Director, writer and producer Alex Richanbach, who’s on the commercialmaking/branded content roster at production house Tool, will direct and produce the rom-com feature film Single at the Wedding through his Something Something Pictures for New Line.
Anne Sundell wrote the script on spec from an original idea and developed the film alongside Richanbach. Nikki Ramey and Paulina Sussman will oversee the project for New Line Cinema.
The film introduces us to Allie, the last single person in her group of friends. Allie makes it her mission to find love at her best friend’s wedding with the help of a list of available men, but it turns out she has competition in the form of the groom’s perfect sister.
Richanbach began his career at Funny or Die as a writer/director/producer. His debut feature film We Are Young was released by FOD in 2013. Following Funny Or Die, Richanbach directed the Netflix feature film, Ibiza, written by Lauryn Kahn and produced by Gary Sanchez and Good Universe. Ibiza starred Gillian Jacobs, Vanessa Bayer, Phoebe Robinson, and Richard Madden. Richanbach also has films in development with Point Grey & Hartbeat. Additionally, he has directed award winning commercials starring Julia Roberts, Kevin Hart, Will Smith, Demi Lovato, Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O’Neal, DJ Khaled and many others.
Sundell is an L.A.-based writer and semi-pro wedding attendee (24 weddings and 11 bachelorettes in four years). Sundell began her career as an assistant at Sony Pictures Television and left with a blind script deal with their comedy team. She has an original feature in development at Netflix and has sold two comedy pilots to CBS and one to Roku with Ilana Peña.
Local school staple “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” from 1939 hits the big screen nationwide
Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the state's tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the story.
Opening in 650 movie theaters on Friday, "Lost on a Mountain in Maine" tells the harrowing tale of 12-year-old Donn Fendler, who spent nine days on Mount Katahdin and the surrounding wilderness before being rescued. The gripping story of survival commanded the nation's attention in the days before World War II and the boy's grit earned an award from the president.
For decades, Fendler and Joseph B. Egan's book, published the same year as the rescue, has been required reading in many Maine classrooms, like third-grade teacher Kimberly Nielsen's.
"I love that the overarching theme is that Donn never gave up. He just never quits. He goes and goes," said Nielsen, a teacher at Crooked River Elementary School in Casco, who also read the book multiple times with her own kids.
Separated from his hiking group in bad weather atop Mount Katahdin, Fendler used techniques learned as a Boy Scout to survive. He made his way through the woods to the east branch of the Penobscot River, where he was found more than 30 miles (48 kilometers) from where he started. Bruised and cut, starved and without pants or shoes, he survived nine days by eating berries and lost 15 pounds (7 kilograms).
The boy's peril sparked a massive search and was the focus of newspaper headlines and nightly radio broadcasts. Hundreds of volunteers streamed into the region to help.
The movie builds on the children's book, as told by Fendler to Egan, by drawing upon additional interviews and archival footage to reinforce the importance of family, faith and community during difficult times,... Read More