Showing posts with label Hollywoodteur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywoodteur. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Kingpin Passion - Black Mafia Family Flick

Program Pictures has acquired the motion picture rights to the story of the Black Mafia Family (BMF), the Detroit, Michigan based drug trafficking empire created by brothers Demetrius "Big Meech" and Terry Flenory.

The Black Mafia Family organization began in the late 1980s and by the 2000 BMF had established multi cocaine distribution cells in major US cities. The Flenory brothers established two main hubs, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Through their Los Angeles, run by younger brother Terry, BMF had direct links to Mexican based drug cartels while mastermind and elder brother managed the Atlanta hub.

In 2000, BMF attempted to legitimize itself by entering into the music business, starting BMF Entertainment and helped promote a number of artists, including Young Jeezy, as well as BMF Entertainment's sole artist, Bleu DaVinci.

The screenplay is currently being written. Hutton, who is producing along with Morgan Creek's David Robinson, stated - in true Hollywoodteur form, “We have a passion and enthusiasm in bringing Big Meech’s story to the big screen." Hollywoodteur passion supersedes biopics of gloried drug kingpins over the worthy likes of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Toussaint Louverture -- or another young man who rose from very humble means to tremendous wealth and power: Reginald F. Lewis, all without illegal activity -- save a few white collar exploits, of course.

The Hutton and Robinson are also producing the Tupac biopic, which starts production later this year. One can see where H & R think they are heading - the bank. However, more likely straight to video or the 125th Street DVD bootleg blanket.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Beginners - Get Lucky

Could it be beginner's luck? Currently playing in cinemas is the terrific film Beginners starring Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor.

Beginners is like a ice cream treat in the summer heat. Directed and written by Mike Mills, Beginners is the perfect film to escape the sweltering temperatures and obsurdity of the current summer blockbusters and Hollywoodteur tentpole frenzy. Plummer stars as Hal, a widower and father of a single thirty-something son Oliver (McGregor). While Hal is resigned to and begins to live his real life upon the death of his wive of forty-four years, Oliver is learning to make deeper connections and how to construct a romance of his own with the lovely Anna (Melanie Laurent).

With inspired editing and fresh story sequencing, Oliver reflects and analyzes childhood memories of his parents' long marriage and acts of affection. He soon learns relationships and marriages of all kinds and types are simply about communication and self definition.With a touch of irony, I watched Beginners in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood on the very first day of legalized gay marriages. I sat watching a film that suggests it is not about religion, family or government approved relationships, it is a mutually and self satisfying commitment you can (and must) create for you and with your partner.

Look for Beginners to be apart of the upcoming award season's nominations and winners roll call as both Plummer and McGregor are fantastic. Beginners is a wonderful film that is the perfect beginners' film for people who leery of independent film. Here is a nice story and a great film.

Monday, July 11, 2011

Spike Lee Takes On Oldboy for Mandate

Mandate Pictures has signed Spike Lee to direct a remake of the highly acclaimed South Korean film and person favorite, Oldboy. Mandate President Nathan Kahane will executive produce a screenplay adaptation from Mark Protosevich, who will co-produce. Roy Lee and Doug Davison (The Departed, The Grudge) will produce.

Oldboy, the original, was directed by Chan-wook Park and released in 2003 taking the Grand Prize Jury Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Oldboy unfolds the story of a man who is kidnapped and imprisoned on his daughter’s birthday. For fifteen years, he is held captive. Upon his release, he begins a quest for vengeance and the reason for his imprisonment. He soon finds out his kidnapper is not done with him yet as more torture awaits him.

It will surely take expert scripting to translate and retool such a fantastic and inventive film. The best news is, now American movie lovers might see the original. Original - a word not easily spoken, embraced or loved by Hollywoodteurs - hence the remake.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Meryl Streep Wants Another Oscar

Although it is only July 2011, the leading contender for the 2012 Oscar Best Actress category is Meryl Streep for the upcoming biopic The Iron Lady. In Iron Lady, front-runner Streep brings to life the first woman and former Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who served from 1979 to 1990, Margaret Thatcher.

Here is a first look Ms. Streep as Margaret Thatcher in the Weinstein Company's The Iron Lady, which is due out December 16th in a Oscar Hollywoodteur Weinstein generating release before opening nationwide in 2012.

Today, Thatcher remains a figure who revitalized Britain's economy, impacted the trade unions, re-established the nation as a world power, increased personal wealth, achieved victory in the Falklands Islands conflict and forged alliance with the Reagan's 1980s glamocratic United States.">
On the flipside, Thatcher's premiership was also marked by high unemployment, social unrest, drug abuse and family breakdown. Speaking in Scotland in April 2009, before the 30th anniversary of her history election as Prime Minister, Thatcher insisted she had no regrets and despite being Britain's first woman Prime Minister, some critics contend Thatcher did little to advance the political cause of women, within her party or the government, and some British feminists regarded her as "an enemy."

Sounds like Oscar fodder.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Precious Director Picks Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman has replaced Sofia Vergara in Precious Oscar nominated director Lee Daniels' new drama, The Paperboy, also starring Matthew McConaughey and Zac Efron.

A series of calamities caused Vergara to step out of her Paperboy role after Tobey Maguire dropped out of the cast altering the production schedule with a trickling effect. Now principal lensing is slated for later this summer.

Paperboy is an adaptation of Pete Dexter's novel, The Paperboy and centers on a reporter and his brother who investigate the events surrounding a murder in order to exonerate a man on death-row. Kidman will play a woman with a dark side who writes letters to men on death row. She brings the case to the attention of the reporter, developing a relationship with him.

Looks like Daniels knows how to pick Oscar potential material - proving steering clear of the Hollywoodteur format does work and can generate gross international and domestic box office receipts.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Relatively Soderbergh

Relativity Media is taking over the U.S. distribution of Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire from Lionsgate. The action film has a high profile cast featuring Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor and Channing Tatum will now be released in January 2012.

Haywire was produced before it had secured a distributor; however, if your name is Soderbergh, you don't fret as you know your vision will be paid for and well distributed. This time Hollywoodteur producer Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity cashed Soderbergh's dream out.

Apparently Relativity needs film product and has been aggressively going after projects, and if you are a Hollywood child, Relativity has cash to throw around for flickster sell-outs. Previously title Knockout, Haywire tells the story of a freelance covert operative (Carano) who is betrayed during a mission in Barcelona. The screenplay was written by Lem Dobbs with Gregory Jacobs and Lem Dobbs producing.

Soderbergh has had one of the more interesting raises to Hollywood statue, truly selecting projects that reflect his love of the craft and art of filmmaking and storytelling. One can always expect a certain freshness in a Soderbergh film joint. Here is a peek at Haywire in production.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Tree of Life for Pitt & Penn


Tree of Life is sublime. It is the film any and every studied filmmaker who laud cinema and cinema theory would want to make. It is smart, academic, personal and artsy filmmaking can be without being at all amateur, nor alienating. In fact, you could hear a pin drop in the theater. The audience was completely engaged and stimulated with what was happening on the screen. Tree wants and acts like it wants to be a coming of age movie; however, it is more about the genesis of coming to be and existing.

Written and directed by Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain and chronicles life through the eyes of a 1950's Texas family with sci-fi features, surrealist themes and impressionistic imagery through space, oceanic waves and human anatomy. Tree easily conjures up comparisons to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey; however, this would simply be homage as Tree is so strikingly original in glueing all of the elements of the narrative together like you have never seen before.Premiering in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, The Tree of Life won the celebrated Palme d'Or and has since garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews for its technical and artistic merits, yet also received polarizing reactions in response to Malick's directorial style, in particular, film's fragmented and non-linear narrative.

Finally a movie to truly get excited about and inspired by at the cinema. Hollywoodteurs take note!

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Tell No One

Warner Bros and Universal Pictures have optioned rights to Harlan Coben’s thriller Tell No One. One of the biggest-selling mystery writers in America, Coben has yet to see one of his books given the Hollywoodteur treatment. That was until now, Ben Affleck is attached to direct the screenplay written by Chris Terrio. Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall are producing Harlan first Hollywood film. The studios will co-develop the picture, with Warner Bros releasing domestically and Universal Pictures International launching it overseas. The deal also involves Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp, as the project is a loose remake of the French film adaptation of Coben’s book, which was directed by Guillaume Canet with EuropaCorp ties.

Coben originally set up his book at Sony Pictures in 2002. The studio hired Star Trek scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, however, it never came together and Sony let it go. Meanwhile in France, Canet then got involved, figured out how to make the premise work, set it up at EuropaCorp and turned it into French film. The plot involves a pediatrician who is out one night with his wife when she suddenly vanishes and he is severely beaten. When she turns up murdered, he is prime suspect. Canet managed to make all of that work, while Hollywoodteurs spent years unable to come up with a script to greenlight.

Hoping for yet another franchise, other Coben's other books have been bought by stealthy Hollywoodteurs seeking a R.O.I.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

$43 Million Act of Valour

Hollywoodteurs stirkes again. This time in what will shape up to be the biggest amount paid for a finished film with an unknown cast. Relativity Media pays a reported $13 million minimum guarantee with a $30 million P&A commitment for Act of Valour from Ryan Kavanaugh's company.

Valour is the first original movie of many to come about Navy SEALs since the group killed Osama Bin Laden. Others SEAL films are in various stages of production including a Kathryn Bigelow directed drama about the hunt for Bin Laden which Sony Pictures has acquired. Scripted by former Navy SEAL, Kurt Johnstad (300) and directed by the Bandito Brothers' Mike "Mouse" McCoy and Scott Waugh, Act of Valour, is a mission movie involving Navy SEALs with half dozen lead roles played by active duty Navy SEALs and the United States military was behind the production providing an extra layer of authenticity.

After screenings over the past few weeks at the Arclight and in New York, distributors began bidding. The auction, held by WME Global's Liesl Copland and Graham Taylor, heated up with Dark Castle, Alcon, Lionsgate, Film District all in the mix with comparable bids. However, the sellers were intrigued with the Hollywoodteur aggressiveness of Relativity's Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley, and Terry Curtin's comprehensive marketing campaign.

Act of Valour was given the greenlight and executive produced by Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull. Word is, Valour is very patriotic, heavy on action and will play in wide release - 3000+ screens, either at Veterans Day weekend in November or a Presidents Day release in February 2012.

Friday, June 10, 2011

A Woody In Paris

Woody Allen's latest film, Midnight in Paris, starring Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams, is doing so well that Sony Pictures Classics is moving the film into a total of 944 theaters this weekend. Can you believe this is the widest play ever for an Allen pic after Anything Else in 2003? Truth is, I don't even recall Anything Else, which opened in 1,033 locations to begin with, and quickly vacated theaters cuming $3.2 million domestically.

Making its world premiere at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Midnight in Paris opened in only six theaters on May 20th with one of the best location averages of all times with $99,834 at the domestic box office. The following weekend, Midnight expanded into 58 theaters, and then into 147 locations last weekend.

Midnight in Paris has done stellar business all along the way, cuming $7.4 million to date and landing on the top 10 chart for the past three weekends, despite its limited release. Sony Classics’ Tom Bernard and Michael Barker said they didn’t intend to expand nationwide until June 24th, but once they counted the gross receipts they quipped, "the film is working with audiences," and their plans quickly changed.

“Not only is this one of Woody Allen’s best films, it has this magical element which lends itself to be the alternative entertainment to the big studio picture. It has tremendous crossover potential,” Barker said. In Midnight in Paris, Wilson’s character discovers an alternate reality while in Paris with his wife. Wilson plays the sort of “everyman” character that a moviegoers tend to see in more mainstream films, versus in arthouse titles or in an Allen film. Critics across the country, and not just in New York have given Midnight in Paris great reviews.

Midnight in Paris has done great business in more commercial multiplexes and has even broken a number of house records in arthouse theaters, including the Landmark in Los Angeles. Allen’s top grossing film in recent years was Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which earned $23.2 million domestically. At its widest point, the film played in 726 theaters. Match Point grossed $23.2 million, and, at its widest, was in 512 theaters.

Get Paris on your weekend calendar.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

From Black Swan to Noah's Ark

HOT STREET: Hot from Hollywodteur Boulevard is 2011 Best Director nominate Darren Aronofsky is offering the studios a $130 package for his very own edgy re-telling of the Noah's Ark story.

Aronofsky wrote a script that is currently in rewrites with John Logan. New Regency is eyeing a co-financing role with suitors like Paramount, Fox and Summit all considering stepping up for the other half.

What is being described as a big fantasy epic, Noah, is an opportunity for Aronofsky to create his very own big Hollywood production - and world - after dropping out of The Wolverine. Now, Aronofsky is eager to make his next film a bonafide Hollywoodteur spectacle. And with more heat on him than ever, after directing the hugely profitable Black Swan, which grossed $315 million worldwide on a $12 million budget, his move towards the Ark will certainly have Hollywoodteur studio executives lining up in to get on-broad, offering tons of cash to flush out Aronosky's creativity, personal ambitions and vision.

Aronofsky recently flirted with Exodus, the 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment produced telling of the story of Moses, unfolding Moses' defiance of the Pharoah and his subsequent delivery of the Hebrews from enslavement. Nobody has tried to tell the Noah's Ark story in as ambitious a manner as Aronofsky intends.

Tinsletown waits to see who will step up to assist Aronofsky cash in on Noah's Ark.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Pitch Me

Busy budding Hollywoodteur screenplay writer, Aaron Guzikowsi, is blowing on the fresh ink from a deal he has made with Warner Bros based upon a recent pitch of a science fiction action film project. The yet unnamed project has Sam Worthington attached and will reunite Worthington with his Clash of the Titans producer Basil Iwanyk.

While the logline is being kept under wraps, sources say it is a intergalactic war film. Iwanyk's Thunder Road shingle is currently in production on the Titans sequel. He also produced The Town and is prepping the Jeff Bridges starrer Seventh Son and the Clint Eastwood directed A Star is Born with Beyonce, all for Warner Bros.

Guzikowski wrote Prisoners, the Black List script which sold to Alcon Entertainment with Incendies helmer Denis Villeneuve slated to direct. He also scripted the Contraband remake that just wrapped with Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale and Ben Foster starring for Universal and Working Title.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Hollywood - The Aryan Nation

Recently the The Hollywood(teur) Reporter featured a story called "Hollywood's A-List Redined." So, how does Hollywood define redefined? The list consisted of nine (9) "hot" young actors of which THR proclaims Tinseltown Hollywoodteurs are banking on to helm their future studio blockbusters, tentpoles, reboots and franchises. This list had no women, no Blacks, no Asians, no Hispanics and no Latins. Essentially the Hollywood continuum of an aryan entertainment culture.

As America, the United States of America specifically, becomes less and less white, and more and more Asian, Latin, Hispanic, Black, Mixed Race, Multi-Ethnic, why does Hollywood imagery continue to be more and more white and even less and less diverse? The next time you step up to a cinemaplex box-office you may want to redefine what entertainment means to you.

As usual, Tinseltown executives will stack their careers on the money - the economics of maintaining an aryan entertainment industry. Movie going audiences cannot expect Hollywood to do better, they will constantly say, "We are running a business." In actuallity these Hollywoodteurs are ruining the business of entertainment. Their mega productions are rarely entertaining, as they are loud, chaotic, senseless -- not to mention sexist, racist and unoriginal.

It is up to Asians, Latins, Hispanics, Blacks, Mixed Race, Multi-Ethnic and Euro-Americans to shut this Hollywood down. If governments can be over thrown and toppled via the internet; it is now time for prejudice, racist, Aryan, discriminating Hollywood to be cut off from our greenbacks.

If you do not pay for it. If you do not support it. Billions of dollars will not continued to be invested Hollywood's aryan cinema.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

The Man Who Copied

Greenlight is a term used in Hollwoodteur circles proclaiming success in getting financing to produce a film project. Recently I read about a Brazilian film from first time director Jorge Furtado called O Homem que Copiava. After seeing The Man Who Copied - English title, I was pleasantly surprised the film got the greenlight.

André Macie (Lázaro Ramos), a young man who works in a photocopier shop in a southern Brazil city. From a distance, between tall apartment buildings and via binoculars, André spots and falls in love with his neighbor Sílvia (Leandra Leal), who works in a clothing store. In order to get closer to her, he decides to purchase a night gown from her shop for his mother's birthday which he can not afford - not to mention it is not his mother's birthday - at least not any time soon.

To pay for it, André begins photocopying money, which quickly spirals out of control. Once he realizes that he can get away with photocopying money, he decides to try it on a slightly larger scale. Even so, he realizes that the amount he can make by photocopying is limited and thus he looks for better ways to get money. Along the way to his next money making situation André employees his sexy co-worker Marinês, one of her dates Cardoso and his criminal minded childhood buddy Feitosa.

The Man Who Copied takes a few unexpected plot twists and turns and André and the gang are involved with a bank heist, an apartment explosion, a lottery winning and two deaths all on their way to a rich new life in Rio de Janerio.

Copied is the perfect movie for Hollywoodteurs to remake - although I see tons of references in recent cool indie films such as 500 Days of Summer, it has all the elements of a great Hollywood film. Unfortunately Hollywoodteurs can only see and recognize one Brazilian film in their lifetime and for now, that is the multi Oscar nominated mega millions generating Cidade de Deus (City of God).

Friday, June 3, 2011

This is Lovely & Wicked!

Looks like Melissa Marr's highly popular wicked teen faery novel series has been given the greenlight by Universal with Mary Harron set to direct Wicked Lovely with sporadic Hollywoodteur Vince Vaughn producing the big screen adaptation.

The plot revolves around a young teen named Aislinn, who has seen dangerous faeries her entire life but has managed to survive by adhering to a strict set of rules that have kept her safe. That was until now. At 17, Aislinn finds herself torn between a seductive faery king and the mortal she loves. She must go against everything she was taught in order to confront a world she was raised to fear.

Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands) wrote the script. Vaughn, Victoria Vaughn and Peter Billingsley are producing for Wild West Picture Show Productions. Marr has written five books in the series, and the fifth and final title, Darkest Mercy, was published in February.

Harron, of American Pyscho fame, recently directed The Moth Diaries with Lily Cole, Sarah Bolger and Scott Speedman. Lovely reads like a gamine Harry Potter with potential for yet another Hollywoodteur movie franchise with crossed branding and marketing opportunities galore via exploits of a young adult literary series.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Tarzan Set To Swing Again

Craig Brewer has inked a deal to write and direct a new installment of Tarzan for Warner Bros. To be told over three films as outlined by Brewer, Hollywoodteur studio Warner Bros is pleased to grant the greenlight to a potential lucrative trilogy while keeping its bottomline under control by streamlining the production.

Warner Bros has been stymied watching several attempts to relaunch the Edgar Rice Burroughs's infamous jungle fable. Screenwriter Adam Cozad has been working on a script that tells a different version of the man raised by apes in the jungles of Africa from infancy. Cozad's recent work includes the Jack Ryan reboot and Archangel, the pic that has Tron: Legacy's Joseph Kosinski attached.

How the studio decides which film to make remains to be seen, but clearly Warner Bros is determined to revive a live action Tarzan with budding Hollywoodteur, Brewer, who is in demand after directing the remake of Footloose for Paramount, and chose this over other opportunities. Hollywoodteur Jerry Weintraub is producing with Alan Riche and Tony Ludwig. Tarzan has been a fixture of films since the Depression, not of the current post Bush era, but the 1930s, most notably in the series of films that starred Olympic swimmer Johnny Weismuller.

Brewer, whose Footloose will be released October 14th, last directed Black Snake Moan and Hustle & Flow.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Given The Greenlight

Fox Searchlight's Hollywoodteur presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley walked away from Cannes with the Palme d'Or award for Terrence Malick's visionary The Tree of Life, in theaters this coming Friday, they also gave the greenlight to the first film by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris since Little Miss Sunshine.

The new film, He Loves Me, is a reunion of sorts. Besides being back in the Searchlight camp, He Loves Me stars Paul Dano, whose career was launched by Sunshine. Dano will be paired alongside his girlfriend, Zoe Kazan, who wrote the script. The film also reunites Dayton and Faris with Sunshine producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa. Casting news reveals Jeff Bridges is being courted to join the production, currently set for July.

After Little Miss Sunshine won two Oscars and was a Best Picture nominee, Dayton and Faris were courted like crazy by studios and became attached to a number of projects, none of which pan out. After five years since the release of that Sunshine, the team is ready to go.

Repped by CAA and Anonymous Content, Dano, recently completed, Looper, sold in a big Cannes acquisition deal to FilmDistrict and he just wrapped the Paul Weitz directed adaptation of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City for Focus Films opposite Robert De Niro. Dano will be seen this summer in Cowboys & Aliens.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Jerry Bruckheimer: A Short Comedic Biography

It seems like there is more truth in this short biospoofography of legendary Hollywoodteur Jerry Bruckheimer. Directed by aspiring filmmaker Nathan Gotsch, it showcases Bruckheimer's lack of originality and so much more. Gotsch cleverly timed his cinematic calling call with the opening of Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 and spoofs Jerry Bruckheimer's recent Hollywoodteur tentpoles, celebrity collabs and franchise genres.

Apparently, Gotsch's short is an exclusive viral hit around Hollywoodteur offices, where being spoofs by unknown however soon-to-be franchised filmmakers with potential original ideas provide billionaire Hollywoodteurs like Bruckheimer feel a little more human rather than machine.Yesterday afternoon, Gotsch saw this email sent to the Director of Development at Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures: "That shit is funny as fuck," the executive's message said. "We’ve all watched. It went around the studio. Nicely done, team awesome."

Stop and think about it. Really, it is just more of the same. What is smart or original about Gotsch's piece? And mere fact he able to get his short film to the Director of Development at Walt Disney Motion Pictures says it all. He's probably Bruckheimer's Hollywoodteur nephew posing as a Gotsch.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Cannes' Sleeping Beauty

FROM CANNES - Independents take note as Sundance Selects, a sister division to IFC Films and IFC Midnight, acquires the U.S. rights to fresh directing talent Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty.

Beauty features an emerging cast of actors including Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Peter Carroll and Chris Haywood; with Jessica Brentnall producing from Leigh's screenplay.

A haunting portrait of Lucy (Browning), a university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires, Sleeping Beauty premiered in competition this week at the Cannes. Hollywoodteur Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects, said, "For the last 5 days, people throughout Cannes have been discussing Sleeping Beauty. We are thrilled to introduce Julia Leigh and her arresting debut to American audiences."

"Along with the entire Sleeping Beauty team, I'm extremely pleased that the film will be getting a release in the U.S. through such a fine distributor as Sundance Selects, especially under a label that has featured films from so many directors we admire," Leigh said sounding very much like a Hollywoodteur puppet. Leigh and Browning are repped by UTA, who sold their Beauty.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Weekend Pix: Children of God

Film producer Trevite Willis and TLA Releasing bring Children of God to the movie theater this weekend. Directed by emerging Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer and based upon his groundbreaking short film Float, Children of God premieres in New York City on Friday, May 20th at the Quad Theater.

The year is 2004 when the Caribbean world is rocked by the emergence of Rosie O'Donnell's gay family cruise ship. Real documentary footage unveils the mass homophobic hysteria rampant throughout the some parts of the Caribbean. Jonny (Johnny Ferro), a young obsessive compulsive Bahamian artist, faces losing his scholarship at a local University escapes from his gritty life in Nassau to the serene Bahamian island of Eleuthera where he re-encounters the sexy and charming Romeo (Stephen Tyrone Williams). Also heading to the island is Lena Mackey (Margaret Laurena Kemp), an extremely conservative forty year old anti-gay activist, who believes the only way to fix her problems is to limit the rights of homosexuals. Jonny and Lena paths cross inspiring Jonny to paint and give himself a new zest for life.

Children of God is the first gay themed feature film from the Caribbean and has screened at film festivals throughout the world. God showcases the talented Stephen Tyrone Williams, who shows great signs of being a future Hollywoodteur.

See Children of God this weekend.