Heatseeking filmmaker Olmo Schnabel has signed for representation with WME, and with Black Bear for management.
Schnabel’s breakout directorial effort “Pet Shop Days” played both the Venice International Film Festival and SXSW this cycle, scoring distribution from Utopia for a 2024 theatrical release. Starring Jack Irv, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Willem Dafoe and Peter Sarsgaard, the film tells of a drug lord scion on the run from his powerful family. Slumming it in New York in a haze of sex and drugs, he seduces an equally lost young man and pulls him into the city’s underbelly.
The provocative debut also hit festivals in Chicago, Montclair, Morelia, Santa Barbara and Sarasota. Schnabel was also awarded the Leffest Lisboa Film Festival’s Tap Revelation Award.
Schnabel just wrapped “In the Hand of Dante” for production shop Twin, which stars Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Gerard Butler and Gal Gadot. The film is a...
Schnabel’s breakout directorial effort “Pet Shop Days” played both the Venice International Film Festival and SXSW this cycle, scoring distribution from Utopia for a 2024 theatrical release. Starring Jack Irv, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Willem Dafoe and Peter Sarsgaard, the film tells of a drug lord scion on the run from his powerful family. Slumming it in New York in a haze of sex and drugs, he seduces an equally lost young man and pulls him into the city’s underbelly.
The provocative debut also hit festivals in Chicago, Montclair, Morelia, Santa Barbara and Sarasota. Schnabel was also awarded the Leffest Lisboa Film Festival’s Tap Revelation Award.
Schnabel just wrapped “In the Hand of Dante” for production shop Twin, which stars Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Gerard Butler and Gal Gadot. The film is a...
- 4/5/2024
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Filmmaker Olmo Schnabel has assembled a cast of heavyweights for his directorial debut – a romantic thriller about two young men exploring the underbelly of New York and one other.
“Pet Shop Boys” will mark the first time behind the camera for Schnabel, son of Oscar-nommed director Julian Schnabel. Already wrapped, the project is led by newcomers Dario Yazebek Bernal (“The House of the Flowers”) and Jack Irv (“Giants Being Lonely”).
The film follows the impulsive black sheep Alejandro (Bernal) and college-age pet store employee Jack (Irv) who engage in a whirlwind affair that sends them down a rabbit hole of vice.
The men will have pedigreed costars in four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe and the prolific Peter Sarsgaard. Also on board is Emmanuelle Seigner (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”), Jordi Mollà (“Riddick”), Louis Cancelmi (“The Looming Tower”), Camille Rowe (“The Deep House”), Maribel Verdu (“Blancanieves”) and Angela Sarafyan.
“Someone...
“Pet Shop Boys” will mark the first time behind the camera for Schnabel, son of Oscar-nommed director Julian Schnabel. Already wrapped, the project is led by newcomers Dario Yazebek Bernal (“The House of the Flowers”) and Jack Irv (“Giants Being Lonely”).
The film follows the impulsive black sheep Alejandro (Bernal) and college-age pet store employee Jack (Irv) who engage in a whirlwind affair that sends them down a rabbit hole of vice.
The men will have pedigreed costars in four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe and the prolific Peter Sarsgaard. Also on board is Emmanuelle Seigner (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”), Jordi Mollà (“Riddick”), Louis Cancelmi (“The Looming Tower”), Camille Rowe (“The Deep House”), Maribel Verdu (“Blancanieves”) and Angela Sarafyan.
“Someone...
- 1/24/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
ICM Partners represents US rights.
Voltage Pictures continues to grow its virtual Cannes market slate and has acquired international sales rights to art heist thriller American Night Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emile Hirsch, Paz Vega, and Jeremy Piven.
Alessio Della Valle wrote and directed the story about a New York mob boss (Hirsch) with aspirations to become an artist who crosses paths with an art dealer (Meyers) when Andy Warhol’s ’Pink Marilyn’ is stolen.
Meyers and Piven are shown in the first-look still from the film.
Fortunato Cerlino, Michael Madsen, Annabelle Belmondo and the pop star Anastacia round out the key cast on American Night,...
Voltage Pictures continues to grow its virtual Cannes market slate and has acquired international sales rights to art heist thriller American Night Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emile Hirsch, Paz Vega, and Jeremy Piven.
Alessio Della Valle wrote and directed the story about a New York mob boss (Hirsch) with aspirations to become an artist who crosses paths with an art dealer (Meyers) when Andy Warhol’s ’Pink Marilyn’ is stolen.
Meyers and Piven are shown in the first-look still from the film.
Fortunato Cerlino, Michael Madsen, Annabelle Belmondo and the pop star Anastacia round out the key cast on American Night,...
- 6/10/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Drama played Venice in 2019, was selected for Tribeca Festival last year.
Myriad Pictures has added Grear Patterson’s coming-of-age drama Giants Being Lonely to its virtual Cannes market slate and is preparing to kick off talks with international buyers.
Mixed-media artist Patterson directed the 2019 Venice Film Festival and 2020 Tribeca Festival selection from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sam Stillman about a pair of high school baseball players in the American South whose seemingly tranquil existence hides dark secrets that culminate in tragedy.
Jack Irv, Ben Irving and Gabe Fazio star in the 2020 Tribeca Festival selection, produced by Olmo Schnabel.
Myriad...
Myriad Pictures has added Grear Patterson’s coming-of-age drama Giants Being Lonely to its virtual Cannes market slate and is preparing to kick off talks with international buyers.
Mixed-media artist Patterson directed the 2019 Venice Film Festival and 2020 Tribeca Festival selection from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sam Stillman about a pair of high school baseball players in the American South whose seemingly tranquil existence hides dark secrets that culminate in tragedy.
Jack Irv, Ben Irving and Gabe Fazio star in the 2020 Tribeca Festival selection, produced by Olmo Schnabel.
Myriad...
- 6/10/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
One of the biggest difficulties with being a fan of indie cinema is knowing which features are worth your time and which, frankly, aren’t. Thankfully, when it comes to the new drama, “Giants Being Lonely,” you don’t even need to watch the trailer to know this is a quality feature. Instead, you have the stamp of approval from none other than Guillermo del Toro.
Recently, “Giants Being Lonely” had its New York premiere hosted by Metrograph Live Screenings.
Continue reading ‘Giants Being Lonely’ Exclusive Discussion: Guillermo Del Toro Joins The Filmmakers To Talk About This “Beautiful” Film at The Playlist.
Recently, “Giants Being Lonely” had its New York premiere hosted by Metrograph Live Screenings.
Continue reading ‘Giants Being Lonely’ Exclusive Discussion: Guillermo Del Toro Joins The Filmmakers To Talk About This “Beautiful” Film at The Playlist.
- 4/13/2021
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Two Heads Are Better Than One: Patterson Paints a Teenage Wasteland in Striking Debut
In the realm of arthouse cinema, the coming-of-age melodrama is but a stone’s throw away no matter which way one turns. Every now and then, one of them manages to strike an impressionistic chord, reflecting a time and place or way of life which on the surface seems banal but eventually pulls itself apart to reveal the furious tempest of our lifeforce. Such is the case with Giants Being Lonely, the directorial debut of Grear Patterson, who wrote his first draft of the treatment at only nineteen years of age.…...
In the realm of arthouse cinema, the coming-of-age melodrama is but a stone’s throw away no matter which way one turns. Every now and then, one of them manages to strike an impressionistic chord, reflecting a time and place or way of life which on the surface seems banal but eventually pulls itself apart to reveal the furious tempest of our lifeforce. Such is the case with Giants Being Lonely, the directorial debut of Grear Patterson, who wrote his first draft of the treatment at only nineteen years of age.…...
- 4/9/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Movies about American teenage life tend to be jumpy and exuberant, as if they were unfolding in a hive. In the usual high-school comedy, even the most out-of-the-loop dweebs are right there in the jammed hallways, getting tweaked by the mean girls (or mean boys) and hanging out with their fellow quick-witted losers. There are always scenes set in the cafeteria, or at keg parties, or in the back seats of vehicles strewn with friends and enemies. But what these movies tend to leave out — what movies, almost by nature, leave out — is the part of teenage life that’s about drifting around and dreaming and being alone, not just trying to join the crowd but getting the hell away from it.
“Giants Being Lonely” gets that. It’s a drama in the unlikely form of a 73-minute slice-of-life tone poem focused on the interior world of teenage jocks. It...
“Giants Being Lonely” gets that. It’s a drama in the unlikely form of a 73-minute slice-of-life tone poem focused on the interior world of teenage jocks. It...
- 4/6/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The number of films releasing each month is steadily increasing yet again thanks to vaccines being administered in record time and theaters around the country re-opening. Even so, the marketing for the biggest names among them ultimately proves too lackluster to mention even without the below nine ensuring blocking them out. Mortal Kombat (in theaters April 23) never stood a chance.
Bonus: Now that the Oscar nominations are here, the usual suspects in the alt poster community (I’ve collected a bunch in this Twitter list) have begun their annual Best Picture series. There are a ton of great ones out there, but my 2021 favorites are those created by Eileen Steinbach (Sound of Metal below), Matt Needle (Promising Young Woman below), Snollygoster Productions (The Trial of the Chicago Seven below), and Scott Saslow (The Father below). Definitely check out their currently in-progress sets.
Out of the shadows
The sheet for Giants Being Lonely...
Bonus: Now that the Oscar nominations are here, the usual suspects in the alt poster community (I’ve collected a bunch in this Twitter list) have begun their annual Best Picture series. There are a ton of great ones out there, but my 2021 favorites are those created by Eileen Steinbach (Sound of Metal below), Matt Needle (Promising Young Woman below), Snollygoster Productions (The Trial of the Chicago Seven below), and Scott Saslow (The Father below). Definitely check out their currently in-progress sets.
Out of the shadows
The sheet for Giants Being Lonely...
- 4/1/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
"Because the only way to have fun is to stick your neck out and bite the other team's head off...!" Gravitas Ventures has released an official trailer for an indie drama titled Giants Being Lonely, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Grear Patterson. This originally premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival a few years back, and it also played at the Santa Barbara Film Festival earlier this year. A pair of players on a successful high school baseball team, the Giants, come of age in the American South. "Set in a semi-rural landscape of verdant forests and pent-up yearning, the debut feature from lauded mixed-media artist Grear Patterson is a deeply personal story of youth and young manhood, tracing the ups and downs of love, sex, loneliness, friendship, baseball, and death – as the pressure mounts to make it out alive." Damn. This stars Jack Irving, Ben Irving, Lily Gavin,...
- 3/26/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
There have been plenty of coming-of-age films about high school athletes. But most of the time, those films devolve into “Rocky”-esque sports dramas about state championships. In “Giants Being Lonely,” the athletes’ lives off the field are arguably more important than what they do during the games.
As seen in the trailer for “Giants Being Lonely,” the film follows the story of a high school senior that is a star baseball player and also dealing with all the drama that affects so many kids his age.
Continue reading ‘Giants Being Lonely’ Trailer: Grear Patterson’s Venice Debut Shows The Drama Of Being A High School Athlete at The Playlist.
As seen in the trailer for “Giants Being Lonely,” the film follows the story of a high school senior that is a star baseball player and also dealing with all the drama that affects so many kids his age.
Continue reading ‘Giants Being Lonely’ Trailer: Grear Patterson’s Venice Debut Shows The Drama Of Being A High School Athlete at The Playlist.
- 3/26/2021
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
A world premiere at Venice Film Festival, Grear Patterson’s acclaimed debut feature Giants Being Lonely will now arrive stateside next month, on April 6, courtesy of Gravitas Ventures. Led by Jack Irving, Ben Irving, and Lily Gavin, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first trailer. Set in a leafy, semi-rural Southern enclave, the film follows a trio of high school seniors as they navigate their final year together through the ups and downs of love, sex, loneliness, friendship, baseball, and death––as the pressure mounts to make it out alive.
“I hoped to share a feeling of what it is to grow up,” says Grear Patterson. “To shine a light on the strings of universal loneliness. The ones that connect all of us. All of us that made it through our adolescence and finally found solace and acceptance in ourselves and the consequences of those that fray.”
“Giants Being Lonely...
“I hoped to share a feeling of what it is to grow up,” says Grear Patterson. “To shine a light on the strings of universal loneliness. The ones that connect all of us. All of us that made it through our adolescence and finally found solace and acceptance in ourselves and the consequences of those that fray.”
“Giants Being Lonely...
- 3/26/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Beautifully filmed—but ultimately too opaque in its plotting—Grear Patterson’s debut feature “Giants Being Lonely,” which premiered in competition at Venice, is a high school coming-of-age film that ultimately forgets its protagonists in its effort to be stylish. Utilizing first-time actors and an indistinct setting, Patterson’s film is awash with the woozy, dreamlike cinematography that most will call Malick-ian.
Continue reading ‘Giants Being Lonely’: A Beautiful Yet Derivative Coming-Of-Age Story [Venice Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Giants Being Lonely’: A Beautiful Yet Derivative Coming-Of-Age Story [Venice Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/2/2019
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
The first thing you notice about Grear Patterson’s “Giants Being Lonely” is how unbelievably sharp it looks. Hunter Zimny’s cinematography is bright, and it’s crisp, and if you weren’t sitting in a theater you could swear that someone left the motion smoothing on. “Giants Being Lonely” may have the free-floating structure of a Terrence Malick joint, but it hasn’t been filmed through the fog of memory. It’s immediate and specific and painful and impressive.
Set in an unspecified rural alcove of the American South, “Giants Being Lonely” examines the lives in the orbit of a high school baseball team. Their team, the Giants, is talented and successful, thanks mostly to a star pitcher named Bobby (Jack Irving) and, perhaps, to their emotionally abusive Coach, whose overlooked son Adam is on the team too. Not that anyone would notice.
When he’s not pitching, Bobby...
Set in an unspecified rural alcove of the American South, “Giants Being Lonely” examines the lives in the orbit of a high school baseball team. Their team, the Giants, is talented and successful, thanks mostly to a star pitcher named Bobby (Jack Irving) and, perhaps, to their emotionally abusive Coach, whose overlooked son Adam is on the team too. Not that anyone would notice.
When he’s not pitching, Bobby...
- 9/1/2019
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
A formally assured, dramatically wobbly coming-of-ager about golden-limbed teens playing ball, sexing it up and generally having lots of feelings, Giants Being Lonely marks a head-scratching debut from New York mixed media artist Grear Patterson.
The visuals in this drama — set in an unspecified Southern locale of deep green forests, stately white houses and dingy convenience stores — are confident, sometimes ravishing, if not terribly original (think Terrence Malick plus Gus Van Sant, divided by the Dardenne brothers and multiplied by the majority of young-ish American regional-indie directors selected at top festivals). Even when it grows too enamored of its ...
The visuals in this drama — set in an unspecified Southern locale of deep green forests, stately white houses and dingy convenience stores — are confident, sometimes ravishing, if not terribly original (think Terrence Malick plus Gus Van Sant, divided by the Dardenne brothers and multiplied by the majority of young-ish American regional-indie directors selected at top festivals). Even when it grows too enamored of its ...
A formally assured, dramatically wobbly coming-of-ager about golden-limbed teens playing ball, sexing it up and generally having lots of feelings, Giants Being Lonely marks a head-scratching debut from New York mixed media artist Grear Patterson.
The visuals in this drama — set in an unspecified Southern locale of deep green forests, stately white houses and dingy convenience stores — are confident, sometimes ravishing, if not terribly original (think Terrence Malick plus Gus Van Sant, divided by the Dardenne brothers and multiplied by the majority of young-ish American regional-indie directors selected at top festivals). Even when it grows too enamored of its ...
The visuals in this drama — set in an unspecified Southern locale of deep green forests, stately white houses and dingy convenience stores — are confident, sometimes ravishing, if not terribly original (think Terrence Malick plus Gus Van Sant, divided by the Dardenne brothers and multiplied by the majority of young-ish American regional-indie directors selected at top festivals). Even when it grows too enamored of its ...
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