Uri Singer’s Passage Photos has secured the rights to “In the Blue,” the following characteristic movie from writer-director duo Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers.
The pair’s characteristic “Floating Carousel” premiered this yr on the Woodstock Movie Pageant, the place it received the Extremely Indie Award for Greatest Narrative Characteristic. Their first characteristic movie, “Voyeur,” which they made for simply $4,000 whereas nonetheless undergraduates at Yale, is now on Amazon Prime. It received the Greatest U.S. Characteristic and Viewers Award on the 2020 SoHo Worldwide Movie Pageant.
“In the Blue” follows Brie, an aspiring actor and tutor, who’s provided a big sum of cash to assist her tutoring shopper, Seth, end his school functions on his household yacht journey to the Exumas for the vacations. As soon as onboard, the luxurious yacht journey quickly descends right into a claustrophobic nightmare as buried resentments erupt and household tensions grow to be more and more harmful.
Uri Singer, the producer of “White Noise,” is producing the variation, alongside Isabella Zanobini, by his firm Passage Photos. Amongst Passage Image’s upcoming initiatives are an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s “Underworld” with Ted Melfi (“Hidden Figures”) writing and directing, and a James Ellroy adaptation with Amazon/MGM. He’s additionally producing the Black Record script “Paparazzo.” Singer’s earlier work contains a number of Michael Almereyda movies, similar to “Tesla” and “Marjorie Prime,” each of which premiered at Sundance.
“I am so excited to be working with these talented young filmmakers,” Singer mentioned in a press release. “I really believe in them, and in this film, which draws upon their personal experiences to create a perfectly comedic and twisted exploration of power and wealth.”
“We think this is exactly the type of darkly entertaining film that audiences will love – just as we did when we read the script,” Zanobini mentioned in a press release.
Singer is represented by Knol Hanly PC. Napier and Powers are represented by UTA and Trendy Literary Arts.
