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Hot Trailer: ‘Greetings From Tim Buckley’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 6:56pm PDTTags: Greetings From Tim Buckley, Penn Badgley, Tribeca Film

Penn Badgley stars as musician Jeff Buckley in the Daniel Algrant-directed drama, which premiered at the Toronto Film Fest. The pic follows Buckley on the eve of the public singing debut that would launch his career as he comes to terms with the legacy of his late father, folk singer Tim Buckley. Imogen Poots co-stars. Tribeca Film and Focus World open the pic in New York and LA on May 3.


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Penn Badgley & ‘CSI: NY’s Hill Harper Join ‘Parts Per Billion’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 1:02pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV, Hill Harper, Penn Badgley

BREAKING… Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley and CSI: NY’s Hill Harper have signed on for Parts Per Billion. Teresa Palmer and Alexis … Read More »

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Tribeca Film & Focus World Acquire ‘Greetings From Tim Buckley’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday December 10, 2012 @ 8:25am PSTTags: Jeff Buckley, Penn Badgley, Tribeca Film

EXCLUSIVE: Tribeca Film and Focus World have picked up Greetings From Tim Buckley, starring Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley. Tribeca will release the Daniel Algrant-directed film theatrically next year, with the companies working together on VOD and other digital platforms. The film, … Read More »

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Jeff Buckley Pic Rivalry Heats As Broadway Spidey Reeve Carney Commits To Star

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 15, 2011 @ 1:54pm PDTTags: Bono, Brendan Fletcher, Dan Algrant, Imogen Poots, Jake Scott, Jeff Buckley, Norbert Leo Butz, Orian Williams, Penn Badgley, Reeve Carney, Ryan Jaffe, The Edge, Tim Buckley
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark star Reeve Carney has signed on to play Jeff Buckley in the untitled film about the late musician that Welcome to the Rileys helmer Jake Scott is putting together for a November shoot. Carney, who performed the Bono/The Edge-penned Spider-Man single Rise Above 1 at the American Idol finale, will do all the singing to bring to life the music of Buckley, who was just getting started as a solo artist when he drowned at age 30.

Considering that Buckley had only released a single album when he died in 1997 after getting caught in the wake of a passing boat in Tennessee’s Wolf River, it seems amazing that there are not one but three feature films about him. The first one to start production will be Greetings From Tim Buckley, the Dan Algrant-directed indie film that starts a four-week shoot Monday in Brooklyn. Conventional wisdom that the first film out of the gate wins doesn’t necessarily apply here; these two projects tell very different stories about Buckley. Scott is making a biopic, while Greetings From Tim Buckley stars Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley as a pre-fame Jeff Buckley who reconnects with his estranged father Tim by singing at a tribute concert for his folk-singer dad. In Algrant’s film, that short adventure forged Jeff Buckley’s own solo aspirations. The other Buckley film is called A Pure Drop and it is being mounted by Mad Bastards director Brendan Fletcher. The title comes from the book A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley. Read More »

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‘Fright Night’s Imogen Poots Takes ‘Greetings From Tim Buckley’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 22, 2011 @ 7:41am PDTTags: Dan Algrant, Imogen Poots, Jeff Buckley, Penn Badgley, Tim Buckley
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Imogen Poots has landed the female lead in Greetings From Tim Buckley, the film that stars Penn Badgley in the role of musician Jeff Buckley. The film was written by Dan Algrant, Emma Sheanshang and David Brendel, and Dan … Read More »

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Penn Badgley To Play Singer Jeff Buckley In Biopic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 20, 2011 @ 5:10pm PDTTags: Jeff Buckley, Movie Casting, Penn Badgley
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New York, NY (June 20, 2011) – Smuggler Films announced today Penn Badgley will star in the much anticipated film Greetings from Tim Buckley. He will play Tim Buckley’s son Jeff in the first film to be made about the musicians. There has been much speculation regarding the casting of Jeff Buckley as many of Hollywood’s hottest stars were interested in playing one of the most remarkable music artists of his generation. Greetings from Tim Buckley was written by Dan Algrant, Emma Sheanshang and David Brendel and will be directed by Dan Algrant (People I Know, Naked in New York).

Greetings from Tim Buckley follows the true story of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley’s eminent 1991 performance at his father’s tribute concert in St. Ann’s Church. Through a romance with a young woman working at the concert, he comes to understand the father who abandoned him. Culminating in a cathartic performance of his father’s most famous songs, Jeff’s debut stuns the audience and launches his career as one of the greatest young musicians of his time.

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Anonymous Content Lands Management Trio To Bolster Talent Roster

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 14, 2011 @ 1:21pm PDTTags: Adrianne Palicki, Anna Faris, Anonymous Content, Bill Condon, Cary Fukunaga, David Slade, Doug Wald, Emma Stone, Jonathan Groff, Joseph Kosinski, Katie Cassidy, Lorene Scafaria, Marc Webb, Matt Bomer, Max Minghella, Nathan Lane, Patrick Wilson, Paul Dano, Penn Badgley, Richard Linklater, Robert Pulcini, Robin Wright, Sam Worthington, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Chang, Scott Z. Burns, Shari Springer Berman, Stanley Tucci, Steve Golin, Steven Soderbergh, Tony Lipp, William Monahan
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EXCLUSIVE: Management/production company Anonymous Content is about to make a major play in the talent game. I’m hearing that Doug Wald is leaving his partnership at Raw Talent, Sandra Chang is leaving as partner at Industry Entertainment, and Tony Lipp is leaving CAA. The trio will lead Anonymous Content’s talent division and create a major infusion of acting clients. It is all taking shape today.

Lipp announced internally on Tuesday that he would leave CAA to be a manager. Wald and Chang dropped the bombshells this morning at their respective management companies. Anonymous has a modest talent business that included four managers and clients like Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, Katie Cassidy, Omar Epps and Adrianne Palicki (just cast as Wonder Woman). The newcomers will greatly expand that list, and a lot of it is emerging talent. Among the actors already set to join: Sam Worthington, Paul Dano, Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Anna Faris, Max Minghella, Jack Quaid, Patrick Wilson, Justin Chambers, Jessica Walter, Jaime King, Matt Bomer, John Cleese, Blythe Danner, Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer, Nathan Lane, Simon Russell Beale and Stanley Tucci. Read More »

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Sundance: ‘Margin Call’ To Roadside Attractions And Lionsgate

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday January 23, 2011 @ 8:43am PSTTags: Cassian Elwes, Howard Cohen, JC Chandor, Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey, Lionsgate, Margin Call, Mary McDonnell, Paul Bettany, Penn Badgley, Rena Ronson, Roadside Attractions, Simon Baker, Stanley Tucci, Sundance, UTA, Zachary Quinto
Mike Fleming

The JC Chandor-directed drama Margin Call sold to Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate after an all night bargaining session. The film stars Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell and Stanley Tucci. That cast … Read More »

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Jeremy Irons Answers The ‘Margin Call’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 6, 2010 @ 3:38pm PDTTags: Demi Moore, Indie, JC Chandor, Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey, Margin Call, Mary McDonnell, Myriad Pictures, New York, Paul Bettany, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Stanley Tucci, Wall Street, Zachary Quinto
Mike Fleming

jeremy-irons-20080715-436952Jeremy Irons is the final piece of an impressive cast for Margin Call, the indie film by director JC Chandor that is shooting in New York City. Irons is the chief executive of a financial firm in a 24-hour period during … Read More »

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