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Filmmaker Dan Chen planned to make an inspiring doc about a group of high-achieving students attending a most unconventional school in rural Louisiana, one that had a 100 percent college acceptance rate and sent its Bipoc kids to the likes of Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Well, so much for best laid plans. Unfortunately, right in the midst of production, the Ivy League dreams of Alicia, Adia, Isaac and Cathy, along with the rest of their classmates who were already under immense pressure from the unrelenting boot camp tactics of the school’s founder Mike Landry, morphed into a slow-motion nightmare. Even […]

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Filmmaker Dan Chen planned to make an inspiring doc about a group of high-achieving students attending a most unconventional school in rural Louisiana, one that had a 100 percent college acceptance rate and sent its Bipoc kids to the likes of Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Well, so much for best laid plans. Unfortunately, right in the midst of production, the Ivy League dreams of Alicia, Adia, Isaac and Cathy, along with the rest of their classmates who were already under immense pressure from the unrelenting boot camp tactics of the school’s founder Mike Landry, morphed into a slow-motion nightmare. Even […]

The post “… the Convergence of Many Different Narratives Clashing All at Once”: Dan Chen on his Tribeca-Debuting High School and College Admissions Doc, Accepted first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Exclusive: Netflix has acquired a potential franchise property in The Hunt For Atlantis, an adaptation of the Andy McDermott bestseller. The project has been in the works for a bit with Aaron Berg writing and producing. At Netflix, he will be joined as producer by 6th & Idaho’s Matt Reeves & Adam Kassan.

Book is the first in what is called the Wilde/Chase series that numbers 15 books. Years after the disappearance of her parents, brilliant NYU grad student Nina Wilde teams with cavalier ex-Sas British bodyguard Eddie Chase when a tech-billionaire sends them on a globe-trotting race to discover the legendary lost city. Subsequent titles revolved around the pursuit of the mythical sword Excalibur, the great hall of Valhalla, the Fountain of Youth and golden city of El Dorado

Mike Landry will produce with Berg, Reeves and Kassan, and Derek S. Jancisin will be exec producer.

Berg is repped by Verve,...

Exclusive: Divine Rights Media’s Mike Landry has partnered with Derek S. Jancisin to option the rights to Andy McDermott’s bestselling Wilde/Chase book series. The hope is to hatch a franchise, beginning with the first book in the series, The Hunt for Atlantis. Aaron Berg has been set to write and produce along with Landry, with Jancisin exec producing. The latter intends to finance development and is a managing director and Wealth Management Advisor at Merrill Lynch in Pittsburgh. This marks his first foray into film production.

The books follow the dangerous exploits of New York-based archeologist Nina Wilde, who teams with cavalier ex-Sas British bodyguard Eddie Chase. Jancisin intends to finance along with additional partners, and they hope to engage in a multi-continent shoot in 2020. In the first book, which was published in 2007, an eccentric billionaire sends Wilde and Chase on a globe-trotting race to discover...

Dean Devlin’s fledgling Us distribution operation has taken all North American rights for The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea starring Jason Sudeikis, Jessica Biel and Maisie Williams. Content Media represents international rights in Cannes.

The film premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival last month and is set for a theatrical release later this year. The story centres on a grieving father who rediscovers his faith in life when he helps a young girl on a quest.

Electric Entertainment’s head of domestic distribution Zac Reeder brokered the deal with vice-president of development Ben Kim and Wme Global on behalf of the film-makers.

The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea will mark the second film to go out via Electric’s domestic distribution arm after Blackway, which will debut day-and-date theatrically and on VOD on June 10.

Bill Purple directed from a screenplay he wrote with Robbie Pickering. Michelle Purple, Biel, [link...

After making quite an impression at the Stanley Film Festival, Todd Strauss-Schulson's meta horror hit, The Final Girls, will screen at the L.A. Film Fest next month, along with an advance look at MTV's Scream TV series and many more onscreen scares.

The 21st L.A. Film Fest takes place June 10th-18th in downtown Los Angeles. The festival will feature screenings of 74 feature films, 60 short films, and more, including the following genre offerings:

"Gala Screenings:

The Final Girls – USA (Director Todd Strauss-Schulson Writer Producer Cast Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Adam Devine, Thomas Middleditch, Alia Shawkat, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev) – An unconventional comedy about Max, a high school senior, who is mysteriously transported with her friends into a 1980s horror film that starred Max’s mother, a celebrated scream queen. Los Angeles Premiere

Scream – USA (Showrunners Jill Blotevogel, Jaime Paglia Writers Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin Executive Producers Harvey Weinstein,...

Heading into Cannes the company has bulked up its sales slate with international rights to the drama starring Jason Sudeikis and Jessica Biel.

Content will show first footage to the film, which is currently in post and also stars Maisie Williams from Game Of Thrones, Orlando Jones, Paul Reiser and Mary Steenburgen.

Bill Purple directs The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea from a script he wrote with Robbie Pickering about love, friendship, grief and laughter. Justin Timberlake will score the film.

Biel produces via her Iron Ocean Films label with partner Michelle Purple alongside Mike Landry and Carlos Velazquez of C Plus Pictures and Chuck Pacheco of Nine Nights. CAA represents Us rights.

Longtime Content collaborator Ross M Dinerstein of Campfire is executive producer with Kevin Connolly, Robert Ortiz, Bill Purple and Gregory P Shockro.

“Jason and Jessica really tug at our heartstrings, making us laugh and cry and laugh again – and Maisie is just wonderful...

Sometimes digging around for the truth can lead to unmentionable horrors. Thankfully in our genre people who do this are in abundance and always on hand to be dispatched in ludicrously violent ways. Speaking of which... read on for your first word on The Confines.

From the Press Release

Mike Landry and Carlos Velazquez of C Plus Pictures announce Louisa Krause (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Jason Patric (The Lost Boys, My Sister’s Keeper), and Mark Margolis (The Wrestler, "Breaking Bad") will star in the psychological thriller The Confines, written by Ido Fluk and directed by Eytan Rockaway. The film was formerly known as “Lot 451” and marks Rockaway’s feature film directorial debut.

Shooting just wrapped in New York. Mike Landry and Carlos Velazquez produced the film along with co-producers Ryan Charles Griffin and Claudia Bellante and executive producers Allen Loeb, Jeff Hoffman, and Luigi Ghilardi II. Arclight Film’s...

Production has wrapped in New York on C Plus Pictures’ psychological thriller starring Louisa Krause, Jason Patric and Mark Margolis. Arclight handles international sales.

Eytan Rockaway directs the film formerly known as Lot 451 from a screenplay by Ido Fluk.

The Confines is set in a vast vacant residential complex where a single mother bullied by her boyfriend and his friend must confront the mystery of the building.

C Plus Pictures’ Mike Landry and Carlos Velazquez produce and the executive producers are Allen Loeb, Jeff Hoffman and Luigi Ghilardi II.

Traction Media’s Maren Olsen and CAA’s Nick Ogiony represent North American sales.

The new trailer as well as the poster are in for Screen Media Films' comedy drama The Lifeguard starring Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Amy Madigan, Joshua Harto, John Finn, Alex Shaffer, Sendhil Ramamurthy, David Lambert and Paulie Litt. On the verge of her 30th birthday, Leigh (Kristen Bell) leaves her busy life and job in New York City behind for her parents suburban home. Taking her old summer job as a lifeguard, she falls into her teenage life: hanging out, partying in the woods, and coming home late, leading to a dangerous affair that threatens to tear lives apart. Screen Media and Focus World present the film produced by Milan Chakraborty, Liz W. Garcia, Isaac Lefevre, Mike Landry, Joshua Harto and Carlos Velazquez.

Focus World and Screen Media Films have teamed up to acquire U.S. rights to the Kristen Bell starrer The Lifeguard. The film written and directed by Liz W. Garcia made its debut in competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Lifeguard marks Garcia's first feature after working as a writer and producer on such series as Cold Case and co-creating Memphis Beat  with The Lifeguard producer Joshua Harto. Bell (Showtime's House of Lies) stars alongside Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr and Amy Madigan. Story: Kristen Bell Set to Star in Stage Adaptation 'Some Girls,' Animated Feature 'Frozen' (Exclusive) Mike Landry and Carlos Velazquez of C Plus Pictures produced

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They say this movie will give us honest and smart look at relationships and friendship, so I say – let’s give them a try and share the second trailer for Daniel Schechter‘s upcoming comedy titled Supporting Characters. The movie had its world premiere this April at the Tribeca Film Festival, and has quite interesting cast on board, so we definitely recommend you check it out in the rest of this report!

Written by Daniel Schechter and Tarik Lowe, Supporting Characters centers on two New York film editors Nick and Darryl, who are trying to balance their personal lives while reworking a film.

Not hard to guess that the movie is actually based on Schechter’s and Lowe’s incidents from their personal lives, crafting a simultaneously offbeat and naturalistic New York story.

Best friends Nick and Darryl are a New York film editing duo hired to salvage a botched...

Exclusive: Kristen Bell will star in The Lifeguard, the film written and to be directed by Liz W. Garcia. Bell, who stars in Showtime’s House Of Lies, will star with Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Alex Shaffer, Joshua Harto and Amy Madigan. The film, which was packaged by CAA (the agency is selling domestic rights), will shoot in Pittsburgh this month. Bell will play Leigh, a reporter on the verge of 30 who abandons her life in New York City, returns home to get her high school job as a lifeguard, and starts a dangerous relationship with a 16-year-old delinquent. The film is being produced by Mike Landry and Carlos Velazquez of C Plus Pictures, along with Harto and Garcia of La Pistola, Inc. The co-production is in association with Attic Light Films, Wild Invention and Houndstooth. Bell will next be seen in Hit And Run. Garcia and Harto created Memphis Beat for TNT.

Roswell star Jason Behr is 'Jack Frost', a New York City playboy who sinks into a deep depression after learning his childhood love 'Carolina' (Monet Mazur) is engaged to another man. Still haunted by his mother's suicide, Jack spirals into a self-destructive cycle of whisky and reckless behaviour, while his best friends 'Ozzy' (Krysten Ritter), 'Scotch' (Mike Landry) and 'Kate' (Lucy Gordon) struggle to get their depressed pal back to reality. "...Strangely enough, it isn't Jack's grown-up friends who offer him the most useful relationship advice, but his eleven-year-old neighbor 'Sophie' (India Ennenga), whose unusually wise and thoughtful words have a special way of helping the self-absorbed urbanite shake off the nostalgia and excess that may ultimately consume him..."...

2009 Gen Art Awards 2009 Gen Art Film Festival: April 1-7, 2009 In David Lee Miller’s comedy My Suicide, Gabriel Sunday (above) stars as teenager whose final school video project will be his own suicide. Also in the My Suicide cast: David Carradine, Mariel Hemingway, Brooke Nevin (above), Nora Dunn, and Joe Mantegna. Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Feature: My Suicide, by David Lee Miller Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Short: Adelaide, by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders Audience Award for Best Feature: My Suicide, by David Lee Miller Audience Award for Best Short: Adelaide, by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders “Stargazer Award” for breakout acting: Gabriel Sunday, My Suicide Special jury prize for best use of music: Punching the Clown, directed by Gregori Viens, music by Henry Phillips Feature Jury: Kevin Corrigan, Matt Dentler, Mike Landry, Moby, Ted Sarandos Short Jury: Cary Fukunaga, Dana Brunetti, Kurt Keunne, Matt Stein, Terry Kinney Stargazer Jury: Izabella Miko,...

Black Note Films and C Plus Pictures' "Frost" has been retitled "The Last International Playboy." The indie, starring Jason Behr and Krysten Ritter, will open June 12 in New York.

Director Steve Clark, who also penned the original screenplay with co-writer Thomas Moffett, makes his feature directorial debut with the film.

The "Playboy" cast also includes Monet Mazur, Lucy Gordon, India Ennenga, Mike Landry and Lydia Hearst. The film also boasts a lineup of international models including Jessica Gomes, Shannan Click, Lisa Cant, Nicole Trunfio, Leticia Cline and Amy Finlayson.

The Slamdance competition is open only to under-$1 million budgeted films from first-time filmmakers and runs at the same time as Sundance (in Utah) to show a more truer "independent" film style. This year they've got some great looking films, including a sweet looking vampire flick which has the Karate Kid Ralph Macchio himself, Rosencantz and Guildenstern are Undead. I Sell the Dead which was well received at Tad will be opening the fest. Also playing will be The Broken Lizard's latest film The Slammin' Salmon, and Mum and Dad.

Checkout the full lineup after the break!

Narrative Feature Competition

The Ante

Max Perrier (Director), Danek S. Kaus, James Chancellor & Simon Perrier (Writers)

West Coast Premiere, Black Comedy/Thriller, 2006, Canada, 82 minutes

An innocent man becomes the killer everyone wants him to be when he gambles with his freedom in order to save it.

A Quiet Little Marriage

Mo Perkins (Director/Writer)

Utah Premiere,...