Tag: Casting News: U.S. Indie Films
Double Identity: Scott Teems’ ‘The Quarry’ Books Michael Shannon & Shea Whigham
Described as shades of Steinbeck and Faulkner, That Evening Sun helmer Scott Teems will see Michael Shannon and Shea Whigham reteam on his sophomore...
Internsh*t: Kitty Green Finds Assistants in Macfadyen, Kristine Froseth & Makenzie Leigh
High up on our most anticipated American indie offerings for 2019, the probable gross "rite of passage" exposé of working under the indie...
Chad Hartigan Baits Jack O’Connell, Raul Castillo and Soko for ‘Little Fish’
Last week we reported that Chad Hartigan selected Blacklist screenplay Little Fish with Olivia Cooke attached, this week, THR reports that Jack O’Connell, Raul...
Son of a Gun: Colin Farrell Programmed for Kogonada’s ‘After Yang’ with A24
With packaging being put together this past summer, Kogonada sees the A24 folks reteam with actor Colin Farrell on his sophomore feature, After Yang....
Terms of Endearment: Eric Wareheim to Direct Michael Cera in A24s ‘Jonty’
Funny folks Eric Wareheim and Michael Cera are joining forces with Four Lions scribes Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain for Jonty - an A24...
McDormand on the Move: Fox Searchlight Packs Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’
Much like the invisible folks presented in this future film, Chloé Zhao was pretty much working off our radar with her third feature. A...
Pitch Black: Ehle, Harrison Jr. & Emory Cohen Join “The Wolf Hour”
Production on Alistair Banks Griffin's sophomore film began this week, and the supporting cast in the sweltering The Wolf Hour have been identified. Deadline reports...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing
We're honestly a little surprised that Nicolas Pesce's highly anticipated sophomore film didn't drop in 2017 as filming took place earlier in the year. As...
Wicked Leaks: Charlie Plummer Joins Rhianne Barreto in Pippa Bianco’s Feature Debut
Venice Film Festival Marcello Mastroianni best young actor award (Lean on Pete) winner Charlie Plummer (check out the Q&A at TIFF) will star alongside Rhianne...
Sarandon & Gideon Adlon Saddle Up for Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s “Mustang”
Susan Sarandon might revert to some Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking) counsellor skillset for her next role. Deadline reports that the veteran actress...
Street Team: Crystal Moselle in Simpatico with The Skate Kitchen
No stranger to profiling NYC based artists and misfits running, subwaying (and in this case, skating) around Manhattan and its boroughs, Deadline confirms that...
Escape Planned: Bart Layton’s “American Animals” Arrests Blake Jenner, Barry Keoghan & Jared Abrahamson
One of the most anticipated projects from the Sundance film labs is getting into gear for an immient shoot and Variety reports that Blake...
Basic Instinct: Wasikowska & Christoper Abbott Topline Pesce’s “Piercing”
Making it back to back years, team Borderline folks didn't waste much time pushing the career of their protégé. After turning heads and churning...
Father Figure: Joel Edgerton is Patriarch in Trey Edwards Shults’ “It Comes At Night”
Deadline reports that recent Jeff Nichols' muse Joel Edgerton will topline Trey Edwards Shults' It Comes At Night, the psychological horror thriller that the A24...
What’s Your Sign?: Aaron Katz Lands Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz & John Cho for “Gemini”
Fitting that the film title for this thriller is being filmed in it's birthday month, the sign that is represented by the twins Castor...
Rachel Getting Unmarried: Patrick Brice Makes Cecily Strong a “Plus One”
A project that has surely and steadily building steam, now filled key the wing-girl role and has landed its director. Originally set up with...
Sebastian Silva Sets Sail on “Captain Dad” with Will Ferrell, Catherine Keener & Michael Cera
Moving from quirky micro dark comedies to bigger budgeted quirky dark comedies, Variety reports that Sebastian Silva will begin 7th feature film on a...
L.A. Confidentiality: David Robert Mitchell Blackmails Andrew Garfield into “Under The Silver Lake”
American indie helmer David Robert Mitchell (profiled ) appears to be dropping one Cali set project for another. With the coming-of-ager and long gestating Ella Walks the Beach not...
BKLYN Heights & Lows: Alex Ross Perry Stacks “Golden Exits” with the Likes of Browning, Sevigny, Schwartzman & Tipton
With Winnie The Pooh and the possible adaptation of The Names set up for the foreseeable future, Alex Ross Perry did what any antsy, film-per-year...
Cruel Intentions: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy & Anton Yelchin Buck Towards “Thoroughbred”
Just last week, The Tracking Board broke the news that scribes Nat Faxon and Jim Rash were getting into the producing game essentially aiding playwright-screenwriter...
Mambo Italiano: Aubrey Plaza & Alison Brie Among Regs in Jeff Baena’s “The Little Hours”
Usual contributors Aubrey Plaza and Paul Weitz, Life After Beth's John C. Reilly and Molly Shannon, Joshy's Alison Brie and Adam Pally and a...
The Curious Case of…: Kieran Culkin, Offerman & Mullally Topline Byington’s “Infinity Baby”
7 Chinese Brothers and Somebody Up There Likes Me helmer Bob Byington is testing the old cliché of enjoying them when you can because...
Appearance Act: Monaghan, Chandler & Lane Surround “Sidney Hall”
Revealing that the project was chased at the script stage by Fox Searchlight and Amazon, you'll want to keep tabs on this project as Variety...
Altercation Alteration: Winger & Letts Quarrel on Azazel Jacobs’ “The Lovers”
A welcome return to feature film, after a stint with "Doll & Em," and The Grace That Keeps This World adaptation still in development,...
Maximum Sentence: McCaul Lombardi & Crew Get Paroled for Porterfield’s “Soller’s Point”
McCaul Lombardi (who'll be on the Croisette in the featured Andrea Arnold's American Honey quartet comprised of Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf and Arielle Holmes)...
Double Team: Jason Sudeikis Gets Coached in Ryan Koo’s “Amateur”
Jason Sudeikis is likely going to use his whistle-blowing skills from the set of Race, as The Tracking Board reports that the actor will board...
Fix For a King: Helmer Finds Addicts in Michael Trotter, Nixon, Geraghty & Ireland For “The Evening Hour”
After off-roading it in desolate Armenia with Here (U.S. Dramatic Competition - Sundance Film Festival) helmer Braden King will be roughing it out in the white trashy...
Columbia Records: Jason Mitchell & Ellar Coltrane Enrol in Vikram Gandhis’ “Barry”
Joining the already cast Devon Terrell and Anya Taylor-Joy, Variety reports that Jason Mitchell and Ellar Coltrane have been added as the supporting players...
Splitsville: Sarah Adina Smith Enlists Rami Malek for “Buster’s Mal Heart”
It's been a long time coming for Short Term 12 supporting player Rami Malek, but the momentum built around television's highly successful "Mr.Robot" has landed him...
North Dakota Gold: Boyd Holbrook & Rachel Brosnahan Strike it Rich in Sabyn Mayfield’s “Boomtown”
Before the North Dakota oil boom (as witnessed in Jesse Moss' The Overnighters), a good century back, there was the another type of boom. Commonly...
Figment of the Imagination: Jenny Slate Connects with “Aardvark”
Brian Shoaf's directorial debut might have found its second wind. After a failed Kickstarter attempt to drum up some coin with Adrien Grenier and Mamie Gummer toplining,...
Alexandre Moors Has Huston, Aniston, Sheridan & Ehrenreich Reporting for Duty in “The Yellow Birds”
His cold, steely biopic Blue Caprice might have not received the same fanfare as Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, but both were nonetheless stellar offerings at...
Claire’s Knee: Dori Oskowitz Adds Hope Davis to “Claire”
Music video director Dori Oskowitz is adding more "family" members to the American remake of Eric Rohmer’s Le Beau Mariage. Joining the already cast Jenna Malone and Alex...
Let the Teenage Girl In: Bel Powley Toplines Friedrich Böhm’s “Wildling”
Sundance's 2015 breakout starlet Bel Powley (The Diary Of A Teenage Girl) is bringing her star wattage to Wildling, an indie project described as...
Other Painful True Story: Birbiglia Brings Show Biz One-upmanship in “Don’t Think Twice”
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend won't be his next feature film project. Moving from the page to the stage and to the silver screen with Sleepwalk With...
Deutschlands: Carla Juri, Craig Robinson & Markees Christmas Aren’t Foreign to Hartigan’s “Morris From America”
Wurst and sauerkraut appear to be served up with hip hop beats in Chad Hartigan's sophomore film currently in the closing stages of production. Deadline...
DuVall, Interrupted: Lynskey, Lyonne, Shawkat & Smulders Join Thesp’s Directorial Debut
While not all that unusual in a country such as France, we can add the name of Clea DuVall to the stream of under 40 actresses...
‘Rob’bing & Stealin: Pattinson Holds Up Safdie Bros.’ “Good Time”
Quenching his need for auteur-driven material, after recent gigs with Brady Corbet and James Gray, Robert Pattinson becomes the first player to join the Safdie Bros.'s...
The Fox Trot: Laura Dern & Ellen Burstyn Spin “The Tale”
We imagine that for plenty of docu-helmers (take the tumultuous past couple of years in that Laura Poitras had to undergo) that sometimes life...
Stripped Down: Tessa Thompson Joins McDonagh’s “War On Everyone”
Tessa Thompson's star is shining bright. Her attention-grabbing and award-winning perf (Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor) in Dear White People, led the actress down studio project avenue...
Alter Ego Author: Holofcener & Julianne Moore Forge Partnership over Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Somewhere in 2015-16, Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore could fall on hard times. The actress is attached to take on the role of Lee Israel (this NYTimes...
Michael Chernus to Have Good Table Manners in Joshua Marston Project
We're not allergic to television, but for us Orange is the New Black's Michael Chernus truly broke out at this year's Sundance Film Festival, with...
Kendrick Spirit: Jeffrey Blitz Reteams With Rocket Science Thesp for “Table 19”
A project that was at one point in time set up at Fox Searchlight and had the Duplass bros. looking to direct from their...
Olivia Cooke is Turning Tricks in Wayne Roberts’ “Katie Says Goodbye”
She's among the fresh faced talents that will have spilled over into the mainstream/indiestream after an attention grabbing perf at Sundance '15 with Me and...
Tastes Good: Suki Waterhouse, Diego Luna, Reeves & Carrey Part of “The Bad Batch”
Suki Waterhouse will be surrounded by Diego Luna, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey and the already announced Jason Momoa in Ana Lily Amirpour's much anticipated...
Sophie Goodhart is Leading the…: Adam Scott, Slate & Kroll Join “My Blind Brother”
For those in the know, being in the running for a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival is statistically...near impossible, especially for the dozen or...
Girlmancing the Stone: So Yong Kim Sets Jena Malone & Riley Keough on Road Trippy “Lovesong”
Actresses Riley Keough, Jena Malone and a supporting cast comprised of Brooklyn Decker, Amy Seimetz, Marshall Chapman, Ryan Eggold and Rosanna Arquette have all...
Brie Larson Engineers Trainwreck…Reteams with Radcliffe on McGrath’s “Brooklyn Bridge”
Months after appearing in Judd Apatow's Trainwreck (Universal releases this next summer), Screen Daily reports that Brie Larson is rejoining her costar in Douglas...
Stand Out From the Competition; Alexia Landeau Toplines Zoe Cassavetes’ “Day Out Of Days”
While still an active member of what I would call a French-U.S galpal filmmaker clique, the name of Zoe Cassavetes has painfully been absent from...
Bring out the Bomb Squad; Noyce’s American Pastoral Adds Some TNT in Dakota Fanning
They've shuffled the deck a little on Philip Roth's American Pastoral since the project was first announced a decade back. Jennifer Connelly who was mentioned more than...
