EXCLUSIVE: Phoenix International is selling the Brian Dennehy family comedy Life Support (working title) at Cannes which stars Whiplash Oscar winner J.K. Simmons, Victor Victoria Oscar-nominated actress Lesley Ann Warren, Tom Arnold, and Anchorman‘s David Koechner. Pic directed and written by stage and film actor…

Brian Dennehy and J.K. Simmons have joined the cast of Larry Clarke’s feature directorial debut Life Support, which is currently shooting around Los Angeles.  Taylor & Dodge is handling foreign, and will be selling the film at AFM from Nov. 1-8. Conduit will be handling domestic. Also joining Dennehy and Simmons is Les…

Last week amid the noise of the Cannes Film Festival, a brave independent film about the atrocities of child sex trafficking, I Am Still Here, took Best Feature at the Nice International Film Festival, one town over on the French Riviera. Directed and written by Mischa Marcus and produced by Stephanie Bell, I Am Still…

Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to Laura Lee Bahr’s Toronto Independent Film Fest winner Boned. Described to be in the surrealist Hollyweird style of John Waters and David Lynch, the pic follows Samantha (Angela Landis), an L.A. actress/dogwalker whose profession suddenly unravels. Samantha learns her…

Voltage Pictures is handling foreign sales on Bedeviled, a horror film by Nicholl Fellowship winners Abel and Burlee Vang, and is currently showing footage to Berlin buyers. Deadline broke the news about the project back in November when we visited the downtown L.A. Washington Blvd set. Bedeviled has been described as…

Abel and Burlee Vang, who won the Nicholl Fellowship in 2011 for their Hmong/CIA secret wars screenplay The Tiger’s Child, are in production on their first feature directorial collaboration Bedeviled, a horror film which is described as a cross between Spike Jonze’s Her and Stephen King’s It.  Saxon Sharbino of…

Only days after its bow at the New York Film Festival, Universal Pictures will begin rolling out the Danny Boyle-directed Steve Jobs in four theaters this weekend. Though a studio offering, the title has some kinship with its more traditional specialty counterparts with a limited release positioned to capitalize on…

Lobbyists against onscreen smoking could have a friend in comedic actor Andrew Daly (Comedy Central’s Review), or at least his persnickety neighbor character who is trying to clean up the streets in Matt Walsh's second directorial comedy A Better You. The film follows Dr. Ron (Brian Huskey), a Hollywood quack…

"I am a doctor!" declares hypnotherapist Dr. Ron in the new trailer for  A Better You premiering at the 30th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 30.  The comedy follows a Hollywood-based therapist, "Dr. Ron" (Brian Huskey of Neighbors) who thinks he has a cure for everyone, but just can’t…

EXCLUSIVE: Fred Hurt (aka Dakota Fred) and his son Dustin Hurt from Discovery's reality series Gold Rush will be the subject of All That Glitters, a new documentary currently filming in Haines, Alaska and directed by Kirk Roos, producer of The Brass Teapot and Matt Walsh's comedy directorial canon High Road and the…

Colm Feore (Revolution, The Borgias) has joined the Peter Winther-directed indie Painkillers. He will play Dr. Troutman, a military doctor who treats soldiers with post-traumatic distress disorders in the sci-fi thriller produced by Liberation Pictures, Badlands Features and Ferns Entertainment. From an original…