Roadside Attractions has released three new images and trailer for their upcoming film, Life Of Crime.
When a pair of low-level criminals kidnap the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer, they get both more and less than they bargained for in Life Of Crime, a dark caper comedy based on legendary author Elmore Leonard’s novel The Switch.
In their 2013 Toronto International Film Festival review, Sound on Sight said, “Life Of Crime is a reasonable addition to the world of Leonard adaptations.”
Starring Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, yasiin bey, Mark Boone Junior, Isla Fisher, Will Forte, and Tim Robbins, Life Of Crime is packed with the outrageously eccentric characters, black comedy and unexpected twists that earned Leonard a reputation as one of America’s sharpest and funniest crime writers.
Mickey Dawson (Jennifer Aniston), the wife of crooked real-estate developer Frank Dawson (Tim Robbins), is kidnapped by two common criminals (yasiin...
When a pair of low-level criminals kidnap the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer, they get both more and less than they bargained for in Life Of Crime, a dark caper comedy based on legendary author Elmore Leonard’s novel The Switch.
In their 2013 Toronto International Film Festival review, Sound on Sight said, “Life Of Crime is a reasonable addition to the world of Leonard adaptations.”
Starring Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, yasiin bey, Mark Boone Junior, Isla Fisher, Will Forte, and Tim Robbins, Life Of Crime is packed with the outrageously eccentric characters, black comedy and unexpected twists that earned Leonard a reputation as one of America’s sharpest and funniest crime writers.
Mickey Dawson (Jennifer Aniston), the wife of crooked real-estate developer Frank Dawson (Tim Robbins), is kidnapped by two common criminals (yasiin...
- 5/21/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After two small-scale New York indie features, set in the world of standup comedy (2007′s Goodbye Baby) and low-budget film (2012′s Supporting Characters), writer/director Daniel Schechter has made the unlikely but extremely welcome step up to a very different kind of movie. Life of Crime, which closes the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, is not only based on a novel (The Switch) by the late, great Elmore Leonard but boasts a high-caliber cast featuring Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher, John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Will Forte and Mark Boone Jr. A dark crime comedy, Schechter’s film […]...
- 9/12/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
After two small-scale New York indie features, set in the world of standup comedy (2007′s Goodbye Baby) and low-budget film (2012′s Supporting Characters), writer/director Daniel Schechter has made the unlikely but extremely welcome step up to a very different kind of movie. Life of Crime, which closes the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, is not only based on a novel (The Switch) by the late, great Elmore Leonard but boasts a high-caliber cast featuring Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher, John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Will Forte and Mark Boone Jr. A dark crime comedy, Schechter’s film […]...
- 9/12/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Here's the latest Austin film news.
Austin Film Festival announced more panels and panelists for this year's conference: writer Ron Nyswaner, whose credits include Philadelphia and The Painted Veil; producer Ben Blacker, who will moderate The Nerdist Writers Panel; Daniel Schechter, writer/director of Goodbye Baby; and David Shore, the creator of the TV series House, M.D., as well as a writer for The Practice and Law and Order. The full Aff Conference lineup will be announced later this month.University of Texas in Austin alumnus Glen Powell is slated to appear in The Expendables 3 alongside Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and Antonio Banderas, reports Austin Movie Blog. Powell got his start in movies with 2003's Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and has appeared in more than a dozen TV and shows and movies, including Austinite Kat Candler's Jumping Off Bridges.The Austin-made horror-comedy Saturday Morning...
Austin Film Festival announced more panels and panelists for this year's conference: writer Ron Nyswaner, whose credits include Philadelphia and The Painted Veil; producer Ben Blacker, who will moderate The Nerdist Writers Panel; Daniel Schechter, writer/director of Goodbye Baby; and David Shore, the creator of the TV series House, M.D., as well as a writer for The Practice and Law and Order. The full Aff Conference lineup will be announced later this month.University of Texas in Austin alumnus Glen Powell is slated to appear in The Expendables 3 alongside Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and Antonio Banderas, reports Austin Movie Blog. Powell got his start in movies with 2003's Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and has appeared in more than a dozen TV and shows and movies, including Austinite Kat Candler's Jumping Off Bridges.The Austin-made horror-comedy Saturday Morning...
- 9/2/2013
- by Jordan Gass-Poore'
- Slackerwood
• Tom Hardy has logged on to a big screen adaptation of the long-running videogame franchise Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. He’d play Sam Fisher, the stealthy, deadly spy at the heart of the six Splinter Cell titles. Game publisher Ubisoft is heading up the effort, and has tapped Eric Warren Singer (The International) to pen the script; no director has yet been attached. [Deadline]
• Benicio del Toro is finishing talks to play drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in Paradise Lost. The fact-based film follows a surfer who falls for a Columbia girl whose uncle just happens to be the most notorious cocaine trafficker of the 1980s.
• Benicio del Toro is finishing talks to play drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in Paradise Lost. The fact-based film follows a surfer who falls for a Columbia girl whose uncle just happens to be the most notorious cocaine trafficker of the 1980s.
- 11/15/2012
- by Adam B. Vary
- EW - Inside Movies
Daniel Schechter always wanted to make movies and believes his desire to communicate is best served by his skills as a filmmaker. He calls "Supporting Characters" a significant departure from his previous films ("The Big Bad Swim" and "Goodbye Baby") because of its semi-autobiographical nature. While writing the script with friend and star Tarik Lowe, what started as a standard rom-com became more alive when they "kept cherry-picking moments directly from our personal lives." Schechter got his "top personal choice for every single role," including: Alex Karpovsky (HBO's "Girls"), Arielle Kebbel ("90210"), Kevin Corrigan ("The Departed"), Sophia Takal ("Green"), Melonie Diaz ("Be Kind Rewind"), Lena Dunham ("Tiny Furniture") & Tarik Lowe ("Blue Bloods"). What it's about: It's a comedy about two best friends, who are film editors in NYC,...
- 4/2/2012
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
For those wondering what we mean by a "Jackie Brown prequel," let's recap, shall we? Elmore Leonard's 1992 novel Rum Punch served as the source material for writer-director Quentin Tarantino's 1997 adaptation, but it wasn't the first time Leonard had written about the characters of Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara, respectively played by Samuel L. Jackson and Robert De Niro in Jackie Brown. Previously, Leonard had used the characters for the first time in his 1978 novel The Switch, which indie writer-director Daniel Schechter (Goodbye Baby) had used for a spec script adaptation that eventually won Leonard over.
With Elmore on board to produce, Schechter moved forward with The Switch earlier this month, casting John Hawkes (Winter's Bone) and Yasiin Bey (Be Kind Rewind), formerly known as Mos Def, in the roles of Louis and Ordell, respectively. Ty Burrell (ABC's Modern Family) was cast in a supporting role last week, and...
With Elmore on board to produce, Schechter moved forward with The Switch earlier this month, casting John Hawkes (Winter's Bone) and Yasiin Bey (Be Kind Rewind), formerly known as Mos Def, in the roles of Louis and Ordell, respectively. Ty Burrell (ABC's Modern Family) was cast in a supporting role last week, and...
- 2/17/2012
- by Ryan Gowland
- Reelzchannel.com
Does John Hawkes look like a young Robert DeNiro? Writer-director Dan Schechter seems to think there is a resemblance of some sort, as he has just cast him to play a younger version of DeNiro's character from Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film Jackie Brown. A few years back, Schechter wrote a spec script for an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel The Switch, a prequel that takes place 15 years before Rum Punch, the book that Jackie Brown was based on. Leonard ended up liking it so much that he granted him the rights to make the movie and also signed on as a producer. Now Schechter is also directing the movie, and Yasiin Bey (the actor formerly known as Mos Def) has also signed on to play Samuel L. Jackson's former role. The plot synopsis is as follows: "Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara hit it off in prison, where they...
- 2/2/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film "Jackie Brown" was based on Elmore Leonard's "Rum Punch" novel. But the characters that Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson played (Louis and Ordell) also appear in Leonard's "The Switch" book, which can be considered a prequel. Now comes word that Daniel Schechter (whose "Goodbye Baby" film is being released on DVD on June 1st) is writing a screenplay based on "The Switch," which will serve as the official prequel to "Jackie Brown." The project has Michael Siegel (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Be Cool) attached to produce, and while Tarantino is not involved, there is still hope that he may godfather the new film. At this point there is a search for a director and actors, including two who will play the young versions of De Niro and Jackson. The goal is to get in front of the cameras by summer of 2011. "The...
- 5/22/2010
- WorstPreviews.com
Daniel Schechter ("Goodbye Baby") is developing a script based on Elmore Leonard's 1978 novel "The Switch" reports Worst Previews.
The story follows two car thieves, Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara, who hit it off in prison and once released plan one last score. The job? To kidnap the wife of a wealthy Detroit developer and hold her for ransom.
There's a problem though, the husband doesn't want his wife back, so the pair come up with a new plan with the help of a ticked-off housewife bent on revenge against the developer.
There's two big wrinkles to this story. The first is that 'Switch' is essentially a prequel to Leonard's "Rum Punch", the novel which served as the basis for Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film "Jackie Brown".
Older versions of the two main characters of 'Switch' were portrayed by Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson in the Tarantino film. Michael Siegel...
The story follows two car thieves, Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara, who hit it off in prison and once released plan one last score. The job? To kidnap the wife of a wealthy Detroit developer and hold her for ransom.
There's a problem though, the husband doesn't want his wife back, so the pair come up with a new plan with the help of a ticked-off housewife bent on revenge against the developer.
There's two big wrinkles to this story. The first is that 'Switch' is essentially a prequel to Leonard's "Rum Punch", the novel which served as the basis for Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film "Jackie Brown".
Older versions of the two main characters of 'Switch' were portrayed by Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson in the Tarantino film. Michael Siegel...
- 5/22/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
NEW YORK -- The 14th annual Slamdance Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its lineup of narrative competition features, special presentations and the opening night film: Randall Cole's comedic drama Real Time starring Randy Quaid and Jay Baruchel.
The Park City, Utah, fest, long established as a renegade alternative to Sundance, includes a few other narrative features with known actors among its world premiere special screenings: Hart Bochner's romantic comedy Just Add Water starring Dylan Walsh, Danny DeVito,
Justin Long and Anika Noni Rose, and Daniel Schechter's coming-of-age drama Goodbye Baby starring Christine Evangelista, Kevin Corrigan and Alan Ruck, which was shown to distributors at ShoWest's indie film showcase this spring.
The 10 films in the Narrative Feature Competition include Tao Ruspoli's darkly comic road trip movie Fix, Steve Clark's portrait of a Manhattan playboy, Frost, and Paul Encinas' coming-of-age ensemble drama Glory Boy Days.
Other films include Simon Welsford's amnesiac thriller Jetsam, Oliver Irving's dark family comedy How to Be, Oren Peli's supernatural thriller Paranormal Activity and Matthew Miller, Ezra Krybus and Sascha Drews' erotic drama Portage.
Rounding out the narrative list are Ryan Piotrowicz's urban filmmaker drama The Project, Tom Quinn's family drama New Year Parade and Candela Figueira and Maitena Muruzabal's portrait of a factory worker, Under the Snow.
The Park City, Utah, fest, long established as a renegade alternative to Sundance, includes a few other narrative features with known actors among its world premiere special screenings: Hart Bochner's romantic comedy Just Add Water starring Dylan Walsh, Danny DeVito,
Justin Long and Anika Noni Rose, and Daniel Schechter's coming-of-age drama Goodbye Baby starring Christine Evangelista, Kevin Corrigan and Alan Ruck, which was shown to distributors at ShoWest's indie film showcase this spring.
The 10 films in the Narrative Feature Competition include Tao Ruspoli's darkly comic road trip movie Fix, Steve Clark's portrait of a Manhattan playboy, Frost, and Paul Encinas' coming-of-age ensemble drama Glory Boy Days.
Other films include Simon Welsford's amnesiac thriller Jetsam, Oliver Irving's dark family comedy How to Be, Oren Peli's supernatural thriller Paranormal Activity and Matthew Miller, Ezra Krybus and Sascha Drews' erotic drama Portage.
Rounding out the narrative list are Ryan Piotrowicz's urban filmmaker drama The Project, Tom Quinn's family drama New Year Parade and Candela Figueira and Maitena Muruzabal's portrait of a factory worker, Under the Snow.
- 12/6/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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