Exclusive: Mariko Tamaki’s graphic novel Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me is getting a live-action feature adaptation, with Tommy Dorfman signed on to direct.
Toronto-based Wildling Pictures and LA’s Mxn Entertainment will co-produce the romantic comedy. Dorfman is attached through her production company Down The Line Productions. Tamaki is writing the screenplay.
Synopsis reads: “Laura Dean is the most popular girl in school and Frederica ‘Freddie’ Riley’s dream girl. She has it all: charm, confidence, and charisma. But there’s one problem… Laura Dean keeps breaking up with her. The story follows Freddie’s journey to finding the courage to end her toxic relationship and regain her self-love, with the help of her best friends and a psychic.”
Tamaki’s graphic novel is billed as an emotional story with “powerful” social commentary, and was named by The Times of London as one of the top 100 young adult.
Toronto-based Wildling Pictures and LA’s Mxn Entertainment will co-produce the romantic comedy. Dorfman is attached through her production company Down The Line Productions. Tamaki is writing the screenplay.
Synopsis reads: “Laura Dean is the most popular girl in school and Frederica ‘Freddie’ Riley’s dream girl. She has it all: charm, confidence, and charisma. But there’s one problem… Laura Dean keeps breaking up with her. The story follows Freddie’s journey to finding the courage to end her toxic relationship and regain her self-love, with the help of her best friends and a psychic.”
Tamaki’s graphic novel is billed as an emotional story with “powerful” social commentary, and was named by The Times of London as one of the top 100 young adult.
- 12/12/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Toronto Film Festival: Tyler Perry, Peter Farrelly, Catherine Hardwicke Films Set for Gala Treatment
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The 2022 Toronto Film Festival has added world premieres for Tyler Perry’s new Netflix film, A Jazzman’s Blues; Peter Farrelly’s Vietnam War movie The Greatest Beer Run Ever, which stars Russell Crowe and Zac Efron; and the Catherine Hardwicke dramatic thriller Prisoner’s Daughter, starring Kate Beckinsale and Brian Cox.
As TIFF unveiled 18 Gala program titles to screen in Roy Thomson Hall, the festival booked red carpet launches for Hubert Davis’s Black Ice, a documentary about Black hockey players executive produced by Drake; Alice, Darling, director Mary Nighy’s psychological thriller led by Anna Kendrick; Gabe Polsky’s frontier epic Butcher’s Crossing, which stars Nicolas Cage; and Francesca Archibugi’s The Hummingbird, toplined by Nanni Moretti, Berenice Bejo and Pierfrancesco Favino.
Toronto is returning for a 47th edition to run Sept. 8 to 18 that will be in-person, with Hollywood stars on red carpets...
The 2022 Toronto Film Festival has added world premieres for Tyler Perry’s new Netflix film, A Jazzman’s Blues; Peter Farrelly’s Vietnam War movie The Greatest Beer Run Ever, which stars Russell Crowe and Zac Efron; and the Catherine Hardwicke dramatic thriller Prisoner’s Daughter, starring Kate Beckinsale and Brian Cox.
As TIFF unveiled 18 Gala program titles to screen in Roy Thomson Hall, the festival booked red carpet launches for Hubert Davis’s Black Ice, a documentary about Black hockey players executive produced by Drake; Alice, Darling, director Mary Nighy’s psychological thriller led by Anna Kendrick; Gabe Polsky’s frontier epic Butcher’s Crossing, which stars Nicolas Cage; and Francesca Archibugi’s The Hummingbird, toplined by Nanni Moretti, Berenice Bejo and Pierfrancesco Favino.
Toronto is returning for a 47th edition to run Sept. 8 to 18 that will be in-person, with Hollywood stars on red carpets...
- 7/28/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What’s the opposite of a romance? Is there a word to describe a story about realizing you’re not in love, and that you need to get out of a relationship?
We could call it “anti-romance,” but that misses the point. It would be a useful word. Maybe someone will comment to let me know it already exists.
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me is that kind of book: it’s a graphic novel, in that nameless opposite-of-romance genre. Francesca “Freddy” Riley is in high school in Berkeley, and is in a relationship with her school’s most magnetic and compelling figure, the titular Laura Dean.
Laura is a jerk, in the way that massively popular and attractive teenagers often are: no matter what she does or how she acts, everyone accepts it, even loves it. So, as we see her, she’s practically amoral, a monster of...
We could call it “anti-romance,” but that misses the point. It would be a useful word. Maybe someone will comment to let me know it already exists.
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me is that kind of book: it’s a graphic novel, in that nameless opposite-of-romance genre. Francesca “Freddy” Riley is in high school in Berkeley, and is in a relationship with her school’s most magnetic and compelling figure, the titular Laura Dean.
Laura is a jerk, in the way that massively popular and attractive teenagers often are: no matter what she does or how she acts, everyone accepts it, even loves it. So, as we see her, she’s practically amoral, a monster of...
- 4/7/2021
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”
Attention Cardi B! Kesha may be sliding into your DMs. The “Praying” singer-songwriter tells me she’d love to have the “Wap” hitmaker on her podcast “Kesha and the Creepies.” “I just love listening to her, and she makes me feel calm,” she says. “She’s like a walking rainbow for me.” No surprise, Kesha would like to make music with Cardi: “I’ll have to send her a direct message when I get home.” Kesha recently dropped the video for “Stronger,” her single with Sam Feldt. “I was a little bit paralyzed, to be honest, with just the state of affairs for a good while. It made me really nervous and scared,” she says. “And I just felt like, your music is not important right now. You just need to survive. Then after the election, I felt a little bit of a sense of ease,...
Attention Cardi B! Kesha may be sliding into your DMs. The “Praying” singer-songwriter tells me she’d love to have the “Wap” hitmaker on her podcast “Kesha and the Creepies.” “I just love listening to her, and she makes me feel calm,” she says. “She’s like a walking rainbow for me.” No surprise, Kesha would like to make music with Cardi: “I’ll have to send her a direct message when I get home.” Kesha recently dropped the video for “Stronger,” her single with Sam Feldt. “I was a little bit paralyzed, to be honest, with just the state of affairs for a good while. It made me really nervous and scared,” she says. “And I just felt like, your music is not important right now. You just need to survive. Then after the election, I felt a little bit of a sense of ease,...
- 2/10/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
The 2020 Eisner Awards were presented by Phil Lamarr as part of Comic-Con At Home, the digital remote replacement for this year’s pandemic-canceled San Diego Comic-Con.
The big winners on the night were women creators, winning outright or a share of almost two thirds of the awards. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-o’Connell took home three awards: Best Publication for Teens, Best Writer, and Best Penciller/Inker. Invisible Kingdom from G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward; Lynda Barry’s Making Comics; Usagi Yojimbo’s Stan Sakai; and the juggernaut that is Raina Telgelmeier each took home two awards. Other notable wins included David Walker, Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene’s Bitter Root’s Best Continuing Series; Best Limited Series to Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertrom for Little Bird; Emma Rios for Best Cover Artist for her work on Pretty Deadly; and...
The big winners on the night were women creators, winning outright or a share of almost two thirds of the awards. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-o’Connell took home three awards: Best Publication for Teens, Best Writer, and Best Penciller/Inker. Invisible Kingdom from G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward; Lynda Barry’s Making Comics; Usagi Yojimbo’s Stan Sakai; and the juggernaut that is Raina Telgelmeier each took home two awards. Other notable wins included David Walker, Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene’s Bitter Root’s Best Continuing Series; Best Limited Series to Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertrom for Little Bird; Emma Rios for Best Cover Artist for her work on Pretty Deadly; and...
- 7/26/2020
- by Jim Dandy
- Den of Geek
Boom! Studios, in partnership with 20th Century Fox, revealed a first look at a special issue, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #13, from acclaimed writer Jordie Bellaire (Redlands), Harvey Award-winning guest artist Rosemary Valero-o’Connell (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me), colorists […]
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- 3/3/2020
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Out now from Knopf Books for Young Readers, Kazoo's Noisemakers: 25 Women Who Raised Their Voices & Changed the World highlights courageous women who changed the world as we know it. The new collection features awesome artwork and insightful writing from some of the most talented artists working today, including Emil Ferris (My Favorite Thing is Monsters), who contributed a biography on the groundbreaking author Mary Shelley to the collection. As a special treat for Daily Dead readers, we've been provided with preview pages from Ferris' contribution, offering a look into the difficult past that shaped Shelley into one of the most influential authors of all time.
Here's what Kazoo Editor-in-Chief Erin Bried had to say about Ferris' contribution to Noisemakers:
"Noisemakers is a collection of biographic comics about women who’ve made history by raising their voices. I wanted to include Mary Shelley in the collection, because she used her voice...
Here's what Kazoo Editor-in-Chief Erin Bried had to say about Ferris' contribution to Noisemakers:
"Noisemakers is a collection of biographic comics about women who’ve made history by raising their voices. I wanted to include Mary Shelley in the collection, because she used her voice...
- 2/6/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
GLAAD has announced the nominees for the 31st GLAAD Media Awards, honoring Lgbtq representation in film, television, news and entertainment in 2019.
Netflix received the most nominations of any network with 15 nominees, followed by HBO with eight and ABC, CBS and NBC each with four. New streaming services Apple+ and Disney+ earned their first ever nominations with Dickinson and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, respectively.
“There are more nominees for the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards than ever before not only because Lgbtq diversity and inclusion has progressed, but...
Netflix received the most nominations of any network with 15 nominees, followed by HBO with eight and ABC, CBS and NBC each with four. New streaming services Apple+ and Disney+ earned their first ever nominations with Dickinson and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, respectively.
“There are more nominees for the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards than ever before not only because Lgbtq diversity and inclusion has progressed, but...
- 1/8/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The 1980 Alan Parker drama/musical Fame catapulted all of its young actors into the stratosphere of superstardom. Irene Cara, Gene Anthony Ray, Laura Dean, Maureen Teefy, Lee Curreri, Antonia Franceschi, Barry Miller, and Paul McCrane all became huge stars for years. Or maybe they didn't, it's so hard to remember. I think a couple of them ended up on the television series based on the movie and one guy was on E.R., maybe. That's not going to discourage the stars of the upcoming remake of Fame, though. You many have not heard of these guys, yet, but there names will be as common as Lee Curreri and Maureen Teefy soon. Hr says MGM has lined up the lead cast for director/choreographer Kevin Tancharoen's remake. Kristy Flores, Paul Iacono, Paul McGill, Naturi Naughton, Kay Panabaker, Kherington Payne, Collins Pennie, Walter Perez and Anna Maria Perez de Tagle will portray...
- 10/10/2008
- cinemablend.com
U.S. TV star Thomas Dekker is in talks to front the new Fame.
The actor, who currently stars in Terminator TV spin-off Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, is the favorite to lead the cast in a remake of the hit 1980 musical about the talented kids at a New York performing arts school.
The new film will be directed by Kevin Tancharoen, who has choreographed and shot videos for Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson.
The original Fame was directed by Alan Parker, and starred Irene Cara, Laura Dean and the late Gene Anthony Ray. The film was nominated for six Oscars and won for Best Score and Best Original Song.
Dekker, a former child star, is already an accomplished musician - his album Psyanotic was recently released online.
The actor, who currently stars in Terminator TV spin-off Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, is the favorite to lead the cast in a remake of the hit 1980 musical about the talented kids at a New York performing arts school.
The new film will be directed by Kevin Tancharoen, who has choreographed and shot videos for Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson.
The original Fame was directed by Alan Parker, and starred Irene Cara, Laura Dean and the late Gene Anthony Ray. The film was nominated for six Oscars and won for Best Score and Best Original Song.
Dekker, a former child star, is already an accomplished musician - his album Psyanotic was recently released online.
- 10/1/2008
- WENN
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