Buzz mounts at the Toronto Film Festival, but for theatrical releases, the specialties have been taking it slow this weekend. IFC Films' J.D. Salinger biopic Rebel In the Ryeeasily had the best start among the few reporting newcomers, grossing $44,280 in its initial four locations. The Orchard opened documentary Troph…
Atlas Distribution will open 9/11 in several hundred locations this weekend, timed to the 16th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon as well as United Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, PA. The latter was itself detailed in Paul Greengrass’ 2006 film United 93. In 9/11, Charlie Sheen…
Will they be praised or pummeled? That's the question awaiting those brave filmmakers who plunge this week into the high-risk exercise known as festival season. Each year the field at Toronto, Venice, Telluride or wherever seems to become more crowded and the outcome more extreme: Will the verdict be a rich deal or…
EXCLUSIVE: It's been a busy summer for Danny Strong as the Empire co-creator has his feature directorial debut Rebel In The Rye coming out on September 15 and now he's sold a new project to FOX with writer David Elliot.
Entitled Infamy and written by Elliot, the script plus penalty commitment for the hourlong legal…
As literary declarations go, “Holden Caulfield deserves an entire book” sounds like one of the safer bets, but as this trailer for IFC Films’ upcoming Rebel in the Rye suggests, the sentiment wasn’t exactly a universal one when the young, untried author J.D. Salinger began his road to a masterpiece.
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IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Rebel In The Rye, writer-director Danny Strong’s movie about the early life of J.D. Salinger. Nicholas Hoult stars as the author and the cast includes Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson, Zoey Deutch, Victor Garber, Hope Davis and Lucy Boynton. A fall release is in the works for…
"The story behind how he came to write the book is unbelievable," Danny Strong said at the Sundance Film Festival about J.D. Salinger and the creation of The Catcher in the Rye. "It's this unbelievably powerful story of someone who went to war and was traumatized," the Rebel in the Rye director and writer added of the…
“That phone call was one of the most exciting things, for me, in my career, at this point – and I've had a lot of neat stuff happen,” said Danny Strong of hearing his feature directorial debut got into the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. As the co-creator of Fox's blockbusterEmpire, Strong now will see his Rebel In The E…
Sarah Paulson, the scene stealer in The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story where she brilliantly played prosecutor Marcia Clark, has joined Danny Strong’s J.D. Salinger biopic Rebel In The Rye. Paulson will play Dorothy Olding, the fiercely loyal agent who believed in the young Salinger from his earliest…
Natalie Moralesis hitting the court for Battle of the Sexes, the Fox Searchlight pic about the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Emma Stone and Steve Carell are set as the leads. Morales will play Rosie Casals, a one of “The 9” — the first women to form their own tennis league and go on…
EXCLUSIVE:Lucy Boynton, the aspiring model in Raphina John Carney’s Sundance buzz title Sing Street, has joined the cast of the J.D. Salinger biopic Rebel in the Rye. The biopic from Empire co-creator Danny Strong follows the author as he prepares to write his classic novel The Catcher in the Rye. Nicholas Hoult…
Victor Garber has booked a role in Danny Strong's Rebel in the Rye, the biopic that follows J.D. Salinger as he prepares to write his classic novel The Catcher in the Rye. Nicholas Hoult stars as Salinger alongside Kevin Spacey, Zoey Deutch, Laura Dern, Brian D'Arcy James and Hope Davis. Garber will play the author’s…
