Exclusive: UK-French sales company Alief has acquired world sales rights to Megan Seely’s dark comedy Puddysticks in which she co-stars alongside Mamoudou Athie and Dan Bakkedahl.
Seely plays Liz, a burned-out videogame designer who discovers a mysterious society of adults who heal their darkest secrets through childlike play.
Led by the alluring figure of Sylvester Cromwell (Bakkedahl), the group compels each member to reveal their most shameful memory as part of the process but when Liz finally musters the courage to share her darkest trauma, her world turns upside down.
Puddysticks is actress, writer and filmmaker Seely’s first feature length film after well-travelled short film My Loyal Audience, TV show Every Year On My Half Birthday and taking co-writing credits on 2017 feature The Mad Whale.
Her acting credits include the Filipino and American musical The Girl Who Left Home and Twist.
Seely plays Liz, a burned-out videogame designer who discovers a mysterious society of adults who heal their darkest secrets through childlike play.
Led by the alluring figure of Sylvester Cromwell (Bakkedahl), the group compels each member to reveal their most shameful memory as part of the process but when Liz finally musters the courage to share her darkest trauma, her world turns upside down.
Puddysticks is actress, writer and filmmaker Seely’s first feature length film after well-travelled short film My Loyal Audience, TV show Every Year On My Half Birthday and taking co-writing credits on 2017 feature The Mad Whale.
Her acting credits include the Filipino and American musical The Girl Who Left Home and Twist.
- 2/6/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
“Love… Reconsidered” is a new ‘rom-com’ feature, directed by Carol Ray Hartsell, starring Sophie von Haselberg, Colton Haynes, Luke Gulbranson, Rosa Gilmore, Judy Gold, Elaine Bromka, Javier Munoz, Marisa Ryan and Jill Kargman, releasing February 2, 2024 in theaters:
“…New Yorker ‘Ruby’ is thirty and flirty, but definitely not thriving, when she is transferred to the ‘Hamptons’ after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner…”
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“…New Yorker ‘Ruby’ is thirty and flirty, but definitely not thriving, when she is transferred to the ‘Hamptons’ after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner…”
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- 1/17/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Exclusive: Good Deed Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Carol Ray Hartsell’s Hamptons-set indie romantic comedy Love … Reconsidered for a Valentine’s Day 2024 release.
Sophie von Haselberg stars as a down-on-her-luck New Yorker whose life is suddenly transferred to the Hamptons after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner.
“Love… Reconsidered is refreshing and I know audiences will fall in love with this unique cast,” said Gde’s EVP Acquisitions Erik Donley. “This is going to be a perfect film for rom-com fans everywhere.”
The deal was finalized ahead of the Cannes Market and negotiated by Gde’s Donley and Brett Walker, president at Alief with partner Miguel Angel Govea on behalf of the filmmakers.
Other cast members include Colton Haynes, Luke Gulbranson and Elaine Bromka (Uncle Buck).
The film marks Hartsell’s feature debut as a director, after...
Sophie von Haselberg stars as a down-on-her-luck New Yorker whose life is suddenly transferred to the Hamptons after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner.
“Love… Reconsidered is refreshing and I know audiences will fall in love with this unique cast,” said Gde’s EVP Acquisitions Erik Donley. “This is going to be a perfect film for rom-com fans everywhere.”
The deal was finalized ahead of the Cannes Market and negotiated by Gde’s Donley and Brett Walker, president at Alief with partner Miguel Angel Govea on behalf of the filmmakers.
Other cast members include Colton Haynes, Luke Gulbranson and Elaine Bromka (Uncle Buck).
The film marks Hartsell’s feature debut as a director, after...
- 5/19/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: UK-French sales company Alief has added Carol Hartsell’s Hamptons-set indie romantic comedy Love… Reconsidered to its Cannes 2023 slate on the eve of the market.
Sophie von Haselberg stars as a down-on-her-luck New Yorker whose life is suddenly transferred to the Hamptons after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner.
It is the second feature starring Bette Midler’s daughter von Haselberg sold internationally by Alief after it successfully handled Amanda Kramer’s Give Me Pity!
Other cast members include Colton Haynes, Javier Muñoz (Broadway’s Hamilton), Jill Kargman (Odd Mom Out) Marisa Ryan (Wet Hot American Summer), Rosa Gilmore (The Expanse), Luke Gulbranson, Anthony Norman (Mare of Easttown) Judy Gold (Better Things) and Elaine Bromka (Uncle Buck).
The film was scripted by Arielle Haller-Silverstone and loosely inspired by her own experiences when she lost her job during the Covid-...
Sophie von Haselberg stars as a down-on-her-luck New Yorker whose life is suddenly transferred to the Hamptons after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner.
It is the second feature starring Bette Midler’s daughter von Haselberg sold internationally by Alief after it successfully handled Amanda Kramer’s Give Me Pity!
Other cast members include Colton Haynes, Javier Muñoz (Broadway’s Hamilton), Jill Kargman (Odd Mom Out) Marisa Ryan (Wet Hot American Summer), Rosa Gilmore (The Expanse), Luke Gulbranson, Anthony Norman (Mare of Easttown) Judy Gold (Better Things) and Elaine Bromka (Uncle Buck).
The film was scripted by Arielle Haller-Silverstone and loosely inspired by her own experiences when she lost her job during the Covid-...
- 5/12/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sophie von Haselberg (Halston), Colton Haynes (Arrow), Javier Muñoz (Broadway’s Hamilton), Jill Kargman (Odd Mom Out) and Marisa Ryan (Wet Hot American Summer) have signed on to star in Love…Reconsidered, an indie comedy, which is currently in production in New York.
The film directed by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee‘s managing digital producer Carol Hartsell centers on Ruby (Von Haselberg), a 30-year-old New Yorker whose life is suddenly transplanted to the Hamptons after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner.
Rick Younger, Judy Gold, Elaine Bromka, Luke Gulbranson, Jon Lemmon, Anthony Norman, and Amy Pham round out the cast of the film, scripted by Arielle Haller-Silverstone.
Ian Stone and El Ride Productions are exec producing, with Haller-Silverstone and casting director Sj Allocco serving as co-producers.
Von Haselberg is repped by APA and Artists First; Haynes by UTA and Untitled Entertainment; Muñoz by APA and...
The film directed by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee‘s managing digital producer Carol Hartsell centers on Ruby (Von Haselberg), a 30-year-old New Yorker whose life is suddenly transplanted to the Hamptons after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner.
Rick Younger, Judy Gold, Elaine Bromka, Luke Gulbranson, Jon Lemmon, Anthony Norman, and Amy Pham round out the cast of the film, scripted by Arielle Haller-Silverstone.
Ian Stone and El Ride Productions are exec producing, with Haller-Silverstone and casting director Sj Allocco serving as co-producers.
Von Haselberg is repped by APA and Artists First; Haynes by UTA and Untitled Entertainment; Muñoz by APA and...
- 10/29/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” trivia game app launched a new game Sunday that was “intentionally unwinnable” for players, with the prize money instead being donated to the NAACP, Variety has learned exclusively.
The app, “This is Not a Game: The Game,” features trivia games during which players have to answer trivia questions designed to educate them about political topics including the Founding Fathers, Gop history, environmental justice, reproductive rights, Lgbtq heroes and America’s indigenous peoples, and those that correctly answer every question in a round split a pot of money. Sunday’s theme was voter suppression, and at the end of the game, an in-app pop-up notified players that no one would be splitting the $7500 pot.
“Voter suppression is real and is happening when the stakes are way higher than $7500. It makes me furious and I wanted to make people furious with me,” Caroline Schaper, “Full Frontal” digital producer tells Variety.
The app, “This is Not a Game: The Game,” features trivia games during which players have to answer trivia questions designed to educate them about political topics including the Founding Fathers, Gop history, environmental justice, reproductive rights, Lgbtq heroes and America’s indigenous peoples, and those that correctly answer every question in a round split a pot of money. Sunday’s theme was voter suppression, and at the end of the game, an in-app pop-up notified players that no one would be splitting the $7500 pot.
“Voter suppression is real and is happening when the stakes are way higher than $7500. It makes me furious and I wanted to make people furious with me,” Caroline Schaper, “Full Frontal” digital producer tells Variety.
- 11/4/2018
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
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