NEW YORK -- John Goodman, Ed Asner and Jane Alexander are joining Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel in the indie romantic comedy Gigantic.
Dano will play Brian, a depressed mattress salesman whose quest to adopt a Chinese baby is sidetracked when he falls for Happy (Deschanel).
Asner will play Brian's pot-smoking, gangsta rap-loving father, and Alexander is set as his long-suffering mother. Goodman will play Happy's brilliant, domineering dad.
Mindy Goldberg of Epoch Films and Christine Vachon of Killer Films are producing the project, which begins shooting today in New York. Dano is executive producing.
Director Matt Aselton co-wrote the script with Adam Nagata. Harrison Kordestani and Marina Martins of Lexicon/Machine Made are financing and Cinetic Media is repping domestic sales.
Goodman is repped by Gersh. Asner is repped by Michael Greene and manager Perry Zimel. Alexander is repped by WMA.
Dano will play Brian, a depressed mattress salesman whose quest to adopt a Chinese baby is sidetracked when he falls for Happy (Deschanel).
Asner will play Brian's pot-smoking, gangsta rap-loving father, and Alexander is set as his long-suffering mother. Goodman will play Happy's brilliant, domineering dad.
Mindy Goldberg of Epoch Films and Christine Vachon of Killer Films are producing the project, which begins shooting today in New York. Dano is executive producing.
Director Matt Aselton co-wrote the script with Adam Nagata. Harrison Kordestani and Marina Martins of Lexicon/Machine Made are financing and Cinetic Media is repping domestic sales.
Goodman is repped by Gersh. Asner is repped by Michael Greene and manager Perry Zimel. Alexander is repped by WMA.
NEW YORK -- Production outfit Nehst Studios, Lexicon Filmed Entertainment and Machine Made Media have partnered to share $250 million assembled from private hedge funds to finance features, TV series and Web series.
Nehst chairman Larry Meistrich and president Ari Friedman, Lexicon founder Marina Martins and Machine founder Harrison Kordestani initially will use the fund to finance properties from each of their companies, including Machine's upcoming slate with Warner Home Video and partners George Alexandru and Kevin Cain.
Meistrich, former founder of production outfit the Shooting Gallery, says the identity of the hedge funds involved are private because of confidentiality laws. Projects, he says, will range from $1 million to $50 million.
"We want to work outside the studio system with some productions on the same scale," said Meistrich, whose company also finances and distributes films.
Upcoming projects financed by the fund will include Nehst's mining accident drama And One for All and the youth drama The Flicker's Dance, along with the youth-sports comedy Web series Dribble Kick Throw.
Lexicon, which works with international production partners to co-produce films, plans to finance such projects as La pierde almas, based on the Day of the Dead festival as detailed in a book and paintings by Jonathan Barbieri.
Nehst chairman Larry Meistrich and president Ari Friedman, Lexicon founder Marina Martins and Machine founder Harrison Kordestani initially will use the fund to finance properties from each of their companies, including Machine's upcoming slate with Warner Home Video and partners George Alexandru and Kevin Cain.
Meistrich, former founder of production outfit the Shooting Gallery, says the identity of the hedge funds involved are private because of confidentiality laws. Projects, he says, will range from $1 million to $50 million.
"We want to work outside the studio system with some productions on the same scale," said Meistrich, whose company also finances and distributes films.
Upcoming projects financed by the fund will include Nehst's mining accident drama And One for All and the youth drama The Flicker's Dance, along with the youth-sports comedy Web series Dribble Kick Throw.
Lexicon, which works with international production partners to co-produce films, plans to finance such projects as La pierde almas, based on the Day of the Dead festival as detailed in a book and paintings by Jonathan Barbieri.
- 10/3/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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