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Flipping a traditional formula on its head, Mari Walker’s haunting feature film debut See You Then begins simply enough: we’re introduced to a reunion that takes place in a sometimes awkward dream-like state in a college town on a weekday night when only a handful of professors and students have ventured out. Perhaps, the long conversation that transpires throughout the evening can be read as a truth and reconciliation that needed to occur so that both parties can simply get out of the rut they find themselves personally, professionally, and creatively––the kind of process one might engage in while dreaming of an ex or a road not taken while sleeping.

Visiting a college town for a conference Kris (Pooya Mohseni), a networking specialist, meets up with an old college acquaintance Naomi (Lynn Chen), a daring performance artist who is now a professor juggling course loads and the...

"The wayward heart is just a wild animal... beast that needs to be tamed." Gravitas Ventures has released an official trailer for the indie psychological thriller / drama of sorts called Elyse, the first feature made by Anthony Hopkins' Colombian wife named Stella Hopkins. She also co-wrote the screenplay. Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing Elyse is Catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital. Her recovery is reliant on the dissolution of her marriage, the restoration of the relationship with her mother, and the mutual absolution with the nanny's daughter, Carmen. It's the care from Dr. Lewis and the unconditional love from her nurse, David, that promise Elyse a new life. The film stars Anthony Hopkins, Lisa Pepper as Elyse, as well as Aaron Tucker, Tara Arroyave, Fran Tucker, Anthony Apel, Julieta Oritiz, and Danny Jacobs. I'm not sure why they need to blatantly reveal in the synopsis that she's catatonic,...

Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has secured the North American rights to distribute Elyse, the directorial debut drama from Stella Hopkins starring her husband, Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins. Lisa Pepper, Aaron Tucker, Tara Arroyave, Fran Tucker, Anthony Apel, Julieta Oritiz, and Danny Jacobs also star in the film, which will get a theatrical and on-demand release on December 4.

Written by Stella, the drama follows the titular character (Pepper) who, in a psychotic blackout, commits vehicular manslaughter of her son and his nanny. Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing the truth: Elyse is Catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital. Her recovery is reliant on the dissolution of her marriage, the restoration of the relationship with her mother, and the mutual absolution with the nanny’s daughter, Carmen. It’s the care from Dr. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) and the unconditional love from her nurse, David, that promise Elyse a new life.

The 15th annual Black List survey was revealed Monday December 16, and it includes 66 un-produced screenplays from up-and-coming literary talent. Results were pooled from a survey of more than 250 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to 10 favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2019 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year. This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the Black List.

Since 2005, more than a third of the screenplays included in the annual Black List surveys have become produced films, and often to notoriety — such as “Argo,” “American Hustle,” “Juno,” “The King’s Speech,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Spotlight,” “The Revenants,” “The Descendants,” and “Hell or High Water.” Melina Matsoukas’s 2019 film “Queen & Slim,” written by Lena Waithe with a story co-authored by James Frey, was featured on the 2018 Black List.

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Danny Jacobs (Growing Up and Other Lies) has booked a recurring role and Stephen Root (King of the Hill) and Romy Rosemont (Glee) will guest star on the fourth season of Showtime’s drama series Masters Of Sex. Starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as real-life pioneers of human sexuality, William Masters and Virginia Johnson, Masters of Sex Season 4 will begin in 1968, and will take viewers into the "swinging '70s" during which time the characters will take on new…...

Tom Huang will be awarded the Loyola Marymount University School Of Film And Television Screenwriting Fellowship, granting him $10,000 to develop his script for the Screenwriting Lab.

The Lmu Film and Television alumnus, among seven writers and six projects selected, is one of the chosen participants for Film Independent’s 17th annual Screenwriting Lab.

This is the fourth year Film Independent will present the Lmu School of Film and Television Screenwriting Fellowship.

The workshop is a four-week programme designed to help writers by providing individualised story sessions and connecting them with industry professionals. This year’s creative advisors include Maya Forbes from Infinitely Polar Bear, Ligiah Villalobos for Under The Same Moon and David N Weiss from Shrek 2.

2015 Screenwriting Lab participants and their projects are: Thomas Huang for Dealing With Dad; Linda Yvette Chavez for Fieras, Puja Maewal for Jaya; Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs for The Midwestern; Q. Terah Jackson for Rustin; and Ani Simon-Kennedy for The...

Perfectly navigating an intricate balance between a group of diverse friends who are determined to support each other, no matter how distinct their opinions are, can be a challenging, yet equally rewarding and gratifying, process. The four main characters in the new independent comedy, ‘Growing Up & Other Lies,’ which opens today in select theaters and on VOD nationwide, enthrallingly pledge to help each other during their times of identity crisis. The movie’s writer-directors, Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs, who both starred in and produced the project, also remained powerfully loyal to each other on their second feature film collaboration, after they penned and helmed the 2008 comedy-drama, ‘Humboldt County.’ [ Read More ]

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Jake (Josh Lawson) kicks off a walk down the length of Manhattan with a declaration of defeat: He's heading back to the Midwest after a decade scraping by as an artist. Rocks (Adam Brody), Billy (Danny Jacobs), and Gunderson (Wyatt Cenac) are hoping to talk him out of the move during this day-long, 260-block trek. The question that soon arises isn't why Jake would head home to help an ailing father, but why, exactly, these guys are friends. The seriocomic Growing Up and Other Lies, written and directed by Jacobs and Darren Grodsky (Humboldt County), offers strained male bonding from a quartet sorely out of tune. These former roommates and college buds rely on nostalgia for their once-strong connection, and it's not long past Inwood that strains begin to a...

Co-directed and co-written by Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs "Growing Up & Other Lies," is (as its title might suggest) about the trials of a last ditch, largely unsuccessful attempt to grow up -- after all, it's billed as an "anti-coming-of-age comedy." The film follows a group of friends (Adam Brody, Wyatt Cenac, Danny Jacobs and Josh Lawson) as they take an all-day walk down the entire length of Manhattan in an attempt to relive the uncomplicated ease of their early 20s, and spoiler alert: Things don't exactly go as planned. Check out this exclusive clip of Adam Brody doing his best to convince his very-pregnant girlfriend that a drunken Manhattan ramble with his buddies is more important than her last gynecological check up. "Growing Up & Other Lies" will be released in theaters and available on demand on March 20. Read More: Watch: Trailer For Indie Rom-Com ‘Growing Up & Other Lies’ With Adam Brody,...

Friendship, past loves, and the burden of living in New York City as an artist meet in “Growing Up & Other Lies,” an “anti-coming-of-age comedy” from the directors of “Humboldt County.” The Manhattan-centric movie stars Adam Brody, Wyatt Cenac, Danny Jacobs, Josh Lawson, Amber Tamblyn, and Lauren Miller, and is about a man leaving New York who takes his best friends on a walking tour of their greatest memories. Here’s the official synopsis: After struggling for years as an artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan. But their attempt to reclaim the glory of their early 20s doesn’t go quite as planned. Over the course of the day, buried conflicts emerge as...

Growing Up And Other Lies screens as part of the 23rd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival on Saturday, November 22 at 5:30 Pm at Landmark’s Tivoli Theatre.

Get ticket information here.

Once again, a group of twnty-something best buds must face an uncertain future and enter adulthood in this comedy/drama from co-writers and directors Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs. Struggling artist Jake (Josh Larson) is going to throw in the towel (and his painting apron) on his NYC gallery dreams and move back to Ohio to help his ailing pop run the family factory. So what does he want to do on his last day in the Big Apple? Why he wants to walk all 260 blocks of Manhattan, from the farthest North point all the way to Lady Liberty. It’ll be a great, final bonding adventure for him and his three old room mates. Skipping a...

The recipient of the 2014 St. Louis International Film Festival’s Women in Film Award is producer Katie Mustard.

Mustard has two feature films screening at Sliff – Growing Up And Other Lies and I Believe In Unicorns.

She joins previous Women in Film Award winners Yvonne Welbon, Barbara Hammer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Marsha Hunt, Ry Russo-Young, Pamela Yates, Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, and Nina Davenport.

Directors Darren Grodsky & Danny Jacobs Growing Up And Other Lies stars Adam Brody (The O.C.), Josh Lawson (House of Lies), Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show), Amber Tamblyn (Two and a Half Men). After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan. The film shows Sat.

Josh Lawson, Adam Brody, Wyatt Cenac, Amber Tamblyn, Danny Jacobs and Lauren Miller are all joining the indie ensemble comedy "Growing Up (and Other Lies)" which is currently shooting in New York City says Variety.

Lawson plays a 30 year old guy who, on his last day in New York City before he moves back home to the Midwest, recruits his three oldest friends to help him retrace their greatest adventure.

The trio walk the entire, 260-block length of Manhattan in one day. Jacobs and Darren Grodsky helm from their own script. Nicole Lederman, Katie Mustard and Jason Weiss will produce.

The island of Manhattan is 260 blocks long and Adam Brody, Wyatt Cenac, Josh Lawson, Danny Jacobs and Lauren Miller have all teamed up to cross it. It has been reported that all of those actors have signed on to play parts in Growing Up (and Other Lies), a new indie ensemble comedy. Written and directed by Jacobs and Darren Grodsky, the film is about a 30 year old guy who makes the decision to leave New York City and move back home to the Midwest where he will take over the family business.. Before he does so, however, he has to live up to a promise he made to his three best friends: they must walk the entire length of Manhattan in one day. Variety posted the casting news, but outside of Lawson, who will be playing the lead, no character details are given for the other actors. Grodsky and Jacobs...

Right under our noses, Adam Brody, Zachary Quinto, Amber Tamblyn and Taran Killam were all filming an indie in Manhattan. Word of this production has only now arrived as the film, titled Growing Up (and Other Lies), is getting some work done in upper Manhattan; a fan even caught Brody shooting in their neighborhood.

It was revealed that Saturday Night Live star Killam (who also has a part in Steve McQueen‘s Twelve Years a Slave) would headline as an artist headed back home to run the family business, and whose ambitions are hurt by an ex-girlfriend (Tamblyn). But now we have more, thanks to the film’s production company, so check out that synopsis below.

“A day before 30-year-old Jake Reznowski moves from New York City back home to Ohio, he recruits his three oldest friends to retrace their greatest adventure in the city: walking the entire, 260-block length...

Taran Killam is a fairly recent addition to NBC's Saturday Night Live, but one expected to help fill the enormous hole left by exiting cast members Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and (possibly) Jason Sudeikis. Killam has been great in his two years on the sketch comedy show so far and before returning for extra responsibilities this fall, he's lined up a few impressive feature film roles. The actor recently landed a supporting role in Steve McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt (oddly enough, one of Killam's impressions) but first he'll appear in two smaller films. Variety reports that Killam is set to star in Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky's new movie called Growing Up (and Other Lies). From the writer-directors of Humboldt County), Growing Up is a comedy about four friends who make a pact to walk the length of Manhattan...

• Jason Bateman, Zac Efron, Goldie Hawn, Leslie Mann, Malin Akerman, and Jason Sudeikis are all in negotiations to star in the ensemble comedy This is Where I Leave You, author Jonathan Tropper’s adaptation of his own novel about four grown siblings who return home to grieve their deceased father. Adam Shankman is attach to direct. [Deadline, Variety]

• Michelle Pfeiffer is in talks to play Robert DeNiro’s wife in the dark comic thriller Malavita, about a mob family that moves to France under witness relocation, and falls back on old habits. Director Luc Besson adapted the script from Tony Benacquista’s unfortunately titled book Badfellas.

Madrid -- Vic Sarin's "A Shine of Rainbows" and Nian Liu's "Li Tong" will have their world premieres in competition at the third Ibiza International Film Festival, festival director Xavier Benlloch announced Tuesday as he revealed the lineup of what organizers call the "Cannes after-hours."

Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs' "Humboldt County," Rachel Samuels' "Dark Streets," Uros Stoganovic's "Tears for Sale" and Leonardo Armas' "Radio Love" round out the official competition for the grand prize, called the Falco d'Or.

Scottish director Bill Forsyth, Spanish film critic Jose Eduardo Arenas and Indian producer Rohan Sippy comprise the official jury at the festival, which will showcase Terry Gilliam's work in sidebar.

None of the films in competition have screened in Spain yet, and Benlloch emphasized the festival's strategy.

"A good jury and good films make good festivals," Benlloch said. "Festivals aren't meant to be so Spielberg can premiere his latest film.

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="thumbnail-image-block"><span><img class="yui-img" src="http://www.screeninglog.com/storage/reports/humboldt-interview.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1222408484590"></span></span></p><p>Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs' directorial debut "Humboldt County" opens in limited release today, and although they are both quite busy at the moment promoting the film, they kindly agreed to briefly discuss how this project came to life and what experience they encountered during the production process. <br></p><p>"Humboldt Country" tells the story of Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong, pictured above), a promising UCLA med student who finds himself stranded when he’s deposited at the multi-generational family home of the free-spirited Bogart (Fairuza Balk), following a drunken one-night stand.</p><p>Frustrated and disillusioned with his life after his professor/father (Peter Bogdanovich) fails him on an important exam, the unworldly Peter at first rejects the welcoming yet eccentric pot-smoking strangers, along with their eclectic group of friends and fellow farmers, but soon allows himself to be embraced by their ideals and begins to see life a bit clearer: despite the smoke.

By Neil Pedley

If the old maxim "What I really want to do is direct" still holds true, this week's releases confirm that the filmmaking game is more open than ever. Anyone can have a crack at it; actors, teachers, digital artists, preachers. Perhaps you should have a go yourself. Hell, if Paul W.S. Anderson can get work doing it...

"The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela"

Offering up the most unlikely fairytale you're ever likely to see, Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson draws on his documentary background with this endearing low-budget, semi-improvised Cinderella story. As a young Filipino lady-boy, the spunky, pre-op sex worker Raquela longs to be the belle of the ball as she trawls the Internet looking for love. When an American suitor pledges to be her Prince Charming and proposes a meeting in France, Raquela departs for her long-awaited date with destiny under the glittering Paris skyline.

Directors Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs will be live in person for a special free sneak screening of their film Humboldt County!

Grodsky and Jacobs’ affectionate nod to 1970s American filmmaking brings together an ensemble of established actors including Brad Dourif, Frances Conroy, Peter Bogdanovich, Fairuza Balk; rising stars Jeremy Strong (The Happening, upcoming on Broadway, “A Man For All Seasons” opposite Frank Langella), Chris Messina (Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and youngster Madison Davenport (Kit Kittredge: An American Girl).

There will be free tickets available at the door, but we had an email rsvp system set up for our Fantastic Fest friends...here's the list of folks who are on will call and are guaranteed a seat (as long as they show up no later than 6:30p!)

Archip, Dana +1

Arp, Ian +1

Bladeys, Shelby +1

Boxer, Nora +1

Brwon, Jenn +1

Chiang, Joy +1

Couch, Andy +1

Crane, Charles +1

Ellis, Becky +1

Evans, Philip +1

Ha,...

Humboldt County Free Preview with Directors Live!

Monday, September 15, 2008, 7:00pm

Alamo South Lamar

1120 South Lamar Blvd.

Austin, TX

With directors Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs in person.

You and a guest are invited to an advanced screening of Humboldt County, the serio-comic drama from directors Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs, who also co-wrote the screenplay for their feature film directorial debut. Just Rsvp here and be at the theater by 6:15pm on the date of the show to claim your seat. Check this blog on Monday at noon to be sure you're on the list but this will be in a big theater so we should be able to accommodate most if not quite all demand.

The list will be posted by noon on Monday at the Alamo Drafthouse Blog.

RSVPers please arrive by 6:30. After 6:45 we will open seating to non-RSVPers on our standby line.

Grodsky...

• If you thought Pineapple Express and Harold and Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay would be the only pot-smoking movies to hit the big screen this year, think again. Magnolia Pictures has nabbed the domestic rights to Humbolt County, which has a much different take on marijuana than the ever-popular stoner comedies. This dramedy follows a disillusioned medical student who has a one night stand with a free-spirited woman. The next thing he knows, he's stranded for a summer on a California pot farm. Aside from pot, the film deals with some pretty heavy issues, such as family relationships, personal anxiety, and self-awareness. The picture premiered at SXSW earlier this year.The film marks a great beginning to some new careers. Written and directed by first-timers Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs, the film also stars newcomer Jeremy Strong in the lead role. Veteran actress Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich (yes, That Peter Bogdanovich), Frances Conroy,

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