“What if woody [sic] Allen had brain injury,” remarks the comic Adam Friedland in his rather direct Letterboxd review of Jerry Lewis’ The Ladies Man. Continuing a theme, Will Sloan also hails The Nutty Professor as a “profoundly strange object from a broken brain” in his own piece on the platform. These critical appraisals are in keeping with renewed esteem for Lewis form the past 15 years, with Greta Gerwig paying The Ladies Man’s production design one of its greatest tributes with the Barbieworld homes in her 2023 blockbuster. If comedy famously equals “tragedy + time,” the formula for posthumous acclaim is surely “outright derision + time.”
So it’s a friendlier critical welcoming the premiere of From Darkness to Light, a peculiar but insightful documentary credited to Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler. Its subject is the most untouchable and elusive piece of Lewis-lore, his very own The Other Side of the Wind:...
So it’s a friendlier critical welcoming the premiere of From Darkness to Light, a peculiar but insightful documentary credited to Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler. Its subject is the most untouchable and elusive piece of Lewis-lore, his very own The Other Side of the Wind:...
- 9/13/2024
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
Lewis grappled with serious themes with The Day the Clown Cried, but as this documentary reveals, to the end he remained haunted by its failure
In 1971 Jerry Lewis, America’s most famous comedian, decided to swing for the fences and make his masterpiece. The Day the Clown Cried was a Holocaust tale about Helmut Doork, a hapless party entertainer who becomes a death camp pied piper. Lewis starred and directed, overseeing every aspect of a fraught shoot in Sweden, but the man misstepped badly and the film never saw the light of day. It has since become legend, buried forever and apparently for good reason.
Now along comes Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler’s flawed but engrossing documentary to pick over the wreckage, shine a Uv lamp on the crime scene and – best of all – reveal extended segments of a picture that is destined to remain incomplete. For much of its running time,...
In 1971 Jerry Lewis, America’s most famous comedian, decided to swing for the fences and make his masterpiece. The Day the Clown Cried was a Holocaust tale about Helmut Doork, a hapless party entertainer who becomes a death camp pied piper. Lewis starred and directed, overseeing every aspect of a fraught shoot in Sweden, but the man misstepped badly and the film never saw the light of day. It has since become legend, buried forever and apparently for good reason.
Now along comes Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler’s flawed but engrossing documentary to pick over the wreckage, shine a Uv lamp on the crime scene and – best of all – reveal extended segments of a picture that is destined to remain incomplete. For much of its running time,...
- 9/1/2024
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Going into the documentary “From Darkness to Light,” most reasonably well-informed movie fans would know three things about “The Day the Clown Cried,” the Jerry Lewis Holocaust movie that is the subject of this doc: It was ahead of its time, it was never finished and it probably wasn’t any good.
Coming out of “From Darkness to Light,” which premiered on Sunday at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival, you’d likely know the same three things, but at least you’d have more context and more evidence that Lewis’ legendary but unseen film is indeed a bad movie. There aren’t any real revelations in the doc, just the sad and tangled story of a questionable idea being undermined by creative choices, business conflicts and a comic icon’s determination to bury something that embarrassed him.
At one point early in the film, Lewis, in a conversation described as...
Coming out of “From Darkness to Light,” which premiered on Sunday at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival, you’d likely know the same three things, but at least you’d have more context and more evidence that Lewis’ legendary but unseen film is indeed a bad movie. There aren’t any real revelations in the doc, just the sad and tangled story of a questionable idea being undermined by creative choices, business conflicts and a comic icon’s determination to bury something that embarrassed him.
At one point early in the film, Lewis, in a conversation described as...
- 9/1/2024
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
For over half a century, the tale of a missing movie has puzzled Hollywood: what happened to Jerry Lewis’ infamous dark comedy “The Day the Clown Cried”? Shot in Sweden in 1972, the film told the tale of a clown taken to a concentration camp and tasked with walking children to gas chambers. Controversy in front and behind the cameras meant the film was never released, with only a handful of people having seen snippets of the footage. Until now.
Eric Friedler’s and Michael Lurie’s documentary “From Darkness to Light,” world premiering at the Venice Film Festival, shares sections of the 1972 film with audiences for the first time while chronicling the making and the downfall of the famed film. “Everyone interested in film somehow heard about this story. It was always fascinating to us. I grew up with Jerry Lewis and thought it was worthwhile to find out a...
Eric Friedler’s and Michael Lurie’s documentary “From Darkness to Light,” world premiering at the Venice Film Festival, shares sections of the 1972 film with audiences for the first time while chronicling the making and the downfall of the famed film. “Everyone interested in film somehow heard about this story. It was always fascinating to us. I grew up with Jerry Lewis and thought it was worthwhile to find out a...
- 8/30/2024
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
“All you have to do,” says author Shawn Levy, who wrote King of Comedy, the definitive Jerry Lewis biography, is to give the plot summary. “If you just tell people: Jerry Lewis wrote, directed and starred in a drama about a clown in a concentration camp leading children into the gas chambers, people say: ‘What? How have I never heard of this movie, how have I never seen it?’ “
You haven’t seen the film, The Day the Clown Cried. No one has. Jerry Lewis shot it in 1972, but it was never released. And it never will be. It is one of the last white whales of lost cinema, like Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune or Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, except Jodorowsky never got to shoot a single frame of his Arrakis epic. And Welles’ opus was eventually finished, 48 years later, thanks to Netflix money. It screened...
You haven’t seen the film, The Day the Clown Cried. No one has. Jerry Lewis shot it in 1972, but it was never released. And it never will be. It is one of the last white whales of lost cinema, like Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune or Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, except Jodorowsky never got to shoot a single frame of his Arrakis epic. And Welles’ opus was eventually finished, 48 years later, thanks to Netflix money. It screened...
- 8/30/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A new documentary explores the mystery behind The Day the Clown Cried, a never-finished, never-released 1970s movie set in a second world war death camp
It was a “disaster”. It was “so drastically wrong”. Its creator was “ashamed” and “embarrassed”. “No one will ever see it.” It was “bad, bad, bad”. The film that triggered this outpouring was Jerry Lewis’s catastrophic Holocaust drama The Day the Clown Cried. Shot in the early 1970s, it has notoriously never been officially released in any form, and only tiny snippets of footage have ever made their way into the public arena.
Lewis, at that point in his career, was trying to reinvent himself after his zany-comedy persona of the 50s and 60s was no longer so popular. He got interested in the project and cast himself as Helmut Doork, a down-at-heel clown who ends up in a Nazi death camp where he...
It was a “disaster”. It was “so drastically wrong”. Its creator was “ashamed” and “embarrassed”. “No one will ever see it.” It was “bad, bad, bad”. The film that triggered this outpouring was Jerry Lewis’s catastrophic Holocaust drama The Day the Clown Cried. Shot in the early 1970s, it has notoriously never been officially released in any form, and only tiny snippets of footage have ever made their way into the public arena.
Lewis, at that point in his career, was trying to reinvent himself after his zany-comedy persona of the 50s and 60s was no longer so popular. He got interested in the project and cast himself as Helmut Doork, a down-at-heel clown who ends up in a Nazi death camp where he...
- 8/30/2024
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- The Guardian - Film News
The Beatles are getting some attention at this year’s Venice Film Festival, which unveiled its 2024 lineup on Tuesday.
The legendary band, who dominated the music industry for an entire decade from 1960, has earned spots in the prestigious fest’s documentary section in different capacities. Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ doc One to One: John & Yoko focuses on the intense and public relationship between the two artists, while Things We Said Today from Romania’s Andrei Ujica, on the other hand, is a look at the band’s famous and first North American tour – a film that was supposed to be ready 10 years ago.
On John Lennon’s official website, Macdonald’s feature documentary from Mercury Studios is described as “a moving look at the couple’s life upon their entry into a transformative 1970’s New York, exploring their musical, personal, artistic, social, and political world.” Macdonald himself said: “I...
The legendary band, who dominated the music industry for an entire decade from 1960, has earned spots in the prestigious fest’s documentary section in different capacities. Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ doc One to One: John & Yoko focuses on the intense and public relationship between the two artists, while Things We Said Today from Romania’s Andrei Ujica, on the other hand, is a look at the band’s famous and first North American tour – a film that was supposed to be ready 10 years ago.
On John Lennon’s official website, Macdonald’s feature documentary from Mercury Studios is described as “a moving look at the couple’s life upon their entry into a transformative 1970’s New York, exploring their musical, personal, artistic, social, and political world.” Macdonald himself said: “I...
- 7/23/2024
- by Lily Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Just a day after New York Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival made major announcements, Venice Film Festival is here with their full lineup ahead of the festival taking place August 28 through September 7.
Highlights include Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud, Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, Harmony Korine’s Baby Invasion, Pablo Larraín’s Maria, Takeshi Kitano’s Broken Rage, Errol Morris’ Separated, Lav Diaz’s Phantosmia, Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Like Ours, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s April, and more.
Check out the lineup below with a hat tip to Cineuropa.
Competition
The Room Next Door – Pedro Almodóvar
Campo di battaglia – Gianni Amelio
Leurs enfants après eux – Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet
Jouer avec le feu – Delphine & Muriel Coulin
Vermiglio – Maura Delpero
Iddu (Sicilian Letters) – Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza
Queer – Luca Guadagnino
Love – Dag Johan Haugerud...
Highlights include Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud, Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, Harmony Korine’s Baby Invasion, Pablo Larraín’s Maria, Takeshi Kitano’s Broken Rage, Errol Morris’ Separated, Lav Diaz’s Phantosmia, Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Like Ours, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s April, and more.
Check out the lineup below with a hat tip to Cineuropa.
Competition
The Room Next Door – Pedro Almodóvar
Campo di battaglia – Gianni Amelio
Leurs enfants après eux – Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet
Jouer avec le feu – Delphine & Muriel Coulin
Vermiglio – Maura Delpero
Iddu (Sicilian Letters) – Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza
Queer – Luca Guadagnino
Love – Dag Johan Haugerud...
- 7/23/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The lineup for the 81st Venice International Film Festival is here. Artistic director Alberto Barbera and Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco revealed the complete list of titles across sections early on Tuesday, July 23. Watch the live stream here or on YouTube.
Competition highlights included, as expected, Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux,” Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” with Angelina Jolie, Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” with Daniel Craig, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, “The Room Next Door.” Other gems in the lineup include “April,” from Georgian “Beginning” director Dea Kulumbegashvili; Brady Corbet’s “Fountainhead”-inspired epic “The Brutalist,” which runs a whopping 215 minutes and will present in 70mm; Aussie auteur Justin Kurzel’s thriller “The Order”; “Chevalier” director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Harvest” with Caleb Landry Jones; and Halina Reijn’s psychosexual thriller for A24, “Babygirl,” starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson.
Out of competition across series and features, there’s new work from Harmony Korine,...
Competition highlights included, as expected, Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux,” Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” with Angelina Jolie, Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” with Daniel Craig, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, “The Room Next Door.” Other gems in the lineup include “April,” from Georgian “Beginning” director Dea Kulumbegashvili; Brady Corbet’s “Fountainhead”-inspired epic “The Brutalist,” which runs a whopping 215 minutes and will present in 70mm; Aussie auteur Justin Kurzel’s thriller “The Order”; “Chevalier” director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Harvest” with Caleb Landry Jones; and Halina Reijn’s psychosexual thriller for A24, “Babygirl,” starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson.
Out of competition across series and features, there’s new work from Harmony Korine,...
- 7/23/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Footage from Jerry Lewis’ unreleased Holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried will screen at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
From Darkness to Light, a documentary from directors Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler about Lewis’ project, features never-before-seen footage of the legendary lost film and will screen in Venice’s Classics section devoted to documentaries about cinema.
In 1972, the American comedian-actor directed and starred in a film telling the story of a fictional German circus performer, Helmut Doork, who insults Hitler and is sent to a concentration camp, where he is ordered to entertain Jewish children headed for the gas chambers.
But the star hid all the footage, and to this day, the full project has never been seen. Lewis himself said in 2013: “It could have been wonderful, but I slipped up … I didn’t quite get it.” Seven minutes of the film have since surfaced online, and...
From Darkness to Light, a documentary from directors Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler about Lewis’ project, features never-before-seen footage of the legendary lost film and will screen in Venice’s Classics section devoted to documentaries about cinema.
In 1972, the American comedian-actor directed and starred in a film telling the story of a fictional German circus performer, Helmut Doork, who insults Hitler and is sent to a concentration camp, where he is ordered to entertain Jewish children headed for the gas chambers.
But the star hid all the footage, and to this day, the full project has never been seen. Lewis himself said in 2013: “It could have been wonderful, but I slipped up … I didn’t quite get it.” Seven minutes of the film have since surfaced online, and...
- 7/23/2024
- by Lily Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Coming our way from Vertical, Tpc, and Sss Entertainment, the thriller Lazareth is set to receive a theatrical and VOD release on May 10th – and with that date just one month away, a trailer for the film has arrived online. You can watch it in the embed above.
Written and directed by Alec Tibaldi (Spiral Farm), Lazareth tells the following story: Following the death of their parents, Lee adopts her nieces, Imogen and Maeve, and raises them in a remote cabin as a deadly pandemic rages on around them. For over 10 years, the girls are raised to never leave the woods, avoid any and all interaction with outsiders, and ultimately rely on Lee as their only connection to the outside world. Lee has convinced the girls this is the key to survival in what is now an infectious and violent world. But when Imogen and Maeve discover an injured man in the nearby woods,...
Written and directed by Alec Tibaldi (Spiral Farm), Lazareth tells the following story: Following the death of their parents, Lee adopts her nieces, Imogen and Maeve, and raises them in a remote cabin as a deadly pandemic rages on around them. For over 10 years, the girls are raised to never leave the woods, avoid any and all interaction with outsiders, and ultimately rely on Lee as their only connection to the outside world. Lee has convinced the girls this is the key to survival in what is now an infectious and violent world. But when Imogen and Maeve discover an injured man in the nearby woods,...
- 4/4/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Production has wrapped on indie feature Bad Man, starring Seann William Scott (American Pie) alongside Johnny Simmons (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Rob Riggle (21 Jump Street), Chance Perdomo (After We Fell), Andre Hyland (Barry), and Lovi Poe (Chelsea Cowboy).
Inspired by a true story, the action-comedy follows a wild man state cop (Scott) who shows up in a small town with a big meth problem and immediately butts heads with a strait-laced local deputy (Simmons) as they attempt to solve a murder.
The production marks the feature directorial debut for Michael Diliberti, who co-wrote the screenplay with JJ Nelson. Previously, he wrote the Sony movie 30 Minutes or Less which starred Danny McBride, Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Pena, and Aziz Ansari, with Ben Stiller producing.
Producers are Warner Davis and Todd Friedman for Hemlock Circle Productions, Brian Levy for Entertainment 360, Monty Blencowe and Shaun Sanghani for Sss Entertainment.
Inspired by a true story, the action-comedy follows a wild man state cop (Scott) who shows up in a small town with a big meth problem and immediately butts heads with a strait-laced local deputy (Simmons) as they attempt to solve a murder.
The production marks the feature directorial debut for Michael Diliberti, who co-wrote the screenplay with JJ Nelson. Previously, he wrote the Sony movie 30 Minutes or Less which starred Danny McBride, Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Pena, and Aziz Ansari, with Ben Stiller producing.
Producers are Warner Davis and Todd Friedman for Hemlock Circle Productions, Brian Levy for Entertainment 360, Monty Blencowe and Shaun Sanghani for Sss Entertainment.
- 2/15/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Vertical has picked up rights to the crime thriller Mother’s Milk, directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte (As You Are), with plans to distribute it in North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The film in which two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) stars opposite Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon) and Jack Reynor (Midsommar) will hit theaters across North America beginning September 1, debuting in the other territories shortly thereafter.
Written by Joris-Peyrafitte and Madison Harrison, Mother’s Milk follows journalist Marissa Bennings (Swank) who, after the murder of her estranged son, forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend Paige (Cooke) to track down those responsible for his death. Together they confront a world of corruption and drugs in the underbelly of a small city in upstate New York. And as they get closer to the truth, they unearth an even darker secret.
Also starring Dilone, Hopper Penn,...
Written by Joris-Peyrafitte and Madison Harrison, Mother’s Milk follows journalist Marissa Bennings (Swank) who, after the murder of her estranged son, forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend Paige (Cooke) to track down those responsible for his death. Together they confront a world of corruption and drugs in the underbelly of a small city in upstate New York. And as they get closer to the truth, they unearth an even darker secret.
Also starring Dilone, Hopper Penn,...
- 6/28/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Vertical, Tpc, and Sss Entertainment have announced that their thriller Lazareth has made it through production in Oregon and has officially wrapped filming. Vertical holds the North American distribution rights to the film, which stars Ashley Judd (Heat). The project will be presented to potential international distributors at the Cannes Film Festival later this month.
Judd is joined in the cast by Katie Douglas (Ginny & Georgia), Sarah Pidgeon (Tiny Beautiful Things), Asher Angel (Shazam!), and newcomer Edward Balaban. Written and directed by Alec Tibaldi (Spiral Farm), the film tells the story of Lee (Judd) who protects her orphaned nieces, Imogen (Douglas) and Maeve (Pidgeon) from a self-destructing world and raises them in isolation until an outsider (Angel) arrives threatening their peaceful existence.
Lazareth is being produced Robert Ogden Barnum and Eric Binns of The Barnum Picture Company. Vertical’s Peter Jarowey, Rich Goldberg, and Kristin Harris serve as executive producers alongside Tpc’s David Gendron,...
Judd is joined in the cast by Katie Douglas (Ginny & Georgia), Sarah Pidgeon (Tiny Beautiful Things), Asher Angel (Shazam!), and newcomer Edward Balaban. Written and directed by Alec Tibaldi (Spiral Farm), the film tells the story of Lee (Judd) who protects her orphaned nieces, Imogen (Douglas) and Maeve (Pidgeon) from a self-destructing world and raises them in isolation until an outsider (Angel) arrives threatening their peaceful existence.
Lazareth is being produced Robert Ogden Barnum and Eric Binns of The Barnum Picture Company. Vertical’s Peter Jarowey, Rich Goldberg, and Kristin Harris serve as executive producers alongside Tpc’s David Gendron,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Ashley Judd (She Said) has wrapped production in Oregon on Lazareth, a new thriller written and directed by Alec Tibaldi that she stars in for Vertical, Tpc and Sss Entertainment. Others rounding out the cast include Katie Douglas (Ginny & Georgia), Sarah Pidgeon (Tiny Beautiful Things), Asher Angel (Shazam!) and newcomer Edward Balaban.
The film to be distributed in North America by Vertical follows Lee (Judd), who protects her orphaned nieces, Imogen (Douglas) and Maeve (Pidgeon), from a self-destructing world and raises them in isolation until an outsider (Angel) arrives threatening their peaceful existence.
Pic is part of Vertical and Tpc’s new sustainable corporate financing model geared toward long-term growth and a symmetry of art and commerce that the companies debuted with Spencer Squire’s 2022 horror Abandoned. Vertical comes to the project after collaborating with Shaun Sanghani’s Sss Entertainment on such releases as Gone in the Night starring Winona Ryder and Dermot Mulroney,...
The film to be distributed in North America by Vertical follows Lee (Judd), who protects her orphaned nieces, Imogen (Douglas) and Maeve (Pidgeon), from a self-destructing world and raises them in isolation until an outsider (Angel) arrives threatening their peaceful existence.
Pic is part of Vertical and Tpc’s new sustainable corporate financing model geared toward long-term growth and a symmetry of art and commerce that the companies debuted with Spencer Squire’s 2022 horror Abandoned. Vertical comes to the project after collaborating with Shaun Sanghani’s Sss Entertainment on such releases as Gone in the Night starring Winona Ryder and Dermot Mulroney,...
- 5/4/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Here’s your first look at Dead Zone, the creature feature action movie starring Michael Jai White.
The plot follows an elite team of soldiers who, to stop the collapse of humanity, descend on a radiation-poisoned town and perform the ultimate stealth mission using high-tech armor and weapons. But they need to be careful – with hell on Earth, they may just meet the devil. Chad Michael Collins, Jeff Fahey, and Antuone Torbert also star in the film.
Hank Braxtan is directing. Producers are Michael Lurie, Jeffrey Giles, Tarkan Dospil for production company Automatic Entertainment. The project is now in post-production.
The plot follows an elite team of soldiers who, to stop the collapse of humanity, descend on a radiation-poisoned town and perform the ultimate stealth mission using high-tech armor and weapons. But they need to be careful – with hell on Earth, they may just meet the devil. Chad Michael Collins, Jeff Fahey, and Antuone Torbert also star in the film.
Hank Braxtan is directing. Producers are Michael Lurie, Jeffrey Giles, Tarkan Dospil for production company Automatic Entertainment. The project is now in post-production.
- 3/4/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The actor’s Elysium Bandini Studios produced the projects in association with Los Angeles film schools.
Cinedigm Corp. has acquired all North American rights to The Heyday Of The Insensitive Bastards and Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha, produced by James Franco, Jennifer Howell and Vince Jolivette’s Elysium Bandini Studios.
The Heyday Of The Insensitive Bastards was produced in conjunction with UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and stars Franco, Tyler Labine, Kate Mara, Jim Parrack, Natalie Portman, Rico Rodriguez, Abigail Spencer, Amber Tamblyn, Thomas Mann and Kristen Wiig.
The film has a unique structure comprised of a series of vignettes that run the whole gamut of emotions as the film delves into universal themes of memory, longing and loss.
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha was produced in conjunction with USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and was written and directed by students in Franco’s USC graduate...
Cinedigm Corp. has acquired all North American rights to The Heyday Of The Insensitive Bastards and Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha, produced by James Franco, Jennifer Howell and Vince Jolivette’s Elysium Bandini Studios.
The Heyday Of The Insensitive Bastards was produced in conjunction with UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and stars Franco, Tyler Labine, Kate Mara, Jim Parrack, Natalie Portman, Rico Rodriguez, Abigail Spencer, Amber Tamblyn, Thomas Mann and Kristen Wiig.
The film has a unique structure comprised of a series of vignettes that run the whole gamut of emotions as the film delves into universal themes of memory, longing and loss.
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha was produced in conjunction with USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and was written and directed by students in Franco’s USC graduate...
- 3/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Automatic Entertainment will introduce Berlin buyers next month to a slate that includes the thriller Goddess Of Love.
Jon Knautz directed the story of a troubled dancer who descends into madness when she suspects her lover is having an affair.
The Automatic Entertainment roster includes comedy zombie parody The Walking Deceased that Arc Entertainment plans to distribute theatrically in the Us in March.
Automatic chiefs Michael Lurie and Jeffrey Giles will also show a teaser from the faith-based action title David And Goliath and a promo for Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer Pound Of Flesh.
eOne plans a North American release in May, while Splendid handles for Germany, Scandinavia, Benelux and Switzerland, Leda for Latin America, Daro for Eastern Europe, Cis and South Africa, Ace for France and UK and Klockworx for Japan.
Aqua Group holds rights in Turkey, FrontRow in Middle East, United King in Israel, Eagle Entertainment in Australia and Tot Media in Spain.
Automatic...
Jon Knautz directed the story of a troubled dancer who descends into madness when she suspects her lover is having an affair.
The Automatic Entertainment roster includes comedy zombie parody The Walking Deceased that Arc Entertainment plans to distribute theatrically in the Us in March.
Automatic chiefs Michael Lurie and Jeffrey Giles will also show a teaser from the faith-based action title David And Goliath and a promo for Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer Pound Of Flesh.
eOne plans a North American release in May, while Splendid handles for Germany, Scandinavia, Benelux and Switzerland, Leda for Latin America, Daro for Eastern Europe, Cis and South Africa, Ace for France and UK and Klockworx for Japan.
Aqua Group holds rights in Turkey, FrontRow in Middle East, United King in Israel, Eagle Entertainment in Australia and Tot Media in Spain.
Automatic...
- 1/25/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The specialty label will also be selling three films in Berlin
Sunrise Pictures has formed Terror Films, a specialty division that will focus on development, finance, production, sales and distribution of horror, sci-fi and thriller films.
The films will be targeted for limited theatrical, television and ancillary markets like VOD and Redbox.
Also Read: Sundance Party Report in Pictures: The Snowy Scene in Park City (Updating Photos)
Sunrise CEO Peter Schafer and executives Joe Dain, Jim Klock and Miles Fineburg will oversee the genre label.
Terror recently signed a multiple-picture deal with foreign sales company Automatic Entertainment, headed by Michael Lurie and Jeffrey Giles.
Sunrise Pictures has formed Terror Films, a specialty division that will focus on development, finance, production, sales and distribution of horror, sci-fi and thriller films.
The films will be targeted for limited theatrical, television and ancillary markets like VOD and Redbox.
Also Read: Sundance Party Report in Pictures: The Snowy Scene in Park City (Updating Photos)
Sunrise CEO Peter Schafer and executives Joe Dain, Jim Klock and Miles Fineburg will oversee the genre label.
Terror recently signed a multiple-picture deal with foreign sales company Automatic Entertainment, headed by Michael Lurie and Jeffrey Giles.
- 1/24/2015
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Breaking Glass Pictures planning day-and-date release.
Philadelphia-based distributor Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Tim McCann’s psychological drama White Rabbit.
Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff negotiated the deal with Michael Lurie of Automatic Entertainment. The film will receive a Us theatrical day-and-date release this winter.
The film centres on a bullied high school student who starts having visions of a rabbit that he killed when he was a kid, soon putting him in a state where his imagination threatens to cause him to carry out violent acts.
Directed by Tim McCann, White Rabbit stars Nick Krause (The Descendants), Sam Trammell (The Fault in our Stars), Britt Robertson (Under the Dome) and Ryan Lee (Super 8).
“We always license many titles at Tiff and they always do well for our company,” said Wolff.
Philadelphia-based distributor Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Tim McCann’s psychological drama White Rabbit.
Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff negotiated the deal with Michael Lurie of Automatic Entertainment. The film will receive a Us theatrical day-and-date release this winter.
The film centres on a bullied high school student who starts having visions of a rabbit that he killed when he was a kid, soon putting him in a state where his imagination threatens to cause him to carry out violent acts.
Directed by Tim McCann, White Rabbit stars Nick Krause (The Descendants), Sam Trammell (The Fault in our Stars), Britt Robertson (Under the Dome) and Ryan Lee (Super 8).
“We always license many titles at Tiff and they always do well for our company,” said Wolff.
- 9/10/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: La-based Automatic Entertainment has closed a slew of deals on the Efm-bound action title Pound Of Flesh starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Automatic co-owners and former Archstone sales chiefs Jeffrey Giles and Michael Lurie have licensed the film to Ace Entertainment for France, Klockworx for Japan, Leda Films for Latin America Daro for Eastern Europe, Cis and South Africa.
Ernie Barbarash directs from a screenplay by Joshua James about a former solider who reunites with his estranged brother to save his dying niece.
Principal photography is scheduled to kick off in China in March.
Automatic’s Efm slate includes White Rabbit, SXSW 2013 selection Holy Ghost People, American Muscle co-produced with Travis Stevens of Snowfort Pictures and Ninja Apocalypse.
Automatic co-owners and former Archstone sales chiefs Jeffrey Giles and Michael Lurie have licensed the film to Ace Entertainment for France, Klockworx for Japan, Leda Films for Latin America Daro for Eastern Europe, Cis and South Africa.
Ernie Barbarash directs from a screenplay by Joshua James about a former solider who reunites with his estranged brother to save his dying niece.
Principal photography is scheduled to kick off in China in March.
Automatic’s Efm slate includes White Rabbit, SXSW 2013 selection Holy Ghost People, American Muscle co-produced with Travis Stevens of Snowfort Pictures and Ninja Apocalypse.
- 1/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Well Go USA has acquired all North American rights to Snowfort Pictures and Automatic Entertainment’s American Muscle.
Commercial and music video director Ravi Dhar’s arthouse action-thriller stars Nick Principe, Robin Sydney, Todd Farmer, John Fallon, Trent Haaga and Malice McMunn.
The story takes place in California’s Yucca Valley as an ex-con embarks on a mission of revenge against his brother.
John Fallon wrote the screenplay and Travis Stevens produced alongside Jeffrey Giles and Michael Lurie.
“We set out to make a different kind of action film; something beautiful and exciting,” said Snowfort’s Stevens. “We can’t think of a company better suited to bring Ravi Dhar’s unique vision to audiences than Well Go USA.”
Stevens brokered the deal with Well Go USA president and head of acquisitions Doris Pfardrescher.
Commercial and music video director Ravi Dhar’s arthouse action-thriller stars Nick Principe, Robin Sydney, Todd Farmer, John Fallon, Trent Haaga and Malice McMunn.
The story takes place in California’s Yucca Valley as an ex-con embarks on a mission of revenge against his brother.
John Fallon wrote the screenplay and Travis Stevens produced alongside Jeffrey Giles and Michael Lurie.
“We set out to make a different kind of action film; something beautiful and exciting,” said Snowfort’s Stevens. “We can’t think of a company better suited to bring Ravi Dhar’s unique vision to audiences than Well Go USA.”
Stevens brokered the deal with Well Go USA president and head of acquisitions Doris Pfardrescher.
- 11/8/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
“The movie’s about a guy, who’s been in prison for 10 years, gets released, and over the next 24 hours kills every single person who had a hand in him going to jail,” movie producer and Snowfort Pictures founder Travis Stevens told EW earlier this year, talking about the new action-thriller American Muscle. “He’s just a shark moving straight forward — just chewing through everybody in front of him. l feel it’s my most personal film because it has everything that I love in the world: Naked tattooed chicks riding motorcycles with Uzis and a bad-ass guy who doesn’t really speak too much!
- 10/17/2013
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
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