UPCOMING PROJECTS

Cannes Film Festival 2013, World Premiere - ALL IS LOST

Prodigy PR is proud to announce that Before The Door Pictures’ ALL IS LOST will make its World Premiere at the upcoming Festival dé Cannes 2013. The open-water thriller stars Academy Award-winner Robert Redford, and was written and directed by Prodigy client and Academy Award-nominee J.C. Chandor (MARGIN CALL). The film is a gripping, visceral and powerfully moving tribute to ingenuity and resilience. We look forward to the premiere!

 

For more information, please visit the film's Facebook page.

 

 

Screen Media Films and Focus World to distribute THE LIFEGUARD with Kristen Bell this summer

Focus World, the alternative distribution initiative owned and operated by Focus Features, and Screen Media Films have partnered on acquiring U.S. rights to THE LIFEGUARD starring Kristen Bell following its debut in competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Screen Media and Focus World will release THE LIFEGUARD in theaters and on digital platforms this summer.
 
THE LIFEGUARD is written and directed by Liz W. Garcia, and marks her first feature after working as a writer and producer on such series as Cold Case and co-creating "Memphis Beat" with THE LIFEGUARD producer Joshua Harto. Ms. Bell, who currently stars on the hit series "House of Lies" and who recently delighted fans of "Veronica Mars" with a very successful and record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, is joined in the cast by Mamie Gummer ("Side Effects"), Martin Starr ("Knocked Up"), and Academy Award nominee Amy Madigan. For more information, please visit the film's website or Facebook page.

In theaters April 5th - UPSTREAM COLOR

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.  Directed by Shane Carruth and starring Carruth and Amy Seimetz, UPSTREAM COLOR is his follow-up feature to the mind-bending cult classic "Primer."

 

For more information, please visit the film's website or Facebook page.

 

On VOD April 23rd - WILD IN THE STREETS

Narrated by Sean Bean and directed by Peter Baxter, WILD IN THE STREETS follows the passionate participants and supporters of the ancient game of Shrovetide Football where the field of play is the town itself.  As the lifeblood of Ashbourne, an English market town, Shrovetide has been played for thousands of years and is widely considered the longest running sports rivalry on earth. This mass football match can be directly attributed to the origins of soccer, rugby and American football, but where those sports have been taken over by corporate ownership and scandal both on and off the field, Shrovetide has stayed true to the pure elements of sport overall.
 
The object of the game does remain simple: get a 4-pound ball to one of two goals that are three miles apart; in turn, sharing in a piece of immortality that will define a person’s life and inexplicably bond a community together like nothing else seen before in modern sports.
 
And for the past 10 years the “posh” Up’ards have dominated every contest.  Yet this time, as the “dirty” Down’ards prepare for revenge, both teams will have to fight an additional foe; modern society.



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In theaters April 26th - THE NUMBERS STATION

Image Entertainment will release THE NUMBERS STATION in April.  John Cusack stars as a former black ops agent assigned to a clandestine outpost and teamed with a numbers expert (Malin Akerman) as they fight for survival after a surprise attack.  

 

For information please visit the film's Facebook page. 

 

In theaters May 3rd - 1st NIGHT

Directed by Christopher Menaul, 1ST NIGHT is a unique story of love’s fluctuating fortunes set against a backdrop of visual and vocal beauty. As the cast, the drama, and the music carefully walk a tightrope between humor and pathos a timeless romantic comedy unfolds.

 

Adam (Richard E. Grant) is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist’s dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help him win the hand of Celia (Sarah Brightman), the female conductor he has been pursuing whom – it just so happens – is the first to be recruited for his showpiece.

 

For the rest of the cast and the production, Adam brings in the experts and enlists the aid of a troupe of promising young singers – led by beauty Nicoletta (Mia Maestro) and upstart Tom (Julian Ovenden) – with enough collective sexual tension to light up the stage. His choice of opera? Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, the master composer’s fabled romp through the bittersweet territory of sexual infidelity. As this motley group flexes their melodic and melodramatic muscles during rehearsals leading up to the opening night performance, it won’t be long before life imitates art as relationships flourish and flounder.

 

For more info, please visit the film's Facebook page.