Exclusive: Bankside Films has boarded international sales for Steve Buscemi-directed Venice Film Festival drama The Listener, starring Tessa Thompson (Creed).
Written by Alessandro Camon, the film follows a helpline volunteer who is part of a small army that gets on the phone every night, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken or hopeless. Above is a first clip for the movie, which will world premiere next week as the closing film in the Venice Days section before being screened in Toronto.
Creed and Passing star Thompson plays protagonist Beth and is the sole onscreen performer, supported by voice-only cast, comprising Logan Marshall-Green, Derek Cecil, Margaret Cho, Blu Del Barrio, Ricky Velez, Alia Shawkat, Jamie Hector, Casey Wilson, Bobby Soto and Rebecca Hall.
Bankside Films will be introducing the feature to buyers at both the Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival, and will be handling foreign sales,...
Written by Alessandro Camon, the film follows a helpline volunteer who is part of a small army that gets on the phone every night, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken or hopeless. Above is a first clip for the movie, which will world premiere next week as the closing film in the Venice Days section before being screened in Toronto.
Creed and Passing star Thompson plays protagonist Beth and is the sole onscreen performer, supported by voice-only cast, comprising Logan Marshall-Green, Derek Cecil, Margaret Cho, Blu Del Barrio, Ricky Velez, Alia Shawkat, Jamie Hector, Casey Wilson, Bobby Soto and Rebecca Hall.
Bankside Films will be introducing the feature to buyers at both the Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival, and will be handling foreign sales,...
- 9/1/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Clayton Cardenas (Mayans M.C.) has signed on to star opposite Taraji P. Henson in Alessandro Camon’s drama Time Alone, based on his play of the same name, which will enter production in Los Angeles in July.
In the film, Cardenas will play Gabriel, a young man convicted of killing a gang rival. His journey intersects with Anna (Henson), the mother of a police officer murdered in the line of duty, as they both end up in the world’s most lonely places: a solitary confinement prison cell, and the silent house of a grieving mother.
Cardenas was originally slated to play Gabriel on stage when the Belle Rêve production premiered at Los Angeles Theatre Center, before scheduling complications arose. Time Alone went on to receive the Stage Raw Award and Critics Award for Best Play, along with other nominations. Emanuel Morretti’s Motus Studios will finance and...
In the film, Cardenas will play Gabriel, a young man convicted of killing a gang rival. His journey intersects with Anna (Henson), the mother of a police officer murdered in the line of duty, as they both end up in the world’s most lonely places: a solitary confinement prison cell, and the silent house of a grieving mother.
Cardenas was originally slated to play Gabriel on stage when the Belle Rêve production premiered at Los Angeles Theatre Center, before scheduling complications arose. Time Alone went on to receive the Stage Raw Award and Critics Award for Best Play, along with other nominations. Emanuel Morretti’s Motus Studios will finance and...
- 5/3/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar nominated multi-hyphenate Taraji P. Henson is set to star in Time Alone, adapted from Alessandro Camon’s award-winning play, with Camon slated to direct. Being the Ricardo producer Todd Black will produce along with Suzanne Warren. Emanuele Moretti’s Motus Studios will Finance with Oakhurst Entertainment’s Jai Khanna and Marina Grasic. Verve Ventures and Motus will co-represent domestic rights.
“I launched Tph Entertainment because I’m deeply invested in finding projects that challenge audiences to think differently and offer new perspectives.” Said Henson. “With Time Alone, Alessandro Camon’s unique outlook on social injustices and a fractured society offers a new look at empathy and compassion, which is more relevant now than ever. I’m honored to collaborate with Alessandro and this team of producers to bring his heartfelt play to the screen and to share this story with a wider audience.”
Based on the award-winning play of the same name,...
“I launched Tph Entertainment because I’m deeply invested in finding projects that challenge audiences to think differently and offer new perspectives.” Said Henson. “With Time Alone, Alessandro Camon’s unique outlook on social injustices and a fractured society offers a new look at empathy and compassion, which is more relevant now than ever. I’m honored to collaborate with Alessandro and this team of producers to bring his heartfelt play to the screen and to share this story with a wider audience.”
Based on the award-winning play of the same name,...
- 3/16/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Emmy winner Steve Buscemi has wrapped production on his newest feature The Listener, starring Emmy nominee Tessa Thompson, Deadline has learned.
The contained film written by Oscar nominee Alessandro Camon (The Messenger) features only one on-screen role. It tells the story of Beth (Thompson), a helpline volunteer who is part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, hopeless, worried.
Over the last year, the tide has become a tsunami, and as Beth goes through her shift, the stakes rise: is this the night she will lose someone? Save someone? Put a mind at ease? Make someone smile?
Eventually, Beth’s own story comes to light, revealing why she does it. All along we remain with her: listening, comforting, connecting – patching the world back together, one stitch at a time…...
The contained film written by Oscar nominee Alessandro Camon (The Messenger) features only one on-screen role. It tells the story of Beth (Thompson), a helpline volunteer who is part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, hopeless, worried.
Over the last year, the tide has become a tsunami, and as Beth goes through her shift, the stakes rise: is this the night she will lose someone? Save someone? Put a mind at ease? Make someone smile?
Eventually, Beth’s own story comes to light, revealing why she does it. All along we remain with her: listening, comforting, connecting – patching the world back together, one stitch at a time…...
- 10/12/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The riots may be over, but the ongoing aftershocks continue to rock the ladies of Litchfield, following season six's heartbreaking finale. A guilty conviction, a crumbled friendship, and a cold plate of hard injustice serve up the opening of Orange Is the New Black's seventh and final season. Two of its most prominent original characters, and arguably a fan-favorite duo, remain at odds. The beloved friendship between Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson (Danielle Brooks) and Cindy Hayes (Adrienne C. Moore) is seemingly no more. But is it really done for good?
Taking us back to season five, one of the prison's most infamous guards, Desi Piscatella (Brad William Henke), is accidentally shot by his own men. In an effort to clean up the mess, the heat turns to the inmates during an FBI investigation, ultimately leaving Taystee sitting in the hot seat. Two of her closest friends, Cindy and Suzanne Warren...
Taking us back to season five, one of the prison's most infamous guards, Desi Piscatella (Brad William Henke), is accidentally shot by his own men. In an effort to clean up the mess, the heat turns to the inmates during an FBI investigation, ultimately leaving Taystee sitting in the hot seat. Two of her closest friends, Cindy and Suzanne Warren...
- 7/26/2019
- by Zack Peter
- Popsugar.com
Juliette Harrisson Jul 23, 2019
Ahead of season 7, we count down the most heart-wrenching and thought provoking episodes of the show so far. Spoilers!
This article contains spoilers. It comes from Den of Geek UK.
There are few shows on television that cover as many different tones and scenes of mood whiplash as Orange Is the New Black. Officially billed as a "comedy-drama," the show embraces everything from broad slightly surreal comedy – Kate Mulgrew’s famous chicken speech in season one being a prime example – to serious drama that takes on life and death issues from the real world. Uzo Aduba has even won Emmys in the both the Comedy and Drama categories for playing Suzanne Warren.
No episode of Orange Is the New Black is entirely without humor, but some lean more heavily on the comedy than others, and many have produced powerful drama. Those episodes that really pack a punch do so,...
Ahead of season 7, we count down the most heart-wrenching and thought provoking episodes of the show so far. Spoilers!
This article contains spoilers. It comes from Den of Geek UK.
There are few shows on television that cover as many different tones and scenes of mood whiplash as Orange Is the New Black. Officially billed as a "comedy-drama," the show embraces everything from broad slightly surreal comedy – Kate Mulgrew’s famous chicken speech in season one being a prime example – to serious drama that takes on life and death issues from the real world. Uzo Aduba has even won Emmys in the both the Comedy and Drama categories for playing Suzanne Warren.
No episode of Orange Is the New Black is entirely without humor, but some lean more heavily on the comedy than others, and many have produced powerful drama. Those episodes that really pack a punch do so,...
- 7/23/2019
- Den of Geek
“Orange Is the New Black” star Uzo Aduba says her character, Suzanne Warren a.k.a. “Crazy Eyes,” is finally growing up on the show’s sixth season.
“I think this season for Suzanne, it feels like she is choosing for herself for the first time,” Aduba said in an interview with TheWrap. “I think we’re watching Suzanne, this season, grow up a little bit in that way.”
The hardest scene for Aduba this season, she said, was in episode 1 when Suzanne was being interrogated and all she was trying to do was voice her frustration that she needed her medication.
Also Read: 'Orange Is the New Black': Here's Where We Left Off Before Season 6
“I could feel her frustration,” she said. “I feel like that was the top level of frustration I felt with her over the course of the six seasons — where she feels unheard.
“I think this season for Suzanne, it feels like she is choosing for herself for the first time,” Aduba said in an interview with TheWrap. “I think we’re watching Suzanne, this season, grow up a little bit in that way.”
The hardest scene for Aduba this season, she said, was in episode 1 when Suzanne was being interrogated and all she was trying to do was voice her frustration that she needed her medication.
Also Read: 'Orange Is the New Black': Here's Where We Left Off Before Season 6
“I could feel her frustration,” she said. “I feel like that was the top level of frustration I felt with her over the course of the six seasons — where she feels unheard.
- 8/8/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Hugo Weaving has joined the cast of Mel Gibson's star-studded Australian film Hacksaw Ridge.
Weaving will join Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Vince Vaughn, Rachel Griffiths and Richard Roxburgh in the film, which is now in production.
Hacksaw Ridge is the true story of conscientious objector, Desmond Doss (Garfield), who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing a gun..
Believing that the War was just but killing was nevertheless wrong, he was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon.
Doss single-handedly evacuated the wounded near enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. He is the only conscientious objector to ever win the Us Medal of Honour.
Weaving will play Garfield's son, Tom Doss.
Producers of the film include Bill Mechanic, Bruce Davey, Paul Currie, David Permut and executive Producer,...
Weaving will join Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Vince Vaughn, Rachel Griffiths and Richard Roxburgh in the film, which is now in production.
Hacksaw Ridge is the true story of conscientious objector, Desmond Doss (Garfield), who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing a gun..
Believing that the War was just but killing was nevertheless wrong, he was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon.
Doss single-handedly evacuated the wounded near enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. He is the only conscientious objector to ever win the Us Medal of Honour.
Weaving will play Garfield's son, Tom Doss.
Producers of the film include Bill Mechanic, Bruce Davey, Paul Currie, David Permut and executive Producer,...
- 10/19/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Out of more than 138 films screened, a select nine managed to walk away with honors on the closing night of the 17th edition of Dances With Films. "Blood Punch," an indie horror flick directed by Madellaine Parson, walked away with two audience awards. Parson has primarily written for popular children's television programs including "Power Rangers R.P.M.," "Unfabulous, "Lilo & Stitch: The Series" and "Kim Possible." Now in its fourth year, the Industry Choice Award (Ica) was given to the Hungarian vampire drama "The Curse of Styria." The jury deciding on this year's Ica recipient consisted of Steven Friedlander (Evp, Theatrical Distribution for CBS Films), Steve Wegner (Alcon Entertainment), Stephanie Denton (New Cadence Entertainment) and Suzanne Warren (Pandemonium). For the full list of winners see below: Grand Jury Award (Competition Shorts) Celluloid Dreams Writer/Dir: Jonathan Dillon Prize: Winner Receives Academy Qualifying Theatrical Run from...
- 6/11/2014
- by Shipra Gupta
- Indiewire
Be the first to see Mel Gibson’s new suspense thriller, Edge of Darkness, in NYC on Tuesday, January 26th, courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and Latino Review! Just follow the instructions below and enter our exclusive code. Your ticket will admit two, so bring a friend!“Edge of Darkness” is an emotionally charged thriller set at the intersection of politics and big business. Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, twenty-four year old Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter’s secret life and her killing. His investigation leads him into a dangerous looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder – and to shadowy government operative...
- 1/22/2010
- LRMonline.com
Dark Hero Studios partners David Hayter and Benedict Carver have joined with Pandemonium's Bill Mechanic to turn the comic book "Deadworld" into a zombie feature franchise, says Variety . Hayter ( Watchmen ) will write the screenplay, and he and Mechanic will produce with Framelight's Robert L. Robinson Jr. and Jeffrey D. Erb. Carver and Pandemonium's Suzanne Warren will be executive producers along with Gary Reed, who wrote and co-created the comic. "Deadworld" veers from the popular zombie mythology of depicting an apocalypse in which humans are overrun by flesh-eating corpses. "Deadworld" picks up four months after that event, where the Dead overtake the Earth, with humans few and far between. The protagonist is King Zombie, a Harley-riding corpse...
- 6/11/2009
- Comingsoon.net
Dark Hero Studios partners David Hayter and Benedict Carver have joined with Pandemonium's Bill Mechanic to turn the comic book "Deadworld" into a zombie feature franchise, says Variety . Hayter ( Watchmen ) will write the screenplay, and he and Mechanic will produce with Framelight's Robert L. Robinson Jr. and Jeffrey D. Erb. Carver and Pandemonium's Suzanne Warren will be executive producers along with Gary Reed, who wrote and co-created the comic. "Deadworld" veers from the popular zombie mythology of depicting an apocalypse in which humans are overrun by flesh-eating corpses. "Deadworld" picks up four months after that event, where the Dead overtake the Earth, with humans few and far between. The protagonist is King Zombie, a Harley-riding corpse...
- 6/11/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Dark Hero Studios' writer David "Watchmen" Hayter and Benedict Carver have teamed with Pandemonium producer Bill "Coraline" Mechanic to adapt the comic book Deadworld into a feature franchise. Hayter and Mechanic will produce with Framelight's Robert L. Robinson Jr. and Jeffrey D. Erb with Carver and Pandemonium's Suzanne Warren executive producing with Deadworld co-creator Gary Reed. Hayter will also 'conceive and design' the look of the upcoming film. "I am a huge fan of zombie mythology", said Hayter. Currently published by Image Comics, the comic book series follows survivors in a post-apocalyptic scenario brought on by zombie attacks. Originally published by Arrow Comics in 1987, Deadworld was written/created by Stuart Kerr and Ralph Griffith, illustrated by Vince Locke. Arrow eventually ceased publication, selling all titles to Gary Reed's Caliber Comics. By issue 12, Reed took over as the main writer. The series returned to print in 2005 through Image Comics, with...
- 6/11/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
Warner Bros. has picked up the North American rights to "Edge of Darkness," the Mel Gibson thriller directed by Martin Campbell, from Graham King's Gk Films.
Based on a BBC miniseries, "Darkness" sees Gibson return to the big screen for the first time since 2002's "Signs," playing a homicide cop whose 24-year-old daughter is murdered on the steps of his home. His search for her killers leads him to a world of corporate coverups and government collusion, causing a CIA operative (Ray Winstone) to be sent to clean up the evidence.
King and Michael Wearing, the producer of the BBC miniseries, are producers. Executive producers are Gail Lyon, E. Bennett Walsh, Tim Headington, Dan Rissner, Suzanne Warren and David Thompson.
The film is in post, having completed principal photography in November. No release date has been set.
Gibson has strong ties to Warners, having made movies like the "Lethal Weapon...
Based on a BBC miniseries, "Darkness" sees Gibson return to the big screen for the first time since 2002's "Signs," playing a homicide cop whose 24-year-old daughter is murdered on the steps of his home. His search for her killers leads him to a world of corporate coverups and government collusion, causing a CIA operative (Ray Winstone) to be sent to clean up the evidence.
King and Michael Wearing, the producer of the BBC miniseries, are producers. Executive producers are Gail Lyon, E. Bennett Walsh, Tim Headington, Dan Rissner, Suzanne Warren and David Thompson.
The film is in post, having completed principal photography in November. No release date has been set.
Gibson has strong ties to Warners, having made movies like the "Lethal Weapon...
- 2/18/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Maggie Grace is in negotiations to star opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alec Baldwin in Odd Lot Entertainment's The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Based on Melissa Bank's best-seller, the story chronicles a young woman's journey through the New York publishing world and her relationship with one of the industry's luminaries as her father battles a terminal illness. Grace will play Chloe, a grounded, down-to-earth swimsuit designer and best friend of Gellar's character. Marc Klein is directing from a screenplay he penned. Deborah Del Prete, Gigi Pritzker and Darryl Taja are producing, while Suzanne Warren and Robert Sturm are executive producing.
- 5/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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