi C. Walley and Lillith Freund, Jimmy Larkin, Jake Millgard and Alexia Sky as Swings.
- 3/10/2020
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Fear the Walking Dead, the The Walking Dead spinoff series, continued its run last night with the sixth episode of the third season. The episode begins when Madison (Kim Dickens), Troy (Daniel Sherman), and their faithful, yet exhausted, militia return home after having their gear stolen by the Native Americans from the Black Hat Reservation. While […]
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- 7/3/2017
- by Jacob Kaye
- Uinterview
Now that Fear The Walking Dead‘s third season is beginning to inch closer and closer – June 4th is the date for your diaries – fans of AMC’s companion series are beginning to brace for a change of scenery, as Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and the remainder of the crew take up residence on an isolated, and therefore relatively safe, Mexican ranch.
It lays the foundations for a new and gripping story arc, as the Clarks begin to acclimatize to Jeremiah Otto’s (Dayton Callie) self-sufficient aboard. But if history has taught us anything, it’s that a safe haven in the zombie apocalypse is often masking secrets of its own.
Adding a sense of gravitas to Fear The Walking Dead season 3 is the outgoing showrunner, Dave Erickson. Following three years behind the lens of AMC’s prequel series, Erickson has confirmed plans to bow out of Ftwd once production wraps,...
It lays the foundations for a new and gripping story arc, as the Clarks begin to acclimatize to Jeremiah Otto’s (Dayton Callie) self-sufficient aboard. But if history has taught us anything, it’s that a safe haven in the zombie apocalypse is often masking secrets of its own.
Adding a sense of gravitas to Fear The Walking Dead season 3 is the outgoing showrunner, Dave Erickson. Following three years behind the lens of AMC’s prequel series, Erickson has confirmed plans to bow out of Ftwd once production wraps,...
- 5/23/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Trading the high seas for a quaint (and potentially dangerous?) Mexican ranch, Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and the remainder of the crew can be seen taking a much-needed breather from the post-apocalyptic action in this first preview for Fear the Walking Dead, AMC’s companion series that’s set to unveil its third season early next month.
At the tip-top of the pecking order is Jeremiah Otto (Dayton Callie), a patriarch who has spent the past decade preparing for a doomsday scenario along with his two sons: Daniel Sharman (The Originals) and Sam Underwood (The Following). Such forward-thinking led to the creation of a self-sustaining haven replete with solar panels and a truckload of fruit and vegetable.
So far, so good, but by living in complete isolation, the Otto family – or “preppers,” as they’re referred to in the featurette above – is blissfully unaware of the walking dead, and it...
At the tip-top of the pecking order is Jeremiah Otto (Dayton Callie), a patriarch who has spent the past decade preparing for a doomsday scenario along with his two sons: Daniel Sharman (The Originals) and Sam Underwood (The Following). Such forward-thinking led to the creation of a self-sustaining haven replete with solar panels and a truckload of fruit and vegetable.
So far, so good, but by living in complete isolation, the Otto family – or “preppers,” as they’re referred to in the featurette above – is blissfully unaware of the walking dead, and it...
- 5/11/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
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AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead got off to a flying start start ratings wise when it first hit our screens two years ago, and the zombie survival drama has only increased in popularity ever since. Now, as we prepare for its sure to be intense season 3 premiere in just a few weeks’ time, the network has debuted a batch of striking new behind the scenes promo stills for fans to feast on.
There are 15 black and white images in total, and while the majority don’t really tell us a whole lot about what to expect from the show’s next outing, a handful do feature some new characters and may even hint at a spoiler or two. For example, we see Strand sitting alone, implying that his self-enforced solitary confinement will continue.
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AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead got off to a flying start start ratings wise when it first hit our screens two years ago, and the zombie survival drama has only increased in popularity ever since. Now, as we prepare for its sure to be intense season 3 premiere in just a few weeks’ time, the network has debuted a batch of striking new behind the scenes promo stills for fans to feast on.
There are 15 black and white images in total, and while the majority don’t really tell us a whole lot about what to expect from the show’s next outing, a handful do feature some new characters and may even hint at a spoiler or two. For example, we see Strand sitting alone, implying that his self-enforced solitary confinement will continue.
- 5/10/2017
- by Mark Cassidy
- We Got This Covered
Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
It doesn’t take long for TBS’s new half-hour sci-fi comedy/drama to get weird. In fact, it’s before the end of the show’s pilot, when one of its alien denizens – which might be a hallucination, or might be an actual reptilian invader bent on humanity’s destruction – appears out of nowhere in the car of series lead Ozzie (Wyatt Cenac) and asks, “don’t get weird, okay?”
That’s one of many played-straight oddities that nets People of Earth its biggest moments of high concept laughs, and more often than not (in the first four episodes made available for review, anyway), the show is far more hit than miss. There’s a straightforward slant to its story – bigwig New Yorker slums it in a small town and quickly becomes invested in its peculiarities – but what People of Earth succeeds...
It doesn’t take long for TBS’s new half-hour sci-fi comedy/drama to get weird. In fact, it’s before the end of the show’s pilot, when one of its alien denizens – which might be a hallucination, or might be an actual reptilian invader bent on humanity’s destruction – appears out of nowhere in the car of series lead Ozzie (Wyatt Cenac) and asks, “don’t get weird, okay?”
That’s one of many played-straight oddities that nets People of Earth its biggest moments of high concept laughs, and more often than not (in the first four episodes made available for review, anyway), the show is far more hit than miss. There’s a straightforward slant to its story – bigwig New Yorker slums it in a small town and quickly becomes invested in its peculiarities – but what People of Earth succeeds...
- 10/30/2016
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
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As Gotham pauses for a lengthy midseason break, we ponder its big mystery – who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne? Spoilers...
This article contains spoilers for Gotham season 2 up to episode 11, Worse Than A Crime.
According to TV Guide – who plonked this sizeable revelation at the end of their midseason interview with Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller – Bruce Wayne will find out who killed his parents at some point between now and the end of season 2.
Yep, within 11 episodes from now the central mystery that’s plagued Master Bruce since the pilot will be apparently be solved. Here's a reminder of the pilot's murder scene for anyone who might wish to refresh their memory before we get into speculation mode…
Will this burly killer be someone we’ve already met? Will it really be Matches Malone, as teased by a possibly lying Silver St. Cloud? And is the identity of the killer really important,...
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As Gotham pauses for a lengthy midseason break, we ponder its big mystery – who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne? Spoilers...
This article contains spoilers for Gotham season 2 up to episode 11, Worse Than A Crime.
According to TV Guide – who plonked this sizeable revelation at the end of their midseason interview with Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller – Bruce Wayne will find out who killed his parents at some point between now and the end of season 2.
Yep, within 11 episodes from now the central mystery that’s plagued Master Bruce since the pilot will be apparently be solved. Here's a reminder of the pilot's murder scene for anyone who might wish to refresh their memory before we get into speculation mode…
Will this burly killer be someone we’ve already met? Will it really be Matches Malone, as teased by a possibly lying Silver St. Cloud? And is the identity of the killer really important,...
- 1/19/2016
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
Linkin Park band member Joseph Hahn is getting ready to make his directorial debut in a film about ratting out another band's weed stash to the authorities, leading to confiscation and headaches. Just kiddin'! He's got a new flick coming out. Read on for details.
Paragon Pictures has picked up North American rights to Hahn’s feature helming debut, Mall, which stars Vincent D’Onofrio, Gina Gershon, Cameron Monaghan, Peter Stormare, and James Frecheville in the story of five disaffected suburbanites whose lives come together at a shopping mall following a seemingly random shooting.
Paragon is planning to release Mall in the fall after Hahn hits the road on Linkin Park’s Carnivores Tour this summer. The deal was negotiated by Evan Crooke, Kyle Villella, Danny Sherman, and Josh Kesselman for Paragon Pictures and Nate Bolotin for Xyz Films. Epic Pictures Group is handling international sales.
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Paragon Pictures has picked up North American rights to Hahn’s feature helming debut, Mall, which stars Vincent D’Onofrio, Gina Gershon, Cameron Monaghan, Peter Stormare, and James Frecheville in the story of five disaffected suburbanites whose lives come together at a shopping mall following a seemingly random shooting.
Paragon is planning to release Mall in the fall after Hahn hits the road on Linkin Park’s Carnivores Tour this summer. The deal was negotiated by Evan Crooke, Kyle Villella, Danny Sherman, and Josh Kesselman for Paragon Pictures and Nate Bolotin for Xyz Films. Epic Pictures Group is handling international sales.
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- 6/25/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Director Frank Whaley has cast a trio of actors for his upcoming indie drama Like Sunday, Like Rain.
Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and Will & Grace's Debra Messing have joined the film.
Like Sunday, Like Rain will follow Meester in the lead role as a struggling musician who becomes the guardian of a music prodigy, Deadline reports.
Armstrong will play the on-screen boyfriend of Meester with Messing set to play the 12-year-old prodigy's mother.
Newcomer Julian Shatkin and J Smith Cameron (Rectify) will also star.
Like Sunday, Like Rain marks the fourth feature for Whaley who has previously directed Joe The King, The Jimmy Show and New York City Serenade.
Uri Singer of Bb Films, Fabio Golombek of Fj Productions, and Tagline Pictures' Josh Kesselman and Danny Sherman will serve as producers.
Filming is currently said to be underway in New York.
Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and Will & Grace's Debra Messing have joined the film.
Like Sunday, Like Rain will follow Meester in the lead role as a struggling musician who becomes the guardian of a music prodigy, Deadline reports.
Armstrong will play the on-screen boyfriend of Meester with Messing set to play the 12-year-old prodigy's mother.
Newcomer Julian Shatkin and J Smith Cameron (Rectify) will also star.
Like Sunday, Like Rain marks the fourth feature for Whaley who has previously directed Joe The King, The Jimmy Show and New York City Serenade.
Uri Singer of Bb Films, Fabio Golombek of Fj Productions, and Tagline Pictures' Josh Kesselman and Danny Sherman will serve as producers.
Filming is currently said to be underway in New York.
- 9/18/2013
- Digital Spy
The indie drama Like Sunday Like Rain has cast Leighton Meester, Debra Messing and Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong in the film written and directed by Frank Whaley (Ray Donovan), reports Deadline. The story follows Meester's struggling musician character who becomes the guardian of a music prodigy for a summer. Armstrong plays Meester's boyfriend in the film while Messing is in as the boy's (played by Julian Shatkin) mother. This one's being shot in New York, with filming currently underway. Tagline Pictures' Danny Sherman and Josh Kesselman are producing alongside Fabio Golombek.
- 9/18/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
On Monday January 9, Red Bull Theatre will hold a staged reading of Pirandello's Henry IV, a new version of the classic play written by Tom Stoppard. Jack Obrien will direct the reading, which will feature the talents of Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, John Elison Conlee, Victor Garber, Darren Goldstein, Mamie Gummer, Aaron Krohn, Patrick Page, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Benjamin Walker, and Paxton Whitehead. Daniel Stewart Sherman...
- 1/6/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Daniel Sherman is featured in the January 2012 issue of August Man and the actor shared a few of the secrets that kept him in shape while filming Immortals.
A lot of turkey slices, shrimp, and protein shakes," Sherman said. "Working out nonstop. What made the workouts easier was that everybody was working out together. We got a very competitive mentality going. We all worked out in a small gym in cold Montreal with the stunt team. I joined later than the rest of the cast. My face dropped when I saw what the actors playing the gods looked like.
A lot of turkey slices, shrimp, and protein shakes," Sherman said. "Working out nonstop. What made the workouts easier was that everybody was working out together. We got a very competitive mentality going. We all worked out in a small gym in cold Montreal with the stunt team. I joined later than the rest of the cast. My face dropped when I saw what the actors playing the gods looked like.
- 12/27/2011
- by rnazarali
- Foodista
Director/writer: Michael Morrissey.
Cast: James Russo, Tracy Middendorf, Caleb Steinmeyer and Zulay Henao.
Boy Wonder is an award winning film from first time director Michael Morrissey. The film deals with revenge and one monstrous Oedipus complex experienced by the protagonist, Sean. A revenge thriller at its heart, Boy Wonder is a violent film with a complex psychology. Flying by at a quick clip this film is over quickly and very evocative.
The protagonist is Sean a young high school student. He suffers from flashbacks after witnessing his mother's murder ten years previous. Now, he seeks her killer at the local New York police department where he scans pages of mugshots. Hounded by Det. Ames (Zulay Henao) to let her go, Sean (Caleb Steinmeyer) takes to the streets to find a justice outside of "due process." Meanwhile, his father may or may not have been complicit in Mary's (Tracy Middendorf) murder.
Cast: James Russo, Tracy Middendorf, Caleb Steinmeyer and Zulay Henao.
Boy Wonder is an award winning film from first time director Michael Morrissey. The film deals with revenge and one monstrous Oedipus complex experienced by the protagonist, Sean. A revenge thriller at its heart, Boy Wonder is a violent film with a complex psychology. Flying by at a quick clip this film is over quickly and very evocative.
The protagonist is Sean a young high school student. He suffers from flashbacks after witnessing his mother's murder ten years previous. Now, he seeks her killer at the local New York police department where he scans pages of mugshots. Hounded by Det. Ames (Zulay Henao) to let her go, Sean (Caleb Steinmeyer) takes to the streets to find a justice outside of "due process." Meanwhile, his father may or may not have been complicit in Mary's (Tracy Middendorf) murder.
- 12/6/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Mike Morrissey, director of the much talked about movie Boy Wonder, was at New York Comic Con. After screening his film, I was lucky enough to speak with the director about his film and what’s next in store for him.
Brad Reiter: When watching this film [Boy Wonder] the one thing that stands out is it’s grounded in reality. There have been a lot of made at home super hero movies recently that are more fantastical, like Kick-ass and even James Gunn’s Super to an extent. What made you want to ground the movie more in reality?
Mike Morrissey: I just kind of wanted to have that feeling like I want to believe this stuff. When I read Daredevil, I want to believe that it’s real. I feel like sometimes, even with something like Kick-ass, they were kind of making fun of us a little bit.
Brad Reiter: When watching this film [Boy Wonder] the one thing that stands out is it’s grounded in reality. There have been a lot of made at home super hero movies recently that are more fantastical, like Kick-ass and even James Gunn’s Super to an extent. What made you want to ground the movie more in reality?
Mike Morrissey: I just kind of wanted to have that feeling like I want to believe this stuff. When I read Daredevil, I want to believe that it’s real. I feel like sometimes, even with something like Kick-ass, they were kind of making fun of us a little bit.
- 10/25/2011
- by Brad Reiter
- Killer Films
One of the more popular genres of film today is that of the comic book. It seem that every few months there is another movie based on a comic book coming out, and almost weekly there are 2 or 3 movies being announced. Of this genre, one of the more popular sub genres is the “made at home” super hero. Kick-Ass, Defendor, Griff the Invisible and James Gunn’s Super are recent entries into this sub genre. While these movies didn’t rake in the money at the box office, they have a cult following and are very popular among the fans. The newest entry into this sub genre is Boy Wonder. Of these movies, Boy Wonder might be the most interesting film of the bunch.
Boy Wonder tells the story of Sean Donovan (Caleb Steinmeyer making his feature film debut) who, when he was only a boy of about 7 or 8, saw...
Boy Wonder tells the story of Sean Donovan (Caleb Steinmeyer making his feature film debut) who, when he was only a boy of about 7 or 8, saw...
- 10/25/2011
- by Brad Reiter
- Killer Films
[1] Director James Mangold took over the X-Men spinoff The Wolverine a few months back, but now that production has been pushed back [2] -- thanks to star Hugh Jackman's commitment to Les Miserables -- Mangold has lined up another new project in the meantime. Mangold will direct and produce City State, an English-language remake of a crime thriller written and directed by Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson. Also on board to produce are Cathy Conrad, Danny Sherman, and Josh Kesslman. More details after the jump. Johannesson's City State is set in the Icelandic underworld, and follows a group of people who cross paths when a foreign mafia tries to take over the country's drug trade. The four characters are "a crooked police captain in love with a prostitute, an aging crime boss with a heart condition looking to get out of the game alive, a mechanic determined to avenge...
- 10/17/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
James Mangold has attached himself to a future project in the form of City State , Deadline reports. The film, an Americanized remake of the 2011 feature from Icelandic director Olaf de Fleur Johannesson, weaves together the lives of four people affected by a foreign crime syndicate's narcotic influence on Iceland: A mechanic seeking to avenge the death of his son, a dying crime kingpin, a female police officer who turns to vigilantism and a male police captain in love with a prostitute. Mangold, who will next direct The Wolverine , will tackle City State sometime thereafter. Currently, the project is set up at Mangold's own Tree Line Films, where he and partner Cathy Konrad have teamed with Prinicipal Entertainment's Josh Kesslman and Danny Sherman. No other talent is...
- 10/17/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Desire Under the Elms at the Goodman Theater just opened last night, Monday January 26th, 2009, but the New York Times is reporting plans for a Broadway mounting are already being worked out. The Times' Arts Beat column has revealed that producer Jeffrey Richards announced today, Tuesday January 27th that he was hoping to transfer a major new production to New York - a revival of the Eugene O'Neill classic "Desire Under the Elms" - despite the current grip of fearful economics of the Rialto. The show has been extended at the Goodman and will now play through March 1. Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls and renowned actor Brian Dennehy bring their artistic partnership to new heights with Eugene O'Neill's haunting drama, Desire Under the Elms-marking their fifth collaboration on O'Neill's work over two decades. Falls' cast includes stage and screen stars Carla Gugino (Entourage, Spy Kids, Sin City) Pablo Schreiber (Vicky Cristina Barcelona,...
- 1/28/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Desire Under the Elms at Goodman Theater opens tonight. Rumors have spread that the show has Broadway in its sights, and hopes to come to New York next spring. The show has been extended before opening night, as it will now play through March 1. Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls and renowned actor Brian Dennehy bring their artistic partnership to new heights with Eugene O'Neill's haunting drama, Desire Under the Elms-marking their fifth collaboration on O'Neill's work over two decades. Falls' cast includes stage and screen stars Carla Gugino (Entourage, Spy Kids, Sin City) Pablo Schreiber (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Awake and Sing!), Boris McGiver (The Wire) and Daniel Stewart Sherman (Broadway's Cyrano de Bergerac). The centerpiece production of Goodman Theatre's two-month "A Global Exploration: Eugene O'Neill in the 21st Century," Desire Under the Elms appears January 17 - March 1 in the Goodman's 856-seat Albert Ivar Theatre. Tickets are $25 - 82; a full Exploration calendar,...
- 1/26/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Desire Under the Elms By Eugene O'Neill will be directed by Robert Falls and run January 17-February 22. Featuring Brian Dennehy, Carla Gugino, Boris McGiver, Daniel Stewart Sherman and Pablo Schreiber Tony Award-winning Artistic Director Robert Falls' Desire Under the Elms starring the acclaimed, Tony Award-winner Brian Dennehy will be the centerpiece of an exploration of Eugene O'Neill in the 21st century. Master American playwright Eugene O'Neill conceived Desire Under the Elms as he slept one night, imbuing it with the emotional pitch of a fever dream. Ephraim Cabot returns to his remote New England farmhouse with his third wife-the alluring, headstrong young Abbie-launching his three grown sons into a bitter fight for their inheritance. When Ephraim's youngest son sets his sights on Abbie, the resulting tempest brings tragic consequences. Production contains nudity.
- 1/16/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Redacted
This review was written for the festival screening of "Redacted".Venice International Film Festival
VENICE, Italy -- Veteran director Brian De Palma's filmmaking skills have seldom been as razor sharp as they are in his sensational new film about members of a U.S. Army squad who rape and murder a 15-year-old Iraqi girl and slay her family.
Made on HD video and employing images from digital cameras, video recorders, Internet uploads and old-fashioned film, De Palma's movie is a ferocious argument against the engagement in Iraq for what it is doing to everyone involved.
Made so expertly that it appears to be assembled from genuine footage, the film details the extraordinary psychological pressure suffered by young soldiers on checkpoint duty in occupied areas of Iraq, and then follows one unit as two of its members skew monstrously out of control.
De Palma's screenplay is outstanding, and he draws wonderfully naturalistic performances from his youthful cast. Sympathetic to the young men who lose their way in horrible circumstances but unflinching in its depiction of the horrors that can result, the film is harrowing, but it should find responsive audiences everywhere.
A fictional story based on real events, "Redacted" distills images from an array of sources to tell its story, beginning with those captured by Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz), a young soldier who hopes they will buy his way into film school. Clean-cut Lawyer McCoy (Rob Devaney) also wields a video camera, but Salazar goes to extremes making a daily record of almost everything he sees.
That includes conversations with the other guys in the unit: Reno Flake (Patrick Carroll), a doper whose name is apt; B.B. Rush Daniel Stewart Sherman), a blowhard with a lot of body fat; Gabe Blix (Kel O'Neill), who likes to read John O'Hara; and two sergeants, Sweet (Ty Jones) and Vazques (Mike Figueroa). They goof around for the camera off duty and Salazar even records them on duty so that when one of them is blown to pieces by a bomb left in roadside trash, he gets it all.
By then, footage from a French documentary about the unit has made clear how the monotony and constant fear of maintaining checkpoints grinds the men down. Constantly being told they have to remain on duty for a further tour, they are drained and on edge. The docu reports that over 24 months 2,000 Iraqis were killed at checkpoints with only 60 proven to be insurgents. In one such incident, a pregnant woman and her baby are killed when her brother, taking her to the hospital, races through the unit's checkpoint thinking he's been waved on.
Rush and Flake are especially vulnerable to demonizing an enemy that they don't recognize or understand. Their plan to rape the daughter of a Sunni man recently arrested comes up almost idly but then becomes one of deadly intent.
De Palma uses all his considerable talent to make clear what has happened to these young men and the performances, especially by Carroll as the callously indifferent Flake and Devaney as the conscience stricken McCoy, are first rate.
The director makes great use of Handel's "Sarabande" in the picture, the somber tones familiar as the main title music in Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon". It's a reminder that nothing depicted in this film is new and that it's a shame it needs to be told again.
REDACTED
Magnolia Pictures
Produced by HDNet Films
Director, writer: Brian De Palma
Producers: Mark Cuban, Jason Kliot, Simone Urdl, Joana Vicente, Todd Wagner, Jennifer Weiss
Director of photography: Jonathon Cliff
Production designer: Phillip Barker
Co-executive producer: Gretchen McGowan
Costume designer: Jamila Alleddin
Editor: Bill Pankow
Cast:
Angel Salazar: Izzy Diaz
Specialist B.B. Rush: Daniel Stewart Sherman
Reno Flake: Patrick Carroll
Lawyer McCoy: Rob Devaney
Sgt. Vazques: Mike Figueroa
Msgt. Jim Sweet: Ty Jones
Gabe Blix: Kel O'Neill
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
VENICE, Italy -- Veteran director Brian De Palma's filmmaking skills have seldom been as razor sharp as they are in his sensational new film about members of a U.S. Army squad who rape and murder a 15-year-old Iraqi girl and slay her family.
Made on HD video and employing images from digital cameras, video recorders, Internet uploads and old-fashioned film, De Palma's movie is a ferocious argument against the engagement in Iraq for what it is doing to everyone involved.
Made so expertly that it appears to be assembled from genuine footage, the film details the extraordinary psychological pressure suffered by young soldiers on checkpoint duty in occupied areas of Iraq, and then follows one unit as two of its members skew monstrously out of control.
De Palma's screenplay is outstanding, and he draws wonderfully naturalistic performances from his youthful cast. Sympathetic to the young men who lose their way in horrible circumstances but unflinching in its depiction of the horrors that can result, the film is harrowing, but it should find responsive audiences everywhere.
A fictional story based on real events, "Redacted" distills images from an array of sources to tell its story, beginning with those captured by Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz), a young soldier who hopes they will buy his way into film school. Clean-cut Lawyer McCoy (Rob Devaney) also wields a video camera, but Salazar goes to extremes making a daily record of almost everything he sees.
That includes conversations with the other guys in the unit: Reno Flake (Patrick Carroll), a doper whose name is apt; B.B. Rush Daniel Stewart Sherman), a blowhard with a lot of body fat; Gabe Blix (Kel O'Neill), who likes to read John O'Hara; and two sergeants, Sweet (Ty Jones) and Vazques (Mike Figueroa). They goof around for the camera off duty and Salazar even records them on duty so that when one of them is blown to pieces by a bomb left in roadside trash, he gets it all.
By then, footage from a French documentary about the unit has made clear how the monotony and constant fear of maintaining checkpoints grinds the men down. Constantly being told they have to remain on duty for a further tour, they are drained and on edge. The docu reports that over 24 months 2,000 Iraqis were killed at checkpoints with only 60 proven to be insurgents. In one such incident, a pregnant woman and her baby are killed when her brother, taking her to the hospital, races through the unit's checkpoint thinking he's been waved on.
Rush and Flake are especially vulnerable to demonizing an enemy that they don't recognize or understand. Their plan to rape the daughter of a Sunni man recently arrested comes up almost idly but then becomes one of deadly intent.
De Palma uses all his considerable talent to make clear what has happened to these young men and the performances, especially by Carroll as the callously indifferent Flake and Devaney as the conscience stricken McCoy, are first rate.
The director makes great use of Handel's "Sarabande" in the picture, the somber tones familiar as the main title music in Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon". It's a reminder that nothing depicted in this film is new and that it's a shame it needs to be told again.
REDACTED
Magnolia Pictures
Produced by HDNet Films
Director, writer: Brian De Palma
Producers: Mark Cuban, Jason Kliot, Simone Urdl, Joana Vicente, Todd Wagner, Jennifer Weiss
Director of photography: Jonathon Cliff
Production designer: Phillip Barker
Co-executive producer: Gretchen McGowan
Costume designer: Jamila Alleddin
Editor: Bill Pankow
Cast:
Angel Salazar: Izzy Diaz
Specialist B.B. Rush: Daniel Stewart Sherman
Reno Flake: Patrick Carroll
Lawyer McCoy: Rob Devaney
Sgt. Vazques: Mike Figueroa
Msgt. Jim Sweet: Ty Jones
Gabe Blix: Kel O'Neill
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 8/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Redacted
This review was written for the festival screening of "Redacted".
Venice International Film Festival
VENICE, Italy -- Veteran director Brian De Palma's filmmaking skills have seldom been as razor sharp as they are in his sensational new film about members of a U.S. Army squad who rape and murder a 15-year-old Iraqi girl and slay her family.
Made on HD video and employing images from digital cameras, video recorders, Internet uploads and old-fashioned film, De Palma's movie is a ferocious argument against the engagement in Iraq for what it is doing to everyone involved.
Made so expertly that it appears to be assembled from genuine footage, the film details the extraordinary psychological pressure suffered by young soldiers on checkpoint duty in occupied areas of Iraq, and then follows one unit as two of its members skew monstrously out of control.
De Palma's screenplay is outstanding, and he draws wonderfully naturalistic performances from his youthful cast. Sympathetic to the young men who lose their way in horrible circumstances but unflinching in its depiction of the horrors that can result, the film is harrowing, but it should find responsive audiences everywhere.
A fictional story based on real events, "Redacted" distills images from an array of sources to tell its story, beginning with those captured by Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz), a young soldier who hopes they will buy his way into film school. Clean-cut Lawyer McCoy (Rob Devaney) also wields a video camera, but Salazar goes to extremes making a daily record of almost everything he sees.
That includes conversations with the other guys in the unit: Reno Flake (Patrick Carroll), a doper whose name is apt; B.B. Rush Daniel Stewart Sherman), a blowhard with a lot of body fat; Gabe Blix (Kel O'Neill), who likes to read John O'Hara; and two sergeants, Sweet (Ty Jones) and Vazques (Mike Figueroa). They goof around for the camera off duty and Salazar even records them on duty so that when one of them is blown to pieces by a bomb left in roadside trash, he gets it all.
By then, footage from a French documentary about the unit has made clear how the monotony and constant fear of maintaining checkpoints grinds the men down. Constantly being told they have to remain on duty for a further tour, they are drained and on edge. The docu reports that over 24 months 2,000 Iraqis were killed at checkpoints with only 60 proven to be insurgents. In one such incident, a pregnant woman and her baby are killed when her brother, taking her to the hospital, races through the unit's checkpoint thinking he's been waved on.
Rush and Flake are especially vulnerable to demonizing an enemy that they don't recognize or understand. Their plan to rape the daughter of a Sunni man recently arrested comes up almost idly but then becomes one of deadly intent.
De Palma uses all his considerable talent to make clear what has happened to these young men and the performances, especially by Carroll as the callously indifferent Flake and Devaney as the conscience stricken McCoy, are first rate.
The director makes great use of Handel's "Sarabande" in the picture, the somber tones familiar as the main title music in Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon". It's a reminder that nothing depicted in this film is new and that it's a shame it needs to be told again.
REDACTED
Magnolia Pictures
Produced by HDNet Films
Director, writer: Brian De Palma
Producers: Mark Cuban, Jason Kliot, Simone Urdl, Joana Vicente, Todd Wagner, Jennifer Weiss
Director of photography: Jonathon Cliff
Production designer: Phillip Barker
Co-executive producer: Gretchen McGowan
Costume designer: Jamila Alleddin
Editor: Bill Pankow
Cast:
Angel Salazar: Izzy Diaz
Specialist B.B. Rush: Daniel Stewart Sherman
Reno Flake: Patrick Carroll
Lawyer McCoy: Rob Devaney
Sgt. Vazques: Mike Figueroa
Msgt. Jim Sweet: Ty Jones
Gabe Blix: Kel O'Neill
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Venice International Film Festival
VENICE, Italy -- Veteran director Brian De Palma's filmmaking skills have seldom been as razor sharp as they are in his sensational new film about members of a U.S. Army squad who rape and murder a 15-year-old Iraqi girl and slay her family.
Made on HD video and employing images from digital cameras, video recorders, Internet uploads and old-fashioned film, De Palma's movie is a ferocious argument against the engagement in Iraq for what it is doing to everyone involved.
Made so expertly that it appears to be assembled from genuine footage, the film details the extraordinary psychological pressure suffered by young soldiers on checkpoint duty in occupied areas of Iraq, and then follows one unit as two of its members skew monstrously out of control.
De Palma's screenplay is outstanding, and he draws wonderfully naturalistic performances from his youthful cast. Sympathetic to the young men who lose their way in horrible circumstances but unflinching in its depiction of the horrors that can result, the film is harrowing, but it should find responsive audiences everywhere.
A fictional story based on real events, "Redacted" distills images from an array of sources to tell its story, beginning with those captured by Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz), a young soldier who hopes they will buy his way into film school. Clean-cut Lawyer McCoy (Rob Devaney) also wields a video camera, but Salazar goes to extremes making a daily record of almost everything he sees.
That includes conversations with the other guys in the unit: Reno Flake (Patrick Carroll), a doper whose name is apt; B.B. Rush Daniel Stewart Sherman), a blowhard with a lot of body fat; Gabe Blix (Kel O'Neill), who likes to read John O'Hara; and two sergeants, Sweet (Ty Jones) and Vazques (Mike Figueroa). They goof around for the camera off duty and Salazar even records them on duty so that when one of them is blown to pieces by a bomb left in roadside trash, he gets it all.
By then, footage from a French documentary about the unit has made clear how the monotony and constant fear of maintaining checkpoints grinds the men down. Constantly being told they have to remain on duty for a further tour, they are drained and on edge. The docu reports that over 24 months 2,000 Iraqis were killed at checkpoints with only 60 proven to be insurgents. In one such incident, a pregnant woman and her baby are killed when her brother, taking her to the hospital, races through the unit's checkpoint thinking he's been waved on.
Rush and Flake are especially vulnerable to demonizing an enemy that they don't recognize or understand. Their plan to rape the daughter of a Sunni man recently arrested comes up almost idly but then becomes one of deadly intent.
De Palma uses all his considerable talent to make clear what has happened to these young men and the performances, especially by Carroll as the callously indifferent Flake and Devaney as the conscience stricken McCoy, are first rate.
The director makes great use of Handel's "Sarabande" in the picture, the somber tones familiar as the main title music in Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon". It's a reminder that nothing depicted in this film is new and that it's a shame it needs to be told again.
REDACTED
Magnolia Pictures
Produced by HDNet Films
Director, writer: Brian De Palma
Producers: Mark Cuban, Jason Kliot, Simone Urdl, Joana Vicente, Todd Wagner, Jennifer Weiss
Director of photography: Jonathon Cliff
Production designer: Phillip Barker
Co-executive producer: Gretchen McGowan
Costume designer: Jamila Alleddin
Editor: Bill Pankow
Cast:
Angel Salazar: Izzy Diaz
Specialist B.B. Rush: Daniel Stewart Sherman
Reno Flake: Patrick Carroll
Lawyer McCoy: Rob Devaney
Sgt. Vazques: Mike Figueroa
Msgt. Jim Sweet: Ty Jones
Gabe Blix: Kel O'Neill
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 8/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Redacted
Venice International Film Festival
VENICE, Italy -- Veteran director Brian De Palma's filmmaking skills have seldom been as razor sharp as they are in his sensational new film about members of a U.S. army squad who rape and murder a 15-year-old Iraqi girl and slay her family.
Made on HD video and employing images from digital cameras, video recorders, Internet uploads and old-fashioned film, De Palma's movie is a ferocious argument against the engagement in Iraq for what it is doing to everyone involved.
Made so expertly that it appears to be assembled from genuine footage, the film details the extraordinary psychological pressure suffered by young soldiers on checkpoint duty in occupied areas of Iraq, and then follows one unit as two of its members skew monstrously out of control.
De Palma's screenplay is outstanding, and he draws wonderfully naturalistic performances from his youthful cast. Sympathetic to the young men who lose their way in horrible circumstances but unflinching in its depiction of the horrors that can result, the film is harrowing, but it should find responsive audiences everywhere.
A fictional story based on real events, Redacted distills images from an array of sources to tell its story, beginning with those captured by Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz), a young soldier who hopes they will buy his way into film school. Clean-cut Lawyer McCoy (Rob Devaney) also wields a video camera, but Salazar goes to extremes making a daily record of almost everything he sees.
That includes conversations with the other guys in the unit: Reno Flake (Patrick Carroll), a doper whose name is apt; B.B. Rush Daniel Stewart Sherman), a blowhard with a lot of body fat; Gabe Blix (Kel O'Neill), who likes to read John O'Hara; and two sergeants, Sweet (Ty Jones) and Vazques (Mike Figueroa). They goof around for the camera off duty and Salazar even records them on duty so that when one of them is blown to pieces by a bomb left in roadside trash, he gets it all.
By then, footage from a French documentary about the unit has made clear how the monotony and constant fear of maintaining checkpoints grinds the men down. Constantly being told they have to remain on duty for a further tour, they are drained and on edge. The docu reports that over 24 months 2,000 Iraqis were killed at checkpoints with only 60 proven to be insurgents. In one such incident, a pregnant woman and her baby are killed when her brother, taking her to the hospital, races through the unit's checkpoint thinking he's been waved on.
Rush and Flake are especially vulnerable to demonizing an enemy that they don't recognize or understand. Their plan to rape the daughter of a Sunni man recently arrested comes up almost idly but then becomes one of deadly intent.
De Palma uses all his considerable talent to make clear what has happened to these young men and the performances, especially by Carroll as the callously indifferent Flake and Devaney as the conscience stricken McCoy, are first rate.
The director makes great use of Handel's Sarabande in the picture, the somber tones familiar as the main title music in Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. It's a reminder that nothing depicted in this film is new and that it's a shame it needs to be told again.
REDACTED
Magnolia Pictures
Produced by HDNet Films
Director, writer: Brian De Palma
Producers: Mark Cuban, Jason Kirt, Simone Urdl, Joana Vicente, Todd Wagner, Jennifer Weiss
Director of photography: Jonathon Cliff
Production designer: Phillip Barker
Co-executive producer: Gretchen McGowan
Costume designer: Jamila Alaeddin
Editor: Bill Pankow
Cast:
Angel Salazar: Izzy Diaz
Specialist B.B. Rush: Daniel Stewart Sherman
Reno Flake: Patrick Carroll
Lawyer McCoy: Rob Devaney
Sgt. Vazques: Mike Figueroa
Msgt. Jim Sweet: Ty Jones
Gabe Blix: Kel O'Neill.
MPAA rating R, running time 90 minutes...
VENICE, Italy -- Veteran director Brian De Palma's filmmaking skills have seldom been as razor sharp as they are in his sensational new film about members of a U.S. army squad who rape and murder a 15-year-old Iraqi girl and slay her family.
Made on HD video and employing images from digital cameras, video recorders, Internet uploads and old-fashioned film, De Palma's movie is a ferocious argument against the engagement in Iraq for what it is doing to everyone involved.
Made so expertly that it appears to be assembled from genuine footage, the film details the extraordinary psychological pressure suffered by young soldiers on checkpoint duty in occupied areas of Iraq, and then follows one unit as two of its members skew monstrously out of control.
De Palma's screenplay is outstanding, and he draws wonderfully naturalistic performances from his youthful cast. Sympathetic to the young men who lose their way in horrible circumstances but unflinching in its depiction of the horrors that can result, the film is harrowing, but it should find responsive audiences everywhere.
A fictional story based on real events, Redacted distills images from an array of sources to tell its story, beginning with those captured by Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz), a young soldier who hopes they will buy his way into film school. Clean-cut Lawyer McCoy (Rob Devaney) also wields a video camera, but Salazar goes to extremes making a daily record of almost everything he sees.
That includes conversations with the other guys in the unit: Reno Flake (Patrick Carroll), a doper whose name is apt; B.B. Rush Daniel Stewart Sherman), a blowhard with a lot of body fat; Gabe Blix (Kel O'Neill), who likes to read John O'Hara; and two sergeants, Sweet (Ty Jones) and Vazques (Mike Figueroa). They goof around for the camera off duty and Salazar even records them on duty so that when one of them is blown to pieces by a bomb left in roadside trash, he gets it all.
By then, footage from a French documentary about the unit has made clear how the monotony and constant fear of maintaining checkpoints grinds the men down. Constantly being told they have to remain on duty for a further tour, they are drained and on edge. The docu reports that over 24 months 2,000 Iraqis were killed at checkpoints with only 60 proven to be insurgents. In one such incident, a pregnant woman and her baby are killed when her brother, taking her to the hospital, races through the unit's checkpoint thinking he's been waved on.
Rush and Flake are especially vulnerable to demonizing an enemy that they don't recognize or understand. Their plan to rape the daughter of a Sunni man recently arrested comes up almost idly but then becomes one of deadly intent.
De Palma uses all his considerable talent to make clear what has happened to these young men and the performances, especially by Carroll as the callously indifferent Flake and Devaney as the conscience stricken McCoy, are first rate.
The director makes great use of Handel's Sarabande in the picture, the somber tones familiar as the main title music in Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. It's a reminder that nothing depicted in this film is new and that it's a shame it needs to be told again.
REDACTED
Magnolia Pictures
Produced by HDNet Films
Director, writer: Brian De Palma
Producers: Mark Cuban, Jason Kirt, Simone Urdl, Joana Vicente, Todd Wagner, Jennifer Weiss
Director of photography: Jonathon Cliff
Production designer: Phillip Barker
Co-executive producer: Gretchen McGowan
Costume designer: Jamila Alaeddin
Editor: Bill Pankow
Cast:
Angel Salazar: Izzy Diaz
Specialist B.B. Rush: Daniel Stewart Sherman
Reno Flake: Patrick Carroll
Lawyer McCoy: Rob Devaney
Sgt. Vazques: Mike Figueroa
Msgt. Jim Sweet: Ty Jones
Gabe Blix: Kel O'Neill.
MPAA rating R, running time 90 minutes...
- 8/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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