First Look at Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan in Indie Romantic Comedy “The F Word”

May 12, 2013 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in Images Leave a comment

“The F Word” was Elan Mastai‘s Black List script from 2008 so we were pretty pleased to hear two of our favourite rising stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan, had joined the romantic comedy back last year – and the release of new images has upped our anticipation.

Radcliffe will be playing a young man determined to remain “just friends” with the girl he likes, played by Kazan, however she reveals she’s already in a relationship with someone else – leading, we’re sure, to more confusion not less!

Based on the play “Toothpaste and Cigars” by T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi, Michael Dowse has directed the film, and we think it will be interesting to see these two in a romantic comedy, considering comedy isn’t something we’ve seen much of from either actor.

Check out the pics below, courtesy of The Playlist. “The F Word” has no release date yet but will be selling at this week’s Cannes Film Festival.

First Look at Zoe Kazan and Jake Johnson in Tribeca-Bound Rom Com “The Pretty One”

March 12, 2013 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 1 Comment

prettyonesm Zoe Kazan is used to playing dual roles, like when she juggled Screenwriter and Actor duties for last summer’s “Ruby Sparks”, but in her new film, she’ll be wearing two hats on screen only. In “The Pretty One”, she plays twins, and toady we have our first images from the film, which is premiering next month at the Tribeca Film Festival.

“New Girl” star Jake Johnson, coming off the well-received “Drinking Buddies” at SXSW, stars opposite Kazan in the Jenée LaMarque comedy. Kazan plays Laurel, who envies her twin sister Audrey’s confidence, style and independence. When the opportunity presents itself for Laural to walk in Audrey’s shoes, she takes it, but finds herself in over her head when she falls for her sister’s next door neighbor, played by Johnson.

“The Pretty One” is having its world premiere in the Spotlight section at the Tribeca Film Festival, and has no distribution just yet. The first photos of Kazan and Johnson can be viewed below.

Zoe Kazan, Evan Rachel Wood, Lily Collins and More Premiering Films at Tribeca Film Festival

March 6, 2013 | Posted by Linda Ge in General News Leave a comment

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The 12th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, which runs this year from April 17th – 28th in New York, has unveiled the majority of its films for 2013, and quite a few up and comers will have new movies premiering. In addition to films that have already made the festival circuit like Ramin Bahrani’s “At Any Price” starring Zac Efron and Maika Monroe, “Greetings From Tim Buckley” with Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots and Neil Jordan’s vampire saga “Byzantium” with Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan and Caleb Landry Jones, world premieres will also bring the likes of Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Zoe Kazan and Evan Rachel Wood to Manhattan.

Films making their world premiere in the high profile Spotlight section of the fest include “Adult World”, a dark comedy with Roberts and John Cusack, romantic comedy “A Case of You” with Wood and Justin Long, Kazan’s “The Pretty One”, which also co-stars “New Girl” actor Jake Johnson and “The English Teacher”, with Julianne Moore in the titular role and Angarano and Lily Collins as students.

The full lineup in the Spotlight, Storyscapes, Midnight and Special Screenings sections can be found below.

Watch: Adam Brody attempts to makes amends with “Some Girl(s)”

March 1, 2013 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis in General News Leave a comment

Gearing up for a premiere next week at SXSW, today sees the release of new clips and posters of the Adam Brody, Zoe Kazan and Kristen Bell film “Some Girl(s)“.

Neil LaBute has adapted his play of the same name for the big screen, and Daisy von Scherler Mayer has directed. The clips are courtesy Indiewire and Deadline (via Bleeding Cool)

The ensemble indie film also features Jennifer Morrison, Mia Maestro and Emily Watson, and follows Brody’s character Guy, a writer, who on the eve of his wedding aims to make amends with all his ex-girlfriends for his past mistakes. Here’s the official synopsis:

Based on his play, Neil LaBute’s script follows a successful writer (Adam Brody) who, on the eve of his wedding, travels across the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for past relationship transgressions. Crisscrossing from Seattle to Boston, he reunites with high school sweetheart Sam (Jennifer Morrison), sexually free-spirited Tyler (Mía Maestro), married college professor Lindsay (Emily Watson), his best friend’s little sister Reggie (Zoe Kazan), and “the one that got away” Bobbi (Kristen Bell). Daisy von Scherler Mayer (“Party Girl”) directs this journey of a modern-day Candide stumbling through a landscape familiar to most men – messy breakups.

Kazan is an indie actor who is definitely one to watch, starring opposite Daniel Radcliffe in indie romcom “The F Word” and hitting the shortlist to star alongside Taylor Swift in the biopic of female singers Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Carly Simon, “Girls Like Us“.

Brody and Bell both recently premiered new pics in January at Sundance Film Festival, Brody with the Linda Lovelace biopic “Lovelace“, and Bell, “The Lifeguard“.

Click below to see the posters and clips.

Zoe Kazan, Analeigh Tipton and more vying to join Taylor Swift in female rocker biopic “Girls Like Us”

September 22, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 2 Comments

A plethora of rising young actresses are lining up for the chance to star in a biopic of three of the most influential women in music. Country singer Taylor Swift is already attached to the role of Joni Mitchell in “Girls Like Us”, and now Variety reports actresses are being auditioned for the remaining two roles of Carole King and Carly Simon.

For the role of King, filmmakers are reading actresses Analeigh Tipton, Allison Williams and Jessica Pare; while Alison Pill, Olivia Thirlby, Zoe Kazan and Ari Graynor are up for the role of Simon. When Swift became attached to the project, Pill was already in consideration for the role of Simon, but it appears she’s got it far less locked up than Swift. Variety also warns this project is in the exploratory stage, with casting needing to be firmed up – and the chemistry between the three leads passing muster – before it gets the green light at Sony Pictures.

Trio of actors join Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan in “The F Word”

August 16, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting Leave a comment

Rafe Spall, Mackenzie Davis and Megan Park have signed on for supporting roles in indie dramedy “The F Word”, according to Variety and THR.

Zoe Kazan and Daniel Radcliffe topline the flick about two people who meet and hit it off, but attempt to be platonic friends. Davis plays someone who attempts to facilitate a relationship between the two of them, while “Girls” star Adam Driver is also on board to play Radcliffe’s best friend. No word on Spall and Park’s roles. Based on the play “Toothpaste and Cigars” by T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi, Michael Dowse will direct from a 2008 Black List script by Elan Mastai. Filming is currently underway in Toronto.

Davis recently wrapped up shooting Drake Doremus’ follow-up to “Like Crazy”, while Spall was last seen in “Prometheus” and has also finished working on indie rom com “I Give It A Year” with Rose Byrne and Ana Faris. Park is a regular on ABC Family series “The Secret Life of the American Teenager”, which stars Shailene Woodley.

Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan say “The F Word” in new indie rom com

July 17, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 4 Comments

Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan are set to make an intriguing onscreen couple in new indie romantic comedy “The F Word”, according to Variety.

The F here stands for “Friend”, with Radcliffe playing a young man determined to remain “just friends” with the girl he likes (Kazan). That may prove to be easier or more difficult, depending on your perspective, when she reveals she’s already in a relationship with someone else. Based on the play “Toothpaste and Cigars” by T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi, Michael Dowse will direct from a 2008 Black List script by Elan Mastai. Filming is scheduled to begin o August 15th in Toronto.

“Harry Potter” himself may seem the most unlikely of indie stars, but he’s had a pretty good post-”Potter” run so far with films like low budget horror “The Woman in Black” and the upcoming Beat generation biopic “Kill Your Darlings”, in which he plays Allen Ginsberg. After “The F Word” he will star in sci-fi/fantasy thriller “Horns.”

Kazan, meanwhile, should feel right at home in this quirky indie comedy genre as the writer and star of Fox Searchlight’s upcoming “Ruby Sparks” (which we really liked). She’s currently filming another offbeat indie rom com, “The Pretty One”, opposite “New Girl” star Jake Johnson, and has wrapped up Joss Whedon-scripted sci-fi romance “In Your Eyes.”

LA Film Fest REVIEW: “Ruby Sparks” is a breakout moment for writer and star Zoe Kazan

June 18, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Reviews 1 Comment

LA Film Festival’s secret screening may not have been the next big blockbuster, but “Ruby Sparks”, the first follow-up to “Little Miss Sunshine” from directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Ferris, may have been an even more welcome and fitting offering to the film-loving crowd that gathered at LA Live. A whimsical, quirky and inventive romantic comedy with some murky gender politics, the film, for all its highs and lows, ushers in a stunning breakout moment for screenwriter and co-star Zoe Kazan.

Paul Dano, with depth and in turns subtle kindness and menace, plays once successful novelist Calvin, who’s being crushed under the weight of his own potential. “Don’t use that word,” he sneers when his agent calls him a genius, a label he has clearly struggled with since becoming a bestselling author at age 19. Now, at 29, he not only has writer’s block, but he has no friends outside his older brother (played by a scene-stealing Chris Messina) and is still bitter over his break-up with aspiring writer Lila (Deborah Ann Woll). Out of nowhere, he dreams of a girl, and begins to write. As he concedes to his shrink (Elliot Gould), he’s falling in love with his creation, and is writing just to spend more time with her.

Zoe Kazan and “New Girl” star Jake Johnson headline indie comedy “The Pretty One”

March 30, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 1 Comment

Indie darling Zoe Kazan and newly popular TV star Jake Johnson will star in offbeat comedy “The Pretty One”, according to Deadline. Jenee LaMarque wrote the Black List script and will make her feature directorial debut on the film, with shooting scheduled to begin on June 1st.

Kazan will play an awkward young woman who assumes the identity of her dead identical twin sister, who was seen as the “perfect” one, but when she falls for Johnson’s character, the next door neighbor of her late sister, she finds herself wishing she could go back to living her old life.

Johnson, who plays lovable grouch Nick on Fox’s new hit series “New Girl”, was last seen on the big screen in Sundance premiere “Safety Not Guaranteed”, rom com “No Strings Attached” and Max Winkler’s “Ceremony.” Kazan, a prolific writer and actor on stage, recently co-wrote and co-starred opposite Paul Dano in “She Loves Me” from the directors of “Little Miss Sunshine” and is attached to star in Joss Whedon-scripted fantasy romance “In Your Eyes.”

Michael Stahl-David and Zoe Kazan lead sci-fi romance “In Your Eyes”

February 15, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting Leave a comment

Michael Stahl-David and Zoe Kazan have landed the lead roles in Joss Whedon scripted indie sci-fi romance “In Your Eyes”, reports Deadline.

Described as “a metaphysical love story about two seemingly polar opposites who are deeply connected in ways neither could have ever imagined”, Stahl-David plays Dylan, an ex-con living in a trailer in New Mexico while Kazan’s Rebecca is an awkward young woman married to a much older doctor in Connecticut. Though they’ve never met, the two can see and hear each other. Brin Hill will begin directing the film soon in Los Angeles.

Kazan is a staple on the indie scene, having appeared in films such as “Revolutionary Road”, “happythankyoumoreplease” and “Meek’s Cutoff”, and she recently wrapped up filming on “He Loves Me”, in which she stars opposite Paul Dano and which she also co-wrote. Stahl-David got his big break as the lead in JJ Abrams’ “Cloverfield” and recently appeared on TV shows including “My Generation” and “Person of Interest.”

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