Jacki Weaver, Taye Diggs and Lucy Liu have joined the dramatic comedy “Stage Mother,” set in the drag queen world of San Francisco.
The film is currently in pre-production. Rights for the film will be available at the Cannes Film Festival Market through Film Mode Entertainment. The film begins shooting later this year in Canada with Thom Fitzgerald shooting from a script by San Francisco screenwriter Brad Hennig (“The Hot Flashes”).
Weaver will portray a conservative Texas church-choir director inheriting her recently deceased son’s San Francisco drag club. Following her heart, she surprises her closed-minded husband and everyone else she knows by moving on her own from Texas to San Francisco save the club from bankruptcy.
Producers are J. Todd Harris through his Branded Pictures, Idiot Savant’s Anne Clements, 4K Productions’ Laurie Lacob and Emotion Pictures’ Doug Pettigrew. Executive producers are Clay Epstein, Brad Hennig and Thom Fitzgerald.
The film is currently in pre-production. Rights for the film will be available at the Cannes Film Festival Market through Film Mode Entertainment. The film begins shooting later this year in Canada with Thom Fitzgerald shooting from a script by San Francisco screenwriter Brad Hennig (“The Hot Flashes”).
Weaver will portray a conservative Texas church-choir director inheriting her recently deceased son’s San Francisco drag club. Following her heart, she surprises her closed-minded husband and everyone else she knows by moving on her own from Texas to San Francisco save the club from bankruptcy.
Producers are J. Todd Harris through his Branded Pictures, Idiot Savant’s Anne Clements, 4K Productions’ Laurie Lacob and Emotion Pictures’ Doug Pettigrew. Executive producers are Clay Epstein, Brad Hennig and Thom Fitzgerald.
- 5/1/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Jacki Weaver (Silver Lining’s Playbook), Taye Diggs (Chicago) and Lucy Liu (Charlie’s Angels) are to lead cast in comedy Stage Mother, set in the drag queen world of San Francisco. Currently in pre-produciton, Film Mode, which handles world sales, will be shopping the movie in Cannes with shoot is due to get underway in Canada later this year.
Canadian director Thom Fitzgerald (Cloudburst) is helming the movie penned by San Francisco screenwriter Brad Hennig (The Hot Flashes). The cute story follows a conservative Texas church-choir director who inherits her recently deceased son’s San Francisco drag club. Following her heart, she surprises her closed-minded husband and everyone else she knows by moving on her own from Texas to San Francisco save the club from bankruptcy. In this raucous, racy new environment, she begins to open up and find new meaning for her life, even becoming a mother figure...
Canadian director Thom Fitzgerald (Cloudburst) is helming the movie penned by San Francisco screenwriter Brad Hennig (The Hot Flashes). The cute story follows a conservative Texas church-choir director who inherits her recently deceased son’s San Francisco drag club. Following her heart, she surprises her closed-minded husband and everyone else she knows by moving on her own from Texas to San Francisco save the club from bankruptcy. In this raucous, racy new environment, she begins to open up and find new meaning for her life, even becoming a mother figure...
- 5/1/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Film Mode to launch Cannes sales; production set for later this year in Canada.
Jacki Weaver, Taye Diggs and Lucy Liu have joined Stage Mother, which Film Mode will introduce to worldwide buyers in Cannes next week.
The project is scheduled to begin shooting later this year in Canada with Canadian director Thom Fitzgerald at the helm.
Stage Mother centres on the conservative director of Texas church choir who gets a new lease of life when she leaves her narrow-minded husband and moves to San Francisco after she inherits her recently deceased son’s financially stricken drag club. Brad Hennig...
Jacki Weaver, Taye Diggs and Lucy Liu have joined Stage Mother, which Film Mode will introduce to worldwide buyers in Cannes next week.
The project is scheduled to begin shooting later this year in Canada with Canadian director Thom Fitzgerald at the helm.
Stage Mother centres on the conservative director of Texas church choir who gets a new lease of life when she leaves her narrow-minded husband and moves to San Francisco after she inherits her recently deceased son’s financially stricken drag club. Brad Hennig...
- 5/1/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
- Not sure if Sidney Kimmel Ent. is tapping into a new market demo. While they're setting up Jon Amiel’s distinctly golden aged Old Timers, the prod co. are boarding a road trip film with vet actresses Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker. Reteaming with Dukakis with whom he worked with on his last picture 3 Needles, Thom Fitzgerald shoots Cloudburst this month and in his own backyard again - if there is a film industry in the miniscule Canadian province of Nova Scotia it might be because of this filmmaker. Based on Fitzgerald's screenplay, this story tackles both ageism and same sex marriage. It follows two women who have been lovers for 30 years but have to escape a nursing facility to get married in Canada. They pick up a young male hitchhiker who sidetracks them. For those who have forgotten about Dukakis - she most recently played a strong supporting
- 7/1/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Veteran actresses and fellow Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker are teaming up for a road trip comedy "Cloudburst," which Thom Fitzgerald is writing and directing for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.
The film will start shooting in July in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Although born in New Jersey, Fitzgerald is a long-time resident of Nova Scotia, and he's previously worked with Dukakis on such films as "The Event" and "3 Needles."
Dukakis and Fricker will play a couple, together for 30 years, who break out of a nursing home and head to Canada to get married, picking up a young, male hitchhiker along the way.
Fitzgerald also is producing with Doug Pettigrew. William Jarblum will exec produce.
Fitzgerald, repped by Covington International and Green Light Artist Management, most recently produced and directed "The Gospel According to the Blues" for Canadian television. Dukakis, who appeared in 2007's "In the Land of Women," is repped...
The film will start shooting in July in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Although born in New Jersey, Fitzgerald is a long-time resident of Nova Scotia, and he's previously worked with Dukakis on such films as "The Event" and "3 Needles."
Dukakis and Fricker will play a couple, together for 30 years, who break out of a nursing home and head to Canada to get married, picking up a young, male hitchhiker along the way.
Fitzgerald also is producing with Doug Pettigrew. William Jarblum will exec produce.
Fitzgerald, repped by Covington International and Green Light Artist Management, most recently produced and directed "The Gospel According to the Blues" for Canadian television. Dukakis, who appeared in 2007's "In the Land of Women," is repped...
- 6/30/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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