IFC Films has released the official trailer for Gia Coppola’s stylized drama “Mainstream,” which opens in select theaters and on demand May 7.
Andrew Garfield and “Stranger Things” star Maya Hawke play two rising internet personalities, Link and Frankie, in the satire on social media stardom. While being a YouTube star has its perks, their lives quickly turn upside down as the dark side of their celebrity status threatens to consume them both.
Nat Wolff plays Frankie’s best friend Jake, who she recruits as a writer for her new project. Jason Schwartzman, Johnny Knoxville, Alexa Demie, Colleen Camp, Jacqui Getty, Nick Darmstaedter, Juanpa Zurita, Adam Barnhart and Marshall Bell also appear in the film.
The movie was co-written (with Tom Stuart) and directed by Coppola, the granddaughter of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Her breakout hit, 2013’s “Palo Alto,” followed a group of teenagers in...
Andrew Garfield and “Stranger Things” star Maya Hawke play two rising internet personalities, Link and Frankie, in the satire on social media stardom. While being a YouTube star has its perks, their lives quickly turn upside down as the dark side of their celebrity status threatens to consume them both.
Nat Wolff plays Frankie’s best friend Jake, who she recruits as a writer for her new project. Jason Schwartzman, Johnny Knoxville, Alexa Demie, Colleen Camp, Jacqui Getty, Nick Darmstaedter, Juanpa Zurita, Adam Barnhart and Marshall Bell also appear in the film.
The movie was co-written (with Tom Stuart) and directed by Coppola, the granddaughter of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Her breakout hit, 2013’s “Palo Alto,” followed a group of teenagers in...
- 4/6/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to Gia Coppola’s romantic drama “Mainstream,” which stars Andrew Garfield and Maya Hawke.
The film had its worldwide premiere last year at the Venice Film Festival. It was also selected for the Telluride Film Festival in 2020. It will open May 7 in select theaters and on-demand.
“Mainstream” follows a young woman (Hawke) who starts producing YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger (Garfield) and finds herself rising to Internet stardom. However, the situation quickly turns upside down as the dark side of being a viral celebrity threatens to consume them both.
The film was written and directed by Coppola, the granddaughter of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” director Francis Ford Coppola. Her breakout hit in 2013, “Palo Alto,” followed a group of teenagers in a wealthy California town that begin to abuse drugs and casual sex.
In addition to Garfield and Hawke, the film also stars Nat Wolff,...
The film had its worldwide premiere last year at the Venice Film Festival. It was also selected for the Telluride Film Festival in 2020. It will open May 7 in select theaters and on-demand.
“Mainstream” follows a young woman (Hawke) who starts producing YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger (Garfield) and finds herself rising to Internet stardom. However, the situation quickly turns upside down as the dark side of being a viral celebrity threatens to consume them both.
The film was written and directed by Coppola, the granddaughter of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” director Francis Ford Coppola. Her breakout hit in 2013, “Palo Alto,” followed a group of teenagers in a wealthy California town that begin to abuse drugs and casual sex.
In addition to Garfield and Hawke, the film also stars Nat Wolff,...
- 2/12/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Gia Coppola’s sophomore feature Mainstream which made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
IFC will open the movie on May 7 in select theaters and on demand.
In Mainstream, a young woman (Maya Hawke) thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger (Andrew Garfield) – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.
Nat Wolff, Johnny Knoxville, Jason Schwartzman and Alexa Demie also star. Pic was co-written by Coppola and Tom Stuart and marks Coppola’s follow-up to her breakout feature 2013 title Palo Alto. Mainstream is produced by Fred Berger of Automatik, Lauren Bratman, Gia Coppola of American Zoetrope, Andrew Garfield, Jack Heller and Scott Veltri of Assemble Media, Siena Oberman of Artemis, Francisco Rebelo De Andrade, Enrico Saravia, Alan Terpins of Tugawood, and Zac Weinstein of Dynasty.
IFC will open the movie on May 7 in select theaters and on demand.
In Mainstream, a young woman (Maya Hawke) thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger (Andrew Garfield) – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.
Nat Wolff, Johnny Knoxville, Jason Schwartzman and Alexa Demie also star. Pic was co-written by Coppola and Tom Stuart and marks Coppola’s follow-up to her breakout feature 2013 title Palo Alto. Mainstream is produced by Fred Berger of Automatik, Lauren Bratman, Gia Coppola of American Zoetrope, Andrew Garfield, Jack Heller and Scott Veltri of Assemble Media, Siena Oberman of Artemis, Francisco Rebelo De Andrade, Enrico Saravia, Alan Terpins of Tugawood, and Zac Weinstein of Dynasty.
- 2/12/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
IFC Films has picked up the North American rights to “Mainstream,” the second film from director Gia Coppola.
Andrew Garfield and Maya Hawke star in the film about the dark side of viral internet fame. “Mainstream” first premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020 and was a selection of last year’s Telluride. IFC will now release it in theaters and on demand on May 7, 2021.
In “Mainstream,” Hawke plays a young woman who thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger, played by Garfield. But the dark side of viral celebrity soon threatens to ruin them both. Nat Wolff, Johnny Knoxville, Jason Schwartzman and Alexa Demie also star.
Coppola directed the film and co-wrote the script with Tom Stuart. “Mainstream” is the director’s follow-up to her debut feature, “Palo Alto,” from 2013. That film starred Emma Roberts and James Franco...
Andrew Garfield and Maya Hawke star in the film about the dark side of viral internet fame. “Mainstream” first premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020 and was a selection of last year’s Telluride. IFC will now release it in theaters and on demand on May 7, 2021.
In “Mainstream,” Hawke plays a young woman who thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger, played by Garfield. But the dark side of viral celebrity soon threatens to ruin them both. Nat Wolff, Johnny Knoxville, Jason Schwartzman and Alexa Demie also star.
Coppola directed the film and co-wrote the script with Tom Stuart. “Mainstream” is the director’s follow-up to her debut feature, “Palo Alto,” from 2013. That film starred Emma Roberts and James Franco...
- 2/12/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: After hitting the fall film festival circuit of Telluride, Venice and Toronto with her edgy coming-of-age directorial debut Palo Alto back in 2013, Gia Coppola is returning to the Lido with sophomore effort Mainstream. The film will screen in the Horizons section on September 5 with star Maya Hawke and producer Fred Berger, among others, also in town. Coppola wrote the script with Tom Stuart and also produces for American Zoetrope. Check out the exclusive first-look photo above.
The film is described as “a love story of being in love with someone who doesn’t love themselves set against the new emerging culture of today’s world.” Coppola tells Deadline she was partly inspired by her love for Elia Kazan’s classic Andy Griffith-starrer A Face In The Crowd about an Arkansas drifter who becomes an overnight media sensation and becomes drunk with fame and power. She says, “I connected...
The film is described as “a love story of being in love with someone who doesn’t love themselves set against the new emerging culture of today’s world.” Coppola tells Deadline she was partly inspired by her love for Elia Kazan’s classic Andy Griffith-starrer A Face In The Crowd about an Arkansas drifter who becomes an overnight media sensation and becomes drunk with fame and power. She says, “I connected...
- 8/20/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Director Gia Coppola has added Johnny Knoxville, Chris Messina, Alexa Demie, and Colleen Camp to Mainstream, her sophomore film. Pic shoots in Los Angeles May 20. They join Andrew Garfield, Maya Hawke, Nat Wolff and Jason Schwartzman.
Coppola co-wrote the script with Tom Stuart. The drama is described as a love triangle and cautionary tale of preserving identity within the modern internet age.
Automatik’s Fred Berger is producing alongside Coppola for American Zoetrope and Lauren Bratman. Siena Oberman, Zac Weinstein of Dynasty, Enrico Saraiva & Francisco Rebelo de Andrade of Tugawood, and Jack Heller of Assemble also produce.
Coppola made her directorial debut on Palo Alto, a film that starred Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff, Emma Roberts and James Franco.
CAA Media Finance is handling domestic sales; Wild Bunch is handling foreign sales.
Coppola is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment; Knoxville is CAA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Sloane, Offer; Messina is CAA,...
Coppola co-wrote the script with Tom Stuart. The drama is described as a love triangle and cautionary tale of preserving identity within the modern internet age.
Automatik’s Fred Berger is producing alongside Coppola for American Zoetrope and Lauren Bratman. Siena Oberman, Zac Weinstein of Dynasty, Enrico Saraiva & Francisco Rebelo de Andrade of Tugawood, and Jack Heller of Assemble also produce.
Coppola made her directorial debut on Palo Alto, a film that starred Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff, Emma Roberts and James Franco.
CAA Media Finance is handling domestic sales; Wild Bunch is handling foreign sales.
Coppola is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment; Knoxville is CAA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Sloane, Offer; Messina is CAA,...
- 5/14/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
He’ll be seen being a nasty sort in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but Domhnall Gleeson is sticking to his more usual good-natured hopeless romantic for a new comedy, Crash Pad. Christina Applegate, Thomas Haden Church and Nina Dobrev are all joining him in the film, which Kevin Tent – an Oscar-nominated editor who has worked with Alexander Payne – has started shooting in Vancouver as his directorial debut.Gleeson stars as a man who thinks he’s struck the jackpot of true love with an older woman (Applegate). Until, that is he learns that she’s just using him to get romantic revenge on her neglectful husband (Church). Our hero threatens to blackmail his paramour by telling her hubby all about their affair, only for the man to decide he’s going to get back at his wife by moving in with Gleeson and returning to his bachelor ways.
- 10/21/2015
- EmpireOnline
The distributor has acquired Us rights to Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s recent Sundance premiere and plans a 2015 theatrical release.
The Stanford Prison Experiment won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and The Alfred P Sloan Feature Film Prize in Park City.
The story centres on the real-life research of Dr Zimbardo’s infamous 1971 psychological tests in which 18 male undergraduates were assigned the role of guards and prisoners.
Billy Crudup stars alongside Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Tye Sheridan, Johnny Simmons, Olivia Thirlby, Nick Braun, Thomas Mann, Ki Hong Lee, James Wolk, James Frecheville and Moises Arias.
Abandon Features produced with Sandbar Pictures’ Lizzie Friedman and Greg Little, Coup d’État Films’ Brent Emery and Lauren Bratman. Brian Geraghty is the executive producer. Abandon Features, Sandbar Pictures and Vineyard Point Productions financed.
Arianna Bocco brokered the deal with UTA Independent Film Group on behalf of the film-makers.
The Stanford Prison Experiment won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and The Alfred P Sloan Feature Film Prize in Park City.
The story centres on the real-life research of Dr Zimbardo’s infamous 1971 psychological tests in which 18 male undergraduates were assigned the role of guards and prisoners.
Billy Crudup stars alongside Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Tye Sheridan, Johnny Simmons, Olivia Thirlby, Nick Braun, Thomas Mann, Ki Hong Lee, James Wolk, James Frecheville and Moises Arias.
Abandon Features produced with Sandbar Pictures’ Lizzie Friedman and Greg Little, Coup d’État Films’ Brent Emery and Lauren Bratman. Brian Geraghty is the executive producer. Abandon Features, Sandbar Pictures and Vineyard Point Productions financed.
Arianna Bocco brokered the deal with UTA Independent Film Group on behalf of the film-makers.
- 3/5/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
• Joaquim de Almeida (Fast Five) has signed on to play the male lead opposite Sandra Bullock in David Gordon Green’s Our Brand Is Crisis. Zoe Kazan (What If) has also signed on for the political dramedy. In addition to Bullock, they’re joining Scoot McNairy, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, and Ann Dowd. The film is based on Rachel Boynton’s 2005 documentary of the same name, which explored American political campaign strategies in Bolivia. Green’s film stars Bullock as “Calamity” Jane Bodine, a retired American political consultant, with de Almeida as Castillo, the former president of Bolivia who is running for office again.
- 10/11/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Exclusive: Olivia Thirlby (Juno, Dredd) and Nelsan Ellis (True Blood) have joined the ensemble cast of The Stanford Prison Experiment, about the infamous 1971 psychological exercise in which college students exhibited shocking cruel and sadistic behavior when divided into camps of prisoners and prison guards.
Helmed by Kyle Alvarez (C.O.G.), the Tim Talbott-scripted film stars Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, and Billy Crudup as Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the Stanford professor who would later write the book on the psychology of good and evil behavior. Thirlby will play Christina Zimbardo, Professor Zimbardo’s wife and fellow academic. She’s currently starring in O.P.C. at the American Repertory Theater with Melissa Leo and next appears onscreen in The Wedding Ringer in January. Ellis, who had a beloved run as Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s True Blood, will play Jesse Fletcher in Stanford. He appeared as Martin Luther King, Jr. in Lee Daniels...
Helmed by Kyle Alvarez (C.O.G.), the Tim Talbott-scripted film stars Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, and Billy Crudup as Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the Stanford professor who would later write the book on the psychology of good and evil behavior. Thirlby will play Christina Zimbardo, Professor Zimbardo’s wife and fellow academic. She’s currently starring in O.P.C. at the American Repertory Theater with Melissa Leo and next appears onscreen in The Wedding Ringer in January. Ellis, who had a beloved run as Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s True Blood, will play Jesse Fletcher in Stanford. He appeared as Martin Luther King, Jr. in Lee Daniels...
- 10/10/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
After making her directing debut with In A World, Lake Bell will take her sophomore turn behind the camera with The Emperor’s Children for Imagine Entertainment. Noah Baumbach adapted the script from Claire Messud’s 2006 book about three friends in their early thirties living in NYC in the months leading up to September 11, 2001. Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins are producing for Imagine. Bell wrote, directed, and starred in In A World, which nabbed her Sundance’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award along with an Indie Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay. She stars in the upcoming The Coup for TWC and in Man Up opposite Simon Pegg.
Neophyte thesp Jack Kilmer will play one of a handful of infamous college research subjects in The Stanford Prison Experiment, now filming in L.A. The film directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez from Tim Talbott’s script chronicles the notorious 1971 experiment conducted at Stanford University,...
Neophyte thesp Jack Kilmer will play one of a handful of infamous college research subjects in The Stanford Prison Experiment, now filming in L.A. The film directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez from Tim Talbott’s script chronicles the notorious 1971 experiment conducted at Stanford University,...
- 8/27/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
After more than a decade in development, a movie about the infamous “Stanford Prison Experiment” is finally moving forward with Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller and Michael Angarano set to star and “C.O.G.” filmmaker Kyle Patrick Alvarez (“C.O.G.”) directing, TheWrap has learned. Sandbar Pictures and Abandon Features are financing the indie project, which Brent Emery and Lizzie Friedman are producing with Greg Little, Lauren Bratman and “The Hurt Locker” star Brian Geraghty. The film is based on the landmark experiment conducted at Stanford University in the summer of 1971, in which randomly-chosen 19 and 20-year-old students were divided into camps of either...
- 8/19/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Bosworth to write a memoir about her grandmother in Kat Coiro's untitled Italy Project Kat Coiro and Kate Bosworth who worked together on Life Happens, are set to reteam for an untitled Italy Project that has Kate Bosworth playing a married woman struggling to write a memoir about her grandmother. She ends up in an affair with a nineteen-year-old on the island of Ischia. Iddo Goldberg is in as the woman's tightly wound viola player from London. Lauren Bratman, Bosworth and Coiro are producing and 1821 Pictures are financing the Italy project. Filming will take place in Ischia, Naples and in Los Angeles, reports Variety. Paris Kasidokostas Latsis and Terry Dougas are serving as executive producers.
- 6/17/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Bosworth to write a memoir about her grandmother in Kat Coiro's untitled Italy Project Kat Coiro and Kate Bosworth who worked together on Life Happens, are set to reteam for an untitled Italy Project that has Kate Bosworth playing a married woman struggling to write a memoir about her grandmother. She ends up in an affair with a nineteen-year-old on the island of Ischia. Iddo Goldberg is in as the woman's tightly wound viola player from London. Lauren Bratman, Bosworth and Coiro are producing and 1821 Pictures are financing the Italy project. Filming will take place in Ischia, Naples and in Los Angeles, reports Variety. Paris Kasidokostas Latsis and Terry Dougas are serving as executive producers.
- 6/17/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Bosworth to write a memoir about her grandmother in Kat Coiro's untitled Italy Project Kat Coiro and Kate Bosworth who worked together on Life Happens, are set to reteam for an untitled Italy Project that has Kate Bosworth playing a married woman struggling to write a memoir about her grandmother. She ends up in an affair with a nineteen-year-old on the island of Ischia. Iddo Goldberg is in as the woman's tightly wound viola player from London. Lauren Bratman, Bosworth and Coiro are producing and 1821 Pictures are financing the Italy project. Filming will take place in Ischia, Naples and in Los Angeles, reports Variety. Paris Kasidokostas Latsis and Terry Dougas are serving as executive producers.
- 6/17/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jason Biggs and Rhys Coiro have joined the cast of the independent comedy "Bff and Baby."According to Variety, the cast also includes Kate Bosworth, Krysten Ritter, Rachel Bilson, Fallon Goodson, Justin Kirk, Andrea Savage, Kristen Johnston, Seymour Cassel and Geoff Stults.Kat Coiro will direct from a script she co-wrote with Ritter.The film revolves around two female best friends (Ritter, Bosworth) who try to maintain their lives after Ritter's character gets pregnant and has a baby. Justin Levine will produce through Stardust Pictures, with Ritter, Kat Coiro, David J. Phillips, Lauren Bratman and Corbin Timbrook co-producing.Production begins at the end of the month.Rhys Coiro was recently seen on HBO's "Entourage," while Biggs can be seen next in the film "Grassroots," opposite...
- 10/21/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
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