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Jonathan Demme Puts His Tag On Graffiti-Filled Indie ‘Gimme The Loot’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 14, 2013 @ 6:50am PSTTags: Adam Leon, Gimme The Loot, Jonathan Demme, Sundance Selects
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: When you see a filmmaker like Martin Scorsese or Jonathan Demme put their brand names on movies, you wonder how involved they get. Scorsese put his imprimatur on two films this month – Luc Besson’s Malavita and Andy Lau’s Revenge of the Green Dragons. Now, Demme has taken a “presenting” credit on Adam Leon‘s Gimme The Loot, hoping his contribution will be that people notice a worthy indie when it gets released in late March by IFC Films/Sundance Selects. Gimme The Loot won Best Narrative Feature at last year’s SXSW. Leon is a current nominee for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Film.

Said Demme: “Knowing that Gimme The Loot is — astonishingly — Adam Leon’s first feature most certainly adds to the film’s extraordinary sense of achievement. But the sheer entertainment value of this very smart, hilarious, and heartfelt movie made by young filmmakers about contemporary young people, filmed and played with great freshness and originality, is what makes Gimme The Loot a truly thrilling experience — this is really one crazily accomplished American motion picture debut.” READ MORE »

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Cinema Audio Society To Honor Jonathan Demme

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 6, 2012 @ 3:52pm PSTTags: CAS Awards, Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme will receive the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award at the 49th CAS Awards on February 16 at Millennium-Biltmore in Los Angeles. Demme’s career … Read More »

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Jonathan Demme Scripting Two Films, But Finds Time For Occupy Wall Street Shorts

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 11:37am PDTTags: 11/22/63, Barack Obama, Jonathan Demme, Occupy Wall Street, Stephen King
Mike Fleming

While Jonathan Demme is busy writing the script for Stephen King’s upcoming thriller novel 11/22/63, and completing another script for an animated feature adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel Zeitoun, the Oscar-winning director has become so captivated by the Occupy … Read More »

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Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Jonathan Demme’s Neil Young Docu

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 7:28am PDTTags: Jonathan Demme, Neil Young, Sony Pictures Classics
Mike Fleming

NEW YORK (October 11, 2011) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired the Worldwide Rights, excluding Latin America, to Jonathan Demme’s film, NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS from Shakey Pictures and Clinica Estetico. Demme and Elliot Rabinowitz produced the film, with Declan Quinn (RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, NEIL YOUNG TRUNK SHOW, JIMMY CARTER MAN FROM PLAINS) who served as director of photography. NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS had its World Premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival to a tremendous audience and great critical acclaim.

NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS marks the third film between Demme and Sony Pictures Classics. Previous films include JIMMY CARTER MAN FROM PLAINS and RACHEL GETTING MARRIED.

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2011 Toronto Festival Fills Out Slate And Sets Maverick Lecture Program

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 23, 2011 @ 5:42am PDTTags: Barrymore, Christopher Plummer, Dee Rees, Deepa Mehta, Francis Ford Coppola, Gus Van Sant, Jonathan Demme, Michael Barker, Neil Young, Pariah, Restless, Salman Rushdie, Tilda Swinton, Tom Bernard, Toronto Film Festival
Mike Fleming

The 2011 Toronto International Film Festival has filled out the rest of its slate, which consists of 268 features and 68 short films that will unspool next month. The fest announced that the likes of Brad Pitt (Moneyball), … Read More »

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Jonathan Demme Deals For Stephen King’s JFK Book As Author Heats Up H’wood Again

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday August 12, 2011 @ 2:20pm PDTTags: 11/22/63, A&E, Bag of Bones, Jonathan Demme, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Stand, Universal, Warner Bros

It looks like Jonathan Demme is the latest big name to jump on a Stephen King project, with the director confirmed to have picked up rights to King’s yet-to-be-released novel 11/22/63, about a teacher who travels back in … Read More »

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Jonathan Demme Leaves ICM for WME

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday August 10, 2011 @ 7:21pm PDTTags: ICM, Jonathan Demme, talent agency, WME

EXCLUSIVE: No announcements yet from either agency, but Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence Of The Lambs) had been an ICM client for seven years. The iconclastic helmer works in film moving between indie projects and big studio productions, TV, and theater. For Demme, ICM put together Rachel Getting Married, the … Read More »

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Lincoln Center Celebrates Sidney Lumet

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 5:19pm PDTTags: Jonathan Demme, Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Spike Lee
Mike Fleming

Pete Hammond Remembers Sidney Lumet
Having covered Hollywood from a New York base for over 20 years, I watched Gotham hold its own because of filmmakers that included Jonathan Demme, Alan Pakula, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese and Sidney Lumet. So let’s see where that leaves us. Demme doesn’t work often enough. Pakula, whose resume includes one of the greatest American movies ever in All the President’s Men, died in a freak accident on the Long Island Expressway. Allen has been on an extended tour of Europe that I admit has completely reinvigorated him as a filmmaker but hasn’t helped the production scene in Manhattan. Scorsese shoots all over the place, and Lee has had trouble getting his films funded even though he’s a voice well worth hearing. Finally, Lumet, the guy who made seminal movies like Network, 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico, and continued directing films at such a fast pace that co-workers swore he shot while double-parked, passed away. Now, Lincoln Center has announced a summer series of films made by the great Lumet. It is worth checking out some of his great films. Meanwhile, I’m still waiting for that electrifying new New York filmmaker who’ll have the clout to force productions to be shot in his backyard despite the high union costs, and who makes Gotham relevant again on the feature scene. Here’s the info on the Lumet retrospective:

New York, NY, June 27, 2011- Following a heartfelt and entertaining memorial for Sidney Lumet at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with speakers and performers including Lauren Bacall, Walter Bernstein, Bobby Cannavale, Glenn Close, Jonathan Demme, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jenny Lumet, David Mamet, Phylilis Newman and Christopher Walken among others, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the details today for a retrospective of the admired and beloved director’s work, Prince of the City: Remembering Sidney Lumet which will screen at the Walter Reade Theater July 19 – 25.

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S. Epatha Merkerson Joins CBS’ Medical Drama Pilot Directed by Jonathan Demme

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: CBS, Jonathan Demme, Pilot, S. Epatha Merkerson, Susannah Grant
Nellie Andreeva

Law & Order veteran S. Epatha Merkerson has joined CBS’ untitled Susannah Grant supernatural medical drama pilot. Jonathan Demme is directing the pilot, from CBS TV Studios and Timberman/Beverly, which centers on Michael (Patrick Wilson), an ultra-competitive … Read More »

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De Niro Balks, Demme Walks, Movie Chalks (And Bradley Cooper Is Caught In Middle)

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday March 17, 2011 @ 6:39pm PDTTags: Bradley Cooper, Honeymoon With Harry, Jonathan Demme, New Line, Robert De Niro



Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro appear together in this weekend’s release of Limitless from Virgin/Relativity. So I decided to check on that other reteaming of Cooper and De Niro in the works for New Line, the heartfelt dramedy Honeymoon With Harry, with Jonathan … Read More »

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Leslie Bibb Set As The Lead In ABC’s ‘Bitches’, Jennifer Ehle To Star In CBS Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 8:00pm PSTTags: ABC Good Christian Bitches, Darren Star, Good Christian Bitches, Good Christian Bitches Casting, Jennifer Ehle, Jonathan Demme, Leslie Bibb, Susannah Grant Drama Pilot, TV, TV Casting, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Leslie Bibb has been tapped for the lead in ABC’s dramedy pilot Good Christian Bitches, from ABC Studios, Kapital Entertainment, writer-exec producer Robert Harling and exec producer Darren Star. Based on Kim Gatlin’s book, it centers on Amanda … Read More »

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Patrick Wilson To Headline CBS Medical Drama Pilot Directed By Jonathan Demme

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 18, 2011 @ 7:30pm PSTTags: CBS Pilots, Jonathan Demme, Patrick Wilson, Susannah Grant, Susannah Grant Drama Pilot, TV, TV Casting, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Feature and Broadway actor Patrick Wilson is making his first foray into series TV as the star of CBS’ untitled Susannah Grant drama pilot. Jonathan Demme is directing he supernatural medical drama, from CBS TV Studios and studio-based … Read More »

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PILOT SEASON: The Rise Of Feature Directors

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 17, 2011 @ 6:30pm PSTTags: Antoine Fuqua, Bryan Singer, Danny Cannon, Jaume Collet-Serra, Jonathan Demme, Phillip Noyce Revenge, Shawn Levy, The River Pilot, TV, TV Pilot Directors, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

In a series of stories, I’ll take an analytical look at the current broadcast pilot season and some of its trends and heroes.

In what was probably the last big pilot director signing this season, Jaume Collet-Sera yesterday closed a … Read More »

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Jonathan Demme To Direct CBS Drama Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 1, 2011 @ 4:00pm PSTTags: CBS, Jonathan Demme
Nellie Andreeva

The Silence of the Lambs helmer Jonathan Demme is making his pilot directing debut.  The Oscar winner  has signed on to direct and executive produce CBS’ untitled Susannah Grant drama pilot. The supernatural medical drama, from CBS TV Studios and … Read More »

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Sundance: A&E IndieFilms Grabs TV Rights For Roger Corman Documentary

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 8:53am PSTTags: Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Martin Scorsese, Roger Corman, Ron Howard, Sundance Film Festival, WME Global
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: It’s almost like the Sundance Film Festival has started, with all the advance acquisition activity. A&E IndieFilm just acquired TV rights to Corman’s World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel, the documentary about low-budget independent icon Roger Corman. A&E becomes … Read More »

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Jonathan Demme To Direct Episodes Of HBO’s New Mike White Series ‘Enlightened’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 9, 2010 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: HBO, Honeymoon With Harry, Jonathan Demme, Laura Dern, Mike White, TV Directors
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: There is a saying that you’ve got to be an Oscar winner to get to direct an HBO pilot these days: look at Martin Scorsese (Boardwalk Empire), Alexander Payne (Hung), Bill Condon (Tilda) and Kathryn Bigelow (The Miraculous Year). Now you may need an Oscar statuette to be an episodic director on the pay cable channel too. The Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme has been tapped to direct two episodes of HBO’s upcoming Mike White/Laura Dern comedy series Enlightened. Read More »

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Will Jonathan Demme ‘Honeymoon’ With Robert De Niro And Bradley Cooper?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 2, 2010 @ 3:01pm PDTTags: Bradley Cooper, Honeymoon With Harry, Jonathan Demme, Movie Casting, New Line, New Line Cinema, Paul Haggis, Robert De Niro
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Paul Haggis-scripted Honeymoon With Harry might make it to the altar after six years of broken engagements. Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper two weeks ago read the lead roles in a run-through organized by New Line at De Niro’s Tribeca Productions offices. Now, Jonathan Demme is circling the project. All this has created the sense of optimism that a script regularly featured on “best unmade” lists is finally on a fast track. That Honeymoon With Harry is gaining momentum now is ironic. Hollywood is squarely operating in safe-bet mode and one of the script’s problems has been that it has strong comedy and drama elements but can’t exactly be called one or the other. The most apt description is to call it a James Brooks-style look at two characters who loathe one another but are stuck together at a time when each is in desperate shape. Read More »

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