“Bob Trevino Likes It” has wrapped production in Louisville, Ky. and has unveiled its first official photo. Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide sales rights and will launch sales out of Toronto in September. The film is one of the first independent productions to be approved for a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement during the actors strike.
“Bob Trevino Likes It” marks the feature debut for writer and director Tracie Laymon. It stars Barbie Ferreira, best known for her work on “Euphoria,” and John Leguizamo, who was most recently seen in “The Menu” and “John Wick: Chapter 2.” They will appear alongside the previously announced French Stewart (“3rd Rock From the Sun”), Lauren “Lolo” Spencer (“The Sex Lives of College Girls”) and Rachel Bay Jones (“Dear Evan Hansen”).
The movie is inspired by Laymon’s life. It centers around a people-pleasing young woman who, while searching for her estranged father online, unexpectedly forms...
“Bob Trevino Likes It” marks the feature debut for writer and director Tracie Laymon. It stars Barbie Ferreira, best known for her work on “Euphoria,” and John Leguizamo, who was most recently seen in “The Menu” and “John Wick: Chapter 2.” They will appear alongside the previously announced French Stewart (“3rd Rock From the Sun”), Lauren “Lolo” Spencer (“The Sex Lives of College Girls”) and Rachel Bay Jones (“Dear Evan Hansen”).
The movie is inspired by Laymon’s life. It centers around a people-pleasing young woman who, while searching for her estranged father online, unexpectedly forms...
- 8/24/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired North America rights to the indie drama Mending the Line, starring Golden Globe winner Brian Cox (Succession) and Sinqua Walls (White Men Can’t Jump), slating it for release in theaters nationwide on June 9th.
The story follows Colter (Walls), a marine who has just returned home after being wounded in Afghanistan on his last patrol. His doctor (Patricia Heaton) at the Va hospital introduces him to a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) who has been treated at the facility for decades and teaches him to fly fish, hoping it will help the young man deal with his physical and emotional trauma.
Mending the Line opened the 2022 Woodstock Film Festival and later played the San Diego Film Festival, where it won the Valor Award, given to a military-themed film that conveys the impact of war while unfolding the emotional layers and the human condition of fighting a war.
The story follows Colter (Walls), a marine who has just returned home after being wounded in Afghanistan on his last patrol. His doctor (Patricia Heaton) at the Va hospital introduces him to a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) who has been treated at the facility for decades and teaches him to fly fish, hoping it will help the young man deal with his physical and emotional trauma.
Mending the Line opened the 2022 Woodstock Film Festival and later played the San Diego Film Festival, where it won the Valor Award, given to a military-themed film that conveys the impact of war while unfolding the emotional layers and the human condition of fighting a war.
- 5/11/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Uplifting drama about recovering war veterans partnered with US Marine Corps Entertainment Media Liaison Office, US Department of Defense.
Blue Fox Entertainment will kick off international sales talks at AFM on the uplifting drama Mending The Line starring Succession’s Brian Cox alongside Sinqua Walls and Patricia Heaton.
Joshua Caldwell (Infamous) directed the drama about a young soldier (Walls) returned from Afghanistan who befriends a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) at the same medical facility who teaches him fly fishing as a way of dealing with physical and emotional trauma.
Stephen Camelio (The Push) wrote the screenplay and Perry Mattfeld and...
Blue Fox Entertainment will kick off international sales talks at AFM on the uplifting drama Mending The Line starring Succession’s Brian Cox alongside Sinqua Walls and Patricia Heaton.
Joshua Caldwell (Infamous) directed the drama about a young soldier (Walls) returned from Afghanistan who befriends a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) at the same medical facility who teaches him fly fishing as a way of dealing with physical and emotional trauma.
Stephen Camelio (The Push) wrote the screenplay and Perry Mattfeld and...
- 10/25/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Uplifting drama about recovering war veterans partnered with US Marine Corps Entertainment Media Liaison Office, US Department of Defense.
Blue Fox Entertainment will kick off international sales talks at AFM on the uplifting drama Mending The Line starring Succession’s Brian Cox alongside Sinqua Walls and Patricia Heaton.
Joshua Caldwell (Infamous) directed the drama about a young soldier (Walls) returned from Afghanistan who befriends a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) at the same medical facility who teaches him fly fishing as a way of dealing with physical and emotional trauma.
Stephen Camelio (The Push) wrote the screenplay and Perry Mattfeld and...
Blue Fox Entertainment will kick off international sales talks at AFM on the uplifting drama Mending The Line starring Succession’s Brian Cox alongside Sinqua Walls and Patricia Heaton.
Joshua Caldwell (Infamous) directed the drama about a young soldier (Walls) returned from Afghanistan who befriends a Vietnam War veteran (Cox) at the same medical facility who teaches him fly fishing as a way of dealing with physical and emotional trauma.
Stephen Camelio (The Push) wrote the screenplay and Perry Mattfeld and...
- 10/25/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Wes Studi (Hostiles), Patricia Heaton (The Middle), Perry Mattfeld (In the Dark), Chris Galust (Give Me Liberty) and Irene Bedard (The Stand) have joined the cast of Mending the Line.
They’ll appear in the film, which is currently in production in Montana, alongside previously announced cast members Brian Cox (Succession) and Sinqua Walls (Resort to Love).
The drama directed by Joshua Caldwell (Infamous) centers on a Marine injured in Afghanistan who makes his way to a Va hospital in Montana. There, he meets a damaged Vietnam vet who teaches him fly fishing as a means of coming to terms with his physical and emotional trauma.
Stephen Camelio penned the script for the feature, and is producing alongside Caldwell, Artimage Entertainment’s Carl Effenson, August Point Productions’ Kelly McKendry and Ckm Entertainment’s Scott MacLeod.
Cox and Walls are exec producing with Mark Comora, Kyle David Crosby, Roger Goff,...
They’ll appear in the film, which is currently in production in Montana, alongside previously announced cast members Brian Cox (Succession) and Sinqua Walls (Resort to Love).
The drama directed by Joshua Caldwell (Infamous) centers on a Marine injured in Afghanistan who makes his way to a Va hospital in Montana. There, he meets a damaged Vietnam vet who teaches him fly fishing as a means of coming to terms with his physical and emotional trauma.
Stephen Camelio penned the script for the feature, and is producing alongside Caldwell, Artimage Entertainment’s Carl Effenson, August Point Productions’ Kelly McKendry and Ckm Entertainment’s Scott MacLeod.
Cox and Walls are exec producing with Mark Comora, Kyle David Crosby, Roger Goff,...
- 10/19/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Brian Cox and Sinqua Walls have signed on to star and exec produce Mending the Line. The drama will be helmed by Joshua Caldwell (Infamous), which begins production later this month in Montana. Stephen Camelio penned the script.
The story follows a young soldier (Walls), injured in Afghanistan, who arrives at a Va hospital and meets a Vietnam veteran (Cox) at the facility who teaches him to fly fish, hoping it will help the young man deal with his physical and emotional trauma.
Carl Effenson (Mudbound) of Artimage Entertainment, Kelly McKendry of August Point Productions and Scott MacLeod of Ckm Entertainment are producing alongside Caldwell and Camelio. Mark Comora, Kyle David Crosby and Roger Goff also will serve as executive producers.
“With Mending the Line, Stephen has scripted a beautiful story about overcoming trauma and the healing power of fly fishing — a subject matter very close to my own heart,...
The story follows a young soldier (Walls), injured in Afghanistan, who arrives at a Va hospital and meets a Vietnam veteran (Cox) at the facility who teaches him to fly fish, hoping it will help the young man deal with his physical and emotional trauma.
Carl Effenson (Mudbound) of Artimage Entertainment, Kelly McKendry of August Point Productions and Scott MacLeod of Ckm Entertainment are producing alongside Caldwell and Camelio. Mark Comora, Kyle David Crosby and Roger Goff also will serve as executive producers.
“With Mending the Line, Stephen has scripted a beautiful story about overcoming trauma and the healing power of fly fishing — a subject matter very close to my own heart,...
- 8/20/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar-winner signs on to Second World War escape drama that Fortitude International will introduce to Cannes buyers.
Colin Firth will star in Benjamin’s Crossing as Walter Benjamin, the Jewish philosopher who escaped from the Nazis by fleeing across the Pyrenees in 1940.
Pat O’Connor, who worked with Firth on the Un Certain Regard entry A Month In The County, will direct and production is expected to start this autumn.
Benjamin’s Crossing is based on Jay Parini and Devon Jersild’s adaptation of Parini’s novel of the same name.
Benjamin fled his home in Paris and met Lisa Fittko who agreed to help the ailing man escape over the mountains to Spain.
Carl Effenson of Artimage Entertainment produces with Sally Jo Effenson of Joule Films, and Lucas Jarach, along with Fortitude’s Robert Ogden Barnum and Nadine de Barros.
Fortitude International, co-founded by de Barros and Barnum, is financing the project and will begin pre-sales...
Colin Firth will star in Benjamin’s Crossing as Walter Benjamin, the Jewish philosopher who escaped from the Nazis by fleeing across the Pyrenees in 1940.
Pat O’Connor, who worked with Firth on the Un Certain Regard entry A Month In The County, will direct and production is expected to start this autumn.
Benjamin’s Crossing is based on Jay Parini and Devon Jersild’s adaptation of Parini’s novel of the same name.
Benjamin fled his home in Paris and met Lisa Fittko who agreed to help the ailing man escape over the mountains to Spain.
Carl Effenson of Artimage Entertainment produces with Sally Jo Effenson of Joule Films, and Lucas Jarach, along with Fortitude’s Robert Ogden Barnum and Nadine de Barros.
Fortitude International, co-founded by de Barros and Barnum, is financing the project and will begin pre-sales...
- 5/15/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive Update: The streaming platform has acquired Us and multiple territory rights at the end of the festival in what was reportedly the biggest deal of Park City.
Screen understands the acquisition was for the Us and Canada, the UK, Italy, Benelux, Japan, China, South Korea, India and southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, South Africa, Iceland, Baltics and the Cis.
Early reports indicated the deal was for $12.5m however that number was not confirmed to Screen at time of writing.
If it is accurate, Mudbound becomes the biggest deal so far of Sundance 2017, overtaking the $12m Amazon Studios paid for the Us and select territories on The Big Sick.
The film made waves when it debuted last Saturday in Premieres and a deal percolated throughout the remainder of the festival.
Dee Rees directed the story of two Second World War veterans – one black, one white – who return to the Deep South where they face battles of a different...
Screen understands the acquisition was for the Us and Canada, the UK, Italy, Benelux, Japan, China, South Korea, India and southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, South Africa, Iceland, Baltics and the Cis.
Early reports indicated the deal was for $12.5m however that number was not confirmed to Screen at time of writing.
If it is accurate, Mudbound becomes the biggest deal so far of Sundance 2017, overtaking the $12m Amazon Studios paid for the Us and select territories on The Big Sick.
The film made waves when it debuted last Saturday in Premieres and a deal percolated throughout the remainder of the festival.
Dee Rees directed the story of two Second World War veterans – one black, one white – who return to the Deep South where they face battles of a different...
- 1/30/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Netflix has acquired the drama “Mudbound,” which premiered on January 21 in the Sundance Film Festival’s Premieres section. Netflix paid $12.5 million for the U.S. rights and other select rights to the film, Deadline reports. Good Universe previously sold the rights to multiple territories for the film.
Read More: ‘Mudbound’ Review: Dee Rees Enters the Big Leagues With Sweeping Period Epic — Sundance 2017
Directed by Dee Rees and set in the post-World War II rural Mississippi, “Mudbound” tells the story of two families pitted against the social hierarchy of 1940’s American south. When Ronsel (Jason Mitchell) and Jamie (Garrett Hedlund) return from war to life on a farm, their unique friendship challenges the already strained relationship between the two families. “Mudbound” is based on author Hillary Jordan’s 2009 novel of the same name, and features an ensemble cast that includes Jason Clarke, Carey Mulligan, Rob Morgan, and Mary J. Blige.
Rees...
Read More: ‘Mudbound’ Review: Dee Rees Enters the Big Leagues With Sweeping Period Epic — Sundance 2017
Directed by Dee Rees and set in the post-World War II rural Mississippi, “Mudbound” tells the story of two families pitted against the social hierarchy of 1940’s American south. When Ronsel (Jason Mitchell) and Jamie (Garrett Hedlund) return from war to life on a farm, their unique friendship challenges the already strained relationship between the two families. “Mudbound” is based on author Hillary Jordan’s 2009 novel of the same name, and features an ensemble cast that includes Jason Clarke, Carey Mulligan, Rob Morgan, and Mary J. Blige.
Rees...
- 1/30/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Artimage Entertainment, founded by producers Kyle Tekiela and Carl Effenson, and the Atlanta-based Grey Hawk Productions have launched a new six-figure development fund to finance a slate of gritty dramas and thriller feature films.
"We thought this was the perfect time to come together and create something impactful, to put some movies together," says Tekiela, who has known Rebecca Schaper, CEO of Gray Hawk Productions, for several years.
The first project to be produced under the new pact will be the thriller Cherry Waves, written and directed by Carey Williams. Williams' award-winning short of the same name garnered awards from...
"We thought this was the perfect time to come together and create something impactful, to put some movies together," says Tekiela, who has known Rebecca Schaper, CEO of Gray Hawk Productions, for several years.
The first project to be produced under the new pact will be the thriller Cherry Waves, written and directed by Carey Williams. Williams' award-winning short of the same name garnered awards from...
- 1/19/2017
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Soul singer Mary J. Blige has joined the cast of Dee Rees’ Mudbound alongside Jason Mitchell, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund and Carey Mulligan. The project, which starts filming soon in New Orleans, follows two men returning home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi. Once there, they struggle to deal with racism and adjust to postwar life. Cassian Elwes, Charles King, Kim Roth, Sally Jo Effenson Chris Lemole, Tim Zajaros and Carl Effenson…...
- 5/25/2016
- Deadline
Exclusive: Carey Mulligan will star in the drama from director Dees Rees.
Black Bear Pictures is to co-finance Cannes sales title Mudbound, the latest addition to a growing stable of prestige titles that includes The Imitation Game, Gold and Efm sensation Suburbicon.
Good Universe has introduced the sub-$15m drama to international buyers here with Cassian Elwes and Wme Global jointly representing Us rights.
Director Dee Rees and a lead cast of Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund and Jason Mitchell are preparing for a May 27 start in New Orleans on the story of two returning soldiers in post-war America who experience racism in rural Mississippi.
Charles King’s MacRo and Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros’ Armory are co-financing. Black Bear founder Teddy Schwarzman and Dan Steinman join the executive producer roster alongside Poppy Hanks.
Elwes, King, Kim Roth, Sally Jo Effenson, Carl Effenson, Lemole and Zajaros are producing.
Black Bear Pictures is to co-finance Cannes sales title Mudbound, the latest addition to a growing stable of prestige titles that includes The Imitation Game, Gold and Efm sensation Suburbicon.
Good Universe has introduced the sub-$15m drama to international buyers here with Cassian Elwes and Wme Global jointly representing Us rights.
Director Dee Rees and a lead cast of Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund and Jason Mitchell are preparing for a May 27 start in New Orleans on the story of two returning soldiers in post-war America who experience racism in rural Mississippi.
Charles King’s MacRo and Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros’ Armory are co-financing. Black Bear founder Teddy Schwarzman and Dan Steinman join the executive producer roster alongside Poppy Hanks.
Elwes, King, Kim Roth, Sally Jo Effenson, Carl Effenson, Lemole and Zajaros are producing.
- 5/14/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Garrett Hedlund, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke and Jason Mitchell are all in negotiations to star in Dee Rees' indie drama "MudBound" for Macro and Zeal.
Virgil Williams ("Criminal Minds") penned the screenplay based on Hillary Jordan's 2008 novel of the same name about a city worker in a WWII-torn country who relocates his family to a failing Mississippi farm and is forced to overcome insurmountable hardships, including his brother's return from war.
Cassian Elwes, Charles King, Kim Roth, Sally Jo Effenson Chris Lemole, Tim Zajaros and Carl Effenson are producing. No distributor is currently attached.
Source: Variety...
Virgil Williams ("Criminal Minds") penned the screenplay based on Hillary Jordan's 2008 novel of the same name about a city worker in a WWII-torn country who relocates his family to a failing Mississippi farm and is forced to overcome insurmountable hardships, including his brother's return from war.
Cassian Elwes, Charles King, Kim Roth, Sally Jo Effenson Chris Lemole, Tim Zajaros and Carl Effenson are producing. No distributor is currently attached.
Source: Variety...
- 3/21/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Carey Mulligan and Jason Clarke are set to star in the indie drama “Mudbound,” based on the award-winning novel by Hillary Jordan, TheWrap has exclusively learned. Garrett Hedlund and Jason Mitchell are in negotiations to co-star in the film, which Dee Rees (“Pariah”) will direct from a script by Virgil Williams. Cassian Elwes, Charles King, Kim Roth, Sally Jo Effenson and Carl Effenson are producing, while Chris Lemole, Tim Zajaros and Poppy Hanks will executive produce. Joe Drake will sell foreign rights. Set in 1946, “Mudbound” will find Mulligan playing city-bred Laura McAllan, who’s trying to raise her children on her husband’s Mississippi.
- 3/21/2016
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
We’re back with another horror news round-up, this time focusing on a recent seance event that took place in Hollywood ahead of Universal’s home media release of Ouija. We also have acquisition details on Joe Dante’s zom com, Burying the Ex, as well as news on another supernatural pilot order from The CW, and new images from Epic Pictures Group’s upcoming horror anthology movie, Tales of Halloween.
A Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes film from Universal Pictures, Ouija comes out on Blu-ray and DVD today and to celebrate the film’s home media release, Universal recently hosted a get-together in Hollywood that included Jason Blum and real life Ouija guru Robert Murch (an advisor on the film), who showed those in attendance how to conduct a proper seance:
“CEO of Blumhouse Pictures Jason Blum, director Stiles White, actress Bianca Santos, and Ouija historian & expert Robert Murch...
A Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes film from Universal Pictures, Ouija comes out on Blu-ray and DVD today and to celebrate the film’s home media release, Universal recently hosted a get-together in Hollywood that included Jason Blum and real life Ouija guru Robert Murch (an advisor on the film), who showed those in attendance how to conduct a proper seance:
“CEO of Blumhouse Pictures Jason Blum, director Stiles White, actress Bianca Santos, and Ouija historian & expert Robert Murch...
- 2/3/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot are picking up the screen rights to Jonathan Tropper's novel "One Last Thing Before I Go". Tropper will adapt the script says Deadline.
The story focuses on Silver, a man in full midlife crisis. His wife is remarrying a better man, his teen daughter is pregnant, and he discovers he could die at any moment without an operation he refuses to have.
Meanwhile, State Street Pictures and Mmc Joule Films are set to produce a film version of Hillary Jordan's award-winning novel "Mudbound" reports Variety.
Set in post-WW2 rural Mississippi, the story tracks one black and one white family as they deal with racism, misperception and human weakness
"Criminal Minds" writer and consulting producer Virgil Williams is adapting the script. George Tillman, Bob Teitel, Sally Jo Effenson and Carl Effenson will produce.
The story focuses on Silver, a man in full midlife crisis. His wife is remarrying a better man, his teen daughter is pregnant, and he discovers he could die at any moment without an operation he refuses to have.
Meanwhile, State Street Pictures and Mmc Joule Films are set to produce a film version of Hillary Jordan's award-winning novel "Mudbound" reports Variety.
Set in post-WW2 rural Mississippi, the story tracks one black and one white family as they deal with racism, misperception and human weakness
"Criminal Minds" writer and consulting producer Virgil Williams is adapting the script. George Tillman, Bob Teitel, Sally Jo Effenson and Carl Effenson will produce.
- 5/5/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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