“Goldilocks and the Two Bears”, written and directed by Jeff Lipsky, stars Claire Milligan, Bryan Mittelstadt and Serra Maiman, opening July 5, 2024 in theaters:
“…the film is a tale of two young people, hitchhiking and homeless travelers who’ve all but given up on futures that might have been glorious…
“…who are discovered by another young woman on the run from her own demons, at an empty condo she is moving into.
“An unexpected relationship develops between the trio that brings with it both the promise of a fresh new start for each of them. However, the harrowing possibility of something darker looms…”
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“…the film is a tale of two young people, hitchhiking and homeless travelers who’ve all but given up on futures that might have been glorious…
“…who are discovered by another young woman on the run from her own demons, at an empty condo she is moving into.
“An unexpected relationship develops between the trio that brings with it both the promise of a fresh new start for each of them. However, the harrowing possibility of something darker looms…”
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- 4/18/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
With CBS in “accelerated development” on “The Gates,” which, if picked up to series, would become the network’s first new daytime soap opera since launching “The Bold and the Beautiful” in 1987, many in the entertainment industry have questioned what that means for “The Talk,” the daytime talk show that replaced the long-running drama series “As The World Turns,” which concluded its run after more than 54 years on the network in September 2010.
Currently in its 14th season, “The Talk” ranks as the third most watched daytime talk show, behind only ABC’s “The View” and syndicated talker “Live with Kelly and Mark.” Despite that, the show is currently down double digits among Total Viewers and the key Women 18-49 sales demographic, often ranking at the bottom half in both categories among all daytime broadcast shows and has remained CBS’ least-watched and lowest-rated daytime series overall since it premiered in October 2010.
In a report by Deadline,...
Currently in its 14th season, “The Talk” ranks as the third most watched daytime talk show, behind only ABC’s “The View” and syndicated talker “Live with Kelly and Mark.” Despite that, the show is currently down double digits among Total Viewers and the key Women 18-49 sales demographic, often ranking at the bottom half in both categories among all daytime broadcast shows and has remained CBS’ least-watched and lowest-rated daytime series overall since it premiered in October 2010.
In a report by Deadline,...
- 3/16/2024
- by Errol Lewis
- Soap Opera Network
Exclusive: Celebrating his 50th year as an indie filmmaker and distributor, Jeff Lipsky is prepping the release of his eighth feature as director. Goldilocks and the Two Bears is due to open domestically via Glass Half Full Media in July for a limited theatrical run, followed by a general release in late summer/early fall. Check out an exclusive clip above.
Goldilocks introduces a trio of new actors: Claire Milligan, Serra Naiman and Bryan Mittelstadt. It’s directed and written by Lipsky, produced by longtime collaborator Nick Athas and shot by Zak Ray with production sound mixed by Caleb Mose (O.J.: Made in America).
Filmed entirely in Las Vegas, the movie centers on a man and a woman – travelers who’ve all but given up on futures that might have been glorious. When a stranger enters their midst, a woman on the run from her own demons, the...
Goldilocks introduces a trio of new actors: Claire Milligan, Serra Naiman and Bryan Mittelstadt. It’s directed and written by Lipsky, produced by longtime collaborator Nick Athas and shot by Zak Ray with production sound mixed by Caleb Mose (O.J.: Made in America).
Filmed entirely in Las Vegas, the movie centers on a man and a woman – travelers who’ve all but given up on futures that might have been glorious. When a stranger enters their midst, a woman on the run from her own demons, the...
- 3/14/2024
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Snake Oil’ Host and Producer David Spade (Photo © 2023 Jeff Lipsky/Fox)
Fox’s fall 2023 primetime schedule is all about game shows, animated comedies, and unscripted series. With the Writers Guild on strike and the possibility of an actors strike looming on the horizon, Fox has come up with a lineup that’s pretty much protected from work stoppages.
September 2023’s schedule includes the series premieres of the game show Snake Oil hosted by David Spade and the animated series Krapopolis from Emmy Award-winner Dan Harmon. The Masked Singer returns for season 10 along with new seasons of the music-driven competitions Name That Tune and I Can See Your Voice. Fox’s fall roster also includes new seasons of Kitchen Nightmares, Hell’s Kitchen, Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, and Lego Masters.
The network’s Animation Domination block kicks off on October 1st with Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, and The Simpsons.
Fox Fall 2023 Premiere Dates Tuesday,...
Fox’s fall 2023 primetime schedule is all about game shows, animated comedies, and unscripted series. With the Writers Guild on strike and the possibility of an actors strike looming on the horizon, Fox has come up with a lineup that’s pretty much protected from work stoppages.
September 2023’s schedule includes the series premieres of the game show Snake Oil hosted by David Spade and the animated series Krapopolis from Emmy Award-winner Dan Harmon. The Masked Singer returns for season 10 along with new seasons of the music-driven competitions Name That Tune and I Can See Your Voice. Fox’s fall roster also includes new seasons of Kitchen Nightmares, Hell’s Kitchen, Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, and Lego Masters.
The network’s Animation Domination block kicks off on October 1st with Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, and The Simpsons.
Fox Fall 2023 Premiere Dates Tuesday,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Exclusive: Production has just concluded on Jeff Lipsky’s latest feature, Goldilocks and the Two Bears. This is the eighth film directed by the veteran indie executive and filmmaker, and the seventh he’s written.
Billed as a “sexy, dark saga,” it centers on three unique strangers who encounter one another in an unoccupied condominium, seven miles from the Las Vegas Strip. In the ensuing eight days they discover how much they actually have in common, and begin to wonder whether they might be each other’s salvation. By the shocking conclusion Ingrid, Ian and Ivy will prove to be a trio of unforgettable characters.
Newcomers Claire Milligan, Bryan Mittelstadt and Serra Naiman anchor the ensemble cast.
The entire feature was shot in and around Vegas. Lipsky recalls, “I filmed some of my first film, Childhood’s End, at the once-legendary Stardust so it’s a little bit like coming full circle for me.
Billed as a “sexy, dark saga,” it centers on three unique strangers who encounter one another in an unoccupied condominium, seven miles from the Las Vegas Strip. In the ensuing eight days they discover how much they actually have in common, and begin to wonder whether they might be each other’s salvation. By the shocking conclusion Ingrid, Ian and Ivy will prove to be a trio of unforgettable characters.
Newcomers Claire Milligan, Bryan Mittelstadt and Serra Naiman anchor the ensemble cast.
The entire feature was shot in and around Vegas. Lipsky recalls, “I filmed some of my first film, Childhood’s End, at the once-legendary Stardust so it’s a little bit like coming full circle for me.
- 10/19/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Veteran indie executive and filmmaker Jeff Lipsky is hooking up with Kino Lorber to launch The Jeff Lipsky Collection on growing streaming service Kino Now. The collection, which becomes available on March 5, will include five out of seven of Lipsky’s directing efforts dating from 2006-2019. Other filmmakers who are similarly represented with Kino Now Auteur Collections include Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller, Derek Jarman, István Szabó and F.W. Murnau.
On the Lipsky roster are Flannel Pajamas (2006), a relationship story co-starring Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk; family drama Twelve Thirty (2011), starring Jonathan Groff; surreal comedy Molly’s Theory Of Relativity (2013) with Sophia Takal and Lawrence Michael Levine; character study Mad Women (2015), co-starring Reed Birney and Jamie Harrold; and Holocaust-themed family drama The Last (2019), starring Rebecca Schull. Lipsky hopes to add his first film, 1997’s The End, to the collection as soon as its restoration is complete.
Says Lipsky, “Being inducted...
On the Lipsky roster are Flannel Pajamas (2006), a relationship story co-starring Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk; family drama Twelve Thirty (2011), starring Jonathan Groff; surreal comedy Molly’s Theory Of Relativity (2013) with Sophia Takal and Lawrence Michael Levine; character study Mad Women (2015), co-starring Reed Birney and Jamie Harrold; and Holocaust-themed family drama The Last (2019), starring Rebecca Schull. Lipsky hopes to add his first film, 1997’s The End, to the collection as soon as its restoration is complete.
Says Lipsky, “Being inducted...
- 2/15/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Jeff Lipsky’s Glass Half Full Media has acquired all U.S. rights for Emma Dante’s “The Macaluso Sisters,” which world premiered in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Represented in international markets by Charades, the movie is also being featured in the Flash Forward section of the Busan Film Festial.
“The Macaluso Sisters” opened in Italian theaters on Sept. 10 and has reached over 68,000 admissions to date. Glass Half Full plans to release the ensemble drama in theaters next spring.
The film tells the story of a tight-knit family of five orphaned sisters living in an apartment in Palermo, Sicily. The film follows them at three different stages of their lives: as they holiday together, grow apart, and ultimately reconnect at just the right moments.
“While only Ms. Dante’s second film, ‘Macaluso’ is the work of an exquisitely mature filmmaker. I was utterly swept away by...
Represented in international markets by Charades, the movie is also being featured in the Flash Forward section of the Busan Film Festial.
“The Macaluso Sisters” opened in Italian theaters on Sept. 10 and has reached over 68,000 admissions to date. Glass Half Full plans to release the ensemble drama in theaters next spring.
The film tells the story of a tight-knit family of five orphaned sisters living in an apartment in Palermo, Sicily. The film follows them at three different stages of their lives: as they holiday together, grow apart, and ultimately reconnect at just the right moments.
“While only Ms. Dante’s second film, ‘Macaluso’ is the work of an exquisitely mature filmmaker. I was utterly swept away by...
- 10/26/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.
Relationship dramas have been done and redone so many times over that the premise of “Flannel Pajamas” may sound untenable, but give it time, and Jeff Lipsky’s talky romance finds its purpose. When indie distribution maverick-turned-filmmaker Lipsky’s 2006 sophomore feature premiered in U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance, it coincided with the early stirrings of lo-fi American cinema later dubbed “mumblecore,” and at first blush may look a lot less ambitious. A two-hour chronicle of lovebirds Nicole (Julianne Nicholson) and Stuart (Justin Kirk), the movie sees the pair finding immediate chemistry on a blind date, vibing with their respective families, and speeding into an ill-advised marriage that gradually disintegrates from the moment it begins. All along, they talk, talk, talk — enough...
Relationship dramas have been done and redone so many times over that the premise of “Flannel Pajamas” may sound untenable, but give it time, and Jeff Lipsky’s talky romance finds its purpose. When indie distribution maverick-turned-filmmaker Lipsky’s 2006 sophomore feature premiered in U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance, it coincided with the early stirrings of lo-fi American cinema later dubbed “mumblecore,” and at first blush may look a lot less ambitious. A two-hour chronicle of lovebirds Nicole (Julianne Nicholson) and Stuart (Justin Kirk), the movie sees the pair finding immediate chemistry on a blind date, vibing with their respective families, and speeding into an ill-advised marriage that gradually disintegrates from the moment it begins. All along, they talk, talk, talk — enough...
- 4/6/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
In August 2018, Jakiw Palij — a former concentration camp guard identified as “the last known World War II Nazi living in the U.S.” — was deported to his homeland, fully 15 years after a federal court had stripped him of his citizenship. No country, not even Germany, wanted to accept him, and so he remained in America until Trump booted him out last year.
But was Palij, who died in January, really the last of his kind? What if there were others? What if it turned out that there was a Nazi living undetected in your own family? These are but some of the head-scratching questions in Jeff Lipsky’s “The Last,” the latest wall-to-wall talkathon from the hyper-literate writer-director, a former independent film distributor who began his career as an advocate for other tough-sell voices and has become somewhat prolific making a frustratingly amateurish kind of low-budget feature.
Like a highbrow...
But was Palij, who died in January, really the last of his kind? What if there were others? What if it turned out that there was a Nazi living undetected in your own family? These are but some of the head-scratching questions in Jeff Lipsky’s “The Last,” the latest wall-to-wall talkathon from the hyper-literate writer-director, a former independent film distributor who began his career as an advocate for other tough-sell voices and has become somewhat prolific making a frustratingly amateurish kind of low-budget feature.
Like a highbrow...
- 3/29/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The Last Plainview Pictures Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net with Rotten Tomatoes link by: Harvey Karten Director: Jeff Lipsky Screenwriter: Jeff Lipsky Cast: Rebecca Schull, Jill Durso, Aj Cedeño, Reed Birney Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 3/16/19 Opens: March 29, 2019 Prospective viewers take note. “The Last” features a story that would play better on […]
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- 3/24/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Exclusive: Veteran indie executive Jeff Lipsky, who launched distribution consulting firm Glass Half Full Media in 2017, returns to theaters as director/writer this spring with The Last, and we have the first clip (check it out above).
The Last is Lipsky’s 7th feature and is a Holocaust-themed family drama. It tells the story of a modern Orthodox Jewish family whose sense of identity is shattered when its beloved matriarch, played by Rebecca Schull, reveals her true lineage, and what she did during the war. The film co-stars Jill Durso, Aj Cedeño, Julie Fain Lawrence and Tony Award-winner and frequent Lipsky collaborator, Reed Birney.
Produced by Michael Goitanich, and executive produced by Nick Athas. The Last will be released by Glass Half Full Media in domestic theaters on March 29.
Lipsky is the respected co-founder of October Films who later segued to a dual career as a filmmaker and distributor,...
The Last is Lipsky’s 7th feature and is a Holocaust-themed family drama. It tells the story of a modern Orthodox Jewish family whose sense of identity is shattered when its beloved matriarch, played by Rebecca Schull, reveals her true lineage, and what she did during the war. The film co-stars Jill Durso, Aj Cedeño, Julie Fain Lawrence and Tony Award-winner and frequent Lipsky collaborator, Reed Birney.
Produced by Michael Goitanich, and executive produced by Nick Athas. The Last will be released by Glass Half Full Media in domestic theaters on March 29.
Lipsky is the respected co-founder of October Films who later segued to a dual career as a filmmaker and distributor,...
- 1/15/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Vulture Watch What's new with Jess and the gang? Has the New Girl TV show been cancelled or renewed for an eighth season on Fox? The television vulture is watching for the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of New Girl, season eight. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you? What's This TV Show About? A Fox sitcom, New Girl stars Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, and Hannah Simone, with guest star Nasim Pedrad. The ensemble comedy centers on Jess (Deschanel), a free-spirited young woman and her friends. Together, they serve as something of a chosen family as they navigate modern love and friendship. The seventh season kicks off with Jess and Nick (Johnson) together, having just returned...
- 4/12/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Michael Moore, the firebrand filmmaker whose “Fahrenheit 911” opened at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema in 2003, blamed greedy real estate companies and a rapidly changing New York City for the closing of the iconic independent movie theater.
“Capitalism killed this cinema — this evil, greedy, 20th century form of capitalism,” Moore said at a memorial for the theater’s late founder, Dan Talbot, on Sunday morning. “The multi-billionaires known as [landlord Milstein Properties] have done this.”
Read More:Michael Moore Battling Harvey and Bob Weinstein Over ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ Sequel
Milstein properties, run by Howard Milstein, owns the Upper West Side building that houses the six-screen underground theater. In late December, it was announced that Talbot and wife and business partner Toby, who have run the arthouse theater since its opening in 1981, were not able to reach an agreement with Milstein to renew the lease. Two weeks later, Talbot — also the co-founder of the legendary New Yorker Films — died...
“Capitalism killed this cinema — this evil, greedy, 20th century form of capitalism,” Moore said at a memorial for the theater’s late founder, Dan Talbot, on Sunday morning. “The multi-billionaires known as [landlord Milstein Properties] have done this.”
Read More:Michael Moore Battling Harvey and Bob Weinstein Over ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ Sequel
Milstein properties, run by Howard Milstein, owns the Upper West Side building that houses the six-screen underground theater. In late December, it was announced that Talbot and wife and business partner Toby, who have run the arthouse theater since its opening in 1981, were not able to reach an agreement with Milstein to renew the lease. Two weeks later, Talbot — also the co-founder of the legendary New Yorker Films — died...
- 1/29/2018
- by Jude Dry and Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
This year’s Sundance Film Festival will have to make some room for a brand new distributor, as UK-based media fund manager Great Point Media has announced they’re getting jumping into the market, and are planning to release 8-12 titles per year in theaters across the country. Per an official release, the company has already assembled a full slate for 2018, with $10 million in P&A committed to date. The Great Point team will be on the ground at Sundance, scouting possible projects to round out their 2019 slate.
“At a time of great change in the market, we’re proud to be giving filmgoers the chance to experience exceptional independent films in some of the best theatres around the U.S.,” Gpm co-founder Robert Halmi said in an official statement. “We’re very excited to launch this division and to deliver compelling stories from great filmmakers with casts audiences know and love,...
“At a time of great change in the market, we’re proud to be giving filmgoers the chance to experience exceptional independent films in some of the best theatres around the U.S.,” Gpm co-founder Robert Halmi said in an official statement. “We’re very excited to launch this division and to deliver compelling stories from great filmmakers with casts audiences know and love,...
- 1/12/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Acquisitions team Sundance-bound to scout for 2019 releases.
Heading into Sundance, London-based Great Point Media is launching a Us distribution arm and has set its first release Submission for March.
Company co-founders Robert Halmi and Jim Reeve plan to release eight to 12 titles a year and have committed $10m in P&A to a full 2018 slate. The acquisitions team will attend Sundance to scout for 2019 releases.
The company has partnered with distribution veterans Mark Urman of Paladin, Jeff Lipsky of Glass Half Full, and Michael Silberman. Commercial manager Matt Stevens oversees the releases from the company’s London office.
Richard Levine’s (Nip/Tuck) Submission is an adaptation of Francine Prose’s novel Blue Angel that stars Stanley Tucci and Kyra Sedgwick. It will open on March 2 in New York and expand a week later into multiple markets.
The pipelines includes Judy Greer’s directorial debut A Happening Of Monumental Proportions, an all-star comedy...
Heading into Sundance, London-based Great Point Media is launching a Us distribution arm and has set its first release Submission for March.
Company co-founders Robert Halmi and Jim Reeve plan to release eight to 12 titles a year and have committed $10m in P&A to a full 2018 slate. The acquisitions team will attend Sundance to scout for 2019 releases.
The company has partnered with distribution veterans Mark Urman of Paladin, Jeff Lipsky of Glass Half Full, and Michael Silberman. Commercial manager Matt Stevens oversees the releases from the company’s London office.
Richard Levine’s (Nip/Tuck) Submission is an adaptation of Francine Prose’s novel Blue Angel that stars Stanley Tucci and Kyra Sedgwick. It will open on March 2 in New York and expand a week later into multiple markets.
The pipelines includes Judy Greer’s directorial debut A Happening Of Monumental Proportions, an all-star comedy...
- 1/12/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Christian Petzold's The State I Am In (2000) and Christoph Hochhäusler's The City Below (2010) will be showing in September and October, 2017 on Mubi in most countries around the world.Christian Petzold (left) and Christoph Hochhäusler (right) on the set of Dreileben. Photo by Felix von Böhm.We meet in Christian Petzold’s office in Berlin-Kreuzberg. A giant wall of whispering books, almost like a Borgesian brain of fiction, encircles the table at which Christoph Hochhäusler, myself and the owner take place to discuss their films. The idea of the interview was to get Petzold’s take on Hochhäusler’s The City Below (2010) and Hochhäusler’s take on Petzold’s The State I Am In (2000). In the end, both filmmakers ended up talking about a lot more, as cinema for them has always been something that shines most brightly when remembering it, discussing it and loving it. The fictions proposed...
- 9/20/2017
- MUBI
Exclusive: Veteran indie executive Jeff Lipsky is launching his latest venture, Glass Half Full Media. The distribution consulting firm will provide services for U.S. and international producers, filmmakers and sales agents. Based in New York, Glass Half Full has recruited former Film Society of Lincoln Center Film buyer Matt Kaszanek. The company makes its debut at the Toronto Film Festival. Lipsky began his distribution career working alongside John Cassavetes on A Woman…...
- 9/8/2017
- Deadline
Jimmy Kimmel (Courtesy: ABC/Jeff Lipsky)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
The time has arrived: the 89th Academy Awards will occur tomorrow, February 26, and we’ll finally know which films and which stars will take home those coveted statues. This is one of the most talked-about events on TV each year but, while everyone is excited for the spectacle and excitement of it all, that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t garner critics. Before you go complaining about the show, let’s educate you on some statistics.
With Jimmy Kimmel hosting the show on ABC — at 8 p.m. Et and 5 p.m. Pt, of course — we know we’re all in for quite the entertaining three-plus hours of glitz and glamour. It’s almost certain that La La Land will dominate the awards and it’s almost a given that a ton of people will utter Donald Trump’s name in some way.
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
The time has arrived: the 89th Academy Awards will occur tomorrow, February 26, and we’ll finally know which films and which stars will take home those coveted statues. This is one of the most talked-about events on TV each year but, while everyone is excited for the spectacle and excitement of it all, that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t garner critics. Before you go complaining about the show, let’s educate you on some statistics.
With Jimmy Kimmel hosting the show on ABC — at 8 p.m. Et and 5 p.m. Pt, of course — we know we’re all in for quite the entertaining three-plus hours of glitz and glamour. It’s almost certain that La La Land will dominate the awards and it’s almost a given that a ton of people will utter Donald Trump’s name in some way.
- 2/25/2017
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
The Arrangement TV show premieres on E! Sunday, March 5th at 10:00pm Et/Pt. Season one of the Hollywood drama series stars Josh Henderson, Christine Evangelista, Lexa Doig, and Michael Vartan.The 10-episode first season of The Arrangement marks E!'s second scripted TV series. It centers on a young actress who’s discovered after auditioning for a big summer action movie. Learn more from E!, after the jump.Read More…...
- 1/17/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Jillian Michaels doesn’t mind getting older — in fact, she says she is in better shape at 42 than she was in her 20s.
“I care more, and when you care more you train harder and eat better,” the fitness guru tells Redbook in the February issue, on newsstands Jan. 3. “People believe that aging is this slow descent into decrepitude. That’s not true. When people say, ‘Oh, I’m 40 now, and this is happening to me and that’s happening to me,’ it’s the cumulative effect of years of neglect, which—by the way—can still be turned around.
“I care more, and when you care more you train harder and eat better,” the fitness guru tells Redbook in the February issue, on newsstands Jan. 3. “People believe that aging is this slow descent into decrepitude. That’s not true. When people say, ‘Oh, I’m 40 now, and this is happening to me and that’s happening to me,’ it’s the cumulative effect of years of neglect, which—by the way—can still be turned around.
- 12/28/2016
- by gabrielleolya1
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: Two-time Academy Award nominee Hany Abu-Assad is going for a trifecta. His latest film, The Idol, has been selected by Palestine as its official entry for the Foreign Language Oscar category. Tim Grady and Jeff Lipsky’s New York-based Adopt Films acquired the feelgood title on the heels of its Toronto Film Festival Special Presentations premiere last year. Partially filmed in Gaza, the movie tells the true story of Mohammad Assaf, the winner of 2013’s Arab Idol…...
- 9/28/2016
- Deadline
Adopt Films has acquired U.S. rights to “Beyond the Mountains and Hills,” an Israeli family drama that is playing in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was directed by Eran Kolirin, whose film “The Band’s Visit” won awards at Cannes and landed a Spirit Awards nomination, though the amount of English dialogue disqualified it from competing for the foreign-language Oscar. “We could not be more proud of discovering, targeting and capturing this exciting Cannes entry just ahead of its official screening,” said Adopt’s Tim Grady and Jeff Lipsky in a statement.
- 5/18/2016
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Tim Grady and Jeff Lipsky’s Adopt Films has picked up all U.S. rights to Eran Kolirin’s Beyond The Mountains And Hills, an Israeli drama that’s running here in the Un Certain Regard section. Adopt plans a broad release in early 2017. Kolirin is best known to international audiences for 2007’s smash The Band’s Visit which was controversially rejected by AMPAS as Israel’s Foreign Language Oscar entry that year owing to its partial use of English. It did win eight…...
- 5/18/2016
- Deadline
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Will Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life survive its first season? Fox is preempting the April 24th episode. It will be replaced by a rerun of the The Simpsons, season 27 episode, "Paths of Glory." The preemption comes just weeks after Fox moved Cooper Barrett from 8:30pm to 7:30 and shifted Bob's Burgers to its old slot. None of this is good news. Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life is likely to be cancelled.
A freshman sitcom, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life is told from the perspective of Cooper Barrett (Jack Cutmore-Scott). Newly out of college,...
Will Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life survive its first season? Fox is preempting the April 24th episode. It will be replaced by a rerun of the The Simpsons, season 27 episode, "Paths of Glory." The preemption comes just weeks after Fox moved Cooper Barrett from 8:30pm to 7:30 and shifted Bob's Burgers to its old slot. None of this is good news. Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life is likely to be cancelled.
A freshman sitcom, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life is told from the perspective of Cooper Barrett (Jack Cutmore-Scott). Newly out of college,...
- 4/13/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Great news for fans of filmmaker Jeff Lipsky, her controversial and critically acclaimed sixth feature “Mad Women” is now available digitally, for rent or download, on Amazon and Vimeo-on-Demand.
The official synopsis reads: "'Mad Women' is a dark satire about Harper Smith, a middle-aged mom who, following a one-year prison sentence for having committed an act of conscience, becomes a local hero and folk legend in her small community of Iris Glen, NY. She runs for local office but has much grander aspirations up her sleeve. She is a woman accustomed to personal challenges: She lost her third child at the age of three to cancer, her first-born daughter, a pediatrician, is in Ukraine having joined Doctors Without Borders, her own mother lost an eye in her youth in an archery mishap, and her husband, a successful and beloved dentist, commits statutory rape under the influence of LSD at a rock concert. It’s up to Harper and her middle daughter, Nevada, to persevere, and they do, as a most unlikely mother/daughter bond emerges."
About the genesis of “Mad Women” Lipsky explains: “I began writing 'Mad Women' in early 2013, just after President Obama’s second inaugural, moments after a season of political drivel came to an end, and seemingly seconds before cable outlets began their non-stop palaver about the 2016 election. So I set out to conjure up my personal candidate, one whose idealism can’t be blunted, even as the world would be playing whack-a-mole with her. When I finished the script I knew there could never be a ‘Harper Smith.’ But now that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are front-runners, well, now I’m not so sure anymore!”
“Mad Women” marks the third consecutive collaboration between Lipsky and co-star Reed Birney (“House of Cards,” 2014 Tony Award nominee “Casa Valentina”). It also spotlights three extraordinary actresses – Kelsey Lynn Stokes, Christina Starbuck, and Sharon Van Ivan (John Cassavetes’ “Opening Night”) and marks a reunion for Lipsky with Jamie Harrold who co-starred in “Flannel Pajamas.” Lipsky’s previous films include “Twelve Thirty,” “Molly’s Theory of Relativity,” and “Once More With Feeling,” which along with “Flannel Pajamas,” have starred Justin Kirk, Julianne Nicholson, Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer, Chazz Palminteri, Drea deMatteo, Linda Fiorentino, Cady Huffman, Rebecca Schull, Halley Feiffer and Barbara Barrie.
The official synopsis reads: "'Mad Women' is a dark satire about Harper Smith, a middle-aged mom who, following a one-year prison sentence for having committed an act of conscience, becomes a local hero and folk legend in her small community of Iris Glen, NY. She runs for local office but has much grander aspirations up her sleeve. She is a woman accustomed to personal challenges: She lost her third child at the age of three to cancer, her first-born daughter, a pediatrician, is in Ukraine having joined Doctors Without Borders, her own mother lost an eye in her youth in an archery mishap, and her husband, a successful and beloved dentist, commits statutory rape under the influence of LSD at a rock concert. It’s up to Harper and her middle daughter, Nevada, to persevere, and they do, as a most unlikely mother/daughter bond emerges."
About the genesis of “Mad Women” Lipsky explains: “I began writing 'Mad Women' in early 2013, just after President Obama’s second inaugural, moments after a season of political drivel came to an end, and seemingly seconds before cable outlets began their non-stop palaver about the 2016 election. So I set out to conjure up my personal candidate, one whose idealism can’t be blunted, even as the world would be playing whack-a-mole with her. When I finished the script I knew there could never be a ‘Harper Smith.’ But now that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are front-runners, well, now I’m not so sure anymore!”
“Mad Women” marks the third consecutive collaboration between Lipsky and co-star Reed Birney (“House of Cards,” 2014 Tony Award nominee “Casa Valentina”). It also spotlights three extraordinary actresses – Kelsey Lynn Stokes, Christina Starbuck, and Sharon Van Ivan (John Cassavetes’ “Opening Night”) and marks a reunion for Lipsky with Jamie Harrold who co-starred in “Flannel Pajamas.” Lipsky’s previous films include “Twelve Thirty,” “Molly’s Theory of Relativity,” and “Once More With Feeling,” which along with “Flannel Pajamas,” have starred Justin Kirk, Julianne Nicholson, Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer, Chazz Palminteri, Drea deMatteo, Linda Fiorentino, Cady Huffman, Rebecca Schull, Halley Feiffer and Barbara Barrie.
- 10/1/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Jeff Lipsky, the writer-director of the sexually explicit family psychodrama Mad Women, all but dares you not to loathe his film. He even gives his female protagonist, Nevada Smith (Kelsey Lynn Stokes), a line of dialogue for audiences and critics to use against him: Nevada tells a friend that a movie of her life wouldn’t be any good because, “Nobody can identify with me.” It’s almost funny-ha-ha the way that, speech by speech (there are many speeches), the characters alienate you, adding extra sentences guaranteed to shift your response from hmmm to ewww. I like a good dare. And I respect a filmmaker who zooms in on the sexual subtext to the point where you want to hide under your seat. Not that it’s easy to watch ...Nevada has an interesting family. Her doting father, Richard (Reed Birney), is a dentist who tells her a story — about...
- 7/10/2015
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
Women on the Verge: Lipsky’s Overwrought Portrait of Dysfunction
Those having experienced the independent cinema styling of Jeff Lipsky won’t be surprised by the end product of his latest overblown cascade of maudlin litanies in Mad Women. A forced provocation ruinously scored by an endless patter of affected, hopelessly insincere bits of dialogue, the ineptitude is exacerbated by this being Lipsky’s sixth feature, and yet this production bears the same marks of amateurism as his previous endeavors. Shrill, annoying, and as graceful to observe as a symphony of tapered fingernails viciously excoriating a football field sized chalk board, the end result features overly rehearsed actors floundering through endless, exaggerated monologues.
Nevada Smith (Katie Lynn Stokes) is the product of a seemingly affluent environment. Residing in the privileged community known as Iris Glen, she is the second of three children belonging to her dentist father Richard (Reed Birney...
Those having experienced the independent cinema styling of Jeff Lipsky won’t be surprised by the end product of his latest overblown cascade of maudlin litanies in Mad Women. A forced provocation ruinously scored by an endless patter of affected, hopelessly insincere bits of dialogue, the ineptitude is exacerbated by this being Lipsky’s sixth feature, and yet this production bears the same marks of amateurism as his previous endeavors. Shrill, annoying, and as graceful to observe as a symphony of tapered fingernails viciously excoriating a football field sized chalk board, the end result features overly rehearsed actors floundering through endless, exaggerated monologues.
Nevada Smith (Katie Lynn Stokes) is the product of a seemingly affluent environment. Residing in the privileged community known as Iris Glen, she is the second of three children belonging to her dentist father Richard (Reed Birney...
- 7/8/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In today's roundup of news and views: A new short from Laura Poitras, a profile of Nick Zedd, an excerpt from Jeff Lipsky's forthcoming memoir, a mid-90s interview with Peter Greenaway, an examination of the connections between Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now and Robert Wyatt's classic album Rock Bottom, Jonathan Rosenbaum on paintings by Manny Farber, an appreciation of Montgomery Clift, Josh Safdie and Alex Ross Perry on Entourage, interviews with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roy Andersson, rumors of forthcoming films by Paul Thomas Anderson and Michael Haneke—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 6/9/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: A new short from Laura Poitras, a profile of Nick Zedd, an excerpt from Jeff Lipsky's forthcoming memoir, a mid-90s interview with Peter Greenaway, an examination of the connections between Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now and Robert Wyatt's classic album Rock Bottom, Jonathan Rosenbaum on paintings by Manny Farber, an appreciation of Montgomery Clift, Josh Safdie and Alex Ross Perry on Entourage, interviews with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roy Andersson, rumors of forthcoming films by Paul Thomas Anderson and Michael Haneke—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 6/9/2015
- Keyframe
Filmmaker Jeff Lipsky’s latest feature, Mad Women, opens July 10th in New York, July 24 in Los Angeles and across the country in August. Here, the longtime distributor and director shares an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, which is scheduled for publication in 2016. At noon, on an early October day in 2014, after wrapping a scene at the Plainview Library for my sixth film Mad Women, a scene that would end up on the editing room’s digital floor, I commandeered a crew car and chaffeured a breakaway team to race back to Massapequa, Long Island. I needed to film […]...
- 6/9/2015
- by Jeff Lipsky
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Filmmaker Jeff Lipsky’s latest feature, Mad Women, opens July 10th in New York, July 24 in Los Angeles and across the country in August. Here, the longtime distributor and director shares an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, which is scheduled for publication in 2016. At noon, on an early October day in 2014, after wrapping a scene at the Plainview Library for my sixth film Mad Women, a scene that would end up on the editing room’s digital floor, I commandeered a crew car and chaffeured a breakaway team to race back to Massapequa, Long Island. I needed to film […]...
- 6/9/2015
- by Jeff Lipsky
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Exclusive: The latest film helmed by Jeff Lipsky, an indie distribution veteran and Adopt Films co-founder, is due for domestic theatrical release in July via Plainview Pictures. Mad Women, a dark satire, is the sixth title in Lipsky’s oeuvre, which also includes Flannel Pajamas and Molly’s Theory Of Relativity. The story centers on a beautiful woman in her late 40s who conspires to commit a crime of conscience, becomes radicalized in prison, and upon her release…...
- 4/12/2015
- Deadline
Adopt Films announced today that it has picked up U.S. distribution rights to the German thriller director Sebastian Schipper's "Victoria," which premiered last week at the Berlin International Film Festival. Shot in a continuous, 134-minute take across 20 locations, the movie revolves around the titular young woman as she befriends some men at a nightclub and eventually becomes an accomplice in a bank robbery. Recently listed in Indiewire's "memo to distributors" featuring Berlin premieres that have yet to find U.S. homes, "Victoria" has generated comparisons to "Run Lola Run" and "La Femme Nikita." Noting as much, Adopt's Jeff Lipsky and Tim Grady said that the film "shares in common with those earlier titles a strong, smart, beautiful, galvanizing female protagonist. With this ground-breaking film, Schipper has mattered the full potential of digital filmmaking. Movies this good and this visually exciting don't come along...
- 2/16/2015
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
His dad was one of Hollywood’s founding fathers. If there is something that Samuel Goldwyn Jr should be remembered for following his death on Friday night, it’s this, according to Tom Rothman: “For the 20 or so years before Disney put money in Miramax or we started Fox Searchlight with NewsCorp money and other studios got in the game, the independent film business really began with Sam in the late 70s.” Rothman, a lawyer in New York who repped Jim Jarmusch when he made the deal with Goldwyn Jr for Stranger Than Paradise, was hired by Goldwyn Jr to become president of The Goldwyn Company before moving on to Fox where he became the first president of Fox Searchlight.
“People forget what a seminal figure Sam was, and how many filmmakers broke through because of him,” Rothman said. “There was Kenneth Branagh, Anthony Minghella, Ang Lee, David Lynch and John Sayles.
“People forget what a seminal figure Sam was, and how many filmmakers broke through because of him,” Rothman said. “There was Kenneth Branagh, Anthony Minghella, Ang Lee, David Lynch and John Sayles.
- 1/10/2015
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
Tim Grady and October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky co-created New York-based Adopt Films in 2011. Since banding together, the pair has been savvy in their foreign language pick-ups, pouncing on four fims in Berlin in 2012, for example, with each going on to win prizes there — and three ending up as their respective countries’ submission for the Foreign Language Oscar. Last year, they were in the potentially hot-potato situation of having both the entry from Palestine, Hany Abu Assad’s Omar, and the Israeli elected Bethlehem by Yuval Adler. They scored a nomination with Omar and this year have Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep in contention. I spoke with Grady about the state of foreign language cinema, how the company has grown and what it’s like to handle challenging movies.
Deadline: What has changed on the foreign language landscape since you guys got together to form Adopt in 2011?
Grady: Adopt...
Deadline: What has changed on the foreign language landscape since you guys got together to form Adopt in 2011?
Grady: Adopt...
- 12/18/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Ever since they unveiled its January/February 2015 cover, Women’s Health has been pounded with criticism over the way they depicted Britney Spears. However, in a behind-the-scenes video of the cover shoot by Jeff Lipsky, it’s clear that the “Toxic” songstress didn’t need any help from digital retouching.
Spears told the magazine, “I don’t mind working out. I’m at my best when I’m busy. If I don’t work out in a gym, I’m either swimming laps or I’m doing yoga.”
Britney Spears Fronts Women’s Health January/February 2015
“I start with 20 minutes of intense cardio - usually running - [and then] move on to light free weights, body-weight exercises such as pushups, squats, and sit- ups, then finish it off with a stretch.”...
Spears told the magazine, “I don’t mind working out. I’m at my best when I’m busy. If I don’t work out in a gym, I’m either swimming laps or I’m doing yoga.”
Britney Spears Fronts Women’s Health January/February 2015
“I start with 20 minutes of intense cardio - usually running - [and then] move on to light free weights, body-weight exercises such as pushups, squats, and sit- ups, then finish it off with a stretch.”...
- 12/17/2014
- GossipCenter
Exclusive: Tim Grady and Jeff Lipsky’s New York-based Adopt Films has acquired Effie Gray, the period drama penned by Emma Thompson. Dakota Fanning stars as the eponymous character in the biopic of the 19th century Scotswoman who married critic and author John Ruskin as a teenager only to see their six-year relationship finally annulled with Gray still a virgin. She later wed celebrated pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. For Millais, Gray bore eight children and became his muse (along with her younger sister Sophie).
The company plans an early spring 2015 release.
Julie Walters plays Ruskin’s baleful, controlling mother, and David Suchet is Ruskin’s feckless, enabling father. Thompson, Tom Sturridge, Greg Wise, Claudia Cardinale, James Fox, Derek Jacobi and Robbie Coltrane round out the cast.
Richard Laxton (Burton & Taylor) directs from Thompson’s first original screenplay. (She won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 1995’s Sense And Sensibility.
The company plans an early spring 2015 release.
Julie Walters plays Ruskin’s baleful, controlling mother, and David Suchet is Ruskin’s feckless, enabling father. Thompson, Tom Sturridge, Greg Wise, Claudia Cardinale, James Fox, Derek Jacobi and Robbie Coltrane round out the cast.
Richard Laxton (Burton & Taylor) directs from Thompson’s first original screenplay. (She won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 1995’s Sense And Sensibility.
- 12/2/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Source: Instagram user britneyspears Britney Spears is looking good, and she has no problem bragging about her toned figure. On Friday, the singer shared a new picture of her svelte body on Instagram. "Sept 9 Us & Canada / Sept 26 Europe," she wrote in the caption, promoting the release dates of her upcoming lingerie line, The Intimate Britney Spears. She shared another shot from a recent photo shoot with photographer Jeff Lipsky on her Facebook account on Wednesday, showing her posing while wearing nothing more than a cropped sweater and black underpants. "Been working hard this Summer," Britney wrote. "So ready to bring it for the next round of Piece of Me shows next week." We first got a glimpse of Britney's fit frame earlier this Summer when she released a sexy sneak peek of her first intimates collection. Aside from working out and preparing for the next round of her Las Vegas shows,...
- 8/9/2014
- by Maria-Mercedes-Lara
- Popsugar.com
Ooh La La, Britney Spears! The 32-year-old pop superstar is looking fabulous after giving fans a sneak peek of her latest photo shoot Wednesday. "Amazing amazing shoot with Jeff Lipsky today!" Spears wrote on Facebook. "Been working hard this summer!" It definitely shows! And although the singer remains mum on any specific details about the photo, we can't help but applaud her stunning abs and amazing figure. It's been quiet the summer for Spears who has been enjoying some time off from her popular Las Vegas residency. When not relaxing with her two boys (or taking them to Disneyland), Spears has been hard at work launching a brand new lingerie...
- 8/7/2014
- E! Online
All of Britney Spears' hard work has definitely been paying off! The blonde beauty posted a sexy new photo to her Facebook page on Wednesday, rocking a pink crop top and black bikini bottoms. Photos: Britney Spears Shows Off Tiny Waist in Crop Top & Shorts.In the sexy shot, Spears' amazing abs and toned legs are on display as she poses with her hands over her head and big smile on her face. "Amazing amazing shoot with Jeff Lipsky today! Been working hard this summer! So ready to bring it for the next round of #PieceOfMe shows next week," she captioned the cute pic. Photos: Britney Spears Takes Sons to Disneyland -- See Her "Mouseketeers."The "Toxic" singer has been staying busing this summer -- between her Las Vegas residency and mommy duties -- it must be hard to get in all that gym time. Brit's even started her...
- 8/6/2014
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
We all know that Adopt Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or Winner, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Winter Sleep.” And we all know that Memento, with three films in the festival (“Cold in July” by Jim Mickle and the Argentinean “Refugiado” by Diego Lerman in the Quinzaine des Realisateurs, and “Winter Sleep” in Competition) is one of the top international sales agents of the best arthouse cinema today…
Our Pre-Cannes Film Festival Report, the Pre-Festival Report which Tom Brueggemann and I publish before the Festivals of Toronto, Sundance and Cannes. (Ask me if you want a free copy and I’ll send it to you.) lists international sales agents’ films in all sections of the Cannes Film Festival by numbers:
Wild Bunch
7
Le Pacte
5
Pyramide
4
3 films: Memento , Bac, Doc & Film, Films Distribution, Gaumont, Other Angle
2 films: Cj, Visit, Elle Driver, eOne, Seville, Urban Distribution Int’l, Les Films du Losange, MK2, Ndm, Sierra/ Affinity, The Match Factory, Westend
1 film: Alpha Violet, Altitude, Cinetic, Filmnation, Dreamworks Animation, Showbox, Films Boutique, Rezo, Myriad, Indie Sales, Snd - Groupe 6, Sunray, The Coproduction Office, Kinology, Pathe, The Festival Agency, Trust Nordisk, Versatile, Premium Panorama/ Annapurna, Kazak, Lotus,
Celluloid Nightmares, Film Factory, Rai Trade, 31 Juin Films, Alfama, Alice Films, Atoms & Void, Aud, Capricci, Morgane, Paraiso, Six Island Productions
Regarding this film, read my Cannes Blog: Cannes 2014 What I Saw #2: Palme d’Or Winner 'Winter Sleep' or just continue reading here:
Here is what I had to say about the film after I saw it in Cannes:
Whether this film will find a home in the U.S., whose audiences and movie theaters are so impatient, is questionable. At the very least, it should screen at New York’s Film Forum and in L.A. at the American Cinematheque or UCLA’s Film Program. Certainly it will play in the top film festivals forever. It is the sort of classic movie cinephiles will love, along the line of Tarkovsky or Angelopoulos. It is the sort of movie one wishes to see, to fully immerse oneself in, an experience only available in a certain type of movie or after reading a deeply immersive novel of Proust, Tolstoy or Marquez.
Once again, Jeff Lipsky and Adopt Films President Tim Grady who negotiated the deal with Memento Films International head of International Sales and Acquisitions, Tanja Meissner, have proven that they have an impeccable eye for quality.
Adopt plans a year-end 2014 U.S. release for “Winter Sleep.”
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic and yet personally intimate story is about a wealthy self-absorbed Anatolian hotelier and landowner and his uneasy relationships with those around him. Is he evil? Is the power of evil best resisted by giving in to it?
This is Nuir Bilge Ceylan’s first Palme d’Or but he has received the Grand Prix twice already: once for “Distant” (2002) and again for 2011 for “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”. He also won for the Director Award in 2008 for “Three Monkeys”. It also won the Fipresci prize in Cannes.
“Winter Sleep” is also the second film by a Turkish director to win the Palm, after Yilmaz Guney and Serif Goren’s “The Way” in1982.
When Ceylan received the award, he noted that 2014 was the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. “This is a great surprise for me,” Ceylan said, “I want to dedicate the prize to all the young people of Turkey, including those who lost their lives over the past year.”
“Winter Sleep” is being sold internationally by Memento who will also release it in France. Ama Films acquired Greek rights before Cannes. New Wave acquired U.K. rights in Cannes. Stadtkino-Filmverleih has rights for Austria, Film Point Group has Poland.
Mexico
Mantarraya Producciones
Norway
As Fidalgo Film Distribution
Slovak Republic
Film Europe Media Company
Memento coproduced the film with the director's company, NBC Film, in collaboration with Turkey's Zeynofilm, Germany's Bredok Film Production. Eurimages backed the film with 450,000 € of the total 3.6 million € allocated to 13 film productions announced in March 13. (Parenthetically, seven of the Eurimages backed productions had French participation and five German were co-productions. “One, “Lucy in the Star” by Giuseppe Petitto an Italian, Swiss and Austria co-production received 130,000 €. “All My Children” by Ladislav Kabos from Slovakia and Czech Republic received 30,000 €.
To return to “Winter Sleep”: The opening scene of the stunning and surrealistic landscape of Cappadocia, Anatolia immediately establishes this story as exotic and yet familiar. The actor, Haluk Bilginer, seems to be a familiar type – and in fact, his character is that of a former actor who has turned hotelier and landowner; he is attractive in an actor sort of way and seems always somehow distracted while maintaining a hawk’s eye on the household and the area he appears to rule in an almost feudal style. The household he enters and its inhabitants fall into place like pieces of a puzzle one did not realize was, in fact, a puzzle, with the housekeeper, the sister and the young wife slowly taking on a shape within a larger context in this beautiful and ancient city built in the rocks like caves, with a primitively frightening side, personified by the impecunious family living on the property of the landlord. A modern and affable meeting of concerned citizens of the town establishes his relationship with his wife who lives an uneasy truce until he makes one final effort at destabilizing her hard-won independence of mind.
The 3-½ hours of the film pass without ever loosing the audience interest as the story unfolds about the relationship among the townspeople and the landowning man who, in factm is a tyrant until he is forced to see his own powerlessness.
The philosophic underpinnings, discussed in several intimate conversations, about the best way to resist evil, about wealth and the power it bestows and the resentment it engenders, finds a quiet resolution, which arrives unexpectedly along with the end of the story.
One wonders at the movie’s end if one is about to settle into a long winter sleep or if, in fact, one is emerging from such a sleep in which one dreamt of the previous autumn. And does Winter Sleep solve the problem of evil? In a silent and enigmatic way, it says that the power of money and of tyranny, in the face of resistance by one whose soul is not to be conquered, is null.
In a joint statement Grady and Lipsky said: “ ‘Winter Sleep’ is an epic film: A symphony of words and a sonata of visual splendor. A significant stylistic departure from one of the greatest international filmmakers working today. ‘Winter Sleep’ is a motion picture that will have movie audiences discussing with great passion its provocative discussions about art and artists, class struggle, and love and marriage. A film like this, so rich with ideas, dazzling dialogue, and intelligent characters, is one that is instantly unforgettable. We are proud to partner with Nuri Bilge Ceylan on his achievement of a lifetime. “
Adopt Films just debuted Martin Provost’s follow-up to “Seraphine,” “Violette,” starring Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain. (Another great film)
Read our coverage here:
'Violette' by Martin Provost
Other recent successes for Adopt Films include the Oscar nominated “Omar” from Hany Abu-Assad, and Yuval Adler’s Venice Film Festival award-winning thriller “Bethlehem.” Its upcoming releases include Vinko Brešan’s Karlovy Vary comedy hit “The Priest’s Children,” Oscar winner Caroline Link’s new drama “Exit Marrakech,” Frederik Steiner’s Zurich,” starring Liv Lisa Fries, and Jacques Doillon’s “Love Battles.”
www.facebook.com/adoptfilms
www.twitter.com/adoptfilms...
Our Pre-Cannes Film Festival Report, the Pre-Festival Report which Tom Brueggemann and I publish before the Festivals of Toronto, Sundance and Cannes. (Ask me if you want a free copy and I’ll send it to you.) lists international sales agents’ films in all sections of the Cannes Film Festival by numbers:
Wild Bunch
7
Le Pacte
5
Pyramide
4
3 films: Memento , Bac, Doc & Film, Films Distribution, Gaumont, Other Angle
2 films: Cj, Visit, Elle Driver, eOne, Seville, Urban Distribution Int’l, Les Films du Losange, MK2, Ndm, Sierra/ Affinity, The Match Factory, Westend
1 film: Alpha Violet, Altitude, Cinetic, Filmnation, Dreamworks Animation, Showbox, Films Boutique, Rezo, Myriad, Indie Sales, Snd - Groupe 6, Sunray, The Coproduction Office, Kinology, Pathe, The Festival Agency, Trust Nordisk, Versatile, Premium Panorama/ Annapurna, Kazak, Lotus,
Celluloid Nightmares, Film Factory, Rai Trade, 31 Juin Films, Alfama, Alice Films, Atoms & Void, Aud, Capricci, Morgane, Paraiso, Six Island Productions
Regarding this film, read my Cannes Blog: Cannes 2014 What I Saw #2: Palme d’Or Winner 'Winter Sleep' or just continue reading here:
Here is what I had to say about the film after I saw it in Cannes:
Whether this film will find a home in the U.S., whose audiences and movie theaters are so impatient, is questionable. At the very least, it should screen at New York’s Film Forum and in L.A. at the American Cinematheque or UCLA’s Film Program. Certainly it will play in the top film festivals forever. It is the sort of classic movie cinephiles will love, along the line of Tarkovsky or Angelopoulos. It is the sort of movie one wishes to see, to fully immerse oneself in, an experience only available in a certain type of movie or after reading a deeply immersive novel of Proust, Tolstoy or Marquez.
Once again, Jeff Lipsky and Adopt Films President Tim Grady who negotiated the deal with Memento Films International head of International Sales and Acquisitions, Tanja Meissner, have proven that they have an impeccable eye for quality.
Adopt plans a year-end 2014 U.S. release for “Winter Sleep.”
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic and yet personally intimate story is about a wealthy self-absorbed Anatolian hotelier and landowner and his uneasy relationships with those around him. Is he evil? Is the power of evil best resisted by giving in to it?
This is Nuir Bilge Ceylan’s first Palme d’Or but he has received the Grand Prix twice already: once for “Distant” (2002) and again for 2011 for “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”. He also won for the Director Award in 2008 for “Three Monkeys”. It also won the Fipresci prize in Cannes.
“Winter Sleep” is also the second film by a Turkish director to win the Palm, after Yilmaz Guney and Serif Goren’s “The Way” in1982.
When Ceylan received the award, he noted that 2014 was the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. “This is a great surprise for me,” Ceylan said, “I want to dedicate the prize to all the young people of Turkey, including those who lost their lives over the past year.”
“Winter Sleep” is being sold internationally by Memento who will also release it in France. Ama Films acquired Greek rights before Cannes. New Wave acquired U.K. rights in Cannes. Stadtkino-Filmverleih has rights for Austria, Film Point Group has Poland.
Mexico
Mantarraya Producciones
Norway
As Fidalgo Film Distribution
Slovak Republic
Film Europe Media Company
Memento coproduced the film with the director's company, NBC Film, in collaboration with Turkey's Zeynofilm, Germany's Bredok Film Production. Eurimages backed the film with 450,000 € of the total 3.6 million € allocated to 13 film productions announced in March 13. (Parenthetically, seven of the Eurimages backed productions had French participation and five German were co-productions. “One, “Lucy in the Star” by Giuseppe Petitto an Italian, Swiss and Austria co-production received 130,000 €. “All My Children” by Ladislav Kabos from Slovakia and Czech Republic received 30,000 €.
To return to “Winter Sleep”: The opening scene of the stunning and surrealistic landscape of Cappadocia, Anatolia immediately establishes this story as exotic and yet familiar. The actor, Haluk Bilginer, seems to be a familiar type – and in fact, his character is that of a former actor who has turned hotelier and landowner; he is attractive in an actor sort of way and seems always somehow distracted while maintaining a hawk’s eye on the household and the area he appears to rule in an almost feudal style. The household he enters and its inhabitants fall into place like pieces of a puzzle one did not realize was, in fact, a puzzle, with the housekeeper, the sister and the young wife slowly taking on a shape within a larger context in this beautiful and ancient city built in the rocks like caves, with a primitively frightening side, personified by the impecunious family living on the property of the landlord. A modern and affable meeting of concerned citizens of the town establishes his relationship with his wife who lives an uneasy truce until he makes one final effort at destabilizing her hard-won independence of mind.
The 3-½ hours of the film pass without ever loosing the audience interest as the story unfolds about the relationship among the townspeople and the landowning man who, in factm is a tyrant until he is forced to see his own powerlessness.
The philosophic underpinnings, discussed in several intimate conversations, about the best way to resist evil, about wealth and the power it bestows and the resentment it engenders, finds a quiet resolution, which arrives unexpectedly along with the end of the story.
One wonders at the movie’s end if one is about to settle into a long winter sleep or if, in fact, one is emerging from such a sleep in which one dreamt of the previous autumn. And does Winter Sleep solve the problem of evil? In a silent and enigmatic way, it says that the power of money and of tyranny, in the face of resistance by one whose soul is not to be conquered, is null.
In a joint statement Grady and Lipsky said: “ ‘Winter Sleep’ is an epic film: A symphony of words and a sonata of visual splendor. A significant stylistic departure from one of the greatest international filmmakers working today. ‘Winter Sleep’ is a motion picture that will have movie audiences discussing with great passion its provocative discussions about art and artists, class struggle, and love and marriage. A film like this, so rich with ideas, dazzling dialogue, and intelligent characters, is one that is instantly unforgettable. We are proud to partner with Nuri Bilge Ceylan on his achievement of a lifetime. “
Adopt Films just debuted Martin Provost’s follow-up to “Seraphine,” “Violette,” starring Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain. (Another great film)
Read our coverage here:
'Violette' by Martin Provost
Other recent successes for Adopt Films include the Oscar nominated “Omar” from Hany Abu-Assad, and Yuval Adler’s Venice Film Festival award-winning thriller “Bethlehem.” Its upcoming releases include Vinko Brešan’s Karlovy Vary comedy hit “The Priest’s Children,” Oscar winner Caroline Link’s new drama “Exit Marrakech,” Frederik Steiner’s Zurich,” starring Liv Lisa Fries, and Jacques Doillon’s “Love Battles.”
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- 7/1/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Adopt Films has secured the U.S. distribution rights to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Winter Sleep," which won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The 196-minute Turkish drama, set in Anatolia, examines the divide between Turkey's haves and have nots, focusing on a former actor who now writes for a newspaper and runs a mountaintop hotel as well as his sister and his much younger activist wife. In his Cannes review, Toh!'s Tom Christie calls Ceylan a "badass" and notes that the film "doesn't unfold so much as unspool...manag[ing] not only to sustain interest but to mesmerize." In a statement, Adopt Films President Tim Grady and Evp of Marketing and Distribution Jeff Lipsky said, "'Winter Sleep’ is an epic film: A symphony of words and a sonata of visual splendor. A film like this, so rich with ideas, dazzling dialogue, and intelligent characters, is one that is instantly unforgettable.
- 6/23/2014
- by Jacob Combs
- Thompson on Hollywood
Taking a break from “The Biggest Loser,” Alison Sweeney scored the cover of Woman's Day magazine’s June 2014 issue.
After striking a pose for Jeff Lipsky, the “Days of Our Lives” beauty opened up on the NBC weight loss competition’s contestants and her favorite exercise move.
Check out highlights from Alison’s interview below and for more, head over to Woman’s Day!
On being inspired by the contestants on The Biggest Loser:
“I realized that getting in shape was about so much more than fitting into a certain size. [I changed my thinking from] ‘I wish I were thin’ to ‘I want to be healthy.’ At that point, things just fell into place. I wanted to cook healthy meals and I was excited to be able to go for a 30-minute walk or jog.”
On why walking is her preferred form of exercise:
“I love to walk because it gives me a...
After striking a pose for Jeff Lipsky, the “Days of Our Lives” beauty opened up on the NBC weight loss competition’s contestants and her favorite exercise move.
Check out highlights from Alison’s interview below and for more, head over to Woman’s Day!
On being inspired by the contestants on The Biggest Loser:
“I realized that getting in shape was about so much more than fitting into a certain size. [I changed my thinking from] ‘I wish I were thin’ to ‘I want to be healthy.’ At that point, things just fell into place. I wanted to cook healthy meals and I was excited to be able to go for a 30-minute walk or jog.”
On why walking is her preferred form of exercise:
“I love to walk because it gives me a...
- 5/10/2014
- GossipCenter
She's a huge advocate for an organic lifestyle, and Shailene Woodley gives fans her favorite lifestyle tips in the May/June 2014 issue of Natural Health.
The "Divergent" actress channeled her inner-hippie for the Jeff Lipsky-shot spread and opened about her "hairy armpits" and eating directly from the earth.
Check out a few highlights from Miss Woodley's interview below and for more, head over to Natural Health!
On being a free spirit in Hollywood:
"I find myself living in two worlds sometimes -- being this person who can walk a red carpet in a huge, fancy-a** ball gown, high heels and mountains of makeup, but also being the girl at a hippie festival in the middle of the forest with war paint on my face, dancing around with hair armpits. I exist so well in both, and I used to feel like I had to choose one or the other.
The "Divergent" actress channeled her inner-hippie for the Jeff Lipsky-shot spread and opened about her "hairy armpits" and eating directly from the earth.
Check out a few highlights from Miss Woodley's interview below and for more, head over to Natural Health!
On being a free spirit in Hollywood:
"I find myself living in two worlds sometimes -- being this person who can walk a red carpet in a huge, fancy-a** ball gown, high heels and mountains of makeup, but also being the girl at a hippie festival in the middle of the forest with war paint on my face, dancing around with hair armpits. I exist so well in both, and I used to feel like I had to choose one or the other.
- 4/25/2014
- GossipCenter
She gave birth to her adorable son Milan a little over a year ago, and now Shakira reveals how she got her body back into shape in the April 2014 issue of Women's Health magazine.
While showing off her flawless tummy for the Jeff Lipsky-shot spread, the 37-year-old singer dished about everything from her favorite workouts to her time on "The Voice."
Highlights from Shakira's Q&A session are as follows. For more, be sure to visit Women's Health!
On her workout regime:
"I try to eat healthy and I try to exercise. Not only going to the gym, because sometimes I do get tired of working out, the gym, the treadmill, the stuff that all women dread. I recently decided to just do sports, because they're so much fun and they accomplish the same purpose, which is ultimately to keep you fit. So I planned a whole day routine or roller skating,...
While showing off her flawless tummy for the Jeff Lipsky-shot spread, the 37-year-old singer dished about everything from her favorite workouts to her time on "The Voice."
Highlights from Shakira's Q&A session are as follows. For more, be sure to visit Women's Health!
On her workout regime:
"I try to eat healthy and I try to exercise. Not only going to the gym, because sometimes I do get tired of working out, the gym, the treadmill, the stuff that all women dread. I recently decided to just do sports, because they're so much fun and they accomplish the same purpose, which is ultimately to keep you fit. So I planned a whole day routine or roller skating,...
- 3/8/2014
- GossipCenter
Taking time away from her hit Showtime series "Shameless," Emmy Rossum graced the cover of Natural Health magazine's March/April 2014 issue.
The 27-year-old actress looked picture perfect in a light blue spring dress for the Jeff Lipsky-shot spread while opening up about everything from her diet to offering advice about staying healthy.
Check out GossipCenter's recap of Miss Rossum's interview below. For more, be sure to visit Natural Health!
On her gluten-free diet:
"I will be for life. I’ve always had an allergy to gluten. When I was a baby I wouldn’t eat, and my mom opened my mouth and I had all these canker sores. Nobody could figure out what it was until I was, like, 12 or 13. I cut out gluten at that point and have hardly had any canker sores since. I also have less bloating and fatigue."
On her tips to gluten-free newbies:
"Take...
The 27-year-old actress looked picture perfect in a light blue spring dress for the Jeff Lipsky-shot spread while opening up about everything from her diet to offering advice about staying healthy.
Check out GossipCenter's recap of Miss Rossum's interview below. For more, be sure to visit Natural Health!
On her gluten-free diet:
"I will be for life. I’ve always had an allergy to gluten. When I was a baby I wouldn’t eat, and my mom opened my mouth and I had all these canker sores. Nobody could figure out what it was until I was, like, 12 or 13. I cut out gluten at that point and have hardly had any canker sores since. I also have less bloating and fatigue."
On her tips to gluten-free newbies:
"Take...
- 2/26/2014
- GossipCenter
With their new comedy "That Awkward Moment" set to hit theaters Valentine's Day (February 14th), Zac Efron, Michael B Jordan and Miles Teller scored a featured in the February 2014 issue of Glamour magazine.
While rocking a few poses for the Jeff Lipsky-shot spread, the boys chatted about ladies and dating.
Highlights from Efron, Jordan and Teller's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Glamour!
Zac
On his awkward dating tendencies:
"The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward."
On his must-haves in relationships:
"The most important thing for me is honesty. Just be honest and up-front. I think that’s the hardest."
On his favorite girls:
"It’s impossible to say. I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.
While rocking a few poses for the Jeff Lipsky-shot spread, the boys chatted about ladies and dating.
Highlights from Efron, Jordan and Teller's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Glamour!
Zac
On his awkward dating tendencies:
"The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward."
On his must-haves in relationships:
"The most important thing for me is honesty. Just be honest and up-front. I think that’s the hardest."
On his favorite girls:
"It’s impossible to say. I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.
- 1/10/2014
- GossipCenter
During promotions for her Bet series "Being Mary Jane," Gabrielle Union scored a feature in the February 2014 issue of Glamour magazine.
The newly engaged actress posed for Jeff Lipsky and chatted about the dos and don'ts of of being in love in honor of Valentine's Day.
Check out highlights from Miss Union's interview below and for more head over to Glamour.com.
Do forget your "type."
"It worked for me. When I met Dwyane, his 'résumé' looked like crap: athlete, going through a divorce, nine years younger than me. None of that screamed, 'Let's have a lasting relationship.' Then, after I had a heart-crushing breaking with yet another immature jerk, I thought, it can't be any worse if I date a fetus. Let's just see what happens. Turned out he'd been on his own since he was 15. He had wisdom that comes with facing an insane amount of adversity.
The newly engaged actress posed for Jeff Lipsky and chatted about the dos and don'ts of of being in love in honor of Valentine's Day.
Check out highlights from Miss Union's interview below and for more head over to Glamour.com.
Do forget your "type."
"It worked for me. When I met Dwyane, his 'résumé' looked like crap: athlete, going through a divorce, nine years younger than me. None of that screamed, 'Let's have a lasting relationship.' Then, after I had a heart-crushing breaking with yet another immature jerk, I thought, it can't be any worse if I date a fetus. Let's just see what happens. Turned out he'd been on his own since he was 15. He had wisdom that comes with facing an insane amount of adversity.
- 1/9/2014
- GossipCenter
She's making it a mission to live a healthy lifestyle and now Stacy Keibler reveals tips on managing a tasty diet in the January 2014 issue of Natural Health magazine.
While striking a few gorgeous poses for Jeff Lipsky, the 34-year-old actress dished about her new food company and shared some of her exciting secrets to dieting.
Check out a few highlights from Miss Keibler's interview below For more, be sure to pay a visit to Natural Health!
On her new healthy packaging food company:
"I’ve been developing it for a while—I just keep modifying what I want to do. The main goal is to make convenient, healthy food for people 2 to 92. I’ve learned so much by researching what foods cause inflammation; I want to take those foods out but give people such good things to eat, they don’t even realize what’s missing."
On her 21-day cleanse:
"It changed my life.
While striking a few gorgeous poses for Jeff Lipsky, the 34-year-old actress dished about her new food company and shared some of her exciting secrets to dieting.
Check out a few highlights from Miss Keibler's interview below For more, be sure to pay a visit to Natural Health!
On her new healthy packaging food company:
"I’ve been developing it for a while—I just keep modifying what I want to do. The main goal is to make convenient, healthy food for people 2 to 92. I’ve learned so much by researching what foods cause inflammation; I want to take those foods out but give people such good things to eat, they don’t even realize what’s missing."
On her 21-day cleanse:
"It changed my life.
- 12/13/2013
- GossipCenter
Adopt Films has acquired U.S. rights to Frederik Steiner's feature debut, "Zurich." The film world premiered at the Hof Film Festival in Munich and follows independent-minded, twenty-year old, Lea, who has suffered from cystic fibrosis since birth, and elects to take her own life by sneaking across the boarder to a private clinic in Zurich. The film features newcomer Liv Lisa Fries as Lea, and co-stars Kerstin de Anna and Lena Stolze. The original screenplay is by Barbara te Kock, and the film was produced by Peter Heilrath, Andreas Bareiss, and Sven Burgemeister in co-production with Arri. Adopt Films President Tim Grady and its Executive VP, Marketing & Distribution Jeff Lipsky negotiated the deal with Arri Worldsales’ Director of Sales and Acquisitions Moritz Hemminger. In a joint statement Grady and Lipsky opined: “'Zurich’ got under our skin like few other films in years. Liv Lisa Fries’ performance is a revelation.
- 11/5/2013
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Indiewire
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