Exclusive: Isaach De Bankolé (Godfather of Harlem), Phoebe Fox (The Great), Silvia Dionicio (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), and Coral Peña (For All Mankind) are the newest recurring cast members set for HBO’s Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project (working title).
De Bankolé will play Father Daniel Georges, the oldest and best friend of lead Mark Ruffalo’s FBI Agent Tom, who went to seminary with him. Fox portrays Tom’s biological daughter, Sara, who is deep in grief, with Dionicio as his adopted daughter, grappling with a family tragedy. Peña portrays Meg Coyle, the guidance counselor who works at Emily’s high school.
Others previously cast in the crime drama from the creator of Mare of Easttown include Tom Pelphrey as Robbie; Emilia Jones as Maeve; Thuso Mbedu as Aleah; Raúl Castillo as Cliff; Jamie McShane as Perry; Sam Keeley as Jayson; Fabien Frankel as Anthony; Alison Oliver as...
De Bankolé will play Father Daniel Georges, the oldest and best friend of lead Mark Ruffalo’s FBI Agent Tom, who went to seminary with him. Fox portrays Tom’s biological daughter, Sara, who is deep in grief, with Dionicio as his adopted daughter, grappling with a family tragedy. Peña portrays Meg Coyle, the guidance counselor who works at Emily’s high school.
Others previously cast in the crime drama from the creator of Mare of Easttown include Tom Pelphrey as Robbie; Emilia Jones as Maeve; Thuso Mbedu as Aleah; Raúl Castillo as Cliff; Jamie McShane as Perry; Sam Keeley as Jayson; Fabien Frankel as Anthony; Alison Oliver as...
- 3/19/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: U.S. and UK-based production, sales and financing company Alliance Media Partners (Amp) has signed a non-exclusive genre co-production deal with Quebec-based producer Philip Kalin-Hajdu.
The parties are coming off Tribeca thriller Suitable Flesh, and Fantasia debut The Sacrifice Game, respectively.
The deal is due to see the duo produce three new mid-budget pictures a year, utilizing Quebec and/or Canadian talent and incentives, and to include international co-productions. Their first project, action-thriller Skate Or Die, is in the works for early 2024.
Amp is part of Dubai-based Alliance Capital Partners group, a private asset management and finance company. Genre film releases include Suitable Flesh, starring Heather Graham, Judah Lewis and Barbara Crampton; Glorious, starring J.K. Simmons and Ryan Kwanten, and The Endless, Blue Iguana starring Sam Rockwell.
Kalin-Hajdu is a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominated producer. He is producer and executive producer of The Sacrifice Game, starring Mena Massoud and Olivia Scott Welch,...
The parties are coming off Tribeca thriller Suitable Flesh, and Fantasia debut The Sacrifice Game, respectively.
The deal is due to see the duo produce three new mid-budget pictures a year, utilizing Quebec and/or Canadian talent and incentives, and to include international co-productions. Their first project, action-thriller Skate Or Die, is in the works for early 2024.
Amp is part of Dubai-based Alliance Capital Partners group, a private asset management and finance company. Genre film releases include Suitable Flesh, starring Heather Graham, Judah Lewis and Barbara Crampton; Glorious, starring J.K. Simmons and Ryan Kwanten, and The Endless, Blue Iguana starring Sam Rockwell.
Kalin-Hajdu is a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominated producer. He is producer and executive producer of The Sacrifice Game, starring Mena Massoud and Olivia Scott Welch,...
- 9/11/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Will Kemp, Amanda Donohoe and Remy Hii will be co-starring in Netflix’s holiday Vanessa Hudgens threequel Princess Switch 3.
They’re part of an ensemble that also features Sam Palladio, Nick Sagar, Florence Hall, Ricky Norwood, Suanne Braun, Mark Fleischmann, and Robin Soans.
In the first Princess Switch, Hudgens plays look-a-likes—a Chicago baker named Stacy De Novo, and Belgravia Princess Lady Margaret—who switch lives for a day. In the sequel, The Princess Switch: Switched Again, the stakes jump for Duchess Margaret and Princess Stacy, when the former’s party-girl cousin Fiona (also played by Hudgens) enters to foil royal plans.
Princess Switch 3‘s plot line: When a priceless relic is stolen, Queen Margaret and Princess Stacy enlist the help of Margaret’s audacious look-alike cousin Fiona again who teams with a dashing, mysterious man from her past to retrieve it, rekindling the sparks of a tantalizing...
They’re part of an ensemble that also features Sam Palladio, Nick Sagar, Florence Hall, Ricky Norwood, Suanne Braun, Mark Fleischmann, and Robin Soans.
In the first Princess Switch, Hudgens plays look-a-likes—a Chicago baker named Stacy De Novo, and Belgravia Princess Lady Margaret—who switch lives for a day. In the sequel, The Princess Switch: Switched Again, the stakes jump for Duchess Margaret and Princess Stacy, when the former’s party-girl cousin Fiona (also played by Hudgens) enters to foil royal plans.
Princess Switch 3‘s plot line: When a priceless relic is stolen, Queen Margaret and Princess Stacy enlist the help of Margaret’s audacious look-alike cousin Fiona again who teams with a dashing, mysterious man from her past to retrieve it, rekindling the sparks of a tantalizing...
- 4/15/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
This week’s Legends of Tomorrow time quake sends the Waverider team to 1947 Los Angeles, where infamous mobster Bugsy Siegel has risen from the dead, thanks to Astra’s handiwork.
Astra’s lust for power has zapped the humanity out of her, which creates quite a dilemma for Constantine, who finds himself taking on the role of a gumshoe P.I. when he, Sara and Ray are caught inside the offices of Webb & Moore Private Investigators. Sporting an American accent, Constantine introduces Sara as his secretary. Ray, meanwhile, has “a cop face,” damsel-in-distress Jeanie Hill (guest star Haley Strode) interjects,...
Astra’s lust for power has zapped the humanity out of her, which creates quite a dilemma for Constantine, who finds himself taking on the role of a gumshoe P.I. when he, Sara and Ray are caught inside the offices of Webb & Moore Private Investigators. Sporting an American accent, Constantine introduces Sara as his secretary. Ray, meanwhile, has “a cop face,” damsel-in-distress Jeanie Hill (guest star Haley Strode) interjects,...
- 2/5/2020
- TVLine.com
Shout! Studios has acquired all North American rights to comedy feature “Standing Up, Falling Down,” starring Billy Crystal, Ben Schwartz and Eloise Mumford. The theatrical release for the film, which debuted at Tribeca Film Festival, is slated for early next year.
Schwartz, whose credits include “Parks & Recreation” and “Blue Iguana,” voices the title character in Paramount Pictures’ upcoming “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie.
“Standing Up, Falling Down,” directed by Matt Ratner and written by Peter Hoare, follows standup comedian Scott (Schwartz), whose career has crashed and burned after four years of chasing his dream in Los Angeles. Left with little money, he has no choice but return to his parents’ house in Long Island.
While trying to figure out what to do next, Scott pines after his ex, Becky (Mumford), a successful photographer who has since married a former mutual friend. On a night out at the bar, Scott strikes up...
Schwartz, whose credits include “Parks & Recreation” and “Blue Iguana,” voices the title character in Paramount Pictures’ upcoming “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie.
“Standing Up, Falling Down,” directed by Matt Ratner and written by Peter Hoare, follows standup comedian Scott (Schwartz), whose career has crashed and burned after four years of chasing his dream in Los Angeles. Left with little money, he has no choice but return to his parents’ house in Long Island.
While trying to figure out what to do next, Scott pines after his ex, Becky (Mumford), a successful photographer who has since married a former mutual friend. On a night out at the bar, Scott strikes up...
- 9/17/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Con O’Neill (Chernobyl) and Sarah Jane Potts (Kinky Boots) lead cast in UK revenge-thriller Don’t Leave Me, the latest film from Cleanskin and Blue Iguana writer-director Hadi Hajaig.
UK outfit Amp International has boarded world sales on the feature about a suicidal man, now working as a church handyman and soup kitchen worker, who tracks the killers of his wife and daughter.
The film started shooting this week in and around London. Hajaig is producing.
Hajaig, whose previous film Blue Iguana starred Oscar winner Sam Rockwell, commented, “I wanted to make a smart, brooding piece of genre with minimal dialogue and brutal action.”
Amp’s recent credits include Anna And The Apocalypse, The Endless, Hajaig’s Blue Iguana, Ana starring Andy Garcia and Dafne Keen, and Amulet, which was written and directed by Romola Garai. Hajaig has also been developing New York and Thailand-based thriller All Mine Enemies.
UK outfit Amp International has boarded world sales on the feature about a suicidal man, now working as a church handyman and soup kitchen worker, who tracks the killers of his wife and daughter.
The film started shooting this week in and around London. Hajaig is producing.
Hajaig, whose previous film Blue Iguana starred Oscar winner Sam Rockwell, commented, “I wanted to make a smart, brooding piece of genre with minimal dialogue and brutal action.”
Amp’s recent credits include Anna And The Apocalypse, The Endless, Hajaig’s Blue Iguana, Ana starring Andy Garcia and Dafne Keen, and Amulet, which was written and directed by Romola Garai. Hajaig has also been developing New York and Thailand-based thriller All Mine Enemies.
- 9/9/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Here’s the latest episode of the 365Flicks podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on Libsyn, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
365Flicks Podcast: Episode 124 – It’s 1986, We Are Rocket Scientists, We Work With Nasa… We Are Going To Fax It!
Yes 2019 is here, Chris and Kev are back with there regular schmegular epic. We are here to bring a bumper episode with there round up of 2018. First up is there usual Intro and Witty banter including Chris and his world class Pimpage. Kev also updates the listeners on where some friends of the shows projects are at. Up next is the feature review which this time around is Nathan VonMinden’s movie The Challenger Disaster.
News News News is here and we cover some McU news,...
365Flicks Podcast: Episode 124 – It’s 1986, We Are Rocket Scientists, We Work With Nasa… We Are Going To Fax It!
Yes 2019 is here, Chris and Kev are back with there regular schmegular epic. We are here to bring a bumper episode with there round up of 2018. First up is there usual Intro and Witty banter including Chris and his world class Pimpage. Kev also updates the listeners on where some friends of the shows projects are at. Up next is the feature review which this time around is Nathan VonMinden’s movie The Challenger Disaster.
News News News is here and we cover some McU news,...
- 1/11/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Few actors are employed to draw a crowd since the reinvention of blockbuster filmmaking, which promotes the concept or the characters way above the people playing them. However, there remains a handful of actors who can still draw a crowd. Actors whose presence tells us, this is a movie worth taking a look at.
Sam Rockwell is one of those actors. Someone who consistently chooses interesting, low-to-mid budget movies. From Moon to The Way, Way Back to Three Billboards, Rockwell’s choices seem to align with what many of us want to see.
Sadly, even Rockwell is capable of a duff choice. Even still, to discover he’s involved with a movie like Blue Iguana is still a hell of a surprise.
Eddie (Rockwell) is working in a diner. A parolee trying to keep his nose clean along with his best mate Paul (Ben Schwartz). The pair are approached by...
Sam Rockwell is one of those actors. Someone who consistently chooses interesting, low-to-mid budget movies. From Moon to The Way, Way Back to Three Billboards, Rockwell’s choices seem to align with what many of us want to see.
Sadly, even Rockwell is capable of a duff choice. Even still, to discover he’s involved with a movie like Blue Iguana is still a hell of a surprise.
Eddie (Rockwell) is working in a diner. A parolee trying to keep his nose clean along with his best mate Paul (Ben Schwartz). The pair are approached by...
- 10/26/2018
- by Richard Phippen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Sam Rockwell, Ben Schwartz, Phoebe Fox, Peter Ferdinando, Peter Polycarpou, Simon Callow, Frances Barber, Amanda Donohoe, Al Weaver, Glenn Wrage, Robin Hellier, Pedro Lloyd Gardiner, Andre Flynn, Perry Jaques, Anton Saunders, Vic Waghorn, Paul Chan, Martin Muncaster, Jack Silver, Tom Tunney | Written and Directed by Hadi Hajaig
Opening a crime film, an indie crime film for that matter, in a diner only screams to remind audiences of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, setting a high bar for the film to come. Which, frankly, means your film better live up to that expectation… Thankfully Blue Iguana does.
Blue Iguana, a British-American crime film, tells the story of ex-jailbirds, Eddie (Sam Rockwell) and Paul (Ben Schwartz), who are on parole, working in a New York diner… Eddie is calm and confident, whereas, Paul is loud-mouthed and impulsive. They’re a team, but their lives are at a dead-end. That is, until...
Opening a crime film, an indie crime film for that matter, in a diner only screams to remind audiences of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, setting a high bar for the film to come. Which, frankly, means your film better live up to that expectation… Thankfully Blue Iguana does.
Blue Iguana, a British-American crime film, tells the story of ex-jailbirds, Eddie (Sam Rockwell) and Paul (Ben Schwartz), who are on parole, working in a New York diner… Eddie is calm and confident, whereas, Paul is loud-mouthed and impulsive. They’re a team, but their lives are at a dead-end. That is, until...
- 10/13/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Everyone remembers the best among the scrappy 1980s films that started American “indie film” in earnest — particularly those over-stylized, wink-wink comedies by Jim Jarmusch, Susan Seidelman, Alexandre Rockwell, and so on that were among the movement’s most influential early successes. Similarly, few could forget how much fun “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction” were, revitalizing the crime-caper genre with wit and outsized directorial personality.
What we’d prefer to forget is just how many labored comedy quirkfests and effortfully wiseass capers the above films “inspired” for years afterward — wannabe movies straining for the same qualities without any original inspiration, failing to find their own voice while deliberately or unconsciously mimicking somebody else’s. The majority of these pale imitations wound up a blip on the Sundance Festival radar — if they were lucky — then were forgotten ever after.
Unfortunately, those happily buried cinematic memories come rolling back with the arrival of “Blue Iguana,...
What we’d prefer to forget is just how many labored comedy quirkfests and effortfully wiseass capers the above films “inspired” for years afterward — wannabe movies straining for the same qualities without any original inspiration, failing to find their own voice while deliberately or unconsciously mimicking somebody else’s. The majority of these pale imitations wound up a blip on the Sundance Festival radar — if they were lucky — then were forgotten ever after.
Unfortunately, those happily buried cinematic memories come rolling back with the arrival of “Blue Iguana,...
- 8/24/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Sam Rockwell is worth seeing in anything, no matter how dire the circumstances in which the acting dynamo might find himself trapped. But Blue Iguana makes the freshly minted Oscar winner (for his totally worthy performance in Three Billboards) work way too hard to cut through the film’s blatant stupidity and buffet of clichés. Blue Iguana desperately seeks to be one of those artfully disreputable crime thrillers with a B-movie kick that’s hard to resist (think: Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild and George Armitage’s Miami Blues). I think not.
- 8/23/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
A kooky, disposable caper that’s light on charm and heavy on nonsense, Hadi Hajaig’s “Blue Iguana” was conceived as a throwback to the golden age of VHS crime-comedies — as the kind of freewheeling late-80s’ fare in which anything could happen because everything turned a profit on home video. And maybe, if you squint really hard, you can see the faintest shades of films like “Something Wild” or “Miami Blues” mixed into this manic parade of dumb criminals and even dumber plotting. Alas, anybody who watches Hajaig’s movie that closely will be more transfixed by the enormous gap between what the writer-director was going for and what he ultimately got.
Harkening back to John Lafia’s 1988 “The Blue Iguana” (a forgotten video store treasure starring Dylan McDermott as a bounty hunter) and Michael Radford’s more recent “Dancing at the Blue Iguana” (a Daryl Hannah/Sandra Oh...
Harkening back to John Lafia’s 1988 “The Blue Iguana” (a forgotten video store treasure starring Dylan McDermott as a bounty hunter) and Michael Radford’s more recent “Dancing at the Blue Iguana” (a Daryl Hannah/Sandra Oh...
- 8/20/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Ben Schwartz has been tapped to voice the title character in Paramount Pictures’ “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie, sources tell Variety.
James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, and Jim Carrey will also star in the live-action hybrid.
Jeff Fowler, who received an Oscar nomination for his 2005 animated short “Gopher Broke,” is helming the movie, which will blend live-action and CG elements. Neal H. Moritz is producing with “Deadpool” director Tim Miller executive producing, along with Toby Ascher.
Paramount has given “Sonic the Hedgehog” a holiday-season release of Nov. 15, 2019. The project, based on the Sega video game franchise, had been in the works at Sony, but the studio let its film rights lapse and Paramount picked up the project in October. Sega launched the Sonic game in 1991 and has sold more than 360 million copies to date, including both packaged and digital games on consoles, tablets, and mobile.
The game features a hedgehog named Sonic...
James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, and Jim Carrey will also star in the live-action hybrid.
Jeff Fowler, who received an Oscar nomination for his 2005 animated short “Gopher Broke,” is helming the movie, which will blend live-action and CG elements. Neal H. Moritz is producing with “Deadpool” director Tim Miller executive producing, along with Toby Ascher.
Paramount has given “Sonic the Hedgehog” a holiday-season release of Nov. 15, 2019. The project, based on the Sega video game franchise, had been in the works at Sony, but the studio let its film rights lapse and Paramount picked up the project in October. Sega launched the Sonic game in 1991 and has sold more than 360 million copies to date, including both packaged and digital games on consoles, tablets, and mobile.
The game features a hedgehog named Sonic...
- 8/9/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Sam Rockwell and Ben Schwartz have teamed up for a new action crime comedy called Blue Iguana and today we have a trailer for you to check out. The two actors star as a couple of small-time crooks on parole and while working at a New York diner an English lawyer walks into their lives and offers them a "simple" job to steal a rare jewel in London. They see this as a way to change their lives but as you'd expect they find themselves in way over their head.
I'll watch anything that Sam Rockwell is in, and while this doesn't look like his best work, there's still a chance that maybe it could end up being a fun film. The movie was directed by British director Hadi Hajaig and this is the synopsis:
Small time New York crooks Eddie (Sam Rockwell) and Paul (Ben Schwartz) are in over...
I'll watch anything that Sam Rockwell is in, and while this doesn't look like his best work, there's still a chance that maybe it could end up being a fun film. The movie was directed by British director Hadi Hajaig and this is the synopsis:
Small time New York crooks Eddie (Sam Rockwell) and Paul (Ben Schwartz) are in over...
- 7/26/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Oscar winner Sam Rockwell has a flair for mixing action and comedy, and his latest film Blue Iguana fits smack dab into that genre.
The story centers on Eddie (Sam Rockwell) and Paul (Parks and Recreation’s Ben Schwartz), two former convicts who are hired by [...]
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The story centers on Eddie (Sam Rockwell) and Paul (Parks and Recreation’s Ben Schwartz), two former convicts who are hired by [...]
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- 7/25/2018
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
"Steal it back, collect the reward." Screen Media Films has debuted the official trailer for a crime comedy titled Blue Iguana, the latest film from British director Hadi Hajaig. Blue Iguana stars Ben Schwartz and Sam Rockwell as small-time crooks on parole and working in a New York diner. Their dead-end lives are soon turned upside down when an English lawyer walks into the diner with an offer they can't refuse: a "simple" job to steal a rare jewel in London. Hijinks and chaos ensue, of course. The cast includes Phoebe Fox, Simon Callow, Amanda Donohoe, Peter Ferdinando, and Anton Saunders. This looks like a really bad, wannabe Snatch that will probably be a waste of time to sit through. Watch out. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Hadi Hajaig's Blue Iguana, direct from YouTube: Small time New York crooks Eddie (Sam Rockwell) and Paul (Ben Schwartz) are in...
- 7/24/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’s Sam Rockwell sure doesn’t shy away from the controversial roles. Rockwell will be teaming up with Thor: Ragnorok’s Taika Waititi and Scarlett Johansson to play a Nazi captain in Jojo Rabbit.
Johansson is playing Jojo’s mother, while Rockwell will play a Nazi captain who runs a Hitler Youth camp.
The production will tell the story of a young German boy during World War II, who finds out that his mother, to be played by Johansson, is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Waititi had met with Johansson to talk about the role whilst filming the pilot for What We Do in the Shadows.
Also in the news – Elton John biopic Rocketman set for greenlight at Paramount Pictures; Taron Egerton to play John
Waititi will star as a comedic version of Hitler in the film. “After being severely hurt by a grenade at Hitler youth camp,...
Johansson is playing Jojo’s mother, while Rockwell will play a Nazi captain who runs a Hitler Youth camp.
The production will tell the story of a young German boy during World War II, who finds out that his mother, to be played by Johansson, is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Waititi had met with Johansson to talk about the role whilst filming the pilot for What We Do in the Shadows.
Also in the news – Elton John biopic Rocketman set for greenlight at Paramount Pictures; Taron Egerton to play John
Waititi will star as a comedic version of Hitler in the film. “After being severely hurt by a grenade at Hitler youth camp,...
- 4/24/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Screen Media has acquired U.S. rights to Blue Iguana, the comedy written and directed by Hadi Hajaig that stars Sam Rockwell, Ben Schwartz and Phoebe Fox. The company plans a day-and-date release this year sometime in the third quarter. The deal comes with Rockwell a frontrunner to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar on Sunday for his role in Fox Searchlight’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Blue Iguana, meanwhile, is a black comedy that revolves…...
- 3/2/2018
- Deadline
Exclusive: London-based sales and financing outfit Amp International has boarded crime comedy Blue Iguana and will launch footage at the Afm next month. Hadi Hajaig (Cleanskin) wrote and directs the film about a pair of ex-cons who wade into uncharted territory when they become involved in a jewel heist. Sam Rockwell, who’s been reaping strong notices for his supporting turn in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri since the film debuted in Venice, stars with Ben…...
- 10/9/2017
- Deadline
Exclusive: Hyena star, who recently filmed Ghost In The Shell with Scarlett Johansson, takes villain role in black comedy.
Peter Ferdinando has joined Sam Rockwell and Phoebe Fox in Blue Iguana, a black comedy from writer-director Hadi Hajaig.
The British actor is known for Gerard Johnson’s Tony (2009) and Hyena (2014), and also appeared in Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England (2013) and High-Rise (2015) as well as David Mackenzie’s Starred Up (2013).
Ferdinando will next be seen in big budget productions King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, directed by Guy Ritchie, and Ghost In The Shell, which stars Scarlett Johansson
He was most recently seen in period golf film Tommy’s Honour, which opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival last month.
Blue Iguana centres on a low level criminal (Rockwell) with no future who is just out of prison. Fox plays a low level lawyer who falls in love with him. The cast also...
Peter Ferdinando has joined Sam Rockwell and Phoebe Fox in Blue Iguana, a black comedy from writer-director Hadi Hajaig.
The British actor is known for Gerard Johnson’s Tony (2009) and Hyena (2014), and also appeared in Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England (2013) and High-Rise (2015) as well as David Mackenzie’s Starred Up (2013).
Ferdinando will next be seen in big budget productions King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, directed by Guy Ritchie, and Ghost In The Shell, which stars Scarlett Johansson
He was most recently seen in period golf film Tommy’s Honour, which opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival last month.
Blue Iguana centres on a low level criminal (Rockwell) with no future who is just out of prison. Fox plays a low level lawyer who falls in love with him. The cast also...
- 7/19/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Woman In Black 2 star joins comedy, which is set to shoot this month.
Phoebe Fox has joined Sam Rockwell in Blue Iguana, a comedy from writer-director Hadi Hajaig, who last directed Charlotte Rampling-Sean Bean thriller Cleanskin in 2012.
The project, which will be financed by UK Film Studio Productions, will start principal photography in London this month.
Hajaig also produces with 3 Arts Entertainment’s Tom Lassally, who is also working on the Edge of Tomorrow sequel at Warner Bros.
The black comedy centres on a low level criminal (Rockwell) with no future who is just out of prison. Fox will play a low level lawyer who falls in love with him. The cast also includes comedy actor Ben Schwartz (Parks & Recreation, House Of Lies).
Fox, a Screen International Star Of Tomorrow in 2011, is perhaps best known for her role in horror sequel The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death (2014) but was more recently seen in...
Phoebe Fox has joined Sam Rockwell in Blue Iguana, a comedy from writer-director Hadi Hajaig, who last directed Charlotte Rampling-Sean Bean thriller Cleanskin in 2012.
The project, which will be financed by UK Film Studio Productions, will start principal photography in London this month.
Hajaig also produces with 3 Arts Entertainment’s Tom Lassally, who is also working on the Edge of Tomorrow sequel at Warner Bros.
The black comedy centres on a low level criminal (Rockwell) with no future who is just out of prison. Fox will play a low level lawyer who falls in love with him. The cast also includes comedy actor Ben Schwartz (Parks & Recreation, House Of Lies).
Fox, a Screen International Star Of Tomorrow in 2011, is perhaps best known for her role in horror sequel The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death (2014) but was more recently seen in...
- 7/7/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Ben Schwartz is prolific. Best known for his work as an actor, in projects such as House Of Lies, BoJack Horseman, Parks And Recreation, and Turbo, he is also a writer (Robot Chicken, The Oscars), a producer (Funny Or Die Presents…, Bronx World Travellers), and director (CollegeHumor Originals). He is also the proud owner of a Primetime Emmy Award for writing music and lyrics for the 81st Annual Academy Awards. But now, he has really hit the big time, because he’s about to star in Blue Iguana with Sam Rockwell.
Soon to be written, directed and produced by Hadi Hajaig (Cleanskin), Blue Iguana is characterized as a dark comedy thriller that’s also a love story. Plot details remain scarce, but the synopsis, as outlined on IMDb, gives some indication of what to expect.
“He’s a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She’s a low level lawyer never noticed by others – a lost soul without a life. Their anger and hostility makes them serious criminals. Love happens in the strangest of places.”
Blue Iguana happens in London shortly, and has Sam Rockwell locked in for the lead role – the “low level criminal with no future.” The nature of the role now associated with Ben Schwartz is not currently known, but it is probably a safe bet that he will be playing something akin to “Best Friend No 1.”
If his friendship is with Sam Rockwell, this promises some excellent comedy, as the respective style of the two actors certainly would seem to complement each other – Rockwell with his laid back, mildly irritated delivery, and Ben Schwartz with his trademark self-assured swagger.
The big question is, who will play the “low level lawyer never noticed by others?” This is the key role at this point, as the actress concerned will need to go toe-to-toe with the comedic skill of both Rockwell and Schwartz. My first choice would be Kathryn Hahn – simply because she would be able to play anger and hostility opposite Sam Rockwell with hilarious conviction. Alternatively, I think it’s about time Charlyne Yi got a shot at a lead role. Her measured delivery and deadpan comedy style would serve this role, and this cast, well. Whichever actress lands the part, we should hear the announcement soon, as cameras are set to roll on Blue Iguana in July.
Soon to be written, directed and produced by Hadi Hajaig (Cleanskin), Blue Iguana is characterized as a dark comedy thriller that’s also a love story. Plot details remain scarce, but the synopsis, as outlined on IMDb, gives some indication of what to expect.
“He’s a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She’s a low level lawyer never noticed by others – a lost soul without a life. Their anger and hostility makes them serious criminals. Love happens in the strangest of places.”
Blue Iguana happens in London shortly, and has Sam Rockwell locked in for the lead role – the “low level criminal with no future.” The nature of the role now associated with Ben Schwartz is not currently known, but it is probably a safe bet that he will be playing something akin to “Best Friend No 1.”
If his friendship is with Sam Rockwell, this promises some excellent comedy, as the respective style of the two actors certainly would seem to complement each other – Rockwell with his laid back, mildly irritated delivery, and Ben Schwartz with his trademark self-assured swagger.
The big question is, who will play the “low level lawyer never noticed by others?” This is the key role at this point, as the actress concerned will need to go toe-to-toe with the comedic skill of both Rockwell and Schwartz. My first choice would be Kathryn Hahn – simply because she would be able to play anger and hostility opposite Sam Rockwell with hilarious conviction. Alternatively, I think it’s about time Charlyne Yi got a shot at a lead role. Her measured delivery and deadpan comedy style would serve this role, and this cast, well. Whichever actress lands the part, we should hear the announcement soon, as cameras are set to roll on Blue Iguana in July.
- 6/15/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Ben Schwartz has joined Sam Rockwell in Blue Iguana, a comedy feature from writer-director Hadi Hajaig, who last helmed the Charlotte Rampling-Sean Bean thriller Cleanskin. The project, which will be financed by UK Film Studio Productions, will start principal photography in London in July. Hajaig also produces with 3 Arts Entertainment's Tom Lassally, who is also working on the Edge of Tomorrow sequel at Warner Bros. An offbeat story about lying, stealing and…...
- 6/15/2016
- Deadline
Z
Shane West will star opposite Leslie Bibb in Jonathan Wright's thriller "Z" for Sony Pictures. Michael Baker and Jeff Sackman will produce.
The story follow a down-on-their-luck blue-collar couple young who discover a serial killer's film reels and take a chance to capture him for the major reward - they soon end up in his crosshairs. Filming begins in Ottowa in late May. [Source: Deadline]
The White Princess
Jodie Comer ("Doctor Foster") has scored the title role in Starz's "The White Princess," the sequel to the acclaimed historical TV drama "The White Queen". Based on Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War novels, this continues the story of the beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville – the White Queen – the young princess Elizabeth.
Forced into marriage with Henry VII, she must reconcile her slowly growing love for him with her loyalty to the House of York, and choose between her...
Shane West will star opposite Leslie Bibb in Jonathan Wright's thriller "Z" for Sony Pictures. Michael Baker and Jeff Sackman will produce.
The story follow a down-on-their-luck blue-collar couple young who discover a serial killer's film reels and take a chance to capture him for the major reward - they soon end up in his crosshairs. Filming begins in Ottowa in late May. [Source: Deadline]
The White Princess
Jodie Comer ("Doctor Foster") has scored the title role in Starz's "The White Princess," the sequel to the acclaimed historical TV drama "The White Queen". Based on Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War novels, this continues the story of the beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville – the White Queen – the young princess Elizabeth.
Forced into marriage with Henry VII, she must reconcile her slowly growing love for him with her loyalty to the House of York, and choose between her...
- 4/17/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
I thought about starting this with some note about living in a world where literature is increasingly unappreciated — but nobody really needs that so I’ll instead just relate The Wrap‘s story that Ramin Bahrani is looking to follow 99 Homes with an adaptation of Ray Bradbury‘s perennial sci-fi classic Fahrenheit 451. The project has been in WB’s pipeline for some time, in semi-recent years attracting the likes of Mel Gibson and Frank Darabont with its dystopian future and central figure, Guy Montag, a “fireman” whose main task is to burn the written word.
Unadaptable this text is not, judging solely by François Truffaut’s great adaptation. While that one’s a bit more off-kilter than what I expect HBO Films and Warner Bros. to deliver — unless they’re really putting their chips down here — Bahrani’s eye for social issues of this current day should make him...
Unadaptable this text is not, judging solely by François Truffaut’s great adaptation. While that one’s a bit more off-kilter than what I expect HBO Films and Warner Bros. to deliver — unless they’re really putting their chips down here — Bahrani’s eye for social issues of this current day should make him...
- 4/13/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Sam Rockwell has signed to star in Blue Iguana, a comedy feature from writer-director Hadi Hajaig, who last helmed the Charlotte Rampling-Sean Bean thriller Cleanskin. The project, which will be financed by UK Film Studio Productions, will start principal photography in London in July. Hajaig also produces with 3 Arts Entertainment’s Tom Lassally, who is also working on the Edge of Tomorrow sequel at Warner Bros. An offbeat story about lying, stealing and…...
- 4/13/2016
- Deadline
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