Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast!
I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. Today I’m chatting with Ji-young Yoo, who has some anticipated performances on the horizon. It’s no wonder Variety named her one of the 10 Actors to Watch for 2023.
Ji-Young stars as a co-lead in the six-part limited series Expats, which is based on the Janice Y.K. Lee’s international best-selling novel, The Expatriates. Directed by Lulu Wang (The Farewell), the series also stars Nicole Kidman and Sarayu Blue. Set in Hong Kong 2014, the story centers on three American women – Margaret Mercy and Hilary – whose lives intersect after a sudden tragedy. The series made its debut at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and was released on Prime Video in January.
The actress attended Sundance 2024 for the premiere of the immersive film Freaky Tales alongside Pedro Pascal and Jay Ellis. From Captain Marvel...
I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. Today I’m chatting with Ji-young Yoo, who has some anticipated performances on the horizon. It’s no wonder Variety named her one of the 10 Actors to Watch for 2023.
Ji-Young stars as a co-lead in the six-part limited series Expats, which is based on the Janice Y.K. Lee’s international best-selling novel, The Expatriates. Directed by Lulu Wang (The Farewell), the series also stars Nicole Kidman and Sarayu Blue. Set in Hong Kong 2014, the story centers on three American women – Margaret Mercy and Hilary – whose lives intersect after a sudden tragedy. The series made its debut at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and was released on Prime Video in January.
The actress attended Sundance 2024 for the premiere of the immersive film Freaky Tales alongside Pedro Pascal and Jay Ellis. From Captain Marvel...
- 3/1/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Black Adam breakout Sarah Shahi is set to executive produce and star in the Christmas film The Hollys with 17 Again helmer Burr Steers attached to direct. The film, co-written by Floriana Lima, Yolanda Pecoraro, and Ilaria Urbinati, will be produced by Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac of Di Novi Pictures. The package is just starting to go out to financiers.
The story centers on workaholic single mom Emma Holly (Shahi) whose life starts to unravel when she loses her job in the city as a successful food editor right before the holidays. Along with her young daughter, Emma is forced to move back into her childhood home in Connecticut with her old-fashioned housewife mom, whose husband just left her on Thanksgiving. In this multigenerational love letter to moms, the three Holly women will have to get through Christmas under one roof, learn to reconcile their differences and...
The story centers on workaholic single mom Emma Holly (Shahi) whose life starts to unravel when she loses her job in the city as a successful food editor right before the holidays. Along with her young daughter, Emma is forced to move back into her childhood home in Connecticut with her old-fashioned housewife mom, whose husband just left her on Thanksgiving. In this multigenerational love letter to moms, the three Holly women will have to get through Christmas under one roof, learn to reconcile their differences and...
- 12/15/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Producers Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac of Di Novi Pictures have partnered with author Amanda Kloots to turn her memoir Live Your Live into a feature film.
Amanda Kloots and her sister Anna Kloots penned the book and are adapting the screenplay themselves. No financier has been set yet.
In Live Your Life, Kloots reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star and Tony-nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with Covid and tragic death made headlines around the world. In the early spring of 2020, Cordero was hospitalized for what he and his wife believed was a severe case of pneumonia. Entering Cedars-Sinai, there was no indication that Cordero would never return home. Diagnosed with Covid, Cordero – who only a few days earlier was the picture of health – soon deteriorated. Suffering a series of complications – minor heart attacks, an amputation, sepsis – he was kept alive for weeks,...
Amanda Kloots and her sister Anna Kloots penned the book and are adapting the screenplay themselves. No financier has been set yet.
In Live Your Life, Kloots reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star and Tony-nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with Covid and tragic death made headlines around the world. In the early spring of 2020, Cordero was hospitalized for what he and his wife believed was a severe case of pneumonia. Entering Cedars-Sinai, there was no indication that Cordero would never return home. Diagnosed with Covid, Cordero – who only a few days earlier was the picture of health – soon deteriorated. Suffering a series of complications – minor heart attacks, an amputation, sepsis – he was kept alive for weeks,...
- 3/8/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Valentine’s Day is almost upon us, and for those who celebrate the holiday with a cozy movie night, “The Sky Is Everywhere” will launch just in time.
Adapted from the book by bestselling author Jandy Nelson, who also wrote “I’ll Give You the Sun,” “The Sky Is Everywhere” captures the wide range of emotions from grief to love and everything in between. Whether you fall under the ‘Young Adult’ category or not, this movie speaks to a wide range of emotions.
Avid fans of Nelson’s novel, those who follow every YA story, or those simply looking for something fresh and new will want to know how to watch this latest teen romance story. Below, all your questions on how to watch “The Sky Is Everywhere” are answered.
When Does “The Sky Is Everywhere” Come Out?
“The Sky Is Everywhere” debuts Friday, Feb 11.
Is “The Sky Is Everywhere” Streaming or in Theaters?...
Adapted from the book by bestselling author Jandy Nelson, who also wrote “I’ll Give You the Sun,” “The Sky Is Everywhere” captures the wide range of emotions from grief to love and everything in between. Whether you fall under the ‘Young Adult’ category or not, this movie speaks to a wide range of emotions.
Avid fans of Nelson’s novel, those who follow every YA story, or those simply looking for something fresh and new will want to know how to watch this latest teen romance story. Below, all your questions on how to watch “The Sky Is Everywhere” are answered.
When Does “The Sky Is Everywhere” Come Out?
“The Sky Is Everywhere” debuts Friday, Feb 11.
Is “The Sky Is Everywhere” Streaming or in Theaters?...
- 2/11/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Image Source: Apple
Apple TV+'s "The Sky Is Everywhere" offers a sensitive look at a teenage love story that blossoms amid a time of grief. The film, which debuted on Feb. 11, is an adaptation of Jandy Nelson's best-selling novel of the same name. Written by Nelson and directed by Josephine Decker, the movie follows 17-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman) as she deals with the tragic loss of her older sister, Bailey (Havana Rose Liu). In the months after her sister's death, Lennie quickly falls for Joe Fontaine (Jacques Colimon) - the new heartthrob at her high school who she grows romantic feelings for while dealing with a conflicting attraction to her sister's devastated boyfriend, Toby (Pico Alexander).
". . . just reading her journey and discovering more about her, I really did fall totally in love with her."
Kaufman, who's only 19 years old, helms the movie adaptation in her first major...
Apple TV+'s "The Sky Is Everywhere" offers a sensitive look at a teenage love story that blossoms amid a time of grief. The film, which debuted on Feb. 11, is an adaptation of Jandy Nelson's best-selling novel of the same name. Written by Nelson and directed by Josephine Decker, the movie follows 17-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman) as she deals with the tragic loss of her older sister, Bailey (Havana Rose Liu). In the months after her sister's death, Lennie quickly falls for Joe Fontaine (Jacques Colimon) - the new heartthrob at her high school who she grows romantic feelings for while dealing with a conflicting attraction to her sister's devastated boyfriend, Toby (Pico Alexander).
". . . just reading her journey and discovering more about her, I really did fall totally in love with her."
Kaufman, who's only 19 years old, helms the movie adaptation in her first major...
- 2/11/2022
- by Njera Perkins
- Popsugar.com
The whimsy and imagination of a film like “The Sky Is Everywhere” is all the more impressive knowing that production took place during Covid and during California wildfire season, offering unique challenges to getting the story onscreen.
“It’s like two competing crises,” director Josephine Decker recalled in a recent interview with TheWrap. “Covid is like, only have meetings with other people outside. And then there’s California wildfires [with] ash falling in the air, and it’s like do not go outside under any circumstances, stay inside with air filters running.”
Based on the book by bestselling author Jandy Nelson, who also wrote the screenplay, the film follows teen Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman) as she juggles feelings of grief, new love and loss in the wake of the unexpected death of her sister Bailey (Havana Rose Liu). Following the tragedy, Lennie starts experiencing romantic longing.
“The Sky Is Everywhere” is...
“It’s like two competing crises,” director Josephine Decker recalled in a recent interview with TheWrap. “Covid is like, only have meetings with other people outside. And then there’s California wildfires [with] ash falling in the air, and it’s like do not go outside under any circumstances, stay inside with air filters running.”
Based on the book by bestselling author Jandy Nelson, who also wrote the screenplay, the film follows teen Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman) as she juggles feelings of grief, new love and loss in the wake of the unexpected death of her sister Bailey (Havana Rose Liu). Following the tragedy, Lennie starts experiencing romantic longing.
“The Sky Is Everywhere” is...
- 2/11/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
There’s breathless, relentless energy to the work of Josephine Decker, a trait usually accompanied by a sense of the unexpected, never quite knowing where her narrative may turn or how her characters could express their mercurial emotions. Her latest film The Sky Is Everywhere, adapted by Jandy Nelson from her own novel, features a strong sense of the former without ever offering the latter. What results is an aesthetically imaginative, narratively banal YA adaptation hitting too-familiar beats despite its relatively invigorating style.
Following the sudden death of her older sister to fatal heart arrhythmia––the same issue that claimed the life of their mother––17-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman), a talented clarinetist, is adrift. Understandably still reeling from the loss, Lennie attempts to rebuild her life in a moment of transition when others her age are consumed by the promise of young love and limitless possibilities of the future...
Following the sudden death of her older sister to fatal heart arrhythmia––the same issue that claimed the life of their mother––17-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman), a talented clarinetist, is adrift. Understandably still reeling from the loss, Lennie attempts to rebuild her life in a moment of transition when others her age are consumed by the promise of young love and limitless possibilities of the future...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Apple TV+ film by Josephine Decker, adapted from the 2010 YA novel, deftly explores the confusing tangle of emotions in the aftermath of loss
The Sky Is Everywhere, Apple TV+ and A24’s adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s 2010 young adult novel, often gives what could be a rote exploration of grief the sheen of a fairy tale. Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman) lives in a colorful house in a northern California redwood forest surrounded by ancient trees and her Gram’s (Cherry Jones) sweet-smelling roses. A talented clarinetist, her forays into the woods are soundtracked by classical jazz; the wind carries off her poems and letters, written on leaves or looseleaf paper. There once were two sisters who explored together, she narrates, and minutes into the film, there remains only one, after the death of Lennie’s beloved older sister Bailey (Havana Rose Liu) from a heart arrhythmia – the same...
The Sky Is Everywhere, Apple TV+ and A24’s adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s 2010 young adult novel, often gives what could be a rote exploration of grief the sheen of a fairy tale. Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman) lives in a colorful house in a northern California redwood forest surrounded by ancient trees and her Gram’s (Cherry Jones) sweet-smelling roses. A talented clarinetist, her forays into the woods are soundtracked by classical jazz; the wind carries off her poems and letters, written on leaves or looseleaf paper. There once were two sisters who explored together, she narrates, and minutes into the film, there remains only one, after the death of Lennie’s beloved older sister Bailey (Havana Rose Liu) from a heart arrhythmia – the same...
- 2/10/2022
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
Insistently rejecting the idea that a little bit of a good thing goes a long way, “The Sky Is Everywhere” finds director Josephine Decker indulging in affectation overload in an effort to imbue her adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s young-adult novel with uplifting magic. Whereas individual moments might work on their own, however, the “Madeline’s Madeline” auteur’s latest never provides its romantic tale with room to breathe, so intent is it about operating with maximum whimsicality. Teen audiences may be enticed to give it a try when it debuts in select theaters and on Apple TV Plus on Feb. 11, but what they’ll discover is
There isn’t a look-at-me device left unemployed by “The Sky Is Everywhere,” as Decker utilizes dreamy narration, swirling and rotating camerawork, gliding edits, paper mâché-style animation, CGI flights of fancy and an eclectic Caroline Shaw score full of orchestral music, woodwinds, horns and dainty French tunes.
There isn’t a look-at-me device left unemployed by “The Sky Is Everywhere,” as Decker utilizes dreamy narration, swirling and rotating camerawork, gliding edits, paper mâché-style animation, CGI flights of fancy and an eclectic Caroline Shaw score full of orchestral music, woodwinds, horns and dainty French tunes.
- 2/10/2022
- by Nick Schager
- Variety Film + TV
Recently, this critic was reminded of the existence of author Lurlene McDaniel’s sizable bibliography of young adult books focused on kids and teens dealing with horrible illnesses, ailments, and eventual death. McDaniel is hardly the only YA author to focus on such topics — though she’s certainly the most prolific — but for a generation of readers, it was McDaniel who introduced such heavy plots as something the younger set could be trusted to understand. In 2010, Jandy Nelson’s debut novel “The Sky Is Everywhere” continued the tradition, following a heartbroken sister attempting to deal with the messy emotional aftermath of her beloved big sister’s death.
Grief is a fertile, if uncomfortable topic, and Nelson’s book approached it with the kind of open-hearted honesty it deserved, wrapped up in a careful package that made it accessible enough for the teenage audience it was meant to serve. A cinematic version?...
Grief is a fertile, if uncomfortable topic, and Nelson’s book approached it with the kind of open-hearted honesty it deserved, wrapped up in a careful package that made it accessible enough for the teenage audience it was meant to serve. A cinematic version?...
- 2/10/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Based on Jandy Nelson’s young adult novel, “The Sky Is Everywhere” is a candy-colored story of a young girl grieving after the death of her charismatic older sister.
Director Josephine Decker (“Shirley”) leans into the fantastical elements of the material, and this results in a poorly structured narrative that always rushes past any moment that could give the film a deeper resonance.
We are told in narration by Lennie (Grace Kaufman from Sundance hit “Resurrection”) just how close she was to her sister Bailey, who was rehearsing to play Juliet at school when she suddenly died of a heart malfunction, just like their mother did. We only learn midway through the film that the girls’ mother got pregnant through artificial insemination; it’s also not until then that we learn what relation Jason Segel’s character Big has to the sisters. Such pointlessly withheld information is just one of the problems here.
Director Josephine Decker (“Shirley”) leans into the fantastical elements of the material, and this results in a poorly structured narrative that always rushes past any moment that could give the film a deeper resonance.
We are told in narration by Lennie (Grace Kaufman from Sundance hit “Resurrection”) just how close she was to her sister Bailey, who was rehearsing to play Juliet at school when she suddenly died of a heart malfunction, just like their mother did. We only learn midway through the film that the girls’ mother got pregnant through artificial insemination; it’s also not until then that we learn what relation Jason Segel’s character Big has to the sisters. Such pointlessly withheld information is just one of the problems here.
- 2/10/2022
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
One way to look at The Sky Is Everywhere, Josephine Decker’s adaptation of a YA bestseller by Jandy Nelson, is as a caring response to two years of relentless tragedy. Did the director glance around and think that what we all really needed right now is an optimistic, whimsical take on grief? Maybe she thought it could…...
- 2/10/2022
- by Leila Latif
- avclub.com
In John Cassavetes’s 1977 psychological drama “Opening Night,” star Gena Rowlands laments, “When I was 17, I…I could do anything. It was so easy. My emotions were so close to the surface.” It’s in this soil of raw, intense teenage emotional honesty that director Josephine Decker firmly plants her adaption of Jandy Nelson’s YA novel “The Sky Is Everywhere.” In both films, artists lose touch with their craft while reeling from a sudden, expected death that shakes them to their core, though one tackles this trauma with a much lighter, rosier touch.
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- 2/10/2022
- by Marya E. Gates
- The Playlist
Josephine Decker knows it sounds a little weird — that the filmmaker behind such tone poems as “Thou Wast Mild & Lovely” and “Butter on the Latch” and internal dramas like “Madeline’s Madeline” and “Shirley” wanted to make an Apple-backed adaption of a popular YA novel for her fifth feature film — but it made perfect sense to her.
“I remember calling my mom when I first got the movie and I was like, ‘I’m making my first happy movie, Mom. You’re going to love it. You’re going to be so excited to watch it!'” Decker said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “She’s like, ‘What’s it about?’ And I was like, ‘It’s about a girl whose sister died.’ But it really is, by far, my happiest movie. It’s much more positive than the things I usually make, and I was really ready for that.
“I remember calling my mom when I first got the movie and I was like, ‘I’m making my first happy movie, Mom. You’re going to love it. You’re going to be so excited to watch it!'” Decker said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “She’s like, ‘What’s it about?’ And I was like, ‘It’s about a girl whose sister died.’ But it really is, by far, my happiest movie. It’s much more positive than the things I usually make, and I was really ready for that.
- 2/9/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
To celebrate the eagerly-anticipated release of The Sky Is Everywhere, the adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s acclaimed novel, we sat down with the cast and director to find out all about this magical new film.
Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman), a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey Havana Rose Liu). When Joe Fontaine (Jacques Colimon), the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie’s life, she’s drawn to him. But Lennie’s complicated relationship with her sister’s devastated boyfriend, Toby (Pico Alexander), starts to affect Lennie and Joe’s budding love. Through her vivid imagination and honest, conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss to create a song of her own. Acclaimed filmmaker Josephine Decker directs this moving adaptation...
Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman), a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey Havana Rose Liu). When Joe Fontaine (Jacques Colimon), the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie’s life, she’s drawn to him. But Lennie’s complicated relationship with her sister’s devastated boyfriend, Toby (Pico Alexander), starts to affect Lennie and Joe’s budding love. Through her vivid imagination and honest, conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss to create a song of her own. Acclaimed filmmaker Josephine Decker directs this moving adaptation...
- 2/9/2022
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With Sundance now wrapped up, this month we turn our sights on Berlinale and a number of notable releases arriving both theatrically and digitally. From international Oscar contenders to long-delayed releases to musician-focused docs to our favorite group of jackasses, it’s an eclectic month. See our picks below.
15. The Sky Is Everywhere (Josephine Decker; Feb. 11 in theaters and Apple TV+)
Curiously absent from Sundance and Berlinale is the latest by an alum of both, Josephine Decker. Following Madeline’s Madeline and Shirley, the director is back with The Sky Is Everywhere, which was adapted by Jandy Nelson, based on her novel. Produced by A24 and Apple, it follows a high-schooler who loses her older sister and attempts to regain her footing in life. With the YA material, it looks like Decker is carving a new path; we’re curious to see the results.
14. Taste (Lê Bảo; Feb. 16 on Mubi...
15. The Sky Is Everywhere (Josephine Decker; Feb. 11 in theaters and Apple TV+)
Curiously absent from Sundance and Berlinale is the latest by an alum of both, Josephine Decker. Following Madeline’s Madeline and Shirley, the director is back with The Sky Is Everywhere, which was adapted by Jandy Nelson, based on her novel. Produced by A24 and Apple, it follows a high-schooler who loses her older sister and attempts to regain her footing in life. With the YA material, it looks like Decker is carving a new path; we’re curious to see the results.
14. Taste (Lê Bảo; Feb. 16 on Mubi...
- 2/2/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Casting board Polaroids from Heat (1995). (Courtesy of Michael Mann)Michael Mann's debut novel is titled Heat 2, which is both a prequel and sequel to his 1995 classic crime thriller. Co-written with novelist Meg Gardiner, Heat 2 will be published on August 9 through the HarperCollins-based Michael Mann Books imprint. Jonas Mekas 100! is a program dedicated to honoring the influential critic, writer, and filmmaker Jonas Mekas. The events of the program are currently underway and are taking place worldwide, from Sweden to Taiwan, with a focus on "[expanding] global recognition of his work." Bong Joon-ho is moving forward with his next English-language film, an adaptation of Edward Ashton's upcoming science fiction novel Mickey7, with Robert Pattinson set to star. The book is about a "disposable employee" on a space colony base who refuses to be replaced by a clone.
- 1/26/2022
- MUBI
Curiously absent from the Sundance Film Festival and Berlinale is the latest work from an alum of both festivals, Josephine Decker. Following up Madeline’s Madeline and Shirley, the director is back with The Sky Is Everywhere, an Apple and A24 production that will be arriving early next month. Adapted by Jandy Nelson, based on her novel, the film follows a high schooler who loses her older sister and attempts to regain her footing in life. Ahead of the February 11 release on Apple TV+ and in theaters, the first trailer has now arrived.
As the synopsis reads, “Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker, a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey. When Joe Fontaine, the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie’s life, she’s drawn to him.
As the synopsis reads, “Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker, a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey. When Joe Fontaine, the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie’s life, she’s drawn to him.
- 1/20/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Actress Ji-young Yoo has boarded the forthcoming feature The Sky Is Everywhere from Apple and A24. She will join the ensemble that includes Cherry Jones, Jason Segel, Grace Kaufman and Jacques Colimon.
Based on the YA novel by Jandy Nelson, Josephine Decker (director of Sundance winner Shirley) will helm the film which will be adapted by the author. The novel follows the character of Lennie (Kaufman), a teen who accidentally falls in love while grieving the loss of her sister Bailey. Yoo is set to play Lennie’s best friend Sarah.
Jones will play the role of Gram, Lennie and Bailey’s grandmother, who takes them in and raises them in her home where she lives with her eccentric son, Big played by Segel. He runs a local hot air balloon company and tends to fall in love with whichever woman he takes up in the balloon. Colimon will play Joe Fontaine,...
Based on the YA novel by Jandy Nelson, Josephine Decker (director of Sundance winner Shirley) will helm the film which will be adapted by the author. The novel follows the character of Lennie (Kaufman), a teen who accidentally falls in love while grieving the loss of her sister Bailey. Yoo is set to play Lennie’s best friend Sarah.
Jones will play the role of Gram, Lennie and Bailey’s grandmother, who takes them in and raises them in her home where she lives with her eccentric son, Big played by Segel. He runs a local hot air balloon company and tends to fall in love with whichever woman he takes up in the balloon. Colimon will play Joe Fontaine,...
- 1/14/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exculsive: Jacques Colimon has joined the ensemble of The Sky Is Everywhere, a new Apple Original film that hails from Apple’s existing partnership with A24. Grace Kaufman, Cherry Jones and Jason Segel are set to star. The pic is based on the novel by Jandy Nelson, who will adapt the script. Josephine Decker is attached to direct.
The novel follows Lennie (Kaufman), a teen who is working through the loss of her sister Bailey. Her journey includes accidentally falling in love. Colimon will star as ‘Joe Fontaine,’ a musician who becomes intrigued with Lennie.
Denise Di Novi, Allison Carter and Margaret French Isaac will produce for Di Novi Pictures, alongside Decker.
Colimon recently had his star-making turn in the Netflix series The Society. The series became a victim of the Covid-19 pandemic as Netflix was forced to cancel it after one season but the show still had quite the following,...
The novel follows Lennie (Kaufman), a teen who is working through the loss of her sister Bailey. Her journey includes accidentally falling in love. Colimon will star as ‘Joe Fontaine,’ a musician who becomes intrigued with Lennie.
Denise Di Novi, Allison Carter and Margaret French Isaac will produce for Di Novi Pictures, alongside Decker.
Colimon recently had his star-making turn in the Netflix series The Society. The series became a victim of the Covid-19 pandemic as Netflix was forced to cancel it after one season but the show still had quite the following,...
- 10/30/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Cherry Jones and Jason Segel are set to join Grace Kaufman in The Sky Is Everywhere, a new Apple Original film that hails from Apple’s existing partnership with A24. The pic is based on the novel by Jandy Nelson, who will adapt the script. Josephine Decker, who helmed Madeline’s Madeline and the Elisabeth Moss-starrer Shirley, is attached to direct.
The novel follows Lennie (Kaufman), a teen who is working through the loss of her sister Bailey. Her journey includes accidentally falling in love.
Jones will play Gram, the warm and loving grandmother of Lennie and Bailey, who takes them in and raises them in her home where her son, Big (Segel), still lives with her. Segel’s Big is the sisters’ eccentric and compassionate uncle, the town Lothario who runs a local hot air balloon company and tends to fall in love with whichever woman he takes up in the balloon.
The novel follows Lennie (Kaufman), a teen who is working through the loss of her sister Bailey. Her journey includes accidentally falling in love.
Jones will play Gram, the warm and loving grandmother of Lennie and Bailey, who takes them in and raises them in her home where her son, Big (Segel), still lives with her. Segel’s Big is the sisters’ eccentric and compassionate uncle, the town Lothario who runs a local hot air balloon company and tends to fall in love with whichever woman he takes up in the balloon.
- 9/23/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Following a thorough search, newcomer Grace Kaufman has landed the lead role in Apple and A24’s The Sky Is Everywhere, an adaptation of the Jandy Nelson Ya novel.
The role was coveted, with Kaufman beating out a slew of actresses competing for the part that has the potential to launch an up-and-coming film career. It also marks Kaufman’s first lead role in a major studio film. A24 had no comment.
Nelson will adapt and write the script from her own novel, and Josephine Decker, who helmed Madeline’s Madeline and the Elisabeth Moss-starrer Shirley, is attached to direct. The novel follows a teen as she works through the loss of her sister. Her journey includes accidentally falling in love.
Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac will produce for Di Novi Pictures, alongside Decker.
The film falls in with the rest of the development slate that...
The role was coveted, with Kaufman beating out a slew of actresses competing for the part that has the potential to launch an up-and-coming film career. It also marks Kaufman’s first lead role in a major studio film. A24 had no comment.
Nelson will adapt and write the script from her own novel, and Josephine Decker, who helmed Madeline’s Madeline and the Elisabeth Moss-starrer Shirley, is attached to direct. The novel follows a teen as she works through the loss of her sister. Her journey includes accidentally falling in love.
Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac will produce for Di Novi Pictures, alongside Decker.
The film falls in with the rest of the development slate that...
- 7/20/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
A24 and Apple have yet to release their first co-production, the Sofia Coppola-directed “On the Rocks,” but the duo have already made apparent their aims: ambitious offerings from some of indie film’s best female directors. Following Coppola’s Rashida Jones- and Bill Murray-starring comedy, A24 and Apple will release the latest film from indie wunderkind and “Madeline’s Madeline” breakout filmmaker Josephine Decker.
Deadline reports that A24 and Apple have teamed up for Decker’s next film, a big screen adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s Ya novel “The Sky Is Everywhere.” Nelson will adapt and write the script herself, with Decker on board to direct. Nelson’s debut novel was published in 2010 and initially optioned by Warner Bros. Per the book’s official synopsis, it “tells the story of an American high school girl, Lennie Walker, struggling to cope with the sudden death of her older sister.
Deadline reports that A24 and Apple have teamed up for Decker’s next film, a big screen adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s Ya novel “The Sky Is Everywhere.” Nelson will adapt and write the script herself, with Decker on board to direct. Nelson’s debut novel was published in 2010 and initially optioned by Warner Bros. Per the book’s official synopsis, it “tells the story of an American high school girl, Lennie Walker, struggling to cope with the sudden death of her older sister.
- 10/16/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
In its second film since formalizing a partnership, Apple and A24 are teaming up on The Sky Is Everywhere, an adaptation of the Ya novel by Jandy Nelson.
The first film for Apple and A24 is the Sofia Coppola-directed On the Rocks, which stars Rashida Jones and Bill Murray.
Nelson will adapt and write the script from her own novel, and Josephine Decker, who helmed Madeline’s Madeline, is attached to direct. The novel follows a teen as she works through the loss of her sister. Her journey includes accidentally falling in love.
Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac will produce for Di Novi Pictures.
The first film for Apple and A24 is the Sofia Coppola-directed On the Rocks, which stars Rashida Jones and Bill Murray.
Nelson will adapt and write the script from her own novel, and Josephine Decker, who helmed Madeline’s Madeline, is attached to direct. The novel follows a teen as she works through the loss of her sister. Her journey includes accidentally falling in love.
Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac will produce for Di Novi Pictures.
- 10/16/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Josephine Decker, the director of the Gotham Award nominated indie “Madeline’s Madeline,” is set to direct the feature “The Sky is Everywhere” for a partnership between Apple and A24, the companies announced Wednesday.
Jandy Nelson will write the screenplay for “The Sky Is Everywhere” based on her own best-selling YA novel of the same name from 2010. The film is the second movie of a previously announced partnership between Apple and A24.
The film follows a shy teenager and band geek named Lennie Walker as she works through the loss of her fiery sister and accidentally falls in love. Denise Di Novi and Margaret French-Isaac will produce the film for Di Novi Pictures.
Apple announced a multi-year film deal with A24 in 2018 and in January unveiled “On the Rocks,” the next movie from director Sofia Coppola.
Jandy Nelson will write the screenplay for “The Sky Is Everywhere” based on her own best-selling YA novel of the same name from 2010. The film is the second movie of a previously announced partnership between Apple and A24.
The film follows a shy teenager and band geek named Lennie Walker as she works through the loss of her fiery sister and accidentally falls in love. Denise Di Novi and Margaret French-Isaac will produce the film for Di Novi Pictures.
Apple announced a multi-year film deal with A24 in 2018 and in January unveiled “On the Rocks,” the next movie from director Sofia Coppola.
- 10/16/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Di Novi Pictures producing Ya novel adaptation.
Apple and A24 have set their second project together and will team up on Josephine Decker’s follow-up to Madeline’s Madeline, The Sky Is Everywhere.
The feature will be based on Jandy Nelson’s Ya book of the same name, about a teenager who works through the loss of her sister and accidentally falls in love along the way.
Nelson will adapt the screenplay. Producing are Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac for Di Novi Pictures.
The first film in the partnership between Apple and A24 is Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks...
Apple and A24 have set their second project together and will team up on Josephine Decker’s follow-up to Madeline’s Madeline, The Sky Is Everywhere.
The feature will be based on Jandy Nelson’s Ya book of the same name, about a teenager who works through the loss of her sister and accidentally falls in love along the way.
Nelson will adapt the screenplay. Producing are Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac for Di Novi Pictures.
The first film in the partnership between Apple and A24 is Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks...
- 10/16/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Apple has announced the second feature that will be produced under its pact with indie studio A24 — an adaptation of young adult novel The Sky Is Everywhere.
Josephine Decker, the director behind Sundance standout Madeline’s Madeline, will helm, while author Jandy Nelson will adapt her own story for the screen.
The story centers on American high school girl Lennie Walker, as she works through the loss of her sister and accidentally falls in love.
Decker will also produce, along with Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac for Di Novi Pictures.
The Sky Is Everywhere will fall under the ...
Josephine Decker, the director behind Sundance standout Madeline’s Madeline, will helm, while author Jandy Nelson will adapt her own story for the screen.
The story centers on American high school girl Lennie Walker, as she works through the loss of her sister and accidentally falls in love.
Decker will also produce, along with Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac for Di Novi Pictures.
The Sky Is Everywhere will fall under the ...
- 10/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Apple has announced the second feature that will be produced under its pact with indie studio A24 — an adaptation of young adult novel The Sky Is Everywhere.
Josephine Decker, the director behind Sundance standout Madeline’s Madeline, will helm, while author Jandy Nelson will adapt her own story for the screen.
The story centers on American high school girl Lennie Walker, as she works through the loss of her sister and accidentally falls in love.
Decker will also produce, along with Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac for Di Novi Pictures.
The Sky Is Everywhere will fall under the ...
Josephine Decker, the director behind Sundance standout Madeline’s Madeline, will helm, while author Jandy Nelson will adapt her own story for the screen.
The story centers on American high school girl Lennie Walker, as she works through the loss of her sister and accidentally falls in love.
Decker will also produce, along with Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac for Di Novi Pictures.
The Sky Is Everywhere will fall under the ...
- 10/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“Akira,” produced by Leonardo DiCaprio for Warner Bros., will shoot in California and receive an $18.5 million tax credit, the California Film Commission has announced.
“Akira” was by far the biggest of the 18 tax credit allocations unveiled Tuesday under the state’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program 2.0, which include eight independent projects. The movies will generate an estimated $408 million in qualified expenditures (below-the-line wages and payments to in-state vendors) and employ 2,575 crew, 812 cast, and 29,000 extras/stand-ins over a combined 740 shoot days in California.
“Akira,” based on a manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otama and set in a post-apocalyptic 2060 Tokyo, will generate an estimated $92 million in qualified spending. This figure includes $43 million in wages to 200 below-the-line crew members and more than 5,000 extras/stand-ins. The project is scheduled to film entirely in California over the course of 71 filming days.
“We are thrilled with the opportunity to shoot ‘Akira’ in California,” said Ravi Mehta,...
“Akira” was by far the biggest of the 18 tax credit allocations unveiled Tuesday under the state’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program 2.0, which include eight independent projects. The movies will generate an estimated $408 million in qualified expenditures (below-the-line wages and payments to in-state vendors) and employ 2,575 crew, 812 cast, and 29,000 extras/stand-ins over a combined 740 shoot days in California.
“Akira,” based on a manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otama and set in a post-apocalyptic 2060 Tokyo, will generate an estimated $92 million in qualified spending. This figure includes $43 million in wages to 200 below-the-line crew members and more than 5,000 extras/stand-ins. The project is scheduled to film entirely in California over the course of 71 filming days.
“We are thrilled with the opportunity to shoot ‘Akira’ in California,” said Ravi Mehta,...
- 4/2/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Warner Bros. has decided that the best person to adapt Jandy Nelson’s Ya book The Sky Is Everywhere is the author herself.
A year and a half after picking up the rights to the book, the studio has tapped Nelson to pen the big-screen translation of her critically acclaimed international hit debut.
Sky, published in 2010, tells of a high school student who is dealing with the sudden loss of her sister. In her grieving state, she finds herself drawn to two men: her sister’s boyfriend, where the shared loss binds them in ways she doesn’t understand, and a new...
A year and a half after picking up the rights to the book, the studio has tapped Nelson to pen the big-screen translation of her critically acclaimed international hit debut.
Sky, published in 2010, tells of a high school student who is dealing with the sudden loss of her sister. In her grieving state, she finds herself drawn to two men: her sister’s boyfriend, where the shared loss binds them in ways she doesn’t understand, and a new...
- 12/15/2016
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros. has hired writer Natalie Krinsky to adapt Ya novel I'll Give You the Sun. The studio optioned Jandy Nelson's buzzy book in June before it hit stores in September via Penguin division Dial Press. The story centers on Jude and her twin brother, Noah, who were very close growing up but have become estranged as teens after a tragedy. The coming-of-age story, with chapters told from each perspective, follows the teens who, if they could just find their way back to one another, could remake their broken world. Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan, who produced
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- 10/8/2014
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros has acquired screen rights to I’ll Give You The Sun, the Jandy Nelson Ya novel that Penguin’s Dial Press will publish in September. Book is described as a multi-faceted, cross-generational coming-of-age drama of teenage twins, Noah and Jude. Both budding artists who are torn apart in the wake of a family tragedy, they are reunited as they put the pieces back together and begin to define themselves not just as artists but as human beings as they process first love, betrayal, family, and the power of personal expression through art. Denise Dinovi and Alison Greenspan will produce. Courtenay […]...
- 7/14/2014
- Deadline
Monstrumologist
Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the film rights to Rick Yancey's young-adult horror four-book "Monstrumologist" series and have hired Jessica Postigo ("Mortal Instruments: the City of Bones") to adapt the script. Ellen Goldsmith Vein and Bob Teitel will produce.
Set in 1888, the story follows Dr. Pellinore Warthrop and his orphan assistant Will Henry. Warthrop studies dangerous creatures and monsters, the first book starting off with a vicious and headless man-eating creature called an anthropuphagi being brought to his home. [Source: Variety]
Superstition
New Line Cinema has acquired Blumhouse Productions' "Superstition," the Warners-based company's first acquisition in eight years. The company is planning a 2016 release.
Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff helmed the micro-budget found footage thriller set at a high school. No further details have been released at this time. [Source: Heat Vision]
I'll Give You the Sun
Warner Bros. has acquired the movie rights to Jandy Nelson's upcoming coming of age...
Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the film rights to Rick Yancey's young-adult horror four-book "Monstrumologist" series and have hired Jessica Postigo ("Mortal Instruments: the City of Bones") to adapt the script. Ellen Goldsmith Vein and Bob Teitel will produce.
Set in 1888, the story follows Dr. Pellinore Warthrop and his orphan assistant Will Henry. Warthrop studies dangerous creatures and monsters, the first book starting off with a vicious and headless man-eating creature called an anthropuphagi being brought to his home. [Source: Variety]
Superstition
New Line Cinema has acquired Blumhouse Productions' "Superstition," the Warners-based company's first acquisition in eight years. The company is planning a 2016 release.
Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff helmed the micro-budget found footage thriller set at a high school. No further details have been released at this time. [Source: Heat Vision]
I'll Give You the Sun
Warner Bros. has acquired the movie rights to Jandy Nelson's upcoming coming of age...
- 6/25/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Warner Bros. has optioned I’ll Give You The Sun, an upcoming Ya novel written by Jandy Nelson that is already generating heat in the book world. Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan will produce the adaptation. Photos Teenage Dreams: 17 of the Most Popular Ya Properties Adapted for TV and Film Sun tells of two inseparable teenage twins who are torn apart by tragedy even as they deal with coming-of-age issues such as sexuality (the boy is gay, while the girl had a horrible first experience). The two are budding artists, and the book’s chapters alternate between their
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- 6/24/2014
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Animated 'Hotel Transylvania' set for September release.
By Jocelyn Vena
Selena Gomez
Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images
It seems that the Disney girls have each other's backs. Miley Cyrus will no longer be able to voice a part in Adam Sandler's animated vampire flick, "Hotel Transylvania," and it seems that Selena Gomez has stepped up to the plate to fill in for her.
A rep for Sandler told E! News that the actress will play the part of Mavis, the vampire daughter of Dracula (Sandler). Dracula, who runs a resort of all the creepy folks in the world, gets worried when his teen daughter falls for a boy. E! reports that "Saturday Night Live" star Andy Samberg, singer and "The Voice" judge Cee Lo Green and Sandler's pal Kevin James also have sunk their teeth into roles in the film, expected to drop in September.
Back in November,...
By Jocelyn Vena
Selena Gomez
Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images
It seems that the Disney girls have each other's backs. Miley Cyrus will no longer be able to voice a part in Adam Sandler's animated vampire flick, "Hotel Transylvania," and it seems that Selena Gomez has stepped up to the plate to fill in for her.
A rep for Sandler told E! News that the actress will play the part of Mavis, the vampire daughter of Dracula (Sandler). Dracula, who runs a resort of all the creepy folks in the world, gets worried when his teen daughter falls for a boy. E! reports that "Saturday Night Live" star Andy Samberg, singer and "The Voice" judge Cee Lo Green and Sandler's pal Kevin James also have sunk their teeth into roles in the film, expected to drop in September.
Back in November,...
- 2/10/2012
- MTV Movie News
Animated 'Hotel Transylvania' set for September release.
By Jocelyn Vena
Selena Gomez
Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images
It seems that the Disney girls have each other's backs. Miley Cyrus will no longer be able to voice a part in Adam Sandler's animated vampire flick, "Hotel Transylvania," and it seems that Selena Gomez has stepped up to the plate to fill in for her.
A rep for Sandler told E! News that the actress will play the part of Mavis, the vampire daughter of Dracula (Sandler). Dracula, who runs a resort of all the creepy folks in the world, gets worried when his teen daughter falls for a boy. E! reports that "Saturday Night Live" star Andy Samberg, singer and "The Voice" judge Cee Lo Green and Sandler's pal Kevin James also have sunk their teeth into roles in the film, expected to drop in September.
Back in November,...
By Jocelyn Vena
Selena Gomez
Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images
It seems that the Disney girls have each other's backs. Miley Cyrus will no longer be able to voice a part in Adam Sandler's animated vampire flick, "Hotel Transylvania," and it seems that Selena Gomez has stepped up to the plate to fill in for her.
A rep for Sandler told E! News that the actress will play the part of Mavis, the vampire daughter of Dracula (Sandler). Dracula, who runs a resort of all the creepy folks in the world, gets worried when his teen daughter falls for a boy. E! reports that "Saturday Night Live" star Andy Samberg, singer and "The Voice" judge Cee Lo Green and Sandler's pal Kevin James also have sunk their teeth into roles in the film, expected to drop in September.
Back in November,...
- 2/10/2012
- MTV Music News
Selena Gomez's production company July Moon has optioned the Jandy Nelson novel "The Sky Is Everywhere" says Deadline .
"The Wizards of Waverly Place" actress will develop the book as a star vehicle for her. She would play play 17-year old Lennie Walker, a bookworm and band geek who lives in the shadow of her extroverted older sister.
When said sister dies suddenly, Lennie is left to juggle her sister’s grieving boyfriend and a budding musician from Paris.
"The Wizards of Waverly Place" actress will develop the book as a star vehicle for her. She would play play 17-year old Lennie Walker, a bookworm and band geek who lives in the shadow of her extroverted older sister.
When said sister dies suddenly, Lennie is left to juggle her sister’s grieving boyfriend and a budding musician from Paris.
- 1/24/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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