A quartet of fast-rising British names are coming together for a buzzy new project launching at the Cannes market.
Bella Ramsey, Louis Partridge and Ruby Stokes are set to lead Sunny Dancer, the sophomore feature from George Jaques. Embankment Films is handling global pre-sales of the film, which it says showcases the “best of new British talent.”
“Sunny Dancer” follows Ivy (Ramsey), a teenager in remission from cancer, whose gloriously outspoken mum and well-intentioned dad insist she attend Children Run Free Camp, a summer retreat for young adults affected by cancer. The camp’s slogan, “Where kids come to kid,” does little to alleviate Ivy’s apprehension, and a quick Google search confirms her fears when she stumbles upon a cringeworthy promotional video filled with tacky messages and clichéd sunsets. As if conquering cancer wasn’t enough of a challenge, Ivy now faces the prospect of spending her summer at what she calls “chemo camp.
Bella Ramsey, Louis Partridge and Ruby Stokes are set to lead Sunny Dancer, the sophomore feature from George Jaques. Embankment Films is handling global pre-sales of the film, which it says showcases the “best of new British talent.”
“Sunny Dancer” follows Ivy (Ramsey), a teenager in remission from cancer, whose gloriously outspoken mum and well-intentioned dad insist she attend Children Run Free Camp, a summer retreat for young adults affected by cancer. The camp’s slogan, “Where kids come to kid,” does little to alleviate Ivy’s apprehension, and a quick Google search confirms her fears when she stumbles upon a cringeworthy promotional video filled with tacky messages and clichéd sunsets. As if conquering cancer wasn’t enough of a challenge, Ivy now faces the prospect of spending her summer at what she calls “chemo camp.
- 4/25/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Purge franchise architect James DeMonaco has crafted a personal film, which is an ode to cinema, based in his hometown of Staten Island, entitled This Is the Night and the Blumhouse release has a one-week theatrical run starting this Friday, Sept. 17 at Angelika’s Village East in New York City before hitting PVOD on Sept. 21 via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
“I conceived this film as a love-letter to cinema. This is the Night is a passion project I’ve been waiting to make. A story based in my hometown of Staten Island, the film serves as a PSA: Movies bring us–people, families–together. There’s no time like the present to celebrate movies and how they inspire us,” DeMonaco tells Deadline.
“James has a real knack for prescient storytelling, and working with him on this picture – which is such a departure from our usual type of collaborations...
“I conceived this film as a love-letter to cinema. This is the Night is a passion project I’ve been waiting to make. A story based in my hometown of Staten Island, the film serves as a PSA: Movies bring us–people, families–together. There’s no time like the present to celebrate movies and how they inspire us,” DeMonaco tells Deadline.
“James has a real knack for prescient storytelling, and working with him on this picture – which is such a departure from our usual type of collaborations...
- 9/13/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
New members include filmmakers Lynne Ramsay, Haifaa al-Mansour, Fox Searchlight’s Kate Gardiner and Screen Scotland’s Isabel Davis.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has revealed its 2019 intake of new members drawn from the film, TV and games industry.
Among the record 558 new members are filmmakers and writers Haifaa al-Mansour (Wadjda), Laszlo Nemes (Son Of Saul), Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here), Lee Unkrich (Coco) and former Screen Star of Tomorrow Rose Glass (Saint Maud).
New executives on the list include Kate Gardiner (head of Fox Searchlight UK); Jason Maza (Unstoppable), Emma Hewitt (BBC Films...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has revealed its 2019 intake of new members drawn from the film, TV and games industry.
Among the record 558 new members are filmmakers and writers Haifaa al-Mansour (Wadjda), Laszlo Nemes (Son Of Saul), Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here), Lee Unkrich (Coco) and former Screen Star of Tomorrow Rose Glass (Saint Maud).
New executives on the list include Kate Gardiner (head of Fox Searchlight UK); Jason Maza (Unstoppable), Emma Hewitt (BBC Films...
- 12/4/2019
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Sinqua Walls has come aboard the Netflix film, Otherhood, which has Angela Bassett and Patricia Arquette attached as leads. Cindy Chupack is directing the romantic comedy about three Moms who leave their suburban life to reconnect with their estranged sons in NYC. Walls will play Matt Walker, a good-looking, overachieving art director for a magazine who is a serial womanizer. The film was adapted by Chupack and Mark Andrus based on William Sutcliffe novel Whatever Makes You Happy. Jason Michael Berman from Mandalay Pictures is producing with Welle Entertainment’s Cathy Schulman. Walls, who recently appeared in Eastwood’s 15:17 To Paris, is repped by Apa.
Actress Madelyn Cline has been cast in Blumhouse Productions/Man in a Tree Productions’ Once Upon A Time In Staten Island, toplined by Naomi Watts and Frank Grillo. Purge helmer James DeMonaco wrote and will direct the coming-of-age family...
Actress Madelyn Cline has been cast in Blumhouse Productions/Man in a Tree Productions’ Once Upon A Time In Staten Island, toplined by Naomi Watts and Frank Grillo. Purge helmer James DeMonaco wrote and will direct the coming-of-age family...
- 5/25/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Naomi Watts and Frank Grillo have been tapped to star in Once Upon a Time in Staten Island, a coming of age family drama from Blumhouse Productions and Man in a Tree Productions. Bobby Cannavale will also co-star in the film, which Purge helmer James DeMonaco wrote and will direct with production slated to begin later this month.
Lucius Hoyos (Heroes Reborn), Jonah Hauer-King, River Alexander (The Way Way Back), and Chase Vacnin (The Little Rascals Save the Day) will also co-star in the film, set in the summer of 1982 on Staten Island, New York.
Jason Blum is producing with Sebastien K. Lemercier for Man in a Tree Productions will produce. Watts and Kate Driver will executive produce.
Lucius Hoyos (Heroes Reborn), Jonah Hauer-King, River Alexander (The Way Way Back), and Chase Vacnin (The Little Rascals Save the Day) will also co-star in the film, set in the summer of 1982 on Staten Island, New York.
Jason Blum is producing with Sebastien K. Lemercier for Man in a Tree Productions will produce. Watts and Kate Driver will executive produce.
- 5/15/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Following the premiere screening of his biographical film at the Sundance Film Festival, Robert Evans was asked by an audience member to name the one thing he regretted about his life.
"The second half", he replied.
That won over the house, not exactly made up of types whom you would think would be sympathetic toward a flamboyant, ultra-Hollywood-style producer and former studio chieftain.
In this comprehensive and sympathetic film, "The Kid Stays in the Picture", the maverick personality of Evans, as someone who thrived in the Hollywood system, is probably what won over the steadfast independent-film types here. And it will likely win over all movie buffs who view this USA Films release.
In short, through the prism of Evans, "Kid" is a splendid glimpse into Hollywood past, when producers smoked cigars, dated gorgeous women, led messy personal lives and put their careers on the line with gut-instinct movies. Even in his excesses, Evans seems such a refreshing change from the MBA types, corporate lawyers, merger maniacs, dealmeisters and abusive nerds who have Sammy Glick-ed their way to the top in today's cripplingly cautious, quarterly report entertainment world. He flourished in a day when producers were larger than life, rather than just larger than off-the-rack clothing.
In this affectionate and even-handed depiction of the unlikely rise and staggering fall of a man given to living on the edge, "The Kid Stays in the Picture" traces Evans' boyhood, when he grew up as a son of immigrant parents and, quite remarkably, made his way into acting. His unlikely ascent is the stuff of which legends are made: Evans was discovered poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel by star Norma Shearer, who offered him a role as Irving Thalberg in the picture "The Man of a Thousand Faces".
Largely through his charismatic good looks, Evans soon got other parts. Self-admittedly, he was a lousy actor, but he had the presence to win plum roles, including the prized bullfighter part in the adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises". Everybody from Hemingway on down was vehemently opposed to his casting, but Darryl F. Zanuck rose to his impregnable 5-foot-3 stature to pronounce, "the kid stays in the picture." That quip served as the title for Evans' autobiography, on which this film is based.
While achieving uneven success and notoriety as an actor, Evans' varied talents were discovered and lauded in a New York Times article by a journalist named Peter Bart. The very flattering Sunday piece worked wonders for Evans, who, with not a single production credit, vaulted to production head of Paramount.
Evans' early years at Paramount were filled with heady risk-taking, and he was always an inch away from being fired. But he was on an incredible roll: "Rosemary's Baby", "The Odd Couple", "Love Story", "Chinatown", "Harold and Maude" and "The Godfather", which easily could have become his undoing. His gargantuan battles with director Francis Ford Coppola are well-documented here.
Even as the studio's golden boy, Evans was undeniably always on thin ice, red-eyeing off to New York to wow the fuddy-duddy corporate board of Gulf & Western or wrangling with a director or star. Ultimately, we see him lose control of his life, cascading into an escalating downswirl -- nefarious characters, coke addiction, "Cotton Club" budget problems and, most severely, a crippling depression that caused him to curl into the womb of his beloved, rose-filled Beverly Hills mansion.
Under the kind and comprehensive directorial hands of Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein, "Kid" is an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character.
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE
USA Films
Highways Films and Ministry of Propaganda
A film by Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein
Producers: Graydon Carter, Brett Morgen, Nanette Burstein
Directors: Brett Morgen, Nanette Burstein
Screenwriter: Brett Morgen
Based on the autobiography by: Robert Evans
Director of photography: John Bailey
Editor: Jun Diaz
Co-producers: Kate Driver, Chris Garrett, Sara Marks
Associate producer: Christopher J. Keene
Music: Jeff Danna
Color/stereo
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
"The second half", he replied.
That won over the house, not exactly made up of types whom you would think would be sympathetic toward a flamboyant, ultra-Hollywood-style producer and former studio chieftain.
In this comprehensive and sympathetic film, "The Kid Stays in the Picture", the maverick personality of Evans, as someone who thrived in the Hollywood system, is probably what won over the steadfast independent-film types here. And it will likely win over all movie buffs who view this USA Films release.
In short, through the prism of Evans, "Kid" is a splendid glimpse into Hollywood past, when producers smoked cigars, dated gorgeous women, led messy personal lives and put their careers on the line with gut-instinct movies. Even in his excesses, Evans seems such a refreshing change from the MBA types, corporate lawyers, merger maniacs, dealmeisters and abusive nerds who have Sammy Glick-ed their way to the top in today's cripplingly cautious, quarterly report entertainment world. He flourished in a day when producers were larger than life, rather than just larger than off-the-rack clothing.
In this affectionate and even-handed depiction of the unlikely rise and staggering fall of a man given to living on the edge, "The Kid Stays in the Picture" traces Evans' boyhood, when he grew up as a son of immigrant parents and, quite remarkably, made his way into acting. His unlikely ascent is the stuff of which legends are made: Evans was discovered poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel by star Norma Shearer, who offered him a role as Irving Thalberg in the picture "The Man of a Thousand Faces".
Largely through his charismatic good looks, Evans soon got other parts. Self-admittedly, he was a lousy actor, but he had the presence to win plum roles, including the prized bullfighter part in the adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises". Everybody from Hemingway on down was vehemently opposed to his casting, but Darryl F. Zanuck rose to his impregnable 5-foot-3 stature to pronounce, "the kid stays in the picture." That quip served as the title for Evans' autobiography, on which this film is based.
While achieving uneven success and notoriety as an actor, Evans' varied talents were discovered and lauded in a New York Times article by a journalist named Peter Bart. The very flattering Sunday piece worked wonders for Evans, who, with not a single production credit, vaulted to production head of Paramount.
Evans' early years at Paramount were filled with heady risk-taking, and he was always an inch away from being fired. But he was on an incredible roll: "Rosemary's Baby", "The Odd Couple", "Love Story", "Chinatown", "Harold and Maude" and "The Godfather", which easily could have become his undoing. His gargantuan battles with director Francis Ford Coppola are well-documented here.
Even as the studio's golden boy, Evans was undeniably always on thin ice, red-eyeing off to New York to wow the fuddy-duddy corporate board of Gulf & Western or wrangling with a director or star. Ultimately, we see him lose control of his life, cascading into an escalating downswirl -- nefarious characters, coke addiction, "Cotton Club" budget problems and, most severely, a crippling depression that caused him to curl into the womb of his beloved, rose-filled Beverly Hills mansion.
Under the kind and comprehensive directorial hands of Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein, "Kid" is an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character.
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE
USA Films
Highways Films and Ministry of Propaganda
A film by Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein
Producers: Graydon Carter, Brett Morgen, Nanette Burstein
Directors: Brett Morgen, Nanette Burstein
Screenwriter: Brett Morgen
Based on the autobiography by: Robert Evans
Director of photography: John Bailey
Editor: Jun Diaz
Co-producers: Kate Driver, Chris Garrett, Sara Marks
Associate producer: Christopher J. Keene
Music: Jeff Danna
Color/stereo
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 8/23/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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