Jeff Lipsky Completes Manufacturing On ’Goldilocks And The Two Bears’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Manufacturing has simply concluded on Jeff Lipsky’s newest function, Goldilocks and the Two Bears. That is the eighth movie directed by the veteran indie government and filmmaker, and the seventh he’s written. 

Billed as a “attractive, darkish saga,” it facilities on three distinctive strangers who encounter each other in an unoccupied condominium, seven miles from the Las Vegas Strip. Within the ensuing eight days they uncover how a lot they really have in widespread, and start to wonder if they is perhaps one another’s salvation. By the surprising conclusion Ingrid, Ian and Ivy will show to be a trio of unforgettable characters.

Newcomers Claire Milligan, Brian Mittelstadt and Serra Naiman anchor the ensemble solid. 

The whole function was shot in and round Vegas. Lipsky remembers, “I filmed a few of my first movie, Childhood’s Finish, on the once-legendary Stardust so it’s a bit of bit like coming full circle for me.”

Lipsky continued, “The core triumvirate of actors main this solid is my greatest up to now, and I’ve labored with nice actors prior to now. It wasn’t deliberate however simply as that is my first pacific time zone effort, it’s an all California-based trio of stars. They’re going to blow away film audiences.”

Returning to the producer’s chair for his fourth consecutive teaming with Lipsky is Nick Athas. Athas additionally beforehand produced Lives in Hazard, It Ain’t Love and the Sundance award-winning documentary Americanos: Latino Life in the US.

Zak Ray is the Director of Pictures, and one other Lipsky returnee is Manufacturing Sound Mixer Caleb Mose. Aside from collaborating with Lipsky on Twelve Thirty, Mose’s credit embody Oscar-winning ESPN documentary O.J.: Made in America.

Lipsky’s earlier movies embody the Sundance hit Flannel Pajamas, starring Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk; Twelve Thirty, starring Jonathan Groff; As soon as Extra with Feeling, starring Chazz Palminteri and Drea de Matteo; and 2019’s critically acclaimed The Final.

He’s at present engaged on a “warts-and-all memoir,” From Hair to Eternity, and prepping his subsequent movie, Adelyn, a street film he plans to shoot in 2024.

Lipsky’s profession was mentored by John Cassavetes for whom he distributed A Lady Below the Affect, The Killing of a Chinese language Bookie and Opening Evening. Lipsky additionally co-founded October Movies, Lot 47 Movies and Undertake Movies, releasing such iconic titles as My Dinner with Andre, My Life as a Canine, Stranger Than Paradise, Sid & Nancy, L.I.E., Barbara, Sister and Mike Leigh’s Excessive Hopes and Life is Candy.