Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Half Nelson writer/directors Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck's new film It's Kind of a Funny Story begins production in New York City this week. Keir Gilchrist, who stars as the title character’s son on the hit television series United States of Tara, has the film’s lead role. Costarring are Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover), Emma Roberts (of the upcoming Valentine’s Day), Academy Award...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | yesterday
Absolutely no producer purchases the film rights to more celebrated literary novels than does Scott Rudin -- he's got more than 80 production credits to his name already, and at least half of those are adaptations, including of late The...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Focus Features today announced their 2010 release slate. Highlights include: March 12th 2010: The Squid and the Whale writer/director Noah Baumbach's Greenberg which stars Ben Stiller April 16th 2010: Thomas Balmès' Babies, a documentary film which simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from birth to first steps. Wednesday, September 1st 2010: Anton Corbijn's The American starring...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden are the sort of creative team you can't help but love. The duo have given us such recent gems as Half Nelson and Sugar, so you can bet I've been keeping a close eye on their next project, a dramedy entitled It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on the novel of the same name. We've previously reported the announcement of the project, as well as Zach Galifianakis's involvement,...
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Even though not all that many people say Half-Nelson , the film that officially announced what kind of talent Ryan Gosling as, even fewer saw Sugar , last year's film by the writer-director combo Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden . However, the pair does have a very promising film coming together for Focus Features called It's Kind of a Funny Story . The studio (via MovieWeb ) announced that principal casting...
The Hot Blog (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
I like IFP. I want to support IFP. But regardless of how they keep on trying to make The Gotham Awards the first step on the road to Oscar - neck and neck with the idiotic National Board of Review - the event remains a very nice place to be honored... and completely meaningless when it comes to the rest of the award season. A few years ago, 2004, they figured out how to pick the lowest hanging fruit...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Film News: Former WMI exec boards Independent Film Group -- Rena Ronson has returned to indie packaging duty, this time at UTA.
Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
He’s been around for a while but after his hilarious performance in The Hangover earlier this year Zach Galifianakis’s film career is really taking off. As well as the Hangover sequel, and numerous other projects, he is now in negotiations to star in…
Backseat Cuddler (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
Zach Galifianakis from the summer hit The Hangover is in negotiations to star in a new film called It’s Kind of a Funny Story. Zach Galifianakis is in negotiations to star in “It’s Kind of a Funny Story,” the coming-of-age dramedy from “Half Nelson” writer-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. Focus Features and Misher Films are teaming on [...]
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
Zach Galifianakis is in negotiations to star in "It's Kind of a Funny Story," the coming-of-age dramedy from "Half Nelson" writer-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden..
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
Can Zach Galifianakis successfully change his image from a crazy slacker to a crazy slacker who is in a mental institution? And, more importantly, will Nurse Ratchet be there?
The Screening Log (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
I'm glad every time I hear about a casting story involving funny guy "Zach Galifianakis." He just dominated " The Hangover " with his incredibly funny performance, and I can't wait to see him on the big screen again. Well, he's certainly keeping himself awful busy these days. Galifianakis is now in talks to join "It's Kind of a Funny Story," a dramedy by Ryan Fleck and...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
It's Kind of a Funny Story is the title of an upcoming Zach Galifianakis dramedy from the writer/director team behind Half Nelson and their rising gem Sugar. And in a way, the line also describes wild-man Nicolas Cage's reasoning for recently bailing on the The Green Hornet. These tidbits of casting news after the jump... At this juncture, pitch me with "Starring Zach Galifianakis and not one...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
Z-Gal Still Rolling: Zach Galifianakis is in talks to join It’s Kind of a Funny Story , writer-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s ( Half Nelson ) adaptation of Ned Vizzini’s young-adult novel. The plot revolves around a depressed boy sent to a mental institution, where he ends up in the adult ward; Galifianakis would play one of the crazies showing the kid the way of the world....
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
ZACH Galifianakis and Emma Roberts are in talks to appear in a new coming-of-age dramedy called Funny Story . Based on the novel by Ned Vizzini, the film would follow the fortunes of a teenage boy who is sent to a mental institution after suffering a bout of depression where he ends up in the adult ward. He subsequently meets several “offbeat adults” as well as a quirky teenage girl. Galifianakis,...
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