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Sundance: Evan Peters, Bella Heathcote To Star In Joe Castelo-Helmed ‘The Preppie Connection’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 22, 2013 @ 11:52am PSTTags: Bella Heathcote, Electric City Entertainment, Evan Peters, Sundance Wrap-Up
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: American Horror Story‘s Evan Peters and Not Fade Away‘s Bella Heathcote are set to star in The Preppie Connection, the next film by The War Within helmer Joe Castelo. Based on a true story, The Preppie Connection chronicles the exploits of a group of Choate private school students who ran a drug distribution operation in the early 1980s. The story centers on Toby, the lower-class scholarship student, who uses his street cred and access to drugs to make friends with the popular kids, eventually allowing him to cultivate a drug trafficking network. Toby gets in far over his head as he leads his friends into the dangerous world of Colombian drug cartels. READ MORE »

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Electric City Options Alison Espach Novel ‘The Adults’; Massy Tadjedin To Direct

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 19, 2012 @ 10:57am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Electric City Entertainment
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Electric City partners Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell have optioned rights to the Alison Espach novel The Adults. They’ve set Massy Tadjedin to write the script and direct. Patricof and Howell most recently completed the Derek Cianfrance-directed The Place Beyond The Pines, which stars Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes and will be released by Focus Features.

In her debut novel, Espach chronicles a modern young woman’s struggle to grow up in a world where an adult and a child can so dangerously be mistaken for one and the same. At the center of the suburban universe in which the novel is set is teenager Emily Vidal, who learns quickly of the complications that come with adulthood when she falls in love with an older man. Espach teaches creative writing in New York City.

Howell found the book reminiscent of generation coming-of-age stories like The Graduate. “We were captivated by Alison’s work in her debut novel,” Howell said. “A fresh and emerging voice, Alison’s novel explores the relationships between adults and children, from the perspective of a young woman crossing the blurry line that separates the two.”

Tadjedin is best known for scripting Leo and The Jacket before making her directorial debut on Last Night, which starred Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington and Mendes. Read More »

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Electric City Launches Digital Division With ‘Becoming’ Web Series

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday September 12, 2012 @ 10:52am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Electric City Entertainment, Jamie Patricof, Lynette Howell

EXCLUSIVE: Indie producers Lynette Howell and Jamie Patricof’s Electric City Entertainment have gone online with Electric City Digital. Launched today, the new division’s first offering is the web-based interview show Becoming, with Captain America’s Chris Evans … Read More »

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