Uri Singer’s Passage Photos has secured the rights to “Within the Blue,” the upcoming function movie from writer-director duo Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers.
Their function movie “Floating Carousel” premiered at this yr’s Woodstock Movie Competition, the place it received the Extremely Indie Award for Greatest Narrative Characteristic. Their first function movie, “Voyeur,” which they made for simply $4,000 whereas nonetheless college students at Yale, is now on Amazon Prime. It received the Greatest Characteristic Movie and American Viewers Award on the 2020 SoHo Worldwide Movie Competition.
“Within the Blue” follows Brie, an aspiring actor and tutor, who affords a big sum of cash to assist her tutor shopper, Seth, full his school schooling whereas touring on his household yacht to the Exumas for the vacations. As soon as on board, the posh yacht journey rapidly turns right into a claustrophobic nightmare as buried resentments boil over and household tensions grow to be more and more harmful.
“White Noise” producer Uri Singer is producing the difference, alongside Isabella Zanobini, by means of his firm Passage Photos. Passage Image’s upcoming initiatives embrace an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s “Underworld” with Ted Melfi (“Hidden Figures”) writing and directing, and a James Ellroy adaptation with Amazon/MGM. He additionally produced the Blacklist screenplay “Paparazzo.” Singer’s earlier work consists of a number of Michael Almereyda movies, comparable to “Tesla” and “Marjorie Prime,” each of which premiered at Sundance.
“I’m so excited to work with these gifted younger filmmakers,” Singer mentioned in a press release. “I actually consider in them and on this movie, which pulls on their private experiences to create a wonderfully comedic and twisted exploration of energy and wealth.”
“We expect that is precisely the kind of darkish and entertaining movie that audiences will love – identical to we did after we learn the script,” Zanobini mentioned in a press release.
The singer is represented by Knol Hanly PC. Napier and Powers are represented by UTA and Trendy Literary Arts.