Fraudster Jason Van Eman, who held himself out as an independent entertainment producer in order to defaud investors, was sentenced Thursday to 262 months in prison by a federal court judge in Miami, Florida.
The 44-year-old former actor and alleged producer from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was sentenced for his role in a financing scheme that defrauded investors out of more than 60 million. The defendant also was ordered to pay certain victims over 9 million in restitution.
The sentence comes after a federal jury in May found Van Eman guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering.
According to the evidence, Van Eman held himself out as a film producer and financier, offering to fund independent motion pictures, Broadway shows, music festivals, and other productions. Van Eman promised the victims (producers and others seeking financing), that his partner (a coconspirator named Benjamin McConley) would match any cash that the victims contributed to their projects.
The 44-year-old former actor and alleged producer from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was sentenced for his role in a financing scheme that defrauded investors out of more than 60 million. The defendant also was ordered to pay certain victims over 9 million in restitution.
The sentence comes after a federal jury in May found Van Eman guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering.
According to the evidence, Van Eman held himself out as a film producer and financier, offering to fund independent motion pictures, Broadway shows, music festivals, and other productions. Van Eman promised the victims (producers and others seeking financing), that his partner (a coconspirator named Benjamin McConley) would match any cash that the victims contributed to their projects.
- 7/23/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The cast is made up of Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company Members Ace Anderson Inherit the Wind, Public Works Dallas The Tempest, A Christmas Carol 2016 as Hud and Tiana Kaye Johnson Hood The Robin Hood Musical Adventure, Electra, A Christmas Carol 2016 as Sheila. In addition, the cast includes Monique Abry as Crissy, Kia Nicole Boyer as Jeanie, Jaime Cepero NBC's Smash as Claude, Ayanna Edwards Dreamgirls as Dionne, Chris Peluso London's Miss Saigon, Broadway's Wicked as Berger and Christopher Llewyn Ramirez Hood The Robin Hood Musical Adventure as Woof. The Tribe is made up of Kevin Curtis, Joey Donoian, Kelsey Leigh Ervi, Kyle Igneczi, Valton Jackson, Quintin Jones Jr., Laura Lites, Taylor Nash, Mayte Natalio and Gabrielle Reyes Bella An American Tall Tale, Dreamgirls.
- 8/28/2017
- by Kyle Christopher West
- BroadwayWorld.com
Puts CGI, IMAX, and 3D (and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to perfect use. Everything here comes with a vertiginous thrill and a delightful enchantment. I’m “biast” (pro): love Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
The story of Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 is not a new one to New Yorkers or to film lovers: it was the subject of 2008’s Oscar-winning best documentary feature, Man on Wire (see it if you haven’t already; it’s currently on Netflix and Amazon Prime in the U.S., though not in Canada or the U.K.). But we haven’t seen that story like this before. Robert Zemeckis has been a cinematic fantasist of the highest order, using magical FX to tell wondrous...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
The story of Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 is not a new one to New Yorkers or to film lovers: it was the subject of 2008’s Oscar-winning best documentary feature, Man on Wire (see it if you haven’t already; it’s currently on Netflix and Amazon Prime in the U.S., though not in Canada or the U.K.). But we haven’t seen that story like this before. Robert Zemeckis has been a cinematic fantasist of the highest order, using magical FX to tell wondrous...
- 10/2/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Chicago – I am not opposed to dramatic retellings of true events from history, but I think the drama should at least be as entertaining as a PBS documentary on the same subject. “The Walk” tells the true story of a French wire walker and the twin tower World Trade Center in the mid-1970s.
..when he strung a wire between them, and then proceeded to walk from one tower to the other without a net more than a thousand feet in the air.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
While its vertigo inducing finale delivers the goods, “The Walk” can’t quite justify its own existence especially since there’s a perfectly fascinating documentary about the same subject readily available. For a movie that is supposed to be a visual spectacle, it spends an awful lot of time violating the classic rule of cinema by telling instead of showing.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, sporting an exaggerated but not entirely ridiculous French accent,...
..when he strung a wire between them, and then proceeded to walk from one tower to the other without a net more than a thousand feet in the air.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
While its vertigo inducing finale delivers the goods, “The Walk” can’t quite justify its own existence especially since there’s a perfectly fascinating documentary about the same subject readily available. For a movie that is supposed to be a visual spectacle, it spends an awful lot of time violating the classic rule of cinema by telling instead of showing.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, sporting an exaggerated but not entirely ridiculous French accent,...
- 9/30/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Over the weekend, audiences at the New York Film Festival were the very first to get a look at the new Robert Zemeckis movie The Walk, as Nyff officially got underway. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the film is hoping to take some solid word of mouth and make itself into an Oscar player. As one of the few Academy Award hopefuls that hadn’t yet screened for the public, a fair amount was riding on this one. We certainly don’t have a new frontrunner on our hands or anything of the sort, but it’s not something to cross off your list either. The Walk is somewhere in between, which makes my job a bit harder, but that’s nothing really new for me… For those unaware what the film is about, it’s a narrative feature version of the documentary Man on Wire. The doc, as well as this movie,...
- 9/28/2015
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The knowledge that Philippe Petit survived his 1,350-foot-high, 45-minute-long, eight-interval walk across the twin towers of New York’s in-construction World Trade Center on August 7, 1974 is hardly an issue for The Walk, a film so admiring of and respectful to its subject that no option but success ever seems possible. Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Petit is the first thing to follow a borderline anachronistic TriStar logo — a rare ‘90s throwback that ultimately feels fitting, given the relaxed-yet-methodical approach from Robert Zemeckis, bucking current studio filmmaking trends — and the way his grin, perhaps just a bit shit-eating, fills the IMAX screen couldn’t more loudly tell us that we’re under his spell. (Nor could his French accent — which sounds not unlike this writer’s brother after he’s had a few drinks and someone mentions the great European nation — more loudly telegraph that this is also an actor’s interpretation.) A showman is always a storyteller,...
- 9/27/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Dedicatedly embarking on an unexplored and unfamiliar journey, in a courageous attempt to overcome your fears and prove your worth and abilities, can be a frightening prospect for many people. But French high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s decision to walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, particularly while they were being constructed during the mid-1970s, was an alluring choice that proves that people don’t have to follow society’s expectations and norms in order to thrive. His powerful journey is intriguingly presented in the upcoming biographical drama, ‘The Walk,’ which was directed by Robert Zemeckis, who also co-wrote the script with Christopher Browne. The movie, which is based on [ Read More ]
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- 9/27/2015
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Though we're now seven years on from the release of dizzying documentary Man on Wire, which chronicled Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in 1974, Robert Zemeckis's Hollywood dramatisation still has an uphill battle to justify its own glossy IMAX 3D existence.
Man on Wire is both universally adored and enduring enough to feel like the first and last word on Petit's story, and yet its blend of archive footage and re-enactment do not add up to an immersive cinematic spectacle, which is what The Walk delivers in spades.
Zemeckis says he first heard of Petit from children's book The Man Who Walked Between The Towers, and there's a whimsical storybook quality to his approach: Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is presented up front as a raconteur, breaking the fourth wall to narrate his own story to us from atop the Statue of Liberty. With playful abandon Zemeckis zips...
Man on Wire is both universally adored and enduring enough to feel like the first and last word on Petit's story, and yet its blend of archive footage and re-enactment do not add up to an immersive cinematic spectacle, which is what The Walk delivers in spades.
Zemeckis says he first heard of Petit from children's book The Man Who Walked Between The Towers, and there's a whimsical storybook quality to his approach: Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is presented up front as a raconteur, breaking the fourth wall to narrate his own story to us from atop the Statue of Liberty. With playful abandon Zemeckis zips...
- 9/27/2015
- Digital Spy
I knew how it ended before I walked into the theater. After all, I've seen "Man On Wire," and it ended up on my ten best list for 2008, and I know how the story ends. Beyond that, I knew that I was looking at the state-of-the-art of what visual effects could accomplish in the year 2015 and not actual footage of an event in the '70s. Even so, the new Robert Zemeckis film "The Walk" made my hands sweat and my stomach ache for a solid 45 minutes, and I suspect it's going to be a big-screen sensation thanks to people going back to witness it several times. One of the truths of the new age of theatrical distribution is that you have to give an audience a reason to go to a theater and not just wait for a more convenient time and place to see a film. If you...
- 9/27/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
The Walk
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay by Christopher Browne and Robert Zemeckis
2015, USA
Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk, based on Philippe Petit’s wire walk between the Twin Towers in the early 1970s, opens on the face of its star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, thereby setting the tone for the film: Zemeckis puts much technical effort and detail into accentuating the depth and various surfaces of the actor’s face, despite the fact that nothing but tall tales falls from his character’s mouth. The film has a striking sense of depth and focus as a physical concept, but, psychologically, it’s all surface.
That the film also has a title card reading “…A True Story” also serves as an early indicator. It’s Philippe’s film, wholeheartedly, even setting a good portion of its first act in a stylized Paris. It’s shot in black and white with select objects...
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay by Christopher Browne and Robert Zemeckis
2015, USA
Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk, based on Philippe Petit’s wire walk between the Twin Towers in the early 1970s, opens on the face of its star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, thereby setting the tone for the film: Zemeckis puts much technical effort and detail into accentuating the depth and various surfaces of the actor’s face, despite the fact that nothing but tall tales falls from his character’s mouth. The film has a striking sense of depth and focus as a physical concept, but, psychologically, it’s all surface.
That the film also has a title card reading “…A True Story” also serves as an early indicator. It’s Philippe’s film, wholeheartedly, even setting a good portion of its first act in a stylized Paris. It’s shot in black and white with select objects...
- 9/26/2015
- by Kyle Turner
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening IMAX passes up for grabs to the true story “The Walk” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit from Robert Zemeckis!
“The Walk,” which opens on Sept. 30, 2015 in IMAX and Oct. 2 wide, also stars Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz, Steve Valentine and Benedict Samuel from writer and director Robert Zemeckis (“Cast Away,” “Flight”) and writer Christopher Browne based on the book “To Reach the Clouds” by Philippe Petit. The film is rated “PG”.
To win your free IMAX passes to “The Walk” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, Sept. 28, 2015 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only...
“The Walk,” which opens on Sept. 30, 2015 in IMAX and Oct. 2 wide, also stars Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz, Steve Valentine and Benedict Samuel from writer and director Robert Zemeckis (“Cast Away,” “Flight”) and writer Christopher Browne based on the book “To Reach the Clouds” by Philippe Petit. The film is rated “PG”.
To win your free IMAX passes to “The Walk” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, Sept. 28, 2015 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only...
- 9/25/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In 1974, French high-wire artist Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) had an extraordinary dream -- to walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. The Walk, written by Robert Zemeckis and Christopher Browne, based on Petit's book To Reach the Clouds, and directed by Zemeckis, utilizes cutting-edge technology to tell the story of Petit and his unlikely team as they attempt to realize this seemingly impossible dream. Watch this Fandango Movieclips exclusive...
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- 9/18/2015
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
As the days get darker and the cold winds of Autumn approach, it’s time to look ahead at the upcoming movies set to hit cinemas this Fall.
The huge slate includes the return of the Jedis, the rebirth of Frankenstein and a new age of Good Dinosaurs. These movies will take audiences to a Galaxy Far, Far Away, on a voyage to Mars and to the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest.
Here’s our list of the 2015 Fall movies that we can’t wait to see!
September
The Visit (Sept 11)
Writer/director/producer M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable) and producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious series) welcome you to Universal Pictures’ The Visit. Shyamalan returns to his roots with the terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip.
The huge slate includes the return of the Jedis, the rebirth of Frankenstein and a new age of Good Dinosaurs. These movies will take audiences to a Galaxy Far, Far Away, on a voyage to Mars and to the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest.
Here’s our list of the 2015 Fall movies that we can’t wait to see!
September
The Visit (Sept 11)
Writer/director/producer M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable) and producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious series) welcome you to Universal Pictures’ The Visit. Shyamalan returns to his roots with the terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip.
- 9/3/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The story of Phillippe Petit, as told in Man On Wire, is the subject of The Walk. Here's the trailer...
The story of Phillippe Petit has already been told on film, in the Oscar-winning documentary Man On Wire. Petit is known for his high wire walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center on August 7th 1974.
Petit is the only man to ever do it, and his story is going to be told again later this year through the eyes of director Robert Zemeckis. Zemeckis has penned the screenplay for the film known as The Walk, along with Christopher Browne. And they've taken Petit's book, To Reach The Clouds, as their source.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes the lead role here, with the rest of the cast featuring James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz and Charlotte Le Bon. The movie - which opens this year's New York Film Festival - is...
The story of Phillippe Petit has already been told on film, in the Oscar-winning documentary Man On Wire. Petit is known for his high wire walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center on August 7th 1974.
Petit is the only man to ever do it, and his story is going to be told again later this year through the eyes of director Robert Zemeckis. Zemeckis has penned the screenplay for the film known as The Walk, along with Christopher Browne. And they've taken Petit's book, To Reach The Clouds, as their source.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes the lead role here, with the rest of the cast featuring James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz and Charlotte Le Bon. The movie - which opens this year's New York Film Festival - is...
- 6/4/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Fans of Man On Wire – and that’s most of the Academy who voted it Best Documentary in 2008 – will be getting another telling of Philippe Petit’s story with The Walk. This time it’s a feature film, with Robert Zemeckis taking on the story that James Marsh told some enthrallingly and Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing the impish French high-wire walker. The film has a new poster lending some sense of awe and vertigo. Like Marsh's doc, Zemeckis' film seems likely to pitch the yarn as a kind of heist thriller by other means. "He wasn't trying to steal money or sell plutonium," says the director, who interviewed Petit for hours, adapting the script with Christopher Browne from the performance artist’s memoir To Reach The Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between The Twin Towers. "He was just trying to create performance art. And he created this beautiful, human moment that...
- 4/20/2015
- EmpireOnline
Remember my review of Snowpiercer?
Well, I do, and that’s all that matters, because I had a revelation recently about that comic-turned-movie. You see, at my place of employment, they’ve been showing holiday movies, as retail outlets are wont to do when they’re trying to sell TVs (even though it’s damn grocery store). And they’ve been showing a movie that, even as I try desperately to ignore it, has gradually transformed from a painfully-deformed specter of childish inanity to a foreboding, hideous larvae. This movie is, in fact, The Polar Express. Or, as it was originally called, Snowpiercer Part One! That’s right, I’m on to your games, Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis. You clearly read the then untranslated French graphic novel Snowpiercer about a seemingly unstoppable train howling across an alien wasteland of snow and ice and whose passengers represent humankind and decided...
Well, I do, and that’s all that matters, because I had a revelation recently about that comic-turned-movie. You see, at my place of employment, they’ve been showing holiday movies, as retail outlets are wont to do when they’re trying to sell TVs (even though it’s damn grocery store). And they’ve been showing a movie that, even as I try desperately to ignore it, has gradually transformed from a painfully-deformed specter of childish inanity to a foreboding, hideous larvae. This movie is, in fact, The Polar Express. Or, as it was originally called, Snowpiercer Part One! That’s right, I’m on to your games, Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis. You clearly read the then untranslated French graphic novel Snowpiercer about a seemingly unstoppable train howling across an alien wasteland of snow and ice and whose passengers represent humankind and decided...
- 12/12/2014
- by Chris Melkus
- Destroy the Brain
From director Robert Zemeckis comes a take on the story of Phillippe Petit, the man who did a high wire walk between the Twin Tower
It's still just under a year away, but the first trailer for director Robert Zemeckis' next film has just landed. It's his second live action project in a row, following the successful Flight, and this time it's a dramatisation of the story told in the excellent documentary Man On Wire.
The Walk is the name of the film, and it's about Phillippe Petit's high wire walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center back in August 1974. Based on Petit's book - that Zemeckis has adapted with Christopher Browne - The Walk stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the lead role. He's then joined in the cast by Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale and Ben Schwartz.
The Walk arrives in cinemas next October and you...
It's still just under a year away, but the first trailer for director Robert Zemeckis' next film has just landed. It's his second live action project in a row, following the successful Flight, and this time it's a dramatisation of the story told in the excellent documentary Man On Wire.
The Walk is the name of the film, and it's about Phillippe Petit's high wire walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center back in August 1974. Based on Petit's book - that Zemeckis has adapted with Christopher Browne - The Walk stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the lead role. He's then joined in the cast by Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale and Ben Schwartz.
The Walk arrives in cinemas next October and you...
- 12/10/2014
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Here’s a surprise from Sony that wasn’t forcefully revealed by hackers: A first-look teaser for The Walk, the debut feature from Tom Rothman’s revived Sony-based TriStar Productions, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as real life high wire artist Philippe Petit. Robert Zemeckis directs the 3D experiential film set in 1974, when Frenchman Petit attempted a daring cross of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, gravity and arrogance his only nemeses. Well, they were simpler times. Petit’s story was immortalized in the Oscar-winning 2008 documentary Man On Wire.
Gordon-Levitt most recently hit the big screen in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and taps a background in gymnastics and add a Petit accent for The Walk, which marks Zemeckis’ latest directorial effort after Flight. Zemeckis co-scripted with Christopher Browne based on Petit’s memoirs and is also producing with ImageMovers’ Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey. Sony has set an October 2, 2015 release.
Gordon-Levitt most recently hit the big screen in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and taps a background in gymnastics and add a Petit accent for The Walk, which marks Zemeckis’ latest directorial effort after Flight. Zemeckis co-scripted with Christopher Browne based on Petit’s memoirs and is also producing with ImageMovers’ Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey. Sony has set an October 2, 2015 release.
- 12/10/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Sony Pictures International (Tri-Star) released the teaser trailer and poster for The Walk. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film is a true story based on Philippe Petit’s book “To Reach the Clouds,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the young dreamer who dared the impossible: an illegal wire walk between the World Trade Center towers.
Zemeckis wrote the screenplay with Christopher Browne.
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan.
Zemeckis again uses cutting edge technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story.
With innovative photorealistic techniques and IMAX 3D wizardry, The Walk is true big-screen cinema,...
Zemeckis wrote the screenplay with Christopher Browne.
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan.
Zemeckis again uses cutting edge technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story.
With innovative photorealistic techniques and IMAX 3D wizardry, The Walk is true big-screen cinema,...
- 12/9/2014
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
Benedict Samuel has started shooting a Us indie thriller in Los Angeles, his third Us film in the past 12 months.
The Nida graduate is among the ensemble cast of The Stanford Prison Experiment, the saga of 20 undergraduate volunteers who are offered a cash incentive to assume the role of either guard or prisoner for two weeks in a mock jail, all in the name of scientific research.
Things quickly escalate beyond the boundaries of reason and humanity. Based on Dr. Philip Zimbardo.s notorious 1971 psychological study at Stanford University, the screenplay is by Tim Talbott and P.W. Hopsidor.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez (whose film C.O.G. premiered in competition at the Sundance festival) is directing for producers Lizzie Friedman, Brent Emery, Brian Geraghty, Karen Lauder and Greg Little.
The cast includes Billy Crudup as Zimbardo, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Johnny Simmons, Thomas Mann, Nick Braun and Gaius Charles.
Represented in Australia by...
The Nida graduate is among the ensemble cast of The Stanford Prison Experiment, the saga of 20 undergraduate volunteers who are offered a cash incentive to assume the role of either guard or prisoner for two weeks in a mock jail, all in the name of scientific research.
Things quickly escalate beyond the boundaries of reason and humanity. Based on Dr. Philip Zimbardo.s notorious 1971 psychological study at Stanford University, the screenplay is by Tim Talbott and P.W. Hopsidor.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez (whose film C.O.G. premiered in competition at the Sundance festival) is directing for producers Lizzie Friedman, Brent Emery, Brian Geraghty, Karen Lauder and Greg Little.
The cast includes Billy Crudup as Zimbardo, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Johnny Simmons, Thomas Mann, Nick Braun and Gaius Charles.
Represented in Australia by...
- 8/20/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The first stills of Robert Zemeckis‘ “The Walk” have been unveiled to give us our first look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt as legendary French high-wire artist Philippe Petit. The photos were released today to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Petit’s successful execution of his high-wire walk across the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center back in August 7, 1974 — a stunt that was previously recounted in “Man On Wire” (the 2008 Oscar-winning documentary by James Marsh) and will once again be brought to the big screen by Zemeckis and screenwriter Christopher Browne in this dramatized version of Petit’s [...]
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- 8/7/2014
- by Alfonso Espina
- UpandComers
Principal photography has wrapped on the inaugural film from Tom Rothman’s TriStar Productions, now officially titled The Walk. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film is a true story based on Philippe Petit’s book “To Reach the Clouds,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the young dreamer who dared the impossible: an illegal wire walk between the World Trade Center towers. Zemeckis wrote the screenplay with Christopher Browne.
Producers are Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, and Jack Rapke. The film will be released on October 2, 2015.
Today, August 7, is the 40th anniversary of the astounding event, now being brought back to vivid life in the third act climax of the film.
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits,...
Producers are Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, and Jack Rapke. The film will be released on October 2, 2015.
Today, August 7, is the 40th anniversary of the astounding event, now being brought back to vivid life in the third act climax of the film.
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits,...
- 8/7/2014
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
Principal photography has wrapped on the inaugural film from Tom Rothman’s TriStar Productions, now officially titled The Walk.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film is a true story based on Philippe Petit’s book “To Reach the Clouds,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the young dreamer who dared the impossible: an illegal wire walk between the World Trade Center towers.
Zemeckis wrote the screenplay with Christopher Browne. Producers are Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, and Jack Rapke. The film will be released on October 2, 2015.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the astounding event, now being brought back to vivid life in the third act climax of the film.
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits,...
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film is a true story based on Philippe Petit’s book “To Reach the Clouds,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the young dreamer who dared the impossible: an illegal wire walk between the World Trade Center towers.
Zemeckis wrote the screenplay with Christopher Browne. Producers are Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, and Jack Rapke. The film will be released on October 2, 2015.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the astounding event, now being brought back to vivid life in the third act climax of the film.
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits,...
- 8/7/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Robert Zemeckis has been hard at work on his film based on the exploits of Man On Wire subject Philippe Petit, who high-wire walked between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. It has a new name – The Walk – and the first pictures are online via USA Today. Talking about the project to the paper’s site, producer Tom Rothman reaches for one of those old standbys of movie hype, the mash-up. "This is Gravity meets Ocean's Eleven," he says. "You've got an underdog team planning what's actually an endearing crime." "He wasn't trying to steal money or sell plutonium," says Zemeckis, who interviewed Petit for hours, and adapted the script with Christopher Browne from the performance artist’s memoir To Reach The Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between The Twin Towers. "He was just trying to create performance art. And he created this beautiful, human moment that changed the way we looked at the towers.
- 8/6/2014
- EmpireOnline
[Press Release] MONTRÉAL, Canada, August 6, 2014 – Principal photography has wrapped on the inaugural film from Tom Rothman’s TriStar Productions, now officially titled The Walk. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film is a true story based on Philippe Petit’s book “To Reach the Clouds,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the young dreamer who dared the impossible: an illegal wire walk between the World Trade Center towers. Zemeckis wrote the screenplay with Christopher Browne. Producers are Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, and Jack Rapke. The film will be released on October 2, 2015. Tomorrow, August 7, is the 40th anniversary of the astounding event, now being brought back to vivid life in the third act climax of the film. Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has...
- 8/6/2014
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
• Ron Paul will make his acting debut as a “commentator” in Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?, the third installment of the Atlas Shrugged film trilogy based on the novel by Ayn Rand. The book, and subsequent films, tells a story of a withering U.S. economy as a result of taxation and over-regulation. The former congressman and three-time presidential candidate will be joined by conservative personalities Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity in the film, directed by James Manera. [The Hollywood Reporter]
• Alison Brie (Community) is in talks to star in the New Line comedy How to be Single. Based on the Liz Tuccillo novel,...
• Alison Brie (Community) is in talks to star in the New Line comedy How to be Single. Based on the Liz Tuccillo novel,...
- 6/20/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Usually found being funny in Parks And Recreation or any number of film guest star appearances, Ben Schwartz is planning something slightly different for his next role. He’s set to join Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Robert Zemeckis’ next project, the Philippe Petit movie working titled To Reach The Clouds.Whether the finished film retains that title – which it would share with Petit's memoir – remains to be seen. We do know, however, that it will chronicle the daredevil's attempt to tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center back in 1974, as well as other moments in Petit’s life.Schwartz is on to play Albert, one of Petit’s team who harbours serious reservations about the stunt, which was also chronicled in James Marsh’s documentary Man On Wire. The cast already includes Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale, Charlotte Le Bon and Steve Valentine, with Zemeckis co-writing the...
- 5/21/2014
- EmpireOnline
Ben Kingsley, James Badge Dale and Charlotte Le Bon are set to join the previously-attached Joseph Gordon-Levitt in To Walk the Clouds , director Robert Zemeckis' upcoming narrative take on the story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, who christened the newly-built World Trade Center back on August 7, 1974 by tight-rope walking in between the two towers on a taut wire cable. In 2008, James Marsh directed Man on Wire , a documentary version of the story, which went on to take home an Academy Award. Zemeckis has co-written the script with Christopher Browne, based on Petit's memoirs and will produce alongside Starkey and Rapke with Cherylanne Martin as line and exec. producer and ImageMovers. Jackie Levine also involved. (Photo Credit: FayesVision / Joseph...
- 4/25/2014
- Comingsoon.net
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