EXCLUSIVE: Tony Amendola (Stargate SG-1) will topline Rough Magic: Exit Shakespeare, a new film from veteran TV director Andy Wolk (The Practice) and Silver Spring Road Films that has recently wrapped production.The film is set in 1611 on a single night where Shakespeare (Amendola) is at a crisis point in his career.
It’s about how writers age, their jealousies, resentments, and regrets, why they can’t revisit their old glories, and how their writing can overwhelm their life.
Shakespeare has sacrificed much of his family life for his theatrical success and now—haunted with guilt about missing his young son’s death to the plague—he is forced to reflect on the price at which glory comes.WGA and Humanitas Award winner Wolk directed from a script he wrote with Elliot Krieger, and produced alongside Matt Handy.***EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Ann Walter (Abbott Elementary), Jaren Lewison (Never Have I Ever), Alexis G.
Zall (The Goldbergs) and Annie Korzen (PEN15) have signed on to star in The Ladies, the first short film from writer-director Jill Gutowitz.The short from It Doesn’t Suck Productions, Fair Oaks Entertainment & Fit Via Vi is set in a Floridian Jewish senior living community and follows Emma, a depressed, one-outfit lesbian that must hide an affair with her grandma’s best friend from her grieving grandma and nosy cousin.
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