Mark Damon returns to Berlin with a marquee title in the form of the Bobby Farrelly comedy and along with Tamara Birkemoe will commence pre-sales next week.
One Night Stan centres on a ladies’ man who decides to change his ways after he falls hard for a woman.
Kevin Barnett, Chris Pappas and Mike Bernier wrote the screenplay and Farrelly and Damon will produce with Serafini Pictures’ Susanne Bohnet.
Peter Farrelly, Birkemoe, Shaun Redick, Ray Mansfield and Grant Cramer are executive producers.
“I’m very excited to be directing One Night Stan,” said Farrelly (pictured), who comes off the recent $163m worldwide performance of former number one Us release Dumb And Dumber To.
“Every successful comedy starts with a good script and this one’s a beauty. It’s got all the elements I look for – a fresh story, lots of laughs, great twists, and plenty of heart. Casting it should be a lot of fun because...
One Night Stan centres on a ladies’ man who decides to change his ways after he falls hard for a woman.
Kevin Barnett, Chris Pappas and Mike Bernier wrote the screenplay and Farrelly and Damon will produce with Serafini Pictures’ Susanne Bohnet.
Peter Farrelly, Birkemoe, Shaun Redick, Ray Mansfield and Grant Cramer are executive producers.
“I’m very excited to be directing One Night Stan,” said Farrelly (pictured), who comes off the recent $163m worldwide performance of former number one Us release Dumb And Dumber To.
“Every successful comedy starts with a good script and this one’s a beauty. It’s got all the elements I look for – a fresh story, lots of laughs, great twists, and plenty of heart. Casting it should be a lot of fun because...
- 1/27/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Feature marks first directing vehicle without his brother Peter
Bobby Farrelly has signed on to direct comedy “One Night Stan,” Foresight Unlimited announced Tuesday.
This will mark the first time Farrelly has directed a film without his brother Peter Farrelly, though the two were previously attached to direct “One Night Stan” together. The brothers are known for comedies like “Dumb and Dumber To” and “There’s Something About Mary.”
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“One Night Stan” centers on Stan, a charmer known for his one-night-stands and firm commitment not to commit who falls hard for a dazzler named Amy.
Bobby Farrelly has signed on to direct comedy “One Night Stan,” Foresight Unlimited announced Tuesday.
This will mark the first time Farrelly has directed a film without his brother Peter Farrelly, though the two were previously attached to direct “One Night Stan” together. The brothers are known for comedies like “Dumb and Dumber To” and “There’s Something About Mary.”
Also Read: Oscars 2015: The Nominees (Photos)
“One Night Stan” centers on Stan, a charmer known for his one-night-stands and firm commitment not to commit who falls hard for a dazzler named Amy.
- 1/27/2015
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Bobby Farrelly (Dumb And Dumber) has signed on to direct One Night Stan for Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited. The comedy follows Stan, a serial commitment-phobe, who falls hard for a beautiful girl named Amy. When he decides to change his ways, he discovers that Amy has her own ideas about relationships.
The script is written by Kevin Barnett (Heartbreak Kid), Chris Pappas, and Mike Bernier. Producers are Bobby Farrelly, Foresight’s Mark Damon, Serafini Pictures’ Susanne Bohnet (New York, I Love You), with Peter Farrelly, Foresight’s Tamara Birkemoe, Shaun Redick, Raymond Mansfield and Grant Cramer executive producing.
Foresight Unlimited is handling international sales and will introduce the film at Berlin’s Efm in February.
Bobby Farrelly most recently wrote, directed and produced “Dumb And Dumber To” with his brother Peter, which has grossed $163 million worldwide to date.
Casting is currently underway with principal photography scheduled to begin in August.
The script is written by Kevin Barnett (Heartbreak Kid), Chris Pappas, and Mike Bernier. Producers are Bobby Farrelly, Foresight’s Mark Damon, Serafini Pictures’ Susanne Bohnet (New York, I Love You), with Peter Farrelly, Foresight’s Tamara Birkemoe, Shaun Redick, Raymond Mansfield and Grant Cramer executive producing.
Foresight Unlimited is handling international sales and will introduce the film at Berlin’s Efm in February.
Bobby Farrelly most recently wrote, directed and produced “Dumb And Dumber To” with his brother Peter, which has grossed $163 million worldwide to date.
Casting is currently underway with principal photography scheduled to begin in August.
- 1/27/2015
- by Ali Jaafar
- Deadline
Complete Dubai fest coverage
Dubai -- Marking a landmark moment in the development of the fledgling Dubai film industry, a delegation of top industry players hit the Dubai International Film Festival on Sunday to talk up production of the emirates' first major feature film.
Ali F. Mostafa's multilingual "City of Life" is the first film to be written, directed and produced by an Emirati for an international audience.
True to the multicultural landscape of Dubai, the film -- which is being financed by the United Arab Emirates -- revolves around the lives of three people from very different backgrounds who each call Dubai home.
The central characters are a privileged Emirati man, a disillusioned Indian taxi driver and a Western woman whose lives are about to collide for better or worse. The film is aiming for a global release and is in talks to secure a distribution partner in the U.
Dubai -- Marking a landmark moment in the development of the fledgling Dubai film industry, a delegation of top industry players hit the Dubai International Film Festival on Sunday to talk up production of the emirates' first major feature film.
Ali F. Mostafa's multilingual "City of Life" is the first film to be written, directed and produced by an Emirati for an international audience.
True to the multicultural landscape of Dubai, the film -- which is being financed by the United Arab Emirates -- revolves around the lives of three people from very different backgrounds who each call Dubai home.
The central characters are a privileged Emirati man, a disillusioned Indian taxi driver and a Western woman whose lives are about to collide for better or worse. The film is aiming for a global release and is in talks to secure a distribution partner in the U.
- 12/14/2008
- by By Liza Foreman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Complete Dubai fest coverage
Dubai -- An adaptation of the best-seller "Girls of Riyadh" and a biopic of cult 1960s author Khalil Gibran ("The Prophet") are among projects German film-fund veteran Susanne Bohnet is developing as part of her new United Arab Emirates- and U.S.-based company, Serafina Releasing.
Bohnet is in Dubai this week finalizing $100 million of financing from a mix of local companies and private individuals for Serafina, which will finance, produce and distribute feature films in partnership with a network of top-tier distribution companies in Europe and the Middle East.
The company's mandate includes the production of films to serve the Middle East marketplace that continues to expand with new theaters and a projected increase in demand for filmed entertainment.
"There will be 600 million people under the age of 25 in the Gulf region by 2010, and there is a lack of content for them," said Bohnet, who...
Dubai -- An adaptation of the best-seller "Girls of Riyadh" and a biopic of cult 1960s author Khalil Gibran ("The Prophet") are among projects German film-fund veteran Susanne Bohnet is developing as part of her new United Arab Emirates- and U.S.-based company, Serafina Releasing.
Bohnet is in Dubai this week finalizing $100 million of financing from a mix of local companies and private individuals for Serafina, which will finance, produce and distribute feature films in partnership with a network of top-tier distribution companies in Europe and the Middle East.
The company's mandate includes the production of films to serve the Middle East marketplace that continues to expand with new theaters and a projected increase in demand for filmed entertainment.
"There will be 600 million people under the age of 25 in the Gulf region by 2010, and there is a lack of content for them," said Bohnet, who...
- 12/13/2008
- by By Liza Foreman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARK CITY -- There is nothing new under the creative sun in this slight satire of California suburbia. Fried dry with a mordant sensibility, "Chumscrubber" should skim some teenage appreciation from nouveau cineastes who might enjoy sendups of their environs, but more sophisticated and seasoned viewers will be less-than-dazzled by its puffy plottings.
If nothing else, "Chumscrubber" should be a front-runner for the worst title of the year award. What does the title mean? It's not worth explaining.
Set smack dab in one of those Golden State environs that seems a cross between "E.T". burgs and "Edward Scissorhands" blocks, "Chumscrubber" centers on Dean (Jamie Bell), a sullen loner who discovers his closest acquaintance hanging from the rafters of his pool house. Dean neglects to tell anyone that his neighbor has offed himself. His indifference is partly prompted by the fact that anything he says his to self-absorbed father (William Fichtner) crams into psychobabble best sellers. Not that anyone would listen to Dean anyway, because he is bereft of friends, and all the adults in the neighborhood are too daft or tranked to comprehend.
Screenwriter Zac Stanford's lightweight scenario revolves around drugs, spinning out around the dead kid's stash. A gang of three, who might in more Disney-esque times resemble the Apple Dumpling gang, kidnap a tyke who they think is the hanged-one's little brother. Their idea is to get dull Dean to retrieve the departed one's bag of pills. But, they get the wrong kid.
Nobody seems to notice the kid heist, which is, perhaps, the funniest part of this comedy. Most wickedly, the kidnapped child's mother (Rita Wilson) is too absorbed in the logistics of her upcoming wedding to miss him. Similarly, her fiance (Ralph Fiennes) is undergoing a California-style personal conversion, so he's too spaced to notice also.
Despite the tired narrative, there are some funny, dry moments as the varied goofballs of the burb go about their self-absorbed business. The cast, especially Wilson as the preoccupied mother, are the film's highlights. Additionally, Fichtner is wonderfully oily as a self-promoter, while Glenn Close's wide-eyed glaze as the dead boy's mother is amusingly wacko.
Overall, director Arie Posin's comic rendering is most effective in visualizing the lifestyle looniness, courtesy of the deadpan production design of Patti Podesta and the fractured compositions of cinematographer Lawrence Sher.
The Chumscrubber
Newmarket Films
A film by Arie Posin
Credits:
Producers: Lawrence Bender, Bonnie Curtis
Director: Arie Posin
Screenwriter: Zac Stanford
Story: Arie Posin, Zac Stanford
Co-producers: Lee Clay, Susanne Bohnet, Manfred D. Heid, Gerd Koechlin, Robert Katz
Line producer: Michael Beugg
Executive producers: Bob Yari, Joseph Lautenschlager, Philip Levenson, Michael Beugg, Andreas Thiesmeyer
Director of photrography: Lawrence Sher
Editors: William S. Scharf, Arthur Schmidt
Music: James Horner
Music supervisor: Chris Douridas
Production designer: Patti Podesta
Casting: Anya Colloff, Amy McIntyre Britt
Cast:
Dean: Jamie Bell
Mrs. Johnson: Glenn Close
Charlie Stiffle: Rory Culkin
Dr. Bill Stiffle: William Fichtner
Michael Ebbs: Ralph Fiennes
Officer Lou Bratley: John Heard
Boutique owner: Lauren Holly
Terri Bratley: Rita Wilson
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 102 minutes...
If nothing else, "Chumscrubber" should be a front-runner for the worst title of the year award. What does the title mean? It's not worth explaining.
Set smack dab in one of those Golden State environs that seems a cross between "E.T". burgs and "Edward Scissorhands" blocks, "Chumscrubber" centers on Dean (Jamie Bell), a sullen loner who discovers his closest acquaintance hanging from the rafters of his pool house. Dean neglects to tell anyone that his neighbor has offed himself. His indifference is partly prompted by the fact that anything he says his to self-absorbed father (William Fichtner) crams into psychobabble best sellers. Not that anyone would listen to Dean anyway, because he is bereft of friends, and all the adults in the neighborhood are too daft or tranked to comprehend.
Screenwriter Zac Stanford's lightweight scenario revolves around drugs, spinning out around the dead kid's stash. A gang of three, who might in more Disney-esque times resemble the Apple Dumpling gang, kidnap a tyke who they think is the hanged-one's little brother. Their idea is to get dull Dean to retrieve the departed one's bag of pills. But, they get the wrong kid.
Nobody seems to notice the kid heist, which is, perhaps, the funniest part of this comedy. Most wickedly, the kidnapped child's mother (Rita Wilson) is too absorbed in the logistics of her upcoming wedding to miss him. Similarly, her fiance (Ralph Fiennes) is undergoing a California-style personal conversion, so he's too spaced to notice also.
Despite the tired narrative, there are some funny, dry moments as the varied goofballs of the burb go about their self-absorbed business. The cast, especially Wilson as the preoccupied mother, are the film's highlights. Additionally, Fichtner is wonderfully oily as a self-promoter, while Glenn Close's wide-eyed glaze as the dead boy's mother is amusingly wacko.
Overall, director Arie Posin's comic rendering is most effective in visualizing the lifestyle looniness, courtesy of the deadpan production design of Patti Podesta and the fractured compositions of cinematographer Lawrence Sher.
The Chumscrubber
Newmarket Films
A film by Arie Posin
Credits:
Producers: Lawrence Bender, Bonnie Curtis
Director: Arie Posin
Screenwriter: Zac Stanford
Story: Arie Posin, Zac Stanford
Co-producers: Lee Clay, Susanne Bohnet, Manfred D. Heid, Gerd Koechlin, Robert Katz
Line producer: Michael Beugg
Executive producers: Bob Yari, Joseph Lautenschlager, Philip Levenson, Michael Beugg, Andreas Thiesmeyer
Director of photrography: Lawrence Sher
Editors: William S. Scharf, Arthur Schmidt
Music: James Horner
Music supervisor: Chris Douridas
Production designer: Patti Podesta
Casting: Anya Colloff, Amy McIntyre Britt
Cast:
Dean: Jamie Bell
Mrs. Johnson: Glenn Close
Charlie Stiffle: Rory Culkin
Dr. Bill Stiffle: William Fichtner
Michael Ebbs: Ralph Fiennes
Officer Lou Bratley: John Heard
Boutique owner: Lauren Holly
Terri Bratley: Rita Wilson
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 102 minutes...
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