Jake Bongiovi, budding actor and son of rocker Jon Bon Jovi, is one of three young stars who have joined the cast of the comedy “Rockbottom,” Variety can report exclusively.
Bongiovi, a considerable social media presence and native to the music space, will join McKaley Miller (“Ma”) and Teala Dunn (“Crush”) in the feature project from writer-director and SFX makeup guru Todd Tucker (“The Terror of Hallow’s Eve”). The actors will orbit lead Tom Everett Scott.
Tucker’s script, co-written with Greg Zekowski, follows 1980s hair metal band CougarSnake, whose career ended just as it was starting due to clashes over the direction of the group. In the present day, a mention of the band in an interview by Billboard-charting, Gen-z music star Bryce Cooper (Brandon Butler), whose absentee father introduced him to CougarSnake as a child, creates a frenzy to find the members of the group and reunite them...
Bongiovi, a considerable social media presence and native to the music space, will join McKaley Miller (“Ma”) and Teala Dunn (“Crush”) in the feature project from writer-director and SFX makeup guru Todd Tucker (“The Terror of Hallow’s Eve”). The actors will orbit lead Tom Everett Scott.
Tucker’s script, co-written with Greg Zekowski, follows 1980s hair metal band CougarSnake, whose career ended just as it was starting due to clashes over the direction of the group. In the present day, a mention of the band in an interview by Billboard-charting, Gen-z music star Bryce Cooper (Brandon Butler), whose absentee father introduced him to CougarSnake as a child, creates a frenzy to find the members of the group and reunite them...
- 2/16/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Jewish non-profit Reboot has launched its own production company Reboot Studios, which will provide seed funding for and develop Jewish content across theater, television, film, podcasts, music and publishing.
The new banner stems from Reboot’s past successes funding projects across all media, including Saturday Night Seder, with Jason Alexander, Billy Porter, Henry Winkler, Pamela Adlon, Cynthia Erivo and more. That virtual Passover production was put on as a means of bolstering the CDC Foundation’s Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund in the early days of the pandemic, and would ultimately raise more than 2.9M.
Reboot Studios’ advisory board, comprised of distinguished industry leaders and creators who will be actively shepherding and guiding projects, includes Showtime’s EVP of Scripted Programming, Amy Israel; Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Golden Globe Award-winning songwriter Benj Pasek (Dear Evan Hansen); Searchlight Pictures President David Greenbaum; Amblin Partners’ President of Production Jeb Brody; Tony...
The new banner stems from Reboot’s past successes funding projects across all media, including Saturday Night Seder, with Jason Alexander, Billy Porter, Henry Winkler, Pamela Adlon, Cynthia Erivo and more. That virtual Passover production was put on as a means of bolstering the CDC Foundation’s Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund in the early days of the pandemic, and would ultimately raise more than 2.9M.
Reboot Studios’ advisory board, comprised of distinguished industry leaders and creators who will be actively shepherding and guiding projects, includes Showtime’s EVP of Scripted Programming, Amy Israel; Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Golden Globe Award-winning songwriter Benj Pasek (Dear Evan Hansen); Searchlight Pictures President David Greenbaum; Amblin Partners’ President of Production Jeb Brody; Tony...
- 6/28/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The web series “Dispatches From Quarantine” — which has been chronicling the coronavirus quarantines of famous entertainers as they stay at home — featured what turned out to be Carl Reiner’s final interview. In it, the 98-year-old Reiner, who died Monday, talks about his love of comedy, meeting his wife and having kids, and creating the “Dick Van Dyke Show,” which he calls “my best work.”
He also talks about meeting Mel Brooks for the first time on “Your Show of Shows.” It was a friendship that endured: During quarantine, Reiner says of Brooks, “He comes every night. We watch ‘Jeopardy,’ among other things. We watch movies we remember fondly, you know, old-time movies.”
On Tuesday, Brooks tweeted about Reiner’s death:
pic.twitter.com/QbycBcRzFo
— Mel Brooks (@MelBrooks) June 30, 2020
“Dispatches From Quarantine” was created by Tiffany Woolf and Noam Dromi for Silver Screen Studios and Reboot, and has also featured interviews with Ellen Burstyn,...
He also talks about meeting Mel Brooks for the first time on “Your Show of Shows.” It was a friendship that endured: During quarantine, Reiner says of Brooks, “He comes every night. We watch ‘Jeopardy,’ among other things. We watch movies we remember fondly, you know, old-time movies.”
On Tuesday, Brooks tweeted about Reiner’s death:
pic.twitter.com/QbycBcRzFo
— Mel Brooks (@MelBrooks) June 30, 2020
“Dispatches From Quarantine” was created by Tiffany Woolf and Noam Dromi for Silver Screen Studios and Reboot, and has also featured interviews with Ellen Burstyn,...
- 6/30/2020
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The actor is going from the supernatural on the small screen to the controversial world of cults on the big screen. Orlando Jones and his Drive-By Entertainment partner Noam Dromi have optioned the rights to cult deprogrammer Ted Patrick’s story. Jones and Dromi intend to write the screenplay as a starring vehicle for the actor who is currently finishing up his second season as Captain Frank Irving on the Fox hit Sleepy Hollow. Jones and Dromi will produce the feature with docu filmmaker Tracy Funches. . Prominent in the 1970s, Patrick was known as the “father of deprogramming” and seen as savior to many parents who had seemingly lost their children to cults. The Special Assistant for Community Relations for then Governor Ronald Reagan, the civil rights activist’s life was upended when his 14 year-old son was nearly converted by the Children of God cult. Subsequently, Patrick reached out...
- 2/6/2015
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline
Chicago – As a refreshing departure from the snarky, shrill and soulless time wasters passing for children’s entertainment these days, this wholesome, fact-based drama works perfectly well. It captures some of the innocence and warmth that characterized ’60s-era Disney fare, as well as the blandness and exceedingly high cheese factor.
What initially steered me away from this picture was its awful marketing campaign, which made the film seem as if it were a retread of the “Blind Side” formula: sunny white family helps transform a damaged creature into an inspirational beacon. It’s a sad fact that the titular animal in “Dolphin Tale” has more personality than Michael Oher in “The Blind Side,” which surely stands as one of the worst films ever to be nominated for Best Picture.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.0/5.0
Yet while “The Blind Side” was a smugly self-aggrandizing bore celebrating the tolerance of a Southern conservative mamma grizzly,...
What initially steered me away from this picture was its awful marketing campaign, which made the film seem as if it were a retread of the “Blind Side” formula: sunny white family helps transform a damaged creature into an inspirational beacon. It’s a sad fact that the titular animal in “Dolphin Tale” has more personality than Michael Oher in “The Blind Side,” which surely stands as one of the worst films ever to be nominated for Best Picture.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.0/5.0
Yet while “The Blind Side” was a smugly self-aggrandizing bore celebrating the tolerance of a Southern conservative mamma grizzly,...
- 1/4/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
TheMoviePool got the chance to check out Dolphin Tale on Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack, in order to help you decide whether or not this is the right movie to pick up for your family this holiday season.
The Basics
Here’s the officiall synopsis:
"Dolphin Tale" is inspired by the amazing true story of a brave dolphin and the compassionate strangers who banded together to save her life. Swimming free, a young dolphin is caught in a crab trap, severely damaging her tail. She is rescued and transported to the Clearwater Marine Hospital, where she is named Winter. But her fight for survival has just begun. Without a tail, Winter's prognosis is dire. It will take the expertise of a dedicated marine biologist, the ingenuity of a brilliant prosthetics doctor, and the unwavering devotion of a young boy to bring about a groundbreaking miracle--a miracle that might not only...
The Basics
Here’s the officiall synopsis:
"Dolphin Tale" is inspired by the amazing true story of a brave dolphin and the compassionate strangers who banded together to save her life. Swimming free, a young dolphin is caught in a crab trap, severely damaging her tail. She is rescued and transported to the Clearwater Marine Hospital, where she is named Winter. But her fight for survival has just begun. Without a tail, Winter's prognosis is dire. It will take the expertise of a dedicated marine biologist, the ingenuity of a brilliant prosthetics doctor, and the unwavering devotion of a young boy to bring about a groundbreaking miracle--a miracle that might not only...
- 12/16/2011
- by solidstudios@ymail.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
Chicago – Charles Martin Smith has had a varied career as an actor and a director. He was one of the famous ensemble cast members of “American Graffiti,” directed by George Lucas, and broke out himself as a director in the mid-1980s. His latest work as a filmmaker was one of last week’s big box office hits, “Dolphin Tale.”
“Dolphin Tale” is the based-on-truth story of Winter (who plays herself), a female dolphin who lost her tail as a result of a fisherman’s trap. In the film she is discovered by a young boy (Nathan Gamble), is nursed back to health by a marine institute headed by Dr. Clay (Harry Connick Jr.) and fitted for a prosthetic tale by Dr. Cameron McCarthy (Morgan Freeman). The ensemble cast also includes Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson and Frances Sternhagen.
Charles Martin Smith, Director of ‘Dolphin Tale’
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.
“Dolphin Tale” is the based-on-truth story of Winter (who plays herself), a female dolphin who lost her tail as a result of a fisherman’s trap. In the film she is discovered by a young boy (Nathan Gamble), is nursed back to health by a marine institute headed by Dr. Clay (Harry Connick Jr.) and fitted for a prosthetic tale by Dr. Cameron McCarthy (Morgan Freeman). The ensemble cast also includes Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson and Frances Sternhagen.
Charles Martin Smith, Director of ‘Dolphin Tale’
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.
- 9/29/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Morgan Freeman, Dolphin Tale Morgan Freeman Accuses Tea Party of Racism: Dolphin Tale Box Office Affected? As for Morgan Freeman's remarks affecting Dolphin Tale's box office results on opening weekend, Kosove wrote Deadline.com's Nikki Finke that he did "not believe it affected Dolphin Tale's gross by even one dollar!" Kosove then proceeded to distance himself from Freeman's remarks, stating that "I do not share Morgan’s view and do not believe this kind of harsh partianship [sic] by either end of politcal spectrum is helpful in these very difficult times." He then added that "as a person who has some libertarian viewpoints myself," he "strongly" believed in Freeman's "right to express whatever beliefs he has on any topic." He ended his comment with the usual "this is a free country." Of course, whatever actually happened behind closed doors at Alcon and Warner Bros. may have been something else altogether,...
- 9/26/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Chicago – In the tradition of live-action Disney films of another era, “Dolphin Tale” wears its heart on its sleeve, while at the same time using the characters as two-dimensional window dressing around a based-on-truth story of humans and an animal bonding together to inspire a nation.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
The truth is real – a dolphin named Winter accidently loses her tail, and without it faces a handicap that could lead to her demise. Dolphin Tale creates a fiction around that fact and has a boy bond with the animal, leading the adults to help her regain momentum. The film’s strength lies in using the real dolphin to illustrate its own journey and what she represents to inspire humans who have lost their limbs. The weakness is trying to shoehorn a number of well-intentioned fictional roles around her, who don’t accentuate much about the truth, and follow character roadmaps that have been seen before.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
The truth is real – a dolphin named Winter accidently loses her tail, and without it faces a handicap that could lead to her demise. Dolphin Tale creates a fiction around that fact and has a boy bond with the animal, leading the adults to help her regain momentum. The film’s strength lies in using the real dolphin to illustrate its own journey and what she represents to inspire humans who have lost their limbs. The weakness is trying to shoehorn a number of well-intentioned fictional roles around her, who don’t accentuate much about the truth, and follow character roadmaps that have been seen before.
- 9/24/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Not all family films are created equal. This one was inspired by the remarkable real-life story of a dolphin named Winter who washed ashore in Florida, had to have its tail amputated, and taught itself to swim even without the appendage. As it turns out, that wasn’t the end of Winter’s challenges. Karen Janszen and Noam Dromi have built a screenplay around that true story that draws on familiar Hollywood-movie tropes, but plays well just the same. A likable young actor named Nathan Gamble plays a lonely boy, being raised by single mom Ashley Judd, who helps rescue Winter and…...
- 9/23/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Sometimes you need a break from blood-sucking creatures of the night and bone-crunching martial artists. On the gentle, more humane side of life, Dolphin Tale strikes a good balance, appealing to young people without pandering and keeping their parents engaged without insulting them. It dramatizes the real-life story of a dolphin that loses her tail fin and the efforts by humans to help her. So, yes, this is a tale about a tail. Directed by Charles Martin Smith (Cotton Candy) without fuss or fancy, from a original screenplay by Karen Janszen and Noam Dromi, Dolphin Tale introduces the titular creature by way of 11-year-old Sawyer (Nathan Gamble), a quiet, withdrawn boy who is forced to attend summer school after failing most of his classes. He...
- 9/22/2011
- Screen Anarchy
From Flipper to Day Of The Dolphin, filmgoers have been fascinated with our friends of the deep blue sea. In honor of these marine mammals, Wamg has passes for Warner Bros. Pictures new family adventure Dolphin Tale.
The screening is on Saturday, September 17 at 10 am at Ronnies. Each pass is good for a family (4-pack).
This film has been rated PG for mild thematic elements.
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area The Day Of The Screening.
2. Fill Out Your Name And E-mail Address Below. Real First Name Required.
3. Tell us your favorite “water mammal film” and why.
Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary. Passes Will Not Be Substituted Or Exchanged.
Anyone Caught Reprinting Tickets For Distribution Will Be Banned From Our Contests! Duplicate Tickets Will Not Be Accepted!
Dolphin Tale
In 3D and 2D in select theaters on...
The screening is on Saturday, September 17 at 10 am at Ronnies. Each pass is good for a family (4-pack).
This film has been rated PG for mild thematic elements.
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area The Day Of The Screening.
2. Fill Out Your Name And E-mail Address Below. Real First Name Required.
3. Tell us your favorite “water mammal film” and why.
Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary. Passes Will Not Be Substituted Or Exchanged.
Anyone Caught Reprinting Tickets For Distribution Will Be Banned From Our Contests! Duplicate Tickets Will Not Be Accepted!
Dolphin Tale
In 3D and 2D in select theaters on...
- 9/8/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Well, I'm done being sentimental for the week. Summer 2011 was awesome, but you know what's better? Fall 2011. Almost Fifty films are releasing this fall, and most of them look to be very, very promising. This is the time of the year when the excellent Oscar bait hits the screen, in addition to numerous action films attempting to capture the box office glory of Avatar or Titanic. Basically, there's something for everyone this fall. Whether you're a hardcore movie buff or just an occasional movie watcher, Fall 2011 is a fine time to be a filmgoer! Hell, even the usual dump month of September looks pretty damn awesome! So without further ado, here's Tmp's Fall 2011 Movie Guide for September!
Apollo 18
Release: August 26 (Wide)
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror
Rated: PG-13
Synopsis: A covered up mission to the moon that occurred in the 1970's is revealed in this sci-fi horror.
Cast: Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen,...
Apollo 18
Release: August 26 (Wide)
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror
Rated: PG-13
Synopsis: A covered up mission to the moon that occurred in the 1970's is revealed in this sci-fi horror.
Cast: Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen,...
- 9/8/2011
- Cinelinx
Gwyneth Paltrow as Beth Emhoff in Warner Bros. Pictures’ thriller “Contagion,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Claudette Barius
Warner Bros. Pictures has sent us a preview, along with new photos, of their 2011 Fall / Holiday movies – along with a first look at some new images. Most noticable among the list are award season potentials Contagion from Steven Soderbergh, Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, and Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
Matt Damon as Mitch Emhoff in Warner Bros. Pictures’ thriller “Contagion,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Claudette Barius
Contagion
In theaters and IMAX on September 9
(Warner Bros. Pictures/Participant Media/Imagenation Abu Dhabi)
Jude Law as Alan Krumwlede in Warner Bros. Pictures’ thriller “Contagion,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Claudette Barius
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Z. Burns
Producers: Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Gregory Jacobs
Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll,...
Warner Bros. Pictures has sent us a preview, along with new photos, of their 2011 Fall / Holiday movies – along with a first look at some new images. Most noticable among the list are award season potentials Contagion from Steven Soderbergh, Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, and Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
Matt Damon as Mitch Emhoff in Warner Bros. Pictures’ thriller “Contagion,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Claudette Barius
Contagion
In theaters and IMAX on September 9
(Warner Bros. Pictures/Participant Media/Imagenation Abu Dhabi)
Jude Law as Alan Krumwlede in Warner Bros. Pictures’ thriller “Contagion,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Claudette Barius
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Z. Burns
Producers: Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Gregory Jacobs
Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll,...
- 8/10/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The featurette for the film “Dolphin Tale” has been released. The film is an inspiring story about the friendship of a boy and a dolphin whose tale was destroyed in a crab trap. The story, which features the injured dolphin receiving a prosthetic tail, is based on a real-life event. The film stars Harry Connick, Jr., Morgan Freeman (“Million Dollar Baby”), Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, Ray McKinnon, Nathan Gamble, Austin Stowell, and Marc Macauley. The dolphin, named Winter, plays herself in the film. The film, directed by Charles Martin Smith from a screenplay by Karen Janszen and Noam Dromi, was filmed on location in Florida, including Winter’s home, the Clearwater...
- 6/7/2011
- by monique
- ShockYa
No one likes to think about the fact that they'll be old someday. And nowhere is this more endemic than in the Lgbt community – we're too busy being fabulous and fierce and fighting for long-overdue rights to think about the distant future. In our youth-oriented culture, we don't ask ourselves who will take care of us when the time comes? Where will I live? Have I saved enough money for retirement? Am I too old to wear this slouchie hat? (If you're even wondering, the answer is yes.)
Gay and lesbians elders face unique challenges when it comes to senior housing, especially if they're alone, or living with HIV, or estranged from their families. For the Stonewall generation, moving to a senior living facility could also mean having to go back into the closet.
The award-winning 2008 documentary, A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square, which is now available on DVD,...
Gay and lesbians elders face unique challenges when it comes to senior housing, especially if they're alone, or living with HIV, or estranged from their families. For the Stonewall generation, moving to a senior living facility could also mean having to go back into the closet.
The award-winning 2008 documentary, A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square, which is now available on DVD,...
- 3/14/2011
- by Dara Nai
- The Backlot
No one likes to think about the fact that they'll be old someday. And nowhere is this more endemic than in the Lgbt community – we're too busy being fabulous and fierce and fighting for long-overdue rights to think about the distant future. In our youth-oriented culture, we don't ask ourselves who will take care of us when the time comes? Where will I live? Have I saved enough money for retirement? Am I too old to wear this slouchie hat? (If you're even wondering, the answer is yes.)
Gay and lesbians elders face unique challenges when it comes to senior housing, especially if they're alone, or living with HIV, or estranged from their families. For the Stonewall generation, moving to a senior living facility could also mean having to go back into the closet.
The award-winning 2008 documentary, A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square, which is now available on DVD,...
Gay and lesbians elders face unique challenges when it comes to senior housing, especially if they're alone, or living with HIV, or estranged from their families. For the Stonewall generation, moving to a senior living facility could also mean having to go back into the closet.
The award-winning 2008 documentary, A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square, which is now available on DVD,...
- 3/8/2011
- by Dara Nai
- AfterEllen.com
Warner Bros. Pictures has sent us this preview press kit of their upcoming film from January 2011 through December 2011. Most noticeably were the new photos from Sherlock Holmes 2, The Hangover Part II and Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
Film Descriptions
The Rite
In theaters on January 28
(Warner Bros. Pictures/New Line)
Director: Mikael Håfström
Writers: Michael Petroni
Suggested by the book by Matt Baglio
Producers: Beau Flynn & Tripp Vinson
Executive Producers: Richard Brener, Merideth Finn, Robert Bernacchi
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciarán Hinds, Rutger Hauer
Psychological Thriller. Inspired by true events, “The Rite” follows skeptical seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O’Donoghue), who reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.
Film Descriptions
The Rite
In theaters on January 28
(Warner Bros. Pictures/New Line)
Director: Mikael Håfström
Writers: Michael Petroni
Suggested by the book by Matt Baglio
Producers: Beau Flynn & Tripp Vinson
Executive Producers: Richard Brener, Merideth Finn, Robert Bernacchi
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciarán Hinds, Rutger Hauer
Psychological Thriller. Inspired by true events, “The Rite” follows skeptical seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O’Donoghue), who reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.
- 11/24/2010
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
They previously worked together on serial killer thriller "Kiss the Girls" and military courtroom drama "High Crimes". Now, Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman are in negotiations to team for a third time in the 3D inspirational animal tale "Dolphin Tale" at Warner Bros. Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.
The project is inspired by the true story of a dolphin named Winter who was rescued off the Florida coast. The film will follow a boy who befriends an injured dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap.
The boy motivates everyone around him to help save the dolphin by creating a prosthetic appendage to replace its tail, and the mammal's strong survival instincts become an inspiration to people with special needs.
Judd plays the boy's mother while Freeman is a doctor who creates a prosthetic limb for Winter. Harry Connick Jr. is in talks to play a vet who rescues the mammal.
The project is inspired by the true story of a dolphin named Winter who was rescued off the Florida coast. The film will follow a boy who befriends an injured dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap.
The boy motivates everyone around him to help save the dolphin by creating a prosthetic appendage to replace its tail, and the mammal's strong survival instincts become an inspiration to people with special needs.
Judd plays the boy's mother while Freeman is a doctor who creates a prosthetic limb for Winter. Harry Connick Jr. is in talks to play a vet who rescues the mammal.
- 8/5/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman are in talks to take the leads in "Dolphin Tale," a 3D family drama about a young boy who rescues an injured dolphin off the Florida coast. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Charles Martin Smith will direct for Warner Bros. with Alcon Entertainment producing. Karen Janszen (“AWalk to Rember”) wrote the screenplay from an original treatment by Noam Dromi. Connick Jr. would play a vet who helps rescue the dolphin Judd would play the boy’s mother and Freeman a doctor who creates an artificial limb for the dolphin who has lost its tail in an accident.
- 8/5/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr. and Ashley Judd are in negotiations to star in "Dolphin Tale," Warner Bros.-based Alcon Entertainment's inspirational animal tale being directed by Charles Martin Smith.
The movie will be a 3D release, perhaps becoming the first family film in this current climate of 3D frenzy to go with the format.
"Dolphin" is inspired by the true story of a dolphin named Winter who was rescued off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
The movie version centers on a boy who befriends an injured dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap. Through their bond and friendship, the boy motivates everyone around him to help save the dolphin by creating a prosthetic appendage to replace the dolphin's tail. The marine mammal's strong survival instincts become an inspiration to people with special needs throughout the world.
Connick Jr. plays a...
The movie will be a 3D release, perhaps becoming the first family film in this current climate of 3D frenzy to go with the format.
"Dolphin" is inspired by the true story of a dolphin named Winter who was rescued off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
The movie version centers on a boy who befriends an injured dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap. Through their bond and friendship, the boy motivates everyone around him to help save the dolphin by creating a prosthetic appendage to replace the dolphin's tail. The marine mammal's strong survival instincts become an inspiration to people with special needs throughout the world.
Connick Jr. plays a...
- 8/4/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Alcon Entertainment has greenlit the children.s film "Dolphin Tale." According to Variety, Charles Martin Smith ("Air Bud") will direct from a script by Karen Janszen ("A Walk to Remember"). Smith and Jordan Roberts ("March of the Penguins") did a rewrite. The original treatment was written by Noam Dromi.Alcon.s Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson and Richard Ingber will produce.The film is based on the true story of Winter the dolphin and the young boy who befriends her after she loses her tail in a crab trap.Winter will play herself in the movie, which will film in Florida at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium where Winter lives. The story will focus on the boy inspiring those around him to help save the dolphin...
- 7/21/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Going from inspirational sports stories like "The Blind Side" to inspirational animal stories, Warner Bros.-based Alcon Entertainment is tapping Charles Martin Smith to write and direct "A Dolphin's Tale."
"Dolphin" is inspired by the true story of a dolphin named Winter who was rescued off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
The movie version centers on a boy who befriends an injured dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap. Through their bond and friendship, the boy motivates everyone around him to help save the dolphin by creating a prosthetic appendage to replace the dolphin's tail. The marine mammal's strong survival instincts become an inspiration to people with special needs throughout the world.
Alcon, run by co-founders and co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, will finance and co-produce with Alcon marketing president Richard Ingber.
Ingber saw the story on NBC's "Today" and tracked down the rights,...
"Dolphin" is inspired by the true story of a dolphin named Winter who was rescued off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
The movie version centers on a boy who befriends an injured dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap. Through their bond and friendship, the boy motivates everyone around him to help save the dolphin by creating a prosthetic appendage to replace the dolphin's tail. The marine mammal's strong survival instincts become an inspiration to people with special needs throughout the world.
Alcon, run by co-founders and co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, will finance and co-produce with Alcon marketing president Richard Ingber.
Ingber saw the story on NBC's "Today" and tracked down the rights,...
- 12/8/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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