ESPN Films is working on a docuseries about the legendary Gracie family, Variety has learned exclusively.
Titled “Gracie,” the series will delve deep into the family’s history and dissect how they became the founders of Brazilian jiu jitsu, which serves as a major cornerstone of modern mixed martial arts (Mma).
The official description of the series states: “Featuring larger-than-life personalities, triumphs and tragedies, deep loyalties, passionate loves and deadly feuds, ‘Gracie’ will explore the essence of family, honor, legacy, and humanity’s innate desire to fight. Told through the eyes of key Gracie family members, the series will dive deep into an epic family saga that takes audiences from Scotland and Japan, to Brazil and America.”
The series is directed by Chris Fuller (“Loren Cass”) and is executive produced by ESPN Films. The project is being produced by Solaris Entertainment. Gregory O’Connor, Nanette Burstein, Guy Ritchie and Ivan Atkinson...
Titled “Gracie,” the series will delve deep into the family’s history and dissect how they became the founders of Brazilian jiu jitsu, which serves as a major cornerstone of modern mixed martial arts (Mma).
The official description of the series states: “Featuring larger-than-life personalities, triumphs and tragedies, deep loyalties, passionate loves and deadly feuds, ‘Gracie’ will explore the essence of family, honor, legacy, and humanity’s innate desire to fight. Told through the eyes of key Gracie family members, the series will dive deep into an epic family saga that takes audiences from Scotland and Japan, to Brazil and America.”
The series is directed by Chris Fuller (“Loren Cass”) and is executive produced by ESPN Films. The project is being produced by Solaris Entertainment. Gregory O’Connor, Nanette Burstein, Guy Ritchie and Ivan Atkinson...
- 7/6/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Some actor couples have managed to star together successfully. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy did all right, as did the legendary Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. But then there's plenty of real life partnerships that went down in flames after they made a movie or two together. Work and marriage, it seems, don't often mix. Nevertheless, Johnny Depp and his companion Vanessa Paradis are brave enough to give it a try. According to BangShowbiz, Depp and Paradis are preparing to make My American Lover together with Lasse Hallström directing.
To make matters even riskier, My American Lover isn't just a standard love story. It's about the legendary feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, and her love affair with writer Nelson Algren. The couple traveled through Latin America in 1949, and he was the basis of the character Lewis Brogan in her novel The Mandarins. Her letters to Algren were collected in A...
To make matters even riskier, My American Lover isn't just a standard love story. It's about the legendary feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, and her love affair with writer Nelson Algren. The couple traveled through Latin America in 1949, and he was the basis of the character Lewis Brogan in her novel The Mandarins. Her letters to Algren were collected in A...
- 3/1/2010
- by Elisabeth Rappe
- Cinematical
Up on the main page are three web-only interviews of particular interest. The first, posted moments ago, is David Lowery's interview with Chris Fuller, director of Loren Cass. This no-budget indie (nominated for a Filmmaker-sponsored Gotham Award) is in theaters now from Kino and scored a surprise rave from Nathan Lee in the New York Times. I saw the film a couple of years ago at Cinevegas and was intrigued by its blend of art film aesthetics and documentary style realism. Lowery's interview really gets at these issues and I recommend it; it's a great read. Also up is Nick Dawson's interview with the Dardenne Brothers, whose Lorna's Silence opens this week. And then, finally, is Dawson's interview with director Armando Iannucci, whose In...
- 7/29/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
There’s something to be said about not being eager to please. Chris Fuller’s Loren Cass is an aggressively confrontational debut, all the more so because it is so resolutely restrained in its approach. So seemingly oblique is Fuller’s approach that one feasibly could make it through the entire film and not realize that its subject matter is the aftermath of the 1996 St. Petersburg riots; but on the other hand, that subject matter is so deeply ingrained in the film’s form that it doesn’t matter. Loren Cass doesn’t so much deal with its themes as it ingests them, and then - through the juxtaposition of gorgeously photographed tableaux, depicting the various intersections of wayward youths in a shellshocked city; and through the use of poetry...
- 7/29/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine_Web Exclusives
There’s something to be said about not being eager to please. Chris Fuller’s Loren Cass is an aggressively confrontational debut, all the more so because it is so resolutely restrained in its approach. So seemingly oblique is Fuller’s approach that one feasibly could make it through the entire film and not realize that its subject matter is the aftermath of the 1996 St. Petersburg riots; but on the other hand, that subject matter is so deeply ingrained in the film’s form that it doesn’t matter. Loren Cass doesn’t so much deal with its themes as it ingests them, and then – through the juxtaposition of gorgeously photographed tableaux, depicting the various intersections of wayward youths in a shellshocked city; and through the use of...
- 7/29/2009
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine_Web Exclusives
The low-budget, low- tech indie "Loren Cass" is an example of less being best.
Set in St. Petersburg, Fla., in the aftermath of real-life racial riots in 1997, it concerns three adolescents dealing with life, which can be a real bummer.
One's a high-school punk named Jason (Travis Maynard); another is an auto mechanic, Cale (played by the director-writer-editor, Chris Fuller, using the name Lewis Brogan); and the third, Nicole (Kayla Tabish), is a late-night waitress with a promiscuous streak.
They spend their time swigging Jack Daniel's,...
Set in St. Petersburg, Fla., in the aftermath of real-life racial riots in 1997, it concerns three adolescents dealing with life, which can be a real bummer.
One's a high-school punk named Jason (Travis Maynard); another is an auto mechanic, Cale (played by the director-writer-editor, Chris Fuller, using the name Lewis Brogan); and the third, Nicole (Kayla Tabish), is a late-night waitress with a promiscuous streak.
They spend their time swigging Jack Daniel's,...
- 7/24/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
A small smattering of romantic fare amongst the new releases this week lines up alongside some caustic political satire, a couple of dark chillers, somber documentaries, and a string of grouchy gurus.
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"The Answer Man"
Having quietly transformed himself into one of the most versatile character actors working today, Jeff Daniels returns to leading man duties for this romantic indie, the feature debut of writer/director John Hindman. Daniels plays Arlen Faber, the author of a worldwide bestselling page-turner on spirituality who's spent the following 20 years living the life of a reclusive malcontent. Lauren Graham of "Gilmore Girls" fame co-stars as a widowed chiropractor with a troubled son who reawakens Faber's erstwhile interest in people.
Opens in New York and Los Angeles.
"California Company Town"
With the Golden State scrambling to avoid bankruptcy, performance...
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"The Answer Man"
Having quietly transformed himself into one of the most versatile character actors working today, Jeff Daniels returns to leading man duties for this romantic indie, the feature debut of writer/director John Hindman. Daniels plays Arlen Faber, the author of a worldwide bestselling page-turner on spirituality who's spent the following 20 years living the life of a reclusive malcontent. Lauren Graham of "Gilmore Girls" fame co-stars as a widowed chiropractor with a troubled son who reawakens Faber's erstwhile interest in people.
Opens in New York and Los Angeles.
"California Company Town"
With the Golden State scrambling to avoid bankruptcy, performance...
- 7/21/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Indie Roundup reviews the past week of news from the independent film community and provides a peek at what's coming soon.
Opening. Three indie flicks open on Friday: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's terrific music doc Soul Power, Chris Nahon's live-action adaptation of anime horror thriller Blood: The Last Vampire, and a reissue of Francois Truffaut's 1969 crime romance Mississippi Mermaid, with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. After a good start in New York and Los Angeles (see below), action thriller The Hurt Locker expands into 50 selected markets.
Deals / Articles of Interest. Our friends at indieWIRE reported on three recent acquisitions with upcoming theatrical releases planned: Chris Fuller's critically-acclaimed teen drama Loren Cass (Kino; July 24); Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, with Robin Wright Penn and Alan Arkin (Screen Media, October); and Dror Zahavi's thriller For My Father (Film Movement, Winter 2010). Eugene Hernandez considers Chris Anderson's...
Opening. Three indie flicks open on Friday: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's terrific music doc Soul Power, Chris Nahon's live-action adaptation of anime horror thriller Blood: The Last Vampire, and a reissue of Francois Truffaut's 1969 crime romance Mississippi Mermaid, with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. After a good start in New York and Los Angeles (see below), action thriller The Hurt Locker expands into 50 selected markets.
Deals / Articles of Interest. Our friends at indieWIRE reported on three recent acquisitions with upcoming theatrical releases planned: Chris Fuller's critically-acclaimed teen drama Loren Cass (Kino; July 24); Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, with Robin Wright Penn and Alan Arkin (Screen Media, October); and Dror Zahavi's thriller For My Father (Film Movement, Winter 2010). Eugene Hernandez considers Chris Anderson's...
- 7/9/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
- The jury composed of Walter Carvalho, Saverio Costanzo, Irène Jacob, Jia Zhang-ke, Romuald Karmakar and Bruno Todeschini gave out a bunch of leopards on the weekend. Masahiro Kobayashi (see pic above) won the Golden Leopard for his film Ai no yokan (The Rebirth). Best Director was awarded to Capitaine Achab by Philippe Ramos (France) and the Special Jury Prize went to Memories (Jeonju Digital Project 2007) by Pedro Costa, Harun Farocki and Eugène Green. Spanish actress Carmen Maura and the French actor Michel Piccoli both received an Excellence Award (Michel Piccoli also received the prize for best actor in Sous les toits de Paris, joint winner was Michele Venitucci in Fuori dalle corde). And finally (and not surprisingly), Death at a Funeral (the Brit comedy by Frank Oz) won the audience award – this making it the 5th or 6th time that it has walked away from an international festival with such honors.
- 8/13/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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