The Quad, alongside Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor and his production shingle Bach Enterprises, has set July 10 as their official start date for their next project “Miles Ryder Part One,” the companies announced on Thursday.
The feature film “Miles Ryder Part One” is described as a “John Wick” meets “Nobody”-style action thriller and centers on Miles Ryder, an everyday man who is forced to confront his mysterious and violent past, which he has long kept secret. After a brutal attack threatens to expose him and his secrets, Ryder’s hidden combat talent and almost supernatural fighting abilities are put to the test as he attempts to save his family – and potentially the world – from a dark force with a nefarious motive.
“Mortal Kombat’s” Greg Russo wrote the screenplay and is continuing to work on the project with the team.
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The feature film “Miles Ryder Part One” is described as a “John Wick” meets “Nobody”-style action thriller and centers on Miles Ryder, an everyday man who is forced to confront his mysterious and violent past, which he has long kept secret. After a brutal attack threatens to expose him and his secrets, Ryder’s hidden combat talent and almost supernatural fighting abilities are put to the test as he attempts to save his family – and potentially the world – from a dark force with a nefarious motive.
“Mortal Kombat’s” Greg Russo wrote the screenplay and is continuing to work on the project with the team.
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- 11/3/2022
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: For his next act, Ryan Kavanaugh, in tandem with Proxima Media and Lifeboat Productions’ Amy Kim and Jaime Burke, is launching production label The Quad, which will focus on 3-5 genre films per year in the 3 million-12 million range.
Matt Weaver and Triller’s Jason Barhydt will also serve as producers with the company, whose focus will be on horror, thriller, American comedies and love stories.
Among the slate are projects with top social media influencers Charli D’Amelio and Bryce Hall, and a previously unannounced movie starring Andrew Byron Bachelor (The Babysitter), aka “King Bach.” That project, described to us as a thriller with action and fantasy elements, is called Miles Ryder and is slated to begin production later this year.
Actor and influencer King Bach has parlayed his early Vine success into major followings on platforms including YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, with nearly 23M followers on the latter alone.
Matt Weaver and Triller’s Jason Barhydt will also serve as producers with the company, whose focus will be on horror, thriller, American comedies and love stories.
Among the slate are projects with top social media influencers Charli D’Amelio and Bryce Hall, and a previously unannounced movie starring Andrew Byron Bachelor (The Babysitter), aka “King Bach.” That project, described to us as a thriller with action and fantasy elements, is called Miles Ryder and is slated to begin production later this year.
Actor and influencer King Bach has parlayed his early Vine success into major followings on platforms including YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, with nearly 23M followers on the latter alone.
- 10/4/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
TikTok star Hannah Stocking is set to star alongside Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in horror movie “Skill House” for Ryan Kavanaugh’s Proxima Media, TheWrap has exclusively learned.
Stocking joins a cast that includes TikTok star Bryce Hall, Mma star Paige VanZant and Neal McDonough. Josh Stolberg (“Spiral”) wrote the script and is set to direct.
“Skill House” is being described as a “Saw”-like take that breaks into the phenomenon of social media fame and culture, offers an unflinching depiction of “clout” and explores the new phenomenon of “influencers”, their fame and what they are willing to do to attain it.
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The Los Angeles-based film, which is being primarily shot in the original “Sway House” TikTok collective, looks at the world of social media and pushes the limits when “clicks” and “clout” become life or death,...
Stocking joins a cast that includes TikTok star Bryce Hall, Mma star Paige VanZant and Neal McDonough. Josh Stolberg (“Spiral”) wrote the script and is set to direct.
“Skill House” is being described as a “Saw”-like take that breaks into the phenomenon of social media fame and culture, offers an unflinching depiction of “clout” and explores the new phenomenon of “influencers”, their fame and what they are willing to do to attain it.
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The Los Angeles-based film, which is being primarily shot in the original “Sway House” TikTok collective, looks at the world of social media and pushes the limits when “clicks” and “clout” become life or death,...
- 7/14/2022
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (Power Book II: Ghost) has signed on to star in the horror film Skill House from Ryan Kavanaugh’s Proxima Media—and will also produce the pic under his G-Unit Film & Television banner. He joins an ensemble led by TikTok star Bryce Hall, which also includes UFC veteran Paige VanZant, as previously announced. Other new additions to the ensemble include Leah Pipes (Sorority Row), McCarrie McCausland (Army Wives), Ivan Leung (The Tender Bar), Neal McDonough (Yellowstone), John DeLuca (Spree), Caitlin Carmichael (Midnight in the Switchgrass), Dani Oliveros (Roar), Emily Mei (The Download) and Jacob Skidmore (Trinkets).
The film from writer-director Josh Stolberg (Spiral) is billed as a dark satire of social media and influencer culture, and what those new to the sphere are willing to do to attain fame. Conceived as the first in a franchise, it’s currently in production in Los Angeles at...
The film from writer-director Josh Stolberg (Spiral) is billed as a dark satire of social media and influencer culture, and what those new to the sphere are willing to do to attain fame. Conceived as the first in a franchise, it’s currently in production in Los Angeles at...
- 7/11/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to “Concrete Cowboy,” which stars Idris Elba, according to an individual with knowledge of the project. The film, based on the novel “Ghetto Cowboy” by G. Neri, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) in September. The streamer is eyeing a 2021 release date.
“Concrete Cowboy” also stars “Stranger Things” actor Caleb McLaughlin, Jharrel Jerome, Byron Bowers, Lorraine Toussaint, and Clifford “Method Man” Smith.
“Concrete Cowboy” is directed by Ricky Staub, from a script written by Staub and Dan Walser. The film follows a 15-year-old boy (McLaughlin) who is sent to live with his estranged father in Philadelphia, where he learns about the local urban cowboy community. Jerome plays Smush, who used to be a rider but became involved in the drug trade.
In his TIFF review of the film, TheWrap’s Steve Pond said, “Concrete Cowboy” is an urban drama, but it’s also a...
“Concrete Cowboy” also stars “Stranger Things” actor Caleb McLaughlin, Jharrel Jerome, Byron Bowers, Lorraine Toussaint, and Clifford “Method Man” Smith.
“Concrete Cowboy” is directed by Ricky Staub, from a script written by Staub and Dan Walser. The film follows a 15-year-old boy (McLaughlin) who is sent to live with his estranged father in Philadelphia, where he learns about the local urban cowboy community. Jerome plays Smush, who used to be a rider but became involved in the drug trade.
In his TIFF review of the film, TheWrap’s Steve Pond said, “Concrete Cowboy” is an urban drama, but it’s also a...
- 10/26/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Film set to debut on platform in 2021.
In a deal understood to be in the reigon of $10m, Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Concrete Cowboy, the father-son drama starring Idris Elba that premiered at Toronto in September.
The streamer will launch the feature on its platform in 2021.
Caleb McLaughlin also stars in story of a troubled teen who is sent by his mother to spend time with his estranged father, who belongs to a vibrant urban black cowboy community in contemporary north Philadelphia.
Ricky Staub directed Concrete Cowboy and adapted the screenplay with Dan Walser from the novel Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri.
In a deal understood to be in the reigon of $10m, Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Concrete Cowboy, the father-son drama starring Idris Elba that premiered at Toronto in September.
The streamer will launch the feature on its platform in 2021.
Caleb McLaughlin also stars in story of a troubled teen who is sent by his mother to spend time with his estranged father, who belongs to a vibrant urban black cowboy community in contemporary north Philadelphia.
Ricky Staub directed Concrete Cowboy and adapted the screenplay with Dan Walser from the novel Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri.
- 10/26/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Idris Elba’s urban western “Concrete Cowboy” will be riding its way onto Netflix.
The streamer has picked up the cowboy tale after it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Netflix will release the film in 2021.
“Concrete Cowboy” follows 15-year-old Cole (Caleb McLaughlin), who discovers the world of urban horseback riding when his mother sends him to live with his estranged father, Harp (Elba) in North Philadelphia. Jharrel Jerome, Lorraine Toussaint, Byron Bowers and Clifford “Method Man” Smith also star in the film, which is based on the real-life horsemen of the Pennsylvania area and the novel “Ghetto Cowboy” from G. Neri. Filmmaker Ricky Staub makes his feature-length debut with the project, written with Dan Walser. Elba and Philly native Lee Daniels are among the producers of the film.
“For a long time, there’s been a real sort of mistelling of history around Black people and horses and cowboys and whatnot,...
The streamer has picked up the cowboy tale after it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Netflix will release the film in 2021.
“Concrete Cowboy” follows 15-year-old Cole (Caleb McLaughlin), who discovers the world of urban horseback riding when his mother sends him to live with his estranged father, Harp (Elba) in North Philadelphia. Jharrel Jerome, Lorraine Toussaint, Byron Bowers and Clifford “Method Man” Smith also star in the film, which is based on the real-life horsemen of the Pennsylvania area and the novel “Ghetto Cowboy” from G. Neri. Filmmaker Ricky Staub makes his feature-length debut with the project, written with Dan Walser. Elba and Philly native Lee Daniels are among the producers of the film.
“For a long time, there’s been a real sort of mistelling of history around Black people and horses and cowboys and whatnot,...
- 10/26/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Deadline has confirmed that Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Ricky Staub’s feature directorial debut Concrete Cowboy starring Idris Elba and Stranger Things breakout Caleb McLaughlin. A release date has not been set, but it’s looking like 2021.
The father-son drama made its world premiere at TIFF last month, is set amongst the North Philadelphia urban cowboy subculture, inspired by the real-life Fletcher Street Stables – a black urban horsemanship community – and by the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Neri.
The story follows 15 year-old Cole (McLaughlin) who is taken to live with his estranged father Harp (Elba). Torn between his growing respect for his father’s community at the stables and his re-emerging friendship with his troubled cousin, Cole begins to re-prioritize his life as the stables themselves are threatened by encroaching gentrification.
Lee Daniels, Tucker Tooley, Jeff G. Waxman, Jennifer Madeloff produced the feature with Elba and Walser.
Greg Renker,...
The father-son drama made its world premiere at TIFF last month, is set amongst the North Philadelphia urban cowboy subculture, inspired by the real-life Fletcher Street Stables – a black urban horsemanship community – and by the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Neri.
The story follows 15 year-old Cole (McLaughlin) who is taken to live with his estranged father Harp (Elba). Torn between his growing respect for his father’s community at the stables and his re-emerging friendship with his troubled cousin, Cole begins to re-prioritize his life as the stables themselves are threatened by encroaching gentrification.
Lee Daniels, Tucker Tooley, Jeff G. Waxman, Jennifer Madeloff produced the feature with Elba and Walser.
Greg Renker,...
- 10/26/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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Sierra/Affinity has boarded international sales rights to Concrete Cowboys, which just wrapped production and stars Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin from Stranger Things.
The film is inspired by the real-life Fletcher Street Stables, a black urban horsemanship community that has existed in Philadelphia for more than 100 years providing a safe haven.
McLaughlin stars as 15-year-old Cole, who moves in with his estranged father Harp (Elba) in North Philadelphia, where he discovers a vibrant subculture. Rounding out the cast are Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Jharrel Jerome, Lorraine Toussaint, and Byron Bowers.
Ricky Staub directs the...
Sierra/Affinity has boarded international sales rights to Concrete Cowboys, which just wrapped production and stars Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin from Stranger Things.
The film is inspired by the real-life Fletcher Street Stables, a black urban horsemanship community that has existed in Philadelphia for more than 100 years providing a safe haven.
McLaughlin stars as 15-year-old Cole, who moves in with his estranged father Harp (Elba) in North Philadelphia, where he discovers a vibrant subculture. Rounding out the cast are Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Jharrel Jerome, Lorraine Toussaint, and Byron Bowers.
Ricky Staub directs the...
- 9/6/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Production is now underway on Concrete Cowboys, with Idris Elba starring with Stranger Things‘ Caleb McLaughlin. Also starring is Jharrel Jerome, who is freshly Emmy nominated for Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us; Lorraine Toussaint (The Village); and Byron Bowers (The Chi). Elba is coming off a strong opening weekend for the Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw.
The film is inspired by the real-life Fletcher Street Stables, a black urban horsemanship community which has existed in Philadelphia for more than 100 years providing a safe haven for the neighborhood. Pic is also inspired by the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Neri. Concrete Cowboys follows 15-year-old Cole (McLaughlin) who is taken to live with his estranged father Harp (Elba) in North Philadelphia, where he discovers the city’s vibrant urban cowboy subculture, which flourishes despite the surrounding poverty, violence, and encroachment of gentrification.
Ricky Staub is directing a screenplay he wrote with Dan Walser.
The film is inspired by the real-life Fletcher Street Stables, a black urban horsemanship community which has existed in Philadelphia for more than 100 years providing a safe haven for the neighborhood. Pic is also inspired by the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Neri. Concrete Cowboys follows 15-year-old Cole (McLaughlin) who is taken to live with his estranged father Harp (Elba) in North Philadelphia, where he discovers the city’s vibrant urban cowboy subculture, which flourishes despite the surrounding poverty, violence, and encroachment of gentrification.
Ricky Staub is directing a screenplay he wrote with Dan Walser.
- 8/8/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes has boarded upcoming Emma Roberts movie drama Now I See You.
Tucker Tooley’s Tooley Entertainment and eOne are producing Marc Klein’s script, which is adapted from author Nicole Kear’s memoir about losing her sight.
Production is slated for a fall 2019 start, with casting now underway for the male lead opposite We’re The Millers and American Horror Story actress Roberts. The film will mark Cassavetes’ return to the director’s chair after 2014 comedy hit The Other Woman, which took close to $200M global.
The project is based on the true story of Nicole Kear, who in her a senior year at Yale received a life-changing diagnosis — she had only a few years before entirely losing her vision. Kear sets out to make the most of the eyesight she has left. As her world grows increasingly blurred, she finally comes to terms...
Tucker Tooley’s Tooley Entertainment and eOne are producing Marc Klein’s script, which is adapted from author Nicole Kear’s memoir about losing her sight.
Production is slated for a fall 2019 start, with casting now underway for the male lead opposite We’re The Millers and American Horror Story actress Roberts. The film will mark Cassavetes’ return to the director’s chair after 2014 comedy hit The Other Woman, which took close to $200M global.
The project is based on the true story of Nicole Kear, who in her a senior year at Yale received a life-changing diagnosis — she had only a few years before entirely losing her vision. Kear sets out to make the most of the eyesight she has left. As her world grows increasingly blurred, she finally comes to terms...
- 7/11/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Existence, a survival story based on a screenplay by Anthony Jaswinski who penned the hit thriller The Shallows, will be directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist) and produced by Tucker Tooley Entertainment. The harrowing story was inspired by the 1981 ill-fated shipwreck of a research vessel that became marooned after a typhoon on a remote island — the North Sentinel Island –in the Indian Ocean.
Upon exploring the terrain, the surviving crew encounters multiple terrors not only from the forces of nature but also from a sect of people who have existed in a primal state for about 60,000 years. Widely considered to be the last remaining Pre-Neolithic society on Earth, the North Sentinelese tribesmen have successfully saved themselves from extinction by exercising their right to resist all integration with the outside world – avoiding the catastrophic violence and disease that such contact has historically brought to other indigenous people.
Tooley will produce...
Upon exploring the terrain, the surviving crew encounters multiple terrors not only from the forces of nature but also from a sect of people who have existed in a primal state for about 60,000 years. Widely considered to be the last remaining Pre-Neolithic society on Earth, the North Sentinelese tribesmen have successfully saved themselves from extinction by exercising their right to resist all integration with the outside world – avoiding the catastrophic violence and disease that such contact has historically brought to other indigenous people.
Tooley will produce...
- 2/5/2019
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
Kyra Sedgwick will direct the independent supernatural love story “The Way Between” from a script by Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lee.
Tooley Entertainment is financing. Casting will begin shortly. “The Way Between” is being produced by Tucker Tooley, Lee, Rich Freeman, Colleen Camp, Kane Lee, Hector Solis Flores, and Roberto Jurado Rebora. Greg Renker, Jason Barhydt, and Jose Alberto Lopez will executive produce.
“The Way Between” centers on a man who loses his girlfriend in a tragic car accident but finds a way to reconnect with his beloved by bending the laws of reality. His unwillingness to let her go soon blurs his waking life and his intersecting world of dreams.
“From the moment I read ‘The Way Between,’ I was captivated by this deeply romantic and universal story of love, sacrifice, empathy and ‘finding your way,’” Sedgwick said.
“Jennifer Lee’s extraordinary and very personal screenplay, partially rooted in her own experiences,...
Tooley Entertainment is financing. Casting will begin shortly. “The Way Between” is being produced by Tucker Tooley, Lee, Rich Freeman, Colleen Camp, Kane Lee, Hector Solis Flores, and Roberto Jurado Rebora. Greg Renker, Jason Barhydt, and Jose Alberto Lopez will executive produce.
“The Way Between” centers on a man who loses his girlfriend in a tragic car accident but finds a way to reconnect with his beloved by bending the laws of reality. His unwillingness to let her go soon blurs his waking life and his intersecting world of dreams.
“From the moment I read ‘The Way Between,’ I was captivated by this deeply romantic and universal story of love, sacrifice, empathy and ‘finding your way,’” Sedgwick said.
“Jennifer Lee’s extraordinary and very personal screenplay, partially rooted in her own experiences,...
- 9/13/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Kyra Sedgwick will make her feature directorial debut on The Way Between, a script by Oscar-winning Frozen writer Jennifer Lee. The project has been acquired by Tooley Entertainment, which will finance. Sedgwick will begin casting shortly and it’s unclear at the moment whether The Closer star will take a role herself.
Sedgwick first moved from acting to behind the camera when she made her directorial debut on Lifetime’s Story of a Girl, which got her a 2018 DGA nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Miniseries. Lee, who is the first female writer/director of a feature film that earned more than $1 billion in gross box office revenue, is now Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
The film is a love story with supernatural elements. After losing his girlfriend Franny in a tragic car accident, Sam finds a way to reconnect with his...
Sedgwick first moved from acting to behind the camera when she made her directorial debut on Lifetime’s Story of a Girl, which got her a 2018 DGA nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Miniseries. Lee, who is the first female writer/director of a feature film that earned more than $1 billion in gross box office revenue, is now Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
The film is a love story with supernatural elements. After losing his girlfriend Franny in a tragic car accident, Sam finds a way to reconnect with his...
- 9/13/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Tucker Tooley Entertainment has picked up the crime drama film spec script Thug for Den of Thieves writer/director Christian Gudegast to helm. The project was penned by Tony Gayton. Tucker Tooley, CEO of Tooley Entertainment, will produce.
Gudegast, co-screenwriter for London Has Fallen which grossed $205.9M globally, made his directorial debut on Den of Thieves which Tooley also produced. The relationship between Gudegast and Tooley is very strong as the writer/director is also scripting the sequel to Den of Thieves.
Thug follows an ex-journeyman boxer and aging enforcer for a San Pedro Gangster who attempts to get back into the lives of his estranged children and clean up the messes of his past while coming to terms with the ruined landscape of his twenty-year career in crime all the while as the criminal underworld won’t loosen their hold on him.
Gudegast, co-screenwriter for London Has Fallen which grossed $205.9M globally, made his directorial debut on Den of Thieves which Tooley also produced. The relationship between Gudegast and Tooley is very strong as the writer/director is also scripting the sequel to Den of Thieves.
Thug follows an ex-journeyman boxer and aging enforcer for a San Pedro Gangster who attempts to get back into the lives of his estranged children and clean up the messes of his past while coming to terms with the ruined landscape of his twenty-year career in crime all the while as the criminal underworld won’t loosen their hold on him.
- 4/25/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: As Relativity goes through yet another financial crisis, some of its former executives are landing other jobs. Jason Barhydt, the studio’s former Evp Production who exited right before the company’s restructuring, has just re-joined his old boss Tucker Tooley in the same role. Tooley formerly was the president of Relativity before he exited and started the TV and film production company that bears his name. The move comes as Relativity co-ceo Joe Nicholas exite…...
- 10/13/2016
- Deadline
Exclusive: Relativity has acquired Continuum, a feature pitch that will be written by Greg Russo, based on the Arcana comic book. The logline: 175 years after Earth is devastated by a nano-terrorist attack, with the human race dying out, a historian and team of soldiers are sent back in time to present-day New York City in the hope of figuring out who launched the catastrophic attack and why. The one-way mission is the last chance for humanity, saving the future by altering the past. The film will be produced by Atlas Entertainment, along with Benderspink and Arcana Comics’ Sean O’Reilly, with Relativity’s Jason Barhydt steering it. Russo has a lot percolating. His draft of Heatseekers got Timur Bekmambetov attached at Paramount, with Platinum Dunes and Chris Morgan producing, and he most recently was hired by Bandito Brothers director Scott Waugh to script the actioner High Speed. His relationship with...
- 7/18/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: Relativity Media has set The Hunger Games‘ Liam Hemsworth to star in Aurora Rising. Scripted by A Man Apart‘s Christian Gudegast, the film is produced by Emjag Productions’ Alexandra Milchan and Film 360’s Scott Lambert and Guymon Casady along with Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh. Antonio Moura Santos Jr. will executive produce. Hemsworth will play a Southern California surfer turned military fighter pilot who, after acing a complicated and messy first combat mission, gets recruited to be part of an elite team to test the next generation of aircraft. This happens just as an international conflict begins to escalate. Roar, Wme and Morris And Yorn rep Hemsworth. Gudegast is repped by Wme and Management 360. This is his second project with Relativity where he will also script and direct the bank heist drama Den Of Thieves. Relativity’s Jason Barhydt will oversee the project for the studio. On...
- 5/20/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Relativity announced today that Liam Hemsworth ( The Hunger Games: Catching Fire , Paranoia ) will star in its new upcoming action film Aurora Rising , with a screenplay by Christian Gudegast ( A Man Apart ). Aurora Rising follows Tate (Hemsworth), a Southern California surfer turned military fighter pilot who, after acing a complicated and messy first combat mission, gets recruited to be part of an elite team to test the next generation of aircrafts just as an international conflict begins to escalate. Gudegast, a 360 client also represented by Wme, will also write and direct the bank heist drama Den of Thieves for Relativity. Relativity.s Jason Barhydt will oversee the project for the studio with Emjag Productions. Alexandra Milchan and Film 360.s Scott Lambert and...
- 5/20/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Relativity Media announced today that it has acquired rights to the script Silver or Lead, the epic story behind the manhunt for cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, one of the world’s greatest outlaws. Relativity will produce the film with Atmosphere Entertainment Mm. Enrique Urbizu, whose gritty crime thriller No Rest for the Wicked swept the Spanish Goya’s last year with a record 14 wins, will direct from a screenplay by British writer Piers Ashworth (Nostradamus, St. Trinian’s), which he developed from an original draft by Michael Kane.
The film focuses on the personal war between Escobar and General Hugo Martinez, whose life rights were also acquired by Relativity. Relativity also acquired the life rights for Joe Toft, the former chief of the Bogota office of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) who was involved in the pursuit, capture and death of Escobar. Source material for the film is provided by...
The film focuses on the personal war between Escobar and General Hugo Martinez, whose life rights were also acquired by Relativity. Relativity also acquired the life rights for Joe Toft, the former chief of the Bogota office of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) who was involved in the pursuit, capture and death of Escobar. Source material for the film is provided by...
- 3/5/2013
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
Relativity Media announced today that it has acquired rights to the script Silver Or Lead, the epic story behind the manhunt for cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, one of the world’s greatest outlaws. Relativity will produce the film with Atmosphere Entertainment Mm. Enrique Urbizu, whose gritty crime thriller No Rest for the Wicked swept the Spanish Goya’s last year with a record 14 wins, will direct from a screenplay by British writer Piers Ashworth (Nostradamus, St. Trinian’s), which he developed from an original draft by Michael Kane.
The film focuses on the personal war between Escobar and General Hugo Martinez, whose life rights were also acquired by Relativity. Relativity also acquired the life rights for Joe Toft, the former chief of the Bogota office of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) who was involved in the pursuit, capture and death of Escobar. Source material for the film is provided by...
The film focuses on the personal war between Escobar and General Hugo Martinez, whose life rights were also acquired by Relativity. Relativity also acquired the life rights for Joe Toft, the former chief of the Bogota office of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) who was involved in the pursuit, capture and death of Escobar. Source material for the film is provided by...
- 3/5/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
©2012 Relativity Media. All Rights Reserved. Safe Haven
Relativity’s recently updated it’s 2013 release slate including the outrageous ensemble comedy Movie 43, the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling novel Safe Haven, the hilarious comedy 21 And Over, the corporate espionage thriller Paranoia, the darkly comedic action film Malavita and the gritty drama Out Of The Furnace (Fall 2013).
Here’s your first look at director Lasse Hallström’s Safe Haven starring Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough, David Lyons, and Cobie Smulders.
An affirming and suspenseful story about a young woman’s struggle to love again, Safe Haven is based on the novel from Nicholas Sparks, the best-selling author behind the hit films The Notebook and Dear John. When a mysterious young woman arrives in a small North Carolina town, her reluctance to join the tight knit community raises questions about her past. Slowly, she begins putting down roots, and gains the courage...
Relativity’s recently updated it’s 2013 release slate including the outrageous ensemble comedy Movie 43, the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling novel Safe Haven, the hilarious comedy 21 And Over, the corporate espionage thriller Paranoia, the darkly comedic action film Malavita and the gritty drama Out Of The Furnace (Fall 2013).
Here’s your first look at director Lasse Hallström’s Safe Haven starring Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough, David Lyons, and Cobie Smulders.
An affirming and suspenseful story about a young woman’s struggle to love again, Safe Haven is based on the novel from Nicholas Sparks, the best-selling author behind the hit films The Notebook and Dear John. When a mysterious young woman arrives in a small North Carolina town, her reluctance to join the tight knit community raises questions about her past. Slowly, she begins putting down roots, and gains the courage...
- 10/24/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
PARK CITY -- "Pretty Persuasion" is too broadly played to achieve its dark satirical aspirations and too downright silly to pass for a serious commentary on contemporary society. What it is is a teen comedy with pretensions -- the one element most teen comedies mercifully avoid. Few cliches get overlooked as writer Skander Halim and director Marcos Siega take the usual easy shots at mean school girls, immature parents, sex-obsessed male teachers, easily corrupted journalists and Beverly Hills in general.
The film plays with no more depth than a "Saturday Night Live" sketch, just much greater length. Some might be interested in the jokiness and sexual misbehavior, but the material is too cartoonish to win a large following among teens and young adults.
Bad-girl protagonist Kimberly, played by the new go-to actress for teen heroines, Evan Rachel Wood, is a conniving, cynical vamp at 15. She uses her sexual charisma to get what she wants when she wants it from classmates and adults alike in a private Beverly Hills high school. In a revenge plot -- revenge for what is not immediately clear -- she talks two fellow students, bubble-brained Brittany (Elisabeth Harnois) and Arab immigrant Randa (Adi Schnall), into going with her to school authorities to accuse their English teacher (Ron Livingston) of sexual harassment. The poor guy, who might be guilty in thought but not deed, gets caught up in a media storm of scandal, fueled by an ambitious lesbian TV reporter (Jane Krakowski) and a trial that takes place seemingly the next week.
Siega eggs his actors into over-the-top performances, the most egregious of which belongs to James Woods, who plays Kimberly's uncouth, racist, foul-mouthed, coke-snorting, phone-sex-addicted industrialist dad. (Then again, maybe there is no other way to play such a role.) Siega pushes most of his movie into the broadest of comedy, especially trial scenes that bear no resemblance to anything that could occur in a courtroom.
The filmmakers then engineer an abrupt tonal shift in the third act in a bid for gravity. Let's call it the "American Beauty" ending, complete with a violent death and garbled social message. It doesn't wash.
Other things in the film feel equally as fake, such as sets that don't look lived in and an annoyingly jocular musical score.
PRETTY PERSUASION
Roadside Attractions/Samuel Goldwyn Films
Prospect Pictures
Credits:
Director: Marcos Siega
Screenwriter: Skander Halim
Producers: Todd Dagres, Carl Levin, Marcos Siega, Matthew Weaver
Executive producers: Joni Sighvatsson, Jason Barhydt, Eric Kopeloff, Robert Ortiz
Director of photography: Ramsey Nickell
Production designer: Paul Oberman
Music: Gilad Benamram
Costume designer: Danny Glicker
Editor: Nicholas Erasmus
Cast:
Kimberly: Evan Rachel Wood
Percy: Ron Livingston
Hank: James Woods
Emily: Jane Krakowski
Brittany: Elisabeth Harnois
Grace: Selma Blair
Randa: Adi Schnall
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 108 minutes...
The film plays with no more depth than a "Saturday Night Live" sketch, just much greater length. Some might be interested in the jokiness and sexual misbehavior, but the material is too cartoonish to win a large following among teens and young adults.
Bad-girl protagonist Kimberly, played by the new go-to actress for teen heroines, Evan Rachel Wood, is a conniving, cynical vamp at 15. She uses her sexual charisma to get what she wants when she wants it from classmates and adults alike in a private Beverly Hills high school. In a revenge plot -- revenge for what is not immediately clear -- she talks two fellow students, bubble-brained Brittany (Elisabeth Harnois) and Arab immigrant Randa (Adi Schnall), into going with her to school authorities to accuse their English teacher (Ron Livingston) of sexual harassment. The poor guy, who might be guilty in thought but not deed, gets caught up in a media storm of scandal, fueled by an ambitious lesbian TV reporter (Jane Krakowski) and a trial that takes place seemingly the next week.
Siega eggs his actors into over-the-top performances, the most egregious of which belongs to James Woods, who plays Kimberly's uncouth, racist, foul-mouthed, coke-snorting, phone-sex-addicted industrialist dad. (Then again, maybe there is no other way to play such a role.) Siega pushes most of his movie into the broadest of comedy, especially trial scenes that bear no resemblance to anything that could occur in a courtroom.
The filmmakers then engineer an abrupt tonal shift in the third act in a bid for gravity. Let's call it the "American Beauty" ending, complete with a violent death and garbled social message. It doesn't wash.
Other things in the film feel equally as fake, such as sets that don't look lived in and an annoyingly jocular musical score.
PRETTY PERSUASION
Roadside Attractions/Samuel Goldwyn Films
Prospect Pictures
Credits:
Director: Marcos Siega
Screenwriter: Skander Halim
Producers: Todd Dagres, Carl Levin, Marcos Siega, Matthew Weaver
Executive producers: Joni Sighvatsson, Jason Barhydt, Eric Kopeloff, Robert Ortiz
Director of photography: Ramsey Nickell
Production designer: Paul Oberman
Music: Gilad Benamram
Costume designer: Danny Glicker
Editor: Nicholas Erasmus
Cast:
Kimberly: Evan Rachel Wood
Percy: Ron Livingston
Hank: James Woods
Emily: Jane Krakowski
Brittany: Elisabeth Harnois
Grace: Selma Blair
Randa: Adi Schnall
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 108 minutes...
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