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The expert in question in “The Maestro” is famed composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Xander Berkeley), who over the course of his career contributed to more than 200 movies, many as a “ghost composer.” Yet the real focus of Adam Cushman’s film is actually Jerry Herst (Leo Marks), an aspiring musician who in 1945 Los Angeles became one of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s students. By consigning its most interesting character to a supporting role, this amiable slice of fictionalized history loses a good deal of its heft. Nonetheless, solid direction and a charming Berkeley turn help it stave off insubstantiality, and should make it an appealing option for those interested in a pleasant alternative to big-studio fare.

Wearing dark-rimmed glasses, boasting a gray beard and hair that sticks out in slight tufts from the side of his balding head, and puffing away from his cigarette holder, the Italian-born Castelnuovo-Tedesco is introduced telling an older pupil,...

"There is music in everything!! I help you to bring forth what is inside..." Freestyle Digital Media has released the first official trailer for an indie drama titled The Maestro, a biopic about the infamous master teacher Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. The film focuses on a young composer named Jerry Herst, played by Leo Marks, who moves to Hollywood after WWII to study with Castelnuovo-Tedesco - striking up a friendship with him. The cast includes Sarah Clarke, Mackenzie Astin, William Russ, Alex Essoe, Kristen Gutoskie, Jonathan Cherry, and Jon Polito. This seems like another one of these fuzzy, old-Hollywood romantic biopics about a long lost era. And it looks alright, maybe a bit dry but still worth a look. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Adam Cushman's The Maestro, direct from YouTube: Adam Cushman's The Maestro follows budding film composer Jerry Herst (Leo Marks) as he moves to Hollywood after...

Freestyle Digital Media has acquired domestic rights to Adam Cushman’s The Maestro, a biopic about composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco tarring The Walking Dead‘s Xander Berkeley. It will get a theatrical release beginning February 15 in New York and Los Angeles, with VOD coming February 19. The pic, penned by C.V. Herst and produced by David J. Phillips, centers on the letters of Castelnuovo-Tedesco, who composed scores for more than 200 Hollywood films in the 1940s and 1950s and mentored the likes of John Williams, Randy Newman, Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith and Andre Previn. Leo Marks, Sarah Clarke, Mackenzie Astin, Bobby Campo, Alex Essoe and in his last film Jon Polito co-star. The deal was negotiated by Freestyle Ira Goldklang and Rachel Koehler and Sean Pope and Tiffany Boyle from Ramo Law for the filmmakers.

Giant Pictures, the digital film distribution division of Giant Interactive, has acquired North American digital rights for The Bellwether,...

Twin Peaks actor Dana Ashbrook (who played Bobby Briggs) leads the cast of writer/director Adam Cushman’s gripping psychological thriller Restraint. Now available on DVD and various VOD platforms, the film also features Caitlyn Folley as Angela, a new wife/stepmother whose finds her past demons intruding on her marital bliss. In the exclusive clip below, Folley […]

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Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired the North American and Canadian rights for Adam Cushman’s Restraint starring Dana Ashbrook (Twin Peaks) which will roll out on VOD in the U.S. and DVD today, November 6th. Also: Back to Earth interactive experience announcement and details on E Stuart Marlowe's novel Gone is Gone.

Restraint Trailer and VOD Release Details: "Adam Cushman’s Psychological thriller Restraint starring Dana Ashbrook has been acquired by Breaking Glass Pictures for North America and Canada. The film will hit all Us VOD platforms and DVD tomorrow 11/6.

Winner for Best Director at Downtown La Film Festival and Best Film at Rhode Island Film Festival, the film tells the story of a mentally unstable young woman who has submerged her violent impulses for years, moves in with her new husband and his daughter. When she becomes unexpectedly pregnant, her demons emerge and as she loses control, the...

Titles sell to Vertical Entertainment and Breaking Glass Pictures respectively.

Genre specialist sales agent Devilworks has inked key North America deals on two of the titles on its slate, supernatural horror The Axiom and psychological thriller Restraint.

On The Axiom, Vertical Entertainment has taken rights for North America. Directed and written by Nicholas Wood, the film tells the story of a young woman who travels into a forest with her friends in search for her missing sister; they soon discover a terrifying multi-dimensional world full of monsters.

Cast include William Kircher and Nicole Dambro. Max Landwirth produced, Alex Gans co-produced and edited the film.

Ahead of Afm, Devilworks has released the first trailer for horror-thriller Restraint, which stars Dana Ashbrook, fresh from his return as Bobby Briggs on Showtime’s Twin Peaks, alongside John Hensley, Geoffrey Rivas, and Caitlyn Folley.

From Adam Cushman, comes a psychological thriller about a disturbed young woman who plunges into a darkness after becoming unexpectedly pregnant, becoming a threat to her family and herself. Amelia Yokel and Jake Borowski produced.

Restraint picked up Best Feature at Rhode Island Film Festival, which also hosted the world premiere, and Best Director at Downtown La Festival.

Some of the greatest monsters lay in wait, within suburbia. This is the basic premise for Adam Cushman's Restraint. Recently, this film had a showing at the Buffalo International Film Festival. It has also appeared at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Inside Restraint, a woman becomes catatonic, first. Then, she turns violent in her family home. Restraint stars: Dana Ashbrook, John Hensley and Geoffrey Rivas. The film's latest trailer is hosted here. The trailer takes awhile to build tension. But, the clip offers an unsettling film score, courtesy of Icelandic composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson. It also shows some of the film's more violent sequences, with one character dragged off-screen. Never judge a book by its cover as Angela (Caitlyn Folley) slowly becomes unhinged. A release date, for Restraint, has not been announced. However, the film continues a film festival run, throughout 2017. More festival dates will be announced shortly.

Kristen Stewart and Adam Driver will be honoured in the 54th New York Film Festival’s “An Evening with…” on-stage conversation series.

The festival will also premiere Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened in Special Events, a non-fiction chronicle of the 1981 musical flop Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince.

Hamilton’s America will also receive its world premiere and tells the story of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning production, Hamilton: An American Musical.

Jim Jarmusch’s Gimme Danger joins the line-up and will feature an appearance by the director and Iggy Pop. Jarmusch’s Paterson will screen in the main slate. Nyff runs from September 30-October 16.

Amazon Studios is developing a TV series based on Martin Scorsese’s crime drama The Departed. Vertigo Entertainment, Initial Entertainment Group and Plan B Entertainment are producing with Amazon Studios in association with Warner Bros TV.White Rabbit and Phillm Productions have begun shooting on The...