Director Jamie Travis has joined bicoastal production company Interrogate for U.S. representation. Travis made a splash at last year’s Sundance Film Festival with the screening of his irreverent comedy For a Good Time, Call…, starring Ari Graynor, Justin Long and Seth Rogen. Focus Features released the film theatrically last summer; it centers on two adversaries who come together to launch a successful phone sex business.
Prior to For a Good Time, Call…, the Canadian-born writer/director established an international reputation with his darkly comedic short films The Saddest Boy in the World, The Armoire and The Patterns Trilogy. His work has been screened at more than 200 film festivals worldwide, from Sundance to SXSW to the Toronto International Film Festival.
Travis has also directed spots for the Canadian market where he continues to be repped by Untitled Films, Toronto. He’s also helmed music videos for indie artists Tegan and Sara for the tracks “Back in Your Head” and “Hell.”
With offices in L.A. and New York, Interrogate is headed by founder/managing director Jeff Miller.
Stage and Film Actor Tony Roberts Dies At 85
Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in both plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen movies โ often as Allen's best friend โ has died. He was 85.
Roberts' death was announced to The New York Times by his daughter, Nicole Burley.
Roberts had a genial stage personality perfect for musical comedy and he originated roles in such diverse Broadway musicals as "How Now, Dow Jones" (1967); "Sugar" (1972), an adaptation of the movie "Some Like It Hot," and "Victor/Victoria" (1995), in which he co-starred with Julie Andrews when she returned to Broadway in the stage version of her popular film. He also was in the campy, roller-disco "Xanadu" in 2007 and "The Royal Family" in 2009.
"I've never been particularly lucky at card games. I've never hit a jackpot. But I have been extremely lucky in life," he write in his memoir, "Do You Know Me?" "Unlike many of my pals, who didn't know what they wanted to become when they grew up, I knew I wanted to be an actor before I got to high school."
Roberts also appeared on Broadway in the 1966 Woody Allen comedy "Don't Drink the Water," repeating his role in the film version, and in Allen's "Play It Again, Sam" (1969), for which he also made the movie.
Other Allen films in which Roberts appeared were "Annie Hall" (1977), "Stardust Memories" (1980), "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Radio Days" (1987).
"Roberts' confident onscreen presence โ not to mention his tall frame, broad shoulders and brown curly mane โ was the perfect foil for Allen's various neurotic characters, making them more funny and enjoyable to watch," The Jewish Daily Forward wrote in 2016.
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