Lily Collins (Priest, Mortal Instruments, Okja) will star in the survival thriller Titan for Killer Films to be written and directed by Kill Your Darlings director Austin Bunn, reports Screen Daily. Titan tells the story of Emma, a strong-willed young musician on a quest to understand the life of her environmental activist older sister, who was killed years before in a tragic fall. […]...
- 4/20/2018
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Xyz Films to handle international sales in Cannes.
Lily Collins will star in the survival thriller Titan for Killer Films to be written and directed by Kill Your Darlings director Austin Bunn.
Xyz Films serves as executive producer and will handle international sales in Cannes next month.
Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa are producing for Killer. CAA and UTA Independent Film Group represent Us rights.
Titan tells the story of Emma, a strong-willed young musician on a quest to understand the life of her environmental activist older sister, who was killed years before in a tragic fall.
Emma seeks out Justin,...
Lily Collins will star in the survival thriller Titan for Killer Films to be written and directed by Kill Your Darlings director Austin Bunn.
Xyz Films serves as executive producer and will handle international sales in Cannes next month.
Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa are producing for Killer. CAA and UTA Independent Film Group represent Us rights.
Titan tells the story of Emma, a strong-willed young musician on a quest to understand the life of her environmental activist older sister, who was killed years before in a tragic fall.
Emma seeks out Justin,...
- 4/19/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Ahead of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, To the Bone star Lily Collins has boarded Titan, a survival thriller from director Austin Bunn, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Collins will play a young musician setting out to investigate her environmentalist older sister's death, only to find herself in danger when she revisits the remote forest that claimed her sibling.
Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa are producing for Killer Films. Xyz Films will introduce Titan to foreign buyers at Cannes, while CAA and UTA are handling a domestic sale.
Collins, also known for roles in Bong Joon Ho's Okja and on...
Collins will play a young musician setting out to investigate her environmentalist older sister's death, only to find herself in danger when she revisits the remote forest that claimed her sibling.
Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa are producing for Killer Films. Xyz Films will introduce Titan to foreign buyers at Cannes, while CAA and UTA are handling a domestic sale.
Collins, also known for roles in Bong Joon Ho's Okja and on...
- 4/18/2018
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In a pre-Cannes Film Festival signing, Lily Collins has come on board to star in the forest survival thriller “Titan.”
Austin Bunn, who wrote “Kill Your Darlings,” is attached to direct. Christine Vachon is producing with David Hinojosa for Killer Films.
Xyz Films is executive producing and will launch international sales at the Cannes Film Festival. CAA and UTA are handling the domestic rights.
Collins will portray a young musician on a quest to understand the life of her environmental activist sister, who was killed years earlier in a fall in a remote redwood tree grove. She asks an associate of her sister to take her to the same location, putting herself in peril.
Collins starred in eating disorder drama “To the Bone” and has been shooting the thriller “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” about the 1979 murder trial of serial killer Ted Bundy. Zac Efron is starring in the role of Bundy opposite Collins,...
Austin Bunn, who wrote “Kill Your Darlings,” is attached to direct. Christine Vachon is producing with David Hinojosa for Killer Films.
Xyz Films is executive producing and will launch international sales at the Cannes Film Festival. CAA and UTA are handling the domestic rights.
Collins will portray a young musician on a quest to understand the life of her environmental activist sister, who was killed years earlier in a fall in a remote redwood tree grove. She asks an associate of her sister to take her to the same location, putting herself in peril.
Collins starred in eating disorder drama “To the Bone” and has been shooting the thriller “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” about the 1979 murder trial of serial killer Ted Bundy. Zac Efron is starring in the role of Bundy opposite Collins,...
- 4/18/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Lily Collins has been set to star in survival thriller Titan, written and directed by Kill Your Darlings scribe Austin Bunn. Christine Vachon is producing with David Hinojosa for Killer Films. Xyz Films is exec producing and will launch international sales at the upcoming Cannes Market. CAA and UTA are handling domestic.
Titan tells the story of Emma (Collins), a strong-willed young musician on a quest to understand the life of her environmental activist older sister, who was killed years before in a tragic fall. Emma seeks out Justin, a former member of the movement, who reluctantly agrees to take her to the same remote redwood grove that claimed her sister. Emma soon finds herself in serious peril, forced to face off with Mother Nature in a relentless fight for survival.
Collins starred in last year’s To The Bone and has Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile and Tolkien on deck.
Titan tells the story of Emma (Collins), a strong-willed young musician on a quest to understand the life of her environmental activist older sister, who was killed years before in a tragic fall. Emma seeks out Justin, a former member of the movement, who reluctantly agrees to take her to the same remote redwood grove that claimed her sister. Emma soon finds herself in serious peril, forced to face off with Mother Nature in a relentless fight for survival.
Collins starred in last year’s To The Bone and has Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile and Tolkien on deck.
- 4/18/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Ahead of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, <em>To the Bone </em>star Lily Collins has boarded <em>Titan</em>, a survival thriller from director Austin Bunn, <em>The Hollywood Reporter</em> has confirmed.
Collins will play a young musician setting out to investigate her environmentalist older sister's death, only to find herself in danger when she revisits the remote forest that claimed her sibling.
Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa are producing for Killer Films. Xyz Films will introduce <em>Titan</em> to foreign buyers at Cannes, while CAA and UTA are handling a domestic sale.
Collins, also known for roles in Bong Joon Ho's <em>Okja</em> and on the series ...
Collins will play a young musician setting out to investigate her environmentalist older sister's death, only to find herself in danger when she revisits the remote forest that claimed her sibling.
Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa are producing for Killer Films. Xyz Films will introduce <em>Titan</em> to foreign buyers at Cannes, while CAA and UTA are handling a domestic sale.
Collins, also known for roles in Bong Joon Ho's <em>Okja</em> and on the series ...
- 4/18/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Project Name: Spooners The Webseries Asking For: $15,000 on Kickstarter Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $7,555 Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 12 Description: The Spooners series isn’t a brand-new endeavor; it’s actually based off characters from a successful short indie film of the same title (also funded through Kickstarter). Corey and Nelson have to learn how to navigate typical yet still wildly relatable marriage experiences, like messing up the relationship with your in-laws or reaching that “milestone when you can finally poop in front of your spouse.” Basically, Spooners feels like a more hometown, eclectic version of the Husbands series. Creator Bio: Created and directed by Bryan Horch, the series will star musical comedian Ben Lerman as Corey and actor Walter Replogle as Nelson. Horch and Lerman are also responsible for writing the episodes along with Austin Bunn, and Michael Capodiferro is the assistant director and producer.
- 10/7/2014
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
An Oscar winner, a major Oscar nominee, two more pieces of Oscar bait, and a few movies that never got anywhere near Oscar. Welcome to What to Watch. We don’t play favorites. Oh, wait, yes we do. You should definitely rent or buy the titles on this first page. The second page is more optional.
Frozen
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“Frozen”
The best Disney movie since “The Lion King” (Disney, not Pixar), “Frozen” gets the lavish Mouse House treatment. There’s no better studio for family releases and they’re not about to slack on one of the biggest moneymakers of their existence. We are Just getting started with “Frozen”. You know how “Beauty & The Beast” and “The Lion King” became industries unto themselves? Spawning Broadway musicals, theme park rides, new shows, straight-to-dvd sequels, etc.? “Frozen” will end up the same way. If you have a kid, you won’t...
Frozen
Photo credit: Disney
“Frozen”
The best Disney movie since “The Lion King” (Disney, not Pixar), “Frozen” gets the lavish Mouse House treatment. There’s no better studio for family releases and they’re not about to slack on one of the biggest moneymakers of their existence. We are Just getting started with “Frozen”. You know how “Beauty & The Beast” and “The Lion King” became industries unto themselves? Spawning Broadway musicals, theme park rides, new shows, straight-to-dvd sequels, etc.? “Frozen” will end up the same way. If you have a kid, you won’t...
- 3/18/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 18, 2014
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2) might look a bit like Harry Potter with his glasses in Kill Your Darlings, but don’t be fooled. He’s playing beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg.
Set in 1944, the biography movie tells the story of Ginsberg at Columbia, where he finds stuffy tradition clashing with modern ideas and attitudes embodied by Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan, Chronicle). Shy, unsophisticated Ginsberg is fascinated by Carr and drawn into his hard-drinking, jazz-clubbing friends, including William Burroughs (Ben Foster, Contraband), the dissolute scion of a wealthy family, and David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall, TV’s Dexter), an older hanger-on who resents Ginsberg’s position as Carr’s new sidekick. Everything gets shaken up when there’s a murder.
Based on true events, Kill Your Darlings follows...
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Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2) might look a bit like Harry Potter with his glasses in Kill Your Darlings, but don’t be fooled. He’s playing beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg.
Set in 1944, the biography movie tells the story of Ginsberg at Columbia, where he finds stuffy tradition clashing with modern ideas and attitudes embodied by Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan, Chronicle). Shy, unsophisticated Ginsberg is fascinated by Carr and drawn into his hard-drinking, jazz-clubbing friends, including William Burroughs (Ben Foster, Contraband), the dissolute scion of a wealthy family, and David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall, TV’s Dexter), an older hanger-on who resents Ginsberg’s position as Carr’s new sidekick. Everything gets shaken up when there’s a murder.
Based on true events, Kill Your Darlings follows...
- 1/30/2014
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
In this series, Vulture has been speaking to the screenwriters behind 2013's most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack. What pivotal sequences underwent the biggest transformations on their way from script to screen? Today, Kill Your Darlings scribe Austin Bunn (who co-wrote the script with director John Krokidas) recalls a sequence where young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) must impress the friends he hopes to start a literary movement with, Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston). The scene is then excerpted below. I remember listening to the first read-through of the script, four days before we started shooting, and thinking, We have a serious problem. Scene 45 — the dead center of the story, the moment when the young Allen Ginsberg reads his first poem from a boat adrift on the Hudson — was not working. More specifically, it wasn’t doing anything, and...
- 1/3/2014
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
Kill Your Darlings made a splash at Sundance for first-time director John Krokidas, and not just because it starred Daniel Radcliffe as a budding collegiate writer named Allen Ginsberg. It presented a stylish, yet un-romanticized vision of Columbia University in the ’40s, a handful of recognizable stars as young literary icons (including Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac and Ben Foster as William S. Burroughs), and a largely unknown story of the murder that brought the Beat Generation together. It’s also a distinctly gay narrative during an awards season that has left us largely bereft of Lgbt characters, with the exception of Dallas Buyers Club and Blue is the Warmest Color. Kill Your Darlings is historical in scope but modern in its depiction of intellectual gay men and their gorgeous muse Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan in a breakout role).
We caught up with Krokidas to discuss the film, how he...
We caught up with Krokidas to discuss the film, how he...
- 12/20/2013
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
Exclusive: John Krokidas, who made his feature directing debut with the Beat Generation poets mystery Kill Your Darlings at Sundance, has signed a pair of deals that will put him to work on the Fox lot. Krokidas has been set to helm Standard Loneliness Package, which Keith Bunin is scripting based the title short story from the Charles Yu collection Sorry Please Thank You. Temple Hill Entertainment’s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen will produce. Pic is set in the near future, where a recent college graduate gets an entry-level job at a tech company where he’s paid to experience painful events in other people’s lives. He falls desperately in love with his boss, and tries to build a genuine relationship in a society that’s becoming entirely virtual and where he essentially serves as a human pain cushion. Krokidas has separately made a deal with Fox 2000 to...
- 11/25/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Kill Your Darlings
Written by John Krokidas and Austin Bunn
Directed by John Krokidas
USA, 2013
John Krokidas’ film debut Kill Your Darlings follows the turbulent university years of famed American beat writers Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), and William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster). Set in the early 1940s at Columbia University and on the streets of New York City, the film centers around the murder of David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) and the months that led up to it.
The film does an excellent job showcasing the talented actors chosen to play these renowned writers. It was quite a risk to employ Radcliffe, whose fame began by playing the title role in the popular Harry Potter film series, and Hall, who has manipulated audiences for years playing good-guy serial killer on Showtime’s Dexter, yet it works out brilliantly. Chemistry has a lot...
Written by John Krokidas and Austin Bunn
Directed by John Krokidas
USA, 2013
John Krokidas’ film debut Kill Your Darlings follows the turbulent university years of famed American beat writers Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), and William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster). Set in the early 1940s at Columbia University and on the streets of New York City, the film centers around the murder of David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) and the months that led up to it.
The film does an excellent job showcasing the talented actors chosen to play these renowned writers. It was quite a risk to employ Radcliffe, whose fame began by playing the title role in the popular Harry Potter film series, and Hall, who has manipulated audiences for years playing good-guy serial killer on Showtime’s Dexter, yet it works out brilliantly. Chemistry has a lot...
- 11/8/2013
- by Trish Ferris
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – The movies has been berry berry good to 1950s Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsburg. For the sixth time since 2009, his persona is actualized on celluloid – this time by Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe – in the coming-of-age part of the poet’s story, “Kill Your Darlings.”
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The title refers to the rejection of past heroes, in this case to forge the new Beat Generation of literary influencers after World War II. There is a murder as well, one of the weaker subplots of this intriguing before-the-beginning overview of Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and their support system. Radcliffe is up to the task, he puts a terrific spin on the Ginsburg sensibility, including a surprising sidebar involving his family. First time director (and script co-writer) John Krokidas shows a frenetic flair in using the camera as a storyteller, but doesn’t maintain the quick-cut pacing as the atmosphere grows more terse.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The title refers to the rejection of past heroes, in this case to forge the new Beat Generation of literary influencers after World War II. There is a murder as well, one of the weaker subplots of this intriguing before-the-beginning overview of Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and their support system. Radcliffe is up to the task, he puts a terrific spin on the Ginsburg sensibility, including a surprising sidebar involving his family. First time director (and script co-writer) John Krokidas shows a frenetic flair in using the camera as a storyteller, but doesn’t maintain the quick-cut pacing as the atmosphere grows more terse.
- 11/1/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Now playing in New York and Los Angeles, Kill Your Darlings is the debut feature from director John Krokidas, who also provided the screenplay with his best friend and creative partner Austin Bunn. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston and Ben Foster, the film details the untold "origin story" of the Beats from the point of the view of a young Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe). Beginning college at Columbia University in 1943, Ginsberg meets Lucien Carr (DeHaan), a charismatic young man who ultimately introduces the poet to Jack Kerouac (Huston) and William S. Burroughs (Foster), but who is also soon arrested for the murder of the group's mutual acquaintance, David Kammerer (Hall) in a story that heralded the beginning of the Beat generation....
- 10/21/2013
- Comingsoon.net
"When someone tells you not to be that ambitious, at least me, my first gut reaction is 'I can prove them wrong.' " That's John Krokidas talking, the writer and director of Kill Your Darlings, but it just as easily could have come from Allen Ginsberg, the central figure of Krokidas's feature directing debut, played as a curious but ambitious college student by Daniel Radcliffe. Krokidas wrote the script with his college roommate Austin Bunn and spent nine grueling years trying to get the film made, frequently reminded that a period piece from a first-time director was no easy sell. After bringing his Nyu thesis short film Slo-Mo to the Sundance Film Festival in 2002, "I vowed to come back two years later with my first feature," Krokidas says. That film was Kill Your Darlings. It premiered at Sundance 11 years later. I met John Krokidas for coffee on the Upper West...
- 10/17/2013
- cinemablend.com
Director: John Krokidas; Screenwriter Austin Bunn, John Krokidas; Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C Hall, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, Elizabeth Olsen; Running time: 104 mins; Certificate: Tbc
Despite the unruly black hair, the round glasses and the wide-eyed sense of wonder upon entering a brave new world, the most impressive thing about Daniel Radcliffe's turn as Allen Ginsberg in intoxicating melodrama Kill Your Darlings is that you don't for a moment see Harry Potter. Contrary to the expectations of many, it's taken him less than two years to shake off the pall of franchise typecasting.
Set several years prior to 2010's James Franco-starring Howl, this remarkably assured debut from director John Krokidas tracks the young Ginsberg's early days at Columbia, his infatuation with fellow student Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), and the murder that would test his bond with fellow Beat writers William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac...
Despite the unruly black hair, the round glasses and the wide-eyed sense of wonder upon entering a brave new world, the most impressive thing about Daniel Radcliffe's turn as Allen Ginsberg in intoxicating melodrama Kill Your Darlings is that you don't for a moment see Harry Potter. Contrary to the expectations of many, it's taken him less than two years to shake off the pall of franchise typecasting.
Set several years prior to 2010's James Franco-starring Howl, this remarkably assured debut from director John Krokidas tracks the young Ginsberg's early days at Columbia, his infatuation with fellow student Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), and the murder that would test his bond with fellow Beat writers William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac...
- 10/17/2013
- Digital Spy
Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan and Michael C. Hall headline first-time helmer John Krokidas’ fascinating bio-drama, “Kill Your Darlings,” which opens in theaters on October 16th. Directed from a script Krokidas co-wrote with Austin Bunn, the film is set in 1944 and based on true events that reveal how Lucian Carr (DeHaan) was the real-life linchpin […]
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- 10/16/2013
- by Sheila Roberts
- MoviesOnline.ca
“Kill Your Darlings” is the previously untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster) at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that would lead to their Beat Revolution. Directed by John Krokidas from a screenplay co-penned with Austin Bunn, the [...]
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- 10/16/2013
- by Sheila Roberts
- MoviesOnline.ca
John Krokidas makes his feature film directorial debut with Kill Your Darlings, a biographical drama that looks at the lives of four famous poets (Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lucien Caar and William Burroughs) and the formation of the beat movement, which they were at the forefront of.
The film focuses mainly on Ginsberg as he heads off to Columbia University to study English and literature, and ends up getting to know Lucien Carr, who introduces him to a group of passionate writers which includes Kerouac, Burroughs and the lesser known David Kammerer. Their relationships, however, become fractured in 1944 when Carr murders Kammerer, and the boys are left wondering how they can possibly resolve this situation in a way where everyone comes out alright.
Recently, we got to meet up with the cast of Kill Your Darlings at the film’s press conference, which was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles,...
The film focuses mainly on Ginsberg as he heads off to Columbia University to study English and literature, and ends up getting to know Lucien Carr, who introduces him to a group of passionate writers which includes Kerouac, Burroughs and the lesser known David Kammerer. Their relationships, however, become fractured in 1944 when Carr murders Kammerer, and the boys are left wondering how they can possibly resolve this situation in a way where everyone comes out alright.
Recently, we got to meet up with the cast of Kill Your Darlings at the film’s press conference, which was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles,...
- 10/16/2013
- by Ben Kenber
- We Got This Covered
John Krokidas debut feature, Kill Your Darlings, exudes passion, for love, for heartbreak, for writing, for cinema. It is not a surprise both him and his writing partner were so excited to talk about their project, and explain how important their devotion to the characters, and their stories were for them while developing it. There is no much explanation that could surpass the great answers the duo had for us in our recent interview, they are wordy, intelligent, and overall full of absolute joy to have made their passion project into a reality.
Carlos Aguilar: Given that the characters were real people, did you have any reservations on casting recognizable faces like Michael C. Hall or Daniel Radcliffe?
John Krokidas: Any reservations?! Are you kidding me? [Laughs] this is my dream cast come true I feel like a won the lottery and then spent a dollar on it and won another lottery. In regards to Michael C. Hall, Austin had envisioned Michael in that role from day one.
Austin Bunn: That’s right. I had seen him in Six Feet Under, and he was amazing. Knowing the history that David Kammerer had red hear, he was the brightest person in the room, he was in a way kind of the older brother to a lot of these young artists, so I had seen him in Six Feet Under, so I suggested him to John.
Krokidas: One thing we had to reconcile and come to terms with at certain point in the writing process, is that we weren’t trying to portrait literary legends. We didn’t want this to be a traditional biopic, we wanted, in the spirit of these guys, to knock the icons of the pedestal and really just examine who they were at the age in which this movie took place in 1944. At that point Allen Ginsberg was not Allen Ginsberg with beats round his neck, and a huge beard. He was an insecure but extremely bright 17 year-old in Paterson, New Jersey, he had an emotional ill mom, a dad who was a poet, and he had his own secret aspirations to be a poet was ashamed to tell his father because he thought his father would disapprove.
That’s a character that we can write, that’s a character that we can cast, and we felt if we did too many “wink winks” “knot knots“ to the future then we wouldn’t have done a good job. The joke is that, the worst version of the script would be if at the end of the movie Jack Kerouac turning to everybody and going “Ok guys I’ll be going “On the Road” and seeing you later” . We worked really hard not to look to the future but to really focus our research up to the point of the end of this movie in 1945.
Aguilar: Since you mention you weren’t particularly interested in the future of what these people would become, did you ever go back and read any of the material they wrote years after the period in which this movie takes place?
Bunn: I’m really proud of the search we did and we put in, it’s what is accurate in the film. You are hearing the genuine prose of Allen Ginsberg at the end of the film, that is the poem he wrote the day after David Kammere died, and he went to the a bar, and ‘You Always Hurt the One You Love” was playing on the jukebox. There is lots of ways in which we planted seedlings, big concepts that will pay off years down the line, but at this moment you are seeing the origin point. Something like “First thought, best though” which became a credo for Ginsberg and for Kerouac as they went on to their illustrious careers, here you hear Lucien articulate it for the first time. William Burroughs ended up writing cut up novels like Naked Lunch and Junkie, and you see in this film the moment in which the idea I occurring to him, to use the ruins of the classic to create something new. So there is a lot of research in the film, it never became a huge burned, in a way they were like breadcrumbs for us thought the story.
Krokidas: An of course Carlos, we read all the biographies from front to back, and there is so much material out here. Then we certainly became insecure about not being authentic to the characters and who they were at the time period of the movie, and that point it was like phase two of our search, in which we limited ourselves from their birth up to end of the film. Then I had the actors focus their personal research at that time period.
Aguilar: There is a sense of magical realism in the film, was this something that developed in the screenplay or was it a directorial choice?
Bunn: The moment I think you are referring to is the Jazz club scene, and for screenwriters out here in the universe reading this, we had so many drafts of that. It was always magical, I think we were trying to find a way to bring to life the spirit of a revolution beginning, the sense of the frame taking off the world, and what an awesome cinematic opportunity to figure out how to take literature and make it purely visual. As you can imagine there is a lot of different ways you can do that.
Krokidas: I think what was important for us, even from the writing process and then through the directorial process working with my department heads and the cast, was that we wanted this to be a movie about firsts: leaving home for the first time, going to New York for the first time, being at your first school party and feeling awkward, trying drugs for the first time, falling in love and having sex for the first time. We really wanted to movie to feel like it was from the perspective of a 17 year-old, and as you probably can remember from being 17, everything feels so big and important when you are 17, and those emotions are right at the surface and we wanted that expressiveness to be reflected in the writing but also in the cinematography and in the way I directed the camera.
Aguilar: Going back to the actors, Daniel Radcliffe gives a completely fearless performance, which will completely shatter his image as a child star in Harry Potter, how did you as a director help him shape this performance?
Krokidas: Daniel is such a hard worker. Even while he was doing the Broadway play, a musical, he and I would be once a week for two months before ewe went into production. And he said to be, which I thought it was really poignant, that he wanted to treat this movie as if it were his first film as well. When we started talking about his acting technique and how he likes to prepare he said “You know what, I don’t want to approach this movie like I’ve approached my other films”, and I’ve studied acting in college, I was a horrible actor myself but because of all the training that I’ve had, I kind of devised a method with him that worked for him to really get him out of his head, to free up his emotions, and approach breaking down a script and building a character in away that he hadn’t worked before. In return the really cool thing is that our relationship grew strong that it allowed me to be insecure and vulnerable and say to him “Oh my God I’m about to shoot my first movie in four weeks, what the heck have I gotten myself into”. He taught me several lessons about directing and how to control a set, the kind of stuff that you would never get in film school.
This movie was a lot of firsts for everyone involved. Look at David Kross who wanted to approach a straight dramatic role for the firs time. That was just really exciting and thrilling and I hope that energy made it on to the screen.
Aguilar: Did you want the film to focus on the love triangle between the characters or about Ginsberg’s development as a poet?
Bunn: I don’t think those two things are so distinct actually. John taught me that a script really has to be, at core, about the theme being developed and explore. You can’t just make a film about beautiful visuals or interesting scenes; it has to have a thematic idea. So, what we came upon was this notion that there is an emotional violence that comes with the birth of the self, we see a lot of movies the liberationist feeling about how amazing it is to become yourself, but this is a film about the darker edges of that. For us the sexuality and the love story was the wedge that opened Allen.
Krokidas: When we look at this relationship between Allen and Lucien, and then thought about some the relationships in our life, the more I talk about it the ore universal I find it is. We feel that there is that person that you meet at college or once you leave home, or whatever you do with your life, and you meet somebody that is more charismatic and confident , perhaps even better looking and charming than you. But that person sees something gin you, and see possibilities that you dint even excited in yourself, and they take you under their wing and they help you start to grow. The irony with these relationships is that they want you to grow but only so high and never as high as themselves.
In writing class they often tell you that you need to metaphorically kill your parents in order to really liberate yourself and find your own voice, the biggest irony is that these kind of first-love-transformational-friendship-relationships is that ultimately in order for you to really grow and claim your own voice you have to somehow surpass that person, and cut them out of your life. The love story and the birth of an artist story are incredibly intertwined in out opinion, and that was the intention. It is not a story of a first mutual love, is the story about falling in love with that beautiful tortured poet, musician, that we all fell in love with in college, and when you try so hard to be the person that you think that they want to fall in love with. It is not until the end of that relationship, the break-up, the ashes that we really get the strength to finally realize is about being ourselves. That’s what we wanted to capture.
Aguilar: The title, out of all the things that you could have titled the film, why did you choose Kill Your Darlings? Was it something literally or as you were implying before, metaphorical?
Bunn: I went to graduate school a the writers workshop at the university of Iowa, and that phrase is one of those core principles you heard a lot in writers’ workshops. You have to take your before little moment in whatever you’ve written is probably the weakest and you have to cut it. As we were thinking about different titles, let me tell you there were some other ones that weren’t nearly as good, we landed on this concept because it has so many resonances that were so powerful for the story. On one level it’s a writer’s story, is about deciding what belongs in a story and what doesn’t, on the other hand is about choosing your favorite most beloved thing and deciding that it needs to go away, or it needs to be killed, and when you look at this murder story is hard not see the connections there.
Aguilar: Does this film come full circle for you as a first film John? Is there anything you would have done differently?
Krokidas: I’ve been living with this one for ten years, there is no way I would have picked a different story. I’m so in the middle of it now that is hard for me to look back and see the lesson I’ve learned from it. All I can say is that it feels like a really honest outpouring of my relationship with Austin, working with the cast and the crew to tell this story.
Carlos Aguilar: Given that the characters were real people, did you have any reservations on casting recognizable faces like Michael C. Hall or Daniel Radcliffe?
John Krokidas: Any reservations?! Are you kidding me? [Laughs] this is my dream cast come true I feel like a won the lottery and then spent a dollar on it and won another lottery. In regards to Michael C. Hall, Austin had envisioned Michael in that role from day one.
Austin Bunn: That’s right. I had seen him in Six Feet Under, and he was amazing. Knowing the history that David Kammerer had red hear, he was the brightest person in the room, he was in a way kind of the older brother to a lot of these young artists, so I had seen him in Six Feet Under, so I suggested him to John.
Krokidas: One thing we had to reconcile and come to terms with at certain point in the writing process, is that we weren’t trying to portrait literary legends. We didn’t want this to be a traditional biopic, we wanted, in the spirit of these guys, to knock the icons of the pedestal and really just examine who they were at the age in which this movie took place in 1944. At that point Allen Ginsberg was not Allen Ginsberg with beats round his neck, and a huge beard. He was an insecure but extremely bright 17 year-old in Paterson, New Jersey, he had an emotional ill mom, a dad who was a poet, and he had his own secret aspirations to be a poet was ashamed to tell his father because he thought his father would disapprove.
That’s a character that we can write, that’s a character that we can cast, and we felt if we did too many “wink winks” “knot knots“ to the future then we wouldn’t have done a good job. The joke is that, the worst version of the script would be if at the end of the movie Jack Kerouac turning to everybody and going “Ok guys I’ll be going “On the Road” and seeing you later” . We worked really hard not to look to the future but to really focus our research up to the point of the end of this movie in 1945.
Aguilar: Since you mention you weren’t particularly interested in the future of what these people would become, did you ever go back and read any of the material they wrote years after the period in which this movie takes place?
Bunn: I’m really proud of the search we did and we put in, it’s what is accurate in the film. You are hearing the genuine prose of Allen Ginsberg at the end of the film, that is the poem he wrote the day after David Kammere died, and he went to the a bar, and ‘You Always Hurt the One You Love” was playing on the jukebox. There is lots of ways in which we planted seedlings, big concepts that will pay off years down the line, but at this moment you are seeing the origin point. Something like “First thought, best though” which became a credo for Ginsberg and for Kerouac as they went on to their illustrious careers, here you hear Lucien articulate it for the first time. William Burroughs ended up writing cut up novels like Naked Lunch and Junkie, and you see in this film the moment in which the idea I occurring to him, to use the ruins of the classic to create something new. So there is a lot of research in the film, it never became a huge burned, in a way they were like breadcrumbs for us thought the story.
Krokidas: An of course Carlos, we read all the biographies from front to back, and there is so much material out here. Then we certainly became insecure about not being authentic to the characters and who they were at the time period of the movie, and that point it was like phase two of our search, in which we limited ourselves from their birth up to end of the film. Then I had the actors focus their personal research at that time period.
Aguilar: There is a sense of magical realism in the film, was this something that developed in the screenplay or was it a directorial choice?
Bunn: The moment I think you are referring to is the Jazz club scene, and for screenwriters out here in the universe reading this, we had so many drafts of that. It was always magical, I think we were trying to find a way to bring to life the spirit of a revolution beginning, the sense of the frame taking off the world, and what an awesome cinematic opportunity to figure out how to take literature and make it purely visual. As you can imagine there is a lot of different ways you can do that.
Krokidas: I think what was important for us, even from the writing process and then through the directorial process working with my department heads and the cast, was that we wanted this to be a movie about firsts: leaving home for the first time, going to New York for the first time, being at your first school party and feeling awkward, trying drugs for the first time, falling in love and having sex for the first time. We really wanted to movie to feel like it was from the perspective of a 17 year-old, and as you probably can remember from being 17, everything feels so big and important when you are 17, and those emotions are right at the surface and we wanted that expressiveness to be reflected in the writing but also in the cinematography and in the way I directed the camera.
Aguilar: Going back to the actors, Daniel Radcliffe gives a completely fearless performance, which will completely shatter his image as a child star in Harry Potter, how did you as a director help him shape this performance?
Krokidas: Daniel is such a hard worker. Even while he was doing the Broadway play, a musical, he and I would be once a week for two months before ewe went into production. And he said to be, which I thought it was really poignant, that he wanted to treat this movie as if it were his first film as well. When we started talking about his acting technique and how he likes to prepare he said “You know what, I don’t want to approach this movie like I’ve approached my other films”, and I’ve studied acting in college, I was a horrible actor myself but because of all the training that I’ve had, I kind of devised a method with him that worked for him to really get him out of his head, to free up his emotions, and approach breaking down a script and building a character in away that he hadn’t worked before. In return the really cool thing is that our relationship grew strong that it allowed me to be insecure and vulnerable and say to him “Oh my God I’m about to shoot my first movie in four weeks, what the heck have I gotten myself into”. He taught me several lessons about directing and how to control a set, the kind of stuff that you would never get in film school.
This movie was a lot of firsts for everyone involved. Look at David Kross who wanted to approach a straight dramatic role for the firs time. That was just really exciting and thrilling and I hope that energy made it on to the screen.
Aguilar: Did you want the film to focus on the love triangle between the characters or about Ginsberg’s development as a poet?
Bunn: I don’t think those two things are so distinct actually. John taught me that a script really has to be, at core, about the theme being developed and explore. You can’t just make a film about beautiful visuals or interesting scenes; it has to have a thematic idea. So, what we came upon was this notion that there is an emotional violence that comes with the birth of the self, we see a lot of movies the liberationist feeling about how amazing it is to become yourself, but this is a film about the darker edges of that. For us the sexuality and the love story was the wedge that opened Allen.
Krokidas: When we look at this relationship between Allen and Lucien, and then thought about some the relationships in our life, the more I talk about it the ore universal I find it is. We feel that there is that person that you meet at college or once you leave home, or whatever you do with your life, and you meet somebody that is more charismatic and confident , perhaps even better looking and charming than you. But that person sees something gin you, and see possibilities that you dint even excited in yourself, and they take you under their wing and they help you start to grow. The irony with these relationships is that they want you to grow but only so high and never as high as themselves.
In writing class they often tell you that you need to metaphorically kill your parents in order to really liberate yourself and find your own voice, the biggest irony is that these kind of first-love-transformational-friendship-relationships is that ultimately in order for you to really grow and claim your own voice you have to somehow surpass that person, and cut them out of your life. The love story and the birth of an artist story are incredibly intertwined in out opinion, and that was the intention. It is not a story of a first mutual love, is the story about falling in love with that beautiful tortured poet, musician, that we all fell in love with in college, and when you try so hard to be the person that you think that they want to fall in love with. It is not until the end of that relationship, the break-up, the ashes that we really get the strength to finally realize is about being ourselves. That’s what we wanted to capture.
Aguilar: The title, out of all the things that you could have titled the film, why did you choose Kill Your Darlings? Was it something literally or as you were implying before, metaphorical?
Bunn: I went to graduate school a the writers workshop at the university of Iowa, and that phrase is one of those core principles you heard a lot in writers’ workshops. You have to take your before little moment in whatever you’ve written is probably the weakest and you have to cut it. As we were thinking about different titles, let me tell you there were some other ones that weren’t nearly as good, we landed on this concept because it has so many resonances that were so powerful for the story. On one level it’s a writer’s story, is about deciding what belongs in a story and what doesn’t, on the other hand is about choosing your favorite most beloved thing and deciding that it needs to go away, or it needs to be killed, and when you look at this murder story is hard not see the connections there.
Aguilar: Does this film come full circle for you as a first film John? Is there anything you would have done differently?
Krokidas: I’ve been living with this one for ten years, there is no way I would have picked a different story. I’m so in the middle of it now that is hard for me to look back and see the lesson I’ve learned from it. All I can say is that it feels like a really honest outpouring of my relationship with Austin, working with the cast and the crew to tell this story.
- 10/11/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
While you might not know the name John Krokidas off the top of your head just yet, you’d better start memorizing it. I’ve been impressed by many films this year, and there are still plenty of promising releases still to come, but Krokidas’ debut feature Kill Your Darlings absolutely blew me away, becoming my favorite film of the year – so far. A sexy, daring, smart, and lively period piece, Kill Your Darlings is an engrossing ride from start to finish, chronicling the death of David Kammerer.
Kammerer’s death was reported and known though, and Krokidas wanted to explore the relationships between names like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs, who all became connected through Kammerer and a man named Lucien Carr. Their ideas were dangerous, and their lust for literary anarchy should be viewed as a source of inspiration – which is exactly what Krokidas wanted to depict.
Kammerer’s death was reported and known though, and Krokidas wanted to explore the relationships between names like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs, who all became connected through Kammerer and a man named Lucien Carr. Their ideas were dangerous, and their lust for literary anarchy should be viewed as a source of inspiration – which is exactly what Krokidas wanted to depict.
- 10/11/2013
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Icons turned mortals is a premise often attempted when aiming to deliver a humanized version of figures otherwise revered without any context of what experiences or lack of, shaped them into the idol they'd become. For a film that compiles a period of time in the lives of the most iconic American writers of the mid-20th century, John Krokidas' directorial debut is a film painted with a fierce brush of raw passion and youthful madness. Nothing short of what's required to express the complexities of life through the abstraction that are words.
Insecure aspiring poet Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) just got into Columbia University, a decision that would allow him to distant himself from his mentally unstable mother and nourish his talent. What the couldn't anticipate was that the real schooling would happen to the sight of pouring alcohol, vandalism, and rapturous first love. Ginsberg is receptive to all these newly found sensations of which the main provider is Lucien Carr (Dane DeHann) a seductive young man his age who becomes at once his pal, his inspiration, his detractor, and the poisonous object of his unfocused desired. Lucien introduces his new friend to rich-writer William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and his on-and-off lover David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall), and expresses his interest in revolutionizing the art of writing by going against the structure, something that draws Allen in with an entrancing power.
A perpetual sense of discovery irradiates through every frame of the film, making it more about the boys’ self-discovery journeys than any specific moment that would lead them to write a given title in their future bibliography. Yet, for all the lack of historical guidance some viewers might be looking for, it packs an evocative mood that feels relevant to the troubling angst of Ginsberg and company. At the center of the plot is not whether or not Allen has what it takes to be a writer, but whether his quiet love for Lucien will allow him to become that writer. Then there is David, the older figure that lures around and enables Lucien’s debauchery, and who has also fallen for his captivating persona. However, when the latter directs his attention towards tough womanizer Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), Allen’s and David’s romantic illusion vanishes and morphs into a plot of murderous, ravishing passion and a dilemma to do what’s right.
Aided by Krokidas artful delivery of the homoerotic tension between the protagonists, Radcliffe shatters his childish image of the boy wizard once and for all. There is an intricate vulnerability in his performance both as a young man discovering his own sexuality and as an aspiring writer. Easily manipulated at first by Lucien, he learns from heartbreak the lessons no classroom could have taught him, and for that becomes a better decision-maker when confronted with deceiving behavior. DeHaan is on point as the aimless rebel who fancies himself an artist without ever having produce any work, a person who lives vicariously through those who he touches and ravages in his path, Michael C. Hall’s character included, who also delivers a flawed homosexual man rendered to fulfill Lucien’s wishes in an effort to protect him.
Passion is the name of the game in Kill Your Darlings, both Krokidas and his writing partner, Austin Bunn, have a genuine devotion for these characters. Still, the filmmaker doesn’t idolize his subjects but rather exposes them as flesh and bone, with all the irrational complexities of their humanity, and that itself is provocative and refreshing. Broken and lost, in love and enraged, these men that would become legends, are, for all intents and purposes, like everyone else. Sometimes that bane humanity is as compelling as the metaphorical images of a lusciously written poem.
Insecure aspiring poet Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) just got into Columbia University, a decision that would allow him to distant himself from his mentally unstable mother and nourish his talent. What the couldn't anticipate was that the real schooling would happen to the sight of pouring alcohol, vandalism, and rapturous first love. Ginsberg is receptive to all these newly found sensations of which the main provider is Lucien Carr (Dane DeHann) a seductive young man his age who becomes at once his pal, his inspiration, his detractor, and the poisonous object of his unfocused desired. Lucien introduces his new friend to rich-writer William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and his on-and-off lover David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall), and expresses his interest in revolutionizing the art of writing by going against the structure, something that draws Allen in with an entrancing power.
A perpetual sense of discovery irradiates through every frame of the film, making it more about the boys’ self-discovery journeys than any specific moment that would lead them to write a given title in their future bibliography. Yet, for all the lack of historical guidance some viewers might be looking for, it packs an evocative mood that feels relevant to the troubling angst of Ginsberg and company. At the center of the plot is not whether or not Allen has what it takes to be a writer, but whether his quiet love for Lucien will allow him to become that writer. Then there is David, the older figure that lures around and enables Lucien’s debauchery, and who has also fallen for his captivating persona. However, when the latter directs his attention towards tough womanizer Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), Allen’s and David’s romantic illusion vanishes and morphs into a plot of murderous, ravishing passion and a dilemma to do what’s right.
Aided by Krokidas artful delivery of the homoerotic tension between the protagonists, Radcliffe shatters his childish image of the boy wizard once and for all. There is an intricate vulnerability in his performance both as a young man discovering his own sexuality and as an aspiring writer. Easily manipulated at first by Lucien, he learns from heartbreak the lessons no classroom could have taught him, and for that becomes a better decision-maker when confronted with deceiving behavior. DeHaan is on point as the aimless rebel who fancies himself an artist without ever having produce any work, a person who lives vicariously through those who he touches and ravages in his path, Michael C. Hall’s character included, who also delivers a flawed homosexual man rendered to fulfill Lucien’s wishes in an effort to protect him.
Passion is the name of the game in Kill Your Darlings, both Krokidas and his writing partner, Austin Bunn, have a genuine devotion for these characters. Still, the filmmaker doesn’t idolize his subjects but rather exposes them as flesh and bone, with all the irrational complexities of their humanity, and that itself is provocative and refreshing. Broken and lost, in love and enraged, these men that would become legends, are, for all intents and purposes, like everyone else. Sometimes that bane humanity is as compelling as the metaphorical images of a lusciously written poem.
- 10/10/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Riding into town on a wave of high praise from Sundance and Toronto, Kill Your Darlings made its Hollywood debut at the Writers Guild of America Theatre on Thursday evening. Director John Krokidas, co-screenwriter Austin Bunn and the powerhouse cast hit the red carpet to discuss the film’s dark themes as it weaves the little-known origin story of the founders of the Beat Generation. In attendance at the low-key event were stars Daniel Radcliffe, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Dane DeHaan, who posed for photos with Life After Beth co-star Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Recreation). Other guests
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- 10/4/2013
- by Meena Jang
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Daniel Radcliffe: Gay sex scene in ‘Kill Your Darlings’ will ‘startle’ fans (photo: Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan in ‘Kill Your Darlings’) Daniel Radcliffe, 24, has survived Harry Potter. Last year, he starred in the horror thriller The Woman in Black, a major sleeper hit in the United Kingdom and a moderate one in several other countries, including the United States and Mexico. Radcliffe’s next release is the John Krokidas-directed drama Kill Your Darlings, in which the (former) bespectacled Harry Potter plays bespectacled gay poet Allen Ginsberg — whose sexually daring poem "Howl" resulted in charges of obscenity in 1957. And of course, when it came to gay sex, Ginsberg did more than just write poems. And that’s where Daniel Radcliffe will do some unHarry Potterish on-screen business. ‘Kill Your Darlings’ gay sex scene “I felt like I was breaking new ground," Daniel Radcliffe is quoted as saying in Total Film.
- 9/28/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
A new set of images from Kill Your Darlings has been released.
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the drama, which focuses on the dynamic between Ginsberg, fellow writers Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William S Burroughs (Ben Foster), and the man who brought them together, Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan).
Written by director John Krokidas and Austin Bunn, the story sees the group tested by the murder of Burroughs's close friend David Kammerer (Dexter's Michael C Hall), and Carr's increasingly erratic behaviour.
Elizabeth Olsen co-stars as Edie Parker, while Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Ginsberg's mother.
Radcliffe has spoken on numerous occasions about filming gay sex scenes with DeHaan, describing it as "a new experience".
> 'Kill Your Darlings': Dane DeHaan causes chaos in first clip - watch
> Daniel Radcliffe 'insisted on Kill Your Darlings audition'
Kill Your Darlings will play at this year's BFI London Film Festival,...
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the drama, which focuses on the dynamic between Ginsberg, fellow writers Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William S Burroughs (Ben Foster), and the man who brought them together, Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan).
Written by director John Krokidas and Austin Bunn, the story sees the group tested by the murder of Burroughs's close friend David Kammerer (Dexter's Michael C Hall), and Carr's increasingly erratic behaviour.
Elizabeth Olsen co-stars as Edie Parker, while Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Ginsberg's mother.
Radcliffe has spoken on numerous occasions about filming gay sex scenes with DeHaan, describing it as "a new experience".
> 'Kill Your Darlings': Dane DeHaan causes chaos in first clip - watch
> Daniel Radcliffe 'insisted on Kill Your Darlings audition'
Kill Your Darlings will play at this year's BFI London Film Festival,...
- 9/12/2013
- Digital Spy
Watch the trailer for Sony Pictures Classics' Kill Your Darlings, directed by John Krokidas, and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Elizabeth Olsen. The film is scripted by Austin Bunn and Krokidas, finding release on October 16, 2013. Kill Your Darlings is the previously untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster) at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that would lead to their Beat Revolution. This is the true story of friendship and murder that led to the birth of an entire generation.
- 9/12/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
After making a very impressive bow at Sundance at the start of the year, earning critical acclaim in spades, John Krokidas’ Kill Your Darlings is heading out to Toronto this month, looking for a repeat performance.
Sony Classics will then be releasing it in the Us a few weeks later. And ahead of its appearance at Tiff next week, the studio have launched the first trailer online, via Yahoo Movies, to whet our appetites.
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature, the four agree to tear down tradition and make something new, ultimately formulating the tenets of and giving...
Sony Classics will then be releasing it in the Us a few weeks later. And ahead of its appearance at Tiff next week, the studio have launched the first trailer online, via Yahoo Movies, to whet our appetites.
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature, the four agree to tear down tradition and make something new, ultimately formulating the tenets of and giving...
- 9/5/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Trailer Simon Brew 5 Sep 2013 - 08:00
Bringing Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac to the big screen, here's the trailer for Kill Your Darlings...
Well this looks like it could be quite special. Kill Your Darlings tells the story of a murder in 1944, that brings together three great poets: Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, and we've got a full trailer for the movie here.
The movie's directed by John Krokidas (he co-wrote the script with Austin Bunn), and the cast is rounded out by Elizabeth Olsen, Jack Huston, Michael C Hall, Ben Foster, David Cross and Jennifer Jason Leigh. And here's that trailer...
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Bringing Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac to the big screen, here's the trailer for Kill Your Darlings...
Well this looks like it could be quite special. Kill Your Darlings tells the story of a murder in 1944, that brings together three great poets: Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, and we've got a full trailer for the movie here.
The movie's directed by John Krokidas (he co-wrote the script with Austin Bunn), and the cast is rounded out by Elizabeth Olsen, Jack Huston, Michael C Hall, Ben Foster, David Cross and Jennifer Jason Leigh. And here's that trailer...
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- 9/5/2013
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
While there have been odd appearances of clearly unofficial trailers for John Krokidas and Austin Bunn’s Kill Your Darlings, they’ve all been unceremoniously hunted down and driven from the web by Sony. Now, hot on the heels of yesterday’s more official clip comes the first full trailer for the movie, which stars Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan and Michael C. Hall.Darlings finds Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, who arrives at Columbia University in 1944 and promptly meets Lucien Carr (DeHaan), who introduces the young man to a bohemian world and the likes of William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston). While they were all showing signs of their future talent, it’s here the Beat poets’ lives took a turn.Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature, the four agree to tear down tradition and make something new, ultimately formulating the tenets of and...
- 9/4/2013
- EmpireOnline
Venturing into the beatnik culture from decades ago, an stellar cast features Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac, Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr and Elizabeth Olsen as Edie Parker with Ben Foster as William Burroughs and Michael C. Hall as David Kammerer. The film from writer/director John Krokidas has the energy of The Social Network, but with a much darker emotional core. This writer said the film was "sharp, eloquently written, finely edited and comes together as a raw coming of age narrative," and it has some stellar performances from the entire cast. Watch the trailer now! Here's the new trailer for John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings, originally found via The Film Stage: Note: The official trailer has been released on Yahoo after an unofficial leaked version hit last week. Kill Your Darlings is the feature directing debut of John Krokidas, a Yale and...
- 9/4/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Sony Pictures Classics has revealed the trailer for their upcoming Kill Your Darlings , set for release in New York and La on October 16. Check it out below, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies . The feature debut of director John Krokidas, Kill Your Darlings is co-written by Krokidas and Austin Bunn and features a cast that includes Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster, Jack Huston, Elizabeth Olsen, David Cross, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The film reveals the previously untold story of a murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Huston) and William Burroughs (Foster) at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that would lead to their Beat Revolution. Kill Your Darlings is produced by Krokidas, Benaroya Pictures....
- 9/4/2013
- Comingsoon.net
We already shared the first trailer and poster for the upcoming Kill Your Darlings movie, which is set to hit theaters this October. Now we’re here to add the first clip with Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, and you already know what that means: time for a young Allen Ginsberg to meet Lucien Carr. Head inside to take a look… As we previously reported, John Krokidas directed the movie from a script he co-wrote with Austin Bunn which revolves around a murder in 1944 that draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. In case you want...
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- 9/3/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
John Krokidas’ Kill Your Darlings debuted at Sundance to very positive early reviews, and with the film returning to the festival circuit next week in Toronto, things are looking good for what could well prove to be an Oscar contender in the coming months.
Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan take the lead as Allen Ginsberg and Lucien Carr, respectively. And with the first trailer set to officially debut this week, Sony Classics have released a handful of new images of the leading duo alongside some of the fellow cast.
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature, the four agree...
Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan take the lead as Allen Ginsberg and Lucien Carr, respectively. And with the first trailer set to officially debut this week, Sony Classics have released a handful of new images of the leading duo alongside some of the fellow cast.
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature, the four agree...
- 9/2/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With Daniel Radcliffe leading the way as Allen Ginsberg, and Dane DeHaan opposite as Lucien Carr, it should come as no surprise that Kill Your Darlings has become one of the most talked-about films of the year since its debut at Sundance.
John Krokidas’ directorial debut boasts an absolutely stellar cast. And ahead of the film’s return to the festival circuit in the coming weeks – first with Venice Days, and then Tiff – Sony Pictures Classics have launched the first poster for the movie online.
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature, the four agree to tear down tradition and make something new,...
John Krokidas’ directorial debut boasts an absolutely stellar cast. And ahead of the film’s return to the festival circuit in the coming weeks – first with Venice Days, and then Tiff – Sony Pictures Classics have launched the first poster for the movie online.
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature, the four agree to tear down tradition and make something new,...
- 8/28/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sony Pictures Classics has released the new poster from the upcoming film Kill Your Darlings.
The film was an official selection at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in January and at the upcoming 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Kill Your Darlings is the previously untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster) at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that would lead to their Beat Revolution.
Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr and Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsburg. Photo by Clay Enos, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
This is the true story of friendship and murder that led to the birth of an entire generation.
The film also stars Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Elizabeth Olsen.
Shot from a script by director John Krokidas and Austin Bunn, Kill Your Darlings will be in...
The film was an official selection at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in January and at the upcoming 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Kill Your Darlings is the previously untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster) at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that would lead to their Beat Revolution.
Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr and Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsburg. Photo by Clay Enos, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
This is the true story of friendship and murder that led to the birth of an entire generation.
The film also stars Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Elizabeth Olsen.
Shot from a script by director John Krokidas and Austin Bunn, Kill Your Darlings will be in...
- 8/27/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
First poster for Kill Your Darlings. A True Story of Obsession & Murder Catch the new poster for the Sony Pictures Classics release, also starring Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Elizabeth Olsen. Kill Your Darlings is directed and written by newcome John Krokidas who makes his feature directorial debut on the project, scripting alongside Austin Bunn. Kill Your Darlings tells of a murder in 1944 which brings together great poets of the beat generation in Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.
- 8/27/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Here comes the very first (official) poster for John Krokidas‘ upcoming Kill Your Darlings movie, which is set to hit theaters this October. As you already see, it’s all about Daniel Radcliffe aka Allen Ginsberg and Dane DeHaan aka Lucien Carr, who are here to tell us a true story of obsession and murder. Head inside to check them out! Krokidas directed the movie from a script he co-wrote with Austin Bunn, which revolves around David Kammerer’s murder by Lucien Carr in 1944 that draws together the great poets of the beat generation. Beside Radcliffe who stars as Ginsberg, and DeHaan who plays Carr (in...
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- 8/26/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
Sony Pictures Classics has revealed the official poster design for their upcoming Kill Your Darlings , set for release in New York and La on October 16. Check it out below! The feature debut of director John Krokidas, Kill Your Darlings is co-written by Krokidas and Austin Bunn and features a cast that includes Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster, Jack Huston, Elizabeth Olsen, David Cross, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The film reveals the previously untold story of a murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Huston) and William Burroughs (Foster) at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that would lead to their Beat Revolution. Kill Your Darlings is produced by Krokidas, Benaroya Pictures. Michael...
- 8/26/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Title: Kill Your Darlings Sony Pictures Classics Director: John Krokidas Screenwriter: John Krokidas, Austin Bunn, from Austin Bunn’s story Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane Dehaan, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, David Cross, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Elizabeth Olsen, Kyra Sedgwick Screened at: Sony, NYC, 8/20/13 Opens: October 16, 2013 Unless you’re a Broadway fan or you watched him recently in the film “Woman in Black,” you’ve never before seen Daniel Radcliffe like this. For that matter, you’re not likely to have seen Allen Ginsberg, whom Radcliffe portrays in John Krokidas’s “Kill Your Darlings,” like this, since you probably remember him in middle age, bald with long hair in the back [ Read More ]
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- 8/21/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Having debuted to very promising early reviews at Sundance this year, John Krokidas’ Kill Your Darlings will soon be returning to the festival circuit, with Venice Days and Tiff so close on the horizon.
With an October release date set by Sony Pictures Classics, and awards buzz kicking off coming out of Park City, things are certainly looking good for the drama, and the film’s return to the festival scene should help build momentum moving towards the Oscar season.
Ahead of its appearance at this year’s Venice Days, a sort of independent off-shoot event on the fringes of the city’s main film festival, the first teaser footage has landed online.
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a...
With an October release date set by Sony Pictures Classics, and awards buzz kicking off coming out of Park City, things are certainly looking good for the drama, and the film’s return to the festival scene should help build momentum moving towards the Oscar season.
Ahead of its appearance at this year’s Venice Days, a sort of independent off-shoot event on the fringes of the city’s main film festival, the first teaser footage has landed online.
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a...
- 8/5/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Premiering at Sundance to excellent early reviews, John Krokidas’ Kill Your Darlings could well be Daniel Radcliffe’s first shot at the Oscars, bringing the renowned lives of Allen Ginsberg and his fellow beat generation poets to the big screen once more.
Sony Classics have set the film to begin its limited release in the Us this October, which gives it something of a perfect position for an awards campaign. And now a new image of Radcliffe and his co-star Dane DeHaan has surfaced, in which Ginsberg and Lucien Carr look to become blood brothers.
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature,...
Sony Classics have set the film to begin its limited release in the Us this October, which gives it something of a perfect position for an awards campaign. And now a new image of Radcliffe and his co-star Dane DeHaan has surfaced, in which Ginsberg and Lucien Carr look to become blood brothers.
While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly handsome classmate. Carr opens Ginsberg up to a bohemian world and introduces him to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Repelled by rules and conformity in both life and literature,...
- 6/18/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Yesterday, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell and I highlighted our Top 10 New Faces (strictly in the acting domain) of 2013′s Sundance Film Festival and while that list was pretty much a consensus, our Top 20 New Voices (fiction/non-fiction/short scribes, directors and full-out filmmakers/producers) was an amicably, yet hard fought deliberation process and then ranking of who we think the future will shine most bright…in other words, if these people were Wall Street stock options — we’d put our money behind them. Enjoy the mini profiles and adjoined praise.
#20. Sophie Goyette
Part of the pair of Canadian-based, female auteurs to make a pit stop in Park City (the other being Sarah Polley) French-Canadian filmmaker Sophie Goyette and her 2012 Tiff showcased short film Le Futur Proche demonstrates that there is plenty more raw talent and a pulse from Quebec. Here we find a pilot dealing with loss, suppressing his...
#20. Sophie Goyette
Part of the pair of Canadian-based, female auteurs to make a pit stop in Park City (the other being Sarah Polley) French-Canadian filmmaker Sophie Goyette and her 2012 Tiff showcased short film Le Futur Proche demonstrates that there is plenty more raw talent and a pulse from Quebec. Here we find a pilot dealing with loss, suppressing his...
- 2/16/2013
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
Years after Daniel Radcliffe was originally cast as poet Allen Ginsberg, rookie full-length film director John Krokidas’s Kill Your Darlings finally premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film, co-written by Krokidas and Austin Bunn, explores Ginsberg’s relationship with Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), which brought together now-legendary writers Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster). Michael C. Hall rounds out the phenomenal ensemble cast as David Kammerer, whose story would later be explored by Kerouac and Burroughs.
Kill Your Darlings starts with Ginsberg’s acceptance into Columbia University, following the relationship he quickly formed with Carr. The film’s fast-paced beginning is perhaps its weakest element, a cliché chronicle of self-indulgent college students who meet and cannot stop sharing their enlightened views of the world. Fortunately, Kill Your Darlings switches tones at a certain point and becomes a heartbreaking portrayal of actual 1944 events that would...
Kill Your Darlings starts with Ginsberg’s acceptance into Columbia University, following the relationship he quickly formed with Carr. The film’s fast-paced beginning is perhaps its weakest element, a cliché chronicle of self-indulgent college students who meet and cannot stop sharing their enlightened views of the world. Fortunately, Kill Your Darlings switches tones at a certain point and becomes a heartbreaking portrayal of actual 1944 events that would...
- 2/3/2013
- by Emily Estep
- We Got This Covered
Deals Made At Sundance For Films Screened At Sundance
Films by women are markedwith the ♀, African American with the symbol α (9). Latino is marked by the symbol ɤ (7). Jewish by ✡ (13), Asian by ¥ (10), Middle Eastern ᵯ (4), Lgbt (13)
New
I Used To Be Darker / U.S.A. (Director: Matthew Porterfield, Screenwriters: Amy Belk, Matthew Porterfield) — A runaway seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore, only to find their marriage ending and her cousin in crisis. In the days that follow, the family struggles to let go while searching for things to sustain them. Cast: Deragh Campbell, Hannah Gross, Kim Taylor, Ned Oldham, Geoff Grace, Nick Petr. -- Domestic: Paradigm -- AMC/Sundance Channel acquired linear and VoD premiere rights at Sundance -- Monterey Media acquires rights at Sundance.
Cutie and the Boxer / U.S.A. (Director: Zachary Heinzerling ✡) — This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband’s assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own. Domestic: Submarine -- Radius-twc acquires N.A. and French rights at Sundance -- King Records licensed Japanese rights at Sundance.
Mother of George /α/ U.S.A. (Director: Andrew Dosunmu α, Screenwriter: Darci Picoult) — A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage. Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Danai Gurira, Anthony Okungbowa, Yaya Alafia, Bukky Ajayi. Domestic: Paradigm -- Isa: K5 -- Oscilloscope Laboratories acquired N.A. rights at Sundance
Newlyweeds /α/ U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Shaka King α) — A Brooklyn repo man and his globetrotting girlfriend forge an unlikely romance. But what should be a match made in stoner heaven turns into a love triangle gone awry in this dark coming-of-age comedy about dependency. Cast: Amari Cheatom, Trae Harris, Tone Tank, Colman Domingo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Adrian Martinez. -- Domestic: Circus Road Films -- Phase 4 acquires N.A. rights at Sundance
Before Midnight/ U.S.A. (Director: Richard Linklater, Screenwriters: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater— We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna. Before the clock strikes midnight, we will again become part of their story. Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Ariane Labed, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick. Domestic: Cinetic -- Isa: Im Global -- Sony Pictures Classics acquires N.A. and UK at Sundance
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: David Lowery) — The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met. Cast: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Nate Parker, Keith Carradine. Domestic: Elevated Film Sales / Wme Isa: TWC-- IFC Films acquires Us rights reportedly for low 7-figures at Sundance
S-vhs / U.S.A., Canada (Directors: Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez ɤ, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans, Jason Eisener, Screenwriters: Simon Barrett, Jamie Nash, Timo Tjahjanto ¥ & Gareth Huw Evans, John Davies) — Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his abandoned house and find another collection of mysterious VHS tapes. In viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be terrifying motives behind the student’s disappearance. Cast: Adam Wingard, Lawrence Levine, L.C Holt, Kelsy Abbott, Hannah Hughes. Domestic: Wme -- Magnolia acquires Us rights reportedly for over $1m at Sundance
Earlier
Computer Chess / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Andrew Bujalski) — An existential comedy about the brilliant men who taught machines to play chess – back when the machines seemed clumsy and we seemed smart. Cast: Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry, Robin Schwartz, Gerald Peary, Wiley Wiggins. Domestic: The Film Sales Company -- AMC/Sundance Channel acquired linear and VoD premiere rights at Sundance
Halley ɤ/ Mexico (Director: Sebastian Hofmann ɤ, Screenwriters: Sebastian Hofmann, Julio Chavezmontes) — Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Before surrendering to his living death, he forms an unusual friendship with Luly, the manager of the 24-hour gym where he works as a night guard. Cast: Alberto Trujillo, Lourdes Trueba, Hugo Albores. -- Isa: Visit Films -- AMC/Sundance Channel acquired linear and VoD premiere rights at Sundance
It Felt Like Love / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Eliza Hittman ♀) — On the outskirts of Brooklyn, a 14-year-old girl’s sexual quest takes a dangerous turn when she pursues an older guy and tests the boundaries between obsession and love. Cast: Gina Piersanti, Giovanna Salimeni, Ronen Rubinstein, Jesse Cordasco, Nick Rosen, Case Prime.- Isa: Visit Films -- AMC/Sundance Channel acquired linear and VoD premiere rights at Sundance
This Is Martin Bonner / U.S.A.(Director and screenwriter: Chad Hartigan) — Martin Bonner has just moved to Reno for a new job in prison rehabilitation. Starting over at age 58, he struggles to adapt until an unlikely friendship with an ex-con blossoms, helping him confront the problems he left behind. Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Richmond Arquette, Sam Buchanan, Robert Longstreet, Demetrius Grosse. Domestic: ICM Partners / Traction Media -- AMC/Sundance Channel acquired linear and VoD premiere rights at Sundance
The Spectacular Now / U.S.A. (Director: James Ponsoldt, Screenwriters: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber) — Sutter is a high school senior who lives for the moment; Aimee is the introvert he attempts to “save.” As their relationship deepens, the lines between right and wrong, friendship and love, and “saving” and corrupting become inextricably blurred. Cast: Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kyle Chandler. Domestic: UTA - A24 took domestic distribution at Sundance- Isa: The Exchange
The Look of Love / United Kingdom (Director: Michael Winterbottom Lgbt, Screenwriter: Matt Greenhalgh) — The true story of British adult magazine publisher and entrepreneur Paul Raymond. A modern day King Midas story, Raymond became one of the richest men in Britain at the cost of losing those closest to him. Cast: Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Imogen Poots, Tamsin Egerton. - UTA is No.American consultant to StudioCanal -- IFC Films has acquired North American rights at Sundance - StudioCanal has UK
The Way, Way Back / U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash) — Duncan, an introverted 14-year-old, comes into his own over the course of a comedic summer when he forms unlikely friendships with the gregarious manager of a rundown water park and the misfits who work there. Cast: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph, Liam James. Domestic: CAA, Wme Isa: Sierra/ Affinity -- Fox Searchlight acquired N.A. and most major territories reportedly for $9.75m at Sundance.
Don Jon’s Addiction / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Joseph Gordon-Levitt) — In Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s charming directorial debut, a selfish modern-day Don Juan attempts to change his ways. Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly, Rob Brown. Domestic: CAA, Wme -- Relativity Media reportedly bought for close to $4 million at Sundance Isa: Voltage Pictures has sold to Future Films for Finland, Remstar for Canada, Ascot Elite Entertainment Group for Germany and Switzerland, Midget Entertainment for Denmark, Noori Pictures for So. Korea.
Austenland / U.S.A., United Kingdom (Director: Jerusha Hess ♀, Screenwriters: Jerusha Hess, Shannon Hale) — Thirtysomething, single Jane is obsessed with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice. On a trip to an English resort, her fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman become more real than she ever imagined. Cast: Keri Russell, Jj Feild, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge, Georgia King, James Callis. Domestic: UTA -- Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions takes worldwide rights at Sundance - Sony Pictures Classics has Us.
Blackfish / U.S.A. (Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite ♀) — Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity. Domestic: Submarine -- CNN Films (TV) and Magnolia Pictures (theatrical) have jointly acquired domestic rights at Sundance.
Dirty Wars / U.S.A. (Director: Richard Rowley) — Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill chases down the truth behind America’s covert wars. -- Domestic: Submarine
-- Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights at Sundance
Twenty Feet From Stardom / α / U.S.A. (Director: Morgan Neville) — Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we’ve had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead – until now. -- Submarine handling U.S/ Canada/ U.K/ Australia/ N.Zealand -- Radius-twc takes N.A. rights at Sundance. Isa: Elle Driver/Wild Bunch took international rights at Sundance
Who is Dayani Cristal? / United Kingdom (Director: Marc Silver) — An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for its identity leads us across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo. World Premiere. -- Domestic: Submarine -- Isa: Mundial
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear / Georgia, Germany (Director: Tinatin Gurchiani ♀) — A film director casting a 15-23-year-old protagonist visits villages and cities to meet people who answer her call. She follows those who prove to be interesting enough through various dramatic and funny situations. North American Premiere -- Icarus Films has acquired N.A. distribution rights pre-Sundance.
Sound City / U.S.A. (Director: Dave Grohl) — Through interviews and performances with the legendary musicians and producers who worked at America’s greatest unsung recording studio, Sound City, we explore the human element of music, and the lost art of analog recording in an increasingly digital world. Gravitas Ventures has picked up worldwide VOD rights pre-Sundance
History of the Eagles Part One / U.S.A. (Director: Alison Ellwood ♀) — Using never-before-seen home movies, archival footage and new interviews with all current and former members of the Eagles, this documentary provides an intimate look into the history of the band and the legacy of their music. Domestic: Azoff Music -- Showtime picked up for cable at Sundance.
The Summit / Ireland, United Kingdom (Director: Nick Ryan) — Twenty-four climbers converged at the last stop before summiting the most dangerous mountain on Earth. Forty-eight hours later, 11 had been killed or simply vanished. Had one, Ger McDonnell, stuck to the climbers’ code, he might still be alive. International Premiere -- Domestic: Submarine -- Sundance Selects acquires N.A. rights at Sundance - Madman has Australia, N. Zealand
jOBS / U.S.A. (Director: Joshua Michael Stern ✡, Screenwriter: Matt Whiteley) — The true story of one of the greatest entrepreneurs in American history, jOBS chronicles the defining 30 years of Steve Jobs’ life. jOBS is a candid, inspiring and personal portrait of the one who saw things differently. (Synopses are written by Sundance staff.) Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, J.K. Simmons, Matthew Modine. Closing Night Film -- Domestic: CAA -- Open Road Films acquired U.S. pre-Sundance -- Entertainment One (in collaboration with Remstar) has Canada except theatrical, VOD and French-language TV rights in Quebec which Remstar holds exclusively.
Upstream Color / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Shane Carruth) — A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives. Cast: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins. -- Domestic: Mosaic -- Shane Carruth will self-distribute via his Erbp banner.
The Rambler / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Calvin Lee Reeder) — After being released from prison, a man known as “The Rambler” stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts the treacherous journey through back roads and small towns en route to reconnecting with his long-lost brother. Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Lindsay Pulsipher, Natasha Lyonne, James Cady, Scott Sharot. Domestic: Xyz Films -- Isa: Celluloid Nightmares -- Anchor Bay Films has picked up North America, the UK and Australia at Sundance
Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer / Russian Federation, United Kingdom (Directors: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin) — Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial: the three young artists or the society they live in? World Premiere -- Domestic: Cinetic Isa:Goldcrest Films --HBO Documentary Films has acquired U.S. television rights at Sundance
Fruitvale /α/ U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Ryan Coogler α) — The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008. Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melonie Diaz, Ahna O’Reilly, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray. --Domestic: Wme - TWC took N.A. and English Speaking territories reportedly for $2m at Sundance Isa:TWC
Metro Manila / United Kingdom, Philippines (Director: Sean Ellis, Screenwriters: Sean Ellis, Frank E. Flowers) — Seeking a better life, Oscar and his family move from the poverty-stricken rice fields to the big city of Manila, where they fall victim to various inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily part of city survival. Cast: Jake Macapagal, John Arcilla, Althea Vega. World Premiere Isa:Independent Film Company --Haut et Court acquires France pre-Sundance
Concussion Lgbt/ U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Stacie Passon ♀,Lgbt) — After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can’t do it anymore. Her life just can’t be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor. Cast: Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff, Johnathan Tchaikovsky, Julie Fain Lawrence, Emily Kinney, Laila Robins. Domestic: Paradigm-- TWC takes N.A. at Sundance -- Isa: Content
Inequality for All / U.S.A. (Director: Jacob Kornbluth (✡)) — In this timely and entertaining documentary, noted economic-policy expert Robert Reich distills the topic of widening income inequality, and addresses the question of what effects this increasing gap has on our economy and our democracy. -- Domestic: Wme - Radius-twc acquired at Sundance.
Prince Avalanche / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: David Gordon Green ✡) — Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind. Cast: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch. -- Magnolia took N.A. rights at Sundance
Two Mothers / Australia, France (Director: Anne Fontaine ♀, Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton) — This gripping tale of love, lust and the power of friendship charts the unconventional and passionate affairs of two lifelong friends who fall in love with each other’s sons. Cast: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel, James Frechevile. Domestic:CAA -- Exclusive Releasing took Us, UK and Cis rights at Sundance - Isa:Gaumont sold toRemstar for Canada,Hopscotch Features for Australia/ N.Z.,Gaumont for France
Lovelace / U.S.A. (Directors: Rob Epstein ✡ Lgbt, Jeffrey Friedman ✡ Lgbt, Screenwriter: Andy Bellin) — Deep Throat, the first pornographic feature film to be a mainstream success, was an international sensation in 1972 and made its star, Linda Lovelace, a media darling. Years later the “poster girl for the sexual revolution” revealed a darker side to her story. Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, James Franco, Sharon Stone. Domestic:Millennium Entertainment -- Radius-twc acquires Us rights at Sundance reportedly for $3m
Kill Your Darlings/ U.S.A. (Director: John Krokidas Lgbt, Screenwriters: Austin Bunn, John Krokidas) — An untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that led to the birth of an entire generation – their Beat revolution. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHann, Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Elizabeth Olsen. Domestic:UTA/Elevated Film Sales Isa: Inferno Entertainment -- Sony Pictures Classics acquired Us, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, African TV and Eastern European excluding Cis at Sundance
Toy's House / U.S.A. (Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Screenwriter: Chris Galletta) — Three unhappy teenage boys flee to the wilderness where they build a makeshift house and live off the land as masters of their own destiny. Or at least that’s the plan. Cast: Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Alison Brie. Domestic: Cinetic Isa:Qed International -- CBS Films acquires domestic rights at Sundance
We Are What We Are / U.S.A. (Director: Jim Mickle, Screenwriters: Nick Damici, Jim Mickle) — A devastating storm washes up clues that lead authorities closer and closer to the cannibalistic Parker family. Cast: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Michael Parks, Wyatt Russell, Kelly McGillis. Domestic:Wme -- eOne takes Us rights reportedly for low 7-figures at Sundance -- Isa: Memento Films
Deals Made At Sundance For Films Not Screened At Sundance
Blumhouse Productions picked up Duplass Brothers’ Peachfuzz from Submarine pre-Sundance.
Ketchup Entertainment acquired Mukunda Michael Dewil’s Vehicle 19 at Sundance.
Anchor Bay Films acquired N.A. rights to Leland Orser's Morning at Sundance.
Deals Made Outside Sundance 2013
New
D Films acquires Canadian rights to Paul Haggis’ Third Person from Corsan World Sales.
Earlier
Freestyle Digital Media takes VoD and DVD rights to Jonathan Segal’s Norman.
Variance Films acquired N.A. theatrical rights to Terence Nance’s “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,” which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. DVD and digital rights previously picked up by Cinema Guild.
A24 acquired Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring.
Cohen Media Group to distribute “What is Cinema” by Chuck Workman
Factory 25 has taken world rights to 2012 SXSW film, A Sun Don’t Shine by Amy Seimetz
Inception Media Group (Img) has acquired the Justin Donnelly’s Pressed from Double Dutch International and A Haunting At Silver Falls from Outsider Pictures.
ro*co films educational has the non-theatrical release of How To Survive A Plague and Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush’s A Place At The Table.
Zeitgeist Films has acquired Margarethe Von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt starring Barbara Sukowa from Match Factory.
Factory 25 has taken worldwide rights to Matt Boyd’s A Rubberband Is An Unlikely Instrument.
Ctb Films acquired Wrong and Wrong Cops and is in negotiation to pick up Wrong Cops 2 (in development) and Realite, Praesens has acquired all rights to Wrong Cops and Realite, in Switzerland.
Picturehouse relaunching by distributing Metallica Through The Never by Nimród Antal
CNN Films has acquired 3 docs: Untitled Roger Ebert by Steve James, Untitled Ground Zero by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein Untitled Higher Education by Andrew Rossi.
Gravitas Ventures has acquired three films from Slamdance: Steven Feinartz's doc The Bitter Buddha, Michael Urie's He's Way More Famous Than You and Peter Baxter's doc Wild In the Streets.
Gaumont acquired worldwide rights except Spain and French distribution rights to Isabel Coixet's Yesterday Never Ends (Ayer No Termina Nunca).
Breaking Glass Pictures has taken Us rights to Amelia’s 25th and N.A. rights to Christian Filippella’s Silver Case.
Paulette by Jerome Enrico -- Isa: Gaumont -- Cohen Media Group has N.A. -- Brazil (Art Films), Switzerland (Monopole-Pathe), Italy (Moviemax), Portugal (Lusomundo), Czech Republic (Hollywood Classic Entertainment) and Canada (A-z Films), among other territories.
Films by women are markedwith the ♀, African American with the symbol α (9). Latino is marked by the symbol ɤ (7). Jewish by ✡ (13), Asian by ¥ (10), Middle Eastern ᵯ (4), Lgbt (13)
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I Used To Be Darker / U.S.A. (Director: Matthew Porterfield, Screenwriters: Amy Belk, Matthew Porterfield) — A runaway seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore, only to find their marriage ending and her cousin in crisis. In the days that follow, the family struggles to let go while searching for things to sustain them. Cast: Deragh Campbell, Hannah Gross, Kim Taylor, Ned Oldham, Geoff Grace, Nick Petr. -- Domestic: Paradigm -- AMC/Sundance Channel acquired linear and VoD premiere rights at Sundance -- Monterey Media acquires rights at Sundance.
Cutie and the Boxer / U.S.A. (Director: Zachary Heinzerling ✡) — This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband’s assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own. Domestic: Submarine -- Radius-twc acquires N.A. and French rights at Sundance -- King Records licensed Japanese rights at Sundance.
Mother of George /α/ U.S.A. (Director: Andrew Dosunmu α, Screenwriter: Darci Picoult) — A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage. Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Danai Gurira, Anthony Okungbowa, Yaya Alafia, Bukky Ajayi. Domestic: Paradigm -- Isa: K5 -- Oscilloscope Laboratories acquired N.A. rights at Sundance
Newlyweeds /α/ U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Shaka King α) — A Brooklyn repo man and his globetrotting girlfriend forge an unlikely romance. But what should be a match made in stoner heaven turns into a love triangle gone awry in this dark coming-of-age comedy about dependency. Cast: Amari Cheatom, Trae Harris, Tone Tank, Colman Domingo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Adrian Martinez. -- Domestic: Circus Road Films -- Phase 4 acquires N.A. rights at Sundance
Before Midnight/ U.S.A. (Director: Richard Linklater, Screenwriters: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater— We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna. Before the clock strikes midnight, we will again become part of their story. Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Ariane Labed, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick. Domestic: Cinetic -- Isa: Im Global -- Sony Pictures Classics acquires N.A. and UK at Sundance
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: David Lowery) — The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met. Cast: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Nate Parker, Keith Carradine. Domestic: Elevated Film Sales / Wme Isa: TWC-- IFC Films acquires Us rights reportedly for low 7-figures at Sundance
S-vhs / U.S.A., Canada (Directors: Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez ɤ, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans, Jason Eisener, Screenwriters: Simon Barrett, Jamie Nash, Timo Tjahjanto ¥ & Gareth Huw Evans, John Davies) — Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his abandoned house and find another collection of mysterious VHS tapes. In viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be terrifying motives behind the student’s disappearance. Cast: Adam Wingard, Lawrence Levine, L.C Holt, Kelsy Abbott, Hannah Hughes. Domestic: Wme -- Magnolia acquires Us rights reportedly for over $1m at Sundance
Earlier
Computer Chess / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Andrew Bujalski) — An existential comedy about the brilliant men who taught machines to play chess – back when the machines seemed clumsy and we seemed smart. Cast: Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry, Robin Schwartz, Gerald Peary, Wiley Wiggins. Domestic: The Film Sales Company -- AMC/Sundance Channel acquired linear and VoD premiere rights at Sundance
Halley ɤ/ Mexico (Director: Sebastian Hofmann ɤ, Screenwriters: Sebastian Hofmann, Julio Chavezmontes) — Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Before surrendering to his living death, he forms an unusual friendship with Luly, the manager of the 24-hour gym where he works as a night guard. Cast: Alberto Trujillo, Lourdes Trueba, Hugo Albores. -- Isa: Visit Films -- AMC/Sundance Channel acquired linear and VoD premiere rights at Sundance
It Felt Like Love / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Eliza Hittman ♀) — On the outskirts of Brooklyn, a 14-year-old girl’s sexual quest takes a dangerous turn when she pursues an older guy and tests the boundaries between obsession and love. Cast: Gina Piersanti, Giovanna Salimeni, Ronen Rubinstein, Jesse Cordasco, Nick Rosen, Case Prime.- Isa: Visit Films -- AMC/Sundance Channel acquired linear and VoD premiere rights at Sundance
This Is Martin Bonner / U.S.A.(Director and screenwriter: Chad Hartigan) — Martin Bonner has just moved to Reno for a new job in prison rehabilitation. Starting over at age 58, he struggles to adapt until an unlikely friendship with an ex-con blossoms, helping him confront the problems he left behind. Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Richmond Arquette, Sam Buchanan, Robert Longstreet, Demetrius Grosse. Domestic: ICM Partners / Traction Media -- AMC/Sundance Channel acquired linear and VoD premiere rights at Sundance
The Spectacular Now / U.S.A. (Director: James Ponsoldt, Screenwriters: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber) — Sutter is a high school senior who lives for the moment; Aimee is the introvert he attempts to “save.” As their relationship deepens, the lines between right and wrong, friendship and love, and “saving” and corrupting become inextricably blurred. Cast: Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kyle Chandler. Domestic: UTA - A24 took domestic distribution at Sundance- Isa: The Exchange
The Look of Love / United Kingdom (Director: Michael Winterbottom Lgbt, Screenwriter: Matt Greenhalgh) — The true story of British adult magazine publisher and entrepreneur Paul Raymond. A modern day King Midas story, Raymond became one of the richest men in Britain at the cost of losing those closest to him. Cast: Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Imogen Poots, Tamsin Egerton. - UTA is No.American consultant to StudioCanal -- IFC Films has acquired North American rights at Sundance - StudioCanal has UK
The Way, Way Back / U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash) — Duncan, an introverted 14-year-old, comes into his own over the course of a comedic summer when he forms unlikely friendships with the gregarious manager of a rundown water park and the misfits who work there. Cast: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph, Liam James. Domestic: CAA, Wme Isa: Sierra/ Affinity -- Fox Searchlight acquired N.A. and most major territories reportedly for $9.75m at Sundance.
Don Jon’s Addiction / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Joseph Gordon-Levitt) — In Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s charming directorial debut, a selfish modern-day Don Juan attempts to change his ways. Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly, Rob Brown. Domestic: CAA, Wme -- Relativity Media reportedly bought for close to $4 million at Sundance Isa: Voltage Pictures has sold to Future Films for Finland, Remstar for Canada, Ascot Elite Entertainment Group for Germany and Switzerland, Midget Entertainment for Denmark, Noori Pictures for So. Korea.
Austenland / U.S.A., United Kingdom (Director: Jerusha Hess ♀, Screenwriters: Jerusha Hess, Shannon Hale) — Thirtysomething, single Jane is obsessed with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice. On a trip to an English resort, her fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman become more real than she ever imagined. Cast: Keri Russell, Jj Feild, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge, Georgia King, James Callis. Domestic: UTA -- Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions takes worldwide rights at Sundance - Sony Pictures Classics has Us.
Blackfish / U.S.A. (Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite ♀) — Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity. Domestic: Submarine -- CNN Films (TV) and Magnolia Pictures (theatrical) have jointly acquired domestic rights at Sundance.
Dirty Wars / U.S.A. (Director: Richard Rowley) — Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill chases down the truth behind America’s covert wars. -- Domestic: Submarine
-- Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights at Sundance
Twenty Feet From Stardom / α / U.S.A. (Director: Morgan Neville) — Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we’ve had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead – until now. -- Submarine handling U.S/ Canada/ U.K/ Australia/ N.Zealand -- Radius-twc takes N.A. rights at Sundance. Isa: Elle Driver/Wild Bunch took international rights at Sundance
Who is Dayani Cristal? / United Kingdom (Director: Marc Silver) — An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for its identity leads us across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo. World Premiere. -- Domestic: Submarine -- Isa: Mundial
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear / Georgia, Germany (Director: Tinatin Gurchiani ♀) — A film director casting a 15-23-year-old protagonist visits villages and cities to meet people who answer her call. She follows those who prove to be interesting enough through various dramatic and funny situations. North American Premiere -- Icarus Films has acquired N.A. distribution rights pre-Sundance.
Sound City / U.S.A. (Director: Dave Grohl) — Through interviews and performances with the legendary musicians and producers who worked at America’s greatest unsung recording studio, Sound City, we explore the human element of music, and the lost art of analog recording in an increasingly digital world. Gravitas Ventures has picked up worldwide VOD rights pre-Sundance
History of the Eagles Part One / U.S.A. (Director: Alison Ellwood ♀) — Using never-before-seen home movies, archival footage and new interviews with all current and former members of the Eagles, this documentary provides an intimate look into the history of the band and the legacy of their music. Domestic: Azoff Music -- Showtime picked up for cable at Sundance.
The Summit / Ireland, United Kingdom (Director: Nick Ryan) — Twenty-four climbers converged at the last stop before summiting the most dangerous mountain on Earth. Forty-eight hours later, 11 had been killed or simply vanished. Had one, Ger McDonnell, stuck to the climbers’ code, he might still be alive. International Premiere -- Domestic: Submarine -- Sundance Selects acquires N.A. rights at Sundance - Madman has Australia, N. Zealand
jOBS / U.S.A. (Director: Joshua Michael Stern ✡, Screenwriter: Matt Whiteley) — The true story of one of the greatest entrepreneurs in American history, jOBS chronicles the defining 30 years of Steve Jobs’ life. jOBS is a candid, inspiring and personal portrait of the one who saw things differently. (Synopses are written by Sundance staff.) Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, J.K. Simmons, Matthew Modine. Closing Night Film -- Domestic: CAA -- Open Road Films acquired U.S. pre-Sundance -- Entertainment One (in collaboration with Remstar) has Canada except theatrical, VOD and French-language TV rights in Quebec which Remstar holds exclusively.
Upstream Color / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Shane Carruth) — A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives. Cast: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins. -- Domestic: Mosaic -- Shane Carruth will self-distribute via his Erbp banner.
The Rambler / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Calvin Lee Reeder) — After being released from prison, a man known as “The Rambler” stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts the treacherous journey through back roads and small towns en route to reconnecting with his long-lost brother. Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Lindsay Pulsipher, Natasha Lyonne, James Cady, Scott Sharot. Domestic: Xyz Films -- Isa: Celluloid Nightmares -- Anchor Bay Films has picked up North America, the UK and Australia at Sundance
Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer / Russian Federation, United Kingdom (Directors: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin) — Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial: the three young artists or the society they live in? World Premiere -- Domestic: Cinetic Isa:Goldcrest Films --HBO Documentary Films has acquired U.S. television rights at Sundance
Fruitvale /α/ U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Ryan Coogler α) — The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008. Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melonie Diaz, Ahna O’Reilly, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray. --Domestic: Wme - TWC took N.A. and English Speaking territories reportedly for $2m at Sundance Isa:TWC
Metro Manila / United Kingdom, Philippines (Director: Sean Ellis, Screenwriters: Sean Ellis, Frank E. Flowers) — Seeking a better life, Oscar and his family move from the poverty-stricken rice fields to the big city of Manila, where they fall victim to various inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily part of city survival. Cast: Jake Macapagal, John Arcilla, Althea Vega. World Premiere Isa:Independent Film Company --Haut et Court acquires France pre-Sundance
Concussion Lgbt/ U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Stacie Passon ♀,Lgbt) — After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can’t do it anymore. Her life just can’t be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor. Cast: Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff, Johnathan Tchaikovsky, Julie Fain Lawrence, Emily Kinney, Laila Robins. Domestic: Paradigm-- TWC takes N.A. at Sundance -- Isa: Content
Inequality for All / U.S.A. (Director: Jacob Kornbluth (✡)) — In this timely and entertaining documentary, noted economic-policy expert Robert Reich distills the topic of widening income inequality, and addresses the question of what effects this increasing gap has on our economy and our democracy. -- Domestic: Wme - Radius-twc acquired at Sundance.
Prince Avalanche / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: David Gordon Green ✡) — Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind. Cast: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch. -- Magnolia took N.A. rights at Sundance
Two Mothers / Australia, France (Director: Anne Fontaine ♀, Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton) — This gripping tale of love, lust and the power of friendship charts the unconventional and passionate affairs of two lifelong friends who fall in love with each other’s sons. Cast: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel, James Frechevile. Domestic:CAA -- Exclusive Releasing took Us, UK and Cis rights at Sundance - Isa:Gaumont sold toRemstar for Canada,Hopscotch Features for Australia/ N.Z.,Gaumont for France
Lovelace / U.S.A. (Directors: Rob Epstein ✡ Lgbt, Jeffrey Friedman ✡ Lgbt, Screenwriter: Andy Bellin) — Deep Throat, the first pornographic feature film to be a mainstream success, was an international sensation in 1972 and made its star, Linda Lovelace, a media darling. Years later the “poster girl for the sexual revolution” revealed a darker side to her story. Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, James Franco, Sharon Stone. Domestic:Millennium Entertainment -- Radius-twc acquires Us rights at Sundance reportedly for $3m
Kill Your Darlings/ U.S.A. (Director: John Krokidas Lgbt, Screenwriters: Austin Bunn, John Krokidas) — An untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that led to the birth of an entire generation – their Beat revolution. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHann, Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Elizabeth Olsen. Domestic:UTA/Elevated Film Sales Isa: Inferno Entertainment -- Sony Pictures Classics acquired Us, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, African TV and Eastern European excluding Cis at Sundance
Toy's House / U.S.A. (Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Screenwriter: Chris Galletta) — Three unhappy teenage boys flee to the wilderness where they build a makeshift house and live off the land as masters of their own destiny. Or at least that’s the plan. Cast: Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Alison Brie. Domestic: Cinetic Isa:Qed International -- CBS Films acquires domestic rights at Sundance
We Are What We Are / U.S.A. (Director: Jim Mickle, Screenwriters: Nick Damici, Jim Mickle) — A devastating storm washes up clues that lead authorities closer and closer to the cannibalistic Parker family. Cast: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Michael Parks, Wyatt Russell, Kelly McGillis. Domestic:Wme -- eOne takes Us rights reportedly for low 7-figures at Sundance -- Isa: Memento Films
Deals Made At Sundance For Films Not Screened At Sundance
Blumhouse Productions picked up Duplass Brothers’ Peachfuzz from Submarine pre-Sundance.
Ketchup Entertainment acquired Mukunda Michael Dewil’s Vehicle 19 at Sundance.
Anchor Bay Films acquired N.A. rights to Leland Orser's Morning at Sundance.
Deals Made Outside Sundance 2013
New
D Films acquires Canadian rights to Paul Haggis’ Third Person from Corsan World Sales.
Earlier
Freestyle Digital Media takes VoD and DVD rights to Jonathan Segal’s Norman.
Variance Films acquired N.A. theatrical rights to Terence Nance’s “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,” which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. DVD and digital rights previously picked up by Cinema Guild.
A24 acquired Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring.
Cohen Media Group to distribute “What is Cinema” by Chuck Workman
Factory 25 has taken world rights to 2012 SXSW film, A Sun Don’t Shine by Amy Seimetz
Inception Media Group (Img) has acquired the Justin Donnelly’s Pressed from Double Dutch International and A Haunting At Silver Falls from Outsider Pictures.
ro*co films educational has the non-theatrical release of How To Survive A Plague and Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush’s A Place At The Table.
Zeitgeist Films has acquired Margarethe Von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt starring Barbara Sukowa from Match Factory.
Factory 25 has taken worldwide rights to Matt Boyd’s A Rubberband Is An Unlikely Instrument.
Ctb Films acquired Wrong and Wrong Cops and is in negotiation to pick up Wrong Cops 2 (in development) and Realite, Praesens has acquired all rights to Wrong Cops and Realite, in Switzerland.
Picturehouse relaunching by distributing Metallica Through The Never by Nimród Antal
CNN Films has acquired 3 docs: Untitled Roger Ebert by Steve James, Untitled Ground Zero by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein Untitled Higher Education by Andrew Rossi.
Gravitas Ventures has acquired three films from Slamdance: Steven Feinartz's doc The Bitter Buddha, Michael Urie's He's Way More Famous Than You and Peter Baxter's doc Wild In the Streets.
Gaumont acquired worldwide rights except Spain and French distribution rights to Isabel Coixet's Yesterday Never Ends (Ayer No Termina Nunca).
Breaking Glass Pictures has taken Us rights to Amelia’s 25th and N.A. rights to Christian Filippella’s Silver Case.
Paulette by Jerome Enrico -- Isa: Gaumont -- Cohen Media Group has N.A. -- Brazil (Art Films), Switzerland (Monopole-Pathe), Italy (Moviemax), Portugal (Lusomundo), Czech Republic (Hollywood Classic Entertainment) and Canada (A-z Films), among other territories.
- 1/25/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Chicago – The general consensus in Park City this year was that the overall quality of films presented to critics, industry, and paying audiences was near the highest it’s ever been. There seemed to be a lack of true stand-outs — I heard people say “There’s no Beasts of the Southern Wild” repeatedly — but the overall picture was a pretty one. I have to say that it was easy to find ten films from this year’s fest that I thoroughly recommend, some of which will likely find their way into my best-of-year lists in eleven months. In alphabetical order and with details on when you can see them, these were the best that the Sundance Film Festival had to offer in 2013:
Honorable Mentions: “C.O.G.,” “Fire in the Blood,” “No,” and “S-vhs.”
All synopses courtesy of Sundance.
“After Tiller”
After Tiller
Photo credit: Sundance
Written by: Greg O’Toole,...
Honorable Mentions: “C.O.G.,” “Fire in the Blood,” “No,” and “S-vhs.”
All synopses courtesy of Sundance.
“After Tiller”
After Tiller
Photo credit: Sundance
Written by: Greg O’Toole,...
- 1/25/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all U.S., Australian, New Zealand, South African, African TV and Eastern European rights to John Krokidas' debut feature "Kill Your Darlings," which stars Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg and is a dramatic competition feature at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, which is co-written by Krokidas and Austin Bunn, also stars Sundance breakout Dane DeHaan ("Chronicle"), Michael C. Hall ("Dexter"), Ben Foster (who has a role in the fest's buzzy western-neo-noir "Ain't Them Bodies Saints"), Jack Huston ("Boardwalk Empire"), Elizabeth Olsen (Sundance entry "Very Good Girls"), David Cross and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It centers on a 1944 murder that brought together Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac (Huston) and William Burroughs (Foster) while the young men were at Columbia University. Buyers were circling carefully on this one, as recent Kerouac adaptation "On the Road,"...
- 1/23/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all Us, Australian, New Zealand, South African, African TV, and Eastern European (minus Cis which has already been sold) rights to John Krokidas' directorial feature debut, Kill Your Darlings . Co-written by Krokidas and Austin Bunn, Kill Your Darlings stars Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster, Jack Huston, Elizabeth Olsen, David Cross, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The film is a Us Dramatic competition feature at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and premiered to a standing ovation on Friday. Kill Your Darlings is produced by Krokidas, Benaroya Pictures. Michael Benaroya, Christine Vachon of Killer Films and Rose Ganguzza and is executive produced by Benaroya Pictures' Head of Production Joe...
- 1/23/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the U.S. dramatic competition film “Kill Your Darlings,” starring Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan. Directed by John Krokidas, the film tells the true story of a murder that took place in and around the tight-knit group of young men at Columbia University in 1944 who would become the Beats. Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston and Elizabeth Olsen co-star. Austin Bunn wrote the script with Krokidas. Michael Benaroya, Christine Vachon, Rose Ganguzza and Krokidas produced. “This is an amazing movie, a great American drama, thriller, and perfect evocation of New York in the 1940's as you have never seen on screen before," said Spc co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard. "With an ensemble cast that is truly mind-blowing led by Daniel Radcliffe in a profoundly moving performance as Allen Ginsberg, we are witnessing the birth of a major new American filmmaker. Producers Michael Benaroya and.
- 1/23/2013
- by Jay A. Fernandez and Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Sony Pictures Classics is closing a deal for multiple territories on Kill Your Darlings, the John Krokidas-directed drama that stars Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston and last year’s Sundance festival darling, Elizabeth Olsen. Scripted by Austin Bunn and Krokidas, the drama is an untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that led to the birth of the Beat generation. UTA and Cassian Elwes brokered the deal. The film is a coproduction between Benaroya Pictures and Killer Films. Michael Benaroya, Christine Vachon and Rose Ganguzza are the producers.
- 1/23/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
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