Film Independent has revealed the television nominations for the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards, which this year have gone gender-neutral, just like its film colleagues. As revealed online Tuesday morning by Asia Kate Dillon (“Billions“), the annoncement included a winner: Apple TV+’s “Pachinko” won for best new ensemble cast, including Soji Arai, Jin Ha, Inji Jeong, Minha Kim, Kaho Minami, Lee Minho, Steve Sanghyun Noh, Anna Sawai, Jimmi Simpson and Yuh-jung Youn.
Overall, leading the nominees were ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” FX’s “The Bear,” Apple TV+’s “Severance” and HBO Max’s “Severance,” all tied with three nods each.
“As the television landscape continues to evolve, and independent artists expand the idea of how stories can be told, we’re proud to be changing with them,” said Josh Welsh, president of Film Independent. “With our new categories and gender-neutral acting awards, we hope to better reflect the diversity of...
Overall, leading the nominees were ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” FX’s “The Bear,” Apple TV+’s “Severance” and HBO Max’s “Severance,” all tied with three nods each.
“As the television landscape continues to evolve, and independent artists expand the idea of how stories can be told, we’re proud to be changing with them,” said Josh Welsh, president of Film Independent. “With our new categories and gender-neutral acting awards, we hope to better reflect the diversity of...
- 12/13/2022
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Film Independent announced the TV nominations for the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Tuesday morning, with four shows in particular leading the pack. ABC’s beloved comedy “Abbott Elementary,” FX’s critical darling “The Bear,” the HBO Max limited series “Station Eleven” and the acclaimed Apple TV+ drama “Severance” scored the most nominations of any show with three each.
The Apple TV+ series “Pachinko” won the Best Ensemble award.
New this year, as with the film nominees, is a switch to gender neutral acting awards with the Best Actor and Best Actress categories replaced by a 10-nominee Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series award. In addition to this change, a Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series award has been added to honor performances outside of the leading roles.
The 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards will be held on March 4, 2023, in Santa Monica. Check out the film nominees here.
The Apple TV+ series “Pachinko” won the Best Ensemble award.
New this year, as with the film nominees, is a switch to gender neutral acting awards with the Best Actor and Best Actress categories replaced by a 10-nominee Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series award. In addition to this change, a Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series award has been added to honor performances outside of the leading roles.
The 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards will be held on March 4, 2023, in Santa Monica. Check out the film nominees here.
- 12/13/2022
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
The Film Independent Spirit Awards are unveiling their 2023 nominees for television Tuesday morning. The reveal marks a previously announced expansion of the TV categories, as well as a move to gender-neutral acting races this year in both television and film, the latter of which were revealed last month during the Spirits’ film nominations.
The organization has combined both actor and actress in TV’s Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series, and in the new category of Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series.
Related Story Spirit Award Noms 2023: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Leads & Will Vie For Best Picture With ‘Bones And All’, ‘Our Father, The Devil’, ‘Tár’ & ‘Women Talking’ Related Story Spirit Awards Set 2023 Date, Go Gender-Neutral And Increase Budget Cap Related Story Film Independent Spirit Awards: 'The Lost Daughter' Takes Home Best Feature As Netflix Reigns With Six Wins
Billions star Asia Kate Dillon...
The organization has combined both actor and actress in TV’s Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series, and in the new category of Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series.
Related Story Spirit Award Noms 2023: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Leads & Will Vie For Best Picture With ‘Bones And All’, ‘Our Father, The Devil’, ‘Tár’ & ‘Women Talking’ Related Story Spirit Awards Set 2023 Date, Go Gender-Neutral And Increase Budget Cap Related Story Film Independent Spirit Awards: 'The Lost Daughter' Takes Home Best Feature As Netflix Reigns With Six Wins
Billions star Asia Kate Dillon...
- 12/13/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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Film Independent has revealed the TV nominees for the 2023 Spirit Awards.
Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Severance and Station Eleven landed three nominations each, the most of any series.
Notable nominees include Emmy winners Quinta Brunson and Sheryl Lee Ralph of Abbott Elementary, who earned Emmys in September for best writing for a comedy series and supporting actress, respectively, for the ABC sitcom. Emmy nominee Janelle James was also honored with a supporting performance nomination. Other nominees from September’s Emmys include Yellowjackets‘ Melanie Lynskey, Station Eleven‘s Himesh Patel and Severance‘s Adam Scott.
While Till star Danielle Deadwyler was not recognized in the film categories for her acclaimed performance in the United Artists drama, she did earn a supporting performance nod for her role in Station Eleven.
While lead actor Jeremy Allen White was not nominated for his performance on The Bear,...
Film Independent has revealed the TV nominees for the 2023 Spirit Awards.
Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Severance and Station Eleven landed three nominations each, the most of any series.
Notable nominees include Emmy winners Quinta Brunson and Sheryl Lee Ralph of Abbott Elementary, who earned Emmys in September for best writing for a comedy series and supporting actress, respectively, for the ABC sitcom. Emmy nominee Janelle James was also honored with a supporting performance nomination. Other nominees from September’s Emmys include Yellowjackets‘ Melanie Lynskey, Station Eleven‘s Himesh Patel and Severance‘s Adam Scott.
While Till star Danielle Deadwyler was not recognized in the film categories for her acclaimed performance in the United Artists drama, she did earn a supporting performance nod for her role in Station Eleven.
While lead actor Jeremy Allen White was not nominated for his performance on The Bear,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Hilary Lewis and Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has hired Ryan Tracey as an agent in the television department, Variety has learned exclusively.
Tracey comes to CAA from UTA, where he had most recently served as head of TV Production. He has represented an numerous television producers during his career, including Aida Rodgers, Kathy Ciric, Anna Dokoza, Ellen Kuras, Mark Winemaker, Joe Incaprera, Paul Garnes, Patrick Markey, Jill Footlick, Julie Herrin, and Sarah Caplan. Tracey began his career in the mailroom at UTA in 2003. He served a brief stint at Paramount Vantage, before returning to UTA in 2008.
In his new role, he will be based out of CAA’s Los Angeles office.
News of the hire comes a day after CAA announced that the agency is establishing a board to manage its daily operations. The CAA Board will consist of eleven members: Risa Gertner, Michael Levine, Emma Banks, Joe Cohen, Maha Dakhil, Paul Danforth,...
Tracey comes to CAA from UTA, where he had most recently served as head of TV Production. He has represented an numerous television producers during his career, including Aida Rodgers, Kathy Ciric, Anna Dokoza, Ellen Kuras, Mark Winemaker, Joe Incaprera, Paul Garnes, Patrick Markey, Jill Footlick, Julie Herrin, and Sarah Caplan. Tracey began his career in the mailroom at UTA in 2003. He served a brief stint at Paramount Vantage, before returning to UTA in 2008.
In his new role, he will be based out of CAA’s Los Angeles office.
News of the hire comes a day after CAA announced that the agency is establishing a board to manage its daily operations. The CAA Board will consist of eleven members: Risa Gertner, Michael Levine, Emma Banks, Joe Cohen, Maha Dakhil, Paul Danforth,...
- 1/22/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Vampire Academy and Beautiful Creatures' Zoey Deutch has joined Cover Girl.
Julie Plec of Vampire Diaries is producing the comedy.
Cover Girl follows Meg, a girl who finds herself outside of her comfort zone while attending Cambridge Business School.
Deutch's character will finance her studies in an unusual way.
Sue Kramer of Gray Matter's penned the script and is slated to direct.
Gren Wells (The Road Within) will serve as executive producer alongside Jill Footlick and Brent Emery.
Filming on Cover Girl is scheduled to begin next spring.
Julie Plec of Vampire Diaries is producing the comedy.
Cover Girl follows Meg, a girl who finds herself outside of her comfort zone while attending Cambridge Business School.
Deutch's character will finance her studies in an unusual way.
Sue Kramer of Gray Matter's penned the script and is slated to direct.
Gren Wells (The Road Within) will serve as executive producer alongside Jill Footlick and Brent Emery.
Filming on Cover Girl is scheduled to begin next spring.
- 5/16/2014
- Digital Spy
Film production and finance company Dignity Film Finance (Dff) has optioned the novel "The God of Driving: How I Overcame Fear and Put Myself in the Driver's Seat (with the Help of a Good and Mysterious Man)," by Vanity Fair special correspondent Amy Fine Collins. The novel was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. Dff, headed by President Maggie Monteith, is fully financing the feature film production based on the novel. Sue Kramer ( Gray Matters ) wrote and will direct the comedy. Jill Footlick ( Greetings From Tim Buckley ) will produce and Marina Grasic ( Crash ) is executive producing. Casting is currently underway with the project set to start shooting in Spring 2014. Sales will launch at Berlin 2014. .As a writer/director, I was completely captivated...
- 5/22/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Hengameh Panahi.s Production and Sales Outfit also Handling Chicken With Plums from the directors of the acclaimed film Persepolis, and Jacques Audiard’s Rust And Bone starring Academy Award-winner Marion Cotillard
Company to Present Slate at the Upcoming 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, On (September 13, 2010).International production and sales outfit Celluloid Dreams, headed by Hengameh Panahi, has acquired worldwide rights to the highly anticipated film Greetings From Tim Buckley starring Penn Badgley, Imogen Poots, Frank Wood, Norbert Leo Butz, Jessica Stone, Bill Sadler, and Frank Bello. Dan Algrant (People I Know, Naked in New York) is directing the script he co-wrote with Emma Sheanshang and David Brendel.
Greetings From Tim Buckley follows artist Jeff Buckley.s (Badgley) eminent 1991 performance at his father.s tribute concert in St. Ann.s Church. Through a romance with a young woman working at the concert, he comes to understand the father who abandoned him.
Company to Present Slate at the Upcoming 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, On (September 13, 2010).International production and sales outfit Celluloid Dreams, headed by Hengameh Panahi, has acquired worldwide rights to the highly anticipated film Greetings From Tim Buckley starring Penn Badgley, Imogen Poots, Frank Wood, Norbert Leo Butz, Jessica Stone, Bill Sadler, and Frank Bello. Dan Algrant (People I Know, Naked in New York) is directing the script he co-wrote with Emma Sheanshang and David Brendel.
Greetings From Tim Buckley follows artist Jeff Buckley.s (Badgley) eminent 1991 performance at his father.s tribute concert in St. Ann.s Church. Through a romance with a young woman working at the concert, he comes to understand the father who abandoned him.
- 9/13/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: Shirley MacLaine is set to star and Alan Arkin and Vera Farmiga are negotiating to star in the Sue Kramer-directed indie feature The Locals. The film puts a contemporary spin on the Romeo and Juliet tale by injecting a Jewish/Italian twist. Kramer wrote the script. eOne Entertainment is selling foreign territories, and production starts in the Bronx later this fall. “These two cultures have so much in common,” Kramer said. “Love of gab, love of food, they talk with their hands, and they feed you with guilt.” The film will be produced by Grow Pictures’ Jill Footlick, Curious Pictures’ Marina Grasic and Kramer through her Bella Films banner. Curious is co-financing with private-equity partners and Uas. John Hadity will be exec producer alongside Movie Package Company’s Shaun Redick and Ray Mansfield. Kramer is repped by Wme and Brillstein, MacLaine and Arkin by ICM, and Farmiga by CAA.
- 9/12/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Greetings from Tim Buckley to star Penn Badgley as Jeff Buckley. "Gossip Girl" star Penn Badgley has boarded the indie biopic from A-z Productions, Second Chance Productions and Smuggler Films. Badgley will play Tim Buckley's son Jeff in the story focusing on the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's 1991 performance at his father's tribute concert in St. Ann's Church, reports Variety. Pic will also look at his coming to understand the father who left him. Patrick Milling Smith, John N. Hart and Fred Zollo are producing Greetings from Tim Buckley while Brian Carmody, Jill Footlick and Ben Limberg are serving as executive producers.
- 6/21/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Greetings from Tim Buckley to star Penn Badgley as Jeff Buckley. "Gossip Girl" star Penn Badgley has boarded the indie biopic from A-z Productions, Second Chance Productions and Smuggler Films. Badgley will play Tim Buckley's son Jeff in the story focusing on the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's 1991 performance at his father's tribute concert in St. Ann's Church, reports Variety. Pic will also look at his coming to understand the father who left him. Patrick Milling Smith, John N. Hart and Fred Zollo are producing Greetings from Tim Buckley while Brian Carmody, Jill Footlick and Ben Limberg are serving as executive producers.
- 6/21/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Greetings from Tim Buckley to star Penn Badgley as Jeff Buckley. "Gossip Girl" star Penn Badgley has boarded the indie biopic from A-z Productions, Second Chance Productions and Smuggler Films. Badgley will play Tim Buckley's son Jeff in the story focusing on the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's 1991 performance at his father's tribute concert in St. Ann's Church, reports Variety. Pic will also look at his coming to understand the father who left him. Patrick Milling Smith, John N. Hart and Fred Zollo are producing Greetings from Tim Buckley while Brian Carmody, Jill Footlick and Ben Limberg are serving as executive producers.
- 6/21/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Finally, a film about the late Jeff Buckley is set and ready for production. But will fans say "Hallelujah" at the top casting choice?
Smuggler Films announced late Monday that "Gossip Girl" star Penn Badgley has won the right to play the late rocker in the upcoming film, "Greetings From Tim Buckley." The movie will follow the journey Jeff Buckley took in grappling with the legacy of his late musician father, Tim, leading up to and culminating with his legendary 1991 performance of his father's songs.
Buckley, whose one proper album, "Grace," stunned audiences and made him a cult sensation, drowned in 1997 while swimming in the Wolf River of Tennessee.
Speculation had been rife over who would win the part; based on looks, some thought it might go to James Franco, while Robert Pattinson offered the brooding musician prototype that fit Buckley's public profile.
Instead, it goes to Badgley, a 24-year old who,...
Smuggler Films announced late Monday that "Gossip Girl" star Penn Badgley has won the right to play the late rocker in the upcoming film, "Greetings From Tim Buckley." The movie will follow the journey Jeff Buckley took in grappling with the legacy of his late musician father, Tim, leading up to and culminating with his legendary 1991 performance of his father's songs.
Buckley, whose one proper album, "Grace," stunned audiences and made him a cult sensation, drowned in 1997 while swimming in the Wolf River of Tennessee.
Speculation had been rife over who would win the part; based on looks, some thought it might go to James Franco, while Robert Pattinson offered the brooding musician prototype that fit Buckley's public profile.
Instead, it goes to Badgley, a 24-year old who,...
- 6/21/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
Penn Badgely has been cast as Jeff Buckley in a upcoming biopic based on the musical artist called Geetings From Tim Buckley. Buckley was a very talented musician and was a rising star, but he died at the age of 30 in 1997. It doesn't look like this is the same biopic that director Jake Scott (Welcome to the Riley's) was working on because this film was written by Dan Algrant, Emma Sheanshang and David Brendel and is being directed by Dan Algrant (People I Know, Naked in New York). So it looks like there are two Jeff Buckley biopics in the works.
This new biopic "follows the true story of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley’s eminent 1991 performance at his father’s tribute concert in St. Ann’s Church. Through a romance with a young woman working at the concert, he comes to understand the father who abandoned him.
This new biopic "follows the true story of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley’s eminent 1991 performance at his father’s tribute concert in St. Ann’s Church. Through a romance with a young woman working at the concert, he comes to understand the father who abandoned him.
- 6/21/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Jill Footlick started out in the industry in the mid-90's as a New York based production manager and her work was a part of films like "Boy's Don't Cry." Her most recent job was the role of executive producer on Rebecca Miller's new film "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee". Footlick describes to MakingOf how she got involved in the project, her responsibility both creatively and financially and reflects on the film's premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
click here to see the full interview.
click here to see the full interview.
- 11/25/2009
- Makingof.com
In Evening, an all-star team of filmmakers takes on a minor-league story. The cast and crew here include multiple Oscar winners and nominees, a Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter, and a director, a much-honored cinematographer who collaborated with a Nobel Prize-winning author no less for his first film. Alas, the thing they all choose to labor over is a thin, overwrought tale of New England bluebloods wallowing in self-perpetuated angst and recriminations. At the end of the movie, everyone decides to get over it. Wow, that's a relief.
The film will gain traction with older women for all the mother-daughter interplay that pushes emotional buttons without ever saying anything significant. A cast of truly impressive actresses spanning the decades -- Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Eileen Atkins, Glenn Close as well as real-life mother-daughters Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer -- will undoubtedly draw a goodly share of the curious as well. Boxoffice for this Focus Feature release should still be modest.
The package is certainly appealing. Budapest-born director Lajos Koltai (the Oscar-nominated Hungarian feature Fateless) cuts between two visually appealing settings: a high-society wedding on an awesome seacliff home in Newport, R.I., and the final days of the maid of honor from the wedding, a half-century later, in a lovely art and memorabilia-filled Rhode Island residence.
It is in the latter setting that Ann Lord (Redgrave) is dying. She is (barely) comforted by two daughters, a happily situated mother and wife, Constance (Richardson), and her restive sister, Nina (Collette). The flashbacks to the weekend wedding of 50 years earlier -- where all the movie's action is -- take place in the dying woman's mind.
As these events, as fresh as if they were yesterday, churn over in her mind, what they tell her about life and the mistakes people make is meant to hugely impact Nina's current dilemma. Nina is in a shaky three-year-old relationship and, secretly pregnant, is uncertain what to do. But because the daughter can't see the mother's flashbacks or hallucinations, how this message gets across is a mystery.
In her memories, the young Ann (Danes) finds the bride-to-be, Lila Wittenborn (Gummer), in a state. Her engagement is a sham since her true love is longtime family friend and intimate Harris Arden (Patrick Wilson). Within moments, Ann herself falls under Harris' spell. He is destined to become the "man that got away" for both young women.
In her waning moments, it is her obsession with Harris that dominates her thoughts. Harris apparently is a sexual magnet: Before that long-ago weekend concludes, the bride's alcoholic brother and Ann's dear friend, Buddy (Hugh Dancy), makes a pass at her and at Harris!
For some reason, the whole movie and therefore the dying woman's memories focus on that wedding rather than subsequent loves, marriages and daughters. So when she looks back on a life of "waste and failure," you can't judge. What happened afterward in her life is what matters, not that brief fling and a tragic event that forever marred the wedding.
The whole thing is a stacked deck of cards that the director and his writers, Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham (The Hours), who adapted Minot's novel, deal with so selectively as to deny us knowledge of essential points about many of the relationships and motives.
Possibly too much has been removed from the source material. Occasional bits of magic realism indicate other means of attack in the novel: Ann's night nurse (Atkins), for example, turns into an angel of mercy/fairy godmother who knows Ann's whole past and hints at alternative views about the supposed waste and failure. We'd also like to know much more about the bride's curiously aloof parents (Barry Bostwick and Close).
Nevertheless, we must be grateful to any film with such glorious actresses still at the top of their game, including Streep, who turns up briefly as Lila the Elder.
Evening itself reps a master's course in how to make do on a limited budget, a fabulous cast and Rhode Island's generous tax incentives for filmmakers.
EVENING
Focus Features
A Hart Sharp Entertainment production
Credits:
Director: Lajos Koltai
Screenwriters: Susan Minot, Michael Cunningham
Based on the novel by: Susan Minot
Producer: Jeffrey Sharp
Executive producers: Jill Footlick, Michael Hogan, Robert Kessel, Susan Minot, Michael Cunningham
Director of photography: Gyula Pados
Production designer: Caroline Hanania
Co-producers: Luke Parker Bowles, Claire Taylor, Nina Wolarsky
Costume designer: Ann Roth, Michelle Matland
Editor: Allyson C. Johnson
Cast:
Ann Grant: Claire Danes
Nina Mars: Toni Collette
Ann Lord: Vanessa Redgrave
Harris Arden: Patrick Wilson
Budd Wittenborn: Hugh Dancy
Constance Haverford: Natasha Richardson
Lila Wittenborn: Mamie Gummer
Night Nurse: Eileen Atkins
Lila Ross: Meryl Streep
Mrs. Wittenborn: Glenn Close
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
The film will gain traction with older women for all the mother-daughter interplay that pushes emotional buttons without ever saying anything significant. A cast of truly impressive actresses spanning the decades -- Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Eileen Atkins, Glenn Close as well as real-life mother-daughters Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer -- will undoubtedly draw a goodly share of the curious as well. Boxoffice for this Focus Feature release should still be modest.
The package is certainly appealing. Budapest-born director Lajos Koltai (the Oscar-nominated Hungarian feature Fateless) cuts between two visually appealing settings: a high-society wedding on an awesome seacliff home in Newport, R.I., and the final days of the maid of honor from the wedding, a half-century later, in a lovely art and memorabilia-filled Rhode Island residence.
It is in the latter setting that Ann Lord (Redgrave) is dying. She is (barely) comforted by two daughters, a happily situated mother and wife, Constance (Richardson), and her restive sister, Nina (Collette). The flashbacks to the weekend wedding of 50 years earlier -- where all the movie's action is -- take place in the dying woman's mind.
As these events, as fresh as if they were yesterday, churn over in her mind, what they tell her about life and the mistakes people make is meant to hugely impact Nina's current dilemma. Nina is in a shaky three-year-old relationship and, secretly pregnant, is uncertain what to do. But because the daughter can't see the mother's flashbacks or hallucinations, how this message gets across is a mystery.
In her memories, the young Ann (Danes) finds the bride-to-be, Lila Wittenborn (Gummer), in a state. Her engagement is a sham since her true love is longtime family friend and intimate Harris Arden (Patrick Wilson). Within moments, Ann herself falls under Harris' spell. He is destined to become the "man that got away" for both young women.
In her waning moments, it is her obsession with Harris that dominates her thoughts. Harris apparently is a sexual magnet: Before that long-ago weekend concludes, the bride's alcoholic brother and Ann's dear friend, Buddy (Hugh Dancy), makes a pass at her and at Harris!
For some reason, the whole movie and therefore the dying woman's memories focus on that wedding rather than subsequent loves, marriages and daughters. So when she looks back on a life of "waste and failure," you can't judge. What happened afterward in her life is what matters, not that brief fling and a tragic event that forever marred the wedding.
The whole thing is a stacked deck of cards that the director and his writers, Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham (The Hours), who adapted Minot's novel, deal with so selectively as to deny us knowledge of essential points about many of the relationships and motives.
Possibly too much has been removed from the source material. Occasional bits of magic realism indicate other means of attack in the novel: Ann's night nurse (Atkins), for example, turns into an angel of mercy/fairy godmother who knows Ann's whole past and hints at alternative views about the supposed waste and failure. We'd also like to know much more about the bride's curiously aloof parents (Barry Bostwick and Close).
Nevertheless, we must be grateful to any film with such glorious actresses still at the top of their game, including Streep, who turns up briefly as Lila the Elder.
Evening itself reps a master's course in how to make do on a limited budget, a fabulous cast and Rhode Island's generous tax incentives for filmmakers.
EVENING
Focus Features
A Hart Sharp Entertainment production
Credits:
Director: Lajos Koltai
Screenwriters: Susan Minot, Michael Cunningham
Based on the novel by: Susan Minot
Producer: Jeffrey Sharp
Executive producers: Jill Footlick, Michael Hogan, Robert Kessel, Susan Minot, Michael Cunningham
Director of photography: Gyula Pados
Production designer: Caroline Hanania
Co-producers: Luke Parker Bowles, Claire Taylor, Nina Wolarsky
Costume designer: Ann Roth, Michelle Matland
Editor: Allyson C. Johnson
Cast:
Ann Grant: Claire Danes
Nina Mars: Toni Collette
Ann Lord: Vanessa Redgrave
Harris Arden: Patrick Wilson
Budd Wittenborn: Hugh Dancy
Constance Haverford: Natasha Richardson
Lila Wittenborn: Mamie Gummer
Night Nurse: Eileen Atkins
Lila Ross: Meryl Streep
Mrs. Wittenborn: Glenn Close
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 6/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Harvey Keitel is in final negotiations to join the cast of The Ministers, a crime thriller being directed by filmmaker Franc. Reyes.
Written by Reyes, the story follows a female NYPD detective whose father was murdered years ago by a group known as the Ministers. She learns that the group has begun to kill again, and in her attempt to avenge her father, she unknowingly becomes romantically involved with a member of the group.
Newcomer Florencia Lozano is the detective. John Leguizamo, who starred in Reyes' 2002 hit actioner Empire, and Diane Venora also are in the cast.
Keitel would play a good cop who has an unfortunate incident that changes the course of his life.
Reyes is producing along with Jill Footlick, who produces via her Grow Pictures.
Aaron Ray of the Collective, and Glenn Stewart, Steffan Aumuller and Claus Clausen of Sherzade are exec producing.
The Collective structured the financing for the sub-$10 million film and will handle all domestic sales.
Written by Reyes, the story follows a female NYPD detective whose father was murdered years ago by a group known as the Ministers. She learns that the group has begun to kill again, and in her attempt to avenge her father, she unknowingly becomes romantically involved with a member of the group.
Newcomer Florencia Lozano is the detective. John Leguizamo, who starred in Reyes' 2002 hit actioner Empire, and Diane Venora also are in the cast.
Keitel would play a good cop who has an unfortunate incident that changes the course of his life.
Reyes is producing along with Jill Footlick, who produces via her Grow Pictures.
Aaron Ray of the Collective, and Glenn Stewart, Steffan Aumuller and Claus Clausen of Sherzade are exec producing.
The Collective structured the financing for the sub-$10 million film and will handle all domestic sales.
- 1/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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