The “Entourage” cast is getting back together for a new series from Doug Ellin, called “Ramble On.”
“Ramble On” will reunite “Entourage” cast members Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, plus frequent guest star Mark Cuban. It will also star Charlie Sheen, Kimiko Glenn, Bre-z, Ana Ortiz, Emmanuel Chriqui, and Martin Sheen.
In the scripted dramedy series, Charlie Sheen, Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon star as themselves — Hollywood veterans looking to reinvent their voices alongside up and comers looking to establish their own.
“This idea has been spinning in my head for years and seeing it come to life is incredible,” said Ellin. “I feel beyond grateful that so many of my ‘Entourage’ crew and cast members, along with some of the most talented, comedic forces in the industry, have joined us on this exciting new journey. We cannot wait to share this with the world.”
“Ramble On” is...
“Ramble On” will reunite “Entourage” cast members Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, plus frequent guest star Mark Cuban. It will also star Charlie Sheen, Kimiko Glenn, Bre-z, Ana Ortiz, Emmanuel Chriqui, and Martin Sheen.
In the scripted dramedy series, Charlie Sheen, Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon star as themselves — Hollywood veterans looking to reinvent their voices alongside up and comers looking to establish their own.
“This idea has been spinning in my head for years and seeing it come to life is incredible,” said Ellin. “I feel beyond grateful that so many of my ‘Entourage’ crew and cast members, along with some of the most talented, comedic forces in the industry, have joined us on this exciting new journey. We cannot wait to share this with the world.”
“Ramble On” is...
- 3/3/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
Charlie Sheen is heading back to television.
The Two and a Half Men star has teamed up with Entourage creator Doug Ellin for a new dramedy series set in Hollywood.
Ramble On will star Sheen and Entourage’s Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon as themselves about Hollywood veterans looking to reinvent their voices alongside up and comers looking to establish their own.
It will also feature Sheen’s father Martin Sheen, Kimiko Glenn, Bre-z, John C. McGinley, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Zulay Henao, Mark Cuban, James Hiroyuki Liao, Harvey Guillén, Ana Ortiz, Sara Sanderson, Mikaela Hoover and Adam Waheed with a guest appearance by Entourage alum Emmanuelle Chriqui.
Ramble On is produced by Angry Lunch, a new production company founded by Ellin and Ted Foxman, a former semiconductor testing equipment exec and real estate developer, in association with Action Park Media. The pair will exec produce alongside Gary Goldman with Jeremy Alter producing.
The Two and a Half Men star has teamed up with Entourage creator Doug Ellin for a new dramedy series set in Hollywood.
Ramble On will star Sheen and Entourage’s Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon as themselves about Hollywood veterans looking to reinvent their voices alongside up and comers looking to establish their own.
It will also feature Sheen’s father Martin Sheen, Kimiko Glenn, Bre-z, John C. McGinley, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Zulay Henao, Mark Cuban, James Hiroyuki Liao, Harvey Guillén, Ana Ortiz, Sara Sanderson, Mikaela Hoover and Adam Waheed with a guest appearance by Entourage alum Emmanuelle Chriqui.
Ramble On is produced by Angry Lunch, a new production company founded by Ellin and Ted Foxman, a former semiconductor testing equipment exec and real estate developer, in association with Action Park Media. The pair will exec produce alongside Gary Goldman with Jeremy Alter producing.
- 3/3/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
“Entourage” creator Doug Ellin is returning to Hollywood for his next series. Ellin has recruited Charlie Sheen and several of his “Entourage” stars — including Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon — to play themselves in “Ramble On,” a scripted dramatic comedy about established stars looking for career reinvention, alongside aspiring performers looking to make their own name.
The show, which is currently being shopped to potential distributors, comes from Angry Lunch, a new shingle recently formed by Ellin and Ted Foxman, in association with Action Park Media. Foxman and Ellin will executive produce and finance “Ramble On,” while Gary Goldman is also an EP. Jeremy Alter is producer.
Ellin created the show, which, according to its press release, will also include Sheen’s father, Martin Sheen, as well as Kimiko Glenn (“Orange is the New Black”), Bre-z (“All American”), John C. McGinley (“Scrubs”), Jamie-Lynn Sigler (“The Sopranos”), Zulay Henao, Mark Cuban, James Hiroyuki Liao...
The show, which is currently being shopped to potential distributors, comes from Angry Lunch, a new shingle recently formed by Ellin and Ted Foxman, in association with Action Park Media. Foxman and Ellin will executive produce and finance “Ramble On,” while Gary Goldman is also an EP. Jeremy Alter is producer.
Ellin created the show, which, according to its press release, will also include Sheen’s father, Martin Sheen, as well as Kimiko Glenn (“Orange is the New Black”), Bre-z (“All American”), John C. McGinley (“Scrubs”), Jamie-Lynn Sigler (“The Sopranos”), Zulay Henao, Mark Cuban, James Hiroyuki Liao...
- 3/3/2022
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Byron Allen’s Freestyle Digital Media has picked up the North American rights to the road trip buddy comedy She’s in Portland and will release it on digital, cable, and satellite platforms on September 25. Marc Carlini directed the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Patrick Alexander. Tommy Dewey, Francois Arnaud, and Minka Kelly star.
The film, which had its world premiere at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, follows a family man who, after recognizing that his best friend from college is in a slump, convinces him to travel up the California Coast in search of “the one that got away.”
Carlini and Jeremy Alter produced the pic.
“This film started as my reflection on the bigger life choices my friends and I struggled with in our thirties. As our careers and our relationships went in different directions, the common thread among us was whether we made the right decisions.
The film, which had its world premiere at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, follows a family man who, after recognizing that his best friend from college is in a slump, convinces him to travel up the California Coast in search of “the one that got away.”
Carlini and Jeremy Alter produced the pic.
“This film started as my reflection on the bigger life choices my friends and I struggled with in our thirties. As our careers and our relationships went in different directions, the common thread among us was whether we made the right decisions.
- 8/17/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Los Angeles-based 123 Go has acquired international rights to Marc Carlini’s dramedy feature She’s In Portland and is shopping the title at this week’s Cannes virtual Marche.
The film premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in January 2020, and stars Tommy Dewey (Casual), Francois Arnaud (The Borgias), and Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights). It follows a family man who, after recognizing that his best friend from college is in a slump, convinces him to travel up the California coast in search of “the one that got away”.
Pic was produced by Jeremy Alter alongside Carlini. Greg O’Bryant, T. Justin Ross, Todd Slater, Grant Slater, and Jonathan M. Black served as executive producers. Oren Skoog and Scott Trimble co-produced.
“She’s In Portland is a beautifully crafted, funny, stylish, and thought-provoking comedic film,” 123 Go’s President Brady Bowen said. “We are very pleased to be part of...
The film premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in January 2020, and stars Tommy Dewey (Casual), Francois Arnaud (The Borgias), and Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights). It follows a family man who, after recognizing that his best friend from college is in a slump, convinces him to travel up the California coast in search of “the one that got away”.
Pic was produced by Jeremy Alter alongside Carlini. Greg O’Bryant, T. Justin Ross, Todd Slater, Grant Slater, and Jonathan M. Black served as executive producers. Oren Skoog and Scott Trimble co-produced.
“She’s In Portland is a beautifully crafted, funny, stylish, and thought-provoking comedic film,” 123 Go’s President Brady Bowen said. “We are very pleased to be part of...
- 6/24/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
For TV producers who lose their shows because their stars are racist trolls zonked out on Ambien, they have insurance for that now. It’s called “disgrace insurance,” and it covers production losses due to a wide range of disgraceful and illegal behavior by members of the cast and crew.
The ins and outs of disgrace insurance was the subject of a panel discussion today at the PGA’s 10th annual Produced By Conference, which is being held on the Paramount lot.
Bob Jellen, managing director of Hub Entertainment Insurance and the guru of disgrace insurance policies, said he’s written more than 4,000 of them, but noted that they’ve only been invoked five or six times. They cover loses due to sexual harassment, assault, drug arrests and even murder by a cast and crew member.
He noted, however, that Rosanne Barr’s Twitter meltdown that caused ABC to cancel...
The ins and outs of disgrace insurance was the subject of a panel discussion today at the PGA’s 10th annual Produced By Conference, which is being held on the Paramount lot.
Bob Jellen, managing director of Hub Entertainment Insurance and the guru of disgrace insurance policies, said he’s written more than 4,000 of them, but noted that they’ve only been invoked five or six times. They cover loses due to sexual harassment, assault, drug arrests and even murder by a cast and crew member.
He noted, however, that Rosanne Barr’s Twitter meltdown that caused ABC to cancel...
- 6/9/2018
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
The Producers Guild of America unveiled a new wave of participants for its 10th annual Produced By Conference next month. Among those added to the lineup are Dear White People producer Stephanie Allain, Bridesmaids director-producer Paul Feig, Fast and the Furious producer Neal H. Moritz along with Ian Bryce, Donald DeLine, Tracey Edmonds, Lucy Fisher, Lynette Howell Taylor, James F. Lopez, Chris Moore, Ronald D. Moore, Mary Parent, Stacy Rukeyser, Doug Wick and more.
The event is set for June 9-10 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.
In addition to a roster of speakers, the event will include Mentor Roundtables on June 9 which allow attendees a chance to ask questions about their own projects in development and learn in a more personalized, intimate setting with real one-on-one feedback (side note: no pitching allowed in these roundtables). The event will also feature the second annual “Producers Mashup” on June 10. The session...
The event is set for June 9-10 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.
In addition to a roster of speakers, the event will include Mentor Roundtables on June 9 which allow attendees a chance to ask questions about their own projects in development and learn in a more personalized, intimate setting with real one-on-one feedback (side note: no pitching allowed in these roundtables). The event will also feature the second annual “Producers Mashup” on June 10. The session...
- 5/14/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Santa Monica-based financing, production and distribution company is in Toronto handling international sales on the SXSW selection starring Katie Holmes and Luke Kirby.
Touched With Fire centres on a pair of manic depressives in a psychiatric hospital who fall into an intense romance. Griffin Dunne, Christine Lahti and Bruce Altman also star.
Roadside Attractions has set a February Us theatrical release on the film from Moonstruck Productions and 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks.
Paul Dalio wrote and directed and Jeremy Alter and Kristina Nikolova produced the film and Spike Lee served as executive producer.
“Paul Dalio has crafted a unique love story with a real roller coaster of emotions,” said Myriad president and CEO Kirk D’Amico.
“Katie and Luke have given truly extraordinary performances. We feel so proud to have the opportunity to bring this film to international distributors and audiences.”
“We are thrilled to be working with Kirk and the entire team at Myriad...
Touched With Fire centres on a pair of manic depressives in a psychiatric hospital who fall into an intense romance. Griffin Dunne, Christine Lahti and Bruce Altman also star.
Roadside Attractions has set a February Us theatrical release on the film from Moonstruck Productions and 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks.
Paul Dalio wrote and directed and Jeremy Alter and Kristina Nikolova produced the film and Spike Lee served as executive producer.
“Paul Dalio has crafted a unique love story with a real roller coaster of emotions,” said Myriad president and CEO Kirk D’Amico.
“Katie and Luke have given truly extraordinary performances. We feel so proud to have the opportunity to bring this film to international distributors and audiences.”
“We are thrilled to be working with Kirk and the entire team at Myriad...
- 9/12/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The first and most important thing that happened as a result of the staging of "Sticks and Stones" at the Met Theater as part of the Act One Festival was that Scott Swan and I got our first agent. Barbara Baruch worked for Ambrosio/Mortimer, a smaller boutique agency at the time, and from the moment we met her, she seemed like what I imagined an agent to be. She was nurturing, she was a cheerleader, she was a ballbuster, and she was always, always, always in our corner. Our time with her was unfortunately too short, and by the time the agency imploded in accusations of embezzlement, we were already repped by Gersh out of New York. Barbara was first, though, and she was the first one to start pushing people to come see our show and to read our work. The strangest thing about those early days is...
- 6/11/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. rights to Paul Dalio’s debut feature Touched With Fire (formerly titled Mania Days) starring Katie Holmes.
A critical and audience favorite at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, Touched With Fire “boasts Katie Holmes’ best performance in years,” according to the Huffington Post, and is the story of two bipolar poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes.
When they meet in a psychiatric hospital their romance brings out all the beauty and darkness of their condition until they have to choose between sanity and love.
Holmes and Luke Kirby (Take This Waltz) star, and are joined by Griffin Dunne, Christine Lahti and Bruce Altman. The film is looking to be released in early 2016.
Drawing inspiration from his own life experience and journey with bipolar disorder, Paul Dalio wrote, directed, edited and scored Touched With Fire. The film is produced by Jeremy Alter and Kristina Nikolova Dalio,...
A critical and audience favorite at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, Touched With Fire “boasts Katie Holmes’ best performance in years,” according to the Huffington Post, and is the story of two bipolar poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes.
When they meet in a psychiatric hospital their romance brings out all the beauty and darkness of their condition until they have to choose between sanity and love.
Holmes and Luke Kirby (Take This Waltz) star, and are joined by Griffin Dunne, Christine Lahti and Bruce Altman. The film is looking to be released in early 2016.
Drawing inspiration from his own life experience and journey with bipolar disorder, Paul Dalio wrote, directed, edited and scored Touched With Fire. The film is produced by Jeremy Alter and Kristina Nikolova Dalio,...
- 5/20/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Juliet Landau has now released her second film (her first was the dark music video Hero) Take Flight – a documentary focusing on actor Gary Oldman making a music video for the Jewish hip hop band 'Chutzpah'. Landau, who has appeared on the Tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and in the Tim Burton film Ed Wood, was asked to shoot a ‘making of’ for Oldman, a friend of hers, and the resulting footage became an experience all its own. Over 50 hours of footage, from a cell phone with Pov shots to 3 cameras at once, were cut into this short.
We're happy to have Landau back with us again, discussing Take Flight along with her upcoming films The Yellow Wallpaper and Haunted Echoes...
With complete free reign, Landau pieced together a film that
“Shows a very light, playful, childlike, fluid, free, funny side to Gary... It’s like being inside his head,...
We're happy to have Landau back with us again, discussing Take Flight along with her upcoming films The Yellow Wallpaper and Haunted Echoes...
With complete free reign, Landau pieced together a film that
“Shows a very light, playful, childlike, fluid, free, funny side to Gary... It’s like being inside his head,...
- 3/3/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
The Perfect Sleep’s official synopsis bills it as the world of Dashiell Hammett populated by the characters of Dostoevsky, mixed in with martial arts. Tall order. Naturally, I assumed that the prevailing portion of the three would be the Hammett, given the noir-tinged visuals. Imagine my surprise, both in bemusement and amusement, that the Dostoevsky reigns in this independent production. The Perfect Sleep is existential and dense, with a sharp moral core and family schisms recalling The Brothers Karamazov.
Anton Pardoe is both the writer and the brooding star of the film, a Sam Spade type fella known to us only by his nickname The Mad Monk. He returns to a timeless city (old clothes, old cars, but new guns and gadgets) after a long exile, to help his object of affection Porphyria (a voluptuous and affecting Roselyn Sanchez), no doubt named so for the pain she causes the men who fight over her.
Anton Pardoe is both the writer and the brooding star of the film, a Sam Spade type fella known to us only by his nickname The Mad Monk. He returns to a timeless city (old clothes, old cars, but new guns and gadgets) after a long exile, to help his object of affection Porphyria (a voluptuous and affecting Roselyn Sanchez), no doubt named so for the pain she causes the men who fight over her.
- 3/20/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
Trailer for Jeremy Alter's The Perfect Sleep which is set "against the backdrop of a noirish dreamscape, a tortured man returns to the city he swore he would never return to, in order to save the woman he has always loved yet can never have"
The screeplay is by Anton Pardoe who also stars along with Roselyn Sanchez (Without a Trace), Patrick Bauchau (Chrysalis, Carnivàle), Peter J. Lucas (Inland Empire)
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The screeplay is by Anton Pardoe who also stars along with Roselyn Sanchez (Without a Trace), Patrick Bauchau (Chrysalis, Carnivàle), Peter J. Lucas (Inland Empire)
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- 3/17/2009
- by Leigh
- Latemag.com/film
The first time I saw "The Perfect Sleep," it was just Gary Oldman and I sitting together to watch it. I knew his reaction to the film was terse and perhaps even abrupt, but I had no idea he and Bono and Bas Rutten all felt this strongly about it: Now, come on... to be fair... "The Perfect Sleep" is a lovely update of the style of film noir, as filtered through a jet black sense of humor and a martial arts junkie's wet dreams. And Jeremy Alter? The director of the film? Not just a good guy but...
- 3/15/2009
- Hitfix
This may very well be the one and only time that you’ll find a highly acclaimed actor, a mixed martial artist and one of the world’s biggest rock stars all in one place and agreeing on one thing. But it’s happened. Gary Oldman, Bas Rutten and Bono have all seen Jeremy Alter’s The Perfect Sleep and they all agree: it’s crap.
Heh ... this is one clever bit of viral marketing and I find it more than a little amusing that someone was actually able to get all three of these guys to do it. Check it out below the break where you’ll find the video along with the (very definitely not crap) trailer.
Heh ... this is one clever bit of viral marketing and I find it more than a little amusing that someone was actually able to get all three of these guys to do it. Check it out below the break where you’ll find the video along with the (very definitely not crap) trailer.
- 3/15/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
In director Jeremy Alter’s film, “The Perfect Sleep,” a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before - back when they dubbed him The Mad Monk for his disregard for his own life and his intense devotion to one woman, Porphyria; a beautiful, luminescent woman; the girl he grew up with; the love of his life; the one thing he has ever …...
- 3/14/2009
- indieWIRE - People
In director Jeremy Alter’s film, “The Perfect Sleep,” a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before - back when they dubbed him The Mad Monk for his disregard for his own life and his intense devotion to one woman, Porphyria; a beautiful, luminescent woman; the girl he grew up with; the love of his life; the one thing he has ever …...
- 3/14/2009
- indieWIRE - People
One year ago, I posted the trailer for a really cool looking indie film called The Perfect Sleep. It's a hard boiled noir mystery that features plenty of action and martial arts in it. I hyped it up when it was still touring the festival circuit, but then didn't really hear about it again until recently when the director Jeremy Alter got in touch to let me know that they finally have distribution.
Not only that, they also have a new site up and a new trailer. I urge you guys to take a looksie.
{flv}http://www.theperfectsleep.com/trailer.flv{/flv}
Synopsis:
Think of the hard-boiled world of film noir: the world of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, a world of femme fatales, a world of shadows. Now imagine this world populated with characters from tragic Russian novels like those by Dostoevsky: tormented figures suffering through harsh circumstance.
Not only that, they also have a new site up and a new trailer. I urge you guys to take a looksie.
{flv}http://www.theperfectsleep.com/trailer.flv{/flv}
Synopsis:
Think of the hard-boiled world of film noir: the world of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, a world of femme fatales, a world of shadows. Now imagine this world populated with characters from tragic Russian novels like those by Dostoevsky: tormented figures suffering through harsh circumstance.
- 3/13/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
Year: 2009
Directors: Jeremy Alter
Writers: Anton Pardoe
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 5.8 out of 10
It's strange to think that we live in a world where such a great American genre like Film Noir is dead. Not buried yet mind you, just dead. Some of the genre's iconography still exists here and there, like in the visual aesthetics of modern thrillers, but true Film Noir can't seem to exist on its own anymore without some kind of post-modern crutch to prop it up and give it relevance. It seems to Need the high school hallways of Rian Johnson's Brick, the animated landscape of D. Jud Jones' Film Noir, or the over-the-top parody of The Spirit to exist anymore. I find it interesting that a criticism that's often thrown at modern Film Noirs that try to play it straight is that they're too "cliched." Well duh, that's...
Directors: Jeremy Alter
Writers: Anton Pardoe
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 5.8 out of 10
It's strange to think that we live in a world where such a great American genre like Film Noir is dead. Not buried yet mind you, just dead. Some of the genre's iconography still exists here and there, like in the visual aesthetics of modern thrillers, but true Film Noir can't seem to exist on its own anymore without some kind of post-modern crutch to prop it up and give it relevance. It seems to Need the high school hallways of Rian Johnson's Brick, the animated landscape of D. Jud Jones' Film Noir, or the over-the-top parody of The Spirit to exist anymore. I find it interesting that a criticism that's often thrown at modern Film Noirs that try to play it straight is that they're too "cliched." Well duh, that's...
- 3/9/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Unified Pictures has just sent the trailer for their upcoming action/thriller "The Perfect Sleep," starring Roselyn Sanchez (Rush Hour 2, The Game Plan) and Anton Pardoe. Click on the link below to check it out. Plot: Set against the backdrop of a noirish dreamscape, a tortured man (Pardoe) returns to the city he swore he would never return to, in order to save the woman (Sanchez) he has always loved yet can never have. "The Perfect Sleep" is Jeremy Alter's directorial debut. Last we heard of Alter, he was producing David Lynch's "Inland Empire" and was one of the helmers (including Brett Ratner and Len Wiseman) attached to direct the "Escape from New York" remake. Alter's "Sleep" is getting a limited release and will first appear at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in West Hollywood next Friday (March 13th), before spreading to NY the following week. If anyone lives in...
- 3/8/2009
- WorstPreviews.com
We’ve got a swarm of noir fans here at Twitch and this post goes out to all of you. Got a love for femmes fatales and tougher than nails anti-heroes? The starting on March 13th, get yourself to the Sunset Laemmle Theatre in Los Angeles. Why? Because that’s when Jeremy Alter’s The Perfect Sleep begins its limited theatrical run before heading to New York, Chicago, Dallas, and Portland.
In a timeless city, a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before – back when they dubbed him The Mad Monk for his disregard for his own life and his intense devotion to one woman, Porphyria; a beautiful, luminescent woman; the girl he grew up with; the love of his life; the one thing he has ever wanted; the one thing he can never have.
There is no discernible reason...
In a timeless city, a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before – back when they dubbed him The Mad Monk for his disregard for his own life and his intense devotion to one woman, Porphyria; a beautiful, luminescent woman; the girl he grew up with; the love of his life; the one thing he has ever wanted; the one thing he can never have.
There is no discernible reason...
- 3/4/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Los Angeles-based Unified Pictures has struck a two-picture U.S. theatrical distribution deal with Cinema Epoch for the revenge film "The Perfect Sleep," directed by Jeremy Alter and starring Roselyn Sanchez, and the romantic dramedy "Bob Funk," directed by Craig Carlisle and starring Rachel Leigh Cook.
Both films will be released in theaters this spring. Magnolia Home Entertainment will handle home video distribution.
"Funk" stars Cook, Michael Leydon Campbell, Amy Ryan, Grace Zabriskie, Eddie Jemison and Stephen Root. The film is produced by Unified's Ben Ruffman and Keith Kjarval.
It revolves around the quick-witted and sardonic title character who is fired from his job by his mother. In an attempt to regain his job and his life, he agrees to quit drinking, go to therapy and report to a new boss who just happens to be the girl he has fallen for.
"Sleep," directed by Alter from a script by Anton Pardoe,...
Both films will be released in theaters this spring. Magnolia Home Entertainment will handle home video distribution.
"Funk" stars Cook, Michael Leydon Campbell, Amy Ryan, Grace Zabriskie, Eddie Jemison and Stephen Root. The film is produced by Unified's Ben Ruffman and Keith Kjarval.
It revolves around the quick-witted and sardonic title character who is fired from his job by his mother. In an attempt to regain his job and his life, he agrees to quit drinking, go to therapy and report to a new boss who just happens to be the girl he has fallen for.
"Sleep," directed by Alter from a script by Anton Pardoe,...
- 1/14/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
VENICE, Italy -- It's a shame that David Lynch is such an artist. If he were more of a journeyman filmmaker, he might have made a pretty good picture about the blurring of life, real and imagined, with motion pictures, but instead he has come up with an interminable bore titled "Inland Empire".
"I don't understand what I'm doing here," Laura Dern says somewhere in the middle of the film, and she's not the only one. Filled with dreary sequences in poor lighting, incongruous scenes featuring characters who are never explained, with occasional startling images, the film lasts almost three hours and seems longer. Boxoffice prospects appear limited to Lynch devotees and the contentedly bewildered.
The annoying thing is that it starts quite well. Dern and Justin Theroux are starring in a movie being made by a director, played by Jeremy Irons, who surprises them by saying the film is a remake. The first one was never finished, he says, because the leading actors were murdered.
It's all nice and spooky at this point, with a foreign-sounding woman having previously warned the actress about time-shifting and how evil actions have consequences. Then the actress' husband cautions the actor that he had better not try anything with his wife.
As they begin rehearsals in a studio soundstage, there is an intruder behind the flats at the back, and the actor goes to look in the dark. The director has a shrewd-looking assistant named Freddie, played coolly by Harry Dean Stanton, who always is borrowing money from everyone.
Soon the actors in the film within the film are confusing themselves with the roles they are playing, and Lynch's film looks set to become a dense and intriguing psychological mystery about the inland empire of dreams and fantasies fed by the movies.
It all goes terribly wrong. Perhaps the sitcom sequence with people wearing rabbit heads is the first clue. A young woman is watching them on television, and there's a laugh track though she's crying. Then a woman (Julia Ormond) is talking to what appears to be a policeman about having been hypnotized by a man in a bar and how she is going to murder someone with a screwdriver.
Later, there is a roomful of wholesome and pretty young women whose chatter seems to be about boyfriends until one bares what apparently is a new set of breasts and soon they are all out on Hollywood Boulevard doing business. There are sequences in what sounds like Polish involving people who might be the characters from the original doomed film.
The actress weaves in and out of all these seemingly unconnected sequences, and she is either herself or the character from the movie she is supposed to be making or someone else entirely; it's hard to say.
Irons and Stanton are barely seen again. Dern works hard and gets to speak directly to the camera in the voice of a mistreated woman who has learned to be tough with men, but who she is by this time is anyone's guess.
There are conventional thriller episodes with sudden cuts and shrieks, sinister voices and skewed camera angles, but composer Angelo Badalamenti's music does all the heavy lifting. If it weren't for the extraordinary range and texture of his underscore, much of this film would sink without trace.
Inland Empire
Studio Canal
Credits:
Screenwriter-director-editor: David Lynch
Producers: Jeremy Alter, Mary Sweeney
Cinematographer: Odd-Geir Saeher
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti. Cast: Nikki/Susan: Laura Dern
Kingsley: Jeremy Irons
Freddie: Harry Dean Stanton
Devon: Justin Theroux
Jack: Scott Coffey
Henry: Ian Abercrombie
Also: Julia Ormond, Michael Pare, Mihhaila Aaseng
No MPAA rating
Running time 172 minutes...
"I don't understand what I'm doing here," Laura Dern says somewhere in the middle of the film, and she's not the only one. Filled with dreary sequences in poor lighting, incongruous scenes featuring characters who are never explained, with occasional startling images, the film lasts almost three hours and seems longer. Boxoffice prospects appear limited to Lynch devotees and the contentedly bewildered.
The annoying thing is that it starts quite well. Dern and Justin Theroux are starring in a movie being made by a director, played by Jeremy Irons, who surprises them by saying the film is a remake. The first one was never finished, he says, because the leading actors were murdered.
It's all nice and spooky at this point, with a foreign-sounding woman having previously warned the actress about time-shifting and how evil actions have consequences. Then the actress' husband cautions the actor that he had better not try anything with his wife.
As they begin rehearsals in a studio soundstage, there is an intruder behind the flats at the back, and the actor goes to look in the dark. The director has a shrewd-looking assistant named Freddie, played coolly by Harry Dean Stanton, who always is borrowing money from everyone.
Soon the actors in the film within the film are confusing themselves with the roles they are playing, and Lynch's film looks set to become a dense and intriguing psychological mystery about the inland empire of dreams and fantasies fed by the movies.
It all goes terribly wrong. Perhaps the sitcom sequence with people wearing rabbit heads is the first clue. A young woman is watching them on television, and there's a laugh track though she's crying. Then a woman (Julia Ormond) is talking to what appears to be a policeman about having been hypnotized by a man in a bar and how she is going to murder someone with a screwdriver.
Later, there is a roomful of wholesome and pretty young women whose chatter seems to be about boyfriends until one bares what apparently is a new set of breasts and soon they are all out on Hollywood Boulevard doing business. There are sequences in what sounds like Polish involving people who might be the characters from the original doomed film.
The actress weaves in and out of all these seemingly unconnected sequences, and she is either herself or the character from the movie she is supposed to be making or someone else entirely; it's hard to say.
Irons and Stanton are barely seen again. Dern works hard and gets to speak directly to the camera in the voice of a mistreated woman who has learned to be tough with men, but who she is by this time is anyone's guess.
There are conventional thriller episodes with sudden cuts and shrieks, sinister voices and skewed camera angles, but composer Angelo Badalamenti's music does all the heavy lifting. If it weren't for the extraordinary range and texture of his underscore, much of this film would sink without trace.
Inland Empire
Studio Canal
Credits:
Screenwriter-director-editor: David Lynch
Producers: Jeremy Alter, Mary Sweeney
Cinematographer: Odd-Geir Saeher
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti. Cast: Nikki/Susan: Laura Dern
Kingsley: Jeremy Irons
Freddie: Harry Dean Stanton
Devon: Justin Theroux
Jack: Scott Coffey
Henry: Ian Abercrombie
Also: Julia Ormond, Michael Pare, Mihhaila Aaseng
No MPAA rating
Running time 172 minutes...
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