The Smiths are dead. That’s the news Cleo (Helena Howard) punctuates with a scream loud enough to wake everyone in Denver, Colorado but her own passed out drunk mother on the couch. So she drives to the one place she knows she’ll find a kindred spirit: the record store. Dean (Ellar Coltrane) is reading the news behind the counter as she walks in, the obvious air of depression looming above him before his boss (Thomas Lennon) stomps in to say that he needs to stop playing Morrissey and Marr’s music in memorialization since it’s always been too much of a downer. What he doesn’t realize that Cleo and Dean do, however, is that not everyone wants escapism from their art. Some seek an understanding that they aren’t alone.
That’s what this music gave a generation as its melodies became their home and saved...
That’s what this music gave a generation as its melodies became their home and saved...
- 3/24/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
AMC Networks-owned Rlje Films has swooped for U.S. rights to “Shoplifters of the World.”
Inspired by true events, “Shoplifters of the World” is set over the course of one night in the life of four friends who are reeling from the sudden dissolution of British band The Smiths. The same evening, a local radio station is also hijacked by an armed, impassioned Smiths fan, resulting in a madcap evening that sends up the spirit of the 1980s.
Starring Joe Manganiello (“Magic Mike”) as the radio DJ and Ellar Coltrane (“Boyhood”) as the hijacker, the film also stars Helena Howard (“Madeline’s Madeline”) and Elena Kampouris (“Before I Fall”). “Shoplifters of the World” is written and directed by Stephen Kijak (“We Are X”) and also features 20 tracks from The Smiths.
The U.K.’s WestEnd Films, which is handling international rights, has also sold the film into Japan (Parco), China...
Inspired by true events, “Shoplifters of the World” is set over the course of one night in the life of four friends who are reeling from the sudden dissolution of British band The Smiths. The same evening, a local radio station is also hijacked by an armed, impassioned Smiths fan, resulting in a madcap evening that sends up the spirit of the 1980s.
Starring Joe Manganiello (“Magic Mike”) as the radio DJ and Ellar Coltrane (“Boyhood”) as the hijacker, the film also stars Helena Howard (“Madeline’s Madeline”) and Elena Kampouris (“Before I Fall”). “Shoplifters of the World” is written and directed by Stephen Kijak (“We Are X”) and also features 20 tracks from The Smiths.
The U.K.’s WestEnd Films, which is handling international rights, has also sold the film into Japan (Parco), China...
- 9/14/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Screen Media is ready to pack a punch with the forthcoming mixed martial arts action film Cagefighter. The company has acquired the U.S. rights to the pic written and directed by Jesse Quinones and has slated a day and date release for October 9.
The story follows Reiss Gibbons (Alex Montagnani) who is looking to take the throne as the greatest to ever step inside the Legends cage. Reiss has it all: five title defenses under his belt, his beautiful wife Ellie (Georgia Bradner), a ball-busting agent Reggie (Elijah Baker) who has hooked him up with endless sponsorships, and the support of coach and mentor Marcus (Chuck Liddell). Things take a turn when promoter Max Black (Gina Gershon) pits him toe-to-toe against pro wrestling superstar Randy Stone (Jon Moxley) in the company’s first-ever cross-promotional event — which can very well be the toughest fight of his life.
The story follows Reiss Gibbons (Alex Montagnani) who is looking to take the throne as the greatest to ever step inside the Legends cage. Reiss has it all: five title defenses under his belt, his beautiful wife Ellie (Georgia Bradner), a ball-busting agent Reggie (Elijah Baker) who has hooked him up with endless sponsorships, and the support of coach and mentor Marcus (Chuck Liddell). Things take a turn when promoter Max Black (Gina Gershon) pits him toe-to-toe against pro wrestling superstar Randy Stone (Jon Moxley) in the company’s first-ever cross-promotional event — which can very well be the toughest fight of his life.
- 8/26/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Former WWE star Jonathan Good, aka Dean Ambrose, is joining the cast of Mma-themed action feature Cagefighter.
Currently in pre-production, the film tells the story of a lauded Mma champion who unexpectedly loses a heavily promoted match to a professional wrestling star making his crossover debut in the Mma fighting world. Humiliated by the defeat, he must fight his way back to the top and earn his place for a rematch.
Starring are real-life Mma fighter and actor Josh Herdman (Harry Potter) alongside Michael Jai White (Universal Soldier), Gina Gershon (Face/Off), Michelle Ryan (Bionic Woman), and Jason Maza (Brotherhood). Mma stars set to feature include Anderson Silva, Georges St Pierre and Alexander Gustafsson.
Jesse Quinones (Calloused Hands) directs; producers are Lorianne Hall (Shoplifters of The World) with Trilight Entertainment’s Shayne Putzlocher (Dead Shack) and Anamorphic Media’s Sara Shaak (Cold Brook). Executive producer is former WWE star Jay “Christian” Reso.
Currently in pre-production, the film tells the story of a lauded Mma champion who unexpectedly loses a heavily promoted match to a professional wrestling star making his crossover debut in the Mma fighting world. Humiliated by the defeat, he must fight his way back to the top and earn his place for a rematch.
Starring are real-life Mma fighter and actor Josh Herdman (Harry Potter) alongside Michael Jai White (Universal Soldier), Gina Gershon (Face/Off), Michelle Ryan (Bionic Woman), and Jason Maza (Brotherhood). Mma stars set to feature include Anderson Silva, Georges St Pierre and Alexander Gustafsson.
Jesse Quinones (Calloused Hands) directs; producers are Lorianne Hall (Shoplifters of The World) with Trilight Entertainment’s Shayne Putzlocher (Dead Shack) and Anamorphic Media’s Sara Shaak (Cold Brook). Executive producer is former WWE star Jay “Christian” Reso.
- 5/8/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
London-based sales agent WestEnd Films has released the first-look image for The Smiths-infused comedy-drama “Shoplifters of the World,” which Variety is publishing exclusively. WestEnd is screening footage to buyers at Berlin’s European Film Market.
Based on an urban legend, the film is set over the course of one night in the lives of four friends in Denver, who are reeling from the news of the split up of iconic British band The Smiths. The local radio station is hijacked by an impassioned Smiths fan with a gun, who makes the DJ play nothing but Smiths tracks for the entire night.
The still shows Ellar Coltrane (“Boyhood”), who plays the hijacker. Joe Manganiello plays the DJ. The cast also includes Helena Howard, Elena Kampouris, Nick Krause, and James Bloor. The film, written and directed by Stephen Kijak (“Scott Walker – 30 Century Man”), will feature 20 tracks by The Smiths.
The movie...
Based on an urban legend, the film is set over the course of one night in the lives of four friends in Denver, who are reeling from the news of the split up of iconic British band The Smiths. The local radio station is hijacked by an impassioned Smiths fan with a gun, who makes the DJ play nothing but Smiths tracks for the entire night.
The still shows Ellar Coltrane (“Boyhood”), who plays the hijacker. Joe Manganiello plays the DJ. The cast also includes Helena Howard, Elena Kampouris, Nick Krause, and James Bloor. The film, written and directed by Stephen Kijak (“Scott Walker – 30 Century Man”), will feature 20 tracks by The Smiths.
The movie...
- 2/9/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Kaleidoscope boards sports action film.
Cagefighter, Jesse Quinones’ upcoming Mma/WWE film starring Michael Jai White and Gina Gershon, has been boarded for international sales by UK outfit Kaleidoscope.
The project will shoot in the UK and Us later this year. Josh Herdman, Michelle Ryan and Jason Maza are also among the cast.
The film follows mixed martial arts champion Reiss (Herdman) who unexpectedly loses a heavily promoted match to Randy Stone, a WWE star who is making his crossover debut in the Mma fighting world.
Director Quinones is producing through his company Woolfcub Productions with Lorianne Hall and Terry Bird for Norton Place Pictures.
Cagefighter, Jesse Quinones’ upcoming Mma/WWE film starring Michael Jai White and Gina Gershon, has been boarded for international sales by UK outfit Kaleidoscope.
The project will shoot in the UK and Us later this year. Josh Herdman, Michelle Ryan and Jason Maza are also among the cast.
The film follows mixed martial arts champion Reiss (Herdman) who unexpectedly loses a heavily promoted match to Randy Stone, a WWE star who is making his crossover debut in the Mma fighting world.
Director Quinones is producing through his company Woolfcub Productions with Lorianne Hall and Terry Bird for Norton Place Pictures.
- 2/9/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Jesse Quinones directing sports action film.
Michael Jai White, Gina Gershon, Josh Herdman, Michelle Ryan and Jason Maza have boarded the cast of Cagefighter, an Mma/WWE sports drama from writer-director Jesse Quinones (Calloused Hands).
The film follows mixed martial arts champion Reiss (Herdman) who unexpectedly loses a heavily promoted match to Randy Stone, a WWE star who is making his crossover debut in the Mma fighting world. It will shoot in the UK and Us.
Director Quinones is producing through his company Woolfcub Productions with Lorianne Hall (Shoplifters Of The World) and Terry Bird for Norton Place Pictures.
Hall...
Michael Jai White, Gina Gershon, Josh Herdman, Michelle Ryan and Jason Maza have boarded the cast of Cagefighter, an Mma/WWE sports drama from writer-director Jesse Quinones (Calloused Hands).
The film follows mixed martial arts champion Reiss (Herdman) who unexpectedly loses a heavily promoted match to Randy Stone, a WWE star who is making his crossover debut in the Mma fighting world. It will shoot in the UK and Us.
Director Quinones is producing through his company Woolfcub Productions with Lorianne Hall (Shoplifters Of The World) and Terry Bird for Norton Place Pictures.
Hall...
- 1/29/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Michael Jai White (Dragged Across Concrete), Gina Gershon (Bound), Josh Herdman (Harry Potter franchise), Michelle Ryan (The Last Photograph) and Jason Maza (Welcome To The Punch) are set to star in Mma/WWE sports drama Cagefighter.
Pic revolves around mixed martial arts champion Reiss (Herdman) who unexpectedly loses a heavily promoted match. A downward spiral sends him to the brink of losing his wife (Ryan) and his best friend and agent (Maza). Deemed erratic and out of control, he alienates his long-time trainer (Jai White) and the biggest Mma promoter in the business (Gershon). He must dig deep to find a path back to victory.
Writer-director is Jesse Quinones (Calloused Hands) who himself holds a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Actor and Mma fighter Jai White holds black belts in eight different styles of martial arts and Herdman has experience as an amateur Mma fighter.
Cameos from the Mma...
Pic revolves around mixed martial arts champion Reiss (Herdman) who unexpectedly loses a heavily promoted match. A downward spiral sends him to the brink of losing his wife (Ryan) and his best friend and agent (Maza). Deemed erratic and out of control, he alienates his long-time trainer (Jai White) and the biggest Mma promoter in the business (Gershon). He must dig deep to find a path back to victory.
Writer-director is Jesse Quinones (Calloused Hands) who himself holds a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Actor and Mma fighter Jai White holds black belts in eight different styles of martial arts and Herdman has experience as an amateur Mma fighter.
Cameos from the Mma...
- 1/28/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Young’s second feature will be action thriller Stolen, a UK-South Africa co-production.
Netflix has acquired SVoD rights for all English-speaking territories for Gary Young’s British thriller Two Graves, which it will launch on the service in May 2019. Front Row has acquired Mena rights. Moviehouse Entertainment handles international sales.
Young wrote and directed Two Graves as his feature directorial debut; he previously wrote the Michael Caine-starring Harry Brown. The revenge thriller stars Katie Jarvis, Cathy Tyson, Dave Johns, David Hayman, Josh Herdman and Danielle Harold. Tyson (Mona Lisa) plays a mother trying to uncover the circumstances behind her son’s brutal death.
Netflix has acquired SVoD rights for all English-speaking territories for Gary Young’s British thriller Two Graves, which it will launch on the service in May 2019. Front Row has acquired Mena rights. Moviehouse Entertainment handles international sales.
Young wrote and directed Two Graves as his feature directorial debut; he previously wrote the Michael Caine-starring Harry Brown. The revenge thriller stars Katie Jarvis, Cathy Tyson, Dave Johns, David Hayman, Josh Herdman and Danielle Harold. Tyson (Mona Lisa) plays a mother trying to uncover the circumstances behind her son’s brutal death.
- 11/1/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Iranian animation studio Hoorakhsh will present first project ‘The Last Fiction’.
Iran’s largest independent animation studio, Hoorakhsh Studios, is launching its first feature film, The Last Fiction, as a world premiere out of competition in official selection in Annecy.
The Last Fiction is notable as Iran’s first entirely locally made animated feature, made in the country with all Iranian artists. It also marks the first fully Iranian feature to premiere at Annecy, the world’s top animation film festival.
The film’s three screenings at Annecy, kicking off with the world premiere today, have already sold out.
The Last Fiction...
Iran’s largest independent animation studio, Hoorakhsh Studios, is launching its first feature film, The Last Fiction, as a world premiere out of competition in official selection in Annecy.
The Last Fiction is notable as Iran’s first entirely locally made animated feature, made in the country with all Iranian artists. It also marks the first fully Iranian feature to premiere at Annecy, the world’s top animation film festival.
The film’s three screenings at Annecy, kicking off with the world premiere today, have already sold out.
The Last Fiction...
- 6/12/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Iranian animation studio Hoorakhsh will present first project ‘The Last Fiction’.
Iran’s largest independent animation studio, Hoorakhsh Studios, is launching its first feature film, The Last Fiction, as a world premiere out of competition in official selection in Annecy.
The Last Fiction is notable as Iran’s first entirely locally made animated feature, made in the country with all Iranian artists. It also marks the first fully Iranian feature to premiere at Annecy, the world’s top animation film festival.
The film’s three screenings at Annecy, kicking off with the world premiere today, have already sold out.
The Last Fiction...
Iran’s largest independent animation studio, Hoorakhsh Studios, is launching its first feature film, The Last Fiction, as a world premiere out of competition in official selection in Annecy.
The Last Fiction is notable as Iran’s first entirely locally made animated feature, made in the country with all Iranian artists. It also marks the first fully Iranian feature to premiere at Annecy, the world’s top animation film festival.
The film’s three screenings at Annecy, kicking off with the world premiere today, have already sold out.
The Last Fiction...
- 6/12/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: I, Daniel Blake star Dave Johns and Mona Lisa’s Cathy Tyson among cast; first-look revealed.
UK-based Moviehouse Entertainment has been appointed to handle world sales for Gary Young’s directorial feature debut Two Graves.
Young produced and wrote Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer starrer Harry Brown and most recently co-wrote Adam Randall thriller Level Up.
Also written by Young, Two Graves is being produced by Keith Bell (Harry Brown), Shantelle Rochester-Henry (The Rise Of The Krays) and Lorianne Hall (SoulBoy) and stars I, Daniel Blake’s Dave Johns, Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa), David Hayman (Taboo), Josh Herdman (Robin Hood), Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank), Danielle Harold (EastEnders) and Kedar Williams-Stirling (Roots).
The deal was negotiated by Lorianne Hall for the producers and Moviehouse Entertainment’s Mark Vennis.
Screen can also reveal the first-look at Katie Jarvis in the film.
Set in the Northeast of England, the plot is about a middle-aged, middle class doctor...
UK-based Moviehouse Entertainment has been appointed to handle world sales for Gary Young’s directorial feature debut Two Graves.
Young produced and wrote Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer starrer Harry Brown and most recently co-wrote Adam Randall thriller Level Up.
Also written by Young, Two Graves is being produced by Keith Bell (Harry Brown), Shantelle Rochester-Henry (The Rise Of The Krays) and Lorianne Hall (SoulBoy) and stars I, Daniel Blake’s Dave Johns, Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa), David Hayman (Taboo), Josh Herdman (Robin Hood), Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank), Danielle Harold (EastEnders) and Kedar Williams-Stirling (Roots).
The deal was negotiated by Lorianne Hall for the producers and Moviehouse Entertainment’s Mark Vennis.
Screen can also reveal the first-look at Katie Jarvis in the film.
Set in the Northeast of England, the plot is about a middle-aged, middle class doctor...
- 5/4/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and with June being a major production month we’ve got a slew of projects that we feel are worth signaling out. Music appears to be a common narrative theme surrounding several items – we find it infused in Once‘s John Carney’s U.S. production debut – a 10 million dollar production about a dejected music business executive forms a bond with a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan. Scarlett Johansson was formerly attached to Can a Song Save Your Life?, now Knightley appears to be on board. Rock documentary filmmaker Stephen Kijak (Stones in Exile) is looking to make his second fictional feature based on the true story of a The Smiths fans who lost his bearings when the group announced its break-up. Shoplifters of the World...
- 6/5/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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