Exclusive: Veteran producer Stratton Leopold (Mission: Impossible III) and filmmaker Dax Phelan (The Other Side of the Wind) have teamed up to produce a new currently untitled limited series based on an infamous 19th-century prison escape known affectionately as The Catalpa Expedition.
Set in Ireland, the United States, and Australia during the 1860s and 1870s, the series will be based on the real-life plan members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood — a 19th-century republican group — made to free six political prisoners from a British penal colony in Western Australia while aboard the whaleship, The Catalpa. The writer, poet, and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly was among the political prisoners sent to a British penal colony in Australia.
The Whaling Ship, Catalpa.
Phelan will write the pilot episode and produce alongside Leopold and Eric M. Klein. Terence E. Groves (Jasmine), who first brought the idea to Leopold, will serve as executive producer along...
Set in Ireland, the United States, and Australia during the 1860s and 1870s, the series will be based on the real-life plan members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood — a 19th-century republican group — made to free six political prisoners from a British penal colony in Western Australia while aboard the whaleship, The Catalpa. The writer, poet, and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly was among the political prisoners sent to a British penal colony in Australia.
The Whaling Ship, Catalpa.
Phelan will write the pilot episode and produce alongside Leopold and Eric M. Klein. Terence E. Groves (Jasmine), who first brought the idea to Leopold, will serve as executive producer along...
- 3/20/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: British-born Eurasian actor Mayling Ng (Wonder Woman) has joined the cast of UK-set boxing drama The Journeyman and will star opposite retired UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping. Dax Phelan is directing the pic, which follows Kenny “The Beast” Breen (Bisping), an alcoholic, drug-abusing, past-his-prime journeyman boxer who, after being diagnosed with neurological damage, continues his career on the small-hall circuit at grave risk to himself and lands a fight with his former rival who’s gone on to become a star in the division. Ng will play Alina, a woman struggling to start her life over after escaping an abusive relationship, who becomes romantically involved with the boxer. Phelan and British author Mark Turley co-wrote the screenplay based on the latter’s book. The film is planning to shoot in Manchester and the team are now seeking a UK-based producing partner. Ng is repped by Eric Kind at Brave Artists Management.
- 4/21/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Michael Bisping, the retired UFC Middleweight Champion and Hall of Famer, has been set to lead The Journeyman, an adaptation of British author Mark Turley’s book Journeymen.
Bisping will play Kenny ‘The Beast’ Breen, an alcoholic, drug-abusing, past-his-prime journeyman boxer with a record of 11-85-0 who, after being diagnosed with neurological damage, continues his career on the small-hall circuit at grave risk to himself.
Dax Phelan is directing the movie, which will shoot in the UK. The team are currently searching for a UK producing partner and will be repping the title at AFM with LHCo Distribution Liaison.
Phelan and Turley co-wrote the screenplay. Eric M. Klein and Phelan are producing. Bisping and Turley will executive produce. Real-life journeyman boxer Johnny Greaves is serving as the film’s technical advisor.
“For obvious reasons, Mike brings an authenticity and an X-factor to the role that no other actor ever could,...
Bisping will play Kenny ‘The Beast’ Breen, an alcoholic, drug-abusing, past-his-prime journeyman boxer with a record of 11-85-0 who, after being diagnosed with neurological damage, continues his career on the small-hall circuit at grave risk to himself.
Dax Phelan is directing the movie, which will shoot in the UK. The team are currently searching for a UK producing partner and will be repping the title at AFM with LHCo Distribution Liaison.
Phelan and Turley co-wrote the screenplay. Eric M. Klein and Phelan are producing. Bisping and Turley will executive produce. Real-life journeyman boxer Johnny Greaves is serving as the film’s technical advisor.
“For obvious reasons, Mike brings an authenticity and an X-factor to the role that no other actor ever could,...
- 11/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dax Phelan has acquired the rights to UK author Mark Turley’s boxing book Journeymen: The Other Side of the Boxing Business, a New Perspective on the Noble Art, and will be shopping the project during Toronto.
The novel follows an alcoholic, drug-abusing, past-his-prime journeyman boxer, who, after being diagnosed with neurological damage, continues his career on the small-hall circuit at grave risk to himself, in the hope that he can reach the rare achievement of one hundred professional bouts.
Phelan will direct and co-write the adaptation with Turley. The pic will be produced by Phelan and Eric M. Klein (Jasmine) and executive produced by Turley. The team are searching for a lead actor now; they are planning to hire real-life boxers to round out the cast.
“I’ve been looking for a way to tell a different kind of boxing story...
The novel follows an alcoholic, drug-abusing, past-his-prime journeyman boxer, who, after being diagnosed with neurological damage, continues his career on the small-hall circuit at grave risk to himself, in the hope that he can reach the rare achievement of one hundred professional bouts.
Phelan will direct and co-write the adaptation with Turley. The pic will be produced by Phelan and Eric M. Klein (Jasmine) and executive produced by Turley. The team are searching for a lead actor now; they are planning to hire real-life boxers to round out the cast.
“I’ve been looking for a way to tell a different kind of boxing story...
- 9/11/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Writer, producer, and director whose credits include “The Other Side Of The Wind”and “Jasmine” will helm the Hitchcockian thriller Kirkwood, to be filmed in St. Louis during the fall and winter of 2019. Read the 2015 Wamg interview with Dax Here
Los Angeles-based writer/producer/director Dax Phelan (“The Other Side of the Wind”) will return home to St. Louis to direct his sophomore feature film, “Kirkwood,” this fall and winter. The film is a Hitchcockian suspense thriller about former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. But, when the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must take extreme measures to keep their secret safe. Phelan...
Los Angeles-based writer/producer/director Dax Phelan (“The Other Side of the Wind”) will return home to St. Louis to direct his sophomore feature film, “Kirkwood,” this fall and winter. The film is a Hitchcockian suspense thriller about former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. But, when the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must take extreme measures to keep their secret safe. Phelan...
- 7/24/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: The Other Side Of The Wind co-producer Dax Phelan is gearing up to direct his second feature, Kirkwood.
Phelan, whose 2015 debut Jasmine played at festivals including Hong Kong, Palm Springs and Stockholm, is aiming to shoot the film in St Louis this fall and winter. Casting is currently under way.
The suspense thriller follows former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. When the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must go to extreme lenghts to keep their secret safe.
Phelan wrote the story with his father, Joe Phelan, a former City of St. Louis policeman. He will produce with Stratton Leopold, an executive producer on Mission: Impossible III,...
Phelan, whose 2015 debut Jasmine played at festivals including Hong Kong, Palm Springs and Stockholm, is aiming to shoot the film in St Louis this fall and winter. Casting is currently under way.
The suspense thriller follows former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. When the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must go to extreme lenghts to keep their secret safe.
Phelan wrote the story with his father, Joe Phelan, a former City of St. Louis policeman. He will produce with Stratton Leopold, an executive producer on Mission: Impossible III,...
- 7/24/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Geraldine Viswanathan and Cedric the Entertainer get gigs, shooting starts on apocalyptic thriller “G.O.D.,” and immigrant story “Footprints of the Dragon” is in the works.
Castings
Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery and Utkarsh Ambudkar are set to star in romantic comedy “The Broken Heart Gallery.”
Viswanathan will portray an art collector who suffers a bad break up with her boyfriend, played by Ambudkar, who is also her boss at the Whitney Museum. She decides to curate The Broken Heart Gallery in the lobby of a hotel, operated by Montgomery’s character, and learns to love by letting go.
Natalie Krinsky is making her feature directorial debut and helming from her own script. Producers are No Trace Camping’s David Gross, Jesse Shapira and Jeff Arkuss along with Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen. Selena Gomez, Mandy Teefey and Josh Clay Phillips of No Trace Camping are executive producing.
Castings
Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery and Utkarsh Ambudkar are set to star in romantic comedy “The Broken Heart Gallery.”
Viswanathan will portray an art collector who suffers a bad break up with her boyfriend, played by Ambudkar, who is also her boss at the Whitney Museum. She decides to curate The Broken Heart Gallery in the lobby of a hotel, operated by Montgomery’s character, and learns to love by letting go.
Natalie Krinsky is making her feature directorial debut and helming from her own script. Producers are No Trace Camping’s David Gross, Jesse Shapira and Jeff Arkuss along with Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen. Selena Gomez, Mandy Teefey and Josh Clay Phillips of No Trace Camping are executive producing.
- 5/9/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
A new six-part doc series is set to pull back the curtain on the life of iconic director Orson Welles. Life With Orson Welles: The Man Behind the Legend comes from his daughter, Beatrice Welles, and director Dax Phelan, and is repped to buyers in Berlin by Lon Haber & Co.
The series is being styled as a collection of casual but revealing dinner conversations, during which Welles, Phelan and a revolving door of special guests will discuss the late filmmaker, his work and the private life few got to see.
“Much is known about my father as this legendary ...
The series is being styled as a collection of casual but revealing dinner conversations, during which Welles, Phelan and a revolving door of special guests will discuss the late filmmaker, his work and the private life few got to see.
“Much is known about my father as this legendary ...
A new six-part doc series is set to pull back the curtain on the life of iconic director Orson Welles. Life With Orson Welles: The Man Behind the Legend comes from his daughter, Beatrice Welles, and director Dax Phelan, and is repped to buyers in Berlin by Lon Haber & Co.
The series is being styled as a collection of casual but revealing dinner conversations, during which Welles, Phelan and a revolving door of special guests will discuss the late filmmaker, his work and the private life few got to see.
“Much is known about my father as this legendary ...
The series is being styled as a collection of casual but revealing dinner conversations, during which Welles, Phelan and a revolving door of special guests will discuss the late filmmaker, his work and the private life few got to see.
“Much is known about my father as this legendary ...
Producer-director Dax Phelan (Jasmine) has acquired screen rights to three autobiographical books by British aviatrix Jennifer Murray: 2003’s Now Solo, 2006’s Broken Journey and 2008’s Polar First.
Phelan will adapt the books and direct for a single film, which will center on Murray, an American-born housewife and mother who, at 54, learned to fly when her husband bought a half share in a helicopter. A few years later, she became the first woman to pilot a helicopter around the world in a solo flight.
“I’m delightfully overwhelmed by the appreciation that Dax and his team have shown ...
Phelan will adapt the books and direct for a single film, which will center on Murray, an American-born housewife and mother who, at 54, learned to fly when her husband bought a half share in a helicopter. A few years later, she became the first woman to pilot a helicopter around the world in a solo flight.
“I’m delightfully overwhelmed by the appreciation that Dax and his team have shown ...
Producer-director Dax Phelan (Jasmine) has acquired screen rights to three autobiographical books by British aviatrix Jennifer Murray: 2003’s Now Solo, 2006’s Broken Journey and 2008’s Polar First.
Phelan will adapt the books and direct for a single film, which will center on Murray, an American-born housewife and mother who, at 54, learned to fly when her husband bought a half share in a helicopter. A few years later, she became the first woman to pilot a helicopter around the world in a solo flight.
“I’m delightfully overwhelmed by the appreciation that Dax and his team have shown ...
Phelan will adapt the books and direct for a single film, which will center on Murray, an American-born housewife and mother who, at 54, learned to fly when her husband bought a half share in a helicopter. A few years later, she became the first woman to pilot a helicopter around the world in a solo flight.
“I’m delightfully overwhelmed by the appreciation that Dax and his team have shown ...
Rabid, and Clive Barker's Nightbreed are just a couple of films in the lineup for Shout! Factory TV's 5 Nights of Fear. Prepare thyself. Also in today's Horror Highlights: a new Beistle Cat special edition pin from Creepy Co., details on Horror Movie Night podcast's fundraiser to raise money for FamilyStrong4ALS, and Jasmine release details.
Shout! Factory TV's Five Nights of Fear Details: Press Release: "Scream Factory™ is celebrating five years of fear with the special screening event 5 Nights of Fear airing on Shout! Factory TV. In celebration of the now-iconic horror brand’s fifth anniversary, Scream Factory will present nightly screenings of cult favorite films Nightbreed, Bad Moon, The Exorcist III, Hellhole, and Rabid. 5 Nights of Fear will air from Monday, June 12 through Friday, June 16 each evening at 10 p.m. Et/7 p.m. Pt at http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/, and on Pluto TV Channel 512.
On Monday, the terrifying celebration...
Shout! Factory TV's Five Nights of Fear Details: Press Release: "Scream Factory™ is celebrating five years of fear with the special screening event 5 Nights of Fear airing on Shout! Factory TV. In celebration of the now-iconic horror brand’s fifth anniversary, Scream Factory will present nightly screenings of cult favorite films Nightbreed, Bad Moon, The Exorcist III, Hellhole, and Rabid. 5 Nights of Fear will air from Monday, June 12 through Friday, June 16 each evening at 10 p.m. Et/7 p.m. Pt at http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/, and on Pluto TV Channel 512.
On Monday, the terrifying celebration...
- 6/9/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
The Berlin Independent Film Festival returned for another fantastic festival of independent filmmaking with a fantastic line-up. The eclectic programme of international features and shorts was presented in one of Berlin’s favourite independent cinemas, the Babylon. Highlights of the 2017 festival included The Uncertainty Has Settled by Marijn Poels (Germany), Timeless by Alexander Tuschinski (USA, Germany), Red by Branko Tomovic (UK, Germany), Why Siegfried Teitelbaum Had to Die by Axel Steinmüller (Germany), Seat in Shadow by Henry Coombes (UK, Spain), Jasmine by Dax Phelan (USA, Hong Kong), and To Keep The Light by Erica Fae (USA). Biff 2017 Winners Best Feature (over 100k) – Jasmine by Dax Phelan Best Micro-budget Feature (under €100k) – Seat in Shadow by Henry Coombes Best Documentary – The Uncertainty Has Settled by Marijn Poels Best Director Feature – Erica Fae for To Keep The Light Best...
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- 2/26/2017
- Screen Anarchy
The exciting Berlin Independent Film Festival kicks off tonight. The Biff team is returning for another fantastic festival of independent filmmaking from February 8-15 with a fantastic line-up. The eclectic programme of international features and shorts will be presented in one of Berlin’s favourite independent cinemas, the Babylon. Highlights of the 2017 festival include The Uncertainty Has Settled by Marijn Poels (Germany), Timeless by Alexander Tuschinski (USA, Germany), Red by Branko Tomovic (UK, Germany), Why Siegfried Teitelbaum Had to Die by Axel Steinmüller (Germany), Seat in Shadow by Henry Coombes (UK, Spain), Jasmine by Dax Phelan (USA, Hong Kong), and To Keep The Light by Erica Fae (USA). The complete line-up of features and shorts for the 2017 edition can be found on their website: http://www.berlinfest.com The...
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- 2/8/2017
- Screen Anarchy
The Biff team is running another fantastic festival of independent filmmaking from February 9-15 and just announced their exciting line-up. The eclectic programme of international features and shorts will be presented in one of Berlin’s favourite independent cinemas, the Babylon. Highlights of the 2017 festival include the UK-German thriller Red by Branko Tomovic, Why Siegfried Teitelbaum Had to Die by Axel Steinmüller (Germany), Seat in Shadow by Henry Coombes (UK, Spain), Jasmine by Dax Phelan (USA, Hong Kong), and To Keep The Light by Erica Fae (USA). The complete line-up of features and shorts for the 2017 edition can be found on their freshly launched website: http://www.berlinfest.com/festival-2/festival-2017/ The Berlin Independent Film Festival is at the epicentre for low-budget filmmaking in Europe. While the Berlin Independent Film Festival is not...
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- 1/16/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Jasmine screens Saturday, November 7th at 5:15 at The Tivoli Theater as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival. Director/writer Dax Phelan will be in attendance. Ticket information can be found Here
In this gripping psychological thriller, Leonard To (Jason Tobin, Better Luck Tomorrow) struggles to come to terms with the unsolved murder of Jasmine (Grace Huang, The Man With The Iron Fists), his beloved wife. Nearly a year after Jasmine’s death, Leonard finally returns home to Hong Kong. Determined to begin again, he searches for a new job, attends grief-support meetings, and reconnects with a woman from his past (Eugenia Yuan, Revenge Of The Green Dragons). The unsolved nature of Jasmine’s murder — and the Hong Kong police’s seeming indifference to the case — prevents Leonard from attaining true closure, but he appears to be slowly starting life anew. That progress comes to a sudden halt,...
In this gripping psychological thriller, Leonard To (Jason Tobin, Better Luck Tomorrow) struggles to come to terms with the unsolved murder of Jasmine (Grace Huang, The Man With The Iron Fists), his beloved wife. Nearly a year after Jasmine’s death, Leonard finally returns home to Hong Kong. Determined to begin again, he searches for a new job, attends grief-support meetings, and reconnects with a woman from his past (Eugenia Yuan, Revenge Of The Green Dragons). The unsolved nature of Jasmine’s murder — and the Hong Kong police’s seeming indifference to the case — prevents Leonard from attaining true closure, but he appears to be slowly starting life anew. That progress comes to a sudden halt,...
- 11/5/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Edge of Normal
Bold Films has picked up Matt Venne's film script adaptation of Carla Norton's 2013 novel "The Edge of Normal". Michel Litvak, Matthew Rhodes, Andrew Deane and Lisa Zambri will produce.
The story follows a woman who escaped captivity from a sadistic sexual predator when she was a teenager. Ten years later, she remains haunted by her memories as she struggles to pull her life together and is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a clever psychopath who seems to know her every move. [Source: Variety]
The Fixer
Fubar Films has optioned "House Of Cards" writer Bill Kennedy's thriller script "The Fixer" at Rumble Entertainment. Filming aims to begin later this year.
Set in the gritty intersection of the Los Angeles nightlife and organized crime, the plot follows a mob fixer who retires to repair his broken personal life but is soon drawn into the criminal underworld...
Bold Films has picked up Matt Venne's film script adaptation of Carla Norton's 2013 novel "The Edge of Normal". Michel Litvak, Matthew Rhodes, Andrew Deane and Lisa Zambri will produce.
The story follows a woman who escaped captivity from a sadistic sexual predator when she was a teenager. Ten years later, she remains haunted by her memories as she struggles to pull her life together and is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a clever psychopath who seems to know her every move. [Source: Variety]
The Fixer
Fubar Films has optioned "House Of Cards" writer Bill Kennedy's thriller script "The Fixer" at Rumble Entertainment. Filming aims to begin later this year.
Set in the gritty intersection of the Los Angeles nightlife and organized crime, the plot follows a mob fixer who retires to repair his broken personal life but is soon drawn into the criminal underworld...
- 7/17/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Dax Phelan, veteran screenwriter and producer based in Los Angeles got the Hong Kong bug on a writing research trip to the city in 2005. By his own tongue-in-cheek admission, it had become somewhat tedious being handsomely paid for writing screenplays that rarely if ever get made. Citing inspiration by such auteurs as Lodge Kerrigan (The Killing TV series, Keane) and the Dardenne brothers (Two Days, One Night) Phelan sensed that Hong Kong could be fertile ground for a psychological thriller that would be his directorial debut. He penned Jasmine based on a story that he had co-written with Jason Tobin.While Hong Kong has a truly enormous vault of thrillers with the revenge theme, it begs pointing out that Jasmine is like none of them...
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- 4/25/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Jasmine is a psychological thriller from Shanghai Street Films that has been selected as part of the official lineup at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. It will have its world premiere on March 25 there. A Hong Kong-u.S. co-production, the English-language film marks the directorial debut of Dax Phelan who’s helming from his own script. Byron Mann (The Man With The Iron Fists), Jason Tobin (The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift), Eugenia Yuan (Memoirs…...
- 3/3/2015
- Deadline
Grief. The loss of a loved can do lots of psychological damage to a person and Dax Phelan's new film Jasmine is primed to explore just how bad things can get. Read on for the initial details and first set of stills.
From the Press Release
Shanghai Street Films is pleased to announce Jasmine, the new psychological thriller starring Byron Mann (The Man With The Iron Fists), Jason Tobin (The Fast And The Furious), Hong Kong Oscar-Winner Eugenia Yuan (Memoirs Of A Geisha and starring in the upcoming Revenge Of The Green Dragons – daughter of critically-acclaimed actress Pei-Pei Cheng), Grace Huang (Cold War) and Sarah Lian has just entered the final stages of post production in anticipation of its world premiere as early as this Spring. The movie was filmed in Hong Kong.
Jasmine is a gripping and chilling psychological thriller about a man, Leonard To (Tobin), still struggling...
From the Press Release
Shanghai Street Films is pleased to announce Jasmine, the new psychological thriller starring Byron Mann (The Man With The Iron Fists), Jason Tobin (The Fast And The Furious), Hong Kong Oscar-Winner Eugenia Yuan (Memoirs Of A Geisha and starring in the upcoming Revenge Of The Green Dragons – daughter of critically-acclaimed actress Pei-Pei Cheng), Grace Huang (Cold War) and Sarah Lian has just entered the final stages of post production in anticipation of its world premiere as early as this Spring. The movie was filmed in Hong Kong.
Jasmine is a gripping and chilling psychological thriller about a man, Leonard To (Tobin), still struggling...
- 3/25/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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