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“Terri” also stars Jacob Wysocki, Bridger Zadina, Creed Bratton, Olivia Crocicchia, Tim Heidecker, Justin Prentice, Mary Anne McGarry, Curtiss Frisle, Tara Karsian, Diane Salinger and Jenna Gavigan from co-writer and director Azazel Jacobs and co-writer Patrick Dewitt. The film opens in Chicago on July 22, 2011.
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- 7/6/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Ato (Art Takes Over) was launched last year at Cannes by musician Dave Matthews along with Johnathan Dorfman, Sarah Lash and Temple Fennell. Their plan to release 4 to 6 films annually seems to be coming to fruition. In Sundance 2011 they acquired film The Convincer, Casino Jack was acquired in Toronto 2010, and " title="Mao’s Last Dancer">Mao’s Last Dancer in Cannes 2010 which was released in August.
- 5/6/2011
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: The impressive volume of distribution deals for 2011 Sundance Film Festival fare is about to expand again. I'm told that Ato Pictures is wrapping up a deal for Us rights to The Convincer, the Karen Sprecher-directed dark comedy that stars Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin and Billy Crudup. It's Fargo-style caper-gone-awry tale in which a conniving insurance salesman (Kinnear) thinks he has found a way to fortify his bank account and get his wife back. He sets out to scam a retired farmer (Arkin) out of a rare violin worth $25,000. A lot goes wrong and blood and dead bodies ensue. Produced by Werc Werk Works, the film was scripted by the director and her sister Jill, who also did Clockwatchers together. CAA is repping the film. Ato, which was hatched by Johnathan Dorfman, Temple Fennell and musician Dave Matthews, distributed George Hickenlooper's final film Casino Jack and recently acquired The Woman in the Fifth.
- 3/31/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Director George Hickenlooper has passed away at age 47. Best known for directing the 1991 documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse--on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now--Hickenlooper was preparing for the release of Casino Jack. The Hickenlooper-directed drama stars Kevin Spacey as disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. George was so excited to see the picture finds its way to release through Ato Pictures, after showing it at numerous festivals this year, and he was particularly proud of the performance turned in by Spacey. The film will open December 17 in New York and Los Angeles. He leaves behind a son, Charles. Suzanne Hickenlooper, his ex-wife, said: "George was a loving father and provider. He had a great creative talent, a generous spirit, and loved life and people more than anyone I know. Charles and I will miss him very much." Hickenlooper's cousin, John, who is currently running for Governor of Colorado,...
- 10/30/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Casino Jack, the drama that stars Kevin Spacey as disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, has a new home. Ato Pictures has acquired Us theatrical rights to a film which was orphaned when its original distributor, Metropolitan, failed to meet its commitments and the picture was pulled back for breach of contract. Ato is best known for having singer Dave Matthews and music exec Coran Capshaw as its co-founders. Ato Pictures will distribute the George Hickenlooper-directed drama in December. The George Hickenlooper-directed film will be platformed at the Toronto International Film Festival, and gets its chance at awards season, with Spacey's performance in particular garnering raves at early private showings. The film makes its festival premiere at Toronto on September 16, with filmmaker and cast in tow. "It is not only one of the most refreshing and entertaining films we've seen in a long time, but, it also fits in perfectly...
- 9/9/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The fate of Apparition as a prestige picture distributor is uncertain following the exit of Bob Berney, and once again, indie filmmakers wait for somebody to step up with some good news for a change. How about singer Dave Matthews, who is tuning up his Art Takes Over Pictures banner to step it up as a financier/distributor of indie films? CEO Temple Fennell announced that the New York-based company will get into the funding game on its own pictures, and provide finishing funds for others, to round out a slate of four to six films per year. The films will [...]...
- 5/12/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
- #73. ChokeDirector/Writer: Clark GreggProducers: Johnathan Dorfman (Joshua), Temple Fennell, Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson (Conrail)Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures The Gist: Based on the Chuck Palahniuk book, "Choke" follows Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex addict who works as a Colonial War re-enactor and runs a con scheme that involves deliberately choking in restaurants and attaching himself parasitically to his rescuers, all to fund his mother's (Huston) care at a private mental hospital. Fact: This is the directorial debut of actor Clark Gregg.See It: Those who have kept tabs on Sam Rockwell might just adore him in this Palahniuk creation. Release Date/Status?: Picked up at Sundance for a cool 5 million, expect this to find theaters sometime this summer. ...
- 1/29/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- Among the advantages of being an actor who is casting the leads for his directorial debut is being able to call up buddies an asking for that favor or having the ability of knowing first-hand who can deliver on screen. In a casting choice that seems fit, as recently proven in his performance in Snow Angels, if there is someone who knows how to plays addiction it is the off-center talent of thesp Sam Rockwell. Rockwell and Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald and Brad Henke are climbing aboard the Chuck Palahniuk novel to big screen adaptation of Choke – a film that actor Clark Gregg has been prepping for a while now. Principal photography begins this week in New Jersey. Based on the New York Times best-seller, this falls in the vein of the black comedy and follows Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex addict who works as a Colonial War re-enactor
- 7/12/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
This review was written for the festival screening of "Joshua".PARK CITY -- He plays the piano rather than the horn here, but like his Biblical namesake, 9-year-old Joshua has the power to make things come tumbling down. With this superbly crafted psychological thriller, Fox Searchlight has made another savvy Sundance move. "Joshua" will win critical accolades and draw superbly through word-of-mouth.
With his affluent yuppie parents, brilliant and beatific Joshua Jacob Kogan) leads a loving and enriched life among the upper denizens of Manhattan. In his preppie sports coat, he's a poster-boy child, precocious and way ahead of his gifted classmates. His family is loving, and he's even got a brand-new baby sister, who, admittedly, grabs attention because she incessantly cries.
It's a charmed household, enlivened by doting grandparents and a charismatic and musically talented uncle. Yet, like any normal family, there are fissures of discontent: The grandparents' evangelical-Christian proselytizing annoys his free-thinking parents, in particular his Jewish mother, who is further frazzled by her daughter's nonstop bawling. On the paternal side, Dad is under big-time pressure at his brokerage firm.
Through an ever-darkening scope, filmmaker George Ratliff elegantly turns our perspective. In the best Hitchcockean sense, we now see the affluent prosperity and the benign richness of the family's life through more skeptical and sinister eyes. Things seem to be going awry, way beyond the bounds of normal family dynamics.
Layered with smart red herrings and enlivened by rich and misleading visual textures, "Joshua" descends into a house of horror. So superbly calibrated is Ratliff's direction of narrative misdirection that we're never sure what is behind this gradual and unsparing descent: The picture-perfect family is horribly imploding.
"Joshua" is a first-rate horror-of-personality tale, one enlivened by the psychologically astute and brilliantly textured writing of Ratliff and David Gilbert. Under Ratliff's superb modulation, the performances are exemplary, including Sam Rockwell as the courageous father and Vera Farmiga as the brittle wife and mother.
As the remarkable Joshua, Kogan recalls a patrician version of Lukas Haas in "Witness". His cool aplomb and precocious manner are both endearing and daunting.
Technical contributions are marvelous, especially cinematographer Benoit Debie's luminous compositions and evocative framings. Nico Muhly's score is provocatively lush and moody, pitched high by Joshua's own somber Beethoven piano playing and his deliriously assaultive rendition of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".
JOSHUA
Fox Searchlight
ATO Pictures
Credits:
Producer: Johnathon Dorfman
Director: George Ratliff
Screenwriters: David Gilbert, George Ratliff
Executive producers: Temple Fennell, Dan O'Meara
Director of photography: Benoit Debie
Editor: Jacob Craycroft
Music: Nico Muhly
Costume designer: Astrid Brucker
Casting: Patricia DiCerto
Cast:
Brad Cairn: Sam Rockwell
Abby Cairn: Vera Farmiga
Hazel Cairn: Celia Weston
Ned Davidoff: Dallas Roberts
Chester Jenkins: Michael McKean
Joshua Cairn: Jacob Kogan
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
With his affluent yuppie parents, brilliant and beatific Joshua Jacob Kogan) leads a loving and enriched life among the upper denizens of Manhattan. In his preppie sports coat, he's a poster-boy child, precocious and way ahead of his gifted classmates. His family is loving, and he's even got a brand-new baby sister, who, admittedly, grabs attention because she incessantly cries.
It's a charmed household, enlivened by doting grandparents and a charismatic and musically talented uncle. Yet, like any normal family, there are fissures of discontent: The grandparents' evangelical-Christian proselytizing annoys his free-thinking parents, in particular his Jewish mother, who is further frazzled by her daughter's nonstop bawling. On the paternal side, Dad is under big-time pressure at his brokerage firm.
Through an ever-darkening scope, filmmaker George Ratliff elegantly turns our perspective. In the best Hitchcockean sense, we now see the affluent prosperity and the benign richness of the family's life through more skeptical and sinister eyes. Things seem to be going awry, way beyond the bounds of normal family dynamics.
Layered with smart red herrings and enlivened by rich and misleading visual textures, "Joshua" descends into a house of horror. So superbly calibrated is Ratliff's direction of narrative misdirection that we're never sure what is behind this gradual and unsparing descent: The picture-perfect family is horribly imploding.
"Joshua" is a first-rate horror-of-personality tale, one enlivened by the psychologically astute and brilliantly textured writing of Ratliff and David Gilbert. Under Ratliff's superb modulation, the performances are exemplary, including Sam Rockwell as the courageous father and Vera Farmiga as the brittle wife and mother.
As the remarkable Joshua, Kogan recalls a patrician version of Lukas Haas in "Witness". His cool aplomb and precocious manner are both endearing and daunting.
Technical contributions are marvelous, especially cinematographer Benoit Debie's luminous compositions and evocative framings. Nico Muhly's score is provocatively lush and moody, pitched high by Joshua's own somber Beethoven piano playing and his deliriously assaultive rendition of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".
JOSHUA
Fox Searchlight
ATO Pictures
Credits:
Producer: Johnathon Dorfman
Director: George Ratliff
Screenwriters: David Gilbert, George Ratliff
Executive producers: Temple Fennell, Dan O'Meara
Director of photography: Benoit Debie
Editor: Jacob Craycroft
Music: Nico Muhly
Costume designer: Astrid Brucker
Casting: Patricia DiCerto
Cast:
Brad Cairn: Sam Rockwell
Abby Cairn: Vera Farmiga
Hazel Cairn: Celia Weston
Ned Davidoff: Dallas Roberts
Chester Jenkins: Michael McKean
Joshua Cairn: Jacob Kogan
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARK CITY -- He plays the piano rather than the horn here, but like his Biblical namesake, 9-year-old Joshua has the power to make things come tumbling down. With this superbly crafted psychological thriller, Fox Searchlight has made another savvy Sundance move. "Joshua" will win critical accolades and draw superbly through word-of-mouth.
With his affluent yuppie parents, brilliant and beatific Joshua Jacob Kogan) leads a loving and enriched life among the upper denizens of Manhattan. In his preppie sports coat, he's a poster-boy child, precocious and way ahead of his gifted classmates. His family is loving, and he's even got a brand-new baby sister, who, admittedly, grabs attention because she incessantly cries.
It's a charmed household, enlivened by doting grandparents and a charismatic and musically talented uncle. Yet, like any normal family, there are fissures of discontent: The grandparents' evangelical-Christian proselytizing annoys his free-thinking parents, in particular his Jewish mother, who is further frazzled by her daughter's nonstop bawling. On the paternal side, Dad is under big-time pressure at his brokerage firm.
Through an ever-darkening scope, filmmaker George Ratliff elegantly turns our perspective. In the best Hitchcockean sense, we now see the affluent prosperity and the benign richness of the family's life through more skeptical and sinister eyes. Things seem to be going awry, way beyond the bounds of normal family dynamics.
Layered with smart red herrings and enlivened by rich and misleading visual textures, "Joshua" descends into a house of horror. So superbly calibrated is Ratliff's direction of narrative misdirection that we're never sure what is behind this gradual and unsparing descent: The picture-perfect family is horribly imploding.
"Joshua" is a first-rate horror-of-personality tale, one enlivened by the psychologically astute and brilliantly textured writing of Ratliff and David Gilbert. Under Ratliff's superb modulation, the performances are exemplary, including Sam Rockwell as the courageous father and Vera Farmiga as the brittle wife and mother.
As the remarkable Joshua, Kogan recalls a patrician version of Lukas Haas in "Witness". His cool aplomb and precocious manner are both endearing and daunting.
Technical contributions are marvelous, especially cinematographer Benoit Debie's luminous compositions and evocative framings. Nico Muhly's score is provocatively lush and moody, pitched high by Joshua's own somber Beethoven piano playing and his deliriously assaultive rendition of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".
JOSHUA
Fox Searchlight
ATO Pictures
Credits:
Producer: Johnathon Dorfman
Director: George Ratliff
Screenwriters: David Gilbert, George Ratliff
Executive producers: Temple Fennell, Dan O'Meara
Director of photography: Benoit Debie
Editor: Jacob Craycroft
Music: Nico Muhly
Costume designer: Astrid Brucker
Casting: Patricia DiCerto
Cast:
Brad Cairn: Sam Rockwell
Abby Cairn: Vera Farmiga
Hazel Cairn: Celia Weston
Ned Davidoff: Dallas Roberts
Chester Jenkins: Michael McKean
Joshua Cairn: Jacob Kogan
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
With his affluent yuppie parents, brilliant and beatific Joshua Jacob Kogan) leads a loving and enriched life among the upper denizens of Manhattan. In his preppie sports coat, he's a poster-boy child, precocious and way ahead of his gifted classmates. His family is loving, and he's even got a brand-new baby sister, who, admittedly, grabs attention because she incessantly cries.
It's a charmed household, enlivened by doting grandparents and a charismatic and musically talented uncle. Yet, like any normal family, there are fissures of discontent: The grandparents' evangelical-Christian proselytizing annoys his free-thinking parents, in particular his Jewish mother, who is further frazzled by her daughter's nonstop bawling. On the paternal side, Dad is under big-time pressure at his brokerage firm.
Through an ever-darkening scope, filmmaker George Ratliff elegantly turns our perspective. In the best Hitchcockean sense, we now see the affluent prosperity and the benign richness of the family's life through more skeptical and sinister eyes. Things seem to be going awry, way beyond the bounds of normal family dynamics.
Layered with smart red herrings and enlivened by rich and misleading visual textures, "Joshua" descends into a house of horror. So superbly calibrated is Ratliff's direction of narrative misdirection that we're never sure what is behind this gradual and unsparing descent: The picture-perfect family is horribly imploding.
"Joshua" is a first-rate horror-of-personality tale, one enlivened by the psychologically astute and brilliantly textured writing of Ratliff and David Gilbert. Under Ratliff's superb modulation, the performances are exemplary, including Sam Rockwell as the courageous father and Vera Farmiga as the brittle wife and mother.
As the remarkable Joshua, Kogan recalls a patrician version of Lukas Haas in "Witness". His cool aplomb and precocious manner are both endearing and daunting.
Technical contributions are marvelous, especially cinematographer Benoit Debie's luminous compositions and evocative framings. Nico Muhly's score is provocatively lush and moody, pitched high by Joshua's own somber Beethoven piano playing and his deliriously assaultive rendition of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".
JOSHUA
Fox Searchlight
ATO Pictures
Credits:
Producer: Johnathon Dorfman
Director: George Ratliff
Screenwriters: David Gilbert, George Ratliff
Executive producers: Temple Fennell, Dan O'Meara
Director of photography: Benoit Debie
Editor: Jacob Craycroft
Music: Nico Muhly
Costume designer: Astrid Brucker
Casting: Patricia DiCerto
Cast:
Brad Cairn: Sam Rockwell
Abby Cairn: Vera Farmiga
Hazel Cairn: Celia Weston
Ned Davidoff: Dallas Roberts
Chester Jenkins: Michael McKean
Joshua Cairn: Jacob Kogan
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- One of the surprisingly good viewings (so far) among my Park City selections has been picked up Fox Searchlight Pictures. Featured in the Dramatic Competition, this film is part of the ‘bad seed’ genre of psychological thrillers – but unlike the dreadful stuff we are so used to seeing, Joshua delivers in more than one area. Written by David Gilbert and George Ratliff, Joshua is the tale of Brad (Rockwell) and Abby (Farmiga) Cairn, perfect Manhattan parents in a perfect Manhattan apartment whose perfect life begins to crack after the birth of their second child Lily. Shortly after Lily arrives home, a dark side of prodigy son Joshua slowly begins to reveal itself. The film was produced by Ato Pictures’ Johnathan Dorfman serving as producer and Temple Fennell as executive producer. Dan O’Meara also served as executive producer and George Paaswell co-produced. It is scheduled to be released in
- 1/23/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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