Independent spirit awards 2015

EXCLUSIVE: Aubrey Plaza is joining Oscar winner Michael Caine in Lina Roessler’s feature directorial debut Best Sellers . The story follows a has-been author, played by Caine, who is on a wild book tour with a young editor, Plaza, trying to save her father’s boutique publishing house. Caine’s miserable and sharp-witted author just wants to live out his days in peace with a bottle of scotch, a cigar and his orange Tabby cat, but Plaza’s hopeful editor pulls him out of his reclusion. The project is based on Anthony Grieco’s original screenplay, which won a 2015 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting award, and will be an official Canada-UK co-production, produced by Arielle Elwes ( Braid ), Cassian Elwes ( Mudbound, The Butler ), Petr Jákl ( xXx, Ghoul, Medieval ) and Wayne Marc Godfrey ( The Foreigner, Wind River ) on the UK side and Jonathan Vanger ( Wishing Tree Productions: Miss Sloane ) and Pierre Even ( Item 7: War Witch, The Hummingbird Project ) on the … [Read more...] about Aubrey Plaza Joins Michael Caine In ‘Best Sellers’

Oscar-winning actor Michael Caine will star in Best Seller s , the directorial feature debut of Lina Roessler ( Little Whispers: The Vow, Mustard Seed ). Pic follows a has-been author, played by Caine, who is on a wild book tour with a young editor trying to save his boutique publishing house. Caine’s author is miserable and sharp-witted and just wants to live out his days in peace with a bottle of scotch, a cigar, and his orange Tabby cat. The project is based on Anthony Grieco’s original screenplay which won a 2015 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting award, and will be an official Canada-UK co-production, produced by Arielle Elwes ( Braid ), Cassian Elwes ( Mudbound, The Butler ), Petr Jákl ( xXx, Ghoul, Medieval ) and Wayne Marc Godfrey ( The Foreigner, Wind River ) on the UK side and Jonathan Vanger (Wishing Tree Productions: Miss Sloane ) and Pierre Even (Item 7: War Witch, The Hummingbird Project ) on the Canadian side.  EPs include Martin Barab, Jere … [Read more...] about Michael Caine Sets ‘Best Sellers’, Foresight Unlimited Selling At Cannes

EXCLUSIVE : Charlotte Gainsbourg ( Antichrist ) and Hugh Bonneville ( Downton Abbey ) are set to star in WWII spy thriller Lives In Secret from Resident Evil producer Jeremy Bolt. Paris-based sales firm Other Angle will be selling the project at this week’s virtual EFM . Gainsbourg play World War Two intelligence officer Vera Atkins, who made it her mission to discover the fate of missing agents she had dispatched to Occupied France after the conflict. The feature is adapted from the Sarah Helm’s A Life in Secrets, telling the true story of Atkins, an intelligence officer for Special Operation Executive’s French Section who trained and dispatched hundreds of agents to Occupied France, many of whom didn’t return. Atkins was also involved in the interrogation of Rudolf Hess, the notorious commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During the interrogation Atkins looked for answers to the fates of those female spies who didn’t return home. … [Read more...] about Charlotte Gainsbourg & Hugh Bonneville To Lead Female Spy Thriller ‘Lives In Secret’ — EFM

UPDATED with video: Six-time Golden Globe award nominee and, now, two-time winner Diane Warren was brief in her acceptance speech for Best Original Song – Motion Picture on Sunday, when the habitually soft-spoken composer got to the point for her work on “Io Si (Seen)” from Netflix’s The Life Ahead . She thanked director Eduardo Ponti, and the film’s star – and Ponti’s famous mother — Sophia Loren. She then said of the film, “It’s such a beautiful story about people who aren’t really seen and they see each other and they see each other through love. And that’s what inspired the song. So thank you again. Warren shares the award with Niccolò Agliardi and Laura Pausini , the latter of whom also spoke. Pausini thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press, saying, “Grazie Mille,” which translates to “a thousand graces” in Italian. “Io Si (Seen)” won in a field that also included nominees “Fight for You” by D’Mile, H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas from Judas and the Black Messiah ; … [Read more...] about Diane Warren And Laura Pausini Win Original Song Golden Globe For ‘Io Si (Seen)’ From ‘The Life Ahead’

Mark Ruffalo got one award for two roles at the Golden Globes on Sunday, winning Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made For Television for HBO’s I Know This Much Is True . In True , Ruffalo plays identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, the latter of whom suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and the former of whom fights to free his brother from a hospital for the mentally ill. Ruffalo accepted the award with his wife at his side and kids happily jumping behind him. He thanked them first for putting up with his time away on set and also for the work he brings home with him. “Thank my family who lets me go off and bring all these crazy people home they have to live with all of these years. Thank you guys.” Ruffalo also read a long political statement about inclusion, justice and “care for Mother Earth,” ending with, “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for, so let’s do this now. I love you.” It’s … [Read more...] about Mark Ruffalo Thanks Family, Pleads For Mother Earth In Golden Globe Acceptance Speech For ‘I Know This Much Is True’