Exclusive: After taking on Sigmund Freud in Sony Pictures Classics’ Freud’s Last Session, Academy Award winner has been set to star in Eyes in the Trees, a reimagining of the classic H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, from director Timothy Woodward Jr.
In the film, Hopkins portrays a geneticist who has been isolated after the government stopped funding his research following the violent outbreak of one of his test subjects. Later, two renowned filmmakers and their crew embark on a journey of discovery, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for not just themselves, but the entire human race.
A seminal work of science fiction published in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau has inspired numerous screen adaptations over the years, including 1932’s Island of Lost Souls and 1977’s The Island of Dr. Moreau starring Burt Lancaster. Most famous among them is the 1996 film of the same name,...
In the film, Hopkins portrays a geneticist who has been isolated after the government stopped funding his research following the violent outbreak of one of his test subjects. Later, two renowned filmmakers and their crew embark on a journey of discovery, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for not just themselves, but the entire human race.
A seminal work of science fiction published in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau has inspired numerous screen adaptations over the years, including 1932’s Island of Lost Souls and 1977’s The Island of Dr. Moreau starring Burt Lancaster. Most famous among them is the 1996 film of the same name,...
- 3/6/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Jeremy O'Keefe's sparsely plotted second feature reiterates a famous Talking Heads question of midlife existentialism ("You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?") but doesn't offer enough in the way of subtext or mise-en-scène to fashion an answer. With zits-and-all unsentimentality, Glee's Jessalyn Gilsig produces and stars as Anna, a 40-ish Delaware skin care rep whose obsessive vanity and crippling self-esteem issues have degenerated into lunchtime bulimia, a too-comfortable place in a loveless marriage, and an awkward estrangement from her sister and cancer-ridden mom. On the same day she loses her job, Anna witnesses a botched gas-station robbery and double homicide, then makes a rare impulsive decision to take the money and run, which lands h...
- 1/29/2014
- Village Voice
Watch the trailer and see the first poster for Jeremy O'Keefe's Somewhere Slow featuring Jessalyn Gilsig (Vikings as Siggy) alongside Graham Patrick Martin. Jeremy O'Keefe directs and writes. Michael Anderson, Christopher Sepulveda, Gilsig and O'Keefe produce. The film follows Anna Thompson, played by former Glee star Gilsig, whom after witnessing a fatal convenience store robbery, leaves behind her unfulfilled relationships with her husband and mother for the unknown. Along the way, she is joined by Travis, a teenage drifter with his own tainted past.
- 12/19/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival (Bff) wrapped on Sunday and the winners have been announced. The awards were spread across a wide pool of winners, but Cary McClelland was a big winner, taking home both the Grand Chameleon Award and Best Documentary for "Without Shepherds." Jeremy O'Keefe's "Somewhere Slow" won Best Narrative Feature. Best New Director went to Nicole Gomez Fisher for "Sleeping With The Fishes." Lastly, the Audience Award went to Amy Finkel's "Furever" and Dan Eberle's "Cut to Black." The festival presented 106 films from 24 different countries including 33 World Premieres, 26 USA Premieres, 20 East Coast Premieres and 22 New York Premieres. The films were selected from over 2,000 submissions coming from 111 countries.Grand Chameleon Award Cary McClelland ("Without Shepherds") Best In CATEGORYNarrative Feature -- Jeremy O'Keefe ("Somewhere Slow")Documentary -- Cary McClelland ("Without Shepherds")Short Subject -- David Figueroa García ("Scoundrels...
- 6/11/2013
- by Madeline Raynor
- Indiewire
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