Screen Daily has obtained the exclusive first-look image to Hyde Park International’s (HPI) EFM sales title Marianne starring Isabelle Huppert.
The English-language film from Dark Dreams Entertainment, Cine@, Hyde Park Entertainment and Les Films du Camélia shot last November outside Paris at a location doubling for New England.
It is described as a radical piece of cinema which captures the zeitgeist and sees the sole character played by Huppert talking directly to the audience.
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominated actress Isabelle Huppert is leading Marianne from Hyde Park International, Cine@ and James Ireland and Alex Pettyfer’s Dark Dreams Entertainment.
Writer and director Michael Rozek, who is a former journalist for such publications as Esquire and Rolling Stone, says, “Marianne is a true event. It’s not only Isabelle Huppert’s very first one-character project—a complete tour de force for one of the greatest actresses in the history of film—but also, in its breakthrough form, a zeitgeist movie, meant to exactly capture the moment we are all living in.”
EXCLUSIVE: Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and Warner Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group’s film and television division, have announced the winner of the Hyde Park Entertainment & Warner Music Entertainment Fast Track Fellowship as part of their Asian Women Fellowship program.
Writer/director Tiffanie Hsu and producer Pin-Chun Liu were chosen from an initial set of ten finalists and have been awarded a $12,500 grant and development support. Their winning project, Wonderland, follows an intrepid ten-year-old who embarks on a journey to track down her mother, who disappears in Las Vegas with the family bankroll. With the help of a devious and ambitious magician, she hopes to bring her mother home in time for Christmas, before her father finds out.
EXCLUSIVE: Nearly 30 years after The Joy Luck Club changed Asian and Asian American representation in cinema, a sequel is in development with author Amy Tan and Oscar-winning screenwriter Ron Bass continuing from the former’s bestselling novel.
Also producing are Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and The Judge producer Jeff Kleeman.
Hyde Park Entertainment Group CEO Ashok Amritraj has joined the Board of Governors of Cedars-Sinai.
“I am pleased to welcome Ashok Amritraj to the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors. Ashok is a highly respected and engaged member of our community, and I look forward to working with him as we transform the landscape of medical research through innovation,” said David Sadkin, Chair of the Board of Governors.
LOS ANGELES, CA – Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and Warner Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group’s film and television division, have announced the launch of the Hyde Park Entertainment & Warner Music Entertainment Asian Women Fellowship.
The initiative, run in partnership with Film Independent, is designed to showcase women-identifying writers and writer-directors who are Asian or part of the Asian diaspora and are ready to take their next step into the mainstream entertainment industry.
Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and Warner Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group’s film and television division have launched the Hyde Park Entertainment & Warner Music Entertainment Asian Women Fellowship.
The initiative, run in partnership with Film Independent, will showcase women-identifying writers and writer-directors who are Asian or part of the Asian diaspora. The Fellowship is aligned with Hyde Park Entertainment and Warner Music Group’s shared, ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Producer Ashok Amritraj is turning his focus to world of Alzheimer’s research. The United Nations goodwill ambassador is set to chair a study on aging, a joint project of the United States National Institutes of Health and India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The project will be funded through the nonprofit BrightFocus Foundation.
EXCLUSIVE: Independent streaming company Cinedigm has named Ashok Amritraj to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
Amritraj is Chairman and CEO of Hyde Park Inc. and brings an exceptionally diverse resume that has seen him wearing the whites of Wimbledon, excelling as an award-winning producer and serving as a United Nations India Goodwill Ambassador.
Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to iconic writer Richard Wright’s highly acclaimed, newly released novel, “The Man Who Lived Underground,” for Kenya Barris’s Khalabo Ink Society and Indian American Hollywood producer Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group.
