Peter Paige is set to direct the indie drama "Sex Crime Panic" for Funny Boy FIlms. The film will apparently explore the sordid true history that led to the incarceration of a group in a mental hospital for being gay. Kirkland Tibbels is producing via Funny Boy with Paige and his Blazing Elm producing partner Bradley Bredeweg. David A. Lee, Daniel Vaillancourt adapt the screenplay based on the book by Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s. " 'Sex Crime Panic' recounts an important part of our history," Tibbels said. "Most people have no idea the extent to which thousands of men were rounded up, arrested and thrown into prison or insane asylums for being gay."...
- 10/23/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Peter Paige has signed on to direct the indie drama "Sex Crime Panic" for Funny Boy Films.
David A. Lee and Daniel Vaillancourt adapted the screenplay from Neil Miller's book "Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s." The film will explore the sordid true history of the hysteria that led to the incarceration of a group of men in a mental hospital for being gay.
Funny Boy's Kirkland Tibbels is producing with Paige and his Blazing Elm producing partner Bradley Bredeweg. Sterling Zinsmeyer is an executive producer.
George Bendele, who brought the project to Funny Boy, will co-produce along with the company's Greg Copeland and Darryl Anderle. Shooting is set to begin in mid-2010.
" 'Sex Crime Panic' recounts an important part of our history," Tibbels said. "Most people have no idea the extent to which thousands of men were rounded up, arrested and thrown into prison or insane asylums for being gay."
Paige adds: "We're thinking of this film in the vein of 'Capote,' 'Milk' and 'Girl, Interrupted.' It's an intense, dramatic exploration of a dark period in our history."
Paige and Bredeweg are repped by CAA and Anonymous Content. Single Cell Pictures optioned their screenplay "Repeat After Me," and the pair created the CW series "Fly Girls,"...
David A. Lee and Daniel Vaillancourt adapted the screenplay from Neil Miller's book "Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s." The film will explore the sordid true history of the hysteria that led to the incarceration of a group of men in a mental hospital for being gay.
Funny Boy's Kirkland Tibbels is producing with Paige and his Blazing Elm producing partner Bradley Bredeweg. Sterling Zinsmeyer is an executive producer.
George Bendele, who brought the project to Funny Boy, will co-produce along with the company's Greg Copeland and Darryl Anderle. Shooting is set to begin in mid-2010.
" 'Sex Crime Panic' recounts an important part of our history," Tibbels said. "Most people have no idea the extent to which thousands of men were rounded up, arrested and thrown into prison or insane asylums for being gay."
Paige adds: "We're thinking of this film in the vein of 'Capote,' 'Milk' and 'Girl, Interrupted.' It's an intense, dramatic exploration of a dark period in our history."
Paige and Bredeweg are repped by CAA and Anonymous Content. Single Cell Pictures optioned their screenplay "Repeat After Me," and the pair created the CW series "Fly Girls,"...
- 10/22/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- In the grand tradition of Dreamgirls and Funny Girl, the long-running off-Broadway musical Naked Boys Singing! is coming to the big screen as a full-length feature from Funny Boy Films.
The bare posteriors of the 10-member cast are being preserved for posterity at Los Angeles' Hayworth Theatre, where shooting is set to be completed this week. The nudity-filled feature will be accompanied by a behind-the-scenes documentary, which will be released as a separate DVD or as a bonus DVD feature.
Robert Schrock, director of the original production, is helming the 16-song review, with Troy Christian handling the feature's digital video direction and choreography. The gay-themed project is produced by Kirkland Tibbels, who took on similar duties bringing David Drake's one-man show "The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me" to the screen in 1999.
Since opening at L.A.'s Celebration Theatre in 1998 and moving to its current New York run the following year, "Naked Boys Singing!" has played in more than 20 countries and toured theaters around the country -- and not without controversy.
The bare posteriors of the 10-member cast are being preserved for posterity at Los Angeles' Hayworth Theatre, where shooting is set to be completed this week. The nudity-filled feature will be accompanied by a behind-the-scenes documentary, which will be released as a separate DVD or as a bonus DVD feature.
Robert Schrock, director of the original production, is helming the 16-song review, with Troy Christian handling the feature's digital video direction and choreography. The gay-themed project is produced by Kirkland Tibbels, who took on similar duties bringing David Drake's one-man show "The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me" to the screen in 1999.
Since opening at L.A.'s Celebration Theatre in 1998 and moving to its current New York run the following year, "Naked Boys Singing!" has played in more than 20 countries and toured theaters around the country -- and not without controversy.
- 12/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Production outfits Funny Boy Films and Mythgarden are teaming up to make the gay-themed coming-of-age dramedy "Elliot Loves". The script from first-time feature director Terracino chronicles two stages of a Dominican-American youth's life -- first as a 9-year-old struggling to build a relationship with his young mother, then as a 21-year-old looking for love in New York. The nearly $1 million production is slated to begin shooting in July in New York. Mythgarden partners Christopher Racster and actors Chad Allen and Robert Gant will produce the film along with Funny Boy partners Kirkland Tibbels and George Bendele. The screenplay won the Vito Russo Award at the NewFest film festival in 2004.
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