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EXCLUSIVE: Blue Harbor Entertainment and Variance Films person picked up U.S. authorities to nan Sundance drama The Musical, starring Will Brill, Rob Lowe, and Gillian Jacobs. A nationwide theatrical merchandise has bee group for Sept. 18. Unapologetic Projects Partners is teaming pinch Blue Harbor and Variance connected nan merchandise which reps nan characteristic directorial debut of character turned filmmaker Giselle Bonilla.
Pic follows Doug Leibowitz (Tony Best Featured Actor victor Brill from Stereophoic), a disgruntled playwright turned middle-school theatre coach longing for New York. When his ex-girlfriend (Jacobs from The Bear, Community, and Girls) originates making love his nemesis, nan school’s principal, Brady (Lowe from Parks and Recreation, The Third Parent, 9-1-1: Lone Star), Doug’s ambitions morph into a diabolical scheme. To ruin Brady’s estimation and jeopardize his coveted Blue Ribbon award, Doug land revenge: secretly staging nan astir inappropriate play imaginable pinch his middle-school students.
The Musical made its world premiere astatine Sundance backmost successful January successful nan U.S. Dramatic Competition. Bonilla is an alum of nan Sundance Institute arsenic an Ignite x Adobe Fellow arsenic good arsenic a Latino Film Institute x Netflix Inclusion and Telluride FilmLAB Fellow. Bonilla and Heller, some alums of nan American Film Institute, first collaborated connected a short movie of nan aforesaid sanction which won nan Audience Award astatine nan American Cinematheque’s 2024 Proof Film Festival and received Special Mention from nan jury.
“For me, location is nary greater unreserved than watching a drama successful a theatre pinch an audience. I americium everlastingly grateful to these partners for providing The Musical pinch that opportunity” said Bonilla.
The Musical is produced by Lowe, Greg Lauritano, Alexander Heller, Findlay Brown, and Jordan Backhus. EPs are Gillian Bohrer, Jonathan Levine, Chris Quintos Cathcart, Tyler Boehm, Bonilla, David Duque-Estrada, Sean Calvano, Vince Jolivette, Jiarui Guo, Dan Reardon, Kyle Fox, Luke Daniels and Alan Pao.
Led by Amanda Sherwin, Mike Messina and Seth Needle, Blue Harbor Entertainment precocious released nan 2025 Sundance U.S. directing award-winner Ricky, starring Stephan James, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Titus Welliver, nan Australian container agency deed Kangaroo Island starring Rebecca Breeds, An Autumn Summer, starring Lukita Maxwell and Mark McKenna, and adventure/action epic Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead. Previous notable releases see indie sensation A Nice Indian Boy, starring Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff, nan award-winning untold communicative of Dr. Audrey Evans, Audrey’s Children, starring Natalie Dormer, and Lilly, nan powerful communicative of adjacent salary activistic Lilly Ledbetter starring Patricia Clarkson. They are group to merchandise sci-fi thriller Orion this Fall.
The woody was brokered by WME Independent connected behalf of nan filmmakers.
Co-founded by Chris Quintos Cathcart and Tyler Boehm, Unapologetic Projects useful pinch underrepresented creators to show authentic stories. As EPs, they had nan 2024 theatrical merchandise pinch Dìdi (弟弟) via Focus Features aft premiering successful title astatine 2024 Sundance and winning some nan U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and nan U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast. Other EP’ed movies see this summer’s Stop! That! Train! and past year’s Last Days and All That We Love.
Variance handled nan theatrical releases of AMC performance arena movies, Taylor Swift: Eras Tour, Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce, Taylor Swift: The Official Release of a Showgirl and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar victor Drive My Car and Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow (for Sideshow/Janus Films), Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance and Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love (for MUBI), Bi Gan’s Resurrection (for Janus Films), and Roshan Sethi’s A Nice Indian Boy (for Blue Harbor Entertainment).
