Jim Cummings is tired of the bullshit. Perhaps he has been his entire career. He’s been writing and directing short films since 2009, but it was his 2016 “Thunder Road,” that brought him wide attention and acclaim.
Starring himself as a police officer eulogizing his mother, then singing and dancing to the Bruce Springsteen track at her funeral, the short is centered on Cummings’ raw, tragic yet hilarious performance, all captured in one take. He would eventually go on to write and direct a feature version in 2018 that fleshed out the character and allowed Cummings to further showcase his twisted sense of humor and pathos. After following this up with “The Wolf of Snow Hollow” and “The Beta Test,” Cummings and producers Thomas Cross and Dustin Hahn return to short form with this year’s “The Last Brunch” and most recently, “Is Now a Good Time?”
Again written, directed, and starring Cummings,...
Starring himself as a police officer eulogizing his mother, then singing and dancing to the Bruce Springsteen track at her funeral, the short is centered on Cummings’ raw, tragic yet hilarious performance, all captured in one take. He would eventually go on to write and direct a feature version in 2018 that fleshed out the character and allowed Cummings to further showcase his twisted sense of humor and pathos. After following this up with “The Wolf of Snow Hollow” and “The Beta Test,” Cummings and producers Thomas Cross and Dustin Hahn return to short form with this year’s “The Last Brunch” and most recently, “Is Now a Good Time?”
Again written, directed, and starring Cummings,...
- 7/22/2024
- by Harrison Richlin
- Indiewire
Filmmakers Jim Cummings, Pj McCabe and Thomas Cross have teamed up to launch a new independent production studio, Cool & Happy Limited. Cummings and McCabe will serve as the studio’s chief creatives, while Cross will head up production.
“The same team has been making stuff for eight years. We started in shorts and then made three features: ‘Thunder Road’ ‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ and ‘The Beta Test,’ most recently,” Cummings says. After enduring the Covid pandemic and last year’s Hollywood labor strikes, things came into perspective for the trio. “These are the people that I actually want to hang out with. It kind of perfectly aligned with what was happening in the industry. It has never been harder to get something through the front door of Hollywood.”
As Cummings puts it, the priority is making “unsanitized, well-crafted movies for cinema fanatics.” He cites Cool & Happy’s ability to...
“The same team has been making stuff for eight years. We started in shorts and then made three features: ‘Thunder Road’ ‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ and ‘The Beta Test,’ most recently,” Cummings says. After enduring the Covid pandemic and last year’s Hollywood labor strikes, things came into perspective for the trio. “These are the people that I actually want to hang out with. It kind of perfectly aligned with what was happening in the industry. It has never been harder to get something through the front door of Hollywood.”
As Cummings puts it, the priority is making “unsanitized, well-crafted movies for cinema fanatics.” He cites Cool & Happy’s ability to...
- 3/28/2024
- by Katcy Stephan
- Variety Film + TV
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