Exclusive: Michael Cera (Arrested Development), Maya Erskine (Pen 15) and Michael Angarano (This Is Us) are set to star in road trip movie Sacramento, which Angarano will also direct.
Due to shoot early next year, the film will follow Rickey, an energetic and free-spirited young man who convinces Glenn, his long-time friend who’s settled into domestic life, to go on an impromptu road trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento, bringing their past into question and their future into light.
Angarano has scripted with Chris Smith and the duo will produce with Sam Grey, Oakhurst Entertainment and Lighthouse Management & Media. Go Media Productions will finance.
LA-based Motus Studios has launched international sales at this week’s virtual AFM. UTA is handling domestic.
Angarano was Emmy-nominated for his guest star turn in NBC’s This Is Us. He made his directorial debut with 2017 comedy-drama Avenues in which he starred with Nicholas Braun,...
Due to shoot early next year, the film will follow Rickey, an energetic and free-spirited young man who convinces Glenn, his long-time friend who’s settled into domestic life, to go on an impromptu road trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento, bringing their past into question and their future into light.
Angarano has scripted with Chris Smith and the duo will produce with Sam Grey, Oakhurst Entertainment and Lighthouse Management & Media. Go Media Productions will finance.
LA-based Motus Studios has launched international sales at this week’s virtual AFM. UTA is handling domestic.
Angarano was Emmy-nominated for his guest star turn in NBC’s This Is Us. He made his directorial debut with 2017 comedy-drama Avenues in which he starred with Nicholas Braun,...
- 11/13/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Two films released, another film shot, and Steven Soderbergh managed to still watch and read a decent amount in 2019. (Note to self: barely using his Twitter account probably helps.) So a favorite tradition continues with today’s release of his annual viewing and reading log on Extension 765, which has a surprise, oddity, or some-such at nearly every turn.
Favorites include: making it through all 181 hours of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old to Die Young in seven days but taking nearly four months to finish Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace; Chinatown and Richard Lester movies appearing on yet another list; he, too, watching Fleabag; seeing a version of his next movie, Let Them All Talk, just under a month after principal photography commenced. And so on and so forth.
All caps, bold: Movie
All caps, bold, asterisk: Short*
All caps: TV Series
Italics: Book
Quotation marks: “Play”
Italics, quotation...
Favorites include: making it through all 181 hours of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old to Die Young in seven days but taking nearly four months to finish Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace; Chinatown and Richard Lester movies appearing on yet another list; he, too, watching Fleabag; seeing a version of his next movie, Let Them All Talk, just under a month after principal photography commenced. And so on and so forth.
All caps, bold: Movie
All caps, bold, asterisk: Short*
All caps: TV Series
Italics: Book
Quotation marks: “Play”
Italics, quotation...
- 1/7/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
When a first-time director begins their film with a series of beautifully composed shots of Manhattan, juxtaposed against a backdrop of simple piano notes, one cannot escape an undesirable comparison to Woody Allen. And when you cast yourself as the cynical, yet charming, lead character who garrulously waxes about believing in God once, the similarity grows even more noticeable. So, while Michael Angarano’s supple debut feature, “Avenues,” certainly is heavily indebted to the spirit romantic/comedic of Woody Allen (minus the icky problematic-ness), the movie aspires to be much more than just tribute; subtly unfurling itself as a Richard Linklater/’Before’-style bromance, not just another film about a self-involved, desperate chatterbox who’d like to get laid when he goes out for his birthday celebration later that night.
Continue reading ‘Avenues’: Michael Angarano’s Directorial Debut Is A Promising Effort About The Jokes We Use To Mask Grief [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Avenues’: Michael Angarano’s Directorial Debut Is A Promising Effort About The Jokes We Use To Mask Grief [Review] at The Playlist.
- 3/15/2019
- by Andrew Bundy
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Coming off a high-profile arc on NBC’s This Is Us, Michael Angarano has been tapped as the lead of CBS’ To Whom It May Concern. Great News star Briga Heelan is set as the female lead in the hybrid comedy pilot from Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group, and CBS TV Studios.
Written by Mike Metz, To Whom It May Concern centers on Evan (Angarano) who, with the help of his group of friends, sets out to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life.
Angarano’s Evan is a modern George Bailey-type and Pittsburgh diehard who has never left the city limits. The amiable Evan once had sky high hopes for his future, but now finds himself working Quality Control at a ketchup factory and flying aimlessly through his golden late twenties. He seeks that...
Written by Mike Metz, To Whom It May Concern centers on Evan (Angarano) who, with the help of his group of friends, sets out to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life.
Angarano’s Evan is a modern George Bailey-type and Pittsburgh diehard who has never left the city limits. The amiable Evan once had sky high hopes for his future, but now finds himself working Quality Control at a ketchup factory and flying aimlessly through his golden late twenties. He seeks that...
- 3/6/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
"Days like today, and meeting you - that's happiness, my friend." Gravitas Ventures has debuted an official trailer for an indie drama titled Avenues, which marks the feature directorial debut of Brooklyn-born actor Michael Angarano. This premiered at a festival back in 2017 but is just now getting a VOD release almost two years later. Set in New York City, Angarano also stars in this film as Max. On his birthday following the suicide of his brother, Max and his friend Peter wander the wintry streets (or the "avenues") of Manhattan contemplating life, livelihood, and what it means to be an adult. Like most indie dramas. Also starring Ari Graynor, Adelaide Clemens, John Robinson, and Greg Vrotsos. It might be a worthwhile little film. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Michael Angarano's Avenues, direct from YouTube: On his 25th birthday, Max attempts to distance himself ...
- 2/26/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Actor Michael Angarano may be only 31 years old, but he’s pretty much a veteran of the movie industry by now and has worked a list of terrific filmmakers. Angarano started as a child actor in the late 90s and played the 11-year-old version of the protagonist in Cameron Crowe‘s semi-autobiographical film “Almost Famous” in 2000 (Before that he was one of the finalists for the role of young Anakin Skywalker in “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace“).
Continue reading ‘Avenues’ Trailer: Michael Angarano’s Directorial Debut Follows Friends That Meet In An Off-Chance Encounter at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Avenues’ Trailer: Michael Angarano’s Directorial Debut Follows Friends That Meet In An Off-Chance Encounter at The Playlist.
- 2/25/2019
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
In addition to his busy acting career, appearing on hit TV shows like This is Us and Will and Grace, Michael Angarano has added feature film director to his resumé.
Angarano, 31, wrote, directed and stars in the upcoming film Avenues, opposite fellow actors and real-life friends Nicholas Braun, Adelaide Clemens, Ari Graynor, Maya Kazan, Greg Vrotsos, Juno Temple, and People has an exclusive first look at the trailer.
The New York City-set film revolves around a long day and night out for lifelong friends Max (Angarano) and Peter (Braun), who are attempting to celebrate Max’s birthday in the wake of his brother’s suicide.
Angarano, 31, wrote, directed and stars in the upcoming film Avenues, opposite fellow actors and real-life friends Nicholas Braun, Adelaide Clemens, Ari Graynor, Maya Kazan, Greg Vrotsos, Juno Temple, and People has an exclusive first look at the trailer.
The New York City-set film revolves around a long day and night out for lifelong friends Max (Angarano) and Peter (Braun), who are attempting to celebrate Max’s birthday in the wake of his brother’s suicide.
- 2/7/2019
- by Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
With a title that sounds a like a rehab facility, Michael Angarano’s Avenues is a spirited, micro-budget indie that recalls the New York City-based work of early Woody Allen with notes of John Cassavetes, Whit Stillman, and the Safdie brothers thrown in for good measure. These are excellent influences to aspire to, although the film’s narrative clutter and occasional missteps allow the scrappiness to show. Filmed quickly in a few days on the go, Avenues tells the story of Max (Angarano) as he mourns his bother Jack (who is never seen on screen) while passing time with his best friend Peter (Nicholas Braun), a sex therapist who has arrived in New York City for winter break. Peter is also about to break-up with his long-distance girlfriend who he’s en route to visit in Montreal.
With the entry of two blondes who just happen to be eating at...
With the entry of two blondes who just happen to be eating at...
- 5/19/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Lineup Announcements
– The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the full slate of films for AFI Docs 2017, a five-day documentary celebration in the nation’s capital. Each year, the festival is committed to providing artists with the opportunity to present powerfully told, artfully constructed stories — and to connect audiences and filmmakers with policy leaders. AFI Docs 2017 runs June 14 – 18 in Washington, DC, and Silver Spring, MD.
“The 2017 slate of films reflects AFI Docs’ mission to celebrate powerfully told stories and the people at the heart of them,” said Michael Lumpkin, Director, AFI Docs. “Documentaries continue to play an important role in our country regardless of partisan lines. No matter your background, these human stories have the power to inform and inspire. We look forward to another year of dynamic nonfiction cinema.
Lineup Announcements
– The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the full slate of films for AFI Docs 2017, a five-day documentary celebration in the nation’s capital. Each year, the festival is committed to providing artists with the opportunity to present powerfully told, artfully constructed stories — and to connect audiences and filmmakers with policy leaders. AFI Docs 2017 runs June 14 – 18 in Washington, DC, and Silver Spring, MD.
“The 2017 slate of films reflects AFI Docs’ mission to celebrate powerfully told stories and the people at the heart of them,” said Michael Lumpkin, Director, AFI Docs. “Documentaries continue to play an important role in our country regardless of partisan lines. No matter your background, these human stories have the power to inform and inspire. We look forward to another year of dynamic nonfiction cinema.
- 5/19/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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