Once again micro-budget filmmaker Frank V. Ross has shone his camera lens on the people that you see when you're walking down the street, the blue collar 9-5ers living paycheck to paycheck, that you see each day. Bloomin Mud Shuffle features by far his biggest cast of known actors but the film maintains Ross's insight, intellect and fly-on-the-wall sensibilities.
- 3/23/2017
- by Michael McWay
- Hammer to Nail
Film Acquisition Rundown: IFC Buys ‘Rebel in the Rye,’ Gunpowder & Sky Grabs ‘Little Boxes’ and More
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– IFC Films has picked up North American distribution rights to the J. D. Salinger drama “Rebel in the Rye,” which stars Nicholas Hoult as J.D. Salinger. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It will receive a theatrical release in the fall of 2017.
The film was written and directed by Danny Strong, and follows the early years of Salinger’s storied career. It also stars Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson and Zoey Deutch. The news was first reported by Variety.
– Gunpowder & Sky Distribution has acquired Rob Meyer’s “Little Boxes,” with a theatrical release set for April 14. Written by Annie J. Howell, the film stars Melanie Lynskey, Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Oona Laurence and Janeane Garofalo.
– IFC Films has picked up North American distribution rights to the J. D. Salinger drama “Rebel in the Rye,” which stars Nicholas Hoult as J.D. Salinger. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It will receive a theatrical release in the fall of 2017.
The film was written and directed by Danny Strong, and follows the early years of Salinger’s storied career. It also stars Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson and Zoey Deutch. The news was first reported by Variety.
– Gunpowder & Sky Distribution has acquired Rob Meyer’s “Little Boxes,” with a theatrical release set for April 14. Written by Annie J. Howell, the film stars Melanie Lynskey, Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Oona Laurence and Janeane Garofalo.
- 3/3/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The annual Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You Screening Series, co-presented by The Museum of Modern Art, Filmmaker Magazine, and Ifp kicks off December 11th at MoMA. The series, now in its tenth year, singles out outstanding films from the film festival circuit that are currently not available in theaters and deserve a wider audience. Each film will screen twice at MoMA from December 11-14. Most screenings will be followed by Q & A’s with the directors and additional talent. The selected films are Bloomin Mud Shuffle, directed by Frank V. Ross; Bob and the Trees, directed by Diego Ongaro; H., directed by Daniel […]...
- 11/25/2015
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The annual Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You Screening Series, co-presented by The Museum of Modern Art, Filmmaker Magazine, and Ifp kicks off December 11th at MoMA. The series, now in its tenth year, singles out outstanding films from the film festival circuit that are currently not available in theaters and deserve a wider audience. Each film will screen twice at MoMA from December 11-14. Most screenings will be followed by Q & A’s with the directors and additional talent. The selected films are Bloomin Mud Shuffle, directed by Frank V. Ross; Bob and the Trees, directed by Diego Ongaro; H., directed by Daniel […]...
- 11/25/2015
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
For my money, Frank V. Ross is one of the most inventive, witty and honest low-budget filmmakers that major festival land has neglected to embrace. With the exception of the SXSW-premiering Audrey the Trainwreck, Ross’s films have toured the regional circuit like best kept secrets, with their structurally complex, yet casually rendered studies of modern relationships serving as any program’s unmitigated highpoint. His latest, Bloomin Mud Shuffle, which premieres tonight at the Wisconsin Film Festival, concerns Lonnie (James Ransone), a vaguely alcoholic house painter, and the object of his unsteady affection, Monica (Alexia Rasmussen). Such a distilled synopsis scarcely does justice to Ross’s execution, with its […]...
- 4/10/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
For my money, Frank V. Ross is one of the most inventive, witty and honest low-budget filmmakers that major festival land has neglected to embrace. With the exception of the SXSW-premiering Audrey the Trainwreck, Ross’s films have toured the regional circuit like best kept secrets, with their structurally complex, yet casually rendered studies of modern relationships serving as any program’s unmitigated highpoint. His latest, Bloomin Mud Shuffle, which premieres tonight at the Wisconsin Film Festival, concerns Lonnie (James Ransone), a vaguely alcoholic house painter, and the object of his unsteady affection, Monica (Alexia Rasmussen). Such a distilled synopsis scarcely does justice to Ross’s execution, with its […]...
- 4/10/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Whether you are a filmmaker, or one of the Sundance programmers whose task it is to identify the films that make up a line-up, it is indeed the most wonderful, panic-filled and nerve racking time of the year. The 31st edition of the Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 22nd with Park City and Salt Lake City playing host to some of the more innovative, thought-provoking narrative and non-fiction films of 2015. Last year, a Jenga tall order of 4,057 features and 8,161 shorts were submitted. Now let’s think about those numbers for a second.
Twenty years ago, Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb claimed the Grand Jury Prize Documentary award, Living in Oblivion‘s Tom Dicillo was honored with the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, and Edward Burns’ micro-budgeted The Brothers McMullen (there is a read-worthy, lively, eleventh hour account on how it was submitted to the fest in Ted Hope’s “Hope...
Twenty years ago, Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb claimed the Grand Jury Prize Documentary award, Living in Oblivion‘s Tom Dicillo was honored with the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, and Edward Burns’ micro-budgeted The Brothers McMullen (there is a read-worthy, lively, eleventh hour account on how it was submitted to the fest in Ted Hope’s “Hope...
- 11/17/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
It has been a remarkable, four-star review type of year for Alex Ross Perry, and 2014 ain’t over yet with the the Indie Spirits Awards nominations just around the corner. In the same boat/time-frame as Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, Listen Up Philip was delivered in a thirty minutes or your pizza is free mad dash. The filmmaker didn’t waste much time between projects sending Queen of Earth into orbit mid summer, and nor did he spend much time making new friends as his regular contributors on the tech side in Composer Keegan DeWitt, Cinematographer Sean Price Williams, Editor Robert Greene and Perry muses Elisabeth Moss, Keith Poulson and Kate Lyn Sheil were joined by Ross film newbies Patrick Fugit, Katherine Waterston and stop making indie films hero Kentucker Audley. Good news: this is inspired by classic Roman Polanski films.
Gist: This is a psychological thriller about two women...
Gist: This is a psychological thriller about two women...
- 11/13/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Blumhouse Productions is best known for its contributions to the horror genre, with such frightfests as Sinister, Insidious and The Purge in its body of work. But if you take one look at its upcoming slate, you’ll begin to understand that Blumhouse is looking to broaden its horizons in a big way. One of the most curious projects in the works over at the studio is a revenge Western called In A Valley of Violence. Though Ti West (The House of the Devil) scribed and also directed, the film still seems more than a little out of the way for the horror-leaning studio. That doesn’t mean, however, that we’re not looking forward to it, particularly with the cast West has lined up. Today, James Ransone joined the film, which already boasts Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, Karen Gillan and Taissa Farmiga.
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- 6/5/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
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