In 2014, Naomi Watts voiced an animated version of herself in the “BoJack Horseman” episode “One Trick Pony.” The Watts in Hollywoo — the “BoJack” stand-in for the entertainment industry’s epicenter, inhabited mostly by anthropomorphic animals — is starring opposite BoJack in a biopic about his frenemy, Mr. Peanutbutter. She appears on set preparing to play Diane, a burgeoning writer. The meta joke is the actress accepted the part to get a break from emotionally draining, praiseworthy performances.
“I just keep getting pigeonholed as these complex characters in highly acclaimed movies,” the animated Watts bemoans to a character who is a parody of host Ryan Seacrest (A Ryan Seacrest Type). “For once, I would just love to phone it in and play a two-dimensional girl in a rom-com with no inner life of her own. That’s kind of the reason I got into this business.”
Ten years later, that tongue-in-cheek guest appearance now feels almost prophetic.
“I just keep getting pigeonholed as these complex characters in highly acclaimed movies,” the animated Watts bemoans to a character who is a parody of host Ryan Seacrest (A Ryan Seacrest Type). “For once, I would just love to phone it in and play a two-dimensional girl in a rom-com with no inner life of her own. That’s kind of the reason I got into this business.”
Ten years later, that tongue-in-cheek guest appearance now feels almost prophetic.
- 5/16/2024
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Indiewire
The last 30 minutes of David Lynch’s 2001 brain-bending masterpiece “Mulholland Drive” offer up a harrowing free-fall into a woman’s unraveling psyche — thanks to a mesmerizing performance by Naomi Watts, who subtly shifts from wide-eyed credulity to broken-down hysteria and back again, as the gravity of her character’s situation comes into shattering focus.
In a clip below that has recently surfaced on Twitter, watch as Watts gives a master class in wordless acting during a pivotal scene where her character, who is at this point Diane Selwyn, realizes she’s being dumped by not only her director (Justin Theroux), but also her would-be girlfriend (Laura Elena Harring). As it takes place in the film, the whole scene is excruciating to watch — and no doubt one of the most uncomfortably real depictions of a mind processing a breakup ever.
Naomi Watts gets applause from David Lynch and crew for her powerful non-verbal acting performance pic.
In a clip below that has recently surfaced on Twitter, watch as Watts gives a master class in wordless acting during a pivotal scene where her character, who is at this point Diane Selwyn, realizes she’s being dumped by not only her director (Justin Theroux), but also her would-be girlfriend (Laura Elena Harring). As it takes place in the film, the whole scene is excruciating to watch — and no doubt one of the most uncomfortably real depictions of a mind processing a breakup ever.
Naomi Watts gets applause from David Lynch and crew for her powerful non-verbal acting performance pic.
- 8/25/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Everyone wants to be commended for their work. One of the inalienable facets of the American education system, and one that’s stirred up a fair amount of criticism in recent years, is a focus on numbers as an end-all. A high Gpa, strong Act scores and a large amount of course credits are valued above all else in high schools and colleges, to the point where students actively compete to see who can score highest. The C, once meant to imply an average score, is no longer acceptable – only the golden A will do. The system’s critics claim that boiling education down to numbers is really missing the point, and that all the A’s and 36′s can’t help students if reaching those targets prevents them from understanding the purpose behind their education or, worse, deluding themselves into believing that high scores are enough to guarantee career success.
- 2/10/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Scott Coffey’s Adult World debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, and it’s finally on the cusp of its stateside release, heading into cinemas and to VOD on Valentine’s Day next month.
The actor-turned-filmmaker made his feature directorial debut back in 2005 with Ellie Parker, led by Naomi Watts. And he returns with Adult World, his sophomore feature, with the young Emma Roberts front and centre. And with less than a month to go before it arrives, IFC has released the first poster, and launched the first trailer over on Yahoo Movies.
A Stanford graduate feels she’s destined to be a great poet but winds up working as a clerk in a mom-and-pop adult bookstore.
Evan Peters and John Cusack complete the leading trio, with Armando Riesco, Shannon Woodward, Reed Birney, and Catherine Lloyd Burns starring alongside them.
Coffey directs from a script penned by Andrew Cochran,...
The actor-turned-filmmaker made his feature directorial debut back in 2005 with Ellie Parker, led by Naomi Watts. And he returns with Adult World, his sophomore feature, with the young Emma Roberts front and centre. And with less than a month to go before it arrives, IFC has released the first poster, and launched the first trailer over on Yahoo Movies.
A Stanford graduate feels she’s destined to be a great poet but winds up working as a clerk in a mom-and-pop adult bookstore.
Evan Peters and John Cusack complete the leading trio, with Armando Riesco, Shannon Woodward, Reed Birney, and Catherine Lloyd Burns starring alongside them.
Coffey directs from a script penned by Andrew Cochran,...
- 1/17/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Scott Coffey has had a 30-year-long career as an actor, appearing in films such as "Mulholland Dr." and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," as well as in his directorial debut "Ellie Parker" in 2005. This year Coffey adds a second film to his directing filmography with "Adult World," starring Emma Roberts as an aspiring poet who takes up a job in a sex shop, and John Cusack, as a punk poet. The film, which was inspired by the satirical tone of Alexander Payne's "Citizen Ruth," comments on the replacement of the American Dream with youth's current struggle for fame. What it's about: Amy Anderson graduates college convinced she's going to be a famous American poet. Unemployed and desperate for work, she takes a job in an adult book and video store. Meanwhile, she stalks her mentor, the famous punk poet Rat Billings. About the filmmaker: I was an actor in my...
- 4/15/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
The Hollywood Reporter on Friday raised a glass to Oscar nominee Naomi Watts (The Impossible), toasting the star of the fest's Two Mothers. "I'm very nostalgic for Sundance," Watts said. "My first time here was with a movie I produced and it was called Ellie Parker. It was a short film and we were literally hounding people on the streets just to get them in to see the movie." Things have obviously changed since then, with Watts' Two Mothers premiering just hours later to a packed house at Eccles Theater. Photos: The Scene in Park City Joining Watts
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- 1/19/2013
- by Sophie A. Schillaci
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The drought between his debut and sophomore will come to an end in 2013. A full eight years since Ellie Parker (Sundance ’05), which was based on the short of the same name (Sundance ’01), Scott Coffey’s Adult World was shot in Syracuse, NY back in February with a trio that includes Emma Roberts (who attends the fest yearly in four back to back years with The Winning Season, Twelve, The Art of Getting By, Celeste & Jesse Forever), Evan Peters and John Cusack. Wolf Parade frontman Dan Boeckner scored the comedy which I think Sundance programmers might want to include because it fits a certain niche demographic that they like to sample yearly.
Gist: Written by Andy Cochran, Amy Anderson (Roberts), an eccentric university graduate, is determined to become a famous poet. Saddled with debt and unemployed, she moves back in with her parents, who force her to get a job. She...
Gist: Written by Andy Cochran, Amy Anderson (Roberts), an eccentric university graduate, is determined to become a famous poet. Saddled with debt and unemployed, she moves back in with her parents, who force her to get a job. She...
- 11/19/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Rising young star Emma Roberts (The Art of Getting By) takes the lead in upcoming comedy, Adult World, which sees director Scott Coffey (Ellie Parker) making his sophomore feature behind the camera.
Starring alongside Roberts will be a promising cast, headed up by John Cusack (High Fidelity) and Evan Peters (Kick-Ass), and now The Playlist have debuted a handful of great first-look images.
“A satirical coming-of-age comedy, centered on the life of Amy Anderson (Roberts) who has just graduated with a degree in poetry. Convinced she is the next star in the literary world, she moves back with her parents to write poetry and find her place in the world. Very soon — saddled with a stack of rejection letters, unpaid student loans, and no money — she decides to find a job in the real world. The only place that will hire her is an adult bookstore called Adult World. It...
Starring alongside Roberts will be a promising cast, headed up by John Cusack (High Fidelity) and Evan Peters (Kick-Ass), and now The Playlist have debuted a handful of great first-look images.
“A satirical coming-of-age comedy, centered on the life of Amy Anderson (Roberts) who has just graduated with a degree in poetry. Convinced she is the next star in the literary world, she moves back with her parents to write poetry and find her place in the world. Very soon — saddled with a stack of rejection letters, unpaid student loans, and no money — she decides to find a job in the real world. The only place that will hire her is an adult bookstore called Adult World. It...
- 11/12/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The gritty, inspirational drama Sunlight Jr. will be unveiled to international buyers by Hyde Park International at this year.s Marche du Film. Written and directed by the award-winning Laurie Collyer (Sherrybaby) and starring Naomi Watts (J. Edgar, King Kong), Matt Dillon (Crash, There.S Something About Mary) and Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints, The Walking Dead). The film is produced by Original Media.s Charlie Corwin (Half Nelson, The Squid And The Whale), Freight Yard Films. Andrea Roa and Ariel Elia, who is producing on behalf of Empyrean Pictures. Joshua Skurla and Dan Klabin are executive producers for Empyrean, which fully financed the film, and are joined by Simon Fawcett (How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, In The Loop) as executive producer.
Sunlight Jr. is currently in post production and a promo will be shown at Cannes. Shot on location in southern Florida, the story spotlights hard-working convenience store...
Sunlight Jr. is currently in post production and a promo will be shown at Cannes. Shot on location in southern Florida, the story spotlights hard-working convenience store...
- 5/9/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With production now underway, the cast members joining Emma Roberts for "Adult World" have been rounded up and it's not a bad bunch at all, mixing up a solid veteran with a bunch of rising talent. John Cusack will hang out with "American Horror Story" star Evan Peters and "Raising Hope" actress Shannon Woodward in the upcoming film. Directed by Scott Coffey ("Ellie Parker"), who also oversaw the rewrite of the script by Andrew Cochran, the indie flick will find Roberts will playing Amy Anderson, a Stanford grad with dreams of becoming a poet who gets stuck working in an erotic bookstore to help pay off her mounting debt. Cusack will play Amy's hero and mentor, the delightfully named poet Rat Billings, with Woodward as her punk/goth roommate Candace and Peters as Manny. Cameras are rolling on this one already in upstate New York and this smells like a Sundance pic all the way.
- 2/22/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
John Cusack (Being John Malkovich) and Evan Peters (Kick-Ass) are in advanced talks to star in Adult World.
Cusack and Peters will appear opposite Emma Roberts (Scream 4) in the adult themed drama.
Adult World centers on a recent college graduate (Roberts) who believes she’s destined to be a great poet, instead winds up working for an adult book store.
Scott Coffey (Ellie Parker) will direct from a screenplay written by Andy Cochran (Super Sweet 16: The Movie).
Adult World, which is currently in production, is a co-production between TreeHouse Pictures and Anonymous Content.
Source: Deadline...
Cusack and Peters will appear opposite Emma Roberts (Scream 4) in the adult themed drama.
Adult World centers on a recent college graduate (Roberts) who believes she’s destined to be a great poet, instead winds up working for an adult book store.
Scott Coffey (Ellie Parker) will direct from a screenplay written by Andy Cochran (Super Sweet 16: The Movie).
Adult World, which is currently in production, is a co-production between TreeHouse Pictures and Anonymous Content.
Source: Deadline...
- 2/10/2012
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With roles in six films last year, it looks like Emma Roberts doesn’t have plans to slow down anytime soon. While she’ll probably lose out in the race among young Hollywood starlets to nab the lead in the much talked about Hunger Games, Roberts has a more mature role to focus on with Adult World. Roberts is to be joined by Shiloh Fernandez and there are unconfirmed reports that It’s Kind of a Funny Story co-star Zach Galifinakis is set to join the troupe. The coming-of-age drama will be helmed by Ellie Parker writer/director Scott Coffey and is being produced by Infinity Media. Gist: A Stanford graduate with hopes of being a great poet, discovers that adult life is not conducive to achieving her dreams. The Ivy League grad winds up working as a clerk in a mom and pop adult bookstore. Worth Noting: Coffey got...
- 3/26/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Oliver Stone is assembling Savages, which adapts the book of the same name by Don Winslow and has Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch set to star as best friends and pot growers who get roped into working for a drug cartel when the bad guys kidnap their friend/girlfriend. Salma Hayek is a possible pick to be the matriarch of the drug cartel, and Benicio Del Toro is now signing on to play the cartel's enforcer, who sets the kidnapping, and therefore the plot, in motion. Some script work is being done now by Oliver Stone, Don Winslow and Shane Salerno, and there are ongoing discussions with a couple of studios to pick up the project -- Universal seems like the likely home right now. [Deadline [1]] After the break, new gigs for Emma Robers, Kenan Thompson and the new Jason Voorhees, Derek Mears. Emma Roberts will be really noticable soon in Scream 4,...
- 3/25/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Emma Roberts is attached while an offer is out to Zach Galifianakis for roles in the coming-of-age comedy "Adult World" reports The Playlist.
Andrew Cochran penned the script in which Roberts would play a recent Stanford graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, but instead winds up working for an adult book store.
Scott Coffey ("Ellie Parker") is set to direct.
Andrew Cochran penned the script in which Roberts would play a recent Stanford graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, but instead winds up working for an adult book store.
Scott Coffey ("Ellie Parker") is set to direct.
- 3/24/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Word is out that actor-writer-director Scott Coffey (Ellie Parker) has attached Emma Roberts to play a post-Stanford poet working in a bookstore in his coming-of-age Adult World. I also hear that Coffey has an offer out to in-demand Zach Galifianakis for a juicy role in the pic, written by Andrew Cochran. The comedian is in demand. Since he broke out in The Hangover, specialty-niche drama It's Kind of a Funny Story and DreamWorks ensemble Dinner for Schmucks disappointed at the box office, but raucous comedy Due Date, a two-hander with Robert Downey, Jr., scored $200-million worldwide. And the upcoming comedies Hangover Part II, The Muppets and currently filming Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie should only make Galifianakis even more attractive.
- 3/24/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Young Hollywood loves indie films, and this time the beneficiary is Adult World, the coming-of-age drama being produced by Michael Ohoven at Infinity Entertainment (Capote, Saved) and Kevin Turen (Arbitrage) from a script by Andrew Cochran. Meeting for the female main character with director Scott Coffey (whose Ellie Parker was in the main competition at Sundance) were hot talent like Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan, Rooney Mara, Emily Browning, Juno Temple and Brie Larson. But Emma Roberts snagged the part. Turns out Coffey wrote a female-driven script for Fox Searchlight that had Emma's aunt Julia Roberts attached once upon a time. (Emma is Eric's daughter.) What a small world Hollywood is, eh? Anyway, Adult World now has offers out to Zach Galifianakis and Shiloh Fernandez for great male roles, too. It's a funny satire about an over-validated generation of American kids who think they're all special and have a right to...
- 3/24/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
Emma Roberts (It’s Kind of a Funny Story) is attached to star in coming-of-age drama Adult World.
The film, to be directed by Scott Coffey (Ellie Parker), centers on a Stanford grad (Roberts) with dreams of becoming a poet who gets stuck working in a mom-and-pop bookstore.
According to sources, offers are out for a male counterpart as well as an older character but, as of yet, no one has been officially cast.
Roberts will next be seen in the slasher sequel Scream 4, alongside Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette.
Source: The Playlist...
The film, to be directed by Scott Coffey (Ellie Parker), centers on a Stanford grad (Roberts) with dreams of becoming a poet who gets stuck working in a mom-and-pop bookstore.
According to sources, offers are out for a male counterpart as well as an older character but, as of yet, no one has been officially cast.
Roberts will next be seen in the slasher sequel Scream 4, alongside Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette.
Source: The Playlist...
- 3/23/2011
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Emma Roberts has been coming on strong over the past year or so, featuring in a number of indie films including "It's Kind of a Funny Story," "What's Wrong With Virginia" and more recently in the Sundance premiere "Homework." And with "Scream 4" headed to theaters very soon, the actress is lining up another promising project. Reps for the actress have confirmed with The Playlist that Emma Roberts is attached to star in the coming-of-age drama "Adult World." Set to be directed by Scott Coffey ("Ellie Parker"), who also oversaw the rewrite of the script by Andrew Cochran, Roberts will…...
- 3/23/2011
- The Playlist
Infinity Media has signed up actor Scott Coffey to direct the coming-of-age comedy Adult World, which centres on a college graduate who believes she is destined to be the next great American poet and stumbles upon a job at an adult-video store. Andy Cochran wrote the script, and Coffey will oversee a rewrite.
Infinity have already had some success in the teen drama department with Saved - which is a really under-rated movie that seems to have slipped under a lot of people’s radar; and actor Coffey – whose only other directing gig was the film Ellie Parker (which he also wrote) – is no stranger to the coming-of-age genre, having starred in many of the 80’s best: SpaceCamp, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Some Kind of Wonderful and Satisfaction.
(Source: THR)...
Infinity have already had some success in the teen drama department with Saved - which is a really under-rated movie that seems to have slipped under a lot of people’s radar; and actor Coffey – whose only other directing gig was the film Ellie Parker (which he also wrote) – is no stranger to the coming-of-age genre, having starred in many of the 80’s best: SpaceCamp, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Some Kind of Wonderful and Satisfaction.
(Source: THR)...
- 3/25/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Character actor Scott Coffey has been tapped to direct the coming-of-age comedy "Adult World" for Infinity Media.
"World" centers on a college grad who believes she is destined to be the next great American poet and stumbles upon a job at an adult-video store. Andy Cochran wrote the script, and Coffey will oversee a rewrite.
"World" is out to actors.
Michael Ohoven and Kevin Turen are producing via Infinity, whose credits include "Saved!" and "Push." Joel Michaely also is producing.
Coffey's credits as an actor range from appearances in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" to David Lynch's "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Drive."
In 2005, Anonymous Content-repped Coffey jumped into feature directing with the indie comedy "Ellie Parker," starring Naomi Watts, which was based on a short he did a few years earlier.
"World" centers on a college grad who believes she is destined to be the next great American poet and stumbles upon a job at an adult-video store. Andy Cochran wrote the script, and Coffey will oversee a rewrite.
"World" is out to actors.
Michael Ohoven and Kevin Turen are producing via Infinity, whose credits include "Saved!" and "Push." Joel Michaely also is producing.
Coffey's credits as an actor range from appearances in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" to David Lynch's "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Drive."
In 2005, Anonymous Content-repped Coffey jumped into feature directing with the indie comedy "Ellie Parker," starring Naomi Watts, which was based on a short he did a few years earlier.
- 3/24/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Julia Roberts has signed on to produce and possibly star in the feature Happiness Sold Separately, based on the novel by Lolly Winston, to be adapted and directed by Scott Coffey.
Fox Searchlight is in early negotiations to distribute. Suzanne and Jennifer Todd and Joe Roth of Team Todd will produce along with Roberts' Red Om Films banner. Valeska Ramet, who brought the book to Coffey (Ellie Parker), also will produce.
Claudia Lewis and Jeremy Steckler will oversee production for the studio.
Happiness is a love story centered on a woman who withdraws from her husband into a world of heartbreak and anger after she discovers that he had an affair with his nutritionist at the gym. It tells the story of when people meet the wrong person at the wrong time and have to make it right.
"I've been looking for something to do with Julia for a really long time, and I finally found the project that was worthy of her," said Coffey, who also is an actor and a longtime friend of Roberts.
Fox Searchlight is in early negotiations to distribute. Suzanne and Jennifer Todd and Joe Roth of Team Todd will produce along with Roberts' Red Om Films banner. Valeska Ramet, who brought the book to Coffey (Ellie Parker), also will produce.
Claudia Lewis and Jeremy Steckler will oversee production for the studio.
Happiness is a love story centered on a woman who withdraws from her husband into a world of heartbreak and anger after she discovers that he had an affair with his nutritionist at the gym. It tells the story of when people meet the wrong person at the wrong time and have to make it right.
"I've been looking for something to do with Julia for a really long time, and I finally found the project that was worthy of her," said Coffey, who also is an actor and a longtime friend of Roberts.
- 12/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marking its launch as a theatrical distributor, Los Angeles-based indie producer and DVD distributor Dream Entertainment has acquired the worldwide rights to Dorota Kedzierzawska's Polish language film I Am. The film, which boasts cinematography by Arthur Reinhart (Children of Dune) and a score by Michael Nyman (The Piano) debuted at the New York and Toronto film festivals. The story of an orphaned boy searching for his identity won best score, editing, and cinematography at the 2005 Polish Film Festival, where director Kedzierzawska had previously won best director in 1999 for her debut film, Nic. Dream Entertainment has acquired another Toronto title, IFC Films' Sorry, Haters, starring Robin Wright Penn, and has also licensed the international rights for Ellie Parker, starring Naomi Watts.
- 11/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Rarely is a movie actually digital. Rarely is a movie actually independent. Rarely is a movie actually Cassavetesesque. So if you are looking for a real digital, independent, Cassavetesesque movie here it is – Ellie Parker. A man, Scott Coffey, his camera, Sony Dcr-PC100 , and his actors, Naomi Watts, among others, is all it took to make this movie. And the beauty of it all is that it was made without thinking about any of these “indie” ideals. Most digitals movies lack the risk-taking that should be involved with this medium; this movie took on many risks. Most directors don’t truly take advantage of digital’s ease and quickness; Scott Coffey sat on the hood of a car, holding on with one hand and having the camera in another, to film scenes. Most digital movies are shot and lit like film because they are so afraid to
- 11/10/2005
- IONCINEMA.com
Doug Sadler's Swimmers was awarded the grand jury prize for best new American film at an awards ceremony held Sunday, the closing day of the 31st annual Seattle International Film Festival. A special jury prize for best new American film also was awarded to Scott Coffey's Ellie Parker, starring Naomi Watts. In the documentary field, the grand jury prize went to Walter Stokman's Based on a True Story, a recounting of the bank robbery that inspired Dog Day Afternoon. Heather Rae's Trudell, a portrait of American Indian poet John Trudell, received a special jury prize. Russian director Ilya Khrjanovsky received the grand jury prize for best new director for his film 4. Brad McGann was awarded a special jury prize for best new director for In My Father's Den.
- 6/13/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dream Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production and international sales company, has acquired international rights to Ellie Parker, produced by and starring Naomi Watts. An official selection of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Ellie Parker is a comedy about a young woman's struggle for integrity, happiness and a Hollywood acting career. The film also stars Chevy Chase, Scott Coffey, Mark Pellegrino and Rebecca Riggs. Ellie Parker was written and directed by Coffey, who along with Watts produced the film with Matt Chesse and Blair Mastbaum.
- 4/19/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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