Heather Graham says she’s close to securing financing for a movie about a tragic 1911 New York City fire at a shirt factory that killed more than 100 women, a magazine reported Friday.
Graham said in an interview published in the September edition of Prestige Hong Kong magazine the film is based on the fire at the Triangle shirt factory in Manhattan.
“It’s my pet project. I’ve been working on getting it made for around 10 years,” Graham told the magazine. She said she will also star in the movie as one of the factory workers.
She said she learned about the fire watching a Ken Burns documentary on the history of New York City.
“He did 45 minutes on the Triangle fire and by the end I was bawling my eyes out,” Graham reportedly said.
She said she’s “one or two months” away from securing financing and is looking for a director.
Graham is known for movies like “Boogie Nights” and “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.” She was recently seen in the comedy “Gray Matters” and will be seen in the upcoming drama “Adrift in Manhattan” and the romantic comedy “Buy Borrow Steal.”
Source: The Canadian Press
“Adrift in Manhtattan” has found a mooring.
The Heather Graham drama will be distributed by Screen Media Films with a Sept. 21 theatrical release date New York. The film’s Los Angeles release will be through the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, which runs Oct 7-14. Pic’s Sundance preem raised eyebrows for the graphic sex scene with Graham.
“We love the film, and it has a great cast that is totally behind the film,” enthused Screen Media president Robert Baruc. Baruc noted that this is one of six theatrical films that Screen Media is doing this year, including the upcoming doc “Skid Row,” in which Fugees performer Pras Michel lives as a homeless man in the infamous L.A. slum.
“We’re looking on the lighter side, too,” said Baruc. “We have a couple of comedies coming up.” The company has expanded from home video into theatrical distribution this year with Jay Baruchel laffer “I’m Reed Fish.”
“Adrift,” a story about the chance meetings between the film’s three leads, is directed by Alfredo De Villa and garnered acclaim at fests in Indianapolis and Palm Beach.
Source: variety.com
Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban’s Truly Indie distribution program will handle the theatrical release of “Broken,” a drug addiction drama starring Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto, Jake Busey, Tess Harper and Linda Hamilton.
Graham plays Hope, an aspiring musician who moves to Hollywood to find success but ends up working the overnight shift at a run-down diner. She develops with junkie boyfriend (Sisto) a relationship as addictive as the heroin they share. Busey, Harper and Hamilton play some of the seedy Los Angeles denizens she encounters along the way.
Australian director Alan White’s first American film premiered at November’s AFI Film Fest. The producers on “Broken” are Brian R. Etting and Walk on the Beach Prods.’ Jerry Wayne, who also financed the project. White’s feature credits include “Risk” and “Erskineville Kings.”
Truly Indie will release “Broken” on Oct. 5 in New York, followed by distribution in Los Angeles and three other cities during the month.
The deal was negotiated by Wayne with Truly Indie executive director Kelly Sanders and head of business and legal affairs Jason Janego.
Source: hollywoodreporter.com
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It was one of those wet Chicago summer nights, so humid that flat-ironed hair frizzed and make-up melted on every woman in the room — everyone except Heather Graham, who looked perfect.
The actress came to town last Tuesday night for the premiere of “Broken,” an indie film that was showcased as part of the Gen Art Film Festival, a nonprofit event series that supports the arts in Chicago.
“It’s a steamy and balmy exciting summer night,” said Graham, who literally glowed in a crocheted minidress and cream-colored, knee-length leather boots. “The movie has a cool surprise and a twist in it; it’s kind of ‘Memento’-esque,” she told me. “You don’t know what you’re seeing until the end.”
About 700 people attended the showing at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport. With the air-conditioning taking a cue from the movie title — or maybe it just wasn’t on — it was a relief to hit the much breezier after-party at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 N. Cannon. A highlight was Car-a-oke, where guests sat in a shiny Acura jamming along to their favorite songs selected from an iPod; their live videos played on flat-screen TVs in the second-floor lounge.
Graham’s boyfriend Charles Ferri, who owns the nightclub Star Room in the Hamptons, was by her side all night. They strolled through the butterfly haven and sipped cocktails in a VIP lounge. “She the coolest,” says Ferri of his girlfriend; they’ve been dating 10 months despite being geographically challenged. “We’re bi-coastal,” he says, pausing for a moment. “That sounds pretty hot, right?”
Source: suntimes.com
