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Sneak Peek new images of actress Emma Roberts ("Scream Queens"), wearing Chanel, in the latest issue of "Grazia" (Italy) magazine, photographed by Jason Kim:

Roberts, the daughter of actor Eric Roberts ("Star 80") made her film debut as 'Kristina Jung' in the feature "Blow (2001)...

...followed by her role as 'Addie Singer' in the Nickelodeon TV series "Unfabulous" (2004–07).

As a singer, Roberts released her debut studio album, "Unfabulous and More" (2005), which also served as the series' soundtrack.

Roberts then appeared in a series of film roles, including "Nancy Drew" (2007), "Wild Child" (2008), "Hotel for Dogs" (2009), "Valentine's Day" (2010), "It's Kind of a Funny Story" (2010) and "The Art of Getting By" (2011).

Her next films included "Lymelife" (2009), "4.3.2.1." (2010), "Scream 4" (2011), "Adult World" (2013), "We're the Millers" (2013), and "Palo Alto" (2013).

Roberts currently plays the character 'Chanel Oberlin' in the Fox TV series "Scream Queens", as well as playing main roles in two seasons of "American Horror Story...

2017-04-18T13:44:35-07:00'Crossing Jordan''s Jill Hennessy to Star in New Series

Former Crossing Jordan star Jill Hennessy has nabbed a lead role in the Comedy Central family comedy Crawford.

Hennessy will play Cynthia, an award-winning cereal executive struggling to deal with the stress of juggling work with the needs of her husband and family. The actress' TV roles include Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, Law & Order and HBO's Luck.

The ensemble cast of Crawford includes Kyle Mac, Daniel Davis Yang, Alice Moran and John Carroll Lynch.

Read the rest of this article at The Hollywood Reporter.

Hennessy has also appeared in the movies Wild Hogs, Exit Wounds and Lymelife.

You can tell we’re getting close to Halloween as the month of September has a myriad of great films arriving on VOD platforms that should help get everyone in the ‘spirit’ for every horror fan’s favorite upcoming holiday. The highly anticipated horror comedy Cooties starring Rainn Wilson, Elijah Wood, Leigh Whannell and Alison Pill is finally getting released on September 18th and Scream Factory is kicking off the month with a horror comedy too, the hilarious Bloodsucking Bastards, which arrives on VOD on September 4th.

On September 1st, The Curse of Downers Grove is coming to VOD courtesy of Anchor Bay and on the very same day, Dark Sky Films is releasing the psychological thriller Para Elisa as well. Other notable films hitting VOD in September include Hellions, Contracted Phase II, Some Kind of Hate and Run, Hide, Die.

Blood Moon (Uncork’d Entertainment/Jinga Films)- September...

Teenage Wasteland: Ellis & Martini Join Forces for Derivative Teen Angst

Check your expectations at the opening credits with The Curse of Downers Grove, a muddled teen scream mix of urban legend meets self-fulfilling prophecy metaphor. Many will be unable to bypass taking a look, however, upon learning the schlocky titled genre effort was penned by Bret Easton Ellis, his first cinematic project following the infamous and ultimately ill-fated Paul Schrader/Lindsey Lohan experiment The Canyons (2013). An ambitious thread of something greater sometimes resonates in this adolescent angst tale spiked with violence and a smattering of watered down sexuality (at least compared to what we know Ellis can imagine), but is ultimately lost in the tonally awkward jumps between genre elements and out-of-touch flourishes as concerns law-enforcement and teenagers.

The eponymous suburb of Chicago is the home of a deadly curse, or at least that’s the urban legend of the...

There is no doubt that Bret Easton Ellis has a distinct voice. We've seen his characters come alive in "American Psycho," he's brought his own worldview to movies like "The Informers" and "The Canyons," and his latest script is for the horror flick "The Curse Of Downers Grove," and today we have an exclusive peek at the film. Read More: Watch The Trailer For Bret Easton Ellis-Penned 'The Curse Of Downers Grove' Starring Bella Heathcote Starring Bella Heathcote, Lucas Till, Penelope Mitchell, Tom Arnold, and Kevin Zegers, with Derick Martini ("Lymelife," "Hick") directing, the story is set in the titular suburb where every year, someone from the graduating high school class meets a gruesome death. Chrissie Swanson fears she might be next, but as you'll see in this clip, she's also got other things on her mind. "The Curse Of Downers Grove" opens on August 21st and hits VOD on September 1st.

"The Curse of Downers Grove" is an interesting twist in the career of young indie filmmaker Derick Martini. He came to acclaim with the family drama "Lymelife" with Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, and Emma Roberts. Martin Scorsese liked it so much he served as an executive producer. His follow-up “Hick,” with Chloe Moretz, Blake Lively and Eddie Redmayne -- a pretty notable cast -- ended up on many of year-end worst lists in 2011. Now Martini’s back with the teen horror “The Curse of Downers Grove.” Written by Bret Easton Ellis, the movie stars Bella Heathcote (“Dark Shadows”), “X-Men” actor Lucas Till, Kevin Zegers, Penelope Mitchell, Zane Holtz, Helen Slater, and Tom Arnold. Here’s the official synopsis: The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood —but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has...

Directed by Luc Besson, sci-fi film The Fifth Element now has seven vinyl figures to collect courtesy of Funko's Pop! Movies series. Also in this round-up: release details for The Curse of Downers Grove and a rough-cuts screening of Grinder in New York.

The Fifth Element Figures: Standing at 3 3/4-inches tall, The Fifth Element figures will be released sometime in September.

"The Fifth Element is crash-landing into the world of Pop!

Leeloo comes in two costumes, including her civilian clothes and thermal bandages ensemble!

Korben, Special Forces solider turned cab-driver, comes as her backup!

The glamorous radio host, Ruby Rhod, is accompanied by the revered operatic performer, Diva Plavalaguna!

The evil Zorg and his Mangalore henchman are also included in the series!

Collect the whole set before the Mondoshawans do!"

Images courtesy of Funko:

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The Curse of Downers Grove: Press Release: "Anchor Bay Entertainment proudly announces the release...

Rory Culkin is not some fresh face who has yet to leave a mark. The young actor has been delivering excellent performances in good movies for years (recommendations include: Igby Goes Down, Down in the Valley, Lymelife) but he has yet to catch the eye of mainstream audiences and though Gabriel is not exactly the next summer tentpole, the movie is riding a wave of praise from Sundance and Tribeca which should get him on a few more radars.

Writer/director Lou Howe's feature film debut looks like an intense thriller. Culkin stars as the titular character, a mentally unstable young man who is determined to track down his first love, played here by Emily Meade, at any cost. And it looks like he pays dearly.

Gabriel opens June 19.

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Whether you are a filmmaker, or one of the Sundance programmers whose task it is to identify the films that make up a line-up, it is indeed the most wonderful, panic-filled and nerve racking time of the year. The 31st edition of the Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 22nd with Park City and Salt Lake City playing host to some of the more innovative, thought-provoking narrative and non-fiction films of 2015. Last year, a Jenga tall order of 4,057 features and 8,161 shorts were submitted. Now let’s think about those numbers for a second.

Twenty years ago, Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb claimed the Grand Jury Prize Documentary award, Living in Oblivion‘s Tom Dicillo was honored with the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, and Edward Burns’ micro-budgeted The Brothers McMullen (there is a read-worthy, lively, eleventh hour account on how it was submitted to the fest in Ted Hope’s “Hope...

Brett Easton Ellis ("American Psycho") and director Derick Martini ("Lymelife") are teaming for the new psychological thriller "The Curse of Downer's Grove." Bella Heathcote ("Dark Shadows"), and Lucas Till ("X-Men: First Class") and Penelope Mitchell ("Hemlock Grove") are set to star. The film, currently in development, will begin production in spring of this year.  "The Curse of Downers Grove" takes place in a small town, where Chrissie Swanson (Heathcote) fears she's the next victim of the titular town curse that claims the life of one high school senior each year.  Heathcote was recently seen in David Chase's "Not Fade Away." Till will soon co-star in "Paranoia," alongside Gary Oldman,...

Bella Heathcote, the wide-eyed beauty who turned heads in "Dark Shadows" and "Not Fade Away," will join Lucas Till in "The Curse of Downers Grove," the indie thriller's producers said Friday. The movie pairs Derick Martini, director of the 2008 coming-of-age drama "Lymelife," with Bret Easton Ellis, sometime novelist and Twitter provocateur. Martini will slide behind the camera while Easton Ellis will handle screenwriting duties. The film is set in a insular Midwestern town that shoulders a curse that claims the life of one high school senior every year. Heathcote will play...

Award-winning indie filmmaker Derick Martini ( Lymelife with Alec Baldwin and Cynthia Nixon) has teamed up with Brett Easton Ellis on the new psychological thriller The Curse of Downers Grove . The film, currently in development, will begin production in spring of this year. Martini will direct. Bella Heathcote ( Dark Shadows , Not Fade Away will star in The Curse of Downers Grove with Lucas Till ( X-Men: First Class , Stoker ) who recently wrapped on Paranoia in which he stars opposite Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford and Liam Hemsworth. Penelope Mitchell ("Hemlock Grove") will also take a leading role. The movie takes us on a wild ride through a small midwestern town gripped by a curse that claims the life of one high school senior every year. Chrissie Swanson...

Pregnant by music? This is the premise of Rebecca Thomas’ unusual first feature, Electrick Children that sees a return to indie for Rory Culkin (Lymelife) and bravely casts newcomer, Julia Garner, as its lead.

A prayer for 15 year-old Rachel opens the film, easing us into the devoutly religious Mormon colony the protagonist comes from. In this Utah-based community, all ecclesiastical interviews of ages 15 years and up must be tape recorded, according to official procedure. As Rachel is asked if she lives "by the law of chastity," her attention is drawn to Mr Will’s new high-tech tape recorder.

Fascinated by this piece of machinery, she steals downstairs in the night to listen to the tape of her voice and discovers a music cassette with a recording of The Nerves' 'Hanging On The Telephone'. The song seems to speak to Rachel and she believes she has “experienced a miracle - an...

Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to worthwhile titles currently available on Netflix Instant Watch. This week we offer alternatives to Dark Shadows, God Bless America and Hick.

Tim Burton brings the peculiar tale of the Collins clan to the big screen. Johnny Depp stars as Barnabas Collins, a long-imprisoned vampire unleashed on the 1970s, where he discovers a colorful batch of dysfunctional descendants. Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter co-star.

Prefer camp with your macabre?

Dark Shadows (1966) Check out the cult classic that started it all. Originally conceived as a moody melodrama, this groundbreaking gothic soap found success following the introduction of tormented vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid). From there the Collins family regularly crosses the paths of ghosts, werewolves, and witches. Oh my.

Edward Scissorhands (1990) Or revisit Burton and Depp’s first collaboration, the tale of a modern Frankenstein’s monster with scissors for hands.

Later, there will be a brief discussion of how literature is not film, and how some actions and themes do not survive translation from the page to the big screen because our mind can better deal with envisioning them than it can with actually seeing them. Before that though, I feel I have to pause and note that "Hick," adapting Andrea Portes' novel for the screen under the direction of Derick Martini ("Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire," "Lymelife"), is one of the most unclean and clammy films I've ever had to endure at a film festival. Not because it was incompetent and not because it deals with violent and sexual material but, rather, because it is both incompetent in general and even more incompetent specifically when it is concerned with violent and sexual material. We're supposed to be watching the cross-country adventures of 13-year-old Luli (Chloe Moretz, who...

Not really feeling "Dark Shadows" or "The Avengers" at the multiplex next weekend? Feel like staying home instead and not dealing with hassle, hustle and bustle of a busy weekend audience? Well, you'll have an option on VOD with "Hick" (which is also opening in limited release as well) and a few more images have arrived to give you a sneak peek at what you're going to get.

The film from "Lymelife" director Derick Martini is based on the Andrea Portes' novel, the film follows Luli (Chloe Grace Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Balke Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes Luli under her wing. The hard-to-tell apart red and green band trailers have pointed to a very white trash tone, though it remains to be seen...

Well, if you can tell us the major differences between this green band trailer and the (not very) red band version that dropped last week for "Hick," you've got better eyes than we do. We're still not quite sure what made that previous trailer so naughty, but here's a cleaned up version you can watch at work along with a few new stills from the flick.

Starring Blake Lively, Chloe Moretz, Eddie Redmayne and a whole lot of accents, this wild story revolves around Luli (Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes Luli under her wing. Derick Martini (”Lymelife”) directs the adaptation of Andrea Portes novel and the result is something certainly....pulpy....though the tone seems to be a bit all over...

Chloe Moretz has signed up to seven films in the next couple of years including the new adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie and while she has been a strong part of many ensemble casts we’re starting to see her emerge as a leading actress.

We’ll see her next in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows but there’s an altogether darker tone to another film she has coming out this year, Derick Martini’s Hick. I enjoyed Martini’s 2008 ensemble drama Lymelife but here we see the director hanging his story of a troubled teen who wanders away from her dysfunctional life in the vague direction of Las Vegas on Moretz, and this first look trailer suggests that she’s more than up to the task.

Eddie Redmayne and Blake Lively make up two of the people she meets on her journey and nothing we see here suggests...

After taking the festival circuit by storm with his 2008 film, Lymelife, director Derick Martini became something of an indie darling. Now he’s back with his latest film, Hick, which tells the tale of a confused young girl running away from her deadbeat parents and learning about life on the road. The main attraction here is that said young girl is being played by Chloe Moretz, an actress who’s shown great potential up to this point, and is just chomping at the bit to get a meaty role to sink her teeth into, so she can really show what she can do. Whether or not Hick is the right platform for her will be a matter of opinion, but, as you can see from its new trailer, the film contains enough dark, dramatic material to give her range a showcase, no matter how you positively or negatively you respond to the absurd and traumatizing things you...

After directing the quirky, funny festival favorite Lymelife, director Derick Martini is back with a completely different kind of film. The adaptation of Andrea Portes' novel Hick follows a 13-year-old Nebraska girl (Chloe Moretz), who gets more than she bargained for when she runs away to Las Vegas and finds herself under the tutelage of Glenda (Blake Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes the young girl under her wing. Now the first red band trailer gives us a taste of the gritty, edgy drama, but it's still fairly tame with the only real controversial material being the focus on a 13-year old girl being risque and violent. Watch below! Here's the red band trailer for Derick Martini's adaptation of Hick from Yahoo! Movies: Derick Martini (Lymelife) directs this adaptation of Hick adapted by Andrea Portes, author of the novel on which the film is based. The story follows...

After having success with the drama Lymelife, I was looking forward to the latest film from Derick Martini. Unfortunately Hick had a rough premiere at Tiff, with response firmly on the negative side. Although the ensemble of up and comers Chloe Moretz, Blake Lively and Eddie Redmayne is promising, one can glean some of the possible problems, as we have our first red band trailer from Yahoo. It looks almost to frenetic, as to cover up what’s a fairly generic storyline pushing to be a gritty as possible. I like our main cast, also including Alec Baldwin, Juliette Lewis and Rory Culkin, so curiosity may get the best of me, but for now check out the trailer below.

Synopsis:

Foreseeing a hopeless future in barrooms and parking lots, cagey 13-year-old Luli McMullen bolts headlong from the heartland, aiming at Las Vegas, where she expects to find herself a sugar daddy.

Well, we will say this. You ain't seen Blake Lively or Chloë Moretz -- or hell, most of the other cast really -- in anything like this before. Whether it all works or not is entirely a different matter, but the red band trailer for "Hick" is sure to grab your attention.

Soundtracked to some relentlessly twangy guitar with words like Brutal, Emotional and Controversial splashing across the screen, Phase 4 Films really want to push that this is one gritty tale. And on paper at least, it is. Directed by Derick Martini (”Lymelife”), the film is an adaptation of Andrea Portes’ coming-of-age novel of the same name (she penned the script as well). The story revolves around Luli (Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Lively), a hard-living...

While reviews out of Tiff weren't great -- we called it "a black blot of shame for everyone who had a part in its making" -- "Hick" still remains a curiosity because it offers up a grittier side we've rarely seen from the cast led by Blake Lively, Chloe Moretz and Eddie Redmayne.

Directed by Derick Martini (”Lymelife”), the film is an adaptation of Andrea Portes’ coming-of-age novel of the same name (she penned the script as well). The story revolves around Luli (Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl, and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes Luli under her wing. With the movie's release on the horizon, a new poster and a few new images have arrived, serving up another look at the film that seems both glamorous and trashy.

Get out your marker and dry erase board of upcoming movies, because you'll have to add a few more dates to the calendar.

First up, despite Vulture's suggestion that Disney was trying to offload the DreamWorks drama (they have a distribution arrangement), "Welcome To People," from tentpole writers and producers Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman, it is now slated with a June 29th release date. The film stars Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Jon Favreau, Mark Duplass and Michelle Pffeifer and tells the story a twenty-something business man who, after the death of his father, must deliver $150,000 in cash to the alcoholic sister he didn’t know he had, and her son, a 12-year-old with major anger management issues. So yeah, definitely counter-programming in the midst of the summer. No word yet on the exact release plans (limited or wide) but we presume this means a trailer and more is just around the corner.

Both of the young talents have films at Sundance, and while they also share a surname, Craig Roberts (Submarine) and Emma Roberts (Scream 4) are not really related in any other capacity. However, soon they will have a singular film in common as Deadline reports both the stars have joined I Am My Family Secret, the next film from director Derick Martini (Lymelife). The story follows two wildly different brothers who learn that their parents have been hiding an Earth-shattering, life-altering secret from them for over 20 years of their life. It's not clear what roles the male and female Roberts' will be playing though. Both of the young stars are at different points in their career with Emma having much bigger roles recently and Craig just coming on the scene with a phenomenal performance in Submarine. They each make a decent splash at Sundance this year in smaller roles with...

The Doctor Is In: A prescription drug thriller became a reunion with the casting of Catherine Zeta-Jones in Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming Side Effects. Zeta-Jones will portray a doctor, she previously played a key role in Soderbergh’s Traffic. She is set to join Jude Law, Blake Lively, and Channing Tatum, who are also in negotiations; Lively's casting reportedly prompted Annapurna Pictures to quickly drop out of co-financing the film, though Open Road will still be distributing it. (Deadline) What’s in a Name?: Two people who happen to have the same family name, Emma Roberts and Craig Roberts, have been cast in I Am a Family Secret, to be directed by Derick Martini. Emma Roberts previously teamed with Martini for his debut, Lymelife, while Craig Roberts...

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She’s from New York City, the niece of one of the world’s most recognizable actresses, and has been on the big screen since she was ten years old. He’s from (the considerably less glamorous) Maesycwmmer, Wales, and made his feature film debut as recently as 2010. So, on the surface, Emma Roberts and Craig Roberts appear to have little more in common than merely sharing a surname...and before you ask, no, they’re definitely not related. But aside from the fact that they were born within a few weeks of each other -- Craig turned 21 earlier this week, and Emma will do so on February 10th -- the pair also both garnered critical acclaim for strong coming-of-age performances in a pair of 70s/80s set comedy dramas. Craig Roberts’ quirky and impressive turn came in Richard Ayoade’s "Submarine," while Emma’s (arguably career-best) role in Derick Martini...

Emma Roberts ("Aquamarine") and Craig Roberts ("Submarine") have joined the cast of "I Am My Family Secret" for Paramount Pictures and Montecito Pictures.

The story follows two brothers who live vastly different lives who discover their parents have been hiding a secret from them for over twenty years, which drastically impacts both their lives.

Derick Martini ("Lymelife") directs from his own original screenplay.

For a while now, Lymelife director Derick Martini has been developing an untitled drama that once went under the name I Am My Family Secret. Well, now the name seems to be back in place (at least for the moment) and Martini has also found the first two pieces of casting for the film, with Emma Roberts and Craig Roberts signing on.Secret focuses on two brothers who are very different. They realise it might have something to do with a shocking, life-altering mystery that their parents have been hiding from them for more than 20 years. There are no other plot details beyond that, though we wonder if this means that one of the siblings is an alien! Ooh… or that their parents are really figments of their imagination? Time to stop guessing, we fear.And in case anyone was wondering, no, the two stars are not directly related. Emma,...

We’ve got a couple of casting stories for you this morning to wash that Oscar snub taste out of your mouth. First up, Movie Hole reports that Liam Hemsworth has officially signed on to star in the time travel romantic drama Timeless. We previously reported that Hemsworth was in talks to star in the pic, but now it looks like things are definitely a go. Hemsworth plays a man whose wife leaves him a fortune after her death. Haunted by her memory, the man uses the money to build a time travel machine in order to see her one last time. Phillip Noyce (Salt) is onboard to direct, and filming is expected to get underway in July. I’m incredibly interested to see how Hemsworth’s career shakes out. He has potential, and I’m looking forward to seeing what he can do in the highly anticipated adaption of The Hunger Games,...

We don't want to get too "Who Do You Think you Are?" on y'all, but according to Deadline, Emma Roberts and "Submarine's" Craig Roberts have both just signed on to the upcoming drama "I Am My Family Secret."

Coincidence?!

Okay, actually, it is a coincidence, because as far as anybody knows, the two young stars aren't actually related (sorry, Hollywood genealogy buffs). But now they're going to be linked in a professional sense at least, as Emma Roberts reunites with her "Lymelife" director Derick Martini for what is described as a film about "two brothers, wildly different, who discover their parents have been hiding a startling and life-altering secret from them for over two decades."

Of course, we're pretty sure Emma won't be playing one of those brothers, but we have the perfect idea for who should play the parents: Julia Roberts and Eric Roberts.

Hey, if you've got a good theme going,...

They probably haven’t reached “stardom” just yet, but I’d argue that 2011 was really the breakout year for Craig and Emma Roberts (no relation), where, just a few months apart from one another, the former led Submarine and the latter had a major role in Scream 4. Now, in 2012, Deadline reports that the two of them will be coming together for I Am My Family’s Secret, the new film from Derick Martini — who, in addition to Tiff 2011 entry Hick, wrote and directed Lymelife, a film that starred (the female) Roberts.

Written by Martini, Secret centers on “two brothers, wildly different, who discover their parents have been hiding a startling and life-altering secret from them for over two decades.” Okay, so, how is the secret not going to be the existence of an Emma Roberts-portrayed sister? (Unless they have her play a boy, who is then revealed to have been born a girl.

Actors Emma Roberts and Craig Roberts have joined the cast of I Am My Family Secret for Paramount Pictures and director Derick Martini (Lymelife).

The story centers on two brothers who live vastly different lives. They discover their parents have been hiding a secret from them for over 20 years, which drastically impacts both their lives. It isn't immediately clear what roles Emma Roberts and Craig Roberts will play in the drama.

Derick Martini is directing I Am My Family Secret from his own original screenplay. Montecito Pictures is producing, while Paramount will distribute the drama.

No production schedule was given for I Am My Family Secret.

I Am My Family Secret comes to theaters in 2013 and stars Emma Roberts, Craig Roberts. The film is directed by Derick Martini.

Over the last handful of years, Emma Roberts has appeared in a fairly wide variety of films, taking on roles in films geared toward a younger audience, including Hotel for Dogs, Valentine.s Day and the relatively recent Scream follow-up. Amidst that, she.s also taken on parts in smaller films, among which was the 2008 drama/comedy Lymelife, co-written and directed by Derick Martini. Roberts is reuniting with Martini for I Am My Family Secret. Deadline posted the news, stating that the film .involves two brothers, wildly different, who discover their parents have been hiding a startling and life-altering secret from them for over two decades.. Deadline doesn.t specify what role Roberts will play in the film, however, the premise of this film does sound similar to the theme of Lymelife, at least in the way it addresses kids. perception of their parents, and features two brothers. Derick Martini...

Exclusive: Emma Roberts and Craig Roberts (Submarine) are attached to I Am My Family Secret, the next film by helmer Derick Martini. Martini made his directing debut on Lymelife, which starred Emma Roberts. The new film involves two brothers, wildly different, who discover their parents have been hiding a startling and life-altering secret from them for over two decades. Montecito is producing, and Paramount Pictures will distribute. Martini’s repped by ICM and Principato-Young, Emma Roberts by CAA and Sweeney Entertainment and Craig Roberts by Wme and Curtis Brown Group.

Derick Martini's I Am My Family Secret casts Emma Roberts, Craig Roberts Derick Martini will reunite with Lymelife star Emma Roberts for the story which follows two completely different brothers who learn that their parents have held a life-changing secret from them for over twenty years. Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures is set to distribute the film. More news to come later on a production start date and locations. Roberts was last seen in Wes Craven's Scream 4 thriller and Gavin Wiesen's The Art of Getting By alongside Freddie Highmore and Sasha Spielberg. She can be seen next in Celeste and Jesse Forever alongside Rashida Jones (who also scripts with Will McCormack)...

Derick Martini's I Am My Family Secret casts Emma Roberts, Craig Roberts Derick Martini will reunite with Lymelife star Emma Roberts for the story which follows two completely different brothers who learn that their parents have held a life-changing secret from them for over twenty years. Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures is set to distribute the film. More news to come later on a production start date and locations. Roberts was last seen in Wes Craven's Scream 4 thriller and Gavin Wiesen's The Art of Getting By alongside Freddie Highmore and Sasha Spielberg. She can be seen next in Celeste and Jesse Forever alongside Rashida Jones (who also scripts with Will McCormack)...

Derick Martini's I Am My Family Secret casts Emma Roberts, Craig Roberts Derick Martini will reunite with Lymelife star Emma Roberts for the story which follows two completely different brothers who learn that their parents have held a life-changing secret from them for over twenty years. Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures is set to distribute the film. More news to come later on a production start date and locations. Roberts was last seen in Wes Craven's Scream 4 thriller and Gavin Wiesen's The Art of Getting By alongside Freddie Highmore and Sasha Spielberg. She can be seen next in Celeste and Jesse Forever alongside Rashida Jones (who also scripts with Will McCormack)...

The Art Of Getting By

Stars: Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Alicia Silverstone | Written and directed by Gavin Wiesen

If you’re a fan of a genre, you can forgive an awful lot of a film’s shortcomings. Personally, despite being old enough to know better, I really like coming of age dramas (The Ice Storm, Adventureland, Almost Famous, etc). As such, I was predisposed to get a kick out of The Art of Getting By. The question is, will those not enamoured with tales of teenage boys learning about life and love enjoy it as much?

Freddie Highmore – a veteran of kid films such asSpiderwick Chronicles, Astro Boy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and others – stars as George, a teen so nihilistic he sees no point in doing any work at his school, despite his intelligence and talent for art, much to the frustration of his teachers. After...

Considering she's the Nickelodeon-series leading scion of Hollywood royalty, the daughter of Eric Roberts and niece of Julia Roberts, Emma Roberts has been laudable in her desire to mix it up a bit. Of course, there were the early teen vehicles, like "Aquamarine," "Wild Child" and "Hotel For Dogs," but she's also mixed up her Hollywood fare like "Scream 4" with theoretically more interesting indie films, like "Lymelife," "It's Kind of a Funny Story" and "The Art of Getting By." We can't say we've been huge fans of any of them, but it at least shows a desire to be something other than America's next sweetheart.  Sadly, it looks like the actress' most interesting prospective project won't be coming to pass. Eyebrows were raised last year when it was announced that the 20-year-old actress was set to star alongside James Franco and fellow tween idols Vanessa Hudgens and Selena...

Is Selena Gomez the next Disney star to shed her family-friend image?

The 19-year-old star of "Wizards of Waverly Place" is taking on director, Harmony Korine's, latest project, "Spring Breakers."

It won't be zany antics and fun in the sun for Gomez, who stars alongside James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens and Emma Roberts, as the film revolves around a group of broke college girls who rob a restaurant to pay for their spring break trip, and a drug and arms dealer they find themselves entangled with.

It's a far cry from "Princess Protection Program," but Gomez tells MTV News she's really excited to start filming the movie and beginning the next chapter in her career.

"It's a different character than I have ever played before. It's a different kind of vibe I think than people are used to seeing in me," she said. "What you're going to see is more raw,...

Later, there will be a brief discussion of how literature is not film and how some actions and themes do not survive translation from the page to the big screen because our mind can better deal with envisioning them than it can with actually seeing them Before that, though I feel I have to pause and note that "Hick," adapting Andrea Portes' novel for the screen under the direction of Derick Martini ("Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire," "Lymelife"), is one of the most unclean and clammy films I've ever had to endure at a film festival. Not because it…...

On the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, clips have now been unveiled for two of the premiering films hoping to make an impact: Derick Martini's adaptation of Andrea Portes’ coming-of-age novel "Hick" and Marc Forster's take on the real-life story of a criminal-turned-do-gooder "Machine Gun Preacher." Martini returns to the fest after 2008's "Lymelife" with his star-studded film featuring Blake Lively, Chloe Moretz and Eddie Redmayne alongside Alec Baldwin, Juliette Lewis and Rory Culkin. The story follows a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl named Luli (Moretz), and her rough-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful…...

#10. Hick  The Gist: An adaptation of Andrea Portes' novel, this coming-of-age story about 13 year old Nebraska girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) on the road. Whatever is thrown at young Luli only makes her stronger and more defiant, and yet somehow she is able to remain undefeated and undeterred from her goal for a better life. Director: Derick Martini (Lymelife)Sales Agent: CAA/WMESelling Point/Suited For: Derick Martini's debut film was an especially strong with believable, mature well-rounded and written characters, and perhaps the book as a built in audience, but distributors will be looking beyond the allure of the two girls and a gun, coming of age road-trip premise and instead discern the potential return on a Chloe Moretz and Blake Lively combo.    ...

The Art Of Getting By

Stars: Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Alicia Silverstone | Written and directed by Gavin Wiesen

If you’re a fan of a genre, you can forgive an awful lot of a film’s shortcomings. Personally, despite being old enough to know better, I really like coming of age dramas (The Ice Storm, Adventureland, Almost Famous, etc). As such, I was predisposed to get a kick out of The Art of Getting By. The question is, will those not enamoured with tales of teenage boys learning about life and love enjoy it as much?

Freddie Highmore – a veteran of kid films such as Spiderwick Chronicles, Astro Boy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and others – stars as George, a teen so nihilistic he sees no point in doing any work at his school, despite his intelligence and talent for art, much to the frustration of his teachers.

Eager to put the teen soap "Gossip Girl" behind her, Blake Lively has been making strong turns in feature films like "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," last year's "The Town" (and less notably, this year's "Green Lantern"). The actress is set to make a return trip to Toronto this year for the indie drama "Hick" and it should be another shift for the actress for those who mostly know her as Serena van der Woodsen. Directed by Derick Martini (”Lymelife”), the film is an adaptation of Andrea Portes’ coming-of-age novel of the same name (she penned the script as…...

As George, Freddie Highmore has a lot of help coming of age in "The Art of Getting By," and one of his guides into the wide world of moneyed NYC teens is a hard-partying high schooler named Zoe Rubenstein.

"I have lots of slutty friends I could hook you up with," she tells the gloomy young guy lurking at her parent-free party in an amazing Manhattan apartment. Poor George doesn't know what hit him, but he's soon going to find out.

Don't be fooled by the bad-girl persona, though; Zoe's played by Sasha Spielberg, the daughter of E.T.'s daddy Steven. We're sure that he and mom Kate Capshaw won't stand for any shenanigans, even from an up-and-coming starlet like Sasha. Sasha appeared in Vanity Fair magazine's "Growing Up Hollywood" feature in 2009 alongside other celebrity progeny, and has been linked to Max Winkler, son of "Happy Days" legend Henry and...

Alec Baldwin received great notices for his role in director Derek Martini’s suburban malaise drama Lymelife. According to the Playlist blog at indieWire, Baldwin looked to repeat the success by re-teaming with Martini for his new film Hick. Baldwin joined his Lymelife costar Rory Culkin as well as rising starlets Blake Lively and Chloe Moretz in an adaptation of Andrea Portes’ teen novel about a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl (Moretz) who runs away from neglectful parents and partners with a grifter named Glenda (Lively). Juliette Lewis and Eddie Redmayne also joined the cast in time for sales pitches at next week’s Cannes Film Festival.

Alec Baldwin received great notices for his role in director Derek Martini’s suburban malaise drama Lymelife. According to the Playlist blog at indieWire, Baldwin looked to repeat the success by re-teaming with Martini for his new film Hick. Baldwin joined his Lymelife costar Rory Culkin as well as rising starlets Blake Lively and Chloe Moretz in an adaptation of Andrea Portes’ teen novel about a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl (Moretz) who runs away from neglectful parents and partners with a grifter named Glenda (Lively). Juliette Lewis and Eddie Redmayne also joined the cast in time for sales pitches at next week’s Cannes Film Festival.

Alec Baldwin received great notices for his role in director Derek Martini’s suburban malaise drama Lymelife. According to the Playlist blog at indieWire, Baldwin looked to repeat the success by re-teaming with Martini for his new film Hick. Baldwin joined his Lymelife costar Rory Culkin as well as rising starlets Blake Lively and Chloe Moretz in an adaptation of Andrea Portes’ teen novel about a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl (Moretz) who runs away from neglectful parents and partners with a grifter named Glenda (Lively). Juliette Lewis and Eddie Redmayne also joined the cast in time for sales pitches at next week’s Cannes Film Festival.