Exclusive: Stampede Ventures has promoted Cara Fano to Vice President of Content and Operations, Grant Torre to Vice President of Film Development and Production, and Amelia Mysko to Director of Development in International.
Both Fano and Torre have been with the global media company since its inception. Mysko, meanwhile, rapidly worked her way up at Stampede after joining the company as an intern.
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In her new role, Fano is overseeing Stampede’s social, marketing, PR, and brand collaborations, as well as all of its Joint Venture partnerships including HappyNest, the Jv with UTA that incubates and produces animated kids and family content. Fano will also be...
Both Fano and Torre have been with the global media company since its inception. Mysko, meanwhile, rapidly worked her way up at Stampede after joining the company as an intern.
Related Story UTA Promotes 67 Across 27 Departments Related Story Stampede Ventures Adds Poppy Liu To Emma Roberts & Gabrielle Union Feature Comedy 'Space Cadet' Related Story Emma Roberts To Exec Produce & Star In Liz W. Garcia's Stampede Ventures Rom-Com 'Space Cadet'; Prime Video Distributing Internationally
In her new role, Fano is overseeing Stampede’s social, marketing, PR, and brand collaborations, as well as all of its Joint Venture partnerships including HappyNest, the Jv with UTA that incubates and produces animated kids and family content. Fano will also be...
- 11/18/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Today, Prime Video revealed the first-look of Emma Roberts as Rex in the new Amazon Original movie ‘Space Cadet’, which has just wrapped production. Space Cadet will be an extremely fun, very light-hearted coming of age story
Directed by Liz W Garcia from her own original screenplay, the film follows Florida party girl Rex (Emma Roberts), who turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better resumes, but don’t have her smarts, heart, and nerve.
Previously announced to star alongside Roberts are Poppy Liu, Gabrielle Union, Tom Hopper, Colombian pop star Sebastián Yatra, David Foley, and Desi Lydic. Prime Video is also excited to announce the additional casting of Kuhoo Verma, Yasha Jackson, Troy Iwata, Andrew Call, and Josephine Huang.
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Directed by Liz W Garcia from her own original screenplay, the film follows Florida party girl Rex (Emma Roberts), who turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better resumes, but don’t have her smarts, heart, and nerve.
Previously announced to star alongside Roberts are Poppy Liu, Gabrielle Union, Tom Hopper, Colombian pop star Sebastián Yatra, David Foley, and Desi Lydic. Prime Video is also excited to announce the additional casting of Kuhoo Verma, Yasha Jackson, Troy Iwata, Andrew Call, and Josephine Huang.
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- 11/15/2022
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
Prime Video today shared the first-look image of Emma Roberts in the new original romcom Space Cadet.
Directed by Liz W. Garcia (The Lifeguard) from her own original screenplay, the film follows Florida party girl Rex (Roberts), who turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better resumes, but don’t have her smarts, heart, and nerve, the synopsis reads.
Previously announced to star alongside Roberts are Poppy Liu (Hacks), Gabrielle Union (The Inspection), Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy), Colombian pop star Sebastián Yatra, David Foley (The Kids in the Hall), and Desi Lydic (Awkward). Additional casting includes Kuhoo Verma (Plan B), Yasha Jackson (The Flight Attendant), Troy Iwata (Dash & Lily), Andrew Call (Z: The Beginning of Everything), and Josephine Huang.
Space Cadet will launch on Prime Video in more than 240 counties...
Directed by Liz W. Garcia (The Lifeguard) from her own original screenplay, the film follows Florida party girl Rex (Roberts), who turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better resumes, but don’t have her smarts, heart, and nerve, the synopsis reads.
Previously announced to star alongside Roberts are Poppy Liu (Hacks), Gabrielle Union (The Inspection), Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy), Colombian pop star Sebastián Yatra, David Foley (The Kids in the Hall), and Desi Lydic (Awkward). Additional casting includes Kuhoo Verma (Plan B), Yasha Jackson (The Flight Attendant), Troy Iwata (Dash & Lily), Andrew Call (Z: The Beginning of Everything), and Josephine Huang.
Space Cadet will launch on Prime Video in more than 240 counties...
- 11/15/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Poppy Liu has joined the Stampede Ventures movie Space Cadet, which is currently filming with Emma Roberts, Gabrielle Union, Tom Hopper, Colombian pop star Sebastián Yatra, David Foley and Desi Lydic. Liz. W. Garcia (The Lifeguard) is helming off her screenplay.
Liu will play the best friend of a Florida party girl (Roberts), who turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better résumés, but don’t have her smarts, heart and moxie.
Space Cadet is already set to launch exclusively on Prime Video internationally. Stampede Ventures will finance, with Prime Video licensing international territories outside of the U.S. and Japan.
Greg Silverman and Jon Berg will...
Liu will play the best friend of a Florida party girl (Roberts), who turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better résumés, but don’t have her smarts, heart and moxie.
Space Cadet is already set to launch exclusively on Prime Video internationally. Stampede Ventures will finance, with Prime Video licensing international territories outside of the U.S. and Japan.
Greg Silverman and Jon Berg will...
- 10/3/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Emma Roberts has onboarded Prime Video’s romantic comedy film “Space Cadet” as star and executive producer.
The “Madame Web” actor will collaborate with writer-director Liz W. Garcia, the filmmaker behind “The Lifeguard” and writer of Netflix’s hit film “Purple Hearts.”
The film will follow Rex, a Florida party girl who accidentally ends up training with candidates for the NASA space program. What she lacks in resume credits, she makes up for with heart and smarts, giving her a fighting chance.
Production is set to blast off in September.
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Greg Silverman and Jon Berg are set to produce on behalf of Stampede Ventures, with Stampede’s Gideon Yu and Chris Bosco joining executive producers Roberts, Garcia and Michael Tadross. Stampede Ventures will finance the film.
“Space Cadets” will launch exclusively on Prime Video, which will also handle distribution outside of the U.
The “Madame Web” actor will collaborate with writer-director Liz W. Garcia, the filmmaker behind “The Lifeguard” and writer of Netflix’s hit film “Purple Hearts.”
The film will follow Rex, a Florida party girl who accidentally ends up training with candidates for the NASA space program. What she lacks in resume credits, she makes up for with heart and smarts, giving her a fighting chance.
Production is set to blast off in September.
Also Read:
Emma Roberts Joins ‘Madame Web’ With Dakota Johnson at Sony
Greg Silverman and Jon Berg are set to produce on behalf of Stampede Ventures, with Stampede’s Gideon Yu and Chris Bosco joining executive producers Roberts, Garcia and Michael Tadross. Stampede Ventures will finance the film.
“Space Cadets” will launch exclusively on Prime Video, which will also handle distribution outside of the U.
- 9/1/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Emma Roberts (Madame Web) will exec produce and star in Space Cadet, a new rom-com from Stampede Ventures, which enters production this month. Also now aboard the film from writer-director Liz W. Garcia (The Lifeguard) is Prime Video, which will distribute it internationally.
Space Cadet follows the Florida party girl Rex (Roberts), who turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program, after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better resumes, but don’t have her smarts, heart and moxie.
Greg Silverman and Jon Berg will produce on behalf of Stampede Ventures, with Stampede’s Gideon Yu and Chris Bosco exec producing alongside Roberts, Garcia and Michael Tadross. Stampede Ventures will finance the pic, licensed by Prime Video in territories outside of the U.S. and Japan, with CAA’s Sarah Schweitzman co-repping additional territories alongside Stampede’s Bosco.
“Emma...
Space Cadet follows the Florida party girl Rex (Roberts), who turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program, after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better resumes, but don’t have her smarts, heart and moxie.
Greg Silverman and Jon Berg will produce on behalf of Stampede Ventures, with Stampede’s Gideon Yu and Chris Bosco exec producing alongside Roberts, Garcia and Michael Tadross. Stampede Ventures will finance the pic, licensed by Prime Video in territories outside of the U.S. and Japan, with CAA’s Sarah Schweitzman co-repping additional territories alongside Stampede’s Bosco.
“Emma...
- 9/1/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Perhaps, one day, somebody will make a film in which a hastily arranged marriage of convenience between two virtual strangers doesn’t blossom into real love, and instead more tensely culminates in mutual acrimony and cathartic divorce. Until then, those inclined can moon over drippy, dopey fantasies like “Purple Hearts,” an opposites-attract romance that — give or take an Iraq War backdrop and some current social-justice talking points — could have been made at any point in the last 70-odd years. Principally a vehicle for Disney-reared singer-actor Sofia Carson, as an independent-minded Latina singer-songwriter who marries a conservative Marine for insurance benefits, only for military tragedy to bring them closer together, this glossy but gloopy Netflix original is primarily out to serve its leading lady’s legions of fans, some of them perhaps young enough not to have seen it all before.
For those millions, director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum’s film acts as generous fan service,...
For those millions, director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum’s film acts as generous fan service,...
- 7/29/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Writer-producer-director Liz W. Garcia has signed an overall deal with Entertainment One. Under the multi-year pact, Garcia will develop television series for broadcast, cable, and streaming, including projects by and about women, people of color and members of the Lgbtqia community.
Garcia most recently was executive producer of Katori Hall’s Starz drama P-Valley and co-executive producer on the first season of another well received cable drama, USA’s The Sinner. She co-created and executive produced the cult TNT series Memphis Beat, starring Jason Lee and Alfre Woodard and executive produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov. She began her career on the CBS crime drama Cold Case, winning the GLAAD Award for Best Dramatic Episode of Television. Her series writing credits also include Wonderfalls and Dawson’s Creek.
“Liz is an incredibly talented creative with great taste and an impressive eye for interesting and meaningful stories,” said Michael Lombardo,...
Garcia most recently was executive producer of Katori Hall’s Starz drama P-Valley and co-executive producer on the first season of another well received cable drama, USA’s The Sinner. She co-created and executive produced the cult TNT series Memphis Beat, starring Jason Lee and Alfre Woodard and executive produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov. She began her career on the CBS crime drama Cold Case, winning the GLAAD Award for Best Dramatic Episode of Television. Her series writing credits also include Wonderfalls and Dawson’s Creek.
“Liz is an incredibly talented creative with great taste and an impressive eye for interesting and meaningful stories,” said Michael Lombardo,...
- 6/24/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
[Editor’s note: The following contains light spoilers for each of the shows described.]
10. “What Would Diplo Do”
Season 1, Episode 2, “The Cult”
Directed by Brandon Dermer
Written by James Van Der Beek
“What would Diplo do?” is a question addressed throughout the first few episodes of Viceland’s new comedy, but what Diplo actually does gets tackled head on in Episode 2. Functioning as a response to Diplo’s most human moment in the pilot (asking nemesis Calvin Harris if all they do as DJs is push a button), the episode examines the creation of one song — just one — over the course of, well, quite a long time.
When a reporter stops by to write a story on how Diplo (James Van Der Beek) creates a song, he becomes witness to a maniacal process involving rats, post-its, a blender, and, yes, a cult. The running joke is that Diplo goes to crazy extremes just to get back to where he started, but there’s a...
10. “What Would Diplo Do”
Season 1, Episode 2, “The Cult”
Directed by Brandon Dermer
Written by James Van Der Beek
“What would Diplo do?” is a question addressed throughout the first few episodes of Viceland’s new comedy, but what Diplo actually does gets tackled head on in Episode 2. Functioning as a response to Diplo’s most human moment in the pilot (asking nemesis Calvin Harris if all they do as DJs is push a button), the episode examines the creation of one song — just one — over the course of, well, quite a long time.
When a reporter stops by to write a story on how Diplo (James Van Der Beek) creates a song, he becomes witness to a maniacal process involving rats, post-its, a blender, and, yes, a cult. The running joke is that Diplo goes to crazy extremes just to get back to where he started, but there’s a...
- 9/1/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Rachel Israel takes home two with baby Charlotte for Keep the Change - The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature and Best New Narrative Director presented by Michael Pitt and Clea Duvall Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Best International Narrative Feature is Elina Psykou's Son Of Sofia; Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature goes to Rachel Israel's Keep The Change, and Elvira Lind's Bobbi Jene swept the Documentary Feature honours. The Tribeca Film Festival Awards ceremony was hosted by Michael Rapaport at the Bmcc Tribeca Performing Arts Center on April 27. The feature and short film winners will receive artwork through Jane Rosenthal's Artists Awards program, sponsored by Chanel.
Diane Lane, Amy Berg, Barbara Kopple, Amy Heckerling, Zachary Quinto, Willem Dafoe, Josh Lucas, Best Actor Alessandro Nivola (Liz W. Garcia's One Percent More Humid), Denis O’Hare, Udi Aloni, Alex Orlovsky, Stephanie Zacharek, David Wilson, Ryan Eggold, Clea Duvall,...
Best International Narrative Feature is Elina Psykou's Son Of Sofia; Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature goes to Rachel Israel's Keep The Change, and Elvira Lind's Bobbi Jene swept the Documentary Feature honours. The Tribeca Film Festival Awards ceremony was hosted by Michael Rapaport at the Bmcc Tribeca Performing Arts Center on April 27. The feature and short film winners will receive artwork through Jane Rosenthal's Artists Awards program, sponsored by Chanel.
Diane Lane, Amy Berg, Barbara Kopple, Amy Heckerling, Zachary Quinto, Willem Dafoe, Josh Lucas, Best Actor Alessandro Nivola (Liz W. Garcia's One Percent More Humid), Denis O’Hare, Udi Aloni, Alex Orlovsky, Stephanie Zacharek, David Wilson, Ryan Eggold, Clea Duvall,...
- 4/28/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the winners of its 16th edition, with “Keep the Change” (U.S. Narrative), “Son of Sofia” (International Narrative) and “Bobbi Jene” (Documentary) taking home the top prizes. 97 features and 57 shorts comprised the main lineup of this year’s fest, which began on April 19 and ends on April 30.
“It is more important than ever to celebrate artists both in front of and behind the camera who have the unique ability to share different viewpoints to inspire, challenge and entertain us,” said Jane Rosenthal, Tribeca’s executive chair and co-founder. “The winning creators from across the Festival program shared stories that did exactly that, and we are honored to recognize them tonight. And how wonderful is it that the top awards in all five feature film categories were directed by women.”
Full list of winners below.
The 2017 IndieWire Tribeca Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
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“It is more important than ever to celebrate artists both in front of and behind the camera who have the unique ability to share different viewpoints to inspire, challenge and entertain us,” said Jane Rosenthal, Tribeca’s executive chair and co-founder. “The winning creators from across the Festival program shared stories that did exactly that, and we are honored to recognize them tonight. And how wonderful is it that the top awards in all five feature film categories were directed by women.”
Full list of winners below.
The 2017 IndieWire Tribeca Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
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- 4/27/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Opening with a toast to their health, look-a-like BFFs Catherine (Julia Garner) and Iris (Juno Temple) return to their New England hamlet for one of those few weeks they’ll never forget in Liz W. Garcia’s fairly predictable character study One Percent More Humid. Stuck for the summer in a small town fueled by a local college and blue-collar industries, where everyone drinks at the same bars and eats at the same deli, there’s very little to do besides get drunk, get stoned, and get recklessly involved with two very different kinds of manipulative bad boys as Catherine and Iris cope collectively with a past trauma.
Written and directed by Garcia, whose early career includes writing credits on Dawson’s Creek, One Percent More Humid bares some similarities to that television saga as Catherine and Iris battle their own mistakes while making new ones. Set in an academic hamlet off Annsbury,...
Written and directed by Garcia, whose early career includes writing credits on Dawson’s Creek, One Percent More Humid bares some similarities to that television saga as Catherine and Iris battle their own mistakes while making new ones. Set in an academic hamlet off Annsbury,...
- 4/26/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Skinny-dipping and bedding your college professor — oh, it’s just another summer in New England, that’s all. Liz Garcia’s teenage drama One Percent More Humid follows college-age childhood best friends Iris (Juno Temple) and Catherine (Julia Garner), who’ve experienced something horrible in their past and are looking to recover from it amid flea markets, lake swims and respective forbidden affairs with a married college professor (Alessandro Nivola) and a former…...
- 4/24/2017
- Deadline
Juno Temple confesses a secret in The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive clip of One Percent More Humid.
Written and directed by Liz W. Garcia, the coming-of-age film stars Temple and Julia Garner as college-age childhood friends who reunite for a humid New England summer to help each other cope with grief. In the clip, Temple shares that she's been finding solace in her older, married thesis adviser, who is played by Alessandro Nivola.
"It's just shocking because it's not you at all," says Garner to a seemingly peaceful Temple. "I just want the best for you. I know inevitably you're going to...
Written and directed by Liz W. Garcia, the coming-of-age film stars Temple and Julia Garner as college-age childhood friends who reunite for a humid New England summer to help each other cope with grief. In the clip, Temple shares that she's been finding solace in her older, married thesis adviser, who is played by Alessandro Nivola.
"It's just shocking because it's not you at all," says Garner to a seemingly peaceful Temple. "I just want the best for you. I know inevitably you're going to...
- 4/19/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Author: James Kleinmann
The Tribeca Film Festival hits New York next week and runs from April 19 – 30 th. Now in its sixteenth year, the annual event was co-founded by screen legend Robert De Niro in the wake of the September 11th attacks in an effort to revitalise Lower Manhattan. Retaining an element of its original commitment to Us indie cinema, it has evolved to encompass TV, Vr, online work, music and gaming. As ever, the festival will welcome a dizzying array of big name guests including Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, Jon Favreau, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Quentin Tarantino, Scarlett Johansson and Ron Howard. Here are just some of the highlights, for the full line up and to buy tickets check out the official festival website here.
Opening and Closing night Galas at Radio City Music Hall
Kicking off the festival is the world premiere of music doc Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives.
The Tribeca Film Festival hits New York next week and runs from April 19 – 30 th. Now in its sixteenth year, the annual event was co-founded by screen legend Robert De Niro in the wake of the September 11th attacks in an effort to revitalise Lower Manhattan. Retaining an element of its original commitment to Us indie cinema, it has evolved to encompass TV, Vr, online work, music and gaming. As ever, the festival will welcome a dizzying array of big name guests including Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, Jon Favreau, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Quentin Tarantino, Scarlett Johansson and Ron Howard. Here are just some of the highlights, for the full line up and to buy tickets check out the official festival website here.
Opening and Closing night Galas at Radio City Music Hall
Kicking off the festival is the world premiere of music doc Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives.
- 4/13/2017
- by James Kleinmann
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Festival receives record number of submissions as top brass trim roster by 20%.
World premieres of Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip To Spain (pictured), Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal’s Whitney. “can I be me,”, and Hell On Earth: The Fall Of Syria And The Rise Of Isis by Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested are among the line-up at the 16th annual Tribeca Film Festival (April 19-30).
Festival top brass led by new director of programming Cara Cusumano and artistic director Frédéric Boyer unveiled on Thursday 82 of the 98 features that will screen at this year’s edition.
Trimmed down by 20%, the festival received a record number 8,700 submissions, of which 3,362 were features – and includes 32 films in competition comprising 12 documentaries, 10 Us narratives and 10 international narratives. Films in competition will compete for cash prizes totalling $160,000.
Spotlight Narrative section features 15 fiction films, while Spotlight Documentary includes 16 non-fiction films. Five fiction and one documentary film play in Midnight.
The 2017 roster...
World premieres of Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip To Spain (pictured), Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal’s Whitney. “can I be me,”, and Hell On Earth: The Fall Of Syria And The Rise Of Isis by Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested are among the line-up at the 16th annual Tribeca Film Festival (April 19-30).
Festival top brass led by new director of programming Cara Cusumano and artistic director Frédéric Boyer unveiled on Thursday 82 of the 98 features that will screen at this year’s edition.
Trimmed down by 20%, the festival received a record number 8,700 submissions, of which 3,362 were features – and includes 32 films in competition comprising 12 documentaries, 10 Us narratives and 10 international narratives. Films in competition will compete for cash prizes totalling $160,000.
Spotlight Narrative section features 15 fiction films, while Spotlight Documentary includes 16 non-fiction films. Five fiction and one documentary film play in Midnight.
The 2017 roster...
- 3/2/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Fox has put in development Amy Herman’s Visual Intelligence, based on Herman’s book, from Memphis Beat creators Liz Garcia and Josh Harto, Blindspot executive producer Mark Pellington and 20th Century Fox TV. Garcia, Harto and Pellington will co-write and executive produce, and Pellington will direct. Herman also will executive produce. In the book, art historian Herman, who developed and conducts “The Art of Perception” seminars, uses works of art to help experts from…...
- 11/22/2016
- Deadline TV
Paul Shaffer in the spotlight on the Beatles: "I was so enthralled with Jackie Wilson already and The Four Seasons that this was a new sound, brand new." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
I must confess, before I go on with this feature, that when I was 12, my girlfriends were obsessed with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, and George Harrison, so much so that when they played Beatles, I was Yoko Ono.
Paul Shaffer and the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation founder and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band member, Steven Van Zandt, hosted the rock 'n' roll New York premiere of Ron Howard's The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years, written by Mark Monroe. Whoopi Goldberg, Julie Taymor, Paul Rudd, Bobby Cannavale, Bob Gruen, Vincent Pastore, Max Weinberg, Tony Sirico, Maureen Van Zandt, and many other guests attended.
Favorite Beatle for Alessandro Nivola: "My...
I must confess, before I go on with this feature, that when I was 12, my girlfriends were obsessed with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, and George Harrison, so much so that when they played Beatles, I was Yoko Ono.
Paul Shaffer and the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation founder and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band member, Steven Van Zandt, hosted the rock 'n' roll New York premiere of Ron Howard's The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years, written by Mark Monroe. Whoopi Goldberg, Julie Taymor, Paul Rudd, Bobby Cannavale, Bob Gruen, Vincent Pastore, Max Weinberg, Tony Sirico, Maureen Van Zandt, and many other guests attended.
Favorite Beatle for Alessandro Nivola: "My...
- 9/18/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
With a notch on his wizarding wand now complete, the Oscar-winning Eddie Redmayne is now gearing up to star in Morten Tyldum‘s adaptation of the historical thriller The Last Days of Night. According to Deadline, it concerns the battle between the mammoths of the industrial era Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse as they try to quite literally electrify America. Despite this premise, Redmayne will play neither of the two titans, instead starring as Paul Cravath, a now-famed lawyer that made the dispute his first career-making case. The script is penned by The Imitation Game scribe Graham Moore, which marks a re-team between director, writer, and production company Black Bear Pictures.
This production has a funny case of meta-reality, as the Weinstein Company are also suiting up to make a Edison v. Westinghouse pic that stars Benedict Cumberbatch and potentially Jake Gyllenhaal. This is not the first time in recent...
This production has a funny case of meta-reality, as the Weinstein Company are also suiting up to make a Edison v. Westinghouse pic that stars Benedict Cumberbatch and potentially Jake Gyllenhaal. This is not the first time in recent...
- 7/27/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Shaq this out: Shaquille O’Neal will star in truTV’s comedy pilot Shaq Inq.
The workplace sitcom is loosely based on the wild and frenetic business empire of the former basketball player, who will serve as an executive producer alongside Mike Tollin (Smallville, Arli$$).
The half-hour project follows O’Neal and the team who manages his existing products and endorsements while implementing his latest batch of eccentric and oftentimes brilliant business ideas.
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…
* Get ready for a bloody good time. NBC has unveiled a trailer for Season 3 of Hannibal, premiering this summer.
The workplace sitcom is loosely based on the wild and frenetic business empire of the former basketball player, who will serve as an executive producer alongside Mike Tollin (Smallville, Arli$$).
The half-hour project follows O’Neal and the team who manages his existing products and endorsements while implementing his latest batch of eccentric and oftentimes brilliant business ideas.
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…
* Get ready for a bloody good time. NBC has unveiled a trailer for Season 3 of Hannibal, premiering this summer.
- 1/23/2015
- TVLine.com
Alloy Entertainment is developing Sisterhood Everlasting, the third film from its Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants series.
Based on the final novel of Ann Brashares’ best-selling series, Sisterhood Everlasting picks up 10 years after events in the first story.
The Lifeguard’s Liz Garcia adapts the screenplay and Ken Kwapis, who directed the 2005 original, will reprise his role.
“The Sisterhood series is one of Alloy’s most cherished properties and we are looking forward to continuing its legacy with Sisterhood Everlasting nearly a decade after the first film was released,” said Alloy president Leslie Morgenstein. “The original film brought together an incredible group of talent who we hope to unite for fans once again.”
Morgenstein will produce the film along with vice-president of Alloy Features Elysa Dutton and Christine Sacani.
Alloy, in conjunction with Alcon Entertainment, was responsible for the first two n films starring Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel and America Ferrera.
Based on the final novel of Ann Brashares’ best-selling series, Sisterhood Everlasting picks up 10 years after events in the first story.
The Lifeguard’s Liz Garcia adapts the screenplay and Ken Kwapis, who directed the 2005 original, will reprise his role.
“The Sisterhood series is one of Alloy’s most cherished properties and we are looking forward to continuing its legacy with Sisterhood Everlasting nearly a decade after the first film was released,” said Alloy president Leslie Morgenstein. “The original film brought together an incredible group of talent who we hope to unite for fans once again.”
Morgenstein will produce the film along with vice-president of Alloy Features Elysa Dutton and Christine Sacani.
Alloy, in conjunction with Alcon Entertainment, was responsible for the first two n films starring Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel and America Ferrera.
- 4/23/2014
- ScreenDaily
The recent Ya rush strikes again!
Alloy Entertainment is developing the final Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book, Sisterhood Everlasting, for a big-screen adaptation. This film will follow the 2005 original, as well as the 2008 sequel, both of which starred Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, and Amber Tamblyn. No word on whether the ladies will reprise their roles (reps didn’t immediately respond), but all four real-life friends have seemed open to the idea in the past. “The characters are all basically the ages that we are now,” America Ferrera told EW when we reunited the cast last fall. “I...
Alloy Entertainment is developing the final Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book, Sisterhood Everlasting, for a big-screen adaptation. This film will follow the 2005 original, as well as the 2008 sequel, both of which starred Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, and Amber Tamblyn. No word on whether the ladies will reprise their roles (reps didn’t immediately respond), but all four real-life friends have seemed open to the idea in the past. “The characters are all basically the ages that we are now,” America Ferrera told EW when we reunited the cast last fall. “I...
- 4/23/2014
- by Erin Strecker
- EW - Inside Movies
Alloy Entertainment is developing "Sisterhood Everlasting," a film adaptation of the fifth and final novel in Ann Brashares' 'Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants' series.
'Everlasting' would mark the third film in the series and picks up ten years later after the Sisterhood friends have grown apart. Tibby tries to bridge the distance by reuniting the girls for a trip that will change their lives forever.
Ken Kwapis, who helmed the first film in 2005, will return for the third while Liz Garcia ("The Lifeguard, "Dawson's Creek") will adapt the script.
Whether stars Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrara and Amber Tamblyn will return - we'll see.
Source: Deadline...
'Everlasting' would mark the third film in the series and picks up ten years later after the Sisterhood friends have grown apart. Tibby tries to bridge the distance by reuniting the girls for a trip that will change their lives forever.
Ken Kwapis, who helmed the first film in 2005, will return for the third while Liz Garcia ("The Lifeguard, "Dawson's Creek") will adapt the script.
Whether stars Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrara and Amber Tamblyn will return - we'll see.
Source: Deadline...
- 4/23/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is ready for a reunion. Alloy Entertainment is developing Sisterhood Everlasting, a follow-up to the previous two films based on the popular Ya books. Ken Kwapis, who directed the original film in 2005, will return to direct, with Liz Garcia (The Lifeguard) writing the script. Les Morgenstein, president of Alloy Entertainment, and Elysa Dutton, vice president of Alloy Features, will produce along with Christine Sacani. Photos: Teenage Dreams: 17 of the Most Popular Ya Properties Adapted for TV and Film Sisterhood Everlasting, written by Ann Brashares, was released in March 2012. The story picks
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- 4/23/2014
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Alloy Entertainment is developing Sisterhood Everlasting to follow the two previous motion pictures based on "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" novels from the New York Times best-selling author Ann Brashares, it was announced by Alloy President Leslie Morgenstein. Liz Garcia ( The Lifeguard , "Cold Case," "Dawson's Creek") will adapt the novel and Ken Kwapis, who directed the original film in 2005, will return to helm once again. Les Morgenstein, president of Alloy Entertainment, and Elysa Dutton, vice president of Alloy Features, will produce along with Christine Sacani. Now ten years later, after the Sisterhood friends have grown apart, Tibby tries to bridge the distance in Sisterhood Everlasting by reuniting the girls for a trip that...
- 4/23/2014
- Comingsoon.net
With its siblings Showtime and CBS tackling terrorism via Homeland and Hostages, respectively, the CW also is joining the fray. The network is putting its youthful stamp on the subject with an untitled project from Memphis Beat creators Liz W. Garcia and Joshua Harto and producer Bill Haber. Described as Alias meets Homeland, the untitled drama centers on a young female FBI agent with the New York City Joint Terrorism Task Force whose undercover assignment at a prestigious New York university becomes the focus of the entire agency when she discovers a vital terrorist cell hiding in plain sight. Garcia and Harto are writing the script and will exec produce with Haber for Warner Bros. TV and Haber’s Ostar Prods. The project reunites Harto and Haber with Warner Bros. whose cable division produced Memphis Beat for TNT. The duo, repped by CAA and Madhouse, also has Angel Time, a...
- 11/19/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave to open festival; director Peter Greenaway to receive Visionary Award.Scroll down for full line-up
Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.
It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.
Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.
McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.
Line-up
The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.
As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...
Steve McQueen’s historic drama 12 Years a Slave is to open the Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 6-17) and is nominated in the Stockholm Xxiv Competition.
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the drama about free black man kidnapped from his family and sold into slavery in the 1850s debuted at Telluride and has received positive reactions throughout its festival tour of Toronto, New York and London among others.
It will be released in Sweden on Dec 20 by Ab Svensk Filmindustri.
Screenwriter John Ridley, who will be present during the festival, is nominated for the Aluminum Horse in the category Best Script.
McQueen’s Hunger won Best Directorial Debut at Stockholm in 2008.
Line-up
The 24th Siff includes more than 180 films from more than 50 countries.
As previously announced, the spotlight of this year’s festival is freedom but Chinese artist...
- 10/22/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
"Touched by an Angel" with a dark twist? Not exactly. The Anne Rice novel "Angel Time" has been snapped up by CBS as the basis for a new series with Joe Carnahan ("The A-Team," "The Blacklist" and Sarah Timberman ("Masters of Sex") signed on as executive producers. Carnahan will direct the pilot if it's ordered, while Liz Garcia and Joshua Harto ("Memphis Beat") wrote the script. Given the talent and the book involved, this isn't likely to be family-friendly viewing, even though Rice wrote the book during her ten-year return to the Catholic belief system of her youth (she renounced her...
- 9/27/2013
- by Liane Bonin Starr
- Hitfix
While Joe Carnahan continues to mull over which one of the many feature film projects he wants to direct next, it looks like he’ll be getting involved in helming another network drama, following the premiere this week of "The Blacklist." CBS has tapped him to direct their drama series project “Angel Time,” which is based on characters from Anne Rice’s “The Songs of the Seraphim” novel series. Josh Harto and Liz Garcia, the creators of the short-lived TNT show “Memphis Beat,” adapted the Anne Rice novels. “Angel Time” takes place in New Orleans and centers around Toby O’Dare, “a soulless assassin with a tragic past” who finds himself on a path towards redemption. In other TV-related news, as his latest film “X-Men: Days of Future Past” enters post-production, Bryan Singer has recently decided to dip his toes back into television. The filmmaker, along with his Bad Hat Harry Productions outfit,...
- 9/26/2013
- by Ken Guidry
- The Playlist
CBS is developing a drama based on Anne Rice's The Songs of the Seraphim novels. According to Deadline, Angel Time will be written by Memphis Beat's Josh Harto and Liz Garcia. The books follow a New Orleans–based assassin named Toby O'Dare who crosses paths with an angel and winds up seeking salvation. He also travels to thirteenth-century England, where he helps bridge gaps between Christians and persecuted Jews. Okay, CBS.
- 9/26/2013
- by Margaret Lyons
- Vulture
CBS has begun development of the drama series "Angel Time" from Timberman-Beverly Productions ("Justified," "Elementary").
The series is based on the characters in "Interview with the Vampire" author Anne Rice's "The Songs of the Seraphim" novel series
Josh Harto and Liz Garcia ("Memphis Beat") are penning the New Orleans-set operatic drama about a soulless assassin with a tragic past who finds himself on a road to redemption.
Filmmaker Joe Carnahan ("The Grey," "Narc"), whose pilot for NBC's "The Blacklist" drew good reviews and strong ratings this week, is set to direct the project.
Carnahan will also executive produce along with Rice, Harto, Garcia, Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman.
Source: Deadline...
The series is based on the characters in "Interview with the Vampire" author Anne Rice's "The Songs of the Seraphim" novel series
Josh Harto and Liz Garcia ("Memphis Beat") are penning the New Orleans-set operatic drama about a soulless assassin with a tragic past who finds himself on a road to redemption.
Filmmaker Joe Carnahan ("The Grey," "Narc"), whose pilot for NBC's "The Blacklist" drew good reviews and strong ratings this week, is set to direct the project.
Carnahan will also executive produce along with Rice, Harto, Garcia, Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman.
Source: Deadline...
- 9/26/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
CBS is hoping to turn the Anne Rice novel Angel Time into a possible series.
The network has ordered a drama script from Liz Garcia and Joshua Harto (Memphis Beat) that’s based on Rice’s 2009 novel. The book, which was the first in the author’s Songs of the Seraphim series, tells the story of an assassin with a tragic past who finds himself on a road to redemption. The story takes place at the historic Mission Inn in Riverside, CA.
Rice will serve an executive producer on the project, as well as Sarah Timberman (Masters of Sex) and Carl Beverly.
The network has ordered a drama script from Liz Garcia and Joshua Harto (Memphis Beat) that’s based on Rice’s 2009 novel. The book, which was the first in the author’s Songs of the Seraphim series, tells the story of an assassin with a tragic past who finds himself on a road to redemption. The story takes place at the historic Mission Inn in Riverside, CA.
Rice will serve an executive producer on the project, as well as Sarah Timberman (Masters of Sex) and Carl Beverly.
- 9/26/2013
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
Exclusive: CBS has put in development Angel Time, a drama series project based on the characters in Anne Rice’s The Songs of the Seraphim novels. Named after the first book in the series, Angel Times hails from CBS Studios and Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman’s studio-based Timberman-Beverly Prods. Joe Carnahan is set to direct the project, with Rice executive producing. Written by Memphis Beat creators Josh Harto and Liz Garcia, Angel Time is a New Orleans-set high-stakes, operatic drama about Toby O’Dare, a soulless assassin with a tragic past who finds himself on a road to redemption. Harto and Garcia are executive producing the project with Rice, Carnahan, Timberman and Beverly. Narc director Carnahan, repped by CAA and Stuart Rosenthal, is on a hot streak in TV with the two pilots he directed, A&E’s Those Who Kill and NBC’s The Blacklist, both going to series,...
- 9/26/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Editor’s Note: This review originally appeared as part of our Sundance 2013 coverage, and now A Teacher being released into theaters near you. This year’s Sundance Film Festival was rife with films about inappropriate sexual relationships, especially already-shocking May-December dalliances made still more inappropriate by uncomfortable power dynamics. Drake Doremus’ Breathe In tackled the almost-romance between an exchange student and her male guardian (one who was also her teacher), Liz W. Garcia’s The Lifeguard featured a twentysomething female lifeguard who takes up with a teen boy who lives in the condo complex where she works, and Anne Fontaine’s Two Mothers centered on adult female friends who both fall in love with the other’s son, ensuring that Hannah Fidell‘s A Teacher would fit quite neatly in the festival’s most trendy programming. But fortunately for the director/writer/producer, Fidell’s finely tuned feature is a stand-out film in an apparently crowded field...
- 9/6/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Kristen Bell isn't her usual bubbly self in her latest movie, the Liz Garcia-directed dark comedy "The Lifeguard." While a lot of that has to do with the fact that her character, Leigh, is on the cusp of her 30s and kinda depressed, at least a small sliver can be attributed to the fact that Bell was pregnant and tired during filming.
The 33-year-old actress, who gave birth to daughter Lincoln in March, tells Collider she found out she was pregnant while on the Pittsburgh set. "My reality was a bit challenging because I was so tired, but I didn't know why," Bell says. "I was like, 'Well, I have mono. Let's just wrap this movie up, and I'm gonna go to the hospital because I have mono, obviously.' And I didn't. I had pregnancy."
For the movie, she tapped into her irresponsible side to play a 29-year-old...
The 33-year-old actress, who gave birth to daughter Lincoln in March, tells Collider she found out she was pregnant while on the Pittsburgh set. "My reality was a bit challenging because I was so tired, but I didn't know why," Bell says. "I was like, 'Well, I have mono. Let's just wrap this movie up, and I'm gonna go to the hospital because I have mono, obviously.' And I didn't. I had pregnancy."
For the movie, she tapped into her irresponsible side to play a 29-year-old...
- 9/2/2013
- by Laura Larson
- Moviefone
Los Angeles, Sep 2: Bad storm and heavy rain played spoilsport for actress Kristen Bell as she had to pull out from a virtual event of her new film "The Lifeguard".
The 33-year-old was set to appear via Skype for a question-and-answer session for her fans attending a screening of the movie at the Sundance Sunset Cinema in Hollywood, but she was unable to get online due to heavy rains in her native Detroit, Michigan Aug 30, reports contactmusic.com.
Bell took to micro-blogging website Twitter to apologise for the cancellation.
"To those viewing 'The Lifeguard' at sundance sunset cinemas with director Liz W. Garcia:.
The 33-year-old was set to appear via Skype for a question-and-answer session for her fans attending a screening of the movie at the Sundance Sunset Cinema in Hollywood, but she was unable to get online due to heavy rains in her native Detroit, Michigan Aug 30, reports contactmusic.com.
Bell took to micro-blogging website Twitter to apologise for the cancellation.
"To those viewing 'The Lifeguard' at sundance sunset cinemas with director Liz W. Garcia:.
- 9/1/2013
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
The star of Lifeguard sits down with CineMovie to discuss her new movie, Lifeguard and the awkwardness of shooting a love scene.
In Lifeguard, Kristen Bell’s character is having a mid-life crisis at 29 when she returns to her childhood town to relive her high school days. Directed by first-time director Liz Garcia, the low-budget Lifeguard was a passion project for the new mommy and her co-star Mamie Gummer, daughter of Meryl Streep. For Kristen, working on a smaller film is much more of a creative process than a Hollywood film, which is all about the “big paycheck, according to Bell.” Gummer describes working in indie film as a “labor of love,” and the “level of commitment inspiring.”
In Lifeguard, Bell’s character becomes involved with a much younger man. The scene called for an awkward scene in a
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In Lifeguard, Kristen Bell’s character is having a mid-life crisis at 29 when she returns to her childhood town to relive her high school days. Directed by first-time director Liz Garcia, the low-budget Lifeguard was a passion project for the new mommy and her co-star Mamie Gummer, daughter of Meryl Streep. For Kristen, working on a smaller film is much more of a creative process than a Hollywood film, which is all about the “big paycheck, according to Bell.” Gummer describes working in indie film as a “labor of love,” and the “level of commitment inspiring.”
In Lifeguard, Bell’s character becomes involved with a much younger man. The scene called for an awkward scene in a
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- 8/31/2013
- CineMovie
In The Lifeguard, Kristen Bell plays a woman on the verge of 30 who has a meltdown, quits her reporter job in New York, then heads back to her hometown for some peace and quiet. But that escapism comes at price — from her parents’ short-lived appreciation of her homecoming, to her reconnecting with old friends who’ve changed (including best friend Mel, played by Mamie Gummer), to ultimately the titular summer job that defines her new life in the sleepy suburb.
The film is dark and shows a different side of the bubbly Bell. In the exclusive clip below, we see...
The film is dark and shows a different side of the bubbly Bell. In the exclusive clip below, we see...
- 8/30/2013
- by Laura Hertzfeld
- EW - Inside Movies
Title: The Lifeguard Director: Liz W. Garcia Starring: Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, David Lambert, Alex Shaffer, Joshua Harto, John Finn, Paulie Litt, Adam Lefevre, Amy Madigan The seriocomic feature film debut of television director Liz W. Garcia, “The Lifeguard” offers up a contrived series of precious posed moments in telling the story of a young career woman who moves back home in an effort to shake off a low-lying cloud of personal and professional ambivalence. In her starring role, Kristen Bell delivers a charming, engaging performance, but the much sharper take on this same sort of thirtysomething ennui (even though Bell’s character is quick to point out that [ Read More ]
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- 8/30/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
The Lifeguard
Written and directed by Liz W. Garcia
USA, 2013
Coming of age stories have come to multiplexes in different ways this summer. From Mud in the spring to The Kings of Summer, The Way Way Back and The Spectacular Now this summer, these films have proved that the genre doesn’t have to be littered with carbon copies and new entries can add unique touches to familiar territory. Also, these films were excellent and among the strongest of 2013. Now, we have The Lifeguard, which would not be considered a coming-of-age film in the traditional sense but perhaps one in reverse. This is a film about a woman who seemingly has a good life but decides she wants more–or, it might be appropriate to say, less–from her life.
Kristen Bell stars as Leigh, a reporter living in New York in a committed relationship. Leigh seems to be living...
Written and directed by Liz W. Garcia
USA, 2013
Coming of age stories have come to multiplexes in different ways this summer. From Mud in the spring to The Kings of Summer, The Way Way Back and The Spectacular Now this summer, these films have proved that the genre doesn’t have to be littered with carbon copies and new entries can add unique touches to familiar territory. Also, these films were excellent and among the strongest of 2013. Now, we have The Lifeguard, which would not be considered a coming-of-age film in the traditional sense but perhaps one in reverse. This is a film about a woman who seemingly has a good life but decides she wants more–or, it might be appropriate to say, less–from her life.
Kristen Bell stars as Leigh, a reporter living in New York in a committed relationship. Leigh seems to be living...
- 8/30/2013
- by Matthew Passantino
- SoundOnSight
Apparently it’s hard to be a grownup in today’s crazy world without committing consequence-free statutory rape. Ugh. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Oh, no no no. I was fooled by the promise of a tale that starts out, refreshingly, all female third-life crisis, as Kristen Bell’s journalist is driven to escape her work and New York City and go home to suburban Connecticut. (She brings the cat with her — it’s that serious.) On the verge of 30, she “need[s] some time out of [her] life,” and finds it by taking up her high-school summer job as a lifeguard in an apartment complex pool and engaging in lots of nice refreshing distracting sexytime… with a 16-year-old boy. Not cool, movie — not cool. Especially when there’s nothing the movie wants to say — some...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Oh, no no no. I was fooled by the promise of a tale that starts out, refreshingly, all female third-life crisis, as Kristen Bell’s journalist is driven to escape her work and New York City and go home to suburban Connecticut. (She brings the cat with her — it’s that serious.) On the verge of 30, she “need[s] some time out of [her] life,” and finds it by taking up her high-school summer job as a lifeguard in an apartment complex pool and engaging in lots of nice refreshing distracting sexytime… with a 16-year-old boy. Not cool, movie — not cool. Especially when there’s nothing the movie wants to say — some...
- 8/29/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
With her smart, sexy feature The Lifeguard, writer-director Liz W. Garcia set out to make a female Graduate. That would mean that Kristen Bell is Dustin Hoffman — although her character, Leigh, has a thing or two in common with Mrs. Robinson. The film unspools during a very recent summer, when 29-year-old Leigh, frustrated with her unfulfilling career and nonstarter relationship, moves back home from NYC. Taking her old summer job as a condo-complex lifeguard, Leigh attempts to recapture her teenage glory days in suburban Connecticut. But things get complicated when she begins an affair with an actual teenager (played by David Lambert). In real life, Bell doesn't have any trouble living in the present. When she called us, she was breastfeeding her 4-month-old daughter, Lincoln, while fielding the occasional interjection from husband Dax Shepard. We spoke to the actress about becoming a seductress, avoiding a mid-thirties crisis, and making...
- 8/28/2013
- by Gwynne Watkins
- Vulture
From concept to execution to tone, writer-director Liz W. Garcia's The Lifeguard is a lifeless misfire. Twenty-nine-year-old Leigh (Kristen Bell) flees her life in New York (an unsatisfying job as a news reporter; a dead-end affair with her married editor) for her childhood home in Connecticut and her high school job as a lifeguard. This existential crisis is sparked by her covering the story of a young tiger kept handcuffed (paw-cuffed?) to a radiator by its owners, who let it die of dehydration and malnutrition. Leigh, of course, over-identifies with the tragic feline. Once home, she's oblivious to the way her presence shatters her parents' childfree groove, which is but one manifestation of her grating entitlement. With her sister (whose struggles to get pregnant have fractur...
- 8/28/2013
- Village Voice
Sink or Swim: Garcia’s Debut a Glossy Derivative
Though featuring a handful of winning performances from an extremely likeable cast, writer/director Liz W. Garcia’s debut, The Lifeguard, is about as original and realistic as its metaphorical title is gauntly vague. Best known as a writer on that late 90s television series you may be familiar with, “Dawson’s Creek,” Garcia’s feature plays like a logical extension of her teen characters from over a decade ago, examining familiar themes of nostalgia in overtly familiar ways. Innately, we all seem to know that one can’t go home again, which doesn’t stop humans from doggedly attempting to recreate the past or filmmakers from mining the scenario for dramatic possibilities.
About to turn 30 and disappointed with her life in New York City, Leigh (Kristen Bell), seems to have prematurely reached her mid-life crisis. Romantically entangled with her married boss,...
Though featuring a handful of winning performances from an extremely likeable cast, writer/director Liz W. Garcia’s debut, The Lifeguard, is about as original and realistic as its metaphorical title is gauntly vague. Best known as a writer on that late 90s television series you may be familiar with, “Dawson’s Creek,” Garcia’s feature plays like a logical extension of her teen characters from over a decade ago, examining familiar themes of nostalgia in overtly familiar ways. Innately, we all seem to know that one can’t go home again, which doesn’t stop humans from doggedly attempting to recreate the past or filmmakers from mining the scenario for dramatic possibilities.
About to turn 30 and disappointed with her life in New York City, Leigh (Kristen Bell), seems to have prematurely reached her mid-life crisis. Romantically entangled with her married boss,...
- 8/26/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Generally regarded as a master of snark, Kristen Bell made it very clear she's capable of much beyond that at the Sundance Film Festival this year, portraying a crumbling, depressive 29-year-old in Liz W. Garcia's affecting "The Lifeguard." [This interview was originally published during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. "The Lifeguard" is currently available on VOD and opens in select theaters this Friday, August 30th.] The film -- screening in U.S. Dramatic Competition at the festival -- sees Bell's character Leigh quitting her job as a New York City reporter and moving back to her parents' house in Connecticut. She reunites with her high school best friends (Martin Starr and Mamie Gummer) and romances a similarly melancholic 16-year-old boy (David Lambert). It doesn't hold back when they inevitably start having sex: A scene set in the changeroom of the pool definitely stands out as one of Sundance's sexiest. A very pregnant Bell sat down with Indiewire a few...
- 8/26/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Focus World has released the first clip from the indie drama, The Lifeguard. Kristen Bell stars as Leigh, a 29-year-old whose career and love life crises send her home to live with her parents. There, she regresses back into high school life, hanging with her old pals and reclaiming her job at a condo complex pool. The Liz W. Garcia written and directed flick also stars Mamie Gummer, Joshua Harto, Amy Madigan, Alex Shaffer and Martin Starr. The Lifeguard opened at Sundance this year, and you can now catch it on VOD and in theaters August 30th, 2013. Here’s the official synopsis for The Lifeguard: Leigh...
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- 8/9/2013
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
With minor roles in shows such as The Shield and Deadwood bringing her some attention, it was as the titular lead in the cult hit series Veronica Mars that Kristen Bell found her breakthrough performance. Following that up with a role in the tv series Heroes, Bell was soon able to parlay her fame into movie success, with supporting roles in movies such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Couples Retreat. Fans of Bell were thus interested to learn of her newest feature, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and saw her take on a leading role. Titled The Lifeguard, the film is written and directed by Liz W. Garcia, and Bell stars alongside Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Joshua Harto, Amy Madigan, and Sendhil Ramamurthy. The first trailer for the film has now been released, and can be seen below.
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- 7/10/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Kristen Bell is 29, not 30, in her new movie The Lifeguard and after burning out at her reporter job in NYC, seeks to unplug, recharge and work on getting happy at the last place where that was possible: her parents' comfortable home in Connecticut.
She asks to move back in and regresses big time not only with a job suitable for a high school, maybe college, student as, you guessed it, a lifeguard, she even strikes up a relationship with a brooding floppy-haired, skateboard-toting teen, which her friend Mel (Mamie Gummer), a high school principal, does Not approve of.
The Lifeguard is a nice change of pace for Bell, who's hard at work on that Veronica Mars movie y'all paid for and raising her baby, so watch her struggle to find out what adult life looks like in the first trailer for TV writer Liz W. Garcia's directorial debut.
She asks to move back in and regresses big time not only with a job suitable for a high school, maybe college, student as, you guessed it, a lifeguard, she even strikes up a relationship with a brooding floppy-haired, skateboard-toting teen, which her friend Mel (Mamie Gummer), a high school principal, does Not approve of.
The Lifeguard is a nice change of pace for Bell, who's hard at work on that Veronica Mars movie y'all paid for and raising her baby, so watch her struggle to find out what adult life looks like in the first trailer for TV writer Liz W. Garcia's directorial debut.
- 7/9/2013
- by Andrea Miller
- Cineplex
Everyone deserves the occasion life mulligan here and there, but how much backpedaling can a girl really get away with before people start getting seriously peeved?
Kristen Bell's Leigh seems hellbent on finding out the answer in this trailer for her latest movie "The Lifeguard." The 29-year-old (to repeat, not yet 30) goes through some sticky relationship and career stuff up in New York, so instead of putting on her big girl panties and figuring it out up there in the Big Apple, she up and moves back into her old bedroom at her parents' house in Connecticut — citing the fact that it's the last place she was happy or some other immature nonsense — and reclaims her old post as a lifeguard at the local swimming hole.
Oh, and she starts robbin' the cradle with some teenaged townie. 'Cause that's not totally immoral or anything (read: it's pretty gross).
Luckily for her,...
Kristen Bell's Leigh seems hellbent on finding out the answer in this trailer for her latest movie "The Lifeguard." The 29-year-old (to repeat, not yet 30) goes through some sticky relationship and career stuff up in New York, so instead of putting on her big girl panties and figuring it out up there in the Big Apple, she up and moves back into her old bedroom at her parents' house in Connecticut — citing the fact that it's the last place she was happy or some other immature nonsense — and reclaims her old post as a lifeguard at the local swimming hole.
Oh, and she starts robbin' the cradle with some teenaged townie. 'Cause that's not totally immoral or anything (read: it's pretty gross).
Luckily for her,...
- 7/9/2013
- by Amanda Bell
- NextMovie
Spunky, sloth-lovin' Kristen Bell takes a turn for the dramatic in the upcoming indie "The Lifeguard."
When Bell's Leigh, who is resolutely 29 years old and not 30, ditches her life in the big city and moves back home, her wacky life decisions have a rippled effect on her circle of friends, including Mel (Mamie Gummer) and Todd (Martin Starr). At first, things are all fun and games; working as a lifeguard all day and boozing it up like in high school at night sounds good, right?
Even if you're acting like a teenager, it's still illegal to date them in most states. David Lambert plays Leigh's love interest, a young skateboarder with problems of his own.
"The Lifeguard" feels a little like last year's "Hello I Must Be Going," which stars Melanie Lynskey as a divorcee who moves back home and Christopher Abbott as her younger love interest. The love affair in "Hello" is legal,...
When Bell's Leigh, who is resolutely 29 years old and not 30, ditches her life in the big city and moves back home, her wacky life decisions have a rippled effect on her circle of friends, including Mel (Mamie Gummer) and Todd (Martin Starr). At first, things are all fun and games; working as a lifeguard all day and boozing it up like in high school at night sounds good, right?
Even if you're acting like a teenager, it's still illegal to date them in most states. David Lambert plays Leigh's love interest, a young skateboarder with problems of his own.
"The Lifeguard" feels a little like last year's "Hello I Must Be Going," which stars Melanie Lynskey as a divorcee who moves back home and Christopher Abbott as her younger love interest. The love affair in "Hello" is legal,...
- 7/9/2013
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
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