Uri Singer’s Passage Photos has secured the rights to “Within the Blue,” the following characteristic movie from writer-director duo Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers.
The pair’s characteristic “Floating Carousel” premiered this 12 months on the Woodstock Movie Competition, the place it received the Extremely Indie Award for Greatest Narrative Function. 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. Function and Viewers Award on the 2020 SoHo Worldwide Movie Competition.
“Within the Blue” follows Brie, an aspiring actor and tutor, who’s supplied a big sum of cash to assist her tutoring shopper, Seth, end his school purposes 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 change into more and more harmful.
Uri Singer, the producer of “White Noise,” is producing the variation, alongside Isabella Zanobini, via his firm Passage Photos. Amongst Passage Image’s upcoming tasks 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 Listing script “Paparazzo.” Singer’s earlier work contains a number of Michael Almereyda movies, equivalent to “Tesla” and “Marjorie Prime,” each of which premiered at Sundance.
“I’m so excited to be working with these gifted younger filmmakers,” Singer stated in a press release. “I actually imagine in them, and on this movie, which attracts upon their private experiences to create a wonderfully comedic and twisted exploration of energy and wealth.”
“We expect that is precisely the kind of darkly entertaining movie that audiences will love – simply as we did once we learn the script,” Zanobini stated in a press release.
Singer is represented by Knol Hanly PC. Napier and Powers are represented by UTA and Trendy Literary Arts.
