Exclusive: Zachary Levi (Shazam!) is set to topline Hotel Tehran, a new action thriller marking the fourth feature from writer-director Guy Moshe (Bunraku).
In the film heading into production in May, Levi plays Tucker, who leads a unit of disgraced, war-torn ex-CIA operators into the heart of Tehran to take down a life-changing score.
Moshe wrote the script with Mark Bacci (Prisoner’s Daughter), from an original idea by Bazzel Baz (The Blacklist), a former CIA special operations group officer. Oakhurst Entertainment is financing. Oakhurst’s Marina Grasic is producing alongside Matthew G. Zamias (Boxing Day), co-founder of the new financing and production company Astral Future, as well as Wendy Sweetmore of Dreamtime Films. Astral Future’s Harel Kodesh and Arbel Kodesh are exec producing alongside Moshe, Baz, Justin C. Oberman, and William Doyle (The Killer). Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee (Spotlight) are handling casting.
In a statement to Deadline,...
In the film heading into production in May, Levi plays Tucker, who leads a unit of disgraced, war-torn ex-CIA operators into the heart of Tehran to take down a life-changing score.
Moshe wrote the script with Mark Bacci (Prisoner’s Daughter), from an original idea by Bazzel Baz (The Blacklist), a former CIA special operations group officer. Oakhurst Entertainment is financing. Oakhurst’s Marina Grasic is producing alongside Matthew G. Zamias (Boxing Day), co-founder of the new financing and production company Astral Future, as well as Wendy Sweetmore of Dreamtime Films. Astral Future’s Harel Kodesh and Arbel Kodesh are exec producing alongside Moshe, Baz, Justin C. Oberman, and William Doyle (The Killer). Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee (Spotlight) are handling casting.
In a statement to Deadline,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Hollywood studio execs – including James Lin, Universal Pictures SVP physical production, Legendary TV’s Lily Tammy and Robert Ortiz, Paramount SVP, production – met with international location managers, scouts, and line producers and film commission reps at this year’s Shooting Locations Marketplace in Spain’s Valladolid.
Among location managers, event ambassador Lori Balton was joined by William Doyle (“Mank”) Mika Saito (“Tenet”) Michael Glaser (“Inception”) Les Fincher (“Over the Brooklyn Bridge”) John Hutchinson (“White Noise”) and John Rakich (“See”).
David Williams Jeffrey Shepherd and Sandra Solares (“Point Break”) also attended.
Strategically timed just before the Seminci Valladolid Film Festival, the boutique Marketplace is a unique event structured around the decision makers in choosing locations. A record 69 studio execs and location managers sat at booths with an agreed-to appointments schedule of meetings with film commissioners, production service providers and companies – such as hotels chains – coming to them to pitch their offers.
Among location managers, event ambassador Lori Balton was joined by William Doyle (“Mank”) Mika Saito (“Tenet”) Michael Glaser (“Inception”) Les Fincher (“Over the Brooklyn Bridge”) John Hutchinson (“White Noise”) and John Rakich (“See”).
David Williams Jeffrey Shepherd and Sandra Solares (“Point Break”) also attended.
Strategically timed just before the Seminci Valladolid Film Festival, the boutique Marketplace is a unique event structured around the decision makers in choosing locations. A record 69 studio execs and location managers sat at booths with an agreed-to appointments schedule of meetings with film commissioners, production service providers and companies – such as hotels chains – coming to them to pitch their offers.
- 1/3/2024
- by Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
Part of Spain’s drive to consolidate as one of the world’s foremost big shoot locales, Shooting Locations Marketplace has confirmed dates for its second edition which will run over Oct. 20-21, taking place once again at the Feria de Valladolid, an hour’s train ride north of Madrid.
The Marketplace looks set to repeat its original format which welcomes first and foremost location scouts, as well as producers, line producers and representatives of film commissions in and outside Spain.
Revolving around one-to-one meetings, where commissions and service companies present potential shoot destinations to location managers, the Marketplace also features panels and presentations analysing industry trends as well as success stories and factors that tip the balance when picking one destination over another.
Representatives of 60 destinations are expected, including members of the Spain Film Commission, and countries such as Portugal and Norway, which will attend for the first time.
The Marketplace looks set to repeat its original format which welcomes first and foremost location scouts, as well as producers, line producers and representatives of film commissions in and outside Spain.
Revolving around one-to-one meetings, where commissions and service companies present potential shoot destinations to location managers, the Marketplace also features panels and presentations analysing industry trends as well as success stories and factors that tip the balance when picking one destination over another.
Representatives of 60 destinations are expected, including members of the Spain Film Commission, and countries such as Portugal and Norway, which will attend for the first time.
- 6/22/2022
- by Pablo Sandoval and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The new year is almost upon us and it goes without saying that David Fincher’s “Mank” is one of the most highly anticipated films of 2020, right up there with Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley,” and Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” “Mank” is Fincher’s first feature directorial effort since 2014’s “Gone Girl” and marks a reunion between the director and Netflix, the home of his serial killer drama series “Mindhunter.” Fincher’s longtime location manager William Doyle told Daily Press just before Christmas that “Mank” is roughly 50% done with principal photography.
The “Mank” production spent most of December filming at Kemper Campbell Ranch in Victorville, California. Doyle was keen on using the ranch for “Mank” considering the location has direct ties to the film’s storyline. “Mank,” written by the director’s late father Jack Fincher, tells the true story of Herman J. Mankiewicz...
The “Mank” production spent most of December filming at Kemper Campbell Ranch in Victorville, California. Doyle was keen on using the ranch for “Mank” considering the location has direct ties to the film’s storyline. “Mank,” written by the director’s late father Jack Fincher, tells the true story of Herman J. Mankiewicz...
- 12/26/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Witness the ‘fifties transformation of the femme fatale, from scheming murderess to self-deluding social climber. Barbara Stanwyck redefines herself once again in Gerd Oswald’s best-directed picture, a searing portrayal of needs and anxieties in the nervous decade. With fine support from Raymond Burr, Virginia Grey and Royal Dano.
Crime of Passion
Blu-ray
ClassicFlix
1957 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 84 min. / Street Date September 5, 2017 /
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Virginia Grey, Royal Dano.
Cinematography: Joseph Lashelle
Art Direction: Leslie Thomas
Original Music: Paul Dunlap
Original Story and Screenplay by Jo Eisinger
Produced by Herman Cohen, Robert Goldstein
Directed by Gerd Oswald
A key title in the development of the Film Noir, 1957’s Crime of Passion shows how much the style had departed from the dark romanticism and expressive visuals of the previous decade. The best mid-’50s noirs strike a marvelously cynical and existentially bleak attitude regarding crime and society.
Crime of Passion
Blu-ray
ClassicFlix
1957 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 84 min. / Street Date September 5, 2017 /
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Virginia Grey, Royal Dano.
Cinematography: Joseph Lashelle
Art Direction: Leslie Thomas
Original Music: Paul Dunlap
Original Story and Screenplay by Jo Eisinger
Produced by Herman Cohen, Robert Goldstein
Directed by Gerd Oswald
A key title in the development of the Film Noir, 1957’s Crime of Passion shows how much the style had departed from the dark romanticism and expressive visuals of the previous decade. The best mid-’50s noirs strike a marvelously cynical and existentially bleak attitude regarding crime and society.
- 9/16/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Casualties of Class War: Colangelo’s Well Performed, Soporific Debut
The directorial debut of Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents, finds a filmmaker afforded the possibility to expand an intriguing short film into a feature length endeavor only to end up with a curiously hollow, naggingly underwhelming result. That’s not to say this is generally the case or to place this title within any sort of overarching trend in American independent cinema, but short film formatting doesn’t always allow or necessitate for more in depth analysis. Featuring several performances worth lauding, Colangelo’s script congeals into a mush of predictable beats and rhythms once it establishes the zenith of its dramatic tension early on, meant to catalyze a series of intersecting ripples careening throughout the numbed lives of its rural denizens, where the haves and have-nots are equally hardnosed, everyone equipped with blinders as to the needs, thoughts, or feelings of their fellow citizens.
The directorial debut of Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents, finds a filmmaker afforded the possibility to expand an intriguing short film into a feature length endeavor only to end up with a curiously hollow, naggingly underwhelming result. That’s not to say this is generally the case or to place this title within any sort of overarching trend in American independent cinema, but short film formatting doesn’t always allow or necessitate for more in depth analysis. Featuring several performances worth lauding, Colangelo’s script congeals into a mush of predictable beats and rhythms once it establishes the zenith of its dramatic tension early on, meant to catalyze a series of intersecting ripples careening throughout the numbed lives of its rural denizens, where the haves and have-nots are equally hardnosed, everyone equipped with blinders as to the needs, thoughts, or feelings of their fellow citizens.
- 1/16/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In a blue-collar, West Virginia town, a mining accident kills 10 workers in the dusty pits and leaves several members of its community coughing up grief and despair. The townsfolk, frustrated and starting to point their fingers at the hasty corporate management, all have to grapple with the tragedy and try to restore feelings of normalcy. The set-up for Little Accidents, the debut feature for writer/director Sara Colangelo, hints at building a tense conflict between the various residents altered by the event. However, despite terrific work from a good ensemble of character actors, the film never achieves either the complexity or the rising tension its premise promises.
What does work is the drama’s specificity. Colangelo shot the film in a West Virginia mining town and even used a coal mine as a major set. (Several shots of the mine show big piles of ash covering up a hole, an...
What does work is the drama’s specificity. Colangelo shot the film in a West Virginia mining town and even used a coal mine as a major set. (Several shots of the mine show big piles of ash covering up a hole, an...
- 1/15/2015
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
In the wake of a tragic coal-mining accident in a small West Virginian town, the local community is struggling to come to terms with the miners’ deaths and what comes next. Writer-director Sara Colangelo’s feature debut, Little Accidents, is strengthened by a trio of impressive leading performances, raising the drama up to become more than the sum of its parts.
The setting itself is not something typically seen in mainstream cinema, which is one of the great things about a festival like Sundance – it gives filmmakers the opportunity to take us into a world the majority of us are largely otherwise oblivious to. In theory, we know that mining can be a dangerous industry in which to work, particularly for the blue-collar employees. But in practice, it’s never something we see, and out of sight, out of mind goes a long way in instances such as these.
At...
The setting itself is not something typically seen in mainstream cinema, which is one of the great things about a festival like Sundance – it gives filmmakers the opportunity to take us into a world the majority of us are largely otherwise oblivious to. In theory, we know that mining can be a dangerous industry in which to work, particularly for the blue-collar employees. But in practice, it’s never something we see, and out of sight, out of mind goes a long way in instances such as these.
At...
- 4/27/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Little Accidents," director Sara Colangelo’s first feature (developed in the Sundance Institute’s Writers’ Lab from her 2010 short of the same name) takes place in a small Appalachian mining town in the aftermath of a fatal accident. The only survivor, Amos Jenkins (Boyd Holbrook), is under pressure from the miners’ union to give testimony that one of the coal company’s executives, Bill Doyle (Josh Lucas) had previously refused to reexamine the company’s safety standards, despite his employees’ objections. “Little Accidents" takes its time, but Holbrook’s confident performance makes his story riveting throughout, reflecting both the gravity of his situation and the enormous consequences his choice will have on the entire town — certain individuals in particular. Colangelo conveys to great effect the sense that everyone in the town is holding their breath ,watching Amos’s every move, and Holbrook has such a powerful presence that the audience...
- 1/23/2014
- by Mary Sollosi
- Indiewire
Nothing spectacular here, it's just cool to know that "Green Lantern" is actually happening. A section of Lake Road in Madisonville will be closed intermittently on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon, as a film crew prepares to shoot scenes for a movie.Although filming for "Green Lantern" has not yet begun, crews from Warner Brothers will be on location to run tests with a stunt car, according to Bill Doyle, supervising location manager. I'm not very familiar with Green Lantern or his mythology, but I did dig the recent DC animated movie "First Flight." If that film and the stuff I've browsed in the Lantern comics over the years are any indication, we should be in for some fantastic imagery if handled right.Will it be handled right? Well, that's the big question. I love the way director Martin Campbell composes his frame and shoots action. I love "Goldeneye,...
- 3/5/2010
- LRMonline.com
Warner Brothers' highly anticipated "Green Lantern" movie — starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan — is set to begin filming later this month. However, a news story out of New Orleans indicates that the film's production may be starting sooner than anticipated.
Nola.com is reporting that test footage for "Green Lantern" will be filmed tomorrow morning at a section of Lake Road in Madisonville, Louisiana. The report also states that the film crew will be shooting test runs with a stunt car, according to Bill Doyle — the supervising location manager for "Green Lantern."
It's worth noting that there is a car accident in Hal Jordan's backstory. During the first issue of "Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn", Jordan was behind the wheel of a car wreck that seriously injured his best friend and jeopardized his job as a test pilot before he was given the Green Lantern power ring. The stunt...
Nola.com is reporting that test footage for "Green Lantern" will be filmed tomorrow morning at a section of Lake Road in Madisonville, Louisiana. The report also states that the film crew will be shooting test runs with a stunt car, according to Bill Doyle — the supervising location manager for "Green Lantern."
It's worth noting that there is a car accident in Hal Jordan's backstory. During the first issue of "Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn", Jordan was behind the wheel of a car wreck that seriously injured his best friend and jeopardized his job as a test pilot before he was given the Green Lantern power ring. The stunt...
- 3/4/2010
- by Blair Marnell
- MTV Splash Page
Nola.com is reporting that Warner Bros. Pictures has started test shooting for director Martin Campbell's Green Lantern today in Madisonville, which is on the other side of Lake Pontchartrain compared to New Orleans: A section of Lake Road in Madisonville will be closed intermittently on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon, as a film crew prepares to shoot scenes for a movie. Although filming for "Green Lantern" has not yet begun, crews from Warner Brothers will be on location to run tests with a stunt car, according to Bill Doyle, supervising location manager. The closure will be in the vicinity of the high bridge on Lake Road between Louisiana 22 and Lake Pontchartrain, according to news release from the state highway department. Coming to theaters on June...
- 3/3/2010
- Comingsoon.net
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