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.
– Focus Features has acquired the North American and select international rights to Jason Reitman’s “Tully.” Written by Diablo Cody, the comedy stars Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Duplass and Ron Livingston.
“Tully” tells the story of Marlo (Theron), a mother of three who is gifted a night nanny by her brother (Duplass). Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully (Davis). The film will premiere in U.S. theaters on April 20, 2018.
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– Electric Entertainment has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to Rob Reiner’s “Lbj,...
– Focus Features has acquired the North American and select international rights to Jason Reitman’s “Tully.” Written by Diablo Cody, the comedy stars Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Duplass and Ron Livingston.
“Tully” tells the story of Marlo (Theron), a mother of three who is gifted a night nanny by her brother (Duplass). Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully (Davis). The film will premiere in U.S. theaters on April 20, 2018.
Read More: Film Acquisition Rundown: Oscilloscope Picks Up ‘November,’ The Orchard Buys ‘Flower’ and More
– Electric Entertainment has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to Rob Reiner’s “Lbj,...
- 5/5/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
We all like to think we're a bit funny - funniness is one of the most prized attributes of a person. But being funny for a living is much harder work than it looks. Director Jordan Brady, once a comic himself, enlists the help of 80s TV star Ritch Shydner to meet some of America's finest stand-ups to find out what it takes to get to the top of the stand-up circuit, and how hard it is to stay there.
- 5/27/2011
- Sky TV
With a new documentary about the life of Bill Hicks opening in New York City this weekend, it seemed like a good time to dig deeper into the world of documentaries about stand-up comedians. And, pending an thorough examination, this is what we found: there aren't a lot of good ones. Obviously there are plenty of concert films of stand-ups, just not a ton of docs about stand-ups, and most of the ones that do exist aren't very good. "American," which is smartly edited and constructed, is a fine exception. Here are five more:
"The Comedians of Comedy" (2005)
Directed by Michael Blieden
As "The Comedians of Comedy" opens, Patton Oswalt talks about one of the worst gigs of his life: Yuk-a-Buck Night, six comedians, six bucks, one comedy club. Places like that Yuk-a-Buck joint, with their lowest common denominator expectations and two drink minimums, are the reason Oswalt gathered together Brian Posehn,...
"The Comedians of Comedy" (2005)
Directed by Michael Blieden
As "The Comedians of Comedy" opens, Patton Oswalt talks about one of the worst gigs of his life: Yuk-a-Buck Night, six comedians, six bucks, one comedy club. Places like that Yuk-a-Buck joint, with their lowest common denominator expectations and two drink minimums, are the reason Oswalt gathered together Brian Posehn,...
- 4/7/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
"A series of talking heads does not a movie make," says comedian-turned-filmmaker Jordan Brady, and that automatically puts him ahead of about 70 percent of the documentarians in the marketplace today. It also helps explain why I Am Comic (now available on DVD from Monterey Video) is so bracingly entertaining when it could have just been a bunch of funny people sitting around being funny about being funny.
- 10/23/2010
- Movieline
Directed by Jordan Brady Starring over 80 different stand-ups “The Best Comedy Is Always Some Version of the Truth” The new documentary “I Am Comic” out today on DVD is really two different films running alongside one another. One of them is the story of retired comic Ritch Shydner, recruited by the director to aid in the process of getting as many different comics to tell their stories about the day to day life of a standup comedian. Shydner when actively working in the 80’s had a fair amount of success with a number of HBO specials along with multiple...
- 10/12/2010
- by David Voigt, Toronto Independent Film Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
The 16th annual Slamdance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 21-28 in Park City, has added three films to its Special Screening program: Jordan Brady's documentary "I Am Comic," featuring Sarah Silverman and Kathy Griffin, Gerard Johnson's "Tony" and Ben Wheatley's "Down Terrace."
Slamdance also has programmed 36 narrative and experimental shorts, 10 animations, 12 short documentaries and seven horror shorts that will screen as part of its inaugural Twilight Shorts program.
The shorts programs include such titles as "Head in the Sand," a look at a naive soldier's tour of duty in Afghanistan; "Saturday Morning Blues," in which an inner-city teens wrangles doses of knowledge and poison from her best friend; and "Solarium," a sci-fi piece designed entirely with found and recycled materials.
"In spite of the recession, we saw an increase in both quantity and quality of shorts submissions this year," said Paul Sbrizzi, captain of the shorts programming committee.
Slamdance also has programmed 36 narrative and experimental shorts, 10 animations, 12 short documentaries and seven horror shorts that will screen as part of its inaugural Twilight Shorts program.
The shorts programs include such titles as "Head in the Sand," a look at a naive soldier's tour of duty in Afghanistan; "Saturday Morning Blues," in which an inner-city teens wrangles doses of knowledge and poison from her best friend; and "Solarium," a sci-fi piece designed entirely with found and recycled materials.
"In spite of the recession, we saw an increase in both quantity and quality of shorts submissions this year," said Paul Sbrizzi, captain of the shorts programming committee.
- 12/16/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sexy actress Charlize Theron is breaking away from her usual glamor roles - she plays the poor "white trash" wife of Patrick Swayze in Wakin' Up In Reno (2000). The comedy centers on two couples on their way to see a monster truck show. Director Jordan Brady says, "Charlize has always been the object of a man's desire in the movies but she wanted a chance to do some broader comedy."...
- 6/8/2000
- WENN
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