Eric Roth wanted Robert Zemeckis to make a sequel to 1997’s Contact – but the conversation didn’t get very far.
In a very special episode of the Film Stories podcast, I’ve had the enormous pleasure of chatting at length to Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth. You can find the episode right here…
Early on in the conversation, he talks about working with director Robert Zemeckis, the pair of whom both took home Oscars for Forrest Gump. They’ve reteamed on another movie that’s due later this year by the name of Here, but Eric Roth told me he’d originally approached Zemeckis with an idea for something else.
“I called Bob actually to see if he’d be interested in me writing Contact 2 for him, because I really liked that. I really like that whole arena”.
Zemeckis, in Roth’s words, quickly declined the idea, with difficulties surrounding getting...
In a very special episode of the Film Stories podcast, I’ve had the enormous pleasure of chatting at length to Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth. You can find the episode right here…
Early on in the conversation, he talks about working with director Robert Zemeckis, the pair of whom both took home Oscars for Forrest Gump. They’ve reteamed on another movie that’s due later this year by the name of Here, but Eric Roth told me he’d originally approached Zemeckis with an idea for something else.
“I called Bob actually to see if he’d be interested in me writing Contact 2 for him, because I really liked that. I really like that whole arena”.
Zemeckis, in Roth’s words, quickly declined the idea, with difficulties surrounding getting...
- 3/1/2024
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
“The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is many things – it’s a cracking good horror movie that is set almost entirely on a doomed ship traveling from Transylvania to London; it’s a refreshing expansion of “Dracula” lore; and it also is a nice nod to Universal Pictures’ classic monster-filled past. It’s existence, though, feels like a bit of a miracle, especially if you had followed the project’s development over the past 20 – yes, 20 – years. That might be the blink of an eye to an immortal creature of the night like Dracula, but in moviemaking terms, that’s an eternity.
Let’s take a look at where “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” started, with a spec script that shook up Hollywood, and where it ended up, as a big studio movie from Universal, with commentary from the eventual film’s director André Øvredal.
Just be warned: there are choppy waters ahead.
Let’s take a look at where “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” started, with a spec script that shook up Hollywood, and where it ended up, as a big studio movie from Universal, with commentary from the eventual film’s director André Øvredal.
Just be warned: there are choppy waters ahead.
- 8/11/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Exclusive: The Austin Film Festival has set producer Lauren Shuler Donner, writer-producer James V. Hart and filmmaker So Young Shelly Yo as honorees of its 30th edition, taking place from October 26 – November 2.
Donner will receive the Polly Platt Award for Producing, with Hart claiming the the Heart of Film Award and Shelly accepting the New Voice Award.
Introduced in 2019 as a means of honoring producers with a keen sense of story and a history of fostering new talent, the Producing prize has previously been bestowed upon Dede Garner, Stephanie Allain and Sarah Green.
Coming in recognition of Hart’s contributions to film and television, as well as his service to the screenwriting community, the Heart of Film Award has also since 2013 been bestowed on the likes of Enchanted producer Barry Josephson and Beverly Hills Cop scribe Daniel Petrie Jr.
Also established in 2019 was the New Voice Award, recognizing unique and captivating new voices in film,...
Donner will receive the Polly Platt Award for Producing, with Hart claiming the the Heart of Film Award and Shelly accepting the New Voice Award.
Introduced in 2019 as a means of honoring producers with a keen sense of story and a history of fostering new talent, the Producing prize has previously been bestowed upon Dede Garner, Stephanie Allain and Sarah Green.
Coming in recognition of Hart’s contributions to film and television, as well as his service to the screenwriting community, the Heart of Film Award has also since 2013 been bestowed on the likes of Enchanted producer Barry Josephson and Beverly Hills Cop scribe Daniel Petrie Jr.
Also established in 2019 was the New Voice Award, recognizing unique and captivating new voices in film,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
It was Pride and Drag Queen picket day in Los Angeles, where around 300 people hit up Warner Bros. Discovery to highlight their issues as the strike marches into its second month.
The hundreds of writers attending the picket were provided glitter and stickers for their signs on the first day of Pride month. The event attracted the likes of Severance creator Dan Erickson to Yellowjackets star Liv Hewson.
“When queer writers are under attack,” chanted the crowd, “What do we do? Stand up, fight back.” Others added, “If we don’t get it, shut it down.”
Signs featured sayings such as “Protect All Queer Art” and “I’m Gay For Pay” as Whitney Houston’s I’m Every Woman blasted from a speaker system.
On the scene at the Pride Picket outside of Warner Bros. Studios in LA #WritersStrike pic.twitter.com/tyDgjgdAJx
— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) June 1, 2023
John August, a...
The hundreds of writers attending the picket were provided glitter and stickers for their signs on the first day of Pride month. The event attracted the likes of Severance creator Dan Erickson to Yellowjackets star Liv Hewson.
“When queer writers are under attack,” chanted the crowd, “What do we do? Stand up, fight back.” Others added, “If we don’t get it, shut it down.”
Signs featured sayings such as “Protect All Queer Art” and “I’m Gay For Pay” as Whitney Houston’s I’m Every Woman blasted from a speaker system.
On the scene at the Pride Picket outside of Warner Bros. Studios in LA #WritersStrike pic.twitter.com/tyDgjgdAJx
— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) June 1, 2023
John August, a...
- 6/1/2023
- by Matt Grobar, Sean Piccoli and Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Longtime readers of Arrow in the Head will probably remember the article series The Test of Time. Now The Test of Time has been revived as a video series, and you can check out the new episode in the embed above! With this one, we’re looking back at director Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (watch it Here). To find out whether or not this one stands the test of time, check out the video embedded above.
Scripted by James V. Hart and based, of course, on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has the following synopsis: Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula’s castle to finalize a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker’s fiancée, Mina, the...
Scripted by James V. Hart and based, of course, on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has the following synopsis: Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula’s castle to finalize a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker’s fiancée, Mina, the...
- 5/31/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
When closely examined, Hollywood history is a remarkably fickle thing. Not only have some major casting decisions almost been thwarted by circumstance but entire movies have been made (or not made) thanks to one key event.
One such movie is "Bram Stoker's Dracula," made by Francis Ford Coppola in 1992. The film became a landmark adaptation of the perennial horror novel (and character), ending up as one of the 10 highest-grossing films of '92 and influencing further versions of the Count and other vampire films that followed.
Yet it almost didn't happen — not with Coppola at the helm, anyway. The director was not on board from the beginning of the film's development, with screenwriter James V. Hart the one who was attempting to shepherd it to the screen for over a decade before star Winona Ryder attached herself to the film, saving it from being relegated to a cable TV movie.
Even with Ryder on board,...
One such movie is "Bram Stoker's Dracula," made by Francis Ford Coppola in 1992. The film became a landmark adaptation of the perennial horror novel (and character), ending up as one of the 10 highest-grossing films of '92 and influencing further versions of the Count and other vampire films that followed.
Yet it almost didn't happen — not with Coppola at the helm, anyway. The director was not on board from the beginning of the film's development, with screenwriter James V. Hart the one who was attempting to shepherd it to the screen for over a decade before star Winona Ryder attached herself to the film, saving it from being relegated to a cable TV movie.
Even with Ryder on board,...
- 4/12/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Is a Francis Ford Coppola film the work of genius, or madness? Depending on who you ask, it could be either — or both — but whatever it is, it's responsible for some of the most ambitious, exhilarating films of all time. Coppola is, without a doubt, best known for the "Godfather" triptych; though the series ended on a less-than-triumphant note, the director bounced back in a major way just two years later with "Bram Stoker's Dracula." The film was a critical and commercial success when it premiered in 1992 — and it likely never would have happened without an infamous missed connection during "The Godfather Part III." Before Sofia Coppola stepped up to play Mary Corleone (and to rather mixed effect), Winona Ryder was slated for the role. But after filming three movies back to back, Ryder suffered from "nervous exhaustion" and was forced to withdraw, paving the way for Coppola's brutally-panned performance.
- 1/15/2023
- by Lyvie Scott
- Slash Film
It's wild to consider, but there was a moment in Steven Spielberg's historic career when he faced a crucible, and he fell disastrously short.
The year was 1991. Spielberg had entered middle age and was still trying to segue from the escapist entertainment that had made him one of the most successful filmmakers of all time to dramas with loftier intentions. It worked at first. His 1985 adaptation of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" was a respectful, emotionally devastating tale of a Black woman's hard-won liberation in the segregated South of the early 20th century. It was a box-office smash that received 11 Academy Award nominations, but Spielberg was mystifyingly denied a Best Director nod. When the film won zero Oscars, it felt personal, especially after he won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement.
His next serious film, 1987's "Empire of the Sun," based on J.G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel,...
The year was 1991. Spielberg had entered middle age and was still trying to segue from the escapist entertainment that had made him one of the most successful filmmakers of all time to dramas with loftier intentions. It worked at first. His 1985 adaptation of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" was a respectful, emotionally devastating tale of a Black woman's hard-won liberation in the segregated South of the early 20th century. It was a box-office smash that received 11 Academy Award nominations, but Spielberg was mystifyingly denied a Best Director nod. When the film won zero Oscars, it felt personal, especially after he won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement.
His next serious film, 1987's "Empire of the Sun," based on J.G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel,...
- 11/18/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a film that, much like its protagonist, crosses oceans of time. Director Francis Ford Coppola, one of the filmmakers at the leading edge of the “film school” generation of the seventies, tapped into the talents of the young up-and-coming stars, both in front of and behind the camera, to tell a familiar story using very old techniques. Opting to avoid the rising tide of digital effects, expensive location shooting, and elaborate artifices in favor of “naïve” in-camera effects, stage-bound shooting, and lavish costumes as “sets,” Coppola and his collaborators created a thoroughly unique retelling of Dracula. The look of the film is simultaneously timeless and on the cutting-edge of innovation. Though it celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year, it still feels as modern and transgressive as the day it was released.
Though Coppola is cited as one of cinema’s great auteurs, he is first...
Though Coppola is cited as one of cinema’s great auteurs, he is first...
- 11/14/2022
- by Brian Keiper
- bloody-disgusting.com
The WGA East and FilmNation Entertainment announced that applications are now open for the second New York Screenwriting Fellowship, which is designed to support underrepresented, early-career screenwriters based in New York City.
The NY Screenwriting Fellowship is a weekly intensive that will run from early April through August 2023. Eight or more writers will be provided with both a screenwriting mentor and an executive mentor, as well as seminars, receptions and other introductions, as they develop a new feature-length screenplay throughout the length of the Fellowship. At the end, the Fellowship will culminate with table reads of the participants’ works, along with a dinner with leaders of the New York film industry. One of the main priorities of the Fellowship is to diversify the pool of writers who can have regular access to meetings and projects that offer them long-term career sustainability.
“The New York Screenwriting Fellowship, and our partnership with FilmNation Entertainment,...
The NY Screenwriting Fellowship is a weekly intensive that will run from early April through August 2023. Eight or more writers will be provided with both a screenwriting mentor and an executive mentor, as well as seminars, receptions and other introductions, as they develop a new feature-length screenplay throughout the length of the Fellowship. At the end, the Fellowship will culminate with table reads of the participants’ works, along with a dinner with leaders of the New York film industry. One of the main priorities of the Fellowship is to diversify the pool of writers who can have regular access to meetings and projects that offer them long-term career sustainability.
“The New York Screenwriting Fellowship, and our partnership with FilmNation Entertainment,...
- 11/11/2022
- by EJ Panaligan
- Variety Film + TV
The Austin Film Festival (Aff) has announced the 2022 Film Competition Jury and Audience Award winners alongside the Screenplay Competition winners. In the festival, writers are recognized for their contribution to film, television, theatre and new media. The competitions received over 5,000 film submissions and over 10,000 script submissions.
Film Jury Awards
Narrative Feature: Welcome, Violeta!, written by Fernando Fraiha & Inés Bortagaray, directed by Fernando Fraiha
Documentary Feature: With this Light, directed by Nicole Bernardi-Reis & Laura Bermúdez
Comedy Vanguard Feature: The Library Boys, written/directed by Zane Borg
Dark Matters Feature: The Domestic, written/directed by Brad Katzen
Narrative Short: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, written/directed by Ana Yang
Student Short: Sammy, Without Strings, written by Will Henderson, III & Ralph Parker, III, directed by Ralph Parker, III
Documentary Short: Gina, directed by Kathryn Prescott
Animated Short: Rosemary A.D. (After Dad), directed by Ethan Barrett
Produced Digital Series: Serjan Bratan, written by Alisher Utev & Sergei Litovchenko,...
Film Jury Awards
Narrative Feature: Welcome, Violeta!, written by Fernando Fraiha & Inés Bortagaray, directed by Fernando Fraiha
Documentary Feature: With this Light, directed by Nicole Bernardi-Reis & Laura Bermúdez
Comedy Vanguard Feature: The Library Boys, written/directed by Zane Borg
Dark Matters Feature: The Domestic, written/directed by Brad Katzen
Narrative Short: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, written/directed by Ana Yang
Student Short: Sammy, Without Strings, written by Will Henderson, III & Ralph Parker, III, directed by Ralph Parker, III
Documentary Short: Gina, directed by Kathryn Prescott
Animated Short: Rosemary A.D. (After Dad), directed by Ethan Barrett
Produced Digital Series: Serjan Bratan, written by Alisher Utev & Sergei Litovchenko,...
- 11/7/2022
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
The first time I saw Bram Stoker’s Dracula on television, I hated it. But then, it could be argued, I didn’t really see the movie Francis Ford Coppola had made.
This irony rings true for a number of reasons. First, my introduction to Gary Oldman’s fright wig, and the luminous crimson cloak that accompanied it, came not at the theater or even on VHS. It was in the middle of a Saturday afternoon on a fuzzy TNT cable broadcast where much of the gore, and pretty much all the eroticism, had been edited out in case a younger viewer was watching. And to the basic cable censors’ credit, I was exactly one such viewer: a lad of 12 or so who had devoured Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel and was eager to watch what was credited to be “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” It was right there, in the title!
What...
This irony rings true for a number of reasons. First, my introduction to Gary Oldman’s fright wig, and the luminous crimson cloak that accompanied it, came not at the theater or even on VHS. It was in the middle of a Saturday afternoon on a fuzzy TNT cable broadcast where much of the gore, and pretty much all the eroticism, had been edited out in case a younger viewer was watching. And to the basic cable censors’ credit, I was exactly one such viewer: a lad of 12 or so who had devoured Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel and was eager to watch what was credited to be “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” It was right there, in the title!
What...
- 10/21/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
From Fathom Events alongside American Zoetrope and Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures and National Theater Live, several scary selections will be returning to the big screen in theaters nationwide, just in time for Halloween.
Returning to theaters October 1, in partnership with Universal Pictures, is a double feature of 1932’s The Mummy and 1935’s The Bride of Frankenstein – both starring legendary horror icon Boris Karloff, who has been memorialized on U.S. postage stamps and no less than two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Bride of Frankenstein, featuring villainous Dr. Pretorius’ immortal line “To a new world of gods and monsters,” is widely considered the career masterpiece of acclaimed director James Whale; in 1998, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Get ready to scream again when Fathom Events and Paramount present 25th Anniversary screenings of Scream 2...
Returning to theaters October 1, in partnership with Universal Pictures, is a double feature of 1932’s The Mummy and 1935’s The Bride of Frankenstein – both starring legendary horror icon Boris Karloff, who has been memorialized on U.S. postage stamps and no less than two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Bride of Frankenstein, featuring villainous Dr. Pretorius’ immortal line “To a new world of gods and monsters,” is widely considered the career masterpiece of acclaimed director James Whale; in 1998, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Get ready to scream again when Fathom Events and Paramount present 25th Anniversary screenings of Scream 2...
- 9/22/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is now available on 4K Ultra HD here in the United States with a brand new SteelBook release coming next month, and we’ve learned that the film will also be returning to theaters in the United Kingdom for Halloween.
In celebration of its 30th Anniversary, Park Circus has announced that it will be screening a 4K restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic Academy Award®-winning film Bram Stoker’s Dracula in cinemas from October 7.
From American Zoetrope and Columbia Pictures, 150+ cinemas across the UK & Ireland plus selected international territories will screen the film, including Vue, Odeon and Cineworld.
Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves star in director Francis Ford Coppola’s visually stunning, passionately seductive version of the classic Dracula legend, from a screenplay by James V. Hart. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth,...
In celebration of its 30th Anniversary, Park Circus has announced that it will be screening a 4K restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic Academy Award®-winning film Bram Stoker’s Dracula in cinemas from October 7.
From American Zoetrope and Columbia Pictures, 150+ cinemas across the UK & Ireland plus selected international territories will screen the film, including Vue, Odeon and Cineworld.
Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves star in director Francis Ford Coppola’s visually stunning, passionately seductive version of the classic Dracula legend, from a screenplay by James V. Hart. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth,...
- 9/22/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
One can make a case that the genesis of horror onscreen was borne out of the Gothic literary movement in the 19th century. Crumbling castles; ghostly cries across the moors at night; fog so thick it can swallow the moonlight… and your will to live. These are all staples of some of the greatest works of Gothic horror on the page, and many of the greatest horror movies of the first half of the 20th century pulled directly from such iconography.
While Gothic horror has become rarer in recent times, as you can see from the below list, it yet beats like the telltale heart in the wall. Given the right direction, it can even thrive and escape from its cloistered hiding places. Hence we here have composed a list of not all the best Gothic horror movies, but enough to get you started in exploring the most alluring of shadows.
While Gothic horror has become rarer in recent times, as you can see from the below list, it yet beats like the telltale heart in the wall. Given the right direction, it can even thrive and escape from its cloistered hiding places. Hence we here have composed a list of not all the best Gothic horror movies, but enough to get you started in exploring the most alluring of shadows.
- 9/17/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
According to Vulture, Carl Sagan and his wife, Ann Druyan, spent the early '80s writing a film treatment based on Sagan's 1985 novel, "Contact." After cycling through a few different production companies, a slew of screenwriters, and two directors, the film finally made it to the big screen in 1997. Starring Academy Award winners Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey, the movie was a moderate success, but there were a lot of mixed feelings about the film's ending.
At the beginning of the movie, Ellie Arroway (Foster) is a hard-core skeptic about anything that can't be verified by science, so she spends all her time listening to the skies for proof of intelligent life. Towards the end of the film, she finally encounters extraterrestrials, but cannot provide proof of the experience. Ultimately, Arroway and the audience must choose between faith or science, and a lot of viewers didn't appreciate the ambiguous ending.
At the beginning of the movie, Ellie Arroway (Foster) is a hard-core skeptic about anything that can't be verified by science, so she spends all her time listening to the skies for proof of intelligent life. Towards the end of the film, she finally encounters extraterrestrials, but cannot provide proof of the experience. Ultimately, Arroway and the audience must choose between faith or science, and a lot of viewers didn't appreciate the ambiguous ending.
- 9/16/2022
- by Christian Gainey
- Slash Film
Dolby-Exclusive Nope Poster: "Oscar® winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, Nope.
The film reunites Peele with Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya, who is joined by Keke Palmer and Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
Nope, which co-stars Michael Wincott and Brandon Perea, is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper and Jordan Peele for Monkeypaw Productions. The film will be released by Universal Pictures worldwide."
Genre: Horror Epic
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea
Written and Directed by: Jordan Peele
Producers: Ian Cooper, Jordan Peele
Nope – Only in Theaters 7.22.22
Purchase tickets at Dolby Cinema here: http://dolbylabs.co/Nope.
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Bram Stoker...
The film reunites Peele with Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya, who is joined by Keke Palmer and Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
Nope, which co-stars Michael Wincott and Brandon Perea, is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper and Jordan Peele for Monkeypaw Productions. The film will be released by Universal Pictures worldwide."
Genre: Horror Epic
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea
Written and Directed by: Jordan Peele
Producers: Ian Cooper, Jordan Peele
Nope – Only in Theaters 7.22.22
Purchase tickets at Dolby Cinema here: http://dolbylabs.co/Nope.
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Bram Stoker...
- 6/28/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim” is set to get an animated feature adaptation by Indian filmmaker Ketan Mehta.
Mehta’s animation studio, Cosmos-Maya, will co-develop the film alongside Irish animation studio Piranha Bar. Mehta will direct.
“Kim” is a story by Kipling (pictured above) about Kimball O’Hara, Aka Kim, a savvy street kid turned child spy in colonial-era India who becomes an apprentice to a Shaolin monk. Kim is co-opted as a spy for the British Empire before embarking on an adventure of friendship, treachery and self-discovery.
Mehta, a recipient of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, has co-written the screenplay with James V. Hart.
“We couldn’t be more pleased to announce our animated feature film version of the legendary text from none other than Rudyard Kipling,” said Cosmos-Maya CEO Anish Mehta. “Adapting this timeless tale, much beloved around the globe, is a true honor. With our co-production partner Piranha Bar,...
Mehta’s animation studio, Cosmos-Maya, will co-develop the film alongside Irish animation studio Piranha Bar. Mehta will direct.
“Kim” is a story by Kipling (pictured above) about Kimball O’Hara, Aka Kim, a savvy street kid turned child spy in colonial-era India who becomes an apprentice to a Shaolin monk. Kim is co-opted as a spy for the British Empire before embarking on an adventure of friendship, treachery and self-discovery.
Mehta, a recipient of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, has co-written the screenplay with James V. Hart.
“We couldn’t be more pleased to announce our animated feature film version of the legendary text from none other than Rudyard Kipling,” said Cosmos-Maya CEO Anish Mehta. “Adapting this timeless tale, much beloved around the globe, is a true honor. With our co-production partner Piranha Bar,...
- 5/20/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
They are co-developing the film with Irish animation studio Piranha Bar.
Singapore and Indian-based animation company Cosmos-Maya will adapt Rudyard Kipling’s novel Kim into a feature-length animated film.
They are co-developing the film with Irish animation studio Piranha Bar.
Set in 1890’s India, Kim is a Kung Fu odyssey about the eponymous original child spy and his exploits.
Ketan Mehta will direct and has co-written the screenplay with James V. Hart and Jake Hart, whose previous credits include Hook, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Contact.
Comsos-Maya was founded by Mehta and Deepa Sahi in 1995. The company primarily focuses on...
Singapore and Indian-based animation company Cosmos-Maya will adapt Rudyard Kipling’s novel Kim into a feature-length animated film.
They are co-developing the film with Irish animation studio Piranha Bar.
Set in 1890’s India, Kim is a Kung Fu odyssey about the eponymous original child spy and his exploits.
Ketan Mehta will direct and has co-written the screenplay with James V. Hart and Jake Hart, whose previous credits include Hook, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Contact.
Comsos-Maya was founded by Mehta and Deepa Sahi in 1995. The company primarily focuses on...
- 5/19/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Acclaimed writer/director David Lowery joins Josh and Joe to discuss the films that inspired The Green Knight.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Green Knight (2021)
Peter Pan & Wendy (2022)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
The Old Man And The Gun (2018)
A Ghost Story (2017)
Pete’s Dragon (1977)
Pete’s Dragon (2016) – Glenn Erickson’s review
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Ghost Story (1974)
Sword of the Valiant (1984)
Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
Masters of the Universe (1987) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Andrei Rublev (1966) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review, Dennis Cozzalio’s Muriel Awards blurb
War And Peace (1966) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Heaven’s Gate (1980)
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928) – Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review
The Devils (1971)
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Conjuring (2013)
Jubilee (1978)
Benedetta (2021)
Dune (1984)
Dune (2021)
Hard To Be A God (2013)
Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)
Moby Dick (1956) – Ernest Dickerson’s trailer commentary,...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Green Knight (2021)
Peter Pan & Wendy (2022)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
The Old Man And The Gun (2018)
A Ghost Story (2017)
Pete’s Dragon (1977)
Pete’s Dragon (2016) – Glenn Erickson’s review
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Ghost Story (1974)
Sword of the Valiant (1984)
Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
Masters of the Universe (1987) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Andrei Rublev (1966) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review, Dennis Cozzalio’s Muriel Awards blurb
War And Peace (1966) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Heaven’s Gate (1980)
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928) – Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review
The Devils (1971)
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Conjuring (2013)
Jubilee (1978)
Benedetta (2021)
Dune (1984)
Dune (2021)
Hard To Be A God (2013)
Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)
Moby Dick (1956) – Ernest Dickerson’s trailer commentary,...
- 8/31/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Former WGA East president Michael Winship, running unopposed, will be the guild’s next president, succeeding Beau Willimon, who’s not seeking re-election after four years in office. House of Cards creator Willimon led the guild through the WGA’s historic legal battle that reshaped the talent agency business.
Winship, an award-winning news and documentary writer, led the guild during the tumultuous 2007-08 writers strike, serving as president for five consecutive two-year terms – starting just before the strike and ending in 2017. He returned to guild politics in 2018, winning a seat on its Council. He won an Emmy and three WGA Awards writing for three different Bill Moyers shows, as well as the WGA East’s Richard B. Jablow Award for service to the guild.
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, who has served on the Council since 2016 — and was last year’s recipient of the Richard B. Jablow Award — will be the guild’s next vice president.
Winship, an award-winning news and documentary writer, led the guild during the tumultuous 2007-08 writers strike, serving as president for five consecutive two-year terms – starting just before the strike and ending in 2017. He returned to guild politics in 2018, winning a seat on its Council. He won an Emmy and three WGA Awards writing for three different Bill Moyers shows, as well as the WGA East’s Richard B. Jablow Award for service to the guild.
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, who has served on the Council since 2016 — and was last year’s recipient of the Richard B. Jablow Award — will be the guild’s next vice president.
- 6/22/2021
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #193: How to Write Hook, Dracula and Contact with Screenwriter...
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #193: How to Write Hook, Dracula and Contact with Screenwriter...
- 12/7/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The day might be near when it will be news if an upcoming TV series doesn’t have a podcast to go along with it. For now, add Nat Geo’s “The Hot Zone” to the growing list of series enlisting some audio companionship. The story, which tells of Lt. Col. Nancy Jaax’s (Julianna Margulies) efforts to contain the Ebola virus after its first appearance on American soil, also will be addressed in “American Epidemics,” a Wondery audio series produced in conjunction with the TV show.
Lindsay Graham, the podcast host behind “American History Tellers” and the presidential-themed fiction series “Terms” and “1865,” will head up this new series, which will span three episodes. The second episode of “American Epidemics” will focus on the production of “The Hot Zone,” featuring interviews with Margulies and showrunners Kelly Sounders and Brian Peterson.
“American Epidemics” premieres May 10, with new episodes debuting every Friday.
Lindsay Graham, the podcast host behind “American History Tellers” and the presidential-themed fiction series “Terms” and “1865,” will head up this new series, which will span three episodes. The second episode of “American Epidemics” will focus on the production of “The Hot Zone,” featuring interviews with Margulies and showrunners Kelly Sounders and Brian Peterson.
“American Epidemics” premieres May 10, with new episodes debuting every Friday.
- 5/9/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil has partnered with G4C Innovation’s Gudrun Giddings to produce The Secret World, a television series based on the globally successful Mmo game The Secret World and its recently released reboot Secret World Legends, reports Deadline. The TV adaptation, which is being written by James V. Hart (Hook, Crossbones) and Jake Hart, […]...
- 8/15/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil has partnered with G4C Innovation's Gudrun Giddings to produce The Secret World, a television series based on the globally successful Mmo game The Secret World and its recently released reboot Secret World Legends. The TV adaptation, which is being written by James V. Hart (Hook, Crossbones) and Jake Hart, with former CSI: NY showrunner Pam Veasey on board as showrunner, will be based on the universe of the Secret World IP. It will center on…...
- 8/14/2017
- Deadline TV
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola’s all-star take on the vampire tale, turns 25 this year, and the movie will be feted at this year’s CayFilm Cayman International Film Festival.
James V. Hart, who wrote the screenplay for the movie, will receive a lifetime achievement award from CayFilm, celebrating his contributions to not only Dracula but also to the film industry in the area of screenwriting. Hart also worked on such movies as Steven Spielberg's Hook, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Robert Zemeckis' Contact and the recent animated movie Epic.
The screenwriter will also be on hand to...
James V. Hart, who wrote the screenplay for the movie, will receive a lifetime achievement award from CayFilm, celebrating his contributions to not only Dracula but also to the film industry in the area of screenwriting. Hart also worked on such movies as Steven Spielberg's Hook, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Robert Zemeckis' Contact and the recent animated movie Epic.
The screenwriter will also be on hand to...
- 6/6/2017
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Todd Garbarini
William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A., which opened on Friday, November 1, 1985 to lukewarm notices and underwhelming box office despite being championed by Roger Ebert’s four-star review, is a highly stylized, dark, and uncompromising crime thriller that boasts a then-unknown cast with a story and a pace that feels more suited to the 1970’s. It also contains what I consider to be the greatest car chase ever filmed and edited for a major motion picture, which took no less than five weeks to plan and shoot. Having seen Mr. Friedkin’s brilliant East Coast police thriller The French Connection (1971) on VHS in 1986, I made it a point the following year to catch up with his West Coast-based story of a Secret Service agent, Richard Chance (William Petersen), whose best friend and partner Jim Hart (Michael Greene) has been murdered by artist/currency counterfeiter Rick Masters...
William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A., which opened on Friday, November 1, 1985 to lukewarm notices and underwhelming box office despite being championed by Roger Ebert’s four-star review, is a highly stylized, dark, and uncompromising crime thriller that boasts a then-unknown cast with a story and a pace that feels more suited to the 1970’s. It also contains what I consider to be the greatest car chase ever filmed and edited for a major motion picture, which took no less than five weeks to plan and shoot. Having seen Mr. Friedkin’s brilliant East Coast police thriller The French Connection (1971) on VHS in 1986, I made it a point the following year to catch up with his West Coast-based story of a Secret Service agent, Richard Chance (William Petersen), whose best friend and partner Jim Hart (Michael Greene) has been murdered by artist/currency counterfeiter Rick Masters...
- 1/6/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The initial idea for the 1991 Steven Spielberg film “Hook” came when screenwriter Jim Hart’s young son Jake asked him an innocent question one day: “What if Peter Pan grew up?” “It happened at the dinner table one night when he was six years old,” Hart told TheWrap. It was a few years later until the film got made and 11-year-old Jake (pictured center, flanked by Robin Williams and Hart) got to be one of the Lost Boys. “He was in all of the battle scenes, trained with combat choreographers and played on that set all summer,” said Hart of.
- 12/11/2016
- by Meriah Doty
- The Wrap
Paul Bullock Dec 15, 2016
We continue to salute Steven Spielberg's 70th birthday, with a look at the decade that transformed his career: the 1990s
The 1990s delivered everything Steven Spielberg could have hoped for to enjoy a successful third decade in the film industry. He restated his position as Hollywood's King of the Blockbuster with Jurassic Park, he found critical and awards success with Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, and he used the platform the former offered to set up a charitable organisation (The Shoah Foundation) that’s gone on to become one of the most significant Holocaust resources in the world. By anybody's standards, that's a pretty solid ten-year stint. And yet, the 90s stands as arguably Spielberg's weakest period, a time of unqualified success and curious lethargy, a time of enriching experimentation and self-defeating regression. At times, Spielberg consciously seemed to take one step forwards and another backwards.
We continue to salute Steven Spielberg's 70th birthday, with a look at the decade that transformed his career: the 1990s
The 1990s delivered everything Steven Spielberg could have hoped for to enjoy a successful third decade in the film industry. He restated his position as Hollywood's King of the Blockbuster with Jurassic Park, he found critical and awards success with Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, and he used the platform the former offered to set up a charitable organisation (The Shoah Foundation) that’s gone on to become one of the most significant Holocaust resources in the world. By anybody's standards, that's a pretty solid ten-year stint. And yet, the 90s stands as arguably Spielberg's weakest period, a time of unqualified success and curious lethargy, a time of enriching experimentation and self-defeating regression. At times, Spielberg consciously seemed to take one step forwards and another backwards.
- 12/10/2016
- Den of Geek
Special Mention: Battle Royale
Written and directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Japan, 2000
The concept of The Hunger Games owes much to Koushun Takami’s cult novel Battle Royale, adapted for the cinema in 2000 by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is set in a dystopian alternate-universe, in Japan, with the nation utterly collapsed, leaving 15 percent unemployed and 800,000 students boycotting school. The government passes something called the Millennium Educational Reform Act, which apparently provides for a class of ninth-graders to be chosen each year and pitted against one another on a remote island for 3 days. Each student is given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water, and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred fight to the death. With 48 contestants, only one will go home alive. Yes, this has been often cited as the original Hunger Games; whether or not Suzanne Collins borrowed heavily...
Written and directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Japan, 2000
The concept of The Hunger Games owes much to Koushun Takami’s cult novel Battle Royale, adapted for the cinema in 2000 by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is set in a dystopian alternate-universe, in Japan, with the nation utterly collapsed, leaving 15 percent unemployed and 800,000 students boycotting school. The government passes something called the Millennium Educational Reform Act, which apparently provides for a class of ninth-graders to be chosen each year and pitted against one another on a remote island for 3 days. Each student is given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water, and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred fight to the death. With 48 contestants, only one will go home alive. Yes, this has been often cited as the original Hunger Games; whether or not Suzanne Collins borrowed heavily...
- 10/10/2015
- by Ricky Fernandes
- SoundOnSight
The distributor has acquired all North American rights to the hit South Korean thriller and Cannes 2014 Directors’ Fortnight selection and will release in theatres this summer.
Seong-hun Kim wrote and directed the story of a corrupt police officer who commits a fatal hit-and-run en route to his mother’s funeral. Lee Sun-kyun stars.
A Hard Day grossed more than $26m in South Korea following the May release.
Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber brokered the deal with Judy Ahn, head of international business at Showbox.
A digital and home media release will follow the theatrical debut in the autumn.
Starz Digital Media has acquired all North American rights to 7 Minutes and will release theatrically and on VOD this summer. Jay Martin’s crime thriller premiered at the Austin Film Festival last October. Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Leven Rambin, Kris Kristofferson and Zane Holtz star, while Jacob Aaron Estes, Jim Hart, Jacob Mosler and [link...
Seong-hun Kim wrote and directed the story of a corrupt police officer who commits a fatal hit-and-run en route to his mother’s funeral. Lee Sun-kyun stars.
A Hard Day grossed more than $26m in South Korea following the May release.
Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber brokered the deal with Judy Ahn, head of international business at Showbox.
A digital and home media release will follow the theatrical debut in the autumn.
Starz Digital Media has acquired all North American rights to 7 Minutes and will release theatrically and on VOD this summer. Jay Martin’s crime thriller premiered at the Austin Film Festival last October. Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Leven Rambin, Kris Kristofferson and Zane Holtz star, while Jacob Aaron Estes, Jim Hart, Jacob Mosler and [link...
- 1/22/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jay Martin’s directorial debut also stars Luke Mitchell, Leven Rambin and Kris Kristofferson
Starz Digital Media has acquired all North American rights to Jay Martin’s crime thriller “7 Minutes” and will release the film theatrically and on VOD this summer.
“7 Minutes,” which premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October, marks the directorial debut of Martin, a veteran music video director who also wrote the screenplay.
Also Read: ‘Avengers’ Star Clark Gregg’s Comedy ‘Trust Me’ Acquired by Starz Digital Media
The film stars Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Leven Rambin (“The Hunger Games”), Kris Kristofferson and Zane Holtz, and...
Starz Digital Media has acquired all North American rights to Jay Martin’s crime thriller “7 Minutes” and will release the film theatrically and on VOD this summer.
“7 Minutes,” which premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October, marks the directorial debut of Martin, a veteran music video director who also wrote the screenplay.
Also Read: ‘Avengers’ Star Clark Gregg’s Comedy ‘Trust Me’ Acquired by Starz Digital Media
The film stars Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Leven Rambin (“The Hunger Games”), Kris Kristofferson and Zane Holtz, and...
- 1/22/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
With the Ebola virus dominating news headlines worldwide, it was only a matter of time until Hollywood dug its heels in on turning the hot-button topic into a full-blown series. Recently, producer Lynda Obst (Interstellar) and director-producer Ridley Scott (Gladiator) announced that they’ll be creating a limited series for Fox TV Studios, adapted from Richard Preston’s 1994 nonfiction bestseller The Hot Zone.
Obst and Scott optioned Preston’s book two decades ago and never abandoned the project, tapping Jeff Vintar (I, Robot) to adapt The Hot Zone into what was originally envisioned as a film for Scott to direct. Now that the recent outbreak – the deadliest on record – has made the virus extremely timely, the pair feel that it’s high time to push ahead with the adaptation, though the project will now take the form of a TV miniseries. Obst said of the decision:
“A limited series is...
Obst and Scott optioned Preston’s book two decades ago and never abandoned the project, tapping Jeff Vintar (I, Robot) to adapt The Hot Zone into what was originally envisioned as a film for Scott to direct. Now that the recent outbreak – the deadliest on record – has made the virus extremely timely, the pair feel that it’s high time to push ahead with the adaptation, though the project will now take the form of a TV miniseries. Obst said of the decision:
“A limited series is...
- 10/20/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
As the Ebola virus continues to spread, EW has confirmed that producer Lynda Obst and director/producer Ridley Scott are moving forward with a limited television series about the virus—a project that they've reportedly been working on for the past year. The series, which is based on Richard Preston's 1994 best-seller The Hot Zone, will be adapted by Jeff Vintar (I, Robot) for Fox TV Studios. Preston will serve as a consultant on the series. Obst and Scott originally optioned the rights for a feature-length film in the early 90s, after Preston's short story, "Crisis in the Hot Zone,...
- 10/16/2014
- by Emily Blake
- EW - Inside TV
The Ebola outbreak is spreading to primetime.
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Producer Lynda Obst and director/producer Ridley Scott have been working on a limited-series adaptation of Richard Preston’s 1994 Ebola-themed novel The Hot Zone for about a year, according to The Hollywood Reporter, an endeavor which is coming closer to fruition. No network is currently attached.
Scott, Obst, David Zucker and Jim Hart would all serve as executive producers on the project.
Described as “a terrifying true story,” Preston’s Hot Zone is based on his 1992 New Yorker article “Crisis in the Hot Zone,...
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Producer Lynda Obst and director/producer Ridley Scott have been working on a limited-series adaptation of Richard Preston’s 1994 Ebola-themed novel The Hot Zone for about a year, according to The Hollywood Reporter, an endeavor which is coming closer to fruition. No network is currently attached.
Scott, Obst, David Zucker and Jim Hart would all serve as executive producers on the project.
Described as “a terrifying true story,” Preston’s Hot Zone is based on his 1992 New Yorker article “Crisis in the Hot Zone,...
- 10/16/2014
- TVLine.com
Richard Preston's nonfiction book "The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story" is heading to the small screen. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Jim Hart, Lynda Obst, Ridley Scott and David Zucker are set to produce a television minsieries version that will explore the origins of the Ebola virus. Hart and Zucker are writing with Scott planning to also direct at least the first episode.
- 10/16/2014
- Comingsoon.net
"The Hot Zone", Richard Preston's Ebola virus-themed 1994 best-seller, will score a limited TV series adaptation with the help of Producer Lynda Obst and director-producer Ridley Scott.
A sensation upon its release, the non-fiction thriller deals primarily with the history of the virus including an outbreak of Marburg virus in a Nairobi hospital. It also deals with the outbreak of a form of Ebola in a monkey house in Virginia.
Obst and Scott optioned "The Hot Zone" two decades ago and for the past year have been working on adapting the property with Preston's help. The pair have also hired "I, Robot" scribe Jeff Vintar to adapt the script.
The project has taken on a new urgency though as the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, which has ravaged several countries and could potentially spread beyond the region. Preston is writing a piece for next week's New Yorker magazine which chronicles the current outbreak,...
A sensation upon its release, the non-fiction thriller deals primarily with the history of the virus including an outbreak of Marburg virus in a Nairobi hospital. It also deals with the outbreak of a form of Ebola in a monkey house in Virginia.
Obst and Scott optioned "The Hot Zone" two decades ago and for the past year have been working on adapting the property with Preston's help. The pair have also hired "I, Robot" scribe Jeff Vintar to adapt the script.
The project has taken on a new urgency though as the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, which has ravaged several countries and could potentially spread beyond the region. Preston is writing a piece for next week's New Yorker magazine which chronicles the current outbreak,...
- 10/16/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired international sales on the Whitewater Films duo Match and 7 Minutes.
Stephen Belber wrote and directed Match (pictured), which stars Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard.
Premiere will start sales in Toronto this week on the comedic drama about a Seattle couple who travel to New York to interview a reclusive ballet instructor in a situation that turns into something unexpected.
Producers are David Permut, Matt Ratner and Rick Rosenthal, with David P Beitchman on board as executive producer alongside Adam Brawer, Lawrence M Kopelkin, Chris Mangano and Nick Morton.
ICM negotiated the deal for the filmmakers. Match premiered at Tribeca and IFC Films holds Us rights.
Jay Martin wrote and directed the crime thriller 7 Minutes starring Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Kris Kristofferson, Leven Rambin and Zane Holtz.
The story centres on three friends forced to commit to an ill-fated robbery. Jacob Aaron Estes, Jacob Mosler and Rosenthal produce and Nick Morton and Jim Hart...
Stephen Belber wrote and directed Match (pictured), which stars Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard.
Premiere will start sales in Toronto this week on the comedic drama about a Seattle couple who travel to New York to interview a reclusive ballet instructor in a situation that turns into something unexpected.
Producers are David Permut, Matt Ratner and Rick Rosenthal, with David P Beitchman on board as executive producer alongside Adam Brawer, Lawrence M Kopelkin, Chris Mangano and Nick Morton.
ICM negotiated the deal for the filmmakers. Match premiered at Tribeca and IFC Films holds Us rights.
Jay Martin wrote and directed the crime thriller 7 Minutes starring Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Kris Kristofferson, Leven Rambin and Zane Holtz.
The story centres on three friends forced to commit to an ill-fated robbery. Jacob Aaron Estes, Jacob Mosler and Rosenthal produce and Nick Morton and Jim Hart...
- 9/2/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Update: DreamWorks Animation has clarified statemens by Korea’s Studio Mir which were erroneously reported in the local press late last week. The company is in the process of working with Studio Mir to finalize a possible production agreement for one series, and has not inked a deal with Studio Mir for the latter to produce as many as four cartoon TV series during the next four years. Dwa says it would be engaging the studio on a work for hire basis, meaning it would not be a co-producer and would not gain any interest in Dwa’s intellectual property. The Korean animation studio is known for 2D fantasy series The Legend Of Korra, which airs Stateside on Nickelodeon.
Bill Kerr, the Australian actor known as “the boy from Wagga Wagga,” died Thursday in Perth. He was 92. Kerr was a radio and vaudeville star before moving to the UK in...
Bill Kerr, the Australian actor known as “the boy from Wagga Wagga,” died Thursday in Perth. He was 92. Kerr was a radio and vaudeville star before moving to the UK in...
- 8/30/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Hook
Written by James V. Hart, Nick Castle, Malia Scotch Marmo, and J. M. Barrie
Directed by Steven Spielberg
USA, 1991
Steven Spielberg is known the world over for creating genuine movie magic. From his blockbuster splash Jaws in 1975 up until his 2012 biopic Lincoln, Spielberg is certainly a gifted filmmaker. Very few auteurs are still work today but Spielberg keeps banging out films that dazzle the senses and leave an everlasting impression on the viewer. However, some of Spielberg’s films haven’t achieved the recognition and respect they deserve. There are certain films that this movie master made that didn’t quite achieve a high status. One such film is 1991’s Hook, a fantasy adventure which didn’t really score well with critics but filled children of the 90s with joy, innocence, and wonder.
The film follows middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a bitter individual who has forgotten who he is.
Written by James V. Hart, Nick Castle, Malia Scotch Marmo, and J. M. Barrie
Directed by Steven Spielberg
USA, 1991
Steven Spielberg is known the world over for creating genuine movie magic. From his blockbuster splash Jaws in 1975 up until his 2012 biopic Lincoln, Spielberg is certainly a gifted filmmaker. Very few auteurs are still work today but Spielberg keeps banging out films that dazzle the senses and leave an everlasting impression on the viewer. However, some of Spielberg’s films haven’t achieved the recognition and respect they deserve. There are certain films that this movie master made that didn’t quite achieve a high status. One such film is 1991’s Hook, a fantasy adventure which didn’t really score well with critics but filled children of the 90s with joy, innocence, and wonder.
The film follows middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a bitter individual who has forgotten who he is.
- 6/23/2014
- by Randall Unger
- SoundOnSight
The 15th Mumbai Film Festival will host a two-day masterclass on Pitching, Screenwriting and Script Development from October 14 – 15, 2013. The masterclass will be conducted by Claire Dobbin, Australian script writer and James V. Hart, American screenwriter and producer.
Script writers, film makers and producers who have completed at least one film or have a script in hand are eligible to participate. Final year script writing and direction course students from recognized film institutes can also register.
Registration fee, if registered before October 1, 2013, for professionals is Rs 2000 and for students is Rs 1500. The venue of the event will be announced soon. See here for the registration form and more details.
Claire Dobbin is a script advisor/editor who works with development agencies and filmamkers in Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Abu Dhabi, Yemen, UK and France. James Hart has contributed as a writer or producer for films like Hook by Steven Spielberg, Bram Stoker...
Script writers, film makers and producers who have completed at least one film or have a script in hand are eligible to participate. Final year script writing and direction course students from recognized film institutes can also register.
Registration fee, if registered before October 1, 2013, for professionals is Rs 2000 and for students is Rs 1500. The venue of the event will be announced soon. See here for the registration form and more details.
Claire Dobbin is a script advisor/editor who works with development agencies and filmamkers in Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Abu Dhabi, Yemen, UK and France. James Hart has contributed as a writer or producer for films like Hook by Steven Spielberg, Bram Stoker...
- 9/11/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Derivative as all get out and plainly concocted by a committee, "Epic" is a children's animated film that is more entertaining and emotional than it has any right to be.
Characters make sacrifices and die, miss their parents and mourn. And we're touched. At least a little. Hard (if over-familiar) lessons are learned and laughs land on queue. Throw in some truly gorgeous animation and Blue Sky, the studio that made it, delivers more proof that it's moved on from the junky cash-machine "Ice Age" movies, even if this one doesn't rise to the charms and wit of "Rio."
Taking characters from William Joyce children's novel about "Leaf Men" and "Brave Good Bugs," a team of writers has borrowed from "Antz" and "A Bug's Life," and even "Spiderwicke Chronicles," for a story about the fairy forces of life in a forest, the Leaf Men (and women) and their allies, in...
Characters make sacrifices and die, miss their parents and mourn. And we're touched. At least a little. Hard (if over-familiar) lessons are learned and laughs land on queue. Throw in some truly gorgeous animation and Blue Sky, the studio that made it, delivers more proof that it's moved on from the junky cash-machine "Ice Age" movies, even if this one doesn't rise to the charms and wit of "Rio."
Taking characters from William Joyce children's novel about "Leaf Men" and "Brave Good Bugs," a team of writers has borrowed from "Antz" and "A Bug's Life," and even "Spiderwicke Chronicles," for a story about the fairy forces of life in a forest, the Leaf Men (and women) and their allies, in...
- 5/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Additions for the upcoming Epic animation from Fox keep rolling in, and we now have new, high quality clips in for your viewing pleasure. The film from director Chris Wedge, opens on May 17th and is scripted by Tom J. Astle, Daniel Shere, William Joyce, Matt Ember and James V. Hart. Produced by Jerry Davis, Lori Forte, James V. Hart and Joyce, Epic is a 3D CG adventure comedy that reveals a fantastical world unlike any other. The story tells the story of an ongoing battle between the forces of good, who keep the natural world alive, and the forces of evil, who wish to destroy it. When a teenage girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she teams up with an elite band of warriors and a crew of comical, larger-than-life figures, to save their world…and ours.
- 5/10/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It's unreal how 2013 has really kicked it up a notch poster-count-wise. It seems that every major, and soon minor distributor, will be adding 50 posters per movie at this rate. We now have 20 posters for Epic which is helmed by Chris Wedge, with the voice talents of Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, Christoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis, Aziz Ansari, Beyoncé Knowles, Johnny Knoxville, Judah Friedlander, Steven Tyler, Pitbull and Blake Anderson. Still, it really is a beautiful, eye-catching poster and welcome addition to the recent character-to-actor cast cards we added, as well as interview soundbites. The 20th Century Fox release from Blue Sky Studios opens May 17th, and is scripted by Tom J. Astle, Daniel Shere, William Joyce, Matt Ember and James V. Hart. See more images below the latest poster.
- 5/4/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Fox Epic animation has added new cast cards which show who voices which character in the upcoming release which opens in theaters on May 17th. Chris Wedge directs from the writing by Tom J. Astle, Daniel Shere, William Joyce, Matt Ember and James V. Hart. Epic is a 3D CG adventure comedy that reveals a fantastical world unlike any other. The story tells the story of an ongoing battle between the forces of good, who keep the natural world alive, and the forces of evil, who wish to destroy it. When a teenage girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she teams up with an elite band of warriors and a crew of comical, larger-than-life figures, to save their world…and ours. We have: Amanda Seyfried as Mk Josh Hutcherson as Nod Christoph Waltz as Mandrake Colin Farrell as Ronin Pitbull as Bufo Chris O'Dowd as Grub Aziz Ansari...
- 5/2/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
“Puglia Experience 2013”, an itinerant scriptwriting workshop for professional scriptwriters from all over the world is calling for applications. Deadline for applications is Tuesday 30th April 2013, at 11:59 p.m. Cet.
The workshop will take place from 17th June – 6th July 2013 in the Apulia Region of Italy. It will take about sixteen participants, up to a quarter of places available are reserved for candidates born or resident in Apulia.
All expenses related to travel, accommodation and food are covered in their entirety by the Apulia Film Commission Foundation.
The main tutor of the workshop is the scriptwriter James V. Hart, author of many films, such as “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” by Francis Ford Coppola and assisted by special guests as Claire Dobbin, international script editor, chairperson of the Melbourne International Film Festival and Christopher Vogler, veteran story consultant for major Hollywood film companies and author of “The Writer’s Journey” and...
The workshop will take place from 17th June – 6th July 2013 in the Apulia Region of Italy. It will take about sixteen participants, up to a quarter of places available are reserved for candidates born or resident in Apulia.
All expenses related to travel, accommodation and food are covered in their entirety by the Apulia Film Commission Foundation.
The main tutor of the workshop is the scriptwriter James V. Hart, author of many films, such as “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” by Francis Ford Coppola and assisted by special guests as Claire Dobbin, international script editor, chairperson of the Melbourne International Film Festival and Christopher Vogler, veteran story consultant for major Hollywood film companies and author of “The Writer’s Journey” and...
- 4/20/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
We are midway through the month of April, and we’re starting to get bombarded with trailers and TV spots from some of the hottest upcoming films. This means only one thing: the Summer movie season is almost upon us. With the wealth of films (both big and not so big), it’s easy for moviegoers to be overwhelmed when it comes to choosing, thus, as we have in years past, we present our Summer Movie Guide. We’re bringing all the details on the upcoming films (trailers, synopsis’, and more) so you know what’s hitting, when, and decide for yourself if it’s worth your time.
Hard to believe that we’re on the cusp of yet another Summer movie season, one of the most active and exciting times of movie buffs. There’s no shortage of blockbuster style films this year, along with several that some have...
Hard to believe that we’re on the cusp of yet another Summer movie season, one of the most active and exciting times of movie buffs. There’s no shortage of blockbuster style films this year, along with several that some have...
- 4/17/2013
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
Check out this new poster from Fox's Epic, featuring Christoph Waltz as the Mandrake character. The animated release opens on May 24th, and this latest pic joins the 4 recent character posters for the adventure also starring Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Colin Farrell, Jason Sudeikis, Beyoncé Knowles, Pitbull, Steven Tyler and Judah Friedlander. Epic is directed by Chris Wedge from the screenplay by Tom J. Astle, Daniel Shere, William Joyce, Matt Ember and James V. Hart. In the film, a teen is whisked off to a deep forest. Here a battle is taking place between good and evil and she must band together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world -- and ours...
- 3/27/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out this new poster from Fox's Epic, featuring Christoph Waltz as the Mandrake character. The animated release opens on May 24th, and this latest pic joins the 4 recent character posters for the adventure also starring Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Colin Farrell, Jason Sudeikis, Beyoncé Knowles, Pitbull, Steven Tyler and Judah Friedlander. Epic is directed by Chris Wedge from the screenplay by Tom J. Astle, Daniel Shere, William Joyce, Matt Ember and James V. Hart. In the film, a teen is whisked off to a deep forest. Here a battle is taking place between good and evil and she must band together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world -- and ours...
- 3/27/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Fox's Epic animation has several new character posters for the animated adventure featuring the voice talents of Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Colin Farrell, Jason Sudeikis, Beyoncé Knowles, Pitbull, Steven Tyler and Judah Friedlander. Epic tells of a teen who's whisked off to a deep forest where a battle is taking place between good and evil, leaving her to band together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world -- and ours. Chris Wedge directs the film from the writing by Tom J. Astle, Daniel Shere, William Joyce, Matt Ember and James V. Hart. Pic is produced by Jerry Davis, Lori Forte, Hart and Joyce.
- 3/27/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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