Produced by Condé Nast Entertainment and Jigsaw Productions, “The New Yorker Presents,” which Amazon revealed in weekly installments starting in February, is unlike anything else. Each of the 10 half-hour episodes is a uniquely curated set of documentary and fiction shorts, comedy, poetry, animation, and cartoons drawn from the rich content of The New Yorker. Both unexpected and hugely entertaining, the series is up for Emmy consideration in the informational program category.
Look at the range of the first two shows. They include Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) on bull riding, Edwidge Danticat on the connection between Jacob Lawrence’s “Migration Series” and outbreaks of racist violence in America, Nick Paumgarten on closing the $2.4 billion Revel casino, cartoons by Roz Chast, Benjamin Schwartz, and Liana Finck, a look at The New Yorker’s archive library and fact-checking department, a beekeeper and a man who raises pigeons who work atop tall buildings, and...
Look at the range of the first two shows. They include Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) on bull riding, Edwidge Danticat on the connection between Jacob Lawrence’s “Migration Series” and outbreaks of racist violence in America, Nick Paumgarten on closing the $2.4 billion Revel casino, cartoons by Roz Chast, Benjamin Schwartz, and Liana Finck, a look at The New Yorker’s archive library and fact-checking department, a beekeeper and a man who raises pigeons who work atop tall buildings, and...
- 6/22/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Produced by Condé Nast Entertainment and Jigsaw Productions, “The New Yorker Presents,” which Amazon revealed in weekly installments starting in February, is unlike anything else. Each of the 10 half-hour episodes is a uniquely curated set of documentary and fiction shorts, comedy, poetry, animation, and cartoons drawn from the rich content of The New Yorker. Both unexpected and hugely entertaining, the series is up for Emmy consideration in the informational program category.
Look at the range of the first two shows. They include Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) on bull riding, Edwidge Danticat on the connection between Jacob Lawrence’s “Migration Series” and outbreaks of racist violence in America, Nick Paumgarten on closing the $2.4 billion Revel casino, cartoons by Roz Chast, Benjamin Schwartz, and Liana Finck, a look at The New Yorker’s archive library and fact-checking department, a beekeeper and a man who raises pigeons who work atop tall buildings, and...
Look at the range of the first two shows. They include Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) on bull riding, Edwidge Danticat on the connection between Jacob Lawrence’s “Migration Series” and outbreaks of racist violence in America, Nick Paumgarten on closing the $2.4 billion Revel casino, cartoons by Roz Chast, Benjamin Schwartz, and Liana Finck, a look at The New Yorker’s archive library and fact-checking department, a beekeeper and a man who raises pigeons who work atop tall buildings, and...
- 6/22/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
This today, June 16, 2016 at 800 pm, Shari Berman director of 'Sugar' and Tony Award winner, Alice Ripley starring as Leslie, will be interviewed on Salon Radio International Women Artists' Salon via httpwww.cityworldradio.com . Listeners just need to click the microphone icon on that webpage to listen. A recording will also be posted on the site for future listening. Shari and Alice will be talking about the film, playing music written for the film by Graham Russell, and more.
- 6/15/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
After it made the rounds at the Cannes Film Market last year, Ten Thousand Saints played the Sundance Film Festival this year to strong reviews and is now set to hit theaters on Aug. 14 and today the first official trailer arrived. Starring Ethan Hawke and Asa Butterfield, the film is set against the backdrop of the New York City of the late 1980s; Adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young--and old--all play a role in the story of the son (Butterfield) of diehard hippies (Hawke and Emily Mortimer) and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture. Hailee Steinfeld, Emile Hirsch and Julianne Nicholson co-star with Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman (American Splendor) delivering the script and directing. Check out the trailer below. sb id="1539265" height="360" width="640"...
- 6/29/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Solution Entertainment Group is at the Cannes Film Market with the new film from American Splendor directors Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman, Ten Thousand Saints and they've released the first picture from the upcoming drama starring Ethan Hawke (Boyhood) and Asa Butterfield (Hugo, Ender's Game). Pulcini and Berman co-direct and wrote the script based on the novel of the same name by Eleanor Henderson. The story is described as a sweeping multi-generational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; Adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young--and old--are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture. Along with Hawke and Butterfield, the film co-stars Butterfield's Ender's Game co-star Hailee Steinfeld, Emile Hirsch (Lone Survivor...
- 5/16/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The chilly NYC weather doesn’t seem to bother the young stars, although they may just be good actors. Hailee Steinfeld and Asa Butterfield are joined by co-star Emile Hirsch while shooting scenes for their upcoming film “Ten Thousand Saints.” The Shari Berman and Robert Pulcini directed coming-of-age drama is based on the book of the [...]
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- 1/29/2014
- by Alyssa Pando
- UpandComers
A Most Violent Year
Albert Brooks will join Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in J.C. Chandor's "A Most Violent Year" at A24, Participant Media and Image Nation Abu Dhabi. Filming has just gotten underway.
Set in New York in 1981, an immigrant and his family try to grow their heating oil business and their ambition collides with the crime wave that swept the city that year. Brooks will play Isaacs’ character’s attorney. [Source: Deadline]
Ten Thousand Saints
Emily Mortimer and Julianne Nicholson have joined the cast of Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman's "Ten Thousand Saints". Ethan Hawke, Emile Hirsch, Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld also star in the film which just began filming in New York.
An adaptation of the Eleanor Henderson novel, the story is set on New York's Lower East Side in the 1980s and is a coming-of-age story that follows three screwed-up young people and their equally screwed-up parents.
Albert Brooks will join Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in J.C. Chandor's "A Most Violent Year" at A24, Participant Media and Image Nation Abu Dhabi. Filming has just gotten underway.
Set in New York in 1981, an immigrant and his family try to grow their heating oil business and their ambition collides with the crime wave that swept the city that year. Brooks will play Isaacs’ character’s attorney. [Source: Deadline]
Ten Thousand Saints
Emily Mortimer and Julianne Nicholson have joined the cast of Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman's "Ten Thousand Saints". Ethan Hawke, Emile Hirsch, Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld also star in the film which just began filming in New York.
An adaptation of the Eleanor Henderson novel, the story is set on New York's Lower East Side in the 1980s and is a coming-of-age story that follows three screwed-up young people and their equally screwed-up parents.
- 1/28/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Julianne Nicholson (August: Osage County) and Emily Mortimer (The Newsroom) have joined the coming-of-age pic Ten Thousand Saints, set in the ’80s in New York City’s Lower East Side. American Splendor directing team Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman have assembled a fairly big cast for the project including Ethan Hawke, Emile Hirsch, and Ender’s Game co-stars Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld. Mortimer will be playing Hawke’s girlfriend and Steinfeld’s mother, while Nicholson has been cast as Hawke’s ex-wife and mother of Butterfield. [THR]
• Albert Brooks, who recently appeared in This Is 40, will play Oscar Isaac...
• Albert Brooks, who recently appeared in This Is 40, will play Oscar Isaac...
- 1/28/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Emily Mortimer and Julianne Nicholson have joined the cast of Ten Thousand Saints, an adaptation of the Eleanor Henderson novel being directed by Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman, the directing duo behind American Splendor. Ethan Hawke, Emile Hirsch, Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld are already on board the production, which began shooting Monday in New York. Story: Emily Mortimer Comedy Lands at HBO Saints is set in New York's Lower East Side in the 1980s and is a coming-of-age story that follows three screwed-up young people and their equally screwed-up parents in the age of Cbgb's,
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- 1/27/2014
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ten Thousand Saints
Emile Hirsch has joined the cast of Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman's "Ten Thousand Saints". Filming is set to begin in New York on January 27th.
An adaptation of the Eleanor Henderson novel, the story follows three young people as they find themselves among the chaos of 1980s New York. Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld and Ethan Hawke also star. [Source: Screen]
Night at the Museum 3
Sir Ben Kingsley will portray an Egyptian pharaoh in the upcoming "Night at the Museum 3". Filming is slated to begin in London next month.
Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Dan Stevens, Ricky Gervais and Rebel Wilson also star in the film which is currently targeting a December release. [Source: Deadline]
Carol
Sarah Paulson ("12 Years a Slave," "American Horror Story") will join Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in Todd Haynes's "Carol" for The Weinstein Company. Paulson will play Blanchett's ex-lover and current confidante.
An...
Emile Hirsch has joined the cast of Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman's "Ten Thousand Saints". Filming is set to begin in New York on January 27th.
An adaptation of the Eleanor Henderson novel, the story follows three young people as they find themselves among the chaos of 1980s New York. Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld and Ethan Hawke also star. [Source: Screen]
Night at the Museum 3
Sir Ben Kingsley will portray an Egyptian pharaoh in the upcoming "Night at the Museum 3". Filming is slated to begin in London next month.
Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Dan Stevens, Ricky Gervais and Rebel Wilson also star in the film which is currently targeting a December release. [Source: Deadline]
Carol
Sarah Paulson ("12 Years a Slave," "American Horror Story") will join Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in Todd Haynes's "Carol" for The Weinstein Company. Paulson will play Blanchett's ex-lover and current confidante.
An...
- 1/24/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Hot off the success of Lone Survivor, the actor joins a cast that includes Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld and Ethan Hawke.
Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman, the duo known for American Splendor, are set to commence shooting in New York on January 27.
The adaptation of the Eleanor Henderson novel follows three young people as they find themselves among the chaos of 1980s New York.
Anne Carey and Amy Nauiokas produce for Archer Gray Productions with Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray of Maven Pictures and Luca Borghese.
Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman, the duo known for American Splendor, are set to commence shooting in New York on January 27.
The adaptation of the Eleanor Henderson novel follows three young people as they find themselves among the chaos of 1980s New York.
Anne Carey and Amy Nauiokas produce for Archer Gray Productions with Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray of Maven Pictures and Luca Borghese.
- 1/23/2014
- ScreenDaily
Desierto
Jeffrey Dean Morgan ("Watchmen," "Magic City") will play the villain opposite Gael Garcia Bernal in Jonas Cuaron's thriller "Desierto". Alfonso Cuaron, Carlos Cuaron and Alex Garcia are producing.
The story centers on a group of illegal immigrants, one of which is played by Bernal, who try to cross the border but run afoul of a man (Morgan) who has taken up border patrol duties in his own racist hands. [Source: Heat Vision]
Ten Thousands Saints
Ethan Hawke and "Ender's Game" stars Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld have signed on for the film adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's coming-of-age novel "Ten Thousands Saints" for Maven Pictures and Archer Gray.
Set in the East Village Punk scene of 1987, Butterfield plays a young man sent to live with his estranged father (Hawke) in Manhattan. He soon discovers love, music and a new connection with his dad. Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman direct. [Source: Variety]
The Dying of the...
Jeffrey Dean Morgan ("Watchmen," "Magic City") will play the villain opposite Gael Garcia Bernal in Jonas Cuaron's thriller "Desierto". Alfonso Cuaron, Carlos Cuaron and Alex Garcia are producing.
The story centers on a group of illegal immigrants, one of which is played by Bernal, who try to cross the border but run afoul of a man (Morgan) who has taken up border patrol duties in his own racist hands. [Source: Heat Vision]
Ten Thousands Saints
Ethan Hawke and "Ender's Game" stars Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld have signed on for the film adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's coming-of-age novel "Ten Thousands Saints" for Maven Pictures and Archer Gray.
Set in the East Village Punk scene of 1987, Butterfield plays a young man sent to live with his estranged father (Hawke) in Manhattan. He soon discovers love, music and a new connection with his dad. Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman direct. [Source: Variety]
The Dying of the...
- 1/11/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Breaking Bad and Friday Night Lights alum Jesse Plemons is the latest name to emerge in the Star Wars: Episode VII casting rumor mill. According to The Wrap, Plemons is flying to Los Angeles to audition for director J.J. Abrams for the highly secretive Disney/Lucasfilm project, which is scheduled for a Dec. 18, 2015, release. Franchise originals Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill are all expected to return, but the cast still remains a mystery. Other recent rumors have included Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Sullivan Stapleton. [The Wrap]
• NCIS vet Code De Pablo has joined The 33, which tells the tale...
• NCIS vet Code De Pablo has joined The 33, which tells the tale...
- 1/10/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
It seems that every award season cinemas big and small are assaulted by a glut of biopics. Whether they are a retelling of an inspirational personal triumph al a 127 Hours or whether they retell the stories of life’s heroes and characters. Already in the run-in to 2012’s Oscar Ceremony we have already had Phyllida Lloyd’s the iron lady which had a powerhouse of a performance from Meryl Streep, so at least there was some value if everything else was such a cataclysmic misfire. Other recent and forthcoming biopics include J.Edgar and Albert Nobbs. Instead of looking forward to those films, I will use this opportunity to list some examples of biopics that show how varied this mode of storytelling can be, without that reliance of awards baiting coming into view.
Raging Bull
Once upon a time Robert De Niro was one of the best actors in the...
Raging Bull
Once upon a time Robert De Niro was one of the best actors in the...
- 1/16/2012
- by Robert Simpson
- SoundOnSight
Egyptian Theater, Park City, Utah
The Sundance Film Festival 2012 announced both their host for this year’s awards ceremony – the fantastic Ms. Parker Posey – and the jury members who will judge each of the festival’s categories.
Read the full press release received from Sundance this morning below:
Parker Posey to Host 2012 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony
Jury Members Announced
Shari Berman, Scott Burns, Charles Ferguson, Nick Fraser, Mike Judge, Justin Lin,
Anthony Mackie, Cliff Martinez, Julia Ormond, Dee Rees and Lynn Shelton Among Jurors
Park City, Ut – Sundance Institute announced today the 22 members of the six juries awarding prizes at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the host of the Awards Ceremony on January 28. The Festival takes place January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
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The Sundance Film Festival 2012 announced both their host for this year’s awards ceremony – the fantastic Ms. Parker Posey – and the jury members who will judge each of the festival’s categories.
Read the full press release received from Sundance this morning below:
Parker Posey to Host 2012 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony
Jury Members Announced
Shari Berman, Scott Burns, Charles Ferguson, Nick Fraser, Mike Judge, Justin Lin,
Anthony Mackie, Cliff Martinez, Julia Ormond, Dee Rees and Lynn Shelton Among Jurors
Park City, Ut – Sundance Institute announced today the 22 members of the six juries awarding prizes at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the host of the Awards Ceremony on January 28. The Festival takes place January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
Actress
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- 1/11/2012
- by Heather Campbell
- IMDb Blog - All the Latest
2012 Sundance Film Festival: Finally! Festival Darling Parker Posey to Host Awards; Juries Announced
It’s really about time that the Sundance Film Festival honored perennial indie it-girl Parker Posey with some kind of, well, some kind of something! Wait, what? Posey has appeared in over a dozen Sundance films? Including one this year? Sorry, but for the star of Party Girl (a film I will defend until the day I die, falafels and rain-soaked books forever, amen), we really need to do something much, much bigger. An awards-hosting gig? Yes, yes, that will do just fine. Terrible and bizarre reporting gimmick aside, the Sundance Institute has today announced that Posey will serve as of host of this year’s Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. The ceremony will take place on its traditional day – the last Saturday of the festival (this year, that’s January 28) at 7Pm and will be available via live-stream to those not able to attend the festival. As ever, the Awards will be followed by the Closing...
- 1/10/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Sundance Film Festival is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, the festival is a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The Festival has changed over the decades from a low-profile venue for small-budget, independent creators from outside the Hollywood system to a media extravaganza for Hollywood celebrity actors, paparazzi, and luxury lounges set up by companies that are not affiliated with Sundance.
Now the festival is getting ready for the 2012 edition and today they announced the jury members for this year’s Festival. They include Shari Berman, Scott Burns, Charles Ferguson, Nick Fraser, Mike Judge, Justin Lin, Anthony Mackie, Cliff Martinez, Julia Ormond, Dee Rees and Lynn Shelton.
Here is the official press release:
Park City, Ut — Sundance Institute announced today the 22 members of the six juries awarding prizes at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival,...
Now the festival is getting ready for the 2012 edition and today they announced the jury members for this year’s Festival. They include Shari Berman, Scott Burns, Charles Ferguson, Nick Fraser, Mike Judge, Justin Lin, Anthony Mackie, Cliff Martinez, Julia Ormond, Dee Rees and Lynn Shelton.
Here is the official press release:
Park City, Ut — Sundance Institute announced today the 22 members of the six juries awarding prizes at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival,...
- 1/10/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The Sundance Film Festival announced today that indie favorite Parker Posey will host its 2012 awards ceremony. Several of her films have been Sundance darlings, including Party Girl, House of Yes, and Broken English. Today’s announcement also saw festival heads name the 22 members of its six juries, highlighted by Anthony Mackie, Julia Ormond, Mike Judge, Fenton Bailey, Shari Berman, and Dee Rees.
The Sundance Film Festival takes place in Park City, Utah, from Jan. 19-29, Posey will host the awards ceremony on Jan. 28. Past big winners at this particular ceremony have included Like Crazy, Precious, American Splendor, and The Believer.
The Sundance Film Festival takes place in Park City, Utah, from Jan. 19-29, Posey will host the awards ceremony on Jan. 28. Past big winners at this particular ceremony have included Like Crazy, Precious, American Splendor, and The Believer.
- 1/10/2012
- by Lanford Beard
- EW - Inside Movies
The Sundance Institute reveals the jury members of the six juries that will be granting prizes at the 2012 festival. The awards ceremony January 28 will be hosted by Parker Posey and live streamed here. Short film awards will be announced January 24 at a separate ceremony. The jurors, including Fenton Bailey, Shari Berman, Scott Burns, Charles Ferguson, Nick Fraser, Mike Judge, Justin Lin, Anthony Mackie, Cliff Martinez, Julia Ormond, Dee Rees, Richard Pena and Lynn Shelton (whose non-competition film "Your Sister's Sister" is in the fest), are listed below: U.S. Documentary Jury Fenton Bailey | Fenton Bailey made his Sundance Film Festival debut in 1998...
- 1/10/2012
- Thompson on Hollywood
Following up on last month’s announcements of the 26 competition films in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival as well as the out-of-competition films and special premieres, the Sundance Institute announced the 22 members of the six juries responsible for awarding the prizes at the closing awards ceremony Jan. 28. Chosen for the U.S. Documentary Jury were Inside Deep Throat co-director Fenton Bailey, American Splendor director Shari Berman; Heather Croall, director for Sheffield Doc/Fest, Charles Ferguson, director of Inside Job and editor Kim Roberts. Joining the U.S. Dramatic Jury were Fast Five director Justin Lin, actor Anthony Mackie, musician and composer Cliff Martinez, Your Sister’s Sister director Lynn Shelton and cinematographer Amy Vincent.
- 1/10/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Following up on last month’s announcements of the 26 competition films in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival as well as the out-of-competition films and special premieres, the Sundance Institute announced the 22 members of the six juries responsible for awarding the prizes at the closing awards ceremony Jan. 28. Chosen for the U.S. Documentary Jury were Inside Deep Throat co-director Fenton Bailey, American Splendor director Shari Berman; Heather Croall, director for Sheffield Doc/Fest, Charles Ferguson, director of Inside Job and editor Kim Roberts. Joining the U.S. Dramatic Jury were Fast Five director Justin Lin, actor Anthony Mackie, musician and composer Cliff Martinez, Your Sister’s Sister director Lynn Shelton and cinematographer Amy Vincent.
- 1/10/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Following up on last month’s announcements of the 26 competition films in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival as well as the out-of-competition films and special premieres, the Sundance Institute announced the 22 members of the six juries responsible for awarding the prizes at the closing awards ceremony Jan. 28. Chosen for the U.S. Documentary Jury were Inside Deep Throat co-director Fenton Bailey, American Splendor director Shari Berman; Heather Croall, director for Sheffield Doc/Fest, Charles Ferguson, director of Inside Job and editor Kim Roberts. Joining the U.S. Dramatic Jury were Fast Five director Justin Lin, actor Anthony Mackie, musician and composer Cliff Martinez, Your Sister’s Sister director Lynn Shelton and cinematographer Amy Vincent.
- 1/10/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"Bridesmaids" star Kristen Wiig has set her next comedy -- she'll star in and exec produce "Imogene" for Maven Pictures and Anonymous Content, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Imogene" follows a struggling playwright (Wiig) who pretends to be suicidal in an attempt to win sympathy from her ex-boyfriend. Instead, she's put under the watchful eye of her compulsive gambler mother. Shari Berman and Robert Pulcini ("American Splendor," "Cinema Verite") will co-direct, while Michelle Morgan and Steve Golin are writing the script. "Imogene" will start shooting next month in New York City. Wiig, best known for this summer's sleeper smash hit "Bridesmaids"...
- 7/12/2011
- by HitFix Staff
- Hitfix
The Independent Film Festival of Boston has begun! I'll be here over the course of the next week providing coverage, hopefully in the form of interviews with exciting people from the indie film scene. Here are some of the movies I'm most looking forward to, and here's a link where you can find all of our IFFboston coverage from this year and last year. Hit the jump for my brief chat with actor Kevin Kline, who was in town to receive a Career Achievement Award. In the meantime, if you have a movie you're screening here and want to chat (or if you're just a reader/listener in the area and want to say hi), feel free to e-mail me at slashfilmcast(At)gmail(Dot)com. The festival opened with a screening of Shari Berman and Robert Pulcini's The Extra Man. Here's the plot synopsis: Louis Ives (Paul Dano...
- 4/22/2010
- by David Chen
- Slash Film
Ted Hope has produced more than 50 films and co-founded both This Is That and Good Machine. His eye for talent is demonstrated by the feature directing careers he’s initiated, including those of Ang Lee, Hal Hartley, Nicole Holofcener, Todd Field, Michel Gondry and Bob Pulcini & Shari Berman. Three of his films have won the Grand Prize at Sundance. He blogs at TrulyFreeFilm.blogspot.com and co-founded the Indie Film review site HammerToNail.com.
- 10/22/2009
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
Smaller films from specialty film companies dominated the nominees Thursday for original screenplay at the 56th annual Writers Guild Awards, while adapted screenplays were nominated from several of the year's bigger releases including The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Cold Mountain. Nominated for original screenplay were Gurinder Chadha, Paul Berges and Guljit Bindra for Fox Searchlight Pictures' Bend It Like Beckham, Steven Knight for Miramax Films' Dirty Pretty Things, Jim Sheridan and daughters Naomi Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridan for Fox Searchlight Pictures' In America, Sofia Coppola for Focus Features' Lost in Translation, and Tom McCarthy for Miramax Films' The Station Agent. Adapted screenplay nominees were: Robert Pulcini and Shari Berman for HBO Films/Fine Line Features' American Splendor, based on the comic book series by Harvey Pekar and novel by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner; Anthony Minghella for Miramax Films' Cold Mountain, based on the novel by Charles Frazier; Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson for New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien; Brian Helgeland for Warner Bros. Pictures' Mystic River, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane; and Gary Ross for Universal Pictures' Seabiscuit based on the book by Laura Hillenbrand.
- 1/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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