Rob Schneider ‘Daddy Daughter Trip’ Release; ‘Love’s Second Act’ Cast; More – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Jodie Sweetin (Full Home), Tilky Jones (The Guardian), George Wendt (Cheers) and Alexander James Rodriguez (Duplicate) will star within the romantic drama Love’s Second Act from director Sam Irvine, which is filming in Los Angeles this month.

The movie follows Jamie Leoni (Sweetin), a struggling filmmaker in Hollywood, who’s confronted with an ultimatum when her producer tells her that her pitch has been bought, however she solely has one week to ship the script. Having virtually grown up in her hometown movie show, she hopes to seek out inspiration to write down the screenplay there. However upon returning, she finds Nick (Jones), her outdated boyfriend who broke her coronary heart, and now owns the theater. Whereas Nick is coping with attempting to stop his father from promoting the theater, Jamie discovers she is falling for him another time. However can she steadiness her new profession alternative with giving Nick a second probability? Solely love will inform.

Oren Kamara and Derek Sulek are producing for Fade to Black Movies, with Darren Corrao serving as government producer. Sweetin is represented by A3 Artists Company, Rothman/Andrés Leisure and Felker Toczek Suddleson; Jones by Revolutionary Artists; Wendt by AMT Artists and Brillstein Leisure Companions; and Rodriguez by CESD.

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EXCLUSIVE: Rob Schneider has introduced that the indie Daddy Daughter Trip, which he directed, produced and stars in, will probably be proven solely at Harkins Theaters. The chain working all through the Southwestern U.S. plans to launch the movie, shot in Arizona, in a roll-out beginning with fifteen places on Friday, September 30, following its world premiere at Camelview at Vogue Sq. in Scottsdale, Arizona on the twenty seventh.

A hybrid of live-action and animation, Daddy Daughter Journey tells the story of a 2nd grader (Miranda Scarlett Schneider) who goals of a fun-filled spring break trip her household can’t afford. Towards the higher judgement of her mother (Jackie Sandler) and with solely cash of their pockets, her dreamer father (Schneider) decides to take her on a spring break journey anyway. After a sequence of misfortunate adventures, their trip is saved when the duo meet a few well-known journey bloggers (Monica Huarte and Migel Ángel Muñoz).

The household adventure-comedy written by Jamie Lissow and Patricia Schneider additionally stars John Cleese (A Fish Known as Wanda), singer-songwriter Elle King and Gavin Guerrero. Rob and Patricia Schneider produced alongside David Tanner and Angie M. Cruz, from Mandalini Photos. Dusty Desert Trailer’s Todd Graves served as exec producer, with Joss Monzon and Francisco Herrera producing the animation.

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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an unique clip from the action-thriller One Way, starring Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly), which Saban Movies and Paramount will launch in theaters, on digital and on demand on September 2nd.

The movie from director Andrew Baird follows Freddy (Baker), who finds himself badly wounded and on the run after stealing from the most important mob boss on the town, with a one-way ticket to salvage what’s left of his crime-ridden life, for one final shot at redemption together with his household.

Storm Reid, Drea de Matteo, Luis “Trikz” Da Silva Jr, Meagan Holder, Travis Fimmel and Kevin Bacon additionally star within the pic penned by Ben Conway. Watch the brand new clip from One Approach under.

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EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning movie colorist Maria Carretero (Introducing, Selma Blair) has joined the full-service post-production firm Meeting as Senior Colorist. Carretero will work with the rising shade and VFX group on the New York-based studio to construct out its function movie and episodic post-production providing.

Carretero’s portfolio of labor consists of Rachel Fleit’s latest SXSW movie winner Introducing, Selma Blair, the multi award-winning Sundance-premiering function All Gentle, In all places from filmmaker Theo Anthony, and the critically acclaimed Waikiki, directed by Christopher Kahunahana. She joins Meeting from Good Sneakers, having additionally beforehand held roles together with Senior Colorist at Framestore, Head of Coloration at Carbon VFX and Head of Coloration Grading at Serena Digital.

Meeting affords cloud and location-based providers together with VFX, Coloration Grading, Magnificence, Offline Editorial and Dailies throughout function movie, episodic and industrial work. Because the studio’s inception in 2021, the group has produced notable work for Disney, A24, Netflix and MGM, along with two Cannes 2022 shortlisted options, Armageddon Time and God’s Creatures.

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EXCLUSIVE: Chris Locke (Run the Burbs), Susan Kent (Trailer Park Boys), Tiio Horn (Letterkenny), Steve Lund (Schitt’s Creek) and Jess Salgueiro (Workin’ Mothers) will lead the solid of the screwball comedy Who’s Yer Father?, marking the sophomore function of writer-director Jeremy Larter (Pogey Seashore), which is heading into manufacturing in Prince Edward Island later this month.

The movie is a couple of bumbling, small-town personal investigator (Locke) who groups up with a scrappy comfort retailer proprietor (Kent), as he investigates the sale of black market lobster in Prince Edward Island. Its solid additionally consists of Matt Wells (Bury the Previous) and Marc Hickox (Kids Destroy All the things).

Who’s Yer Father? is the second function movie to be supported by the Prince Edward Island Movie Manufacturing Fund administered by Innovation PEI. Jenna MacMillan and Jason Arsenault (A Small Fortune, Wharf Rats) will produce for his or her new firm 63 Lights Leisure, alongside Larter. Telefilm Canada is funding the movie, with levelFILM dealing with Canadian distribution.

Locke is repped by Grand Wave Leisure in Toronto; Kent by Oscars Abrams Zimel & Associates in Toronto and Hess Leisure; Horn by Amanda Rosenthal Expertise Company in Montreal, Genuine Expertise and Literary Administration and The Nord Group; Lund by Amanda Rosenthal Expertise, Gersh and 111 Media; Salgueiro by GGA in Toronto and Echo Lake Leisure; and Wells by Grand Wave.

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EXCLUSIVE: HighballTV has picked up streaming rights to 10 new options from Ardour River Movies in a number of territories.

The corporate now holds world rights to Gilda Sheppard’s Since I Been Down, Dan Hunt and Pleasure E. Reed’s Little Miss Westie, Tommy Haines and Andrew Sherburne’s Saving Brinton, Paul Bishow and James June Schneider’s Punk the Capital and Ferne Pearlstein’s The Final Snigger, in addition to world rights outdoors of Japan to Stuart Swezey’s Desolation Centre. Movies picked up for North America embrace Erika Cohn’s Information & Documentary Emmy winner Stomach of the Beast, Dea Gjinovci’s Wake Up on Mars, Aaron Kopp and Amanda Kopp’s Liyana and Yang Solar and S. Leo Chiang’s Our Time Machine.

HighballTV is a Canadian manufacturing and distribution firm that gives a subscription-based streaming platform for a worldwide viewers, specializing in curated movie collections and premiere titles from main movie festivals around the globe. The deal for Ardour River Movies’ titles was negotiated by HighballTV’s Programming and Acquisitions Supervisor Niall MacPherson and its Supervisor of Operations, Ilana Haley.

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EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American rights to the musical fantasy-drama A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, in addition to international rights to the apocalyptic, romantic drama, Poughkeepsie is for Lovers. The digital movie distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group has slated each movies for launch throughout VOD platforms on September 6.

The previous movie co-written by and starring Alicia Jo Rabins is the story of an underground musician who turns into obsessive about Bernie Madoff’s large monetary fraud and finds herself inside a real-life meta-musical investigation about belief, deception and therapeutic. Alicia J. Rose directed the movie, additionally starring Robin McAlpine and Judy Silk, after penning the script with Rabins. Lara Cuddy served as producer, with Rabins and Rose exec producing.

The latter movie directed by Invoice Connington and Kelley Van Dilla tells the story of how a weekend getaway spells catastrophe for an already strained relationship. Connington wrote the script and stars alongside Natia Dune. Michael Vanderpool and Van Dilla produced, with Connington as EP.

Freestyle Digital Media negotiated the deal to amass A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff instantly with impartial gross sales rep and distribution guide, Liz Manashil. The corporate negotiated the deal for Poughkeepsie is for Lovers with packaging and gross sales agent Tiffany Boyle of Ramo Regulation PC. Watch the trailers for each options under.

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EXCLUSIVE: Imaginative and prescient Movies has introduced that its faith-based thriller Pursuit of Freedom (previously Pulled from Darkness) will get a restricted day-and-date theatrical launch, together with a VOD launch throughout the U.S. and Canada, on September 16.

Pursuit of Freedom is the true story of a Ukrainian lady who was separated from her three kids and bought into trafficking by Russian gangsters. After years of battle, she defied all odds with the assistance and kindness of a Dutch nurse, an Armenian missionary and an American pastor. Although nations, miles and time saved them aside, she held on to her religion and with the assistance of the church and strangers, survived to be reunited together with her kids.

The movie from writer-director George A. Johnson stars Jessica Koloian, Stelio Savante, Robia Scott, Sharonne Lanier, Robert Amaya, Javier Colon, Mark Lowry, Gigi Orsillo, Elias Kemuel and Keslee Blalock. George and Karen Johnson produced alongside Savante, with Lonnie and Connie Norris serving as EPs.

Pursuit of Freedom‘s restricted U.S. theatrical launch will probably be a particular model of the movie with an edit geared in the direction of a faith-based viewers. Confirmed theaters exhibiting the movie embrace The Angelika Village East in New York Metropolis, Laemmle in Glendale, CA, Emagine Hartland in Hartland, MI, Galaxy Grandscape 15 in Dallas, TX and Cine America in Houston, TX. A DVD launch will observe in early October. Watch the movie’s trailer under.

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EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired rights to Brian Moreno’s documentary Dreamland: A Storming Space 51 Story, slating it for a home theatrical launch later this 12 months.

The movie watches because the life-long alien fanatic and comic Moreno hires a wild crew to observe him on his extra-terrestrial fact-finding journey to the viral “Storming Space 51” occasion. Nothing seems as deliberate, however the journey is considered one of a form. Comedians Andy Kozel, Natasha Pearl Hansen, David Murphy and Griff Pippin additionally seem within the comedic journey pic from producers Geoffrey McNeil, Jed Rhein and Brian Schlesinger. Moreno served as EP, with Roberto Ahumada and Anton Honest as co-producers.

Gravitas Ventures’ Supervisor of Acquisitions Brett Rogalsky negotiated the deal for Dreamland with Moreno and Zak Kilberg on behalf of the filmmakers.

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EXCLUSIVE: Dada Movies has introduced that it’s going to launch the documentary The Bengali, from award-winning filmmaker Kavery Kaul (Cuban Canvas), on the Quad Cinema in New York on September 9, and on the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles on September 16.

The Bengali follows an unlikely quest that takes Fatima Shaik, an African-American lady from New Orleans, throughout deep divides of tradition to India, in the hunt for her household’s previous. Her journey sparks a boldly completely different encounter between East and West. As she searches for the reality within the tales she grew up with, a shocking story unfolds of the primary South Asians within the U.S. who married African-American ladies. Tempered with hope, concern and surprising encounters between strangers, the movie reaches throughout seemingly insurmountable cultural divides to reclaim timeless themes of household.

The RiverFilms manufacturing was an official choice of DOC NYC 2021 and the New Orleans Movie Pageant, amongst different festivals. Kaul wrote the script and produced alongside Lucas Groth, with Deborah Shaffer exec producing, and Veronique N. Doumbe and Margot Edman serving as affiliate producers. Watch the movie’s trailer under.

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EXCLUSIVE: Uncork’d Leisure has acquired North American rights to Alexander T. Hwang’s creature function One thing within the Woods, starring Nicole Cinaglia, slating it for launch on digital and DVD in September.

The movie written by Deanna Gomez facilities on the reporter Nora Thompson, who has change into an in a single day movie star by exposing Senator Morrison’s unlawful actions. Because of the dangerous exposé, the senator commits suicide, and his daughter kidnaps Nora and takes her deep into the woods to avenge her father. Whereas Nora battles for her life, they encounter one thing evil searching them. Now, the 2 ladies should work collectively to remain alive.

The movie’s producers negotiated the deal for One thing within the Woods instantly with Uncork’d Leisure President, Keith Leopard. Watch a brand new trailer for the pic under.