Blackbird
Oscar winner Mo'Nique has joined Isaiah Washington as the parents of the lead character (played by Julian Walker) in Patrik Ian Polk's adaptation of Larry Duplechan's novel "Blackbird". The project was just shot in Massachusettes.
The story follows a star singer in a religiously conservative, small Mississippi town's church choir. The kid struggles with the realization he is gay, and with his mother blaming him for his younger sister going missing. [Source: Deadline]
99 Homes
12-year-old Noah Lomax ("Safe Haven," "Playing for Keeps") is set to play Andrew Garfield's sarcastic son in Ramin Bahrani's indie drama "99 Homes".
Set against the backdrop of the economic crisis, Garfield plays an unemployed contractor who gets evicted from his family home along with his mother (Dern) and son (Lomax). To get it back, he takes a job working for the realtor (Shannon) who evicted him and teaches him how to succeed in the foreclosure business.
Oscar winner Mo'Nique has joined Isaiah Washington as the parents of the lead character (played by Julian Walker) in Patrik Ian Polk's adaptation of Larry Duplechan's novel "Blackbird". The project was just shot in Massachusettes.
The story follows a star singer in a religiously conservative, small Mississippi town's church choir. The kid struggles with the realization he is gay, and with his mother blaming him for his younger sister going missing. [Source: Deadline]
99 Homes
12-year-old Noah Lomax ("Safe Haven," "Playing for Keeps") is set to play Andrew Garfield's sarcastic son in Ramin Bahrani's indie drama "99 Homes".
Set against the backdrop of the economic crisis, Garfield plays an unemployed contractor who gets evicted from his family home along with his mother (Dern) and son (Lomax). To get it back, he takes a job working for the realtor (Shannon) who evicted him and teaches him how to succeed in the foreclosure business.
- 1/7/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Nearly four years since she took home an Oscar for her devastating performance in "Precious," Mo'Nique is finally reemerging with a new film. The actress has signed on to star in "Blackbird," an adaptation of the 2006 coming-of-age novel by Larry Duplechan that she will also executive-produce through her and husband Sidney Hicks' Hicks Media production banner. Also onboard for the film, which is set to be directed by Patrik-Ian Polk ("Noah's Arc," "The Skinny"), are Isaiah Washington ("Blue Caprice"), Terrell Tilford, Gary L. Gray, Kevin Allesee, Torrey Lamaar, Nikki Jane, D. Woods and newcomer Julian Walker. "Blackbird" tells the story...
- 1/6/2014
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Exclusive: In her first screen starring turn since the ferocious portrayal as an abusive mother in 2009′s Precious won her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, Mo'Nique has joined Isaiah Washington in the Patrik Ian Polk-directed Blackbird, an adaptation of the novel by Larry Duplechan. Deadline revealed last fall that Washington took the lead in this indie off his turn as the DC sniper in Blue Caprice got him a Gotham Award nom. The pic just shot in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Related: Isaiah Washington Turns It Around In ‘Blackbird’ Mo’Nique is also exec producer with her husband, Sidney Hicks, through Hicks Media. Newcomer Julian Walker plays a high-schooler, the star singer in the church choir, who feels like a misfit in his high school and who struggles with his sexual awakening and the realization he is gay, something that doesn’t land well in a small religiously conservative Mississippi town.
- 1/6/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
As I’ve said before on S & A, we get quite a lot of request from filmmakers who are using public fundraising sites to raise the money to make their projects. Admittedly, after a while, there tends to be a sameness about them, and you long for something that’s different. And finally, one has arrived at our doorstep that is definitely different.The film is the short Third Timothy, produced by the Chicago-based film group Kinfolk Collective (Here), and written and directed by Julian Walker, who says the film will be made “in the tradition of Southern Gothic literature that explores deeply flawed, disturbing characters who are involved in sinister events relating to or...
- 6/28/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
London, Nov mber 26: In a new study, researchers have revealed the impact the First World War had on the English language and the words it introduced.
The new research has shown how the conflict meant that hundreds of words and phrases came into common parlance thanks to the trenches.
Among the list of everyday terms found to have originated or spread from the conflict are cushy, snapshot, bloke, wash out, conk out, blind spot, binge drink and pushing up daisies.
The research has been conducted by Peter Doyle, a military historian, and Julian Walker, an etymologist, who have analysed thousands of documents from the period - including letters from the front, trench newspapers, diaries, books and official military.
The new research has shown how the conflict meant that hundreds of words and phrases came into common parlance thanks to the trenches.
Among the list of everyday terms found to have originated or spread from the conflict are cushy, snapshot, bloke, wash out, conk out, blind spot, binge drink and pushing up daisies.
The research has been conducted by Peter Doyle, a military historian, and Julian Walker, an etymologist, who have analysed thousands of documents from the period - including letters from the front, trench newspapers, diaries, books and official military.
- 11/26/2012
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
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