Mudbound helmer Dee Rees is set to direct An Uncivil War, a drama chronicling the battle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The fight saw activist Gloria Steinem, lawyer Florynce "Flo" Kennedy and other leaders of the women's movement up against conservative organizer Phyllis Schlafly.
FilmNation is fully financing the film and is producing alongside Peter Heller, with FilmNation's vp development Ashley Fox overseeing on behalf of the company. Rees will direct from a new version of David Kukoff’s original script. Principal casting is already underway, with production set to begin in early 2018.
"I'm particularly interested in digging into the messiness...
FilmNation is fully financing the film and is producing alongside Peter Heller, with FilmNation's vp development Ashley Fox overseeing on behalf of the company. Rees will direct from a new version of David Kukoff’s original script. Principal casting is already underway, with production set to begin in early 2018.
"I'm particularly interested in digging into the messiness...
- 10/3/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Special effects legend Rick Baker formally announced his retirement this week. Baker cited a “cheap and fast” philosophy in the movie industry that was at odds with his desire to ensure things got done right as the catalyst for his retirement. Baker’s work stretches across several prominent films, from An American Werewolf in London to Videodrome to The Rocketeer to Ed Wood to Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes and Tropic Thunder. Baker also worked on the Men in Black films and Michael Jackson’s famous “Thriller” music video. The 2014 feature Maleficent will now stand as his last work.
Baker will, however, be auctioning off his famous work via The Prop Store, beginning today.
Jessica Chastain and Amy Schumer are poised to work together on a new comedy. The Tracking Board has reported that Chastain, known mostly for her dramatic work in features such as The Tree of Life and Zero Dark Thirty,...
Baker will, however, be auctioning off his famous work via The Prop Store, beginning today.
Jessica Chastain and Amy Schumer are poised to work together on a new comedy. The Tracking Board has reported that Chastain, known mostly for her dramatic work in features such as The Tree of Life and Zero Dark Thirty,...
- 5/30/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Exclusive: Peter Heller’s novel The Painter is packaging up with The Fighter scribe Paul Tamasy writing the script and Gabriela Cowperthwaite directing. She made a splash with the award-winning docu Blackfish. Tamasy will produce. The Painter focuses on a famous artist with a blinding temper who returns to a quiet life after serving time for shooting a man in a Sante Fe bar. That is until he sees a hunting guide beating a small horse, and the artist soon finds himself on…...
- 5/28/2015
- Deadline
Sneak Peek a trailer supporting author Peter Heller's 2012 'post-apocalyptic' novel "The Dog Stars", recently acquired by Constantin Film for producers Margo Klewans and Robert Kulzer to develop for the big screen :
"...'Hig' survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife and friends are gone and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog.
"In his 1956 'Cessna', Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life–something like his old life–exists beyond the airport.
"Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return–not enough fuel to get him home–following the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But...
"...'Hig' survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife and friends are gone and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog.
"In his 1956 'Cessna', Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life–something like his old life–exists beyond the airport.
"Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return–not enough fuel to get him home–following the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But...
- 12/8/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
Constantin Films has acquired The Dog Stars. The production company has secured the film rights to Peter Heller's new novel, reports Variety. The tale centres around a man whose life is devastated by a flu epidemic that kills his family and everyone he knows apart from his dog and a gun-crazy neighbour. He lives in an abandoned aircraft hanger until one day he receives a message of hope that (more)...
- 12/7/2012
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
Constantin Film has picked up the rights to Peter Heller’s post-apocalyptic novel The Dog Stars. The book tells the story of a pilot who lives in a time when a virus has wiped out the world’s population. The pilot, his old dog and neighborhood survive the virus and are left to deal with the “encroaching dangers.”
Here’s an official description of the book:
Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that...
Here’s an official description of the book:
Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that...
- 12/7/2012
- by Laura Frances
- LRMonline.com
Best known as an "adventure" writer contributing to the likes of National Geographic and Outside, Peter Heller embarked on a different sort of professional journey last year, and wrote a novel. The result of that detour, post-apocalyptic novel The Dog Stars, has just been picked up for a film adaptation by Constantin.The German production and distribution company is the home of the Resident Evil series, so they're no strangers to the end of civilisation as we know it. But there are no zombies or corrupt corporations in The Dog Stars; the premise is that 99% of the world's population has been wiped out by a flu pandemic. So far, so The Stand.The story centres on a survivor, Hig, who ekes an existence based out of an old aircraft hangar, accompanied by his dog Jasper and his crazed ex-military neighbour Bangley. In one of his frequent short foraging trips in his vintage Cessna,...
- 12/7/2012
- EmpireOnline
Jumanji
"Stranger Than Fiction" and "Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium" scribe Zach Helm is set to pen the reimagining of "Jumanji" at Sony Pictures.
Matt Tolmach and Bill Teitler are producing this new adaptation of the Chris Van Allsburg book about a magical board game that unleashes jungle forces into our world.
Dog Stars
Constantin Film has acquired film rights to the Peter Heller's apocalyptic novel "The Dog Stars." Robert Kulzer and Margo Klewans will produce.
Set after a global pandemic has wiped out much of the populous, the story follows a pilot, his old dog and his neighbor who survive in an airport hangar, fending off encroaching dangers.
Armada
"Ready Player One" author Ernie Cline has sold feature film rights to his high-concept next novel, "Armada," to Universal, Bluegrass Films and Farah Films.
Based on a 20-page proposal, all that's known of the story is that it deals...
"Stranger Than Fiction" and "Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium" scribe Zach Helm is set to pen the reimagining of "Jumanji" at Sony Pictures.
Matt Tolmach and Bill Teitler are producing this new adaptation of the Chris Van Allsburg book about a magical board game that unleashes jungle forces into our world.
Dog Stars
Constantin Film has acquired film rights to the Peter Heller's apocalyptic novel "The Dog Stars." Robert Kulzer and Margo Klewans will produce.
Set after a global pandemic has wiped out much of the populous, the story follows a pilot, his old dog and his neighbor who survive in an airport hangar, fending off encroaching dangers.
Armada
"Ready Player One" author Ernie Cline has sold feature film rights to his high-concept next novel, "Armada," to Universal, Bluegrass Films and Farah Films.
Based on a 20-page proposal, all that's known of the story is that it deals...
- 12/7/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Resident Evil producers Constantin Film Produktion howl with Dog Stars Journalist Peter Heller's post-apocalyptic debut novel The Dog Stars which made San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times' bestseller lists, tells of a man and his dog who live in an abandoned airport hangar after a virus wipes out most of mankind. After hearing a radio transmission, he heads off and learns that things are better and worse out in the world. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Robert Kulzer, co-president of Constantin Film will produce alongside Margo Klewans...
- 12/6/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Constantin Film has plans to bring to the big screen Peter Heller's recent novel The Dog Stars , Variety reports. Published earlier this year, the post-apocalyptic tale is officially described as follows: Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life.something like his old life.exists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no...
- 12/6/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Teshome Gabriel, a longtime professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and an internationally recognized authority on Third World and post-colonial cinema, died June 15 of a heart attack at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Panorama City, Calif. He was 70.
A pioneering scholar and activist, Gabriel had taught cinema and media studies at TFT since 1974 and was closely associated with UCLA's African Studies Center.
"He was a brilliant, gracious, elegant and generous man," said Teri Schwartz, dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. "Teshome was a consummate professional and a truly beloved faculty member at TFT. He will be greatly missed by all of us."
Born in 1939 in Ethiopia, Gabriel came to the U.S. in 1962, earning degrees in political science and educational media from the University of Utah before being hired as a lecturer at Tft in 1974. He went on to receive his master's in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1979 from UCLA and became a full tenured professor in 1995.
A pioneering scholar and activist, Gabriel had taught cinema and media studies at TFT since 1974 and was closely associated with UCLA's African Studies Center.
"He was a brilliant, gracious, elegant and generous man," said Teri Schwartz, dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. "Teshome was a consummate professional and a truly beloved faculty member at TFT. He will be greatly missed by all of us."
Born in 1939 in Ethiopia, Gabriel came to the U.S. in 1962, earning degrees in political science and educational media from the University of Utah before being hired as a lecturer at Tft in 1974. He went on to receive his master's in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1979 from UCLA and became a full tenured professor in 1995.
- 6/21/2010
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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