The AMC Networks family has renewed a pair of shows.
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David Harbour’s father. The “Cha Cha Real Smooth” writer-director’s third film takes a page from the real story of Jimmy Galante (Harbour), a Connecticut trash tycoon and member of the Genovese crime family who purportedly inspired the character Tony Soprano. In 2004, Galante took over his city’s minor-league hockey team and put his teenage son A.J.
(Hoffman) in charge of running it. Under A.J.’s command, the team quickly gains notoriety for its violent but effective playing style, racking up one win after another. However, it all comes crashing down when Galante is arrested on 72 criminal charges.“The Trashers” will mark Raiff’s first time solely behind the camera, as he wrote, directed and starred in his first two projects.
Adam R. Perlman (“Billions,” “The Good Wife”) will make his feature film writing debut, with Raiff contributing revisions. Tom McNulty of MC2 Entertainment and Andrew Morrison of Yellow Bear Films will produce.
A.J. Galante, whose life story is the basis for the script, will serve as an associate producer.“The Trashers” will be financed by 30West. Micah Green, Dan Steinman and Dan Friedkin will executive produce for 30West, as well as Jon Wertheim and Perlman.Raiff’s debut feature “Shithouse” won the Grand Jury Award at South By Southwest in 2020.
Apple landed his follow-up, “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” for $15 million out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic competition. The Dakota Johnson-starring film opened in theaters on June 17.Deadline first reported the news.
.The AMC Networks family has renewed a pair of shows.
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Sundance prize winner Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth) has partnered with former Black Bear Pictures development executive Clementine Quittner to launch Small Ideas—a new production company that will develop and produce indie projects across film and television.
The pair plan to develop independent film and TV series from other up and coming directors and writers as well as Raiff’s own. Small Ideas’ first project is an unnamed TV series that Raiff will write and direct as well as produce alongside Quittner. “Clem and I are very protective of passion.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Cha Cha Real Smooth” director Cooper Raiff and former Black Bear Pictures development executive Clementine Quittner are teaming up to launch a new production company, Small Ideas, with a goal of developing and producing independent film and television projects.The duo are joining forces to make projects from emerging filmmakers and creators, as well as projects written and directed by Raiff. Their first endeavor will be an undisclosed television series which Raiff will write, direct, and produce, and which Quittner will produce.Raiff’s most recent film, “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” won the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Apple for $15 million.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Jackie Brown” star Pam Grier, “30 Rock” actor Chris Parnell and “Project X” star Oliver Cooper are set to headline “As We Know It,” an independent film that unfolds amid a nuclear zombie apocalypse.Set in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, the comedy-horror-romance movie follows a struggling writer named James Bishop, who is dealing with a messy breakup with the help of his best friend while trying to finish his latest book before the impending apocalypse.The cast will also include Mike Castle (“Brews Brothers”), Taylor Blackwell (“Designated Survivor”) and TikToker Danny Mondello, who is making his film debut.Josh Monkarsh is directing the film, which started production in Los Angeles at the end of July and is expected to wrap in early August. Monkarsh co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher Francis and Brandon DePaolo.
Bradley Cooper was in a festive mood on Friday. Cooper, 47, hosted a family gathering at his New York City home on Thursday, which happened to be Huma Abedin’s 46th birthday. Cooper’s mother, Gloria Campano, was spotted arriving at Cooper’s home for the soirée. Bradley Cooper hosted a family party on Huma Abedin's 46th birthday.The actor's mother, Gloria Campano, was in attendance at his New York City home on Thursday. (Splash) Cooper was first introduced to Hillary Clinton’s longtime political adviser earlier this year through Vogue editor Anna Wintour and the couple has been seeing each other for months.
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Cooper had been arrested in 2018 after he was accused of committing lewd acts with two underage girls on separate occasions, one between 2005 and 2007 and the other between 2012 and 2016. The three convicted counts stemmed from the abuse that took place in the mid-2000s, while the other five counts were ruled as a mistrial. The accuser, now 28, recounted during the trial how Cooper had befriended her and shared her interest in music and theater before molesting her in his basement recording studio when she was 12 or 13 in 2006.“Over a decade later, this still haunts me,” she testified.
EXCLUSIVE: Cooper Hoffman has been set to star opposite Stranger Things’ David Harbour in The Trashers, the next film by Sundance Festival winning director Cooper Raiff.
Bradley Cooper and Huma Abedin are "in no rush" to get serious about their new relationship and plan on keeping their romance "under wraps" for the time being. Cooper, 47, was first introduced to Hillary Clinton’s longtime political adviser earlier this year through Vogue editor Anna Wintour and the couple has been seeing each other for months.