Update Sharon Stone, Bill Pullman, Tony Hale Join "American Ultra" - Production begins today in New Orleans

Update: "American Ultra" @prodweek Status: Filming April14 to June 10, Here 



ComingSoon With production having started just yesterday in New Orleans, Lionsgate's action comedy American Ultra has added Sharon Stone to its ensemble cast. She'll play a character named Victoria Lasseter.

Deadline Bill Pullman and Tony Hale have been tapped to round out the cast of American Ultra, the action comedy that Lionsgate shelled out $7M for in March.

Production begins today in New Orleans on the pic, which stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mike, a stoner slacker whose secret past as a highly-trained sleeper agent upturns his small-town life with girlfriend Phoebe (Kristen Stewart) as he’s thrust into a covert government operation.

Project X‘s Nima Nourizadeh is directing from a script by Max Landis (Chronicle) with Topher Grace, John Leguizamo, and Walton Goggins also co-starring. The PalmStar, Likely Story, and Circle of Confusion co-production is produced by Anthony Bregman, Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh, David Alpert, and Britton Rizzio. Ran Angelic is exec producing with Lionsgate’s Jason Constantine and Eda Kowan overseeing. FilmNation is repping international sales. Pullman is at ICM. Hale is repped by UTA.

Production Begins on America Ultra: 
comingsoon Production is set to begin today in New Orleans on the Lionsgate action comedy film American Ultra. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh (Project X) and written by Max Landis (Chronicle), the film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman and Walton Goggins. 

American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike (Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.

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@Uptomyknees Seeing Kris and Jesse today in costume really threw me; whoa, Phoebe and Mike are...physical humans? Not just words on a page?
 *I have a very vulnerable thing happen to me whenever I see my characters as real people for the first time; it disorients the fuck out of me

@JohnLeguizamo “.@Lavellthacomic: @Itsoktobeyouorg @nimanourizadeh @Uptomyknees @JohnLeguizamo thank you can't wait”script is funny as $h!t. Havin big fun-

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Lionsgate acquired "American Ultra" - U.S distribution

 

EXCLUSIVE: The appetite for scripts and partially finished films is soaring. Lionsgate is tying up a deal today to pay $7 million to pre-buy U.S. distribution rights to American Ultra, the action comedy that begins shooting in New Orleans in five weeks with Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart starring for Project X director Nima Nourizadeh. In the script by Chronicle writer Max Landis, Eisenberg plays a stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend (Stewart) is upended when his past catches up with him, putting him the crosshairs of a government operation bent on wiping him out. It’s a co-production between 

A Likely Story and Circle Of Confusion, with Anthony Bregman, David Alpert and Britton Rizo producing, and Kevin Scott Frakes of Palmstar Media Capital and Raj Brinder Singh of Merced Media Partners exec producing. deadline

Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg to shoot "American Ultra" in NOLA

Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg to shoot 'American Ultra' in NOLA

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According to: windyhillpictures 
The project will be produced by Anthony Bregman and Kevin Scott Frakes. Universal will release the movie nationwide in 2015.
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Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg are headed back to New Orleans, this time for the indie action-comedy "American Ultra." The film, directed by Nima Nourizadeh ("Project X") and written by Max Landis ("Chronicle"), is scheduled to shoot from April 14 to June 10 in New Orleans, according to the state film office.

The film will reportedly see Eisenberg play a stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend (Stewart) is upended when his past catches up with him, putting him the crosshairs of a government operation bent on wiping him out.

"Simply put, 'American Ultra' will be the most fun you can possibly have in a movie theater without the use of drugs, fireworks or canola oil," producer Anthony Bregman was quoted as saying in November when he announced the project. Bregman is producing "American Ultra" with David Alpert and Britton Rizzio.

"American Ultra" will also mark a reunion for Stewart and Eisenberg, who worked together previously on the 2009 dramatic comedy "Adventureland."

The film is just one of a number of film and TV projects that are shooting, or preparing to shoot, in state. Below, find the latest Louisiana production listings -- including contact information for prospective crewmembers -- courtesy of the state-run Louisiana Entertainment. Source
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(Scan) Prod Week Update “AMERICAN ULTRA” STATUS: April 2014

Prod Week Update “AMERICAN ULTRA” STATUS: April 2014
A LIKELY STORY
PRODUCER: Anthony Bregman - David Alpert - Britton Rizzio - Kevin Frakes - Raj Brinder Singh
DIRECTOR: Nima Nourizadeh WRITER: Max Landis CAST: Kristen Stewart - Jesse Eisenberg
PALMSTAR MEDIA CAPITAL 
CIRCLE OF CONFUSION 
FILMNATION ENTERTAINMENT 
Eisenberg will play an unmotivated stoner named Mike, who lives with his girlfriend Phoebe (Stewart), in a small, sleepy town. One night, their lives
take an unexpected turn when Mike's past comes back to haunt him, and he becomes the target of a government operation set to wipe him out.

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Max Landis on Kristen and Jesse casting for "American Ultra"

CBM: What do you think of the casting of Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart for American Ultra?

Max Landis: SO [frick]ING EXCITING. They're perfect; both of them essentially play "a character and a half" in the movie in an interesting way, and they were actually both my first choices. I think both of them are associated with iconic roles, and that excites me for the same reason Heath Ledger's casting in Dark Knight excited me. Not to compare my movie or my actors to that one, but it's the same sort of "VERY different characters than you're used to seeing these people in" situation.

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jordanzakarin At the moment, at least, Landis is riding high, buzzing about the Stewart-Eisenberg project, the idea for which he first had at a house party; he wrote “American Ultra” on his hand, and after about a month and a half’s worth of work in between studio projects, the script — about a sad stoner couple in their twenties — was completed.

“I was imagining one of those intense, action movie phone calls, you know the ones,” he explains, “where the villain and the hero trade one-liners and the audience knows badass shit is going down and everyone is all dialogue-y and smirking or stone-faced and grim. And I thought, wouldn’t it be funny to do a twist on that side where one of the people just has absolutely no idea what the stakes of the situation are, and the villain, also a bit of an idiot themselves, gradually becomes too frustrated to explain it to them and things just get really awkward?”

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Kristen Stewart & Jesse Eisenberg to star in "American Ultra"

THR Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg are teaming up for American Ultra, an action comedy from Nima Nourizadeh, the director of the surprise hit comedy Project X.

Max Landis, who wrote the hit sci-fi found-footage movie Chronicle, penned the script for Ultra, which is being produced by Anthony Bregman for Likely Story, and by David Alpert and Britton Rizzio for Circle of Confusion.

Eisenberg will play an unmotivated stoner named Mike, who lives with his girlfriend Phoebe (Stewart) in a small, sleepy town. One night, their lives take an unexpected turn when Mike's past comes back to haunt him, and he becomes the target of a government operation set to wipe him out.

"Simply put, American Ultra will be the most fun you can possibly have in a movie theater without the use of drugs, fireworks or canola oil," said Bregman, the prolific indie producer whose most recent credit is Enough Said, the James Gandolfini/Julia Louis-Dreyfus dramedy
FilmNation Entertainment will handle international sales for all territories, including Canada. CAA will represent domestic rights on the film.

 Executive producers are Kevin Frakes of PalmStar Media Capital and Raj Brinder Singh of Merced Media Partners.

Ultra is set to begin shooting in April 2014.

Stewart (Gersh, McKuin Frankel) has been working in the indie world since finishing the Twilight movies and Snow White and the Huntsman, having recently wrapped Camp X-Ray and Sils Maria.
Eisenberg (CAA, Felker Toczek) was one of the stars in Now You See Me, Summit's hit heist movie that now has a sequel in the works. He also has indie dramas The Double and Night Moves in the can.
The two starred opposite each other in 2009's Adventureland.

Tnxs @Mel452 Kristen inc in the THR #20NextGen issue (this wk) for being cast in #AmericanUltra (ipad scan)

 

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Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning in talks for "Night Moves" (Variety)

Variety_JLD  EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Eisenberg andDakota Fanning are in talks to star inKelly Reichardt’s indie thriller NIGHT MOVES, which will also star Peter Sarsgaard. Written by Reichardt (WENDY AND LUCY), story follows three eco-terrorists who plot to blow up a dam. Eisenberg

will play the ringleader, while Fanning will play a wealthy young girl who funds the plan. Sarsgaard will play the mastermind behind the bomb. 

NylonMag The Insider: Jesse Eisenberg talks Aventurland

The “indie” label might not apply to Jesse Eisenberg anymore. After years staying under-the-radar with roles in critically acclaimed (but barely seen) flicks like Rodger Dodger and The Squid and the Whale, the actor finally got a taste of the big-time with last year’s release of Adventureland and Zombieland. Now, he’s got three films—The Living Wake, Holy Rollers, and Solitary Man—coming out this month, with The Social Network (aka The Facebook Movie) set for release in October. NYLON recently made Eisenberg wake up early to talk about it all.

You were in two of my favorite films of 2009—Adventureland and Zombieland. Are you just really picky? I got lucky to get into those movies, because I think a lot of people thought they were really, really good. It’s not some special foresight I have. I had no idea how Zombieland would turned out, and I was concerned at some points during filming. The script was really funny and great, and the director had done great stuff, but it was hard to tell how it would come together. Whereas with Adventureland, it felt a bit clearer what it would become while we were filming. I’ve worked on some bad things, and there’s nothing worse than being on a set all day for something that you don’t believe in.

You filmed The Living Wake back in 2005. Is it weird to be promoting something that you worked on so long ago? It was such a special movie. The long wait was a little frustrating, because you feel like you have something that’s so great. I think it’s still a big part of me; it’s the kind of thing that I think is the greatest thing anybody ever does in their life, it’s so well-written and well-executed. It was really the whole package. I’ve never had an experience like on this movie, and I’ve done a lot of movies.

You sing and play guitar in The Living Wake—any band aspirations? I play mostly piano. I wrote a musical called “Me Time” over the course of the last years, and it’s finally in the early stages of production. It’s [a satire] about self-indulgence. I also wrote two plays, one of which is getting put on next year, and one is being turned into a movie. I love theater, movies have such a commerciality of the product, and with theater you just don’t see it in the say way.

Is there any truth to the Zombieland 2 rumor? That doesn’t really exist. I think they do that with every movie that makes a profit.

If it does happen, would you sign on? Yeah, I guess so—if it was good. I’d look at it like a new project, we’d all evaluate it like it was the first time we were reading it.

When you spoke with NYLON Guys last year, you talked about people on the street thinking you were Jonathan Groff, “the guy from the musical Spring Awakening.” Are you finally getting recognized as Jesse Eisenberg? Not at all. I went to the benefit for the Atlantic Theater, where we both work, and two people from there came up to me and said his name. He’s nice, he’s a great actor…. I think I’m going to work with him very soon. Any time somebody recognizes you on the street, it’s uncomfortable for several reasons: they’re strangers; it makes you feel like an idiot; it makes you question the whole profession. It’s a totally unnatural thing, and in no other part of society would that happen.


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