James Andrews Dahl, a filmmaker whose Modern Man Films produced the critically acclaimed biopic The End of the Tour about David Foster Wallace, died Feb. 13 at age 40 in West Hollywood.
A memorial service will be held Monday, Feb. 18 at 1 Pm at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary, 1218 Glendon Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Dahl’s honor to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas, a research library and museum dedicated to preserving the works of David Foster Wallace. Dahl served many years on the advisory council.
Born in New York City in 1978, Dahl spent a decade in Los Angeles before his family moved to Jacksonville, Fl, where he attended and graduated from The Bolles School.
After his high school graduation, Dahl moved to London to study literature for one year. He then moved to New...
A memorial service will be held Monday, Feb. 18 at 1 Pm at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary, 1218 Glendon Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Dahl’s honor to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas, a research library and museum dedicated to preserving the works of David Foster Wallace. Dahl served many years on the advisory council.
Born in New York City in 1978, Dahl spent a decade in Los Angeles before his family moved to Jacksonville, Fl, where he attended and graduated from The Bolles School.
After his high school graduation, Dahl moved to London to study literature for one year. He then moved to New...
- 2/17/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The actress will play a Us Marine in the drama inspired by the real-life female soldiers who deployed alongside Special Forces under the Lioness Program.
James Dahl is producing Lioness from a screenplay by Rosalind Ross about a female operative on an anti-Taliban mission in Afghanistan.
Page will next be seen opposite Julianne Moore and Michael Shannon in Freeheld, which Lionsgate will release on October 2. She is currently filming Tallulah opposite Allison Janney for Route One Entertainment and Ocean Blue Entertainment.
Dahl’s credits include The End Of The Tour starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segal that A24 will release on July 31. Ross wrote El Rey Network’s Matador.
In other casting news, Courteney Cox and Roselyn Sanchez have joined Susan Sarandon, Sharon Stone, Christina Ricci, Paul Wesley and Eva Amurri Martino on Paul Duddridge’s drama Mothers Day. Danielle James and Amy Williams are producing the film, currently in production in Los Angeles.
James Dahl is producing Lioness from a screenplay by Rosalind Ross about a female operative on an anti-Taliban mission in Afghanistan.
Page will next be seen opposite Julianne Moore and Michael Shannon in Freeheld, which Lionsgate will release on October 2. She is currently filming Tallulah opposite Allison Janney for Route One Entertainment and Ocean Blue Entertainment.
Dahl’s credits include The End Of The Tour starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segal that A24 will release on July 31. Ross wrote El Rey Network’s Matador.
In other casting news, Courteney Cox and Roselyn Sanchez have joined Susan Sarandon, Sharon Stone, Christina Ricci, Paul Wesley and Eva Amurri Martino on Paul Duddridge’s drama Mothers Day. Danielle James and Amy Williams are producing the film, currently in production in Los Angeles.
- 7/8/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Currently filming the comedy drama Tallulah with her fellow Juno alumnus Allison Janney, Ellen Page already has her next project lined up. She'll play real-life Us Marine Lance Corporal Leslie Martz, in producer James Dahl's developing war drama Lioness.Martz was stationed in Iraq for a time, but Lioness is concerned with her stint in Afghanistan, leading a 'Female Engagement Team'. Her agenda was ostensibly to gain the trust of Afghan women and prepare them for independence, but Martz was also tasked with surreptitiously extracting intelligence from those same women about their Taliban husbands.Torn between her duty to her country and her sympathy with the women she was secretly betraying, she began to question where her allegiance really lay: a situation not helped by the fact that she was already hiding her identity as a gay woman in the military.Lioness doesn't have a director yet, but newcomer...
- 7/8/2015
- EmpireOnline
Three times lucky and fourth time the charm? Depending on who ask, The End of the Tour, the book to screen adaptation of David Lipsky’s “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself” would be welcomed with both anticipation and trepidation (the Wallace clan haven’t warmed up to the idea). James Ponsoldt, a specialist in the human condition, has a road-tripper that fills out a certain quota: high profile sales items (at this point we have no idea if Sony might be selling or keeping) with attention-getting topliners in Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg. Ponsoldt’s entire feature filmography has screened in Park City, but this is perhaps the least likely candidate to premiere this January as the shooting budget on this road-tripper was perhaps larger than that of Off the Black (2006), Smashed (2012) and The Spectacular Now (2013) combined. Production began at the beginning of ’14 and Sony acquired all...
- 11/12/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Many fans of the late "Infinite Jest" author David Foster Wallace were already wary of the upcoming biopic "The End of the Tour," starring Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky. Add Wallace's family to the list of those not looking forward to the film. The late author's estate released a statement against the film, which is based on an unpublished 1996 Rolling Stone interview which Lipsky adapted into 2008 book "Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace." “The David Foster Wallace Literary Trust, David’s family, and David’s longtime publisher Little, Brown, and Company wish to make it clear that they have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support, ‘The End of the Tour,'" says the statement. James Ponsoldt ("The Spectacular Now") is directing the film, which was written by Donald Margulies. James Dahl,...
- 4/22/2014
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
The End of the Tour
Director: James Ponsoldt
Writers: Donald Margulies
Producers: James Dahl, Matt DeRoss, David Kanter
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg
The success of The Spectacular Now created quite a flurry of new projects for James Ponsoldt, including a highly anticipated biopic on Hilary Rodham Clinton and several other projects. But it looks as if his next film will be this, set to film this spring with recent announcements that Jason Segel would star as the Infinite Jest author alongside Jesse Eisenberg. We’re hoping this wraps up in time for a release at the end of the year.
Gist: A magazine reporter recounts his travels and conversations with author David Foster Wallace during a promotional book tour.. br>
Release Date: While we’re hoping to see this out at the end of 2014 and at a major film fest, but there’s a...
Director: James Ponsoldt
Writers: Donald Margulies
Producers: James Dahl, Matt DeRoss, David Kanter
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg
The success of The Spectacular Now created quite a flurry of new projects for James Ponsoldt, including a highly anticipated biopic on Hilary Rodham Clinton and several other projects. But it looks as if his next film will be this, set to film this spring with recent announcements that Jason Segel would star as the Infinite Jest author alongside Jesse Eisenberg. We’re hoping this wraps up in time for a release at the end of the year.
Gist: A magazine reporter recounts his travels and conversations with author David Foster Wallace during a promotional book tour.. br>
Release Date: While we’re hoping to see this out at the end of 2014 and at a major film fest, but there’s a...
- 2/10/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has closed a deal with Fortitude International for all international English-speaking territories, Latin America and select European territories to The End Of The Tour.
Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg will star in the story of a Rolling Stone reporter who accompanies the late author David Foster Wallace on a book promotional tour.
James Ponsoldt of The Spectacular Now fame directs from a screenplay by playwright Donald Margulies, who adapted David Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Beconming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace.
Kilburn Media fully financed the film, with Mark Manuel and Ted O’Neal producing alongside David Kanter and Matt DeRoss for Anonymous Content and James Dahl of Modern Man Films.
Anonymous Content’s Paul Green will serve as executive producer and production is scheduled to commence shortly.
UTA and Wme handle domestic rights.
Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg will star in the story of a Rolling Stone reporter who accompanies the late author David Foster Wallace on a book promotional tour.
James Ponsoldt of The Spectacular Now fame directs from a screenplay by playwright Donald Margulies, who adapted David Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Beconming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace.
Kilburn Media fully financed the film, with Mark Manuel and Ted O’Neal producing alongside David Kanter and Matt DeRoss for Anonymous Content and James Dahl of Modern Man Films.
Anonymous Content’s Paul Green will serve as executive producer and production is scheduled to commence shortly.
UTA and Wme handle domestic rights.
- 2/8/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
We are so happy to hear that our dear friend for many years Nadine de Barros has joined industry vets film financier Daniel Wagner and producer Robert Ogden Barnum to form a new international sales company Fortitude International which de Barros will roll out in Berlin the next weeks.
In the Berlin Efm Market Fortitude International to sell Foreign Rights for and will introduce this new project to buyers at the upcoming Berlin European Film Market.
The project will see Kilburn Media financing The End Of The Tour, starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenbeg, Directed By James Ponsoldt.
Mark Manuel and Ted O’Neal’s Kilburn Media has come on board as full financiers of the fact-based drama “The End of the Tour,” starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg and directed by James Ponsoldt. The announcement was made jointly by Kilburn and by Anonymous Content. David Kanter and Matt DeRoss will produce for Anonymous Content along with James Dahl of Modern Man Films. Manuel and O’Neal will produce for Kilburn.
The film follows author David Foster Wallace (Segel), author of famous best selling novel Infinite Jest, on the 1996 supporting book tour as Wallace is accompanied David Lipsky (Eisenberg), on assignment from Rolling Stone Magazine. Along the way, both a friendship and jealousy and competition emerge between the two writers as they discuss women, culture, depression and the pros and cons of fame. Though Wallace committed suicide in 2008, the movie captures both men at a time of great promise.
James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) will direct from a script by playwright Donald Margulies, who adapted Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace. Ponsoldt himself used to work at Rolling Stone while he was in college.
Anonymous Content’s Paul Green will executive produce the film, which is scheduled to start production shortly.
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About Nadine de Barros and her new venture international sales agent Fortitude International.
Veteran foreign sales agent Nadine de Barros, financier/producer Daniel Wagner (Kill The Trumpet Player, Young Ones) and producer Robert Ogden Barnum (All Is Lost, Lawless) have partnered to launch Fortitude International, a new sales and financing outfit based in Los Angeles. De Barros will be meeting with film buyers at the upcoming European Film Market at the Berlinale.
De Barros most recently served as Head of Sales at Aldamisa International, and was previously Vice President of Sales and Acquisitions at Voltage Pictures. She has handled sales on such films as Sin City 2, Chef and Machete Kills as well as The Hurt Locker, Don Jon and Killer Joe.
In addition to sales, Fortitude will also fully finance projects, and will be actively looking to produce strong, commercial and director driven material immediately. The company will finance and sell 10-15 movies a year and has at its disposal equity, bridge and senior debt capabilities.
Fortitude will also focus on sourcing and financing television series and miniseries.
De Barros has always had a foot in television and previously sold TNT’s Leverage, The Triangle on SyFy, True Justice on Reelz and most recently SAF3.
“I am thrilled to be working with Daniel and Rob as we build Fortitude into a full-service international sales and financing company. I’m also very excited about our forthcoming slate of projects, both film and television series and miniseries,” said de Barros.
“Through Fortitude International, we have created a company that will provide important services and support not just for our personal slate of films, but to our present and future producing partners as well. I'm excited to partner with such talented and dedicated individuals on this new venture,” said Wagner.
“As financiers, Nadine brings us the international market knowledge that is so imperative to us when evaluating projects. Fortitude will be a haven for filmmakers and artists to make creatively and commercially successful films,” said Barnum.
Wagner’s La-based production and finance company BiFrost Pictures launched last year at Cannes and has recently greenlit high profile projects including the Miles Davis biography Kill The Trumpet Player, which will star and be directed by Don Cheadle. Other projects include Jake Paltrow’s Sundance entry Young Ones with Michael Shannon and Nicholas Hoult, Paul Bettany’s directorial debut Shelter starring Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie, the romantic comedy We’LL Never Have Paris from director and star Simon Helberg, and The World Made Straight which stars Noah Wiley, Haley Joel Osment and Minka Kelly.
Robert Ogden Barnum, also a producer on Kill the Trumpet Player and Shelter, is a co-founder of the financing firm e2b Capital with Cassian Elwes, and most recently executive produced All Is Lost starring Robert Redford and directed by Jc Chandor. Other recent projects include Lawless, starring Shia Labeouf and Tom Hardy and Chandor’s first film Margin Call, starring Kevin Spacey. Barnum has also served as an executive, overseeing operations and strategy of both Benaroya Pictures and Annapurna Pictures, both major independent film financiers.
Nadine de Barros - detailed bio
A highly respected veteran in the sales of film and TV properties to the international market, Nadine represents projects of various budgets and genres making sales to distributors worldwide. She has represented over 350 films and TV series in the last 12 years. Until September of 2013, she was the President of Aldamisa International. In the last year, she has been responsible for the sales of “Machete Kills” starring Lady Gaga and Mel Gibson, “Sin City 2” a 75 million dollar budget film directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt and an ensemble cast, and “Chef” starring Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Junior and Scarlett Johansson. She is also overseeing production, financing and sales on “Captive” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Rescue 3” a 22 episode series currently in production, and Barbra’s Streisand’s directorial return, “The Margaret Bourke-White Story”. For 7 years prior to Aldamisa, Nadine was the President of Sales and Acquisitions of Voltage Pictures, a sales agency which she launched with global sales expert Nicolas Chartier. At Voltage she worked on Best Picture Academy Award Winner “The Hurt Locker”, “Killer Joe” directed by William Friedkin and starring Matthew McConaughey, “Company you Keep” directed and starring Robert Redford, and “Leverage” a 77 episode TNT series.
She also worked at Summit Entertainment when it was a growing foreign sales company and in Paris at Opening Distribution.
Nadine is a French and American Citizen who speaks both languages fluently. She graduated from the American University in Paris where she began her film career.
In the Berlin Efm Market Fortitude International to sell Foreign Rights for and will introduce this new project to buyers at the upcoming Berlin European Film Market.
The project will see Kilburn Media financing The End Of The Tour, starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenbeg, Directed By James Ponsoldt.
Mark Manuel and Ted O’Neal’s Kilburn Media has come on board as full financiers of the fact-based drama “The End of the Tour,” starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg and directed by James Ponsoldt. The announcement was made jointly by Kilburn and by Anonymous Content. David Kanter and Matt DeRoss will produce for Anonymous Content along with James Dahl of Modern Man Films. Manuel and O’Neal will produce for Kilburn.
The film follows author David Foster Wallace (Segel), author of famous best selling novel Infinite Jest, on the 1996 supporting book tour as Wallace is accompanied David Lipsky (Eisenberg), on assignment from Rolling Stone Magazine. Along the way, both a friendship and jealousy and competition emerge between the two writers as they discuss women, culture, depression and the pros and cons of fame. Though Wallace committed suicide in 2008, the movie captures both men at a time of great promise.
James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) will direct from a script by playwright Donald Margulies, who adapted Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace. Ponsoldt himself used to work at Rolling Stone while he was in college.
Anonymous Content’s Paul Green will executive produce the film, which is scheduled to start production shortly.
......
About Nadine de Barros and her new venture international sales agent Fortitude International.
Veteran foreign sales agent Nadine de Barros, financier/producer Daniel Wagner (Kill The Trumpet Player, Young Ones) and producer Robert Ogden Barnum (All Is Lost, Lawless) have partnered to launch Fortitude International, a new sales and financing outfit based in Los Angeles. De Barros will be meeting with film buyers at the upcoming European Film Market at the Berlinale.
De Barros most recently served as Head of Sales at Aldamisa International, and was previously Vice President of Sales and Acquisitions at Voltage Pictures. She has handled sales on such films as Sin City 2, Chef and Machete Kills as well as The Hurt Locker, Don Jon and Killer Joe.
In addition to sales, Fortitude will also fully finance projects, and will be actively looking to produce strong, commercial and director driven material immediately. The company will finance and sell 10-15 movies a year and has at its disposal equity, bridge and senior debt capabilities.
Fortitude will also focus on sourcing and financing television series and miniseries.
De Barros has always had a foot in television and previously sold TNT’s Leverage, The Triangle on SyFy, True Justice on Reelz and most recently SAF3.
“I am thrilled to be working with Daniel and Rob as we build Fortitude into a full-service international sales and financing company. I’m also very excited about our forthcoming slate of projects, both film and television series and miniseries,” said de Barros.
“Through Fortitude International, we have created a company that will provide important services and support not just for our personal slate of films, but to our present and future producing partners as well. I'm excited to partner with such talented and dedicated individuals on this new venture,” said Wagner.
“As financiers, Nadine brings us the international market knowledge that is so imperative to us when evaluating projects. Fortitude will be a haven for filmmakers and artists to make creatively and commercially successful films,” said Barnum.
Wagner’s La-based production and finance company BiFrost Pictures launched last year at Cannes and has recently greenlit high profile projects including the Miles Davis biography Kill The Trumpet Player, which will star and be directed by Don Cheadle. Other projects include Jake Paltrow’s Sundance entry Young Ones with Michael Shannon and Nicholas Hoult, Paul Bettany’s directorial debut Shelter starring Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie, the romantic comedy We’LL Never Have Paris from director and star Simon Helberg, and The World Made Straight which stars Noah Wiley, Haley Joel Osment and Minka Kelly.
Robert Ogden Barnum, also a producer on Kill the Trumpet Player and Shelter, is a co-founder of the financing firm e2b Capital with Cassian Elwes, and most recently executive produced All Is Lost starring Robert Redford and directed by Jc Chandor. Other recent projects include Lawless, starring Shia Labeouf and Tom Hardy and Chandor’s first film Margin Call, starring Kevin Spacey. Barnum has also served as an executive, overseeing operations and strategy of both Benaroya Pictures and Annapurna Pictures, both major independent film financiers.
Nadine de Barros - detailed bio
A highly respected veteran in the sales of film and TV properties to the international market, Nadine represents projects of various budgets and genres making sales to distributors worldwide. She has represented over 350 films and TV series in the last 12 years. Until September of 2013, she was the President of Aldamisa International. In the last year, she has been responsible for the sales of “Machete Kills” starring Lady Gaga and Mel Gibson, “Sin City 2” a 75 million dollar budget film directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt and an ensemble cast, and “Chef” starring Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Junior and Scarlett Johansson. She is also overseeing production, financing and sales on “Captive” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Rescue 3” a 22 episode series currently in production, and Barbra’s Streisand’s directorial return, “The Margaret Bourke-White Story”. For 7 years prior to Aldamisa, Nadine was the President of Sales and Acquisitions of Voltage Pictures, a sales agency which she launched with global sales expert Nicolas Chartier. At Voltage she worked on Best Picture Academy Award Winner “The Hurt Locker”, “Killer Joe” directed by William Friedkin and starring Matthew McConaughey, “Company you Keep” directed and starring Robert Redford, and “Leverage” a 77 episode TNT series.
She also worked at Summit Entertainment when it was a growing foreign sales company and in Paris at Opening Distribution.
Nadine is a French and American Citizen who speaks both languages fluently. She graduated from the American University in Paris where she began her film career.
- 2/1/2014
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Mark Manuel and Ted O’Neal’s Kilburn Media will fully finance fact-based drama The End Of The Tour to star Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg. Freshly minted Fortitude International will commence sales at the Efm.
David Kanter and Matt DeRoss will produce for Anonymous Content along with James Dahl of Modern Man Films and Manuel and O’Neal for Kilburn.
Paul Green will serve as executive producer and production is scheduled to commence shortly.
James Ponsoldt will direct the story about the acclaimed late author David Foster Wallace (pictured) on the 1996 supporting book tour for his masterpiece Infinite Jest accompanied by David Lipsky from Rolling Stone.
Segal will play Wallace and Eisenberg the reporter. Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008.
Playwright Donald Margulies adapted the screenplay from Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace.
David Kanter and Matt DeRoss will produce for Anonymous Content along with James Dahl of Modern Man Films and Manuel and O’Neal for Kilburn.
Paul Green will serve as executive producer and production is scheduled to commence shortly.
James Ponsoldt will direct the story about the acclaimed late author David Foster Wallace (pictured) on the 1996 supporting book tour for his masterpiece Infinite Jest accompanied by David Lipsky from Rolling Stone.
Segal will play Wallace and Eisenberg the reporter. Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008.
Playwright Donald Margulies adapted the screenplay from Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace.
- 1/30/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Mark Manuel and Ted O’Neal’s Kilburn Media will fully finance fact-based drama The End Of The Tour to star Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg. Freshly minted Fortitude International will commence sales at the Efm.
David Kanter and Matt DeRoss will produce for Anonymous Content along with James Dahl of Modern Man Films and Manuel and O’Neal for Kilburn.
Paul Green will serve as executive producer and production is scheduled to commence shortly.
James Ponsoldt will direct the story about the acclaimed late author David Foster Wallace (pictured) on the 1996 supporting book tour for his masterpiece Infinite Jest accompanied by David Lipsky from Rolling Stone.
Segal will play Wallace and Eisenberg the reporter. Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008.
Playwright Donald Margulies adapted the screenplay from Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace.
David Kanter and Matt DeRoss will produce for Anonymous Content along with James Dahl of Modern Man Films and Manuel and O’Neal for Kilburn.
Paul Green will serve as executive producer and production is scheduled to commence shortly.
James Ponsoldt will direct the story about the acclaimed late author David Foster Wallace (pictured) on the 1996 supporting book tour for his masterpiece Infinite Jest accompanied by David Lipsky from Rolling Stone.
Segal will play Wallace and Eisenberg the reporter. Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008.
Playwright Donald Margulies adapted the screenplay from Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace.
- 1/30/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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