Tag: Thunder Road
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UTA, XYZ’s Fantastic Fest, Sitges-Bound ‘The Last Stop in Yuma County’ Unveils First Footage (Exclusive)
Crime thriller “The Last Stop in Yuma County” has unveiled its first clip.The debut feature from writer-director Francis Galluppi will bow at Austin’s Fantastic Fest before heading to Sitges. XYZ Films and UTA are co-representing North American sales.The film follows a traveling knife salesman in 1980s Arizona. Stranded and forced to wait at a rural…
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Your Agent Is a Con Artist: ‘Beta Test’ Director Jim Cummings Wants to Liberate Indie Filmmaking
The story usually goes like this: Filmmaker delivers promising work, scores an agent, and lets them take charge. Jim Cummings is on a mission to change that. After turning his Sundance-acclaimed short film “Thunder Road” into a feature with crowdfunding, he secured a Sundance Creative Distribution Fellowship grant to support his self-distribution efforts. Eventually, the…
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Back to One, Episode 160: Frank Mosley
For the past decade, Frank Mosley has been independent cinema’s go-to actor. Upstream Color, Thunder Road, Some Beasts, Chained For Life, Freeland, The Ghost Who Walks are just a few examples of films that benefit from the authenticity, deep-rooted intensity, and “all-in” approach he brings to every performance. His talents extend to the other side…
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‘The Beta Test’: Jim Cummings Tackles Douchebag Hollywood Agents In An Anxiety Horror About Being Canceled [Tribeca Review]
Indie anxiety auteur Jim Cummings’ work is always trembling nervously with the hum or uneasy apprehension. His brilliant debut, “Thunder Road” throbbed with the cringe-y tension of a grieving divorcee policeman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and his follow-up, “The Wolf of Snow Hollow” layered murder mystery genre elements and the idea of…
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Berlinale reveals Panorama, Encounters titles for 2021 edition
New features from ‘Thunder Road’ director Jim Cummings and Denis Cote among line-up.The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled the features that will comprise its Encounters and Panorama strands, which will first be seen at the industry-focused, online-only event from March 1-5.Panorama will include 19 titles, of which 16 are world premieres, while Encounters includes…
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‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ Trailer Sees Robert Forster Hunting a Werwolf in His Final Film Role
Orion Classics’ released the first trailer for The Wolf of Snow Hollow, a snowbound werewolf thriller with a tinge of sadness hanging over it as Oscar-nominee Robert Forster’s final film role. Snow Hollow was written and directed by Jim Cummings, whose genuinely great microbudget dramedy Thunder Road took the Grand Jury Award at the 2018…
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‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ Trailer: Robert Forster Hunts a Werewolf in His Final Feature Role
Jim Cummings made quite a splash in 2018 when the writer-filmmaker-star made his feature directorial debut with Thunder Road, a microbudget indie comedy that won the Grand Jury prize at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival. It earned him enough buzz that he was able to score Oscar nominee Robert Forster for his follow-up film, The…
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Vanishing Angle Sets Jim Cummings Thriller ‘The Beta Test’ as Next Film (Exclusive)
Vanishing Angle, the production company behind Sundance winner “Thunder Road,” has re-teamed with writer-director Jim Cummings for thriller “The Beta Test.”The studio will produce the movie — about a married Hollywood agent who deals with the fallout after receiving a mysterious letter from an anonymous sexual encounter. The cast includes Cummings, Pj McCabe, Olivia Applegate…
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Vertigo acquires SXSW winner ‘Thunder Road’ for UK & Ireland (exclusive)
The film is about a Texan police officer struggling to raise his daughter.Distributor Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Jim Cumming’s debut feature Thunder Road.The Us indie title premiered at SXSW in March, where it won the feature film Grand Jury award. It then screened in the Acid showcase at Cannes.Thunder Road…
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Jim Cummings’ ‘Thunder Road’ Wins Deauville’s Grand Prize
Jim Cummings’s “Thunder Road” won the Grand Prize at the 44th edition of the Normandie-set Deauville American Film Festival.“Thunder Road” follows a broken cop who comes to grips with a death of his mom when giving a heartfelt eulogy at her funeral. The movie previously won the Grand Jury Award at South by Southwest. Paname…