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Leo Woodall and Emilia Jones have joined the cast of 'Tony'.The 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy' actor and the 'Coda' star have landed undisclosed roles in A24's upcoming biopic of late chef and writer Anthony Bourdain, who will be played by the previously-announced Dominic Sessa.The project is shrouded in secrecy but sources told Deadline that Todd Bartels and Lou Howe have set the film in the summer of 1976, when a young Anthony has a live-changing summer in Provincetown.Matt Johnson is directing the movie, which will also feature Antonio Banderas.Production on 'Tony' is set to begin later this month.Anthony tragically took his own life in 2018 at the age of 61.And earlier this year, his assistant Laurie Woolever shared details of their final conversation and text messages, which centres around an upcoming National Enquirer report about his girlfriend Asia Argento's...

Exclusive: Emilia Jones (Coda) and Leo Woodall (One Day) are set for roles in A24’s Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony, Deadline has learned.

Character details are under wraps. The duo joins an ensemble led by The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa, who plays the title role, which also includes Oscar nominee Antonio Banderas.

Written by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe, the film’s logline is under wraps though sources say the film takes place during the summer of 1976, when a young Anthony Bourdain has a life changing summer in Provincetown.

BlackBerry‘s Matt Johnson is directing, with A24 producing alongside Tim and Trevor White for Star Thrower, as well as Johnson and Matthew Miller through their Zapruder Films banner. Chris Stinson, Amy Greene, Lou Howe, Todd Bartels and Emily Rose will executive produce alongside Kimberly Witherspoon, who reps Bourdain’s estate. Production begins this month.

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The Anthony Bourdain A24 biopic “Tony” is looking to be as authentic as possible — and have real chefs star alongside “The Holdovers” breakout Dominic Sessa, who is portraying late icon Bourdain. Atomic Honey Casting posted an open casting call seeking “real restaurant kitchen staff with unique, dynamic personalities” to play roles in the film. IndieWire confirmed with A24 that the casting will take place for a shoot in Provincetown, Ma from May through July 2025.

While no prior acting experience is required for the aforementioned roles, prior kitchen experience is a must. The casting call is looking for males of all ethnicities.

Sessa stars as a young Bourdain in the origin story of the “Kitchen Confidential” author and “Parts Unknown” host. Antonio Banderas co-stars in an unspecified role. “Tony” will be directed by Matt Johnson (“Blackberry”) with Todd Bartels and Lou Howe writing the script. The film was announced in April 2025, with Bourdain’s estate producing.

The Holdovers star Dominic Sessa and Antonio Banderas have officially been cast in A24's upcoming Anthony Bourdain biopic, Tony.

Per Variety, Sessa will portray the legendary chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain in Tony, a new A24 biopic from Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson. Joining Sessa in the film is Banderas, who is fresh off the success of Babygirl and Paddington in Peru. Banderas' role in Tony is being kept under wraps. Per the official logline, Tony will "take place in 1976 when a young Bourdain has a life-changing experience working and living in Provincetown, Mass." Todd Bartels and Lou Howe penned the script for the film. The film is set to begin filming in May. There is no official release date for Tony.

Anthony Bourdain was a world-renowned chef and television personality who rose to prominence due in large part to his bestselling memoir, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.

A24 has officially announced its posthumous Anthony Bourdain biopic, titled Tony. The Holdovers‘ breakout star Dominic Sessa has been confirmed to star in the titular role, with Antonio Banderas also being cast in an undisclosed role.

Matt Johnson (BlackBerry) is set to direct from a screenplay co-written by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe, according to Variety. Tony will be set in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1976, approximately two years before a 20-year-old Bourdain graduated from the Culinary Institute of America (CIA).

This marks the second time Bourdain’s life has been brought to the screen. In 2005, his exposé/memoir on the culinary industry, Kitchen Confidential, was adapted into a sitcom starring Bradley Cooper.

A posthumous documentary, Roadrunner, was released in 2021 and used AI technology to deepfake Bourdain’s voice as the narrator of the film.

A release date for Tony has yet to be revealed.

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Antonio Banderas has joined the cast of the Anthony Bourdain biopic “Tony,” as production kicks off next month with director Matt Johnson, A24, Star Thrower and Zapruder Films announced Wednesday.

The companies also confirmed that “The Holdovers” breakout Dominic Sessa will officially star in the title role as Bourdain.

The film is written by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe. The logline is underwraps but insiders say the film takes place during the summer of 1976, when a young Anthony Bourdain has a life changing summer in Provincetown.

Bourdain achieved global fame with his unflinching book “Kitchen Confidential,” which pulled back the curtain on the cutthroat world of culinary arts with acerbic wit. He then turned that fame into critical acclaim as a travel documentarian, first with the Travel Channel show “No Reservations” and then with his CNN series “Parts Unknown,” the latter of which won 12 Primetime Emmys.

Bourdain committed suicide in...

Dominic Sessa will be playing the late Anthony Bourdain.

The 22-year-old The Holdovers star will play the part of the iconic chef and travel documentarian alongside Antonio Banderas in a new biopic Tony directed by Matt Johnson for A24, per Variety.

The details of Antonio‘s role are not yet known Dominic was originally said to be in talks for the project last summer.

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The movie will “take place in 1976 when a young Bourdain has a life changing experience working and living in Provincetown, Mass.”

Filming is set to begin in May.

The script comes from Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.

Anthony Bourdain is known as one of the most influential chefs in the world. He tragically died by suicide at the age of 61 in 2018.

“The Holdovers” star Dominic Sessa will officially don the apron of kitchen legend Anthony Bourdain, alongside Oscar nominee Antonio Banderas in a new biopic from A24.

Banderas’ role is under wraps, and Sessa was reported as in talks for the project from director Matt Johnson (“Blackberry”) last summer. The film, titled “Tony,” will take place in 1976 when a young Bourdain has a life-changing experience working and living in Provincetown, Mass. Cameras are set to roll next month.

Bourdain enrolled in culinary school two years after the film is set. The former executive chef of New York’s Brasserie Les Halles made his name with the 2000 memoir “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.” The winner of a posthumous Emmy for his contributions to the unscripted space for series like “No Reservations” and “Parts Unknown,” Bourdain died in 2018 in the French city of Strasbourg, at age 61.

Johnson directs a script from Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.

Antonio Banderas is set to co-star opposite Dominic Sessa in Tony, the Anthony Bourdain movie from A24, Star Thrower and Zapruder Films. Matt Johnson is directing from a script by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.

The logline is under wraps, but sources say the film takes place during the summer of 1976, when a young Anthony Bourdain has a life-changing summer in Provincetown. It is unknown who Banderas will play.

A24 will produce with Tim and Trevor White under their Star Thrower banner, along with Johnson and Matthew Miller through their Zapruder Films. Chris Stinson, Amy Greene, Howe, Bartels and Emily Rose will executive produce. Kimberly Witherspoon, who represents Bourdain’s estate, will also executive produce.

Banderas and A24 have strong ties after the Oscar-nominated actor recently starred opposite Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in Babygirl. He was also recently seen in Paddington in Peru.

A24 and Star Thrower have also...

The next few years could be a wild time at the movies. The Black List is an online platform where upcoming screenwriters share their work and, every year, the list compiles the most popular unproduced screenplays and unveils them to the world (in the interest of attracting potential producers). 2024 has already been a big year, what with Gladiator II and Wicked going head-to-head, Mubi's insanely successful The Substance, Deadpool & Wolverine swearing their way through a feature-length runtime, and the return of the cinematic Goat in Paddington in Peru. But that's nothing compared to what's on The Black List's most popular scripts of 2024.

Once an IP enters the public domain, horror fanatics are almost guaranteed to turn it into a horror movie. But some horror junkie's have transformed the life of a former U.S. President into a crazy slasher film. Camp David (written by Megan Amram and Joseph Carnegie...

A slasher film set at Camp David where a young George W. Bush is hunted by a masked killer. A group of friends stuck overnight in an Ikea, unwittingly at the center of two rival crime syndicates. Audrey Hepburn hunting Nazis on her days off from filming “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

These are some of the magical loglines from this year’s annual Black List, a ranking of the most liked scripts in Hollywood that have not yet been made into films. Compiled annually by a group led by Franklin Leonard, a recipient of a Gotham tribute award this year, Variety waits with childlike anticipation each year to see which scripts film executives have really been buzzing over — but haven’t had the budget or the chutzpah to put into production just yet.

The Black List has yielded some major awards contenders and iconic films, including “Black Swan,” “Argo” and “The King’s Speech.

CAA and Untitled Entertainment had the most scripts in the 20th edition of The Black List, the annual compilation of Hollywood’s best-liked unproduced screenplays.

CAA scored 15 executive mentions, leading on the agency side for the fourth year in a row, with Untitled landing nine. Leading the pack with by far the most mentions, at 60, is Travis Braun’s One Night Only, about two strangers who scramble to find someone to sleep with on the one night of the year when premarital sex is legal. UTA and Echo Lake rep the scribe, who also topped the 2023 list with Bad Boy. Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge is on board to produce.

Untitled’s highest ranked script, at 38 mentions, is Natan Dotan’s Alignment, the hot AI-themed piece that Fifth Season recently secured in a seven-figure deal, with Makeready coming aboard to produce, as we were first to report. Securing 37 mentions, CAA...

The 2024 Black List has been announced with scripts tackling everything from Tickle Me Elmo to Wicked Witch actress Maggie Hamilton’s experience filming The Wizard of Oz.

The annual list of the town’s best-unproduced feature screenplays voted on by a group of 500 film executives features 83 scripts from writers, known and unknown, repped and unrepped.

Topping this year’s list is One Night Only by Travis Braun, which takes place in a world where premarital sex is illegal save for one night and follows two strangers as they attempt to find someone to spend that night with. Other scripts tackle the 1990s lawsuit that brought to light the health dangers of silicone breast implants (Bust by Matt Ackels), the early life of Anthony Bourdain (Tony by Lou Howe and Todd Bartels, already set up at A24), and the rise and fall of Abercrombie & Fitch (King of the Freshman by Matt Bailey...

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De acuerdo con Deadline, Dominic Sessa, que debutó como actor en la oscarizada película Los que se quedan (The Holdovers) de Alexander Payne, está en conversaciones para protagonizar Tony, el biopic del chef Anthony Bourdain que dirigirá Matt Johnson (Blackberry) a partir de un guion de Lou Howe y Todd Bartels.

Bourdain cocinó en varios restaurantes de Manhattan en los años ochenta y noventa y fue el chef ejecutivo de Brasserie Les Halles, pero fue su colección de ensayos sobre las oscuras prácticas de restaurantes lo que le puso en el mapa. Tras su publicación en The New Yorker, Bourdain se convirtió en una estrella instantánea en el panorama gastronómico mediático por su tono directo al que el público no estaba acostumbrado. El chef empezó a presentar varios programas de televisión, pero fue su serie de Travel Channel Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations que le convirtió...

Having broken out big thanks to The Holdovers, Dominic Sessa has not been short of acting gigs. He's part of the cast for another festive period-set comedy drama called Oh. What. Fun., based-on-truth tale Tow and new sequel Now You See Me 3. And via a new biopic called Tony, he's aboard to play one of the most influential figures in the culinary world: Anthony Bourdain.

The legendary Chef, writer and broadcaster cut his teeth working in the competitive Manhattan restaurant industry in the 1980s and 1990s, working his way up to Executive Chef at exclusive eatery Brasserie Les Halles.

Yet it was his writing on the ugly behind-the-scenes secrets of culinary locales that put him on the map, and their publication in The New Yorker, he became a massive star on the food scene with his no-bs attitude to the industry.

From there, he began a broadcasting career, and hosted several shows,...

Dominic Sessa, who rose to fame with his breakout role in the Oscar-winning dramedy The Holdovers, is set to take on the role of the late chef Anthony Bourdain in the upcoming biopic Tony. The film is being produced by the Oscar-nominated production company Star Thrower Entertainment, known for its work on King Richard.

According to reports from Deadline, A24 is currently in negotiations to acquire the film package. The biopic, Tony, will be directed by Matt Johnson, with a script penned by Lou Howe and Todd Bartels. Producers Tim and Trevor White, along with Matt Miller, are leading the project, while Emily Rose is set to executive produce. Star Thrower Entertainment has a successful history with biopics, having produced King Richard, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and earned Will Smith an Academy Award for Best Lead Actor. The company recently completed production on the A24 film Eternity.

A biopic about the late chef and TV personality, Anthony Bourdain, is in the works from A24 with a breakout actor from The Holdovers set to star.

Per Deadline, an Anthony Bourdain biopic, titled Tony, is in the works with Dominic Sessa set to star. Matt Johnson (Blackberry) is also set to direct a script by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.

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A biopic of Anthony Bourdain is in the works, with The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa in talks to play the late celebrity chef and travel documentarian. As first reported by Deadline, Sessa, who portrayed Angus Tully in the Oscar-nominated film The Holdovers, is in line to play Bourdain in Tony, a biopic from Star Thrower Entertainment, the production company behind The Post, King Richard, and Eternity. The outlet also reports that A24 is in talks with BlackBerry director and co-writer Matt Johnson to helm the project. Johnson is a Canadian actor and filmmaker known for his low-budget independent feature films The Dirties (2013) and Operation Avalanche (2016) and the Vice comedy series Nirvanna the Band the Show. Lou Howe and Todd Bartels wrote the screenplay for the film, while A24 is in talks to produce with Trevor White and Tim White under their Star Thrower banner, along with Johnson and Matthew Miller.

Let’s preheat the oven, there’s an Anthony Bourdain biopic on the menu.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, the ingredients are put together for a film about the beloved chef, traveler and troubadour who became a sensation with the publication of his 2000 memoir “Kitchen Confidential,” and hosted several television series. He tragically died by suicide in 2018.

Dominic Sessa, the young co-star of last year’s Oscar-nominated picture “The Holdovers” is said to be playing the lead in “Tony.”

“Tony” is set up at the tony distributor A24, and given the pedigree of its lead and director, is poised to conquer the mindspace of editors at New York and Los Angeles-based lifestyle publications. A recent feature documentary about Bourdain, “Roadrunner,” was released in 2021 and his book “Kitchen Confidential” was adapted into a Fox sitcom that didn’t quite hit in 2005, starring Bradley Cooper. Bourdain’s television work as a host...

A new biopic based on the life of Anthony Bourdain is in the works, with Dominic Sessa, whose star has quickly risen after his role in the Oscar-winning dramedy The Holdovers, in talks to play the beloved chef. The production company behind the project, which is currently titled Tony, is Star Thrower Entertainment. According to Deadline, the acclaimed indie studio A24 is rumored to be in negotiations to acquire the package.

Star Thrower is known for shepherding celebrated biopics such as King Richard, which documents Venus Williams and Serena Williams rise to greatness in womens tennis under guidance and support from their father, Richard Williams. Other names attached to Bourdains biopic are Trevor White and Tim White, who will be producing the movie along with Matthew Miller. Matt Johnson, known for his work on Blackberry, is in talks to direct, and the script will be written by Lou Howe and Todd Bartels.

A biopic about Anthony Bourdain is in the works at A24, with Dominic Sessa reportedly in line to play the celebrated chef, author, and documentarian.

Matt Johnson, who recently helmed BlackBerry, will direct the film from a script written by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe. A24 will produce alongside Star Thrower Entertainment.

Sessa is coming off a breakout performance in The Holdovers, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and a Critics Choice Award for Best Young Performer. The Cherry Hill, New Jersey native will next be seen in Now You See Me 3.

Bourdain’s memoir, Kitchen Confidential, was previously adapted into a television series in 2005, with Bradley Cooper playing a character inspired by Bourdain.

In 2012, Bourdan’s life was the subject of the documentary film Roadrunner.

Anthony Bourdain Biopic in the Works at A24, Starring Dominic Sessa

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By the time the world discovered Dominic Sessa, it was too late for him to play his real celebrity doppelgänger, Bob Dylan. That honor, of course, went to Timothée Chalamet, who’s getting tangled up in blue (and singing it himself!) for James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, out in theaters December 25. However,...

A new biopic about the late Anthony Bourdain is in the works.

On Monday (August 12), it was revealed production company Star Thrower Entertainment is working on the biopic titled Tony and that up and coming star Dominic Sessa is in talks to portray the celebrity chef, travel documentarian, and author.

Keep reading to find out more…According to Variety, A24 is rumored to be in talks with Blackberry director and co-writer Matt Johnson to direct the project.

The Tony script is currently be written by Lou Howe and Todd Bartels.

As of right now, it’s unclear what period of Bourdain‘s life the biopic will cover. Bourdain, who hosted shows including No Reservations and Parts Unknown, died in 2018 by suicide. He was 61-years-old.

Dominic‘s, 21, big breakout role was in 2023′s coming-of-age film The Holdovers. The role won him the Best Breakthrough Performance award at the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards...

Anthony Bourdain’s life is getting the big screen treatment.

Dominic Sessa, who broke out this past year in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, is set to star as the beloved food world icon for a feature film from the New York-based studio A24 and King Richard outfit Star Thrower Entertainment.

Matt Johnson, who is behind the well-received Blackberry feature, is set to direct from a script by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.

A24 is in talks to produce with Tim White and Trevor White under Star Thrower. Johnson and Matthew Miller would also produce with Emily Rose set as an executive producer. A24 and Star Thrower recently wrapped Eternity, starring Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen.

Sessa is represented by CAA, Untitled and Hansen Jacobson; Johnson is represented by CAA and Akin Gump; Miller is represented by CAA and Akin Gump.

Bourdain came to prominence as the chronicler of the...

The “Holdovers” breakout Dominic Sessa is in talks to play the late Anthony Bourdain in A24’s upcoming biopic, “Tony,” according to media reports.

Trevor White and Tim White will produce through their Star Thrower Entertainment banner, along with Matthew Miller and executive producer Emily Rose. Matt Johnson, director and cowriter of “BlackBerry,” will also produce and is in talks to direct from a script by Lou Howe and Todd Bartels.

Bourdain achieved global fame with his unflinching book “Kitchen Confidential,” which pulled back the curtain on the cutthroat world of culinary arts with acerbic wit. He then turned that fame into critical acclaim as a travel documentarian, first with the Travel Channel show “No Reservations” and then with his CNN series “Parts Unknown,” the latter of which won 12 Primetime Emmys.

Bourdain committed suicide in 2018. His life became the subject of a 2021 Morgan Neville documentary, “Roadrunner.”

Sessa made his breakout...

Here’s a project we have no reservations about. A24 is rumored to be in talks to acquire the rights to “Tony,” a biopic about the life of celebrity chef and documentarian Anthony Bourdain, multiple sources have confirmed to IndieWire.

Dominic Sessa, the breakout star of last year’s “The Holdovers” from Alexander Payne, is also in talks to star as Bourdain in the film. Matt Johnson, who directed “Blackberry,” is in talks to direct the film based on a screenplay by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.

Sources say that no deals are in place just yet. A24 had no comment.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, and it’s unclear if the film is based on any particular moment of his life or any specific source material.

Trevor White and Tim White on behalf of their Star Thrower Entertainment are producing “Tony.” The duo is known for “The Post” and “King Richard,...

Deadline reports that Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) is in talks to star as Anthony Bourdain in Tony, a biopic directed by Matt Johnson (BlackBerry). The outlet adds that A24 is in negotiations to acquire the project.

After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Anthony Bourdain worked in many kitchens in New York City, including as an executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles. His fame exploded with the publication of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, a New York Times best-selling book that detailed the seedy underbelly of the restaurant world and his own rampant drug use. He hosted several popular shows that explored culture and cuisine around the world, including Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations on the Travel Channel and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN. Sadly, he committed suicide in 2018.

It’s not known when the biopic will take place, but given Dominica Sessa’s age, you would...

Anthony Bourdain is getting the biopic treatment.

“The Holdovers” breakout Dominic Sessa is in talks to portray the celebrity chef and travel documentarian in “Tony,” a film from production company Star Thrower Entertainment. A24 are said to be in talks with “BlackBerry” director and co-writer Matt Johnson to helm the project.

The film’s script is written by Lou Howe and Todd Bartels. A24 is in talks to produce with Trevor White and Tim White under their Star Thrower banner, along with Johnson and Matthew Miller. Emily Rose will executive produce.

Sessa, who was named one of Variety‘s 10 Actors to Watch in 2023, is next set to appear in “Now You See Me 3” alongside fellow franchise newcomers Ariana Greenblatt and Justice Smith. Other upcoming projects include Michael Showalter’s Christmas comedy “Oh. What. Fun.” and the Rose Byrne-starrer “Tow.”

It’s not yet clear what period of Bourdain...

Exclusive: Following his breakout role in the Oscar-winning dramedy The Holdovers, Dominic Sessa looks to have found his next high-profile project as sources tell Deadline he is attached to star as the late chef Anthony Bourdain in the biopic Tony from Oscar-nominated production company Star Thrower Entertainment. Sources also tell Deadline that A24 is in negotiations to acquire the package.

Tim and Trevor White of Star Thrower and Matt Miller are producing along with director Matt Johnson. Lou Howe and Todd Bartels penned the script. Emily Rose will exec produce.

A24 and Star Thrower had no comment.

Bourdain came up cooking in various restaurants across Manhattan in the 1980s and ’90s, including being the exec chef at Brasserie Les Halles, but it was his essay collection about the ugly secrets of restaurants that put him on the map. Following their publication in The New Yorker, Bourdain became an instant star...

The Black List, an annual ranking of the most popular unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, has released its 2022 rankings — a list crawling with juicy biopics about superstar singers and sports world redemption tales.

Founded by Franklin Leonard, the list surveys 300 studio executives who weigh in with the strongest screenplays to have crossed their desks over the year. An individual script must be mentioned at least six times to warrant inclusion. The year’s most popular is “Pure,” a psychological thriller that would set Gwyneth Paltrow on edge.

“Obsessed with food purity, Hannah’s trip to her sister’s destination wedding descends into madness when she contracts a mysterious foodborne illness that threatens to destroy her from within,” reads the official longline.

Other notable projects include: “Dumb Blonde,” an origin story of Dolly Parton’s rise in the male-dominated country music landscape of the ’60s, by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe; “Resurfaced,...

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Scripts about Dolly Parton’s rise to fame (Todd Bartels & Lou Howe’s Dumb Blonde) and a musical drama about the life of Britney Spears (Cerina Aragones’ It’s Britney, Bitch) are among the 2022 Black List of Hollywood’s most liked unproduced screenplays.

This year’s Black List was compiled from the suggestions of more than 300 film executives, contributing the names of up to ten favorite feature film screenplays that were written in. Scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included.

The most voted-for script is Pure from The Bear writer Catherine Schetina, with other top-voted scripts including Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier. Other entries include features about Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the small business made famous after the 2020 presidential election, the making of the holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life, and the post-Olympics life of swimmer Michael Phelps.

Exclusive: Husband and wife Ed Harris and Amy Madigan will star in School for the Blind, a $4.5 million budgeted indie that will be produced by Picturehouse, John Boccardo’s Blind Faith Productions and Neil Koenigsberg. Lou Howe is directing from his adaptation of Dennis McFarland’s critically acclaimed 1995 novel.

Harris and Madigan have previously starred together in several features including Gone Baby Gone, Places in the Heart, Alamo Bay, The Last Full Measure, The Rules Don’t Apply, Sweetwater, Riders of the Purple Saga to name a few including the Harris-directed Oscar winning Pollock. Harris earned an Oscar nom for playing artist Jackson Pollock and Madigan co-starred as Peggy Guggenheim. The two are also starring in Harris’ The Ploughman which he’s also directing and in pre-production on. Both Harris and Madigan have co-starred in theatre productions such as the world premiere of Beth Henley’s The Jacksonian in Los...

Read More:  The 15 Indie Films You Must See This July: 'Amy,' 'The End of the Tour' and More "Stung" (July 3)Anyone afraid of bees will want to stay far away from Benni Diez's horror film, "Stung." Starring Clifton Collins Jr., Jessica Cook and Tony de Maeyer, the film is set at a fancy garden party where the upper class guests become prey to a colony of killer wasps that have mutated into seven foot tall predators. Hoping to save the day are two employees of the party's catering staff -- Paul and Julia -- who fight to save their lives while stumbling into a genre-friendly romance. Mixing comedy with a hybrid of monster movie and gross-out horror, "Stung" is a wicked little indie you shouldn't stream alone. "Gabriel" (July 7) Rory Culkin delivers the best work of his career so far as the titular character in the quietly terrifying "Gabriel,...

Lou Howe landed on our 25 New Faces list in 2013 while in post-production on his debut feature, Gabriel. An Ifp Narrative Lab veteran, Howe here describes the lead-up to his film, and how one crucial, family-oriented decision in pre-production reshaped and enriched it. Gabriel opens today in New York at the Village East. It’s embarrassing to admit it, but I see now that I had stopped enjoying making movies. It took me a long time to realize it, deep into post-production on my first feature Gabriel, I think, but I had lost sight of what I was doing over […]...

Lou Howe landed on our 25 New Faces list in 2013 while in post-production on his debut feature, Gabriel. An Ifp Narrative Lab veteran, Howe here describes the lead-up to his film, and how one crucial, family-oriented decision in pre-production reshaped and enriched it. Gabriel opens today in New York at the Village East. It’s embarrassing to admit it, but I see now that I had stopped enjoying making movies. It took me a long time to realize it, deep into post-production on my first feature Gabriel, I think, but I had lost sight of what I was doing over […]...

When "Gabriel," the debut feature from writer/director Lou Howe, begins, it seems like any other romantic drama about two young people who are in love. Our title character (Rory Culkin) takes a bus out to his girlfriend's dorm. He bangs on her door, a wadded up piece of a letter balled in his fist. When a different girl answers, she informs him that the girl he is looking for doesn't live there, especially when he tells her that the address on the envelope is several years old. "This is a freshman dorm," the girl says. And that's when it becomes very clear that this movie is not your typical romantic drama; it's far more unhinged than that. The rest of "Gabriel" unfolds with an admirable single-mindedness and focus: Gabriel is a kid who is just being released from an institution and is coming home to spend time with his...

Becoming an adult is as tough a prospect as they come. Already on the edges of both adolescence and adulthood, being a teen is both a deeply exciting portion of one’s life, as well as a profoundly troubling one. Friends are coming and going, more freedom and thus more responsibility and a future in the “real world” that’s coming on like a speeding train, a lot is thrust on the shoulders of young adults, and sometimes these shoulders buckle under the weight.

Take the lead character in Lou Howe’s debut feature, Gabriel, for example.

Gabriel tells the story of a young man, our titular hero if you will, who is at a tipping point of sorts. Following his father’s suicide, things in his life are tied into knots, leading him to take drastic measures. Steadfast in his belief that his ex-girlfriend is anxiously awaiting his return...

Rory Culkin has quietly but steadily been carving out an interesting movie career. With movies like "You Can Count On Me," "Mean Creek," "Down In The Valley" and "Signs" on his CV, Culkin's choices tend to lean toward thoughtful character portraits, and that's no different with the upcoming indie "Gabriel." Read More: Video Interview With Rory Culkin And Lou Howe On The Tormented Soul Of Tribeca Indie 'Gabriel' Co-starring Emily Meade ("The Leftovers"), and written and directed by Lou Howe, the story follows a mentally ill young man who believes his ex-girlfriend might have the key to solving his problems. Here's the official synopsis:  Rory Culkin delivers an electrifying performance as Gabriel, a vulnerable and confused teenager longing for stability and happiness amidst an ongoing struggle with mental illness. Convinced that reuniting with his old girlfriend holds the answer to all his troubles, Gabriel risks it...

Macaulay’s younger brother gives a terrific performance as a 25-year-old struggling with mental health issues in this low-budget gem

Gabe (only his mother and girlfriend can call him Gabriel) is thrilled to pull up a stool at Joe Jr’s diner, a somewhat notable pre-gentrified Manhattan greasy spoon. No one makes the hash quite like they do and after slapping some Heinz 57 sauce all over it, he’s wolfing that sodium-rich slop with glee. But the ceiling fan is really loud and even though this tastes so good the wobbly wood and whooshing air is like a hammer to his head until – Slam! Gabe throws his silverware down and storms out of the restaurant without paying. There have been countless scenes in which we’re witness to a bipolar freak-out, but I don’t think we’ve seen one as particular, expressive and realistic as this.

Gabriel, a drama about a troubled kid,...

Two years ago we profiled Lou Howe as one of our 25 New Faces of Film; this week, his debut feature Gabriel is seeing theatrical release. We have an exclusive excerpt from this drama, which stars Rory Culkin as the title character, a mentally ill young man on trial release from a hospital. In this clip, Gabriel rummages through the apartment of Alice (Emily Meade), a girl he knew in his childhood who he’s determined to track down. Gabriel opens in limited release this Friday; for more screening information, click here.

Two years ago we profiled Lou Howe as one of our 25 New Faces of Film; this week, his debut feature Gabriel is seeing theatrical release. We have an exclusive excerpt from this drama, which stars Rory Culkin as the title character, a mentally ill young man on trial release from a hospital. In this clip, Gabriel rummages through the apartment of Alice (Emily Meade), a girl he knew in his childhood who he’s determined to track down. Gabriel opens in limited release this Friday; for more screening information, click here.

Rory Culkin is not some fresh face who has yet to leave a mark. The young actor has been delivering excellent performances in good movies for years (recommendations include: Igby Goes Down, Down in the Valley, Lymelife) but he has yet to catch the eye of mainstream audiences and though Gabriel is not exactly the next summer tentpole, the movie is riding a wave of praise from Sundance and Tribeca which should get him on a few more radars.

Writer/director Lou Howe's feature film debut looks like an intense thriller. Culkin stars as the titular character, a mentally unstable young man who is determined to track down his first love, played here by Emily Meade, at any cost. And it looks like he pays dearly.

Gabriel opens June 19.

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Read More: Watch: The Wachowskis And Netflix Expand Your Mind With 'Sense8' Trailer Rory Culkin is "We Need To Talk About Kevin"-level intense as the titular character in this quietly terrifying trailer for "Gabriel," writer-director Lou Howe's debut feature. Tense and dramatic, but also heartfelt (that moment on the bus!), this could be Howe's and Culkin's breakout moment. The film was awarded an Annenberg Feature Film Grant by the Sundance Institute and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014. The film also stars David Call. It hits theaters June 19. Poster and stills below: Read More: Ghosts of the Past Haunt 'la Tierra y La Sombra' In Exclusive Cannes Trailer...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired all North American rights to Lou Howe’s directorial debut "Gabriel," which stars Rory Culkin as a troubled teen. Culkin stars as the titular character, a vulnerable teen at his psychological breaking point, struggling to keep it together in the wake of his father’s suicide. The synopsis continues: "Convinced that reuniting with an ex-girlfriend holds the answers to his troubles, Gabriel risks everything in a desperate pursuit that will take him to uncharted and unexpected places and test the limits of those closest to him." "'Gabriel' is a gem - a highly impressive debut feature that is an emotional, yet unsentimental character study with an incredible lead performance by Rory Culkin,” said Oscilloscope’s Dan Berger and David Laub in a statement. “We're extremely excited to be able to share this film with the world." Oscilloscope plans a release later this year. Read...

Rory Culkin in Gabriel

Lou Howe's assured debut feature Gabriel - which had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival last month - stars Rory Culkin in the title role, as a young man with unnamed mental health issues returning to his family's home after a spell in an institution. Culkin is magnetic in a role that forms the lynchpin of the film - Howe presents everything from Gabe's perspective, including the reactions of others, so we join him on his obsessive journey through a world of a emotions that he views from a skewed perspective.

The film was inspired by a childhood friend of Howe's, who suffers from mental health problems, although the story itself is entirely fiction.

"He was a very close friend who I grew up with and was very close with througout my life - he's still part of my life," says Howe, when I...

The most emotionally gripping and captivating coming-of-age stories chronicle the relatable struggles young adults are forced to contend with and overcome as they try to make the jarring transition into adulthood. Seeing older relatives and friends easily make that shift into being a responsible adult often leads people to imagine their own future selves achieving their goals and dreams. But when a person is also striving to cope with a mental illness, their idea of growing up can become fundamentally unrealistic. That skewed perception of the world, and what it truly means to mature, fuels the passionately tense independent thriller, ‘Gabriel.’ Rory Culkin gave a powerful performance as the title [ Read More ]

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That’s a wrap! The 13th annual Tribeca Film Festival had its final screenings April 27. Attendance for the fest topped 400,000, featured nearly 400 screenings and panels, and, for the first time ever, sponsor At&T offered “Film for All Friday,” where screening tickets were free all day. A staple of New York City film, TFF2014 brought out stars including James Franco, Patrick Stewart, Leighton Meester, Toni Collette, Jon Favreau, Corey Stoll, Chris Messina, Jason Ritter, Max Greenfield, Courteney Cox, Seann William Scott, and more, and we picked up lots of little tidbits in our interviews! Stewart shared a personal story about his father that surfaced while he was playing Tobi Powell in “Match” (about an aging dance instructor), and gave advice to young actors on how to take all experiences, including painful ones, and incorporate them into their craft. “Gabriel’s” Rory Culkin and director Lou Howe talked to us about...

That’s a wrap! The 13th annual Tribeca Film Festival had its final screenings April 27. Attendance for the fest topped 400,000, featured nearly 400 screenings and panels, and, for the first time ever, sponsor At&T offered “Film for All Friday,” where screening tickets were free all day. A staple of New York City film, TFF2014 brought out stars including James Franco, Patrick Stewart, Leighton Meester, Toni Collette, Jon Favreau, Corey Stoll, Chris Messina, Jason Ritter, Max Greenfield, Courteney Cox, Seann William Scott, and more, and we picked up lots of little tidbits in our interviews! Stewart shared a personal story about his father that surfaced while he was playing Tobi Powell in “Match” (about an aging dance instructor), and gave advice to young actors on how to take all experiences, including painful ones, and incorporate them into their craft. “Gabriel’s” Rory Culkin and director Lou Howe talked to us about...

Yesterday, Indiewire's Peter Knegt had the opportunity to speak to the team behind the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival entry "Gabriel" at the Apple store in SoHo. The conversation was part of the "Meet the Filmmaker" series. Read More: Tribeca Review: Why the Moody Drama 'Gabriel' Is Rory Culkin's Best Performance In the film, Rory Culkin stars as Gabriel, a troubled young man who struggles with the aftermaths of his father's suicide. The film marks the debut of director Lou Howe.  For the Apple Store chat, Knegt sat down with Culkin, Howe, and producers Ben Howe and Luca Borghese. They went around the room and each spoke about a challenge the faced while filming. While Lou Howe spoke about striving to achieve authenticity when filming, Ben Howe spoke about the behind-the-scenes struggle to finance the film. Culkin, who responded last, said, "The challenge for me came afterwards because playing Gabriel I became incredibly sensitive.

From the opening scenes of “Gabriel" (read our review), the debut feature from writer/director Lou Howe, the audience is immediately tossed into the ongoing tumult that is the life of the title character, a troubled young man brilliantly played by Rory Culkin. We’re not given any clues to the drama, other than a years-old love letter from a girl named Alice, to whom Gabriel plans to propose. While this seems odd (if he’s planning to propose, why doesn’t he know where Alice lives?), it’s also instantly compelling. We want to find out who Gabriel is, where he’s coming from, and why he won’t answer his phone. As the story unfolds, we meet his mother (a wearily overprotective Deirdre O’Connell) and brother (an upright David Call), both of whom have clearly been through the emotional wringer due to Gabriel’s frequent mental health ups-and-downs.