Tony Sokol Oct 27, 2017
Focus Drama is talking with Scarlett Johansson to star in the movie adaptation of the novel The Deepest Secret
Scarlett Johansson is about to go to go dark, darker than the Black Widow. She's in talks to star in Focus Drama’s upcoming film Reflective Light. The film will mark the directorial debut of art photographer Gregory Crewdson, who wrote the screenplay with Juliane Hiam.
Reflective Light is an adaptation of the 2014 Carla Buckley novel The Deepest Secret, about a boy who is allergic to sunlight, and the mother who will do whatever she will to cover him with darkness.
“Eve Lattimore is barely keeping things together,” according to the official Penguin Random House synopsis.
“Her husband works fifteen hundred miles away, leaving Eve to juggle singlehandedly the demands of their teenaged daughter and fragile son. Tyler was born with Xp—the so-called vampire disease: even one...
Focus Drama is talking with Scarlett Johansson to star in the movie adaptation of the novel The Deepest Secret
Scarlett Johansson is about to go to go dark, darker than the Black Widow. She's in talks to star in Focus Drama’s upcoming film Reflective Light. The film will mark the directorial debut of art photographer Gregory Crewdson, who wrote the screenplay with Juliane Hiam.
Reflective Light is an adaptation of the 2014 Carla Buckley novel The Deepest Secret, about a boy who is allergic to sunlight, and the mother who will do whatever she will to cover him with darkness.
“Eve Lattimore is barely keeping things together,” according to the official Penguin Random House synopsis.
“Her husband works fifteen hundred miles away, leaving Eve to juggle singlehandedly the demands of their teenaged daughter and fragile son. Tyler was born with Xp—the so-called vampire disease: even one...
- 10/26/2017
- Den of Geek
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– IFC Films has acquired the U.S rights to director Jamie M. Dagg’s thriller “Sweet Virginia,” starring Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots, Rosemarie DeWitt and Odessa Young. The film, which premiered at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, was written by Ben and Paul China from their Black List script, and was produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones for Automatik, Chris Ferguson for Oddfellows and Fernando Loureiro and Roberto Vasconcellos for Exhibit, who also financed.
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Xyz Films is currently handling international sales and will screen the film at the upcoming Marché du Film at Cannes. “Sweet Virginia” is a riveting thriller that...
– IFC Films has acquired the U.S rights to director Jamie M. Dagg’s thriller “Sweet Virginia,” starring Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots, Rosemarie DeWitt and Odessa Young. The film, which premiered at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, was written by Ben and Paul China from their Black List script, and was produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones for Automatik, Chris Ferguson for Oddfellows and Fernando Loureiro and Roberto Vasconcellos for Exhibit, who also financed.
Read More: Film Acquisition Rundown: Focus Features Picks Up ‘Tully,’ Electric Entertainment Buys ‘Lbj’ and More
Xyz Films is currently handling international sales and will screen the film at the upcoming Marché du Film at Cannes. “Sweet Virginia” is a riveting thriller that...
- 5/12/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Focus Features has acquired Reflective Light, clearing the way for celebrated art photographer Gregory Crewdson to make his feature directorial debut, with La La Land‘s Marc Platt producing with Platt Productions’ Jared LeBoff. The film is an adaptation of the 2014 Carla Buckley novel The Deepest Secret, which Crewdson and partner Juliane Hiam have adapted. Casting will begin shortly. A teenage boy suffers a malady that makes him gravely allergic to sunlight…...
- 5/8/2017
- Deadline
Exclusive: Oscar-nominated Bridge Of Spies producer Marc Platt has optioned Carla Buckley’s novel The Deepest Secret, with the plan for renowned art photographer Gregory Crewdson and his partner Juliane Hiam to adapt for the big screen and Crewdson to make his feature directorial debut. The book, published in 2014 by Bantam, is an intimate family drama that explores the profound power of the truths we're scared to face: about our marriages, our children, and ourselves…...
- 1/28/2016
- Deadline
A Massachusetts native and USC film school grad, writer-director Juliane Glantz shows much enthusiasm in her feature debut, charging ahead with an overwrought, genre-bending teen potboiler that has a fashionable, anything-goes agenda.
Screened recently at the Nortel Palm Springs International Film Festival, "Wilbur Falls" is headlined by Danny Aiello and Sally Kirkland as small-town eccentrics whose revenge-minded daughter (Shanee Edwards) vamps her way into serious trouble just before graduating high school.
The most honored and busy among her schoolmates, Renata (Edwards) never forgets her public humiliation as a freshman, when an erotic drawing of hers is reproduced and displayed by treacherous friends. Reduced to a hysterical mess and needing the comfort of her father Phillip (Aiello), the affable but overprotective town sheriff, Renata evolves into a noir virgin with a superior attitude.
Renata's mother (Kirkland) is a New Age floozy whom Phillip adores, but they are only two influences on Renata. Her best friend Arne (Jeff Daurey) encourages her to exact long-overdue payback from brainless stud Jeffrey (Charlie Newmark). Luring him to her favorite frog pond, Renata pulls a nasty prank resulting in Jeffrey's unintended demise.
When the body disappears, Renata and Arne keep mum as locals believe Jeffrey has disappeared. Alas, Phillip is no longer sheriff, and his replacement, T-Bone David Anthony Marshall), arrogantly and menacingly lurks while attempting to solve the mystery.
Complications set in when the deceased's pregnant girlfriend Jodi (Cherilyn Hayres) turns to Renata for help getting an abortion. They travel to the city and visit Renata's wild older sister Katherine (Suzanne Cryer), who has goo-goo eyes for slick gangster Johnny Handsome (Fred Stoller). Jodi and Renata talk about sex, with the former's enthusiasm turning on the latter, and they fall into bed together.
After the brief lesbian interlude, and because of newsworthy abortion protesters, they cause a panic back home, and Renata defiantly claims to have been pregnant with Jeffrey's child. From unused condoms by the pond to the surprise of what happened to Jeffrey's body, the film lurches into overheated melodrama as T-Bone and the state police begin looking for a murderer.
The performances are rarely subtle or convincing, though Edwards, Aiello, Kirkland and Hayres work hard. Glantz's scenario is too scattershot, and the combination of serious and satirical elements is handled clumsily.
WILBUR FALLS
Vexatious Films
Writer-director: Juliane Glantz
Producer: David L. Delman
Executive producers: David L. Delman, Joseph Pecoraro
Director of photography: Kurt Brabbee
Editors: John Gilbert, Duncan Burns
Costume designer: Kristen Anacher
Music: Jim Halfpenny
Color/stereo
Cast:
Renata: Shanee Edwards
Phillip: Danny Aiello
Roberta: Sally Kirkland
Katherine: Suzanne Cryer
Arne: Jeff Daurey
Jodi: Cherilyn Hayres
T-Bone: David Anthony Marshall
Johnny Handsome: Fred Stoller
Jeffrey: Charlie Newmark
Running time -- 97 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Screened recently at the Nortel Palm Springs International Film Festival, "Wilbur Falls" is headlined by Danny Aiello and Sally Kirkland as small-town eccentrics whose revenge-minded daughter (Shanee Edwards) vamps her way into serious trouble just before graduating high school.
The most honored and busy among her schoolmates, Renata (Edwards) never forgets her public humiliation as a freshman, when an erotic drawing of hers is reproduced and displayed by treacherous friends. Reduced to a hysterical mess and needing the comfort of her father Phillip (Aiello), the affable but overprotective town sheriff, Renata evolves into a noir virgin with a superior attitude.
Renata's mother (Kirkland) is a New Age floozy whom Phillip adores, but they are only two influences on Renata. Her best friend Arne (Jeff Daurey) encourages her to exact long-overdue payback from brainless stud Jeffrey (Charlie Newmark). Luring him to her favorite frog pond, Renata pulls a nasty prank resulting in Jeffrey's unintended demise.
When the body disappears, Renata and Arne keep mum as locals believe Jeffrey has disappeared. Alas, Phillip is no longer sheriff, and his replacement, T-Bone David Anthony Marshall), arrogantly and menacingly lurks while attempting to solve the mystery.
Complications set in when the deceased's pregnant girlfriend Jodi (Cherilyn Hayres) turns to Renata for help getting an abortion. They travel to the city and visit Renata's wild older sister Katherine (Suzanne Cryer), who has goo-goo eyes for slick gangster Johnny Handsome (Fred Stoller). Jodi and Renata talk about sex, with the former's enthusiasm turning on the latter, and they fall into bed together.
After the brief lesbian interlude, and because of newsworthy abortion protesters, they cause a panic back home, and Renata defiantly claims to have been pregnant with Jeffrey's child. From unused condoms by the pond to the surprise of what happened to Jeffrey's body, the film lurches into overheated melodrama as T-Bone and the state police begin looking for a murderer.
The performances are rarely subtle or convincing, though Edwards, Aiello, Kirkland and Hayres work hard. Glantz's scenario is too scattershot, and the combination of serious and satirical elements is handled clumsily.
WILBUR FALLS
Vexatious Films
Writer-director: Juliane Glantz
Producer: David L. Delman
Executive producers: David L. Delman, Joseph Pecoraro
Director of photography: Kurt Brabbee
Editors: John Gilbert, Duncan Burns
Costume designer: Kristen Anacher
Music: Jim Halfpenny
Color/stereo
Cast:
Renata: Shanee Edwards
Phillip: Danny Aiello
Roberta: Sally Kirkland
Katherine: Suzanne Cryer
Arne: Jeff Daurey
Jodi: Cherilyn Hayres
T-Bone: David Anthony Marshall
Johnny Handsome: Fred Stoller
Jeffrey: Charlie Newmark
Running time -- 97 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/25/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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