EXCLUSIVE: Hearts Beat Loud director Brett Haley has been set to helm All the Bright Places, with Justice Smith joining Elle Fanning to star in the film adaptation of Jennifer Niven’s YA novel, which is ramping up again behind the Mazur/Kaplan Company and Echo Lake Entertainment. Liz Hannah (The Post) has come aboard…

Premiering his second film with writer/director Brett Haley at Sundance 2018, Nick Offerman is back on the promotional circuit this week for the director’s latest, musical drama Hearts Beat Loud. Featuring original songs by Keegan DeWitt, the film centers on a father (Offerman) who bonds with his daughter (Kiersey…

Yesterday was a good day for Sundance regular Brett Haley (I’ll See You In My Dreams, The Hero), seeing Sony acquire international rights to his latest directorial outing, Hearts Beat Loud. Haley’s first musically-oriented film, Hearts Beat Loud follows single dad Frank (Nick Offerman) as he prepares to send his…

In one of the first deals of the Sundance Film Festival, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has acquired international rights to Brett Haley's Hearts Beat Loud after a packed sneak peek screening last night in Park City. The film starring Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons has its world premiere next Friday at the…

Nick Offerman has been set as the lead of Hearts Beat Loud, a music-driven indie film that will reunite him with his The Hero director Brett Haley. Kiersey Clemons co-stars in the pic that has also cast Ted Danson, Sasha Lane, Blythe Danner and Toni Collette. Haley and Marc Basch co-wrote the script and shooting in…

Writer-director Brett Haley, who appeared at Sundance 2015 with I'll See You In My Dreams co-starring Sam Elliott, has returned to the festival this year with The Hero. This one stars Elliott in another film playing off of and celebrating the Western movie icon; the pic was just acquired by The Orchard in a $3 million…

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal worth around $3 million for North American rights, The Orchard has acquired the Brett Haley-directed The Hero, the drama that stars Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter, Nick Offerman, and Katherine Ross. Haley, who helmed I’ll See You In My Dreams, wrote the script with Marc Basch. The…

Sam Elliott is starring in The Hero, the new film directed by Brett Haley, who scored with the Sundance 2015 pic I’ll See You In My Dreams. Laura Prepon, Nick Offerman, Krysten Ritter and Katharine Ross co-star in the film, which was written by Haley and Marc Basch and just wrapped production in Los Angeles. A 2017…