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Jason Weiss named Myriad svp production
13 June 2013 11:16 AM, PDT | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
The executive will oversee a slate that includes the recently announced Jessica Alba drama Weightless, action thriller Caught Stealing with Patrick Wilson and Alec Baldwin and comedy Guidance starring Seann William Scott and Leslie Bibb.
Weiss most recently headed his own production and management company and prior to that he launched and ran MGM’s DVD Premiere division.
He has served as an executive at MTV Films, where he oversaw projects such as The Dirt, Black Hole and the remake of The Warriors. Weiss also served as an executive at New Regency where he worked on The Runaway Jury and Daredevil, among others. He began his career working for Scott Rudin.
“We are very excited to have Jason join us to head up our production activities,” said Myriad CEO Kirk D’Amico. “Jason brings with him excellent relationships throughout the industry, strong production experience, and a proven track record for putting together smart and compelling projects that mesh »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
The English Teacher | Review
30 May 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Notes on the Banal: Zisk’s Debut a Toothless Version of Familiar Material
After working exclusively in the realm of television since the 1990s, director Craig Zisk lands a high profile cast for his feature film debut, The English Teacher, which looks on paper like something of a cross between Notes on a Scandal and Hamlet 2. But even though its glossy pedigree hints at potentially subversive elements laced with acerbic comedic flare, Zisk, with a screenplay from Dan and Stacy Chariton, plays with its controversial elements apprehensively, awkwardly unraveling like a neutered version of similarly themed films. While at its core it does happen to sport a watchable lead performance from its star, the film ultimately does her no favors, crushing its own titular protagonist beneath the wheels of a predictable finale.
Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) is an uptight 40-something high school English teacher, living out a rather isolated spinsterhood, »
- Nicholas Bell
'The English Teacher' review: Julianne Moore earns a C - at best
23 May 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
The line between "cute" and "cutesy" is violated, repeatedly, in the sometimes funny, often cloying comedy "The English Teacher." We're treated to the rare talents of Julianne Moore in a gently predictable "dark" comedy sprinkled with the most adorably heavy handed flourishes.
Start with the narration (by the oh-so-British Fiona Shaw). We're told that Linda Sinclair is an unmarried 45-year-old small-town Pennsylvania high school teacher with "no prospects" but with a "life's purpose -- igniting the flames of literary passion in young minds."
Linda teaches and grades kids. And when she dates, she "grades" them too, her red marker jotting judgments all over the screen around them -- "arrogant," "unmotivated," "F."
Then a star pupil (Michael Angarano) returns to town, an Nyu playwriting graduate with a play no one will produce, resigned to do as his father (Greg Kinnear) wants and go to law school. Linda reads the play, weeps over "The Chrysalis, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
The English Teacher Proves that a Good Cast Doesn't Equate to Big Laughs
22 May 2013 9:00 PM, PDT | Village Voice | See recent Village Voice news »
A film seemingly produced only because it boasts enough sizable roles to entice multiple stars, Craig Zisk's The English Teacher reveals that a respectable cast and much noisy boisterousness isn't enough to generate a single laugh. Introduced by a stuffy female British narrator as a spinster with no marriage prospects, high school English teacher Linda (Julianne Moore) finds her staid, solitary life upended when former student Jason (Michael Angarano) returns home from New York with an unpublished play that she and drama teacher Carl (Nathan Lane) adore and demand to stage. Close-minded small-town administrators who'd rather put on Our Town soon prove the least of Linda's problems once she sleeps with Jason and—after he proves to be a two-timing sleazeball—the »
The English Teacher Movie Review
22 May 2013 10:51 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
The English Teacher, which drips with an “indie” feel, has only one real problem, and that’s its internal struggle over whether or not to aim for subtlety. The story of a stereotypical ideal, in this case that of a bookworm nerd turned English teacher, this is a movie that starts out with that mocking notion many High Schoolers have of what certain teachers are like at home, and then drives a train through that life to see what we can make with the rubble. Apart from setting up our teacher, Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore), as such an anti-role model for the book crowd (“See, that’s what people who read are like”), it’s an interesting concept, and potentially a fun ride. This is especially true when we move into the particulars of her fall from grace, and what she manages to do about it.
But, there’s a balancing act going on here, »
- Marc Eastman
'Only God Forgives' and 'Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters' Rated in Today's MPAA Bulletin
22 May 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Today's bulletin is another light one in terms of bigger name films as only Only God Forgives and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters immediately catch the eye. Certainly a few people will see Uwe Boll's Assault on Wall Street on accident, Craig Zisk's The English Teacher starring Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Michael Angarano and Lily Collins will be recognized by some as it is already in theaters and while I'm not interested in it, I'm sure some of you will be looking for the animated Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. However, with Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, which I just saw here in Cannes a few hours ago and will have a review for you soon, you're getting the anticipated R-rating and the continuation of the Percy Jackson story will continue one notch higher on the rating scale than where it began with Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. »
- Brad Brevet
Julianne Moore and Michael Angarano Talk The English Teacher, Their Characters, the Film’s Tone, Maps To The Stars, Heat, and More
20 May 2013 5:16 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The indie dramedy The English Teacher tells the story of Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore), a 40-year-old, unmarried high school English teacher in small town Pennsylvania. With no children and no relationships to speak of, her life is uncomplicated, which is just how she likes it. Her greatest passion and her biggest fulfillment comes from helping her impressionable young students discover their own creative voices, until a former star student (Michael Angarano) returns and threatens to undo it all. During this recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, co-stars Julianne Moore and Michael Angarano talked about how they came to the project, what they enjoyed most about playing their characters, and how much they enjoyed the experience of working with each other. Julianne also spoke about the next film she’ll be shooting, Maps to the Stars, directed by David Cronenberg, while Michael spoke about how he’s shooting the remake of Heat with Jason Statham, »
- Christina Radish
Transformers 4 Adds Chinese Actress Li Bingbing
20 May 2013 1:10 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
We've known for a while now that there will be a significant Chinese influence on Michael Bay's Transformers 4, which is a result of the studio behind it appeasing to the giant Asian market, and now it seems that influence has grown a little stronger today. While the cast currently consists of only American and English actors, including Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Sophia Myles, Kelsey Grammer and Jack Reynor,today it's been officially announced that Chinese actress Li Bingbing as come aboard as well. While most of Bingbing's work has been done in her home country, just last year she took the part of Ada Wong in Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil Retribution. She may also be recognized from Jackie Chan's war film 1911 or from 2008's The Forbidden Kingdom, which had her starring alongside Chan, Jet Li, and Michael Angarano. Said Michael Bay in a »
Who Nearly Played George Michael In Arrested Development?
19 May 2013 5:33 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
As anyone who regularly greets their friends with a "Hey brother!" and an overly forceful neck rub will tell you, Michael Cera plays the youngest member of the Bluth family in Fox's (and now Netflix's) cult comedy show Arrested Development. But, as our interview with Cera and his co-star Alia Shawkat reveals below, it was very nearly someone else doing the Snoopy walk: Michael Angarano.You may know Michael Angarano from his turn as Will in Sky High, though he also appeared in more critically-acclaimed fare, such as Haywire, Almost Famous and Lords Of Dogtow. But what's important is just how close it was on the George Michael front. Just-a-few-days-in-it close, in fact. Have a look at our video interview to find out more about how it happened for Michael Cera (and not for Michael Angarano) and then feel free to take a few minutes imagining Mr. Angarano wearing a jet pack, »
Movie Review - The English Teacher (2013)
19 May 2013 11:06 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The English Teacher, 2013.
Directed by Craig Zisk.Starring Julianne Moore, Lily Collins, Michael Angarano, Greg Kinnear, and Nathan Lane.
Synopsis:
An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.
For a writer, failure is inherently less sexy than adversity - it’s adversity that is the catalyst for change. Failure comes with characters having exhausted all their avenues and accepted their reality, but it’s here that The English Teacher paints its triptych of bruised and broken dreams. Opening with the austere tones of Fiona Shaw’s narrator we’re introduced to our bashful hero through a montage of her forays into romance with a series of idiots, aided by on-screen assessments in red pen with a grade befitting their failings. Ms. Sinclair, we’re told, is a passionate woman; a romantic who found sanctuary in »
- Flickering Myth
Julianne Moore Tells Us About Getting In Touch With Her Inner Bookworm in 'The English Teacher'
18 May 2013 6:31 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
After romancing Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the Sundance/Berlinale hit "Don Jon," Julianne Moore is again putting the moves on a much younger co-star (Michael Angarano) in the indie comedy "The English Teacher," currently playing in select theaters and available on VOD. In the Cinedigm/Tribeca Film release, Moore plays Linda, a 40-year-old unmarried high school English teacher who mounts a play by a former student (Angarano), only to find herself falling for him. Greg Kinnear co-stars as the aspiring playwright's overbearing father, while Nathan Lane pops up as a wacky colleague. Read More: Julianne Moore On Playing a Troubled Rock Star in 'What Maisie Knew' and Why Acting Doesn't Scare Her Indiewire sat down with Moore and Angarano to discuss working together, that age difference and Moore's busy year (she also stars is "What Maisie Knew," currently out in limited release). Michael, when you learned that you were »
- Nigel M Smith
Review: ‘The English Teacher’ Starts Well, But Fizzles Fast
17 May 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Editor’s Note: This review originally ran as part of our Tribeca coverage, and as of today, the film is in limited release. In The English Teacher, star Julianne Moore plays an English teacher; I point that out, redundantly, because the character type is almost redundant. Everything that you would expect from a stereotypical high school purveyor of Charles Dickens and Nathaniel Hawthorne is true about Moore’s Ms. Linda Sinclair. She’s introduced as the obvious loner, a shy woman in love with the classics. She goes on blind dates with terrible men, who she imaginatively grades in her head like a student’s paper. The script even goes so far as to make sure she’s buffeted by voiceover narration, in an inevitably British accent. Yet Moore, and to an extent director Craig Zisk, do an excellent job at keeping Ms. Sinclair away from the frustrating blandness of the stock character, at »
- Daniel Walber
See This, Skip That: From Star Trek to The English Teacher - Your Weekend Movie Plan
17 May 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
The final frontier, or the final exam? Star Trek Into Darkness and The English Teacher hit theaters at warp speed this weekend, but People's critic gives only one of them a good grade. Here's what to see, what to skip and what to seek out this weekend at the movies. See This:• Star Trek Into Darkness: Why bother with calendars? (They're so predictable anyway.) This is how you know summer's arrived - with a blockbuster at the cineplex. J.J. Abrams's second voyage at Star Trek's helm is very nearly as good as the first, with zippy action sequences, »
- Alynda Wheat, PEOPLE Movie Critic
The English Teacher Review
16 May 2013 5:38 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Born from mostly pleasant parts, Craig Zisk’s The English Teacher is a frothy foil to most mainstream comedies masquerading as such. It nicely blends a coming of (old) age tale with what is clearly a love/hate relationship with the emotions associated with writing and theater, chiefly seeing one’s work realized in the fashion originally envisioned. Lead by a company of fine thesps doing equally fine work, this dramedy is an easy watch even when those aforementioned amiable parts are far less effective when singled out.
From the opening scene The English Teacher suggests we’re in for a completely different film from what ultimately unfolds, due in no small part to the disembodied, whimsical voiceover narration which is snatched right from the clutches of wonderful entertainment such as Pushing Daises and Stranger Than Fiction. Unsurprisingly, simply extracting effective elements from other, better fare does not a good decision make, »
- Simon Brookfield
English Teacher, The | Review
16 May 2013 10:00 AM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
From the onset of The English Teacher, one thing is made abundantly clear, Linda (Julianne Moore) always has been and always will be a romantic. A dreamer with fictional expectations of love, Linda is destined to live a life of solitude as an aging spinster. She buries her head in Merchant-Ivory films and classic literature whenever she is not lecturing to her high school English class about A Tale of Two Cities, a job she finds to be enjoyably fulfilling. It is important to note that Linda is neither pathetic nor cartoonish; embodied perfectly by Julianne Moore, Linda's homely plainness seems perfectly natural. One night, Linda accidentally pepper-sprays Jason (Michael Angarano), a former student who has recently returned to his quaint hometown of Kingston. A graduate of Nyu's prestigious writing program, Jason has already lost his faith in writing as a viable career option; his return home serves a chance for him to switch gears, »
- Don Simpson
A Respectable Cast Can't Bring The English Teacher Any Laughs
15 May 2013 9:00 PM, PDT | Village Voice | See recent Village Voice news »
A film seemingly produced only because it boasts enough sizable roles to entice multiple stars, Craig Zisk's The English Teacher reveals that a respectable cast and much noisy boisterousness isn't enough to generate a single laugh. Introduced by a stuffy female British narrator as a spinster with no marriage prospects, high school English teacher Linda (Julianne Moore) finds her staid, solitary life upended when former student Jason (Michael Angarano) returns home from New York with an unpublished play that she and drama teacher Carl (Nathan Lane) adore and demand to stage. Close-minded small-town administrators who'd rather put on Our Town soon prove the least of Linda's problems once she sleeps with Jason and—after he proves to be a two-timing sleazeball—the »
Review: The English Teacher
14 May 2013 5:36 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Plot: A lonely, middle-aged high school English teacher (Julianne Moore) has her quiet existence shaken up by the return of a former pupil (Michael Angarano) turned playwright, whose Magnum opus is about to be performed by the school.s drama club. She soon comes into conflict with the pupil.s conservative doctor father (Greg Kinnear), who wants his son to give up his dreams of the stage and enter law school. Review: The English Teacher seems tailor-made for VOD. That.s not a knock on the »
- Chris Bumbray
Interview: Julianne Moore and Michael Angarano on The English Teacher
14 May 2013 10:38 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
The most successful romantic pieces of literature often contend with themes of self-discovery and how characters can transform themselves to become better people. Chronicling that journey of going from endless hope to failure to redemption, told in a funny and endearing way, is the main driving force of conflict in the new comedy-drama, ‘The English Teacher,’ which was directed by Craig Zisk. The often relatable characters show courage as they struggle to follow their dreams, while also finding a way to embrace their fears. As the characters explore their flaws and desires, they find their unique value and purpose in life, as well as their strengths and greatest attributes. ‘The [ Read More ]
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- Karen Benardello
Film Review: ‘The English Teacher’
13 May 2013 10:39 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Graded on a curve, “The English Teacher” is an affable if familiar high-school comedy populated by bright pupils, badly behaved teachers and amateur theatricals. Clearly inspired by — but never as inspired as — the likes of “Election,” “Rushmore” and “Glee,” this feature directing debut for smallscreen vet Craig Zisk (“Weeds,” “The Larry Sanders Show”) benefits from a brisk pace, witty banter and engaging performances, yet still fades from memory faster than a final exam on the first day of summer vacation. A world premiere at Tribeca, which is also partnering with Cinedigm on the pic’s VOD and theatrical distribution, “Teacher” should perform best with the study-from-home crowd.
In a variation on the lovelorn widow she plays in Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Sundance hit “Don Jon,” the always resourceful Moore here stars as Linda Sinclair, a 45-year-old spinster who grades potential suitors with the same unforgiving red pen she brings to her »
- Scott Foundas
The English Teacher Movie Review
11 May 2013 4:27 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Title: The English Teacher Cinedigm Director: Craig Zisk Screenwriter: Dan Chariton, Stacy Chariton Cast: Julianne Moore, Michael Angarano, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins, Nathan Lane Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 5/1/13 Opens: May 17, 2013 They say that the best way to learn a subject is to teach it, and, as a former high school chalk-pusher I heartily agree. In Craig Zisk’s “The English Teacher,” the title character teaches the likes of “A Tale of Two Cities” while some of the greats taped to the walls like Mark Twain overlook the classroom. The teacher represents learning a lot about Charles Dickens by searching out good questions for classroom discussion. But what [ Read More ]
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- Harvey Karten
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