Best known for kick-starting careers of up-and-coming filmmakers, Park City still makes room for first time directors pushing north of a ripe old age north of 50. Writer of unknown entities America So Beautiful (2001) and Circle of Eight (2009), Brian Horiuchi’s (shot in Detroit of 2012) Parts Per Billion has got a Sundance parka friendly cast (comprised of Teresa Palmer, Penn Badgley, Josh Hartnett, Alexis Bledel, Rosario Dawson with legends Frank Langella and Gena Rowlands). This is surely in completion stages.
Gist: The story of three couples dealing with a reality-shaking event that threatens to tear them apart. Inspired and sometimes blinded by their love, Len (Josh Hartnett), Mia (Rosario Dawson), Andy (Frank Langella), Esther (Gena Rowlands), Anna (Teresa Palmer) and Erik (Penn Badgley) are as flawed and beautiful as any of the billions who are facing this human-made biological disaster.
Production Co./Producers: Benaroya Pictures’ Michael Benaroya (Kill Your Darlings), Bow Street Films...
Gist: The story of three couples dealing with a reality-shaking event that threatens to tear them apart. Inspired and sometimes blinded by their love, Len (Josh Hartnett), Mia (Rosario Dawson), Andy (Frank Langella), Esther (Gena Rowlands), Anna (Teresa Palmer) and Erik (Penn Badgley) are as flawed and beautiful as any of the billions who are facing this human-made biological disaster.
Production Co./Producers: Benaroya Pictures’ Michael Benaroya (Kill Your Darlings), Bow Street Films...
- 11/20/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Bull's Eye Entertainment has optioned Brian Horiuchi's original screenplay The Glass Gun. Glass Gun, described as a contemporary Chinatown, is the story of a man plunged into a mystery in which he must discover who is responsible for killing the friends he cares most about. The project will be produced by Bull's Eye's Cathy Schulman, Bob Yari and Tom Nunan. "Brian is a tremendously talented and gifted screenwriter, and we consider ourselves fortunate to have landed such an intriguing project," Schulman said. "This promises to be a great moviemaking experience, and we will be seeking a top-tier director in the very near future." Horiuchi, repped by the Gersh Agency, Untitled Entertainment's Jennifer Levine and attorney Howard Abramson, most recently set up at Warner Bros. Pictures an untitled thriller as a vehicle for Paul Walker to star in that Nine Yards Entertainment and Mayhem Pictures are producing (HR 4/30). He is writing a remake of This Island Earth for Alphaville Pictures. He co-wrote the indie feature America So Beautiful, which has played at the Berlin and Los Angeles film festivals. Bull's Eye is in production on its inaugural feature, Employee of the Month, starring Matt Dillon, Steve Zahn and Christina Applegate. Its second feature, Thumbsucker, begins production next month.
- 6/19/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up an untitled thriller as a vehicle for Paul Walker to star in and possibly produce. Brian Horiuchi will write the script to the project, which is set in the Philippines with drug runs and modern-day pirates. At the center is a courageous yet reckless leader (Walker) of a drug interdiction squad. The idea was developed by Walker's manager Matt Luber at Nine Yards Entertainment along with Mayhem Pictures topper Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray. Luber, Gray and Ciardi will produce. Mayhem's head of development Jon Mone helped shepherd the project. Warners exec Greg Silverman is overseeing the project. Walker, additionally repped by ICM, next stars in Universal Pictures' 2 Fast 2 Furious. Horiuchi is repped by the Gersh Agency, Untitled Entertainment's Jennifer Levine and attorney Howard Abramson. He is writing a remake of This Island Earth for Alphaville Pictures with Chubb producing. He co-wrote the indie feature America So Beautiful, which has played at the Berlin and Los Angeles film festivals. Ciardi and Gray produced The Rookie and The New Guy. They are in production on the Walt Disney Co.'s The Miracle, starring Kurt Russell.
- 4/30/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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